Harry Gugger Studio Vitra Unveils Its Stunning New Museum [UPDATED WITH 3-D TOUR] | Fast Company - StumbleUpon The Vitra campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, is already a mecca for contemporary architecture, featuring a design museum by Frank Gehry, a conference center by Tadao Ando, and another building on the way by SANAA. And they've just finished what might be the greatest of them of them all: a new building, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, to showcase the company's home-furniture collection. UPDATE: Vitra has now thrown up an amazing series of 3-D images of the museum, offering you the next-best thing to actually visiting the building. A couple screen-caps: Herzog & de Meuron--who made a global splash in 2008 with their "Bird's Nest" stadium for the Beijing Olympics--conceived of the building as an "ur-house." The individual volumes take the form of generic, A-frame houses, which are then stacked on top of each--creating an architectural symbol of Vitra's actual business, selling high-design through mass production. There are 12 houses in all, and the stacking of them
Landscape Architects Network - Revealing the environment diller scofidio + renfro Open standards such as HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly have continually matured over the years and serve as viable alternatives for Flash content. Also, major browser vendors are integrating these open standards into their browsers and deprecating most other plug-ins (like Flash Player). See Flash Player EOL announcements from Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla. By providing more than three years’ advance notice, Adobe believes that there has been sufficient time for developers, designers, businesses, and other parties to migrate Flash content to new standards.
Lüthi & Partner AG Welcome to the World of Archidose! Home - Gehl Architects Bjarke Ingels Group Nouvelle ambassade suisse - Burckhardt+Partner Son contexte La ville de Séoul subit un développement effréné, à l’image des grandes métropoles asiatiques. Forte densification, création de nouveaux pôles, d’infrastructures routières et ferroviaires, un développement représentatif de l’essor économique du pays associé à une forte croissance démographique. Ce développement urbain touche de nombreux quartiers qui changent brusquement d’échelle, passant d’un tissu tapissant de maisons basses à une silhouette dont la verticalité évoque le skyline des grandes métropoles. Le quartier résidentiel de Seodaemu-gu est l’illustration de ce type de métamorphose, où les maisons traditionnelles feront prochainement place à un quartier dense de tours d’habitation, s’implantant jusqu’ au pied de la colline, à l’est de la parcelle. Sa forme Le bâtiment s’implante en épousant la forme de la parcelle, se rapprochant plutôt de la topographie (Gyeonghuigung Park), que de la morphologie du nouveau quartier. Prestation Burckhardt+Partner : Architecture
Winners of the eVolo Skyscraper Competition 2012 eVolo Magazine has unveiled the winners of its 2012 Skyscraper Competition. The first place was awarded to Zhi Zheng, Hongchuan Zhao and Dongbai Song from China for their project "Himalaya Water Tower." The proposal is a skyscraper located high in the Himalayan mountain range that stores water and helps regulate its dispersal to the land below as the mountains' natural supplies dry up. The skyscraper, which can be replicated en masse, will collect water in the rainy season, purify it, freeze it into ice and store it for future use. The second place was awarded to Yiting Shen, Nanjue Wang, Ji Xia, and Zihan Wang from China for their project "Mountain Band-Aid", a design that seeks to simultaneously return the displaced Hmong mountain people to their homes and work as it restores the ecology of the Yunnan mountain range. Sponsored Links
SWA - Landscape Architecture, Planning and Urban Design Scalae | Agencia documental de arquitectura. Hotel City Garden / EM2N Architects: EM2N Location: Zug, Switzerland Project Leaders: Bernd Druffel, Benjamin Nordmann Project Team: Stefan Berle, David Brodbeck, Bernd Druffel, David Duca, Christian Gammeter, Ryoko Iwase, Takumi Iyoda, Pavel Kolacek, Claudia Meier, Mathias Müller, Daniel Niggli, Benjamin Nordmann, Andreas Schmitz, Mario Vahos, Boris Weix Client: MZ Immobilien AG Construction Management: Ghisleni Planen Bauen GmbH Structural Engineering: Berchtold + Eicher AG Mechanical Engineering: Grünberg + Partner AG Electrical Engineering: IBG B. Graf AG Engineering AG Project Year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Roger Frei Architekturfotografie The Parkhotel in Zug planned to erect a temporary ancillary hotel building on a public site that in 12 to 15 years time will be used as the services area for a road building project. Despite the limited life- span this hotel was to meet the requirements of a four-star facility and to have an unmistakeable character. * Location to be used only as a reference.
Lofted Forest Home: Organic Curves & Natural Materials | Designs &Ideas on Dornob - StumbleUpon Good things come to those who wait – particularly in a work of uniquely detailed and highly curved architecture. Nearly a decade in the making, this structure by Robert Harvey Oshatz is much like a tree house – lofted toward the top of the canopy around it – only bigger, grander, more complex and curved than most any tree house in the world. The perimeter of the structure is pushed out into the forest around it, curving in and out to create views as well as a sense of intimacy with the coniferous and deciduous tree cover. The curved, organic mix of materials continues to the interior of this elevated forest home – a conceptual play on the fluidity and complexity of music (the source of inspiration for the architect and client in the design).