The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts Kansas designed by Moshe Safdie and Associates. The iconic building contains cutting edge technology providing artists a premier space to present their work. The buildings dominant shell forms contain two large auditoriums, the muriel kauffman theatre and helzberg hall. Architectural details provide advanced acoustic elements for high quality performances and ample seating for spectators.

The three balconies envelop the hall in a horseshoe-like enclosure. Each balcony is broken down into a series of steps cascading from the center rear balcony to the individual boxes …

Ergonomic and innovative, this flexible office workstation presented by Abstracta. This “Mobi” work furniture consists of a work surface and a sound-absorbing partition on locking wheels, so it can be easily moved by one person. Besides the workstation is modular. You can combine several desks to adapt to any space and capacity requirements by simply adding or removing units. Mobi’s partitions are fabric-covered and are vailable in a dynamic range of colours and in two standard heights. The fixed leg has an adjustable foot, so the work surface can be …

The house sets into the slope making its topography inhabitable and this is how the project upholds in four levels. The first one for the automobiles, the next one for social areas (kitchen, living and dinning rooms), third one for main bedroom next to family room, and last, a fourth one destined for boy and girl bedrooms which have the most privileged views due to their location in the highest peak of the terrain.

The four platform program required a connecting element, which is why a never ending stairway picks up …

Hernandez Silva Architects have designed a modern house in a private neighborhood outside the city of Japopan, Jalisco, Mexico. The house called “Godoy“, built during a situation where this material was at a low price, allowing to build an almost floating house.

The house opens with a long and folding window system in the background, integrating the garden into the interior, making social spaces in a fully integrated large terrace with a garden and pool, this allows to live the cool and privileged Guadalajara’s weather, the dining room looks out above …

The Scottsdale Museum of the West designed by Jones Studio, combines old west meeting the New West. The architects was guided by the essential qualities of these places, and went searching for innovative materials that would help them realize a New West building that has the same zest and confidence as these Old West examples. After researching they found a material that is the embodiment of the Old West transforming into the New.

A composite board of recycled plastic and saw dust, with an uncanny ability to bend, will softly weather …

The Kayu Aga conceptual sketches provide insight into the design process and clarify the purpose of the walls. The site is divided into four layers from west to east, expressed as slightly radiuses line, the first layer being a physical barrier to the noise from the road that runs along the western boundary.

The architectural language is totally modern and the design process is explained in terms of rational responses to site and climate, but ultimately the house is a visually delightful place with a myriad different moods and emotions. The …

The bamboo bench created as sustainable furniture by by Israeli Gal Ben-Arav. This furniture using raw bamboo and cast aluminum as main materials. Gal Ben-Arav says “I chose to use bamboo in its raw form. In this way, the processing is minimal as well as the invested energy, it can be 100% recycled and the out coming morphology creates a new micro-wild natural environment that can be situated in an urban, industrial and gray environment and revive it.”