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 …

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 …

HBA/Hirsch Bedner Associates, unveils the world’s most anticipated hotels, resorts, and spas – The Trump Ocean Club Panama. The Arrival Lobby is grand featuring an open space with 24-foot ceilings and expansive windows for plenty of natural light. From here, guests can be whisked to the Sky Lobby on the 15th floor. This lobby features curving class windows where light seeps in and guests have incredible views of the ocean and city. Designed as a large-scale living room, the Sky Lobby features tropical rugs inspired by …

The Henley Street Residence situated in Barwon Heads, designed by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects / JCB. A sculptural building form emerged from the clients brief which jokingly requested a planetarium as an inclusion. This led to the exploration of circular forms and resulted in a circular skylight in the first floor living areas as a direct reference however the house was primarily conceived to immerse itself over time as a natural extension of the Ti-tree dominated landscape. The house is wrapped in as skin of vertical cedar battens, providing …

Amsa Architects create a new office building of the Synergasias Co-op bank of the villages Kiti,Larnaca District, Cyprus. The building lies along the central street, opposite the high school, reinforcing the public character of the street but also creating a continuous linear barrier from the heavy traffic. The access to the building is through the internal pedestrian pathway which connects the building with the existing facilities of the commercial department, the parking area and the small public park that is created.

The internal layout of the building and the horizontal and …

The Ruiz-Maasburg Penthouse Interior created by Spanish Héctor Ruiz-Velázquez. This entrance or hallway seems to defy gravity and logic and thus changes unexpectedly the perception of space according to the user and his movement trough them. Thus it creates a completely fluent and dynamic space in a static surrounding. The white colour and the lighting are further tools of design. The white colour and its multiple nuances of shadows created by light give a feeling of profundity and wideness. We use certain black points and surfaces in order to give …

The X2 Resort Kui Buri sited in shoreline on the Gulf of Thailand, designed by local designer Duangrit Bunnag Architects. The resort makes use of invisible wall design – what’s a craggy stone wall to one villa appears as a fence partition to another. Common areas include a large pool, indulgent spa, a fusion restaurant and roof terrace bar that overlooks the sparkling waters of the gulf and a tranquil white-sand beach untouched by development. A smooth wooden boardwalk meanders like a maze through the resort, each twist and turn …

This modern dwelling situated in “La Finca” Estate in the town Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid), designed by A-cero Architects. The house plot has a rectangular shape and a surface of 4.500 m ². It is a two storey building (ground floor and basement). Both levels are perfectly adapted to plot slope where the house takes place. In the main entrance is a hall which communicates with an ample wide lounge and a dining room. Both stays overturn towards the back façade. They have plenty ample windows that are opened for …

The Deronda Residence located in Los Angeles, sited near the apex of Beachwood Canyon, in the Hollywood Hills just under the shadow of the Hollywood sign. The more public “living” areas of the house are situated on the ridge of the site, so as to take advantage of flanking outdoor spaces which are designed as extensions of the living dining, and kitchen areas. Large expanses of sliding glass panels connect these spaces to the adjacent terraces and views beyond, inverting the interiority into an open, covered outdoor room. The more …

The Vesu Restaurant situated on a competitive street corner in Walnut Creek Near San Fransisco. This contemporary restaurant building was created by Arcsine Architecture in collaborated with Bellusci Design. Arcsine wrapped the building with a contemporary, wood-panel façade, complimented by a curving wall of frameless glass that entices pedestrians to look in and feel as if they are already inside. An Arcsine-designed canopy of FSC Certified Eucalyptus leads patrons from the entrance to the lounge and extends all the way to the back bar. Bellusci Design continued the contemporary motif, …