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 …

Artistic Architectural Design
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 …

Modern Office Buiding
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) recently design a modern office building for China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). This building situated at a major crossroads along the Second Ring Road in Beijing’s eastern Dongcheng district, the CNOOC headquarters building acts as an urban counter-point to the massive Ministry of Foreign Affairs Building situated on the opposing corner.

The building’s form evokes the images of offshore oil production. The prow-like shape recalling an oil tanker’s bow, and the tower mass elevated above the ground on piloti suggesting an offshore oil …

The Orange Cube Building project is designed by Jakob + MacFarlane Architects as a simple orthogonal (cube) into which a giant hole is carved, responding to necessities of light, air movement and views. This hole creates a void, piercing the building horizontally from the river side inwards and upwards through the roof terrace.

The cube, next to the existing hall highlights its autonomy. It is designed on a regular framework made of concrete pillars on 5 levels. A light façade, with seemingly random openings is completed by another façade, pierced with …

Sustainable Architecture Design

The Giant Headquarter Building projected by Studiobase Architects + Reborn Studio in 4,800 sqm area in Taichung , Taiwan. The design tries to transfer the idea of motion and speed into the experience of bicycle movement, also wants this building to stand as a model of the sustainability in Taiwan. Located next to the former Taichung local airport, the building skin also tries to react to the movement of heavy traffic and north wind. This industrial-design-shaped façade not only makes the street corner more dynamic, but also reduces …

The 23.2 House is a single family house created by Omer Arbel architect sited on a large rural acreage outside Vancouver in the West Coast of Canada. The design of the house itself began, as a point of departure, with a depository of one hundred year old Douglas Fir beams reclaimed from a series of burned down ware- houses. The beams were of different lengths and cross sectional dimensions, and had astonishing proportions – some as long as 20 meters, some as deep as 90 cm. It was agreed that …

The 188,000 square foot New Northwest Corner Building designed by José Rafael Moneo, who’s Pritzker Prize-winning architect collaboration with the architects at Madrid’s Moneo Brock Studio and New York’s Davis Brody Bond Aedas. The innovative structure houses cutting-edge labs gathering together researchers in biology, chemistry, physics and engineering, as well as a science library, lecture hall and café, completing the outlines of the university’s original Morningside Heights campus plan by McKim, Mead and White. Built as a bridge above the existing Levien Gym in the Dodge Physical Fitness Center and …

Situated in San Fransisco California, SB Architects created contemporary home with warm interior space. This home more contemporary approach to a housing solution but manages to translate the needs of a family into a comprehensive layout. I’m a big fan of the kitchen island and the ceiling matching the floors. You can see accent colors here and there on a pretty neutral color palette.
Description from SB Architects;
“The design concept was driven by the micro-features of the site and the desire to create a contemporary design expression that was rooted in …

Alterstudio presents contemporary East Windsor Residence in Austin, Texas. Extraordinary views in the heart of the city and a small buildable footprint limited by restrictive easements prompted a thin, three-story home with the main living spaces and master suite on the top floor – essentially a one-bedroom loft with 270° views. A 16’ ipe screen envelopes the body of the house, and rests delicately atop a base of long courses of black Leuders limestone. Beyond, an etched glass wall captures the projected shadows of a stand of giant …

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, …