The Tartu Rebase Street Building, a highly single residential homes building with the economical aspects of `apartment living´ in Tartu, Estonia, designed by Atelier Thomas Pucher.

The concept behind the River Towers is clear and simple: organizing spaces according to their main functions and distributing between two big rings: the service ring and the living area ring. The most inner ring organizes the service functions, were one can find the entrance to the apartments, wardrobes, bathroom, sauna areas and in most cases the kitchen area. All infrastructural elements are …

Situated at Plaza de la Encarnacion – Seville Spain, Metropol Parasol become the world’s largest wooden structure in the world. Designed by Jurgen Mayer H. Architects, Metropol’s interlocking honeycomb of wooden panels rise from concrete bases, which are positioned to form canopies and walkways below the parasols.

The largely open-air volume houses a variety of programs, including a museum, farmers market, elevated plaza and restaurant, and is intended as a place that will activate the public square, making it attractive for both tourists and locals.

The innovative structure is made from bonded …

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 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 Xi Gallery building sited adjacent to Hapjeong Subway Station along the ‘Yangwha Expressway’ in Seogyo-dong, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Projected by SKM Architects, this is a temporary facility for developers to sell apartments that they have developed. These facilities are commonly called ‘Model Houses’ or ‘Sample Houses’ and are made out of reusable steel structures and economical modular panels and normally destroyed after 3~5 years of use. Also, the facility has temporary building permits from the city which last about 3~5 years of occupation.

“Xi” – the brand name for …

The “Stairscraper” designed by International firm Nabito for cultural exchange, uses, programs and activities in relation with work, communication and leisure in New York. This housing project is impossible today without thinking of something much more complex, but simply the solution to meet a social need and right. In housing today, the motto “TOTAL HOUSING” seems justified. It represents the idea of understanding a wider habitat, a system of complex social relationships with the environment in search of enjoyment of life, mixing different ambits and different uses.

The Stairscraper is a …

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 …

The Querosene House situated in São Paulo Brazil, designed by local architects grupoSP. The design takes advantage from the difference between the street level and the lower level of the plot, by positioning the living room in this lower level which ensures the required privacy and maintains the view of the distant landscape through the void. This simple home adopts simple constructive solutions, reducing the actions required for its achievement. The structure of the volume is resumed to masonry walls and reinforced concrete. Installations are apparent and performed without interference. …

Apartment Interior Design

This modern apartment situated in downtown Montreal, Quebec. The penthouse space consisted of a large 3,300 sq. ft. unit assembled from two penthouses on the 23rd floor. The penthouse comprises two zones, the shared areas consists of the living room, dining room and kitchen as well as a living area; and “the private” quarters of the client and his son. The very high ceilings were lowered slightly to accommodate lighting fixtures and conceal the electrical controls for the window coverings. Each recessed lighting fixture has two spots, multiplying …

The MC1 House situated in the central Pacific zone of Costa Rica, near the national park Manuel Antonio, Quepos. This tropical house designed by Robles Architects. To carry out the project in hand with nature, an area was chosen on the property that was clear of trees to carry out the construction of the required program, which must respect the natural environment and its characteristics as much as possible. Therefore there was no need to cut any tree that was located on the property, which reinforced the commitment to the …