Sustainable House Design
This sustainable residential building created by Scott M Kemp Architect on the south banks of the Fraser River, Canada. This house design incorporates features of sustainability and the house has achieved a LEED PLATINUM rating from the Canadian Green Building Council. Two side zones are two story elements while the central zone is a large vaulted space. The entrance is part of the ‘grand room’ – kitchen, dining and living room – located on the north side of the building facing the river and the views. Upstairs the …

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 …

Modern Hospital Architectural in California
The Stanford Hospital & Clinics designed by Rafael Vinoly Architects, presented in a multi-disciplinary, interventional platform, where radiology and surgical services and the Emergency Department will be co-located with state-of-the-art imaging services to enhance care; upper-level residential pavilions with light-filled, single patient rooms; and a unique, mid-level garden floor. Stanford Hospital has a number of firsts to its name. It was the first hospital in the US to complete a heart transplant; the site of the first successful heart/lung transplant; invented the technologically advanced Cyberknife to …

This Villa projected in Athens by Klab Architects, spaces are characterized by straight lines and orthogonal shapes, this is interrupted by the gentle arc of the staircase that leads to the upper floor where the bedrooms are located. The villa hides a space of tranquility underground, an indoor swimming pool and a sauna occupy this lower lever and there only means of natural light is a west facing skylight that poor light into the room. Concealed lights in the ceiling, a backlit translucent wall and the reflections provided by the …

This summer house situated at spectacular site in the Vestfold coastline. The house replaces an older building at the site. To get the planning permit, the project had to be well adjusted to the terrain, both in terms of shape, scale, material and color. The house and terraces are partly built upon existing stone walls, the parts of the walls which are new are made of stones from the blasting at the site. The low elongated volume is cut into to allow for wind shielded outdoor areas, embraced by the …