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 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 …

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 …

Tower Architectural
The GT Tower East building was designed by ArchitectenConsort. The form and positioning of the 130-metre-high building are the impressive result of the vision of architects Peter Couwenbergh and Edgar Bosman of ArchitectenConsort. They chose a uniform, glass finish for the facade, which has resulted in an organically pure form. The undulating motion of the facades provides an optically changing primary form when passing the building. Combined with the reflection of the light in the glass, this gives the building a special, iconic appearance. The dynamic appearance of GT …

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 Estoril Sol Residence building situated near the mouth of the Vale da Ribeira de la Castellana, designed by by Gonçalo Byrne. The complex establishes a new relationship with its surrounding territory, reshaping and qualifying this important entrance to the village of Cascais. The 15-storey buildings are founded on a common platform that hosts access, services and leisure areas. Its 110 rooms stand out for the large variation and careful detailing. Glass panels encased in aluminum frames clad the unit, reflecting the diverse landscape that surrounds the building. inside, select …

Spain based architeture office Santiago Parramón (RTA-Office) recently designed House F, a modern house situated in a land with a high incline and a stream that crosses it. Finally the architect decided preserve the site intact to lean on it an object, a big volume which rests in a minimum surface. The house only takes contact with the land through a central nucleus with small dimensions. It was an archaeological work where the architect worked as a surgeon in order to minimize the impact on the rocky land. Inside the …

Designed by dEMM arquitectura, the “Living Foz Apartment” composed by 40 apartments distributed over 7 floors. The geometric and material principle of the facades continues trough the external areas, creating landscaped spaces for playing, strolling and relaxing. The controlled sun exposure, the thermal inertia of the facade, the use of alternative energy and electrically efficient appliances, are features that integrate the building in a quality standard of respect for the Individual and their Habitat. The balcony angle articulation creates spaces enriched by contrasts of light and shade, exposure and protection, …