Llewelyn Davies Yeang Architects masterplan for the renovation to the Norman Manley International airport, Jamaica.
previously
if you come for cricket you can see this, as it is near completion
February 28, 2007
Norman Manley Int'l Airport
Llewelyn Davies Yeang Architects masterplan for the renovation to the Norman Manley International airport, Jamaica.
previously
if you come for cricket you can see this, as it is near completion
The ‘three leaf’ plan of the high density sustainable housing (240-500 homes), channels wind through the centre driving turbines generating electricity to power common areas reducing energy demand. .
Marks Barfield Architect
top 100 architectural firms internationally; London has the most architects in the top ten & Steven Holl is the top American architect.
"Hitoshi Abe forges a box of dimpled Cor-Ten steel [with a pattern reminiscent of diamond plate, contains a cluster of small galleries, inspired by soap bubbles but made of flat planes of steel], painted white on the inside, as a home for the new Kanno Museum in Japan."
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February 27, 2007
blue house | blue sea
A sea side cottage in Argentina by architects Darío Antonietti, Ignacio Montaldo, Eugene Ottolenghi; made from prefabricated pods & elements and hoisted into place.
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February 26, 2007
A building component by Dutch architects Hofman Dujardin that transforms from window to balcony for convenience.
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February 23, 2007
3LHD has completed a new sports hall in a small village (population 1000). The external wall surfaces are finished in traditional local dry stone, cladding much of the prefabricated concrete structure.
February 22, 2007
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February 20, 2007
Eighteen low-income projects are underway throughout Spain employing the services of some well known international architects. The names range from the UK's David Chippfield & Foreign Office Architects, to Mexico's Ricardo Legorreta and the Netherlands MVRDV. Interestingly,the projects "were judged on the quality of their designs, not their names," further limited by the limiting budget of £4m for 133 units - approximately U$60,000 per unit. More
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Do you have an old car just collecting rust? You could think of turning it into your dream home.
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February 19, 2007
modern masters from elsewhere pt.1
Eladio Dieste, an architect from Uruguay whose distinction was earned through his design industrial buildings and informal civic buildings such as markets and churches. Dieste was an innovator even among his Modernist peers, the elegance in his architecture was achieved by utlising thin shell brick vaults with tiled finishes - a cheaper alternative to reinforced concrete not requiring ribs and beams. He stated "deep moral/practical reasons for our search which give form to our work: with the form we create."
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The work of Costa Rica based architect Bruno Stagno, attempts to bridge sustainable yet culturally and technologically relevant architecture in Central America
thanks for the link Shanella
Adobe goes green with their US Headquarters earning LEED platinum status of Green Building Rating System™ through a decade of responsive renovations.
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