(Latente 囧 www.latente.it– flickr/creative commons license) The AquaDome Thermal Spa is located in the beautiful Austrian mountains of Laengenfeld. Outside pools take advantage of the view while taking architectural cues from the scenery. A grand wall of windows also opens …
Month: June 2015
This architecture building for the Illinois Institute of Technology was designed by Mies van der Rohe, who taught there, in 1956. This project was innovative in exposed steel frame that opens up the walls for glazing. The roof is suspended …
(Richard Moross– flickr/creative commons license) Hotel Q was designed by GRAFT architects in Berlin, Germany just in time for the World Cup. Graft, known for their design of Brad Pitt’s studio, wraps the interior in red surfaces in an aesthetic …
(dlisbona– flickr/creative commons license) The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art has no formal organization that suggests a front or back. This project gives the historical city of Kanazawa on the Japanese coast a modern energy. Circular and block elements …
Together with halftecture, rooftecture questions the prescribing of composition components in a design. The metal roof curves, much like the hill behind it, to meet the ground and assume exterior walls. The masonry walls seem more like landscape features, but …
(..colb..– flickr/creative commons license) Considering that modern architecture has broken down design to structure components, like column, roof, or window, Endo experimented sought a new method by questioning the inside/ outside relationship. The visual containment from the rusty metal skin …
The Lewis Glucksman Gallery at the University College in Cork, Ireland was designed by O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects. The project seeks integration between modern and historic architecture, nature and man-made, inside and outside, and between university elements. The RIAI called …
The Scottish Parliament by EMBT and RMJM Ldt. won the RIBA Stirling Prize. Architect Enric Miralles died exactly four years before Queen Elizabeth II dedicated the building in 2004. The location on the end of the traditional Royal Mile stirred …
(Sarah Jane– flickr/creative commons license) Along with the Recreation Center by Morphosis, the University of Cincinnati in Ohio received the Aronoff Center for Design and Art (DAAP) by Peter Eisenman and local firm Lorenz & Williams. Parts of an existing …
(Matt Biddulph– flickr/creative commons license) Ernö Goldfinger designed this residential tower, and the Balfron Tower and Glenkerry House around it, for Poplar HARCA. The brutalist concrete building typifies the residences with balconies and large windows. The two buildings’ circulation meet …