The Deloitte Centre, designed by Woods Bagot and Warren and Mahoney is the first high rise tower in New Zealand to achieve a 5 Star design rating with the New Zealand Green Building Council (NZGBC).
A new development in the north of Boulder, CO stands to be the first completely net-zero neighborhood in the US. Dubbed SpringLeaf Boulder, the project aims
Beloved architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, is finally the subject of a biopic film, to be directed by “Driving Miss Daisy’s” Bruce Beresford. The film, called “Taliesin” after his studio, will cover a brief portion of his life, which involved the murder of his mistress Martha Cheney.
This project is located on a narrow and sloping plot, on the edge of a village. The way the house had to be laid out wasn’t easy since the regulations and neighborhood limits were restricting. To avoid a very long and narrow house, the project is split in three parts, on semi levels using the natural slope.
This ancient and illustrious wine country is the place where the old world charms of Spanish wineries now blend flawlessly with ultramodern architecture, and Viura is a perfect example of this. Although it is set in the middle of the traditional village, next to the 17th century church, Viura’s architecture, is a true departure from traditional form: a series of concrete cubes, one on top of the other, that seem to rise out of the ground. The architecture successfully links the interior to the exterior landscape; floor to ceiling windows throughout and private terraces ensure that there is always a view of the village, the Sierra de Cantabria or the church. Clever use of partitions, glass and sophisticated lighting add to the ambiance and fun. Materials and techniques have been brilliantly used together to create avant-garde work of art, strikingly different to its environment but nonetheless blending in to its surroundings.
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It’s a project of office furniture design. It proposes various complementary typologies of seats, and heights of work-top. In this particular case for the students of the new building of the school of Arts and design of Saint-étienne in the Cité du design (citedudesign.com); but it could be imagine in lots of design studios or actually in every studio looking for office furnitures as modular as possible.