Archive for the 'Landscape' Category
Innovative Lilypad Floating City for Climate Refugees
Designed by Vincent Callebaut, the Lilypads is a concept for a completely self sufficient floating city intended to provide shelter for future climate change refugees. It one of very few urban design solutions that address housing the inevitable tide of displaced people that could arise as oceans swell under global warming. The Lilypad, which was [...]
Category: Architecture,Innovation Designer,Landscape,Sustainable Design, posted at: Feb 5th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: aerial view, Architecture, inhabitat, Innovation Designer, Landscape, solar, Sustainable Design
Magnificent La Rioja Technology Center in Spain
La Rioja Technology Center is a space dedicated to IT training, development and research. FOA wanted to maximize exposure to the outside by integrating the structure into the landscape. One of the ways they accomplished this was by entwined climbing plants around a series of cables that have been stretched from the balustrades to a circular section fixed just above the ground all around the building.
Category: Architecture,Canopy,Landscape, posted at: Feb 4th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: Architecture, facades, FOA, inhabitat, interior, Landscape, Spain
Magnificent Boston Fusion for Suburban Landmark
Designed by Danish firm BayArch, led by Christian Bay Jørgensen, the Boston Fusion is a green roofed apartment and commercial building that been built to create an idyllic suburban landscape in the heart of the city. Boston Fusion is part of a large development plan for a new green quarter in Boston, which will be [...]
Category: Apartment,Apartments,Landscape, posted at: Feb 3rd 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: Boston Fusion, Christian Bay, landmark, Landscape, retail space, roof, solar, solar panels, South Boston
Stunning 23.2 House by Omar Arbel
Designed by Architect Omar Arbel, this stunning 23.2 House creates a wonderful narrative that starts with a pile of huge salvaged Douglas fir beams. The house opens to the landscape, mixing the outdoors with the indoors. The result is a beautiful home that made the short list for this year’s World Architecture Festival’s recognized homes. [...]
Category: Architect,Architecture,Home,House,Landscape, posted at: Jan 30th 2011, Comments: 1 CommentTags: Architecture, beautiful home, elements, House, inhabitat, interior, Landscape, living room, open floor plan, World Architecture
Stunning Snæfellsstofa Visitor Center in Iceland’s Vatnajokull National Park
Inspired by local materials and the glaciers in the surrounding park, the Snæfellsstofa Visitor Center is Iceland’s first BREEAM certified building. Located in Iceland’s Vatnajokull National Park, the new visitor center is a striking work of architecture situated in a haunting and beautiful natural landscape. Vatnajökull National Park is Europe’s largest national park and is [...]
Category: Landscape, posted at: Jan 26th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: ARK, BREEAM, energy efficient lighting, energy use, Europe, Iceland, Landscape, local materials, natural landscape, roof
Modern Loop City for New Copenhagen Suburb Master Plan
Designed by Big Architects, the Loop City is a master plan for the suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark centered around an expansive new light rail system that instead of just being a way for people to get around, will actually act as a catalyst to develop the surrounding communities.In addition, the project will also incorporate strategies [...]
Category: Architects,Energy Efficiency,infrastructure,Landscape,Sustainable Design, posted at: Jan 25th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: BIG, Denmark, Food Strip, Landscape, Loop City, Sustainable Design
Futuristic Tianjin Eco City in Chinese
Designed by Surbana Urban Planning Group, the Tianjin Eco City is being built just 10 minutes away from the business parks at the Tianjin Economic Development Area. The 30 square kilometer development designed to showcase the hottest new green technologies and to serve as a model for future developing Chinese cities.The community’s expected 350,000 residents [...]
Category: Apartment,Eco Design,Landscape, posted at: Jan 24th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: aerial view, bridges, greenery, Landscape, landscapes
Stunning Marina House by João Diniz Architecture
The Marina House designed by João Diniz Architecture and colaborated with Clarissa Bastos and Monica Oguraand complete in 2005. This house located in Condominium Alphaville Lagoa dos Ingleses, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais. This Marina House width is 628.00 m2, with built area approximately 198.00 m2. The topography of the lot defines three levels of internal [...]
Category: Architecture,House,Landscape, posted at: Jan 18th 2011, Comments: 2 CommentsTags: Architecture, Clarissa Bastos, House, Landscape, Minas Gerais, Nova Lima, roof, topography
Stunning Mikado House Architectural Design
This structure called Mikado House, a pick up sticks game, as a way to establish design rules and physical/spatial connections for housing organization. The challenge is to create a mediating structure between physically adjacent conditions and public/private programs. This structure is formed by series of architectural ‘sticks’ which have different functions. The first type consists [...]
Category: Architectural,House,Landscape,Recreational Areas, posted at: Jan 14th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: architectural design, Bridge, bridges, dwellings, House, interior, Landscape, landscapes, Mikado Housing
Attractive Shipping Containers Clinic and Library in Indonesia
Shipping containers are sturdy, versatile structures that have traveled the world over the course of their lifespans. The Contertainer is a polyclinic and public library designed by Indonesian firm, dpavilion architects, that repurposes these adventurous vessels to house books. The name for the health clinic and public library is an amalgam of two words: container [...]
Category: Architects,Containers,Innovation Designer,Landscape,Library, posted at: Jan 11th 2011, Comments: No CommentsTags: East Jawa, Indonesia, Innovation Designer, Landscape, Library, Shipping Containers, structure design
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