Designed by Saia Barbarese Topouzanov Architects, the pavilion’s architecture layers and weaves together a series of intertwined metaphors at different scales. The first represents the country, and serves as site for the second, that of the city, which in turn encompasses that of the town square. The shell constitutes the interior face of the building. Minimal in its construction, without decoration, it lays low and holds only a functional, supportive role to the spectacles that it houses, those that constitute its vibrant heart. Distinct from the first, it covers the …

Taastrup Theater in Copenhagen has recently undergone a renovation and extension project, courtesy of architecture firm COBE. The key focus of the COBE’s project was to improve the building’s communication with the surrounding area – a social housing neighbourhood in Taastrup. Originally constructed in the 1970s as a local community theatre, an opportunity arose to bring the bland concrete form back to life and to generate new links between the building and the local community. Wrapped around the existing structure is a fresh façade formed of translucent acrylic prisms …

International Architecture Development (IAD) recently designs Frame Hotel / Villamoda Galleries, a modern hotel in Dubai UEA. The first step for this project consisted of defining a visual and constructive frame for the building. The response to such a simple formal approach was to create a complex dialogue between each separate architectural or landscaping element. An urban and vertical garden has been the response to the massive hotel building, as an inverse piece, a friendly opposite that complements and allows the dark prism of the hotel to breathe. The force …

Like the name, this Sinu River House was built near the second largest river in Monteria Colombia – Sinu River, designed by Antonio Sofan architects. The design concept starts with 2 white boxes connected by the access and from which large pieces are taken away creating shaded terraces. Blue color is uncovered when subtracting from the mass in the form of thin mosaic surfaces revealed by “z” shaped metal trims. The living and dining rooms have soaring ceilings witch reach the 5 meters. Patterned painted cement tiles in shades of …

The ARIA Resort & Casino is a new LEED Gold Certified hotel building in Las Vegas Nevada. Designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, this is the centerpiece of CityCenter, an urban environment on a 67-acre site fronting the Las Vegas Strip. The 4,000-room hotel and casino is the tallest structure in CityCenter, redefining the Las Vegas skyline and creating a strong sense of space. Constructed of steel and glass, the shimmering, crystalline towers reflect the changing sky.

The 3.8-million-square-foot hotel-casino complex is comprised of two counterpoising, curvilinear towers joining to form …

The Hotel Viura situated in Spanish wine region of Rioja Alavesa, designed by Designhouses. This hotel named after the most widely planted white grape variety in Rioja, Viura is a new hotel with 26 guestrooms and seven suites, two bars and a restaurant. 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 …

The O2 Restaurant sited on basement underneath a 40-story building in the Arcos Bosques project in Mexico City, designed by Garduño Architects. This garden restaurant vision reflected in all the work done in this place reveals a human consciousness intent on having people benefit, both as staff and as costumers. This project goal to create sustainability restaurant interior, connected with contemporary art. It includes a restaurant with terraces, fountains, chimneys and sitting areas, a gourmet store, jewelry shop, bakery and flower shop all in 930 square meters.

The challenge was creating …

Sited on eastern coast of North Bruny Island Tasmania, Hobart’s Sullivans Cove based architects Dock4 Architecture created contemporary timber house. This “white Perrin” house have dramatic views over Storm Bay to Cape Raoul and deep ocean beyond. his prompted the design approach that the building should be anchored to the steep slope while leaning out towards the views. The challenge for the architects is to capture the site stunning views to the east and south-east while creating an energy efficient building gathering solar warmth from the north. Energy efficiency was …

Built at 1,493 sqm project area on the Universuity Campus of Toulouse-labège – Tolouse France, this new gymnasium is part of a developing programme for the campus with a view to the building of The ENSIACET on this new site.The project of implanting a new gymnasium on the INP grounds considers the whole site as a university campus at the heart of a quality environment. The implantation of the INP gymnasium allows one take architecture further than mere building.
The architectural composition generates a an axis directly going from …

The Blackbox, the latest Parasite Studio’s project located in one of the most significant spaces of the Lulius Mall building in Timisoara Romania. The inside, although a vast in 2,000 sqm surface proved to be difficult to configure and especially to organize within a coherent unique concept, due to the existing random layout of technical areas and the crisscrossing massive steel structure. In the first design concepts we tried to cover and hide the existing structure, then tried to ignore it but came to realize that the best solution …