Sipan Residential Building / RYRA Studio

Architects: RYRA Studio
Location: Tehran, Tehran, Omidvar, Jamshidieh Park, Iran
Architect In Charge: Abbas Riahi Fard , Farinaz Razavi Nikoo
Design Associates: Ali Ashouri,Ashkan Bagheri Aghdam,Saeed Bamdadi, Mehdi Yaghoubian
Detail Design Team: Mahmoud Abbasi,Navid Nasrollahzadeh,Yaser Karimian,MinaVakili,Atefeh Lotfollahi, SoudehShahabi, Reyhaneh Rezaei… Sigue leyendo

Architecture as Visual Device -> Cologne cathedral to switch off lights

By switching off the floodlighting we want to make those on the march stop and think. It is a challenge: consider who you are marching alongside.Cologne cathedral to switch off lights in protest at anti-Muslim march.Two strong reads are possible, one w... Sigue leyendo

Apartment at Paulicéia Building / JPG.ARQ

Architects: JPG.ARQ
Location: Avenida Paulista, São Paulo – SP, Brazil
Design Team: José Paulo Gouvêa, Giovanni Meirelles, Thaís Marcussi
Lighting: Luciana Yamamura e Ricardo Heder (Reka)
Area: 90.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Fernando Stankuns From the architect.… Apartment at Paulicéia Sigue leyendo

“Juxtaposition” Challenges Designers to Envision Hip Hop-Inspired Building Forms

What happens at the intersection of urban culture and architecture? How can the four elements of hip hop (DJing, MCing, Breaking and Graffiti) inspire the built environment? Participants of JUX.TA.PO.SI.TION are encouraged to create a sketch using mediums of their choice to depict new building forms, urban design concepts, and/or architectural products inspired by the four foundational elements of hip hop. This international competition is open to all individuals including students, graffiti artists, architects, urban planners, landscape architects, graphic designers, muralists, etc. You can complete the free registration form and find more information, here

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Liget Budapest Awards Third Place to LEAD’s Blue Tiled Museums

Taking home third place in the Liget Budapest competition, the Laboratory for Explorative Architecture and Design… (LEAD) has proposed a colorful design for Budapest’s new photography and architecture museums. A stunning shade of blue, the undulating buildings will mark the Sigue leyendo

Pinar House / MO+G taller de arquitectura

Architects: MO+G taller de arquitectura
Location: Zapopan, JAL, Mexico
Project Area: 535.0 m2
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Miguel Valverde Hernández / Fabrica de Arquitectura, Helmer Murayama Caro / Fabrica de Arquitectura Project Team: Andrés Mayorga García Rulfo, Diego González Díaz … Sigue leyendo

Social Maps Could Potentially Shape Future City Planning

What is a city? To technologist Dave Troy, a “city is the sum of the relationships of the people that live there.” By mapping the interests of dwellers in some of the world’s most populated cities by looking at what… Sigue leyendo

How a Le Corbusier Design Helped Define the Architecture of Southern California

We all know that in architecture, few things are truly original. Architects take inspiration from all around them, often taking ideas from the designs of others to reinterpret them in their own work. However, it’s more rare that a single architectural element … Sigue leyendo

Goycolea Building / FG arquitectos

Architects: FG arquitectos
Location: Vitacura, Región Metropolitana, Chile
Architect In Charge: Alfredo Fernández Recart, Enrique Colin Altuzarra, Matías González Rast
Area: 15562.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Renato Sepúlveda, Enrique Colin (FG arquitectos) Builder: Novatec.
Structural Engineering: VPA…
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Showcase: Óbidos Technological Park Main Building by Jorge Mealha

How does one create a main piazza in the absence of a surrounding urban fabric that typically encloses a Piazza? The design team around architect Jorge Mealha drew from its traditional Portuguese typologies and conceived the Óbidos Technological... Sigue leyendo