selgas cano architecture office
by: iwan baan
in: madrid, spain
Mound, hearth, enclosure, roof, and column. The way we see it, Gottfried Semper and scholars already figured out what makes honest tectonic form. We're looking for the element that satisfies our primitive urge to value architecture that's good.
alibaba headquarters
by:hassell architects
in: hangzhour, china
Inspired by Chinese window screens, a web-like enclosure turns into a latticed roof which cools both indoor and outdoor spaces passively. It’s a bit too porous for year round application at our rainy Pacific Northwest campuses, but we’d almost suggest using an umbrella if something similar was implemented here. Almost.
Said by Peter Zumthor. Read the rest of the thought provoking, wish-I-was-cool-enough-to-say-stuff-like-that article @ NYTimes.com
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Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers. If you do what you should, then at the end there is something, which you can’t explain maybe, but if you are lucky, it has to do with life.
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Flat Tower
by: Yoann Mescam, Paul-Eric Schirr
Bonnans, and Xavier Schirr-Bonnans
in: Rennes, France
To channel a cult favorite breakfast cereal jingle, this honeycomb tower’s big… yeah yeah yeah! it’s not small… no no no!
It’s so big, in fact, that if the proposed structure were built, it’s diameter would be equal to length of Burj Khalifa laid on its side. Designed in an attempt to keep the skyline of the city open, the mixed-use mound doubles as roof to protect inhabitants, while using the square footage for rain collection and solar panels.
sunset chapel
by: bunker arquitectura
in: acapulco, mexico
hat tea house
by: A1Architects
in: Ostrava, Czech Republic
So this is what happens when you take a traditional Japanese tea house and place it in an entirely different environment, in this case Middle Europe. The elements are all present, and constructed of local materials that will age as the structure does. We’d very much like to drink a cup of tea here, but for some reason, wouldn’t say no to a nice czech beer on a warm summer day either.
(Source: dezeen.com)
culinary art school
by: gracia studio
in: tijuana mexico
board formed concrete wraps the wine cellar (we think) while timber overhead encloses the space. we love how the linearity of the space is emphasized by the recognition and expression of an otherwise typical construction method of each element.
(Source: archdaily.com)
Dispatchwork
by: Jan Vormann
in: Berlin, Germany
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