Tag Condos

19-01-2015

Turin: apartment with dog suite

Case e Segreti: a luxury apartment in central Turin designed by architect Fabio Fantolino. The common thread running through the project is contrasting materials, with the minimalism of “hiding things”, but there is also an element of eccentric elegance: a bedroom for the dog.

14-11-2014

NAJAS arquitectos designed the ICON apartment building in Quito, Ecuador

Esteban Najas and his team from NAJAS arquitectos, studio based in Quito, Ecuador, designed the ICON apartment building. Clean lines both on the outside and inside, with truly breathtaking views of the city.

01-10-2014

House for trees by Vo Trong Nghia Architects in Ho Chi Minh City

The innovative young studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has built a House for trees on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam. Particularly aware of the importance of building sustainable constructions, Vo Trong Nghia attempts to enrich an area where intense urbanisation has left no room for greenery with his House for Trees.

12-06-2014

Ginko Eco-Neighbourhood by Nicolas Laisné and Christophe Rousselle

Ecological contemporary architecture for a housing development in Bordeaux, France, where materially different buildings are given continuity by a shared ground floor.

07-05-2014

The architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa wins the 2014 National Design Awards

Celebrating design as “a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world” is the main goal of the National Design Awards, conceived by Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. The architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has been awarded in Architecture Design.

16-04-2014

“Architecture+Photography III” exhibition, Architekturgalerie Berlin

The third edition of “Architecture+Photography III” at Architekturgalerie Berlin exhibits the work of three contemporary photographers who integrate the built environment and focus on the architecture of everyday life.

18-02-2014

BIG, Honeycomb residential building in the Bahamas

BIG architectural studio has revealed plans for a new multi-unit residential building in the Albany Bahamas resort.

31-07-2013

Mehdizadeh: architecture with recycled cladding in Mahallat

Ramin Mehdizadeh in Mahallat is an example of a housing complex and shopping centre in which contemporary architecture is rooted in local tradition. Inspired by the presence of stone quarries in the area, the project uses scrap stone from quarry processes as a cladding material: a sustainable, money-saving project that has won the favour of local builders and been shortlisted for the 2013 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.