Tag Glass

27-04-2011

Wiel Arets Architects – Private home for artists

In the home designed by architect Wiel Arets, the interior and exterior walls are made entirely out of glass, with different degrees of opacity to ensure privacy and light up different rooms.

11-04-2011

Perrault’s Fukoku Tower in Osaka

Dominique Perrault’s Fukoku Tower in Osaka will provide a possible definition of sustainability. The French archistar sees architecture as a question of materials, of inventive composition and of relating to the landscape, elements which must co-exist to raise a work of architecture to the status of landmark.

11-04-2011

Sustainable architecture: a straw house

By combining “canonic” materials such as brick and glass with straw, architect Arjen Reas meets the needs of sustainability while permitting interaction between the environment and the landscape, between the private and the public. His plan for a home in Zoermeer (the Netherlands) is a work of contemporary form and content.

23-03-2011

Charles Correa Champalimaud Foundation

Inaugurated in the fall of 2010, the “Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown” designed by Indian architect Charles Correa is composed of two buildings linked by a steel and glass bridge 21 metres long.

21-03-2011

NEIL DENARI, RESIDENTIAL BUILDING IN NEW YORK

The new building designed by architect Neil Denari is named HL23 after nearby High Line Park, and has interiors designed by Thomas Juul-Hansen.

10-03-2011

Tourism routes in Norway: Trollstigen

RRA’s recently completed plans for a lookout over the fjords of Trollstigen is a work in which both materials and composition are inspired entirely by landscape. Cor-ten steel changes colour with the action of time, camouflaging the construction and demonstrating that being sustainable does not just mean consuming less energy: it means reducing visual impact on the environment.

10-03-2011

Holiday home in Sajima

In Yasutaka, a tourist resort not far from Tokyo, a home on the waterfront stands out for its windows, each different in shape, as in an infants’ shape sorter. Designed as a home for brief holidays, the building features a dance of floor and wall covering materials on the inside.

22-02-2011

Tom Dixon, Royal Academy of Arts restaurant

The interior design of the restaurant at the Royal Academy of Arts in London has been completed by British designer Tom Dixon.