Philipp Plein Store / AquiliAlberg
Courtesy of AquiliAlbergArchitects: AquiliAlberg Location: Forte dei Marmi, Versilia, Italy Client: Philipp Plein Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 50 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of AquiliAlberg In...
View ArticleBusan Cinema Center Nearing Completion
© Coop Himmelb(l)auThe construction of the Busan Cinema Center by architecture firm COOP HIMMELB(L)AU is nearing completion. Slated to be the new home of the Busan International Film Festival, the...
View Article11 Boxes / Keiji Ashizawa Design
© Daici AnoArchitects: Keiji Ashizawa Design Location: Saitama, Japan Project Architect: Keiji Ashizawa Structural Engineer: Ejiri Engneer Project Year: 2007 Photographs: Daici Ano In order to maximize...
View ArticleAD Classics: Institut du Monde Arabe / Jean Nouvel
© Flickr / Laura ManningIn the early eighties Jean Nouvel in conjunction with Architecture-Studio won the competition to design what would become the Institut du Monde Arabe. It was conceived during...
View Articlere:CONNECT Open Ideas Competition
Courtesy of City of Vancouverre:CONNECT open ideas competition invites the citizens of Vancouver, to join with local and international designers to ignite discussion and dream new possibilities for the...
View ArticleBiscay Statutory Library / IMB Arquitectos
© Ã…ke E:son LindmanArchitects: IMB Arquitectos / Gloria Iriarte, Eduardo Múgica, AgustÃn de la Brena Location: Bilbao, Spain Project Year: 2007 Client: Diputación Foral de Bizkaia, Bizkaiko Foru...
View ArticleBlurry Wall Proposal / Yaohua Wang, Scott Chung, Qing Cao, & Lennard Ong
Courtesy of Yaohua Wang, Scott Chung, Qing Cao, & Lennard OngA wall is a binary condition: in/out, old/new, here/there. Blurry Wall, a proposal for a culture complex in Nanjing, China is a project...
View ArticleDiamond Arena / Atelier 11
Courtesy of Atelier 11Architects: Atelier 11 Location: Beijing, China Design Team: Ding Liqun, Gao Qinglei, Liu Heng, An Peng Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 51,199 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of...
View ArticleWashington Monument Grounds Competition Finalists
© 2010 National Ideas CompetitionOver 500 people from all across the country and around the world participated in the National Ideas Competition for the Washington Monument Grounds. From a field of...
View ArticleObservation Tower / UNStudio + ABT + BAM Utiliteitsbouw + Haitsma Beton
© UNStudio This past week, the Dutch Society for the Preservation of Natural Heritage received a new observation tower during the mini-symposium ‘Experience Nature with innovative concrete’ in Peize....
View ArticleCloud no 9 / Andrew Simpson Architects
© Christine FrancisArchitect: Andrew Simpson Architects Location: Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia Project Team: Andrew Simpson, Owen West, Steve Hatzellis, Stephan Bekhor, Michael Barraclough, Eugene An...
View ArticleNetscape: SCI-Arc Graduation Pavilion 2011 / Oyler Wu Collaborative with SCI-Arc
© Oyler Wu CollaborativeArchitect: Oyler Wu Collaborative with SCI-Arc Location: Los Angeles, California, USA Principal Architects: Dwayne Oyler, Jenny Wu Project Team: Oyler Wu Collaborative: Nick...
View ArticleAn Architectural Pocket Dictionary (A-J)
AAdaptive Re-use: (noun) - Removing soiled linens and empty colt 45 bottles prior to leasing a building to creative professionals.Agora: (noun) – The fear of Architecture in public...
View ArticleVila Castela Residence / Anastasia Arquitetos
© Jomar BragançaArchitects: Anastasia Arquitetos Location: Minas Gerais, Brazil Project Year: 2009 Construction: Campo Empreendimentos Structural Design: Lucas Saraiva Project Area: 650 sqm...
View ArticleOMA designed Maggie Gartnaval Opens Today
Image courtesy of OMA; photography by Philippe RuaultToday marks the opening of Maggie’s Gartnaval, a new center for the charity located on the ground of Gartnaval Royal Infirmary in Glasgow, Scotland....
View ArticleAutodesk Project Vasari 2.1
Click here to view the embedded video.Autodesk recently released their Project Vasari 2.1, an easy-to-use, expressive design tool for creating building concepts. Vasari goes further, with integrated...
View ArticleHarrington Grove Country Club / Hassell
Courtesy of HassellArchitect: HASSELL Location: Camden, New South Wales, Australia Project Area: 2,230 sqm Project Year: 2009 Client: HARPAK Photographs: Courtesy of HASSELL Courtesy of HassellThe...
View ArticleLouis Vuitton Architecture and Interiors / Frederic Edelmann, Ian Luna,...
“In the more recent past, it is the architecture of minimalism that has provided the most explicit and significant contribution to the reciprocal relationship between fashion and architecture. In many...
View ArticleVideo: Maggie Gartnaval by OMA
This exclusive video of OMA’s Maggie’s Centre by BD online features OMA partner Ellen van Loon discussing the design for the cancer care center. Led by OMA Partners Rem Koolhaas and Ellen van Loon with...
View ArticleWhite Rabbit Gallery / Smart Design Studio
Courtesy of Smart Design StudioArchitect: Smart Design Studio Location: Sydney, Australia Project Team: William Smart, Hamish Ginn, Hon Loong, Tatsu Hayashi, Luke Moloney Client: White Rabbit...
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