The building is located in the market square of small Dutch town Schijndel, where MVRDVpartner Winy Maas grew up. The town suffered damages during World War II, and Maas has been campaigning since the 1980s to replace a destroyed structure in the space between the church and the town hall. Thirty years and six failed proposals …
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London firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has completed NEO Bankside, a set of six-sided apartment blocks beside the Tate Modern art gallery on the edge of the River Thames. Like the Centre Pompidou and many other buildings designed by studio founder Richard Rogers, the four towers feature external bracing systems that form a steel diagrid …
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Burlington stand by Keggenhoff & Partner, Berlin
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San Francisco-based studio Jones|Haydu has designed the interior of this 1,100 square foot office for Buck O’Neill Builders in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood, California, USA. Photos by: Bruce Damonte
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The subtly different proportions of two concrete gables fronting a bank building in northern Germany create the illusion that one side is fatter than the other. Strips of glazing outline the outer edge of both gables, so that even though one is taller the two elevations still appear to mirror one another from certain angles. …
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American firm Handel Architects have completed a New York hotel with porthole windows that give it an uncanny resemblance to children’s game Connect Four. Comprising one seven-storey block adjoined to another that is twelve storeys high, the Dream Downtown Hotel occupies a renovated former annex of the National Maritime Union of America. Overlapping layers of perforated metal clad the smaller of the …
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Hot on the heels of openings in Singapore and Sydney, Louis Vuitton opens another stellar maison – its division of superflagships – in Rome. Illustriously called Louis Vuitton Étoile Maison, the new store measures a rather grand 1,200 sqm. and is housed in a three-storey landmark building that previously accommodated the historical Spazio Étoile, the …
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Eliseevsky store is probably one of the most famous stores in the entire Moscow. Do me a favor, if you’re strolling along the beautiful Tverskaya st., don’t forget to find that wonderful place. Muscovites always loved it. Even right after Perestroika, when all Moscow stores were completely empty, people still came to Eliseevsky to admire …
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The walls of this house in Australia by architects McBride Charles Ryan have origami-like facets and folds. Located on the south coast, the holiday home is named after the Klein Bottle, which is the mathematical term for a surface with an indefinable left, right, top or bottom. Rooms angle around a central courtyard and step upwards to negotiate …
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