Harbour Isle Apartments by Lundgaard & Tranberg

Designed by The Danish architects Lundgaard & Tranberg. The residential project of Harbour Isle apartment occupies a unique location on a harbour island in a former industrial area, close to both park areas and the centre of Copenhagen. To make best of the exceptional location, the project is divided into smaller building volumes, relating to views, solar exposure, and harbour.



In addition to providing unobstructed view sight lines for each unit, the design creates a variation in apartment types and the corresponding balconies. Staggered projecting bays with corner windows provide panoramas of harbour and city, while also screening views from neighbours, insuring the privacy of each apartment.



The project consists of 236 exclusive apartments with an average area of 101 m2/1.087 ft2, consisting primarily of two and three bedroom apartments, a small portion of which are two levels. The entire project, including the projecting bays, is rendered in warm white stucco, while the fenestration has teak profiles.

Pedestrian Bridge, Zapallar by Enrique Browne

Architects: Enrique Browne y Asociados Arquitectos
Location: Zapallar, Chile
Collaborators: Rodrigo Rojas, Davor Pavlovic, Baltazar Sánchez y Tomás Swett
Project year: 2006-2008
Structural Engineering: Alfonso Larraín
Photographs: Enrique Browne
Architect homepage: www.ebrowne.cl





















This cool designed pedestrial bridge / footbridge was designed by Enrique Browne y Asociados Arquitectos. The function is to connect the group of social housing that was built for local families in the traditional resort town of Zapallar, in the Central Coast of Chile. The bridge is also being use to serve and transfer water pipes, electricity, etc. from one side to another.





















The “frames” were elevated to maintain the metallic railings, the drainpipes with Led lights and, also, the metallic netting, avoiding eventual stone throwing toward vehicles. All the materials were untidy in their natural color.


By external motives to the architect the bridge was displaced some 50mts. from its original location in the zenith of the elevation of the road. Also, the ramps and pedestrian access roads were not carried out according to the plans of architecture.

Anyway the bridge offers different interpretations. It can be seen as an inverted boat of the bay, like a beauty queen tiara, or as arch of access to the town, etc.

Higueritas Sport Center designed by GBGV Arquitectos

Designed by GBGV Arquitectos - Federico García Barba y Cristina González Vázquez de Parga on 2003 for their client Excmo. Ayuntamiento de La Laguna, Programa Urban de La Cuesta y Taco and located on a dense metropolitan area between the Santa Cruz and La Laguna districts, this building incorporates sports facilities to fill the lack of equipment.

The required program is quite complex, in order to organize services to practice several sports, mostly the usual sports for covered courts such as basketball, volleyball, handball, tennis and a space for gymnasium and fitness. Also, training and therapeutic pools were required.





















The proposed building allocates the required spaces on several levels, making use of the height differences on the site. The pools and locker room are located on the semi basement level. The gymnasiums and workout areas are placed on an intermediate level. Finally, the upper level holds the multiuse courts and seats for 300 people.





















The goal was to make a compact building, in order to lower costs and achieve high energy efficiency, while allowing for good ventilation and lighting. Special care was put to fit this new infrastructure on the site, after studying the heights, so you could access every space from street level. This strategy involved an interior elevator that connects the 4 levels.






















The formal language pretends to simplify the global form while defining a new urban landmark for the neighborhood, as should be for a quality urban equipment. Simple and easy to install materials were used to achieve rich spaces with good illumination.





















Blue tinted translucent polycarbonate panels were used to enclose the pool area in order to achieve a nice atmosphere.

Concert and Congress Centre by Future Systems

This Antonin Dvorak Concert and Congress Centre designed by Future Systems which is going to offer you a feel of Heaven Cultural and Commercial Spaces. Antonin Dvorak is a cultural space and grand entrance which is open constituted from restaurants areas, café lounges, dance floors and music halls.















There are 2 concert halls with a seating arrangement of 1000 people and a chamber music hall with accommodation of 400 people. Each and every hall is created of sensual free form curves that manage to join artistic beauty with amazing audio quality that is only enhanced by the ‘eye’ window concept. People are surely going to have a thrilling experience in Antonin Dvorak structure.


























Client: South Bohemian Society of Friends of Music
Architect: Future Systems
Design Team: M.Gabriel,J.Kaplicky,Y.Peer,F.Previtali,G.Roetzel
Acousticall Engineer: Neill Woodger, George Ellerington @ Arup
Structural Engineer Ed Clark @ Arup
Environmental Engineer: Andrew Sedgwick @ Arup

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Waimana Chapel by Wilson & Hill Architects

A Chapel set in an open rural park like setting that the people from North Canterbury could relate to and feel comfortable in a time of grief has been requested by Lamb & Hayward to Wilson & Hill Architects.

The building contains a large chapel to seat 200, a small chapel to seat 30 and lounge with serving kitchen to cater for functions on site following a service. Offices, staff room, garaging for hearses, a small mortuary and other service type rooms are also included.

The three types of precast concrete panels used, polished panels, natural concrete’ banded panels with grit blasted finish and painted panels form a hierarchy within the building and evoke the feelings of quality and permanence that Lamb & Hayward represent.

IAG Centre by Wilson & Hill Architects

Explore some examples of Wilson & Hill Architects recent commercial architecture projects. Hewlett Packard Building and Show Place have won New Zealand Architecture awards. Here is the IAG Centre Building.


















This development consists of two, virtually identical (mirror image), three-storey office buildings and a smaller two-storey building which accommodates a restaurant and gymnasium. The buildings have been sited to maximise their exposure to the road, and to create a small ‘campus’ within the site they occupy. The extensive landscaping, which includes a water feature, around its visitor car parks create a truly ‘park like’ setting.


















The buildings have numerous features of “sustainability”, (solar hot water heating, VRV air conditioning, double glazing, solar shading etc.) many of the features are designed to minimise the use of electrical energy.

















Related Article from the architects :
- Wilson Hill Architects Garden Road House
- Thornycroft St House
- The Scarborough Heads House
- The Clearwater House
- Clyde Road House
- House 2 Carlton Mill Road

Via : Best House Design.

Hewlett Packard Building | Wilson and Hill Architects

Wilson and Hill Architects work closely together to ensure the best results are achieved through the synthesis of concept, beauty and functional integration. They are currently undertaking a large range of residential architecture work for private clients and commercial architecture projects such on this Hewlett Packard Building.

This high quality building has been designed to project the character and brand of Hewlett Packard and to sit within the context of the Show Place Office Park. The objective of the design was to achieve large rectangular floor plates providing the highest possible special efficiency. The interior fitout uses a limited palette of materials to create a modern uncluttered interior.

Related project by Wilson and Hill Architects :

- House 2 Carlton Mill Road
- Scarborough Heads House
- Clearwater House
- House 1 carlton mill road.

Cultural center in Santo Domingo, Colombia

The edge in the mountain town consists of an intricate network of trails product of displacement and topography in a waste of green space as a result of their inability to build on it, this network operates as a small meeting places. This cultural center in Santo Domingo, Colombia, is the real future of post-apocalyptic architecture to look like. Architect Giancarlo Mazzanti dispenses with the obtrusive and predictable rearrangements of glass, steal and concrete phallic references with this organically inspired beacon of grounded, yet ethereal modernity.




















The project raises the construction of a series of three volumes that pose a cliff, ARTIFICIAL ROCKS, thus relate to the geography, the way the building has to do with the grades rocks in the mountaintops, rocks are illuminated to create an image that serves as a symbol of the city and enhance urban development and public activity in the area.




















This design invites everyone closer without the subconscious feeling you are merely a visitor in someone else’s domain. Inside reflects all the stark minimalist ideas we come to expect from most modern art/cultural showcases, with sharp angles and the inoffensive use of white paint and pale woods.

Architect : Giancarlo Mazzanti
Location : Santo Domingo, Colombia
Year contest : 2005 2007 5500 m2
Structure Concrete : Sergio Tobón
Steel Structure : Alberto Ashner
Photography : Sergio Gomez

apart-hotel design by Tim Payne

Designed by Tim Pyne. Parking lots are a sometime necessary blight of urban landscapes and a cheap way for landowners to generate income with minimal financial commitment. That being the case, there are more parking lots in some areas than needed and much of this real estate goes mostly unused.


















Enter London based Architect Tim Pyne. He has conceptualized a practical and stylish apart-hotel design for all those empty lots that is both profitable for the land owners and environmentally responsible. By creating reusable 500 sq. ft. pods that can be individually trucked in and stacked up, these modular living spaces are perfect for business travelers looking for comfortable alternatives to hotels. Exterior walls can be branded or stylized(using bus-film technology) in any decor to better fit local attitudes or sponsored initiatives.


























































When the property owners want their land back(as a result of this urban revitalizing idea), this apart-hotel can simply be trucked into the next empty lot and start the cycle all over again, leaving nothing behind but one lingering question…where does all the poop go?