http://arkispot.com/blog New Architecture Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:39:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This blog awaits the new projects from architectural offices around the world. http://arkispot.com/blog/arkispot/2006/06/24/waiting-for-new-projects/ Architect: Alver Trummal Architects Authors: Andres Alver, Indrek Rünkla, Ulla Mets, Tarmo Laht Structural design: Väino Taidur Design: 2002 Completed: 2003 Photos: Andres Alver, Arne Maasik via Maja http://arkispot.com/blog/alver-trummal-architects/2006/12/09/puhajarve-spa-in-estonia/ The design adapts the program to a narrow and long plot, with a smooth slope, over the Atlantic shore. Minimizing landscape impacts, and skipping the legal setback, the main volume "moulds" itself to the site's topography through the cantilevered extension of the upper floors. One of these projections, with near 8 meters, ... http://arkispot.com/blog/nuno-grande-and-pedro-gadanho/2006/11/22/weekend-retreat-at-carreco/ The building on the corner of Ismail Qemali and 4 Shkurti (as is often the case in Mediterranean countries) is covered with a generous scattering of air-conditioners. What to do? Pretend they are not there or use the new colour concept to authenticate the “little white parasite-boxes with round, off-center, ... http://arkispot.com/blog/bolles-wilson/2006/08/14/virtual-air-conditioners/ http://arkispot.com/blog/alejandro-ortiz-architects/2006/08/04/shutler-house/ 3XN is currently developing a radically daring yet surprisingly pragmatic idea. An idea that was awarded at this years MIPIM - with the MIPIM AR Future Projects Award 2006 in the category 'Residential'... At present, Copenhagen is experiencing rapid development. Hundreds of new apartments are being erected especially at the Northern ... http://arkispot.com/blog/3xn/2006/07/27/nordhavnen-residences/ LV Hall,Omotosando Building, Tokyo, Japan. 2003 The installation celebrated the Louis Vuitton Japan’s architecture through an event which involved exhibition of architectural projects as well as performances that were developed in collaboration with artists. The design incorporates digitally responsive systems which link various sites of the exhibition in the city and ... http://arkispot.com/blog/farjadi-architects/2006/07/22/louis-vuitton-japan-architecture-exhibition/ The I.B.3 residential building is located in the Gemmayzé area on plot # 595 Saifi in Beirut. Our design mission was developed around the shell and core principle which consists of designing the structure of the edifice, its facades and the common areas, leaving all the inhabitable surfaces to be partitioned and finished by ... http://arkispot.com/blog/bernard-khoury/2006/07/22/ib3-building/ The project originates from the consideration of: the existing conflict between the necessity for urban densification and the preference of most people to live in the suburbs in a one-family house surrounded by their own garden on the one hand and; the attempt to create an innovative building type which ... http://arkispot.com/blog/teema-architecten/2006/07/21/ontwerp-teema-torens/ eXtra-eXtra-Small House is located in Krakovo, the very centre of Ljubljana and at the same time in a historical village - once (in the Middle Ages) supplying the nearby monastery with fresh food - today highly protected historical area. The basic dimensions of the new house were already defined by ... http://arkispot.com/blog/dekleva-gregoric-arhitekti/2006/07/20/xxs-extra-extra-small-house/