Archive for March, 2007
National Assembly for Wales
A little bell shape going out from an impressive roof, comes cascading into a dramatic form, looking like the trunk of a tree which supports the roof and guides the eye to the lower levels. Here you can find a public space that lets everyone have a glance on what’s going on in The Debating […]
Rolling bridge
A straight, steel structure, 12 m long, looking plain and simple, is it just another boring urban element? Not this one. Thomas Heatherwick imagined a hydraulic structure that curls up, from a conventional pedestrian platform till it becomes a circular sculpture sitting on a bank in Paddington Basin, London. If you see it in this […]
Glass bubbles house
It’s a small apartment building and it’s almost all covered in glass bubbles. It consists of 13 apartments divided in two blocks, connected on each floor by an atrium. In front of the reinforced concrete structural core, 7,900 blown glass spheres form the playful design of this building. The green glass bubbles are all handmade […]
Bridging Teahouse
It’s one of the 16 pavilions, in the Jinhua Architecture Park. Created by the young, Mexican architect, Fernando Romero, The Bridging Teahouse, situated next to a water pond, uses its natural site to show an interesting concept. The pavilion tries to unify two of the most common features of a traditional Chinese garden: the […]
Jinhua Architecture park
It’s a park, in China, where you can find some interesting and imagination challenging structures that you can admire or walk in. The project was initiated by the artist, designer and curator Ai Weiwei in colaboration with Jinhua City Municipality and Herzog & de Meuron, who invited 16 architects from all over the world to […]
Mill house
Constructed as an addition to an old farm house, somewhere near Malmo, this building expresses the Swedish conception of a small vacation house, which must include a sauna. Using his conception that buildings should respect the surrounding nature, Gert Wingardh creates not only a house, but an entire scenario which makes our mind flow to […]
