RMJM architects: 'capital gate' tower, abu dhabi

construction has reached the half way point for 'capital gate' tower designed by new york firm RMJM architects. located in abu dhabi the slanted tower will consist of a large internal atrium including a tea lounge and swimming pool suspended 263 feet above the ground. the iconic tower will be the centerpiece of the capital centre development, an 2.2 billion USD business and residential micro city being constructed around the thriving abu dhabi national exhibition centre.

from Designboom - Weblog

Los Angeles Architectural Awards Announced Today

Interiors Award - Commercial Category: Moving Picture Company, Santa Monica, CA (Architects: Tighe Architecture)

Underscoring the city’s stature as a global center for innovation and excellence in architectural design, 29 project teams are being honored today at the 39th annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards. Hosted by the Los Angeles Business Council (LABC), the awards recognize a wide array of project types, all completed or designed in Los Angeles in 2007 or 2008.

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Stone Towers by Zaha Hadid

The Stone Towers by Zaha Hadid Architects for Rooya Group of Egypt is located in the Stone Park district of Cairo. Providing office and retail facilities to a rapidly expanding Cairo, the unique 525,000sqm Stone Towers development also includes a five-star business hotel with serviced apartments, retail with food and beverage facilities and sunken landscaped gardens and plaza called the ‘Delta’.

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Jewelry Mayrhofer | xarchitekten

Interesting interior designed by xarchitekten from Austria, they create a shop for jewelry shop that simulate the feeling of exploring the treasure chests.

photos©Max Nirnberger
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Psychiatric rehabilitation center for children / Sou Fujimoto

This rehabilitation center brings together children of different ages are treated for improvements to different types of psychiatric disorders. Proposed by Fujimoto takes special care with this condition and raises an interesting area generally varied and random as a mini-city.

from Plataforma Arquitectura by Giuliano Pastorelli

2009 RIBA Award Winners Announced

BDP Manchester Studio

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) recently announced the winners of the 2009 RIBA Awards. RIBA Awards for architectural excellence have been presented across the country with 103 buildings in the UK and Europe winning awards (97 in the UK and six in the rest of the EU).

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fiona winzar architects: eyelid house

fiona winzar architects transformed a typical victorian terrace home into a contemporary residence with an eye for sustainability. the eyelid house is located in melbourne, australia and now houses a family of five in a tight city lot. despite being nestled in a tight downtown location, the three-bedroom home has a very light filled interior.

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Keisuke Fujiwara: sora beauty salon, tokyo

keisuki fujiwara design offices interior for 'sora' beauty salon, consists of a space
made primarily of 12 different kinds of wood vinyl sheets. the variation of woods give
the effect of a gradation in the salon as if it is changing color throughout the day.
this gradation is meant to be a metaphorical symbol for the changing weather -
rain, clouds, snow.

from Designboom - Weblog

If MathSurf v2.0 for 3ds Max

Mathsurf is a 3ds Max script to help you create mathematically driven 3D shapes as editable mesh objects. Read more at torabiarchitect.com.

from CreativeTools 3D-blogg - Datorgrafik-, 3D- och IT-nyheter by Paulo Kiefe.

Vismasters image of the week

This image was created for Equator European Architects. It's aim is to show one of their ideas of a new banking complex in the center of Stockholm. The banking buildings feature distinct, irregular facades, yet respect the surrounding environment by reflecting the well established nearby buildings.

Artist: Tenjin Visual

Patio Alameda Building / Baixas River Architects

This Building is the first stage of an ensemble of buildings belonging to the Universidad Católica called “Patio Alameda “, which is part of the Central Campus of the university placed on the Alameda Avenue in Santiago’s downtown. Alameda is the city’s main avenue and runs East - West. This group of buildings was designed to form a “fourth patio” related to the three patio traditional building of the university. But this fourth patio is open to the city, creating an urban void, a small plaza.

from Arch Daily by Nico Saieh

petra architects: 'blossoming dubai'

Greek firm petra architects have designed 'blossoming dubai' for their proposal for
the zaabeel park tall emblem structure competition. They based their design on the form of a blossoming flower.

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Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects' Malmö Court House Complete

Construction has finished on schmidt hammer lassen architects’ striking design for a new District Court in Malmö, Sweden. The completed scheme includes a new 10,000 sq m courthouse adjacent to the existing 3,000 sq m listed court building.

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Campus Universidad de Gambia / Snohetta

Snohetta has submitted its master plan for the University of Gambia, a project that aims to raise the education level of more than 15,000 students. Campus aims to integrate the 3 institutions of the Republic of Gambia in addition to setting a new standard in matters of preservation and care for the environment.

from Plataforma Arquitectura by Giuliano Pastorelli

Montecito Residence / OSKA Architects

Montecito Residence is a single-family home set in the fire-prone Toro Canyon. The owners wanted a house that minimized its use of scarce natural resources and recognized the challenging environmental conditions of the area. The design solution is a house that functions as an umbrella to shield the house from the sun and allows naturally cool offshore breezes to move through the space. The house is made of simple, fire resistant materials. Steel will be allowed to oxidize and concrete will be toned to allow the house to blend into the landscape.

from Arch Daily by Nico Saieh

Casa Gutierrez / P & P Architects

A house is a place without life. A home is the representation of the dream and aspiration of a family, their habits, their desires, their traditions and memories. Therefore, the architect must be very careful not to portray himself in each work, but always leaves a piece of himself, and should always give priority to the group of people who live every day in the space in question.

from Plataforma Arquitectura by Giuliano Pastorelli

House in Chihuahua / PRODUCTORA

The House In Chihuahua is part of a golf club community in the desertlike northern region of Mexico. The dwelling was designed to accommodate the special climatic circumstances of the area: in winter temperatures can fall to minus ten degrees Celsius, while in summertime temperatures can rise to above forty degrees Celsius.

from Arch Daily by David Basulto

Step Up on Fifth | Pugh & Scarpa

Step Up on 5th, designed by Pugh & Scarpa, is a bright new spot in downtown Santa Monica. The new building provides a home, support services and rehabilitation for the homeless and mentally disabled population. The new structure provides 46 studio apartments of permanent affordable housing.

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Photo©John Edward Linden

Solar Collector by Gorbet Design Inc.

Gorbet Design Inc is a creative team of designers working with innovative experimental art and invigorates environments. Their project Solar Collector exploits sun energy and uses it during nighttime for it’s unique performance of light.

from ENLIGHTER.ORG by Lučka Slatner

Letter Box House, Melbourne

It seems as though a wooden boat washed up on shore amidst a neighborhood of typical Aussie beach houses just south of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula. From the street the house’s irregular form reveals nothing of what unfolds once within the property.At a closer look, the façade consists solely of a mailbox. According to the design team at McBride Charles Ryan the openness of a holiday house in a beach community renders the front door arbitrary.

from The Cool Hunter - Architecture

YTL Residence, Kuala Lumpur

Paris-based Agence Jouin Manku took on its first large-scale integrated architectural and interior design commission in 2003, when YTL Design Group from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, invited it to design the residence of a Malaysian power family.Completed in the latter part of 2008, the residence is the ultimate expression of the taste, influence and industrial-scale capabilities of the prominent family whose entrepreneurial activities have shaped Kuala Lumpur’s skyline.

from The Cool Hunter - Architecture

Cahill Center for Astrophysics, by Morphosi

"The building is the result of a series of forces that collide to produce unique spaces of discovery. Force lines track the movement of form and light through the building’s faceted façade, the central vertical volume, and the stitches. As one moves through the space, formal fragments coalesce to reconstruct the interactions among light, architectural elements, and bodies as physical traces of the institution’s new ideas."

from architect-studio by kstudiooo@yahoo.co

Tondonia Winery Pavillion / Zaha Hadid

Rafael López de Heredia Tondonia Winery is one of the oldest and more famous winery in the Spanish region of La Rioja. To celebrate their 125th anniversary they decided to rehabilitate a very old store that the winery founder took to Brussel’s World Fair in 1910 and had been disassembled ever since.

from Arch Daily by Sebastian J

Architectural Photography by Benjamin Antony Monn

A beautiful photo from Hasselblad Master Winner 2008 Benjamin Antony Monn.

Tall emblem structure in Dubai.

Architect: ARCHICLUB, France

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(Non)-Winners Announced for ThyssenKrupp Elevator Architecture Award 2008-2009

Geotube by Faulders Studio with Bios Design Collective

The winners were recently announced for the ThyssenKrupp Elevator Award 2008-09, and the results have proven to be quite controversial.

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Mineral House - Tokyo

Reflection of Mineral is a 480-square-foot (about 45 square meters) residence located in downtown Tokyo’s Nakano ward. Designed by architect Yasuhiro Yamashita Reflection of Mineral has received wide architecture and design media attention and numerous international awards.

from thecoolhunter.net

14 Viñas Winery / S.M.A.O.

The winery arises as a free standing building with an accentuated singular character.
Dueto its industrial use as much as to its location in an emblematic environment. It raises a respectful solution towards the landscape of low environmental impact which is suitable for the scale as much as for the dominating colours of the landscape.

Architect: Sancho-Madridejos Architecture Office
from Arch Daily by Nico Saieh

Trojan House, Melbourne by Jackson Clements Burrows

The addition to the Trojan House by Jackson Clements Burrows is the most astonishing aspect of the structure. Three children’s bedrooms have been cantilevered above a large living space, and that amazing kitchen.The entire addition is wrapped in a seamless wooden skin that conceals any obvious openings. Windows, covered by shutters that follow the pattern of the façade, reveal nothing of the interior space.

from CubeMe by Hans

Development of Blåsenhus in Uppsala

The work on the basis of a detailed plan for the settlement of Blåsenhus northeastern part has started. As part of that process, Akademiska Hus and Uppsala University invited four Nordic architectural offices to sketch ideas of how it could be designed.

Image: Semrén + Månsson's competition entry, illustration by Tenjin Visual.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Child of the Sun” Included in Upcoming Guggenheim Exhibition

Florida Southern College’s long-hidden treasure trove of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings—the largest single-site collection of the architect’s work in the world—is ready for a new dawn. Known collectively as “Child of the Sun,” the 12 structures will be featured in the upcoming exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

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V&A washrooms by Glowacka Rennie

London architects Glowacka Rennie have completed the interior of the ladies toilets at the V&A museum in London. The design includes a black, stone wall, black cubicle interiors and brass fittings in a white-painted interior with a high ceiling.

from CubeMe by Chantal

Singapore’s Stunning Digital Cloud Skyscraper

This incredible pixelated skyscraper by Singapore-based Design Act was a finalist in a competition to design a pavilion for the World Expo 2010. Entitled “My Dream, Our Vision”, the project uses permutated cubes to generate a spectacular modular sculpture that perfectly encapsulates the spirit of Singapore as an efficient, dynamic, cosmopolitan, and forward-looking nation.

from Inhabitat » Architecture by sharn

Church in Foligno by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas Architects

Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas Architects have completed a church in Foligno, Italy.

from Dezeen by Rose Etherington

Chapel in Villeaceron / S.M.A.O.

The Chapel is developed around the study and manipulation of a focally tensed “box-fold”.The Chapel has a naked design and lacks artificial lighting. The exterior-interior spatial relationship determines its focus, its meaning. Only a cross and an image at the focal point underscore the symbolic aspects of the project.

Architect: Sancho-Madridejos Architecture Office

from Arch Daily by Nico Saieh

Revit - Custom Profiles in Curtain Systems

Software : Revit Architecture 2009

Description :In this video tutorial we will cover how to make custom mullion profile for a curtain system in Revit Architecture. In this case we will make a fin like mullion which we will control with parameters such as thickness on the front and end as well as the basics like length and width.

from Design Reform by David Fano

Hermitage Plaza / Foster + Partners

The Hermitage Plaza Foster + Partners is a project in Courbevoie, east of La Defense, which extends to the river with cafes Siena, and the trade center plaza articulator. The project also involves 2 slender towers 323 meters high which incorporate mixed uses on the inside and from outside to deliver a new aspect of Paris Skyline.

from Plataforma Arquitectura by Giuliano Pastorelli

A house for Art / Luca Selva Architects

There are houses that become houses devoted to art over time by the gradual addition of artwork. Others, like the house in Binningen, were built to be a house for art from the beginning. This is reflected in the traffic pattern as well as in the sequence and size of the main rooms, the position and finish of the windows and the conservative and unitary materialization.

Architects: Luca Selva Architects

from Arch Daily by Nico Saieh

Hotel Consolación by Camprubí i Santacana Arquitectes

Spanish architects Camprubí i Santacana have completed a hotel consisting of timber-clad rooms set on a rocky ridge near Teruel, Spain

from Dezeen by Rose Etherington

House of Depth by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects

Here’s a fourth house by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects: House of Depth in Shiga, Japan.

from Dezeen by Rose Etherington