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Habitable Form creates vertical house for woodsy site on South Carolina island

Deezen

Habitable Form has created a timber-clad house on Kiawah Island in South Carolina The site conditions drove the design by architecture studio Habitable Form , which has an office nearby, on Johns Island. The post Habitable Form creates vertical house for woodsy site on South Carolina island appeared first on Dezeen.

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How Ice Cubes by Zone of Utopia + Mathieu Forest Architecte is Changing the Skyline of Northern China

Architizer

The client imagined a flat building, we proposed a tower: to conquer the sky, mark the territory and put the whole commercial district in tension with the future ski slope on the other side. Architizer: What inspired the initial concept for your design? We are starting from a virgin site with only fields and sky as the landscape.

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Closets: Understanding the concept, types & features

Building and Interiors

What does the client look for in a closet? The client looks for machine finished, efficient handling, contemporary looks, and finishes. The discerning clients who travel and experience the comfort of well-organized closets to wear and the store are on the rise. So, good site supervision can lick this problem.

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Architecture is Awesome: #35 Problem Solving

SW Oregon Architect

With each project, they must understand their client’s needs, contextualize the project within its environment, and identify constraints before embarking on a journey of creative exploration. For example, architects will exhaustively study the subject site, investigating its history, topography, regulatory framework, and cultural context.

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Aedas lines twin skyscrapers with bronze fins in Hangzhou

Deezen

One Future comprises two round-edged skyscrapers "The formal concept of these twin towers is from lotus roots which is a very popular plantation and of good metaphorical meaning in local Xiao Shan culture," Aedas executive director Wei Li and global design principal Ken Wai told Dezeen. The photography is by DONG Image.

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DOXS NKLN by GRAFT

aasarchitecture

Image © GRAFT The concept envisages a mixed-use development consisting of office and commercial units as well as educational and cultural facilities. Taking up motives from the shipping industry and the surrounding industrial architecture, the design draws on the special character of the site and its canalside location.

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Fondation Louis Vuitton: Frank Gehry Reflects on the Making of an Architectural Icon in Paris

Architizer

Completed in 2014, Gehry’s landmark building is undoubtedly an architectural icon, but manages to retain a reference for both its site in the heart of Paris’s beloved park and for the city as a whole. When I walked the site for the first time, I cried imagining the history of the Jardin de Climitation.

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