http://designalmic.com design + signal + dynamic Thu, 23 May 2013 04:42:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://designalmic.com/the-met-condominium-woha-tandem-architects/ http://designalmic.com/the-met-condominium-woha-tandem-architects/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 22:43:02 +0000 Designalmic http://designalmic.com/?p=37504 The Met designed by WOHA & Tandem Architects, currently Thailand’s fourth tallest building at 228 meters in height, demonstrates creative ideas for high-rise, high-density living in the tropics. The project explores how aspects of low-rise tropical housing can be adapted to provide high amenity through indoor-outdoor spaces in the sky...]]> http://designalmic.com/the-met-condominium-woha-tandem-architects/feed/ 0 http://designalmic.com/campbell-sports-center-steven-holl-architects/ http://designalmic.com/campbell-sports-center-steven-holl-architects/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 18:21:43 +0000 Designalmic http://designalmic.com/?p=37335 The design effort has been led by Steven Holl architects, a Columbia University faculty member and world-renowned architect who has won several awards including the AIA NY Sustainable Design Award and the American Architect Award. The Campbell Sports Center, the flagship of Columbia's athletic renewal. The first new athletics building since the Marcellus Hartley Dodge Physical Fitness Center was built in the mid-1970s, The Campbell Sports Center is the new cornerstone of the revitalized Baker Athletics Complex...]]> http://designalmic.com/campbell-sports-center-steven-holl-architects/feed/ 0 http://designalmic.com/tree-top-walk-tower-in-the-bavarian-forest-national-park-architekt-josef-stoger/ http://designalmic.com/tree-top-walk-tower-in-the-bavarian-forest-national-park-architekt-josef-stoger/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 22:25:56 +0000 Designalmic http://designalmic.com/?p=37270 The Tree Tower, designed by the Architekt Josef Stöger from Schönberg, features an impressively airy architectural structure and a unique concept for enclosing the three very old, up to 38 m tall fir and beech trees in the egg-shaped tower. 16 arched glued laminated timber girders (GL28c larch), each over 40 m long, support the 17 t look-out platform...]]> http://designalmic.com/tree-top-walk-tower-in-the-bavarian-forest-national-park-architekt-josef-stoger/feed/ 0 http://designalmic.com/rey-juan-carlos-hospital-rafael-de-la-hoz-arquitectos/ http://designalmic.com/rey-juan-carlos-hospital-rafael-de-la-hoz-arquitectos/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 20:58:12 +0000 Designalmic http://designalmic.com/?p=37182 Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos propose to transform the citizen into a client, for a new type of hospital which, in addition to assisting the proven effectiveness of the healthcare system, he can feel at all times to be the centre of all care and all attention. The concept is based on demographic, socio-economic structures and formulas for effective care, management and organisation...]]> http://designalmic.com/rey-juan-carlos-hospital-rafael-de-la-hoz-arquitectos/feed/ 0 http://designalmic.com/jicaro-island-ecolodge-architect-matthew-falkiner/ http://designalmic.com/jicaro-island-ecolodge-architect-matthew-falkiner/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 09:15:02 +0000 Designalmic http://designalmic.com/?p=36971 Nine private casitas comprise Nicaragua´s most upscale nature resort, located on a private island in Lake Nicaragua. A short boat ride from the colonial town of Granada, the lodge offers spectacular views of the Mombacho Volcano across the lake...]]> http://designalmic.com/jicaro-island-ecolodge-architect-matthew-falkiner/feed/ 0 http://designalmic.com/dalian-international-conference-center-coop-himmelblau/ http://designalmic.com/dalian-international-conference-center-coop-himmelblau/#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 10:22:05 +0000 Designalmic http://designalmic.com/?p=36900 Austrian architecture practice Coop Himmelb(l)au has completed the Dalian International Conference Center in China. Located by the harbour in the city of Dalian (located in the southernmost part of the Liaodong Peninsula in the Liaoning Province), the building features a sweeping, faceted facade and, on the inside, a 1600-seat theatre and concert hall, a primary conference room for up to 2500 delegates (that can be turned into a banqueting hall, an exhibition gallery or extra seating for the concert hall), and six additional conference spaces whose capacity varies between 300 and 600 seats...]]> http://designalmic.com/dalian-international-conference-center-coop-himmelblau/feed/ 0 http://designalmic.com/skyhouse-david-hotson-architect-ghislaine-vinas-interior-design/ http://designalmic.com/skyhouse-david-hotson-architect-ghislaine-vinas-interior-design/#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 04:31:28 +0000 Designalmic http://designalmic.com/?p=36811 The special 4 level penthouse apartment is situated atop of 1 of New York City's earliest steel skyscrapers built in 1896. It was entirely re-created by NYC-primarily based studio David Hotson Architect, in collaboration with interior style studio Ghislaine Viñas Interior Design. The penthouse features an wonderful polished steel slide that spans from the attic to the entrance floor...]]> http://designalmic.com/skyhouse-david-hotson-architect-ghislaine-vinas-interior-design/feed/ 0 http://designalmic.com/the-thorncrown-chapel-in-eureka-springs-e-fay-jones/ http://designalmic.com/the-thorncrown-chapel-in-eureka-springs-e-fay-jones/#comments Sat, 11 May 2013 09:52:40 +0000 Designalmic http://designalmic.com/?p=36770 The Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Ark., The small but soaring glass and cross-braced pine chapel, designed by the late E. Fay Jones, the 1990 AIA Gold Medalist, nestles into an eight-acre woodland setting on a sloping hillside in the Ozark Mountains. It stands 48 feet with 24-foot-wide by 60-foot-long dimensions for a total of 1,440 square feet. Its 425 windows, made of 6,000 square feet of glass, filter woodland light across its upward diamond-shaped pine trusses to form ever-changing patterns of light and shadow throughout the day and night...]]> http://designalmic.com/the-thorncrown-chapel-in-eureka-springs-e-fay-jones/feed/ 0 http://designalmic.com/cma-cgm-headquarters-zaha-hadid-architects/ http://designalmic.com/cma-cgm-headquarters-zaha-hadid-architects/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 05:11:03 +0000 Designalmic http://designalmic.com/?p=36516 The CMA CGM tower is one of the highest towers for offices, in the city of Marseilles. Situated in the Euromediterranée area of the city, this tower - designed by Zaha Hadid - houses the head offices of the maritim transport company CMA CGM, 3rd world groupe of containers maritim transport...]]> http://designalmic.com/cma-cgm-headquarters-zaha-hadid-architects/feed/ 0 http://designalmic.com/musee-du-louvre-lens-sanaa/ http://designalmic.com/musee-du-louvre-lens-sanaa/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 04:52:32 +0000 Designalmic http://designalmic.com/?p=36371 Situated on a former coal mine in Lens, a quiet town in northern France, the newly opened branch of the Musée du Louvre stands as a stunning essay in transparency and geometry. Designed by the Japanese firm SANAA in collaboration with the Manhattan studio Imrey Culbert...]]> http://designalmic.com/musee-du-louvre-lens-sanaa/feed/ 0