Subway station is always has high traffic by a multi-cultural, academic community of thousands of passengers a day. It’s the place where you meet new people and old friends. A creative concept and digitally new age of revolutionary station embodies knowledge is a must. As you enter people will walk through a space clad with tiles, where each is designed and printed with new words created this last century. On the lobby more amazement will comfort your eyes with striking palette of colors and soft nature of the space as well as interesting new patterns. Enjoy the iconic static graphics as commuters proceed to the platforms below. With budget of $100 / square foot, this abstractness is outstanding as it can connect the metaphors of human experience, social behaviors, global, and economic and political issues with physical and mental attraction. This is what contemporary design is. Karim Rashid.
One voice of pro environment towards a better living is the aim of everyone now, turning things unused into useful things and recycling becoming more than just a task for each one of us to do. Fact that we should know that one tree can absorb 12 kg of glass house effect CO2 and able to produce O2 and this is sufficient enough for four people to breath in one year. Architects have been thinking how to make a green building design including the better use of landscape, replanting trees around the building, minimizing damage towards nature in each project and whole new kind of things being done. Including this new architect namely NL Architecture.
The building which is under construction is an apartment building rises in amsterdam which is definitely green. It’s not a normal rooftop that you normally see every day as the roof is wavy and unusual for a building also it’s green. This way hopefully the green apartment building will be much cooler. Imagine how cool can it gets when a house surrounded by greenies able to make it 3 degrees and up to 4 degrees Celsius cooler, and comparing towards this building which has the whole roof top being planted by greeneries certainly will be more than just 4 degrees cooler and will make a big impact towards its surrounding. It’s a big change for building now days. So let’s keep preserving, think green for the future.
esigned an inspiring modern office spaces for their own emerging architectural practice studio located in Noosa Heads, Queensland. This workhouse is a flexible spaces for a design team of five to six people, a house for two people and a comfortable combination of both at times.
The Studio is perched on only four steel footings in order to slot between two mature Australian Eucalypts, the modular 20 metre long structure of steel portal frames is encased with openable and fixed glazing on three sides, layered with operable blinds, framing the broad views of the Pacific coastline.
The main linear work space was conceived as an open veranda with compactly scaled service spaces ’plugging in’ along it’s length. These service spaces include Kitchen, Laundry, Bathrooms, File and Drawing Storage and vertical circulation.
From the main studio platform, folded plywood stairs ascend past the large ‘shopfront’ window box, displaying models of past and current projects to a mezzanine level which contains spaces for architecture books, quiet reading, sleeping and bathing.
This NOAH or New Orleans Arcology Habitat is a proposed urban architecture and ecology design concept created by E. Kevin Schopfer to be a habitat for 40,000 residents who can benefit from the planned residential units, school system, commercial, retail space, three hotels, casinos, parking for 8,000 cars, a district school system and health care facility and public works facilities.
NOAH is based upon the following preliminary program outline.
1. Residential Units / Rental and Condominium; 20,000 units @ average 1100 Sq ft 2. Three Hotels; Average 200 rooms plus associated services 3. Time Share Units; 1500 units @ average 1100 sq ft 4. Three Casino Facilities 5. Commercial Space / Rental and Condominiums; 500,000 sq ft 6. Commercial Space / Retail; 500,000 sq ft 7. Parking Garage / within foundation; 8,000 cars 8. Cultural Facilities; 100,000 sq ft 9. Public Works; 50,000 sq ft / includes storage 10. District School System; 100,000 sq ft 11. District Administrative Office; 50,000 sq ft 12. District Health Care Facility; 20,000 sq ft
Estimated Total Square Footage : 30 million
New Orleans Archology Habitat Design Challenge :
1. The first challenge is to overcome both the physical and psychological damages of recurring severe weather patterns. Though re-population has begun, the need to provide a stabilized and safe environment is paramount to a long term recovery and economic well being of New Orleans. 2. The second challenge is that New Orleans has too much water. The city has been built at and below sea levels which creates consistently high water table and makes it prone to flooding and storm surges. 3. The third challenge is that New Orleans is built on soil condition which consists of thousands of feet of soft soil, silt and clay. These conditions make building large scale concentrated structures difficult. Believing that NOAH is a viable plan, our solution to overcome these challenges is to take advantage of these seemingly conflicting issues with the introduction of a floating urban platform.
Eco-Highlights: The structure is designed to expand the horizon of sustainability and will seek LEED certification. It will eliminate the need for cars within the urban structure, and thus becomes a carbon neutral entity. Internal electric transport links, vertical and horizontal, create a pedestrian-friendly community, Some of these elements are secured wind turbines, fresh water recovery and storage systems, passive glazing system, sky garden heating/cooling vents, grey water treatment, solar array banding panels, and river based water turbines.
It’s a never ending quest to enjoy the beauty, artistic, modern, unique and all sort of housing and homes. Almost every year and months many architects come up with a fresh idea. What’s new now not only creating good interior but also creating social living space and new ecological around the building.
This 4 Collective Housing Units by LAN Architecture located in Bègles, France, is combining between the human modern life style and the vastly changing environmental spaces. This create in richness and compactness thus the almost box shaped like building is giving the surrounding larger space for people to just hang around, have a windbreak or maybe the residence wanted to enjoy the mini –green house. It’s compactness due to the limited technology input and this create a perfect gateway for those who wanted to escape from all hi techs surrounding and head toward the nature for a good social life. The construction is dedicated for a complex of apartments, shops and business premises. It cost 6.5 M Euros HT and Built upon 6,500 m2 area. For details please visit LAN Architecture
This luxurious 5 stars Vine Hotels interior design project is created by Portuguese designer Nini Andrade Silva and the architectural design was created by Ricardo Bofill. The Vine Hotel is located in the heart of Funchal, Madeira’s charming and picturesque capital, the hotel stands near the town’s historic centre, cathedral, harbour and the New Funchal Centrum Complex.
This ultra modern vine hotel interior feature 4 romantic different colour that dominate this hotel representing the four different seasons and the maturation of a grape throughout the year. They are Grey, green, purple and brown color. You can admire this stunning Vine hotel restaurant interior, lounges, spa and of course that awesome swimming pool.
The Vine hotel interiors reflect the unique vision of the designer whose whose 79 rooms and suites offer the perfect blend of top-of-the-line amenities, high-tech facilities and, in some cases, breathtaking views over the city or harbour. The Vine succeeds in combining luxurious surroundings with personalised service and outstanding hospitality – ideal both for guests travelling on business and those visiting for pleasure.
painted ceiling for interior bedroom
