A STRUCTURE TESTAMENT TO POSSIBILITY
Tag: structure
BEIJING CITY LIBRARY
‘READING A BOOK ON THE HILL UNDER THE TREE,’ IS AN ATMOSPHERE THAT THE LIBRARY PROVIDES TO EVERYONE. SNØHETTA CREATES THE TOWERING WHITE COLUMNS AND LEAF-SHAPED CANOPIES TO CAST A SCENE REMINISCENT OF A FLOURISHING GINKGO FOREST.
NAGOYA ZOKEI UNIVERSITY
Photo: Riken Yamamoto & FIELDSHOP
RIKEN YAMAMOTO DESIGNED THIS BUILDING WITH THE IDEA OF NOT ISOLATING PEOPLE FROM THE OUTSIDE. THE MAIN FUNCTIONS WERE PUSHED TO THE PERIPHERY AND THE VERANDA WAS LOCATED INSIDE INSTEAD TO CONNECT DIFFERENT FUNCTIONAL SPACES
ROADSIDE STATION SHONAN TENTO
THE VISUALLY STRIKING ROADSIDE STATION IN SHONAN, JAPAN. THE BUILDING’S INCLINING FRONT PART OF THE ROOF THAT DEVIATES FROM THE MAIN NORTH-SOUTH AXIS AND THE ZIGZAG WALL OUTLINE IS HOW THE JAPANESE DESIGN STUDIO NASCA MAKES IT STAND OUT
BUONO FACTORY
THE THREE FACTORY BUILDINGS DESIGNED BY SKARN CHAIYAWAT ARCHITECTS EXEMPLIFY THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ‘QUALITY OF SPACE’ AND ‘QUALITY OF LIFE’
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HOUSE AND RESTAURANT
AN IMAGINATIVE UNDERGROUND HOME FROM JUNYA ISHIGAMI + ASSOCIATES INTEGRATES NATURE INTO ARCHITECTURAL CREATIONS IN WAYS LIKE NO OTHERS AND LEAVES US WONDERING ‘HOW WAS THAT BUILT?’
ARRHOV FRICK: REORIENTATION
TONKAO PANIN INTRODUCES ARRHOV FRICK, AN ARCHITECTURE PRACTICE FROM SWEDEN WHOSE WORKS ARE DISSOCIATED FROM ‘AESTHETIC MANIPULATION’, PRESENTING STRAIGHTFORWARD ARCHITECTURE BASED ON STRUCTURAL AND CONSTRUCTION LOGIC