New Work ::: Council Flats in Sète

© Cécile Septet

Council Flats in Sète, France designed by architects Colboc Franzen Associates. The 3 blocks contain a total of 71 flats at nearly 4,000m² in size and sit on a trapezoidal plot of land. The balconies that run along the exterior of the buildings are wrapped in a continuous galvanized steel brise soleil that offers solar and visual respite. The scheme borrows Corbusian logic raising the blocks on pilotis to provide both parking and an extension of the landscape.

New Work : Ten Bangkok

images via gotarch

Designed by CASE Studio (Community Architects for Shelter & Environment) the group takes a humanitarian and anthropological approach to creating appropriate housing in informal settlements. The projects undertaken by this collective often involve community members as participants in the process of improving their shelter and environment from community surveying to group meetings and workshops. This alternative housing option for the middle class, features 10 units for a variety of persons including some of the architects. The volumes are staggered, interspersed with gardens and courtyards creating common spaces for physical and visual respite and blurring public/private boundaries. The process, as well as the aesthetic has conjured a community identity and a relationship between dwelling and context - the result is an architecture that is the fruit of cooperative design where the architects are also the clients; the clients are also the architects

Interiors : The Brick Loft

This project entailed the conversion of a former industrial office located in Joo Chiat in Singapore, into an airy & chic apartment. Designed by architects & cross disciplinary practice, FARM the spaces of the loft are bathed in light against the stark white wall surfaces and steel floated concrete floors. Conceptually the apartment borrows a localized aesthetic seen in textured ventilation blocks, painted brick and exposed, unrendered structure.

New Work ::: The Jesolo Lido Village

 photographs (c) Roland Halbe

The Jesolo Lido is a residential project on the Adriatic coast coast of Italy designed by architects Richard Meier & Partners. Completed in the 2007 the scheme is comprised of a number of facilities including a number of 3 story townhouses, a hotel and condominiums facing the sea. The architectural language marries the unpigment Meier-esque palette with a decidedly Hellenistic aesthetic.

New Work ::: Richardson Apartments

photos (c) Bruce Damonte

The Richardson apartments in San Francisco were named in honour of political & civil activists Drs. Julian + Raye Richardson and provides supportive housing to 120 formerly homeless persons. Designed by architects David Baker + Partners the affordable housing apartments sit on a corner lot on Fulton Street and presents a fresh face to the neighborhood with shiny metal, stucco, and reclaimed lumber. Sunshades on the West and South faces provide solar protection as well add architectural interest. Transparent planes on the ground floor bring light, depth, security, and visual connection to the courtyard and over 7,500 ft² shared spaces. The green roof provides stormwater management, and the rooftop garden allow residents to grow their own food. The living units satisfy universal design practices and feature a medical suite providing on-site care and counseling.

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New Work ::: MedaTeca

The new library of Meda’s township designed by Alterstudio Partners, is a modern cultural hub entirely devoted to culture, information and spare time. The 1,900m² MedaTeca is a contemporary facility whose design, materials, façades colours convey the public image of the building. The library connected with 30 other libraries providing 40,000 volumes, dvd, free wi-fi and internet access, an automated loan system, newspapers and an entire floor dedicated to kids and teenagers. The bright open spaces provide views between floors.

New Work ::: Nike Football Soweto

The 1300m² Nike Football training facility in Soweto, South Africa was designed by Canadian architects RUF project with locally based architectural practice MMAa and in conjunction with Nike Global Football Brand Design. The facade of the building is clad in a local sandstone with the elevation facing the field features a local timber lattice screen with a sans serif super-graphic of the townships name. The facility consists of a clubhouse, player lounge, education facility, offices, viewing deck, sports training gym, catering area, scrimmage training fields, as well as two full-sized football pitches on the 5.4Ha site.

Images ©Julian Abrams

New Work: A-Frame

Jamaican-born designer Sean Knibb has converted a defunct IHOP restaurant in Culver City, LA into a unpretentious, yet trendy Korean-fusion restaurant. The design exposes the Douglas fir ceiling and covers the walls in white pine with unmasked knots, revealing the form of the A-frame. Colour blocks of yellow and red are used on the doors and columns as well to highlight aspects of the design. The interior spills out to a concrete patio and garden featuring low-maintenance plants and with ornamental grass.

 

Photography by Sarah Lonsdale for Remodelista and via A-Frame

New Work ::: Wetland Folly

This otherworldly outdoor dining pavilion (sighted on Remodelista) was designed by South African-trained, New Zealand-based Lance and Nicky Herbst of Herbst Architects. The simple outdoor structure - a clever folly designed to enhance the beach lifestyle for its owners, was conceived to be used for light cooking, dining and relaxing. The pavilion is made of a simple structural frame over-clad with awnings, screens and translucent sheet blending rustic elements (a timber frame clad with rough manuka sticks) with modern materials (translucent sheets of polycarbonate siding).

New Work ::: Campus Centre for Molloy College

The 57,000 ft² campus centre and associated programme for a main quadrangle at Molloy College designed by BRB architects. Accommodation includes a 550-seat theatre, a café, study space, lounge, student club space, a bookstore and an art gallery some located facing the courtyard. The building is organized as a series of three layers separated by open-ended circulation spines, which allow visual connection to the Molloy Campus. The industrial interior contrasting with the austere yet modern exterior.