Apartment Blocks in Rozemaai, Antwerp, Belgium

Located in Rozemaai, Antwerp, Belgium , Apartment Blocks was designed by Atelier Kempe Thill. The site, located next to the nature park ‘de Oude Landen’, calls for an intensification of the relationship with the environment on the one hand, on the other hand to deal with the noise from the highway and the harbour. By [...]

Tags: Antwerp, Atelier Kempe Thill, Belgium, City, energy performance, Environment, Osar

Town Hall Bronckhorst in Bronckhorst, Netherlands

Designed by atelier PRO, Town Hall Bronckhorst is located in Bronckhorst, Netherlands. Two office wings project slightly outwards and have been placed next to each other on a wedge-shaped site between the Elderinkweg and a brook near the Rondweg that runs past the village of Hengelo. The wings are of different heights, and the highest [...]

Tags: Bronckhorst, energy consumption, Geography of the Netherlands, Hengelo, low-energy-consumption, Netherlands, Provinces of the Netherlands, spire of Hengelo, Town Hall Bronckhorst

Shaft House funnels sunshine into the heart of the home in Toronto, Canada

Designed by Urbanline studio [ALI MALEK-ZADEH] & atelier rzlbd [REZA ALIABADI], Shaft House funnels sunshine into the heart of the home is located in Toronto, Canada. Shaft House attains the objective of creating an economically efficient, sustainable and responsive housing design through function and innovation. The structure of the house revolves around a central shaft, [...]

Tags: Canada, Culture, Film, Folklore, Mass media, Reza, REZA ALIABADI, Shaft, steel, Toronto, Underground mine ventilation, Urbanline studio, vernacular architecture

Ames Hotel a luxury hotel in Boston, United States

The Ames Hotel  a luxury hotel designed by Rockwell Group is located in Boston, United States.  The lobby features an original marble mosaic tile vaulted ceiling, and a dramatic marble and brass staircase. Scattered around the lobby are original site-specific art works such a chandelier of thousands of reflective discs suspended over the floor on [...]

Tags: Almanac author, Ames Hotel, Ames Incorporated, Boston, Cabinet of Curiosities, luxury hotel, Nathaniel Ames, Rockwell Group of Miami, United States, Windsor

The Octopus, Chiswick in United Kingdom

Designed by Make Architects, The Octopus, Chiswick is located in United Kingdom. Concept designs for an abstract new gateway to England’s capital have been presented for the second time by Make Architect’s Ken Shuttleworth. Earlier depictions of the structure were sent back to the drawing board as it was thought that their animated advertising panels [...]

Tags: Advertising, advertising space, animated advertising panels, Business, Chiswick, Communication, Ken Shuttleworth, London, M-16, Octopodidae, Octopus, potential advertising, Shroud, United Kingdom, Zoology