Architecture

Brunner fair stand in Milan

Brunner uses the occasion of the 2012 Milan Furniture Fair to present two new products: its »hoc« stool and its »plot« modular seating system. Ippolito Fleitz Group was commissioned once again to create a setting resembling an installation, an intense spatial experience in which to showcase Brunner’s new products.

Taut’s home

Suitable for up to four guests, Taut’s Home e is a real-life experience of design history. It is a stimulating place to visit and offers a viable alternative for travelers looking for more than just another impersonal hotel and mainstream tourist attractions.

Martin Luther Church by COOP HIMMELBLAU

In less than a year a protestant church together with a sanctuary, a church hall and supplementary spaces was built in the centre of the Lower Austrian town Hainburg, at the site of a predecessor church that doesn’t exist anymore since the 17th century.

holyfields restaurant by ippolito fleitz group

holyfields, a wholly new restaurant chain concept, commissioned our studio to develop a modular, scalable space system with a distinctive look and feel. The new brand promises a high-end restaurant experience at good value for money, while respecting today’s need for simplicity and speed.

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo by formTL

When “Scotland the Brave”, Scotland’s unofficial national anthem, is played at this year’s “Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo”, the visitors will take their places in a brand-new grandstand engineered by the Radolfzell engineering consultants formTL.

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schmidt hammer lassen architects wins hospital competition

schmidt hammer lassen architects has won the competition to design the new masterplan and extension of Kolding Hospital in Denmark.

Outdoor Swimming Pool by Pichler & Traupmann Architekten

The original plan for Eybesfeld Castle was to provide a new base and an integration into the landscape by a surrounding loop in exposed concrete. This loop should comprise living, secondary functions as well as an indoor swimming pool.

Five-Star Hotel in Zayed Bay, Abu Dhabi

Leeser Architecture, an internationally recognized design firm, has won a invited competition for a five-star luxury hotel in the Zayed Bay in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Called the Helix Hotel for its staggered floor plates, it rests in the bay, partially floating in the water and adjacent to the serpentine Sheik Zayed Bridge currently under construction by designer Zaha Hadid.

Cabel Industry

Just out the edge of the town of Empoli, the building is the Cabel headquarters, it measures 4.500 square meters and it is sited inside the local industrial area.

International Criminal Court in The Hague

After years of accommodation in temporary premises, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has revealed its design for new permanent headquarters by schmidt hammer lassen architects (SHL).

MIR camelback house in New Orleans

A total of 6 houses have been finished as part of the Make It Right Program in the Lower 9th Ward, the owners were able to move back and enjoy the benefits of their new homes. Two of these houses were designed by GRAFT and chosen by the homeowners, as the process at Make It Right is individual choice of the design.

A-House by FKL architects

Recently completed by FKL, A-House is a single-family house located on a mews lane in a Victorian suburb of Dublin city. The house is an exploration of diagonal space within an orthogonal form and the possibilities of integrating environmental concerns at a fundamental level.

Malmö’s new cultural centre

schmidt hammer lassen architects has won the competition to design a concert, congress and hotel complex in Malmö, Sweden.

Grand Resort Bad Ragaz

The Tamina thermal baths is explicitly conceived as a part of the grand-hotel culture. The cultural and aesthetic identity of the project seeks an affinity to both Swiss tradition and the grand hotels of the Baltic coast, such as Heiligendamm.

“Sonnenhof” Construction Now Underway

A ceremony on April 16, 2010, marked the official groundbreaking of “Sonnenhof”, a landmark development consisting of four new office and apartment buildings extending over several allotments in the historic center of Jena, Germany.

A crystalline landmark for Helsingborg

Schmidt hammer lassen architects have won a competition for a Congress and Hotel Centre on the central harbour front of Helsingborg in Sweden, which is a 15-minute ferry trip from Elsinore in Denmark.

King Abdullah II House of Culture & Art

The urban strategy pursues the maximization of open public space on the western side of the site where Princess Basma Street meets with Ali Bin Abi Talib Road. The mass of the new building is therefore pushed deep into the eastern extension of the site.

Hotel Consolacion

The Consolación is a small hotel with just twelve rooms. Ten of these are kubes and the other two occupy the first floor of the hermitage’s old residence – a baroque building, like the church, although the hermitage is much older.

Barber shop in Israel

The hair strand project in Rehovot, Israel, started its way by considering the idea of what a hair strand is and what kind of insights it can provide for designing the interior space of the barber shop.

OFIS Arhitekti: Farewell chapel

Slovenian practice OFIS Arhitekti have completed a chapel near Ljubljana in Slovenia.

UNStudio: Dance Palace in St. Petersburg

UNStudio and Grigorjev & Partners LLC signed the contract with the client, Petersburg City LLC, for the new Dance Palace in the historic centre of St. Petersburg.

The Library of Birmingham

The Library of Birmingham will occupy a key site in the heart of Birmingham. Located on the northern edge of Centenary Square, the city’s largest public square, the Library of Birmingham will stand between the 1970s Repertory Theatre and the1930s grand Baskerville House.