The A-Frame Club is a new hotel brand that takes design cues from 1970s American ski culture and the iconic A-frame cabins of that era. The first Club consists of 31 newly-constructed cabins along with a bar and restaurant in a historic saloon building in Winter Park, Colorado.
Project name
A-Frame Club
Architecture firm
Skylab Architecture
Location
Winter Park, Colorado, USA
Photography
Stephan Werk, Kylie Fitts
Design team
Jeff Kovel, Design Director. Brent Grubb, Principal in Charge. Robin Wilcox, Project Director. Conor Wood, Project Architect. Jeni Nguyen, Project Designer. Amy DeVall, Interior Designer. Nick Trapani, Visualizer/Project Designer. Eduardo Peraza Garzon, Visualizer
Built area
450 ft2 (each cabin)
Collaborators
Geotechnical Engineer: KC Hamilton Engineering, Inc
Interior design
Skylab Architecture
Environmental & MEP
Resource Engineering Group (REG)
Client
Zeppelin Development
Typology
Hospitality › Hotel
TF House is a single-family home located in southern Chile, in the Los Lagos region, in the municipality of Puerto Varas. The house is oriented towards the northeast, providing a wide view of the Osorno volcano. Its design allows natural light to illuminate the interior both in the morning and in theafternoon
Architecture firm
Romero Valente Architects
Location
Puerto Varas, Los Lagos region, Chile
Photography
Marcos Zegers
Principal architect
Cristián Romero Valente
Civil engineer
Osvaldo Peñaloza
Structural engineer
Osvaldo Peñaloza
Lighting
Cristián Romero Valente
Tools used
ArchiCAD, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Typology
Residential › House
By using the contrast between constancy and change to reveal the essence of architectural development. By using big history to contextualize specific architectural phenomena. By using a specific and profound analysis of these phenomena to echo the changes of the times.
Project name
RARA Whole-House Showroom
Architecture firm
CUN Design
Location
Hall 3 of Poly World Trade Center Expo, Guangzhou, China
Photography
Qin Zhaoliang
Principal architect
Cui Shu
Design team
Kong Weiqing, Xu Lichao.
Typology
Commercial › Showroom
“Dômes Charlevoix” is a new concept of four seasons eco-luxurious accommodations located in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, next to the Massif de Charlevoix, near Quebec City.
Project name
Eco-Luxurious Accommodations “Dômes Charlevoix"
Architecture firm
Bourgeois / Lechasseur architects
Location
Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Canada
Photography
Maxime Valsan
Principal architect
Olivier Bourgeois, Régis Lechasseur
Typology
Hospitality › Eco-Luxurious Accommodations
Giles Miller Studio’s first completed residential property sits 100 m² from the cliffs and sandy beaches of Broadstairs, Kent. The house breaks down barriers between the building’s internal spaces and the glade of natural planting and trees that surround it, through a unique sculptural facade which invites nature to grow up the outside of the house...
Architecture firm
Giles Miller Studio
Location
Broadstairs, Kent, United Kingdom
Photography
Edvinas Bruzas, Rachel Ferriman
Principal architect
Giles Miller
Design team
Giles Miller, Robin Sjoholm, Tom Housden, Laura Nica
Collaborators
Outpost Architects
Interior design
Giles Miller Studio, Despina Curtis
Structural engineer
Steelwork: Design4Structures, Steelwork (CLT): Structure Workshop, Facade: Michael Alexander Eng
Landscape
The Big Green Leaf, Thorn Services
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, AutoCAD
Construction
Future Construction Kent, Construkt CLT
Material
Steelwork, CLT, Glulam Timber Structure, Glass, Aluminium Framework, Recycled ABS Modules
Typology
Residential › House
The impulse for the proposal of the leisure activity park in Řeporyje came straight from the residents of the city district and their need for a multifunctional sports and leisure activity area.
Project name
Skatepark Řeporyje
Architecture firm
U / U studio
Location
Tělovýchovná Street, Prague 13 – Řeporyje, Czech Republic
Principal architect
Jiří Kotal, Martin Hrouda, Jan Maleček
Collaborators
Author of Ball of Circles sculpture: Čestmir Suška. Author of Kickflip sculpture: Lukáš Rais. Wooden elements contractor: Gardenline. Skatepark contractor: Mystic Constructions
Area
Gross Floor Area: 2453 m². Plot size: 4550 m²
Material
Smoothened concrete – floor of the skatepark, obstacles, radiuses, steps for seating. Steel – edges of the obstacles, pipe elements, urban furniture, public lights, sculptures. Concrete tiles – diagonal path. COR-TEN – sculptures. Larch wooded planks – podiums, urban furniture
Client
City district Prague – Řeporyje
Typology
Public Space › Skatepark
Innovative Eco Home built to Passivhaus principles in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the Suffolk Broads. Creek Cabin started as an experiment on the possibility to create a low impact home for future living whilst conserving the local flora and fauna. The result is a building which sits within the site with the grace of a living object.
Architecture firm
MAP Architecture
Location
Southwold, IP18 6SH, UK
Photography
David Valinsky
Principal architect
MAP Architecture
Design team
MAP Architecture and Jon Broome Architects
Collaborators
Jon Broome Architects
Structural engineer
Structure Workshop, London
Lighting
Cacio & Pepe, Light Shopping
Construction
MS Oakes Ltd
Material
Timber cladding: Kebony
Typology
Residential › House
Taking up the metaphor of avian migration, Migratory Birds 300, a 300-hour artist residency, brings together 300 creators from diverse fields and backgrounds to congregate and co-create by the seaside of Aranya, China.
Written by
MAD Architects
Photography
Courtesy of Aranya Theater Festival, MAD Architects Qi Ziying
The residential high-rise project Pier 05 is one of the new beacons at aspern Urban Lakeside. Zechner & Zechner ZT GmbH proved successful against strong competition with their gently curved solitaire that includes flexible apartment floor plans and a rooftop pool.
Written by
Zechner & Zechner Architects
The concrete palace designed by Wutopia Lab, namely The Eye of The Museum of the Palace Museum of the Manchurian Regime (Changchun), which is the first decorative fair-faced concrete building in Jilin Province, the largest fair-faced concrete building in Northeastern China, and the largest thin-shell large-span earth-sheltered swept surface undergr...
Project name
Deep Time Palace
Architecture firm
Wutopia Lab
Location
No. 5 Guangfu North Road, Kuancheng District, Changchun City, China
Photography
CreatAR Images
Principal architect
Yu Ting, Huang He (Project Architect), Pu Shengrui (Project Manager)
Design team
Pu Shengrui, Pan Dali, Sun Liran (Conceptual Design Phase), Xie Jialin (Drawing Compilation Phase)
Collaborators
Installation Design: Kuang Zhou, Huang He, Xie Jialin. Design Consultants: Wei Minfei, Miao Binhai, Zhang Zhun, Qian Yanmin, Lin Xingchun, Zhang Kejie. Chloe Zhang, Zang Yanting, Deng Xiaodan. Low-voltage System Design: Jilin Beihua Electric Power Technology Design & Research Institute Jilin Yongji Branch
Interior design
Jilin Wuyi Construction Co., Ltd. Shanghai Hip-pop Architectural Decoration Design Co.,Ltd. (Concept)
Landscape
Changchun Garden Planning Research Institute Co.,Ltd.
Lighting
Gradient Lighting Design
Construction
Owner Construction Committee: Wang Zhiqiang, Hu Hailong, Zhou Bo, Ai Xuesong, Su Zhenda, Liu Yongwei, Wei Wei. Construction Proxy: Changchun Municipal Government Investment Construction Project Management Center. Construction Drawing: Tianjin Architectural Design Institute Co.,Ltd. Construction Side: China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Co.,Ltd.(North China)
Material
Fair-faced Concrete
Client
Palace Museum of the Manchurian Regime
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Museum
