Crazy House is known as one of the most strange buildings in the world. When you enter Crazy House, you will instantly feel a cool, fresh air as if you were in a forest. Visiting Crazy House is taking a journey in giant tree trunks with the small winding paths. The tree trunks are connected by the tree branches. You won’t know where these branches...
Project name
Biệt thự Hằng Nga (later called Crazy House)
Principal architect
Đặng Việt Nga
Location
03 Huỳnh Thúc Kháng, phường 4, Đà Lạt, Lâm Đồng, Vietnam
Photography
All images courtesy of crazyhouse.vn
Didgah Design Architecture Studio: At first, the idea was to have a complete view of the pristine nature. This project aims to give the user a feeling of being suspended midair and a bird’s-eye view. The structure was inspired by a flying bird that holds the user in its wings. The user can then use the rails to move along the width of the valley an...
Project name
The Suspended cabin
Architecture firm
Didgah Design Architecture Studio
Location
Amazon Rain Forest, Manaus, Brazil
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, Lumion 10.3, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Mohammadreza Norouz
Design team
Sajad Motamedi, Mohammad Mahdi Faraji
Built area
Each cabin: 38 ㎡
Collaborators
Sajad Motamedi, Mohammad Mahdi Faraji
Visualization
Mohammadreza Norouz
The Hangzhou-based pratice DA XIANG Design Studio has recently completed Courtyard Xiaoya, located in the Xucun Industrial Zone, Haining, Jiaxing, in which the architect built an elegant courtyard on the roof of a factory and named it Xiaoya.
The transition of the city is a complicated process. Along with the old memories gradually gone, new emoti...
Project name
Courtyard Xiaoya
Architecture firm
DA XIANG Design Studio
Location
Haining, Jiaxing, China
Principal architect
Jianyu Jiang, Huaming Yu, Rui Chen
Design team
Jianyu Jiang, Huaming Yu, Rui Chen
Interior design
DA XIANG Design Studio
Landscape
DA XIANG Design Studio
Construction
Hangzhou Jutie Decoration
Tools used
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom
Typology
Commercial › Office
Robbert de Goede has designed a new home in a former gymnasium in old city center Amsterdam, Netherlands. Imagine the possiblity to build a new home in a former gymnasium. A space everyone knows and many architects have fantasized about. First we brought in a flood of daylight with 10 skylights and a huge facade. The trusses were a gift from the bu...
Project name
The Gymnasium
Architecture firm
Robbert de Goede
Location
Old city center Amsterdam, Netherlands
Photography
Marcel van der Burg
Principal architect
Robbert de Goede
Interior design
Robbert de Goede
Collaborators
Houtwerk, Beverwijk. Hazewindus. van Eden Bouwconstructies.
Environmental & MEP engineering
Contractor
VKV Restaurations
Typology
Residential › Apartment
Milad Eshtiyaghi: The stairway street project is located in India. We designed this project based on its needs to meet the needs of the project site and the needs of residents and client. This project has 16 floors, one commercial floor on the ground floor, 4 parking floor, 10 residential floors and 2 floors for the pool and gym. It is named after...
Project name
The stairway street
Architecture firm
Milad Eshtiyaghi
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, V-Ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Milad Eshtiyaghi
Status
Under Construction
Plural Arquitectos: The abundant vegetation and deep slope found on this site in the middle of the ‘yunga tucumana’, make for a distinct atmosphere capable of inspiring the design of this single-family house at the foot of the San Javier mountains, in the province of Tucuman.
Project name
El Corte House
Architecture firm
Plural Arquitectos
Location
Yerba Buena, Argentina
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray
Principal architect
Luis Avila, Pilar Navarro, Sebastián Roldán, Gabriel Wajnerman
Design team
Augusto Montes de Oca, Paulo Vera
Collaborators
Arkade ingeniería, Damián Rivadeneira, Federico Zurita construcciones, Matías Molina Leone. Juan Martínez
Typology
Residential › House
A glass house in the Mexican desert, twenty minutes from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, Casa Etérea sits on the slope of an extinct volcano. The sustainably-built dwelling is encased in mirrored panels, reflecting the changing light that illuminates its rugged landscape.
Location
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Photography
Kevin Scott, Prashant Ashoka, Estudio Mavix
Principal architect
Prashant Ashoka
Design team
Prashant Ashoka
Collaborators
Oskar Chertudi Maya, Gabriel Lopategui, Octavio Cambron Munguia, Mario Gonzalez, Antonio Santana
Interior design
Prashant Ashoka + Namuh
Civil engineer
Prashant Ashoka
Structural engineer
Prashant Ashoka
Environmental & MEP
Prashant Ashoka
Landscape
Octavio Cambron Munguia
Supervision
Prashant Ashoka
Tools used
SketchUp, AutoCAD
Construction
Workers in Mexico
Typology
Residential › House
The Belarusian architecture studio O Cifra led by Veronika Supruniuk & Denis Shulginov have envisioned a commercial showroom and retails for Dammam City, Saudi Arabia, that its concept is based on a circle as an ideal shape that forms the number 7.
Architecture firm
O Cifra
Location
Dammam City, Saudi Arabia
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, V-Ray, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Veronika Supruniuk, Denis Shulginov
Design team
Veronika Supruniuk, Denis Shulginov
Visualization
Veronika Supruniuk, Denis Shulginov
Typology
Commercial › Showrooms + Retail
A home lighting layout is undoubtedly an afterthought in the general scenario. The lesser known fact hatch is undoubtedly true in most cases when it comes to interiors is the right lighting layout. It makes all the difference globally, and choosing the right kind of fixtures substantially improves the home lighting layout.
Written by
Rameena Yameen
Photography
Skye Studios, bazz.ca
The Egyptian multi-disciplinary studio Reha, LLC. led by Reha Habib completed a unique Mediterranean boutique hotel in North Coast, Egypt. Set on an authentic slice of the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt, the project began with an existing one-story U-shaped building split into four quadrants, surrounding a central lagoon with adjacent stunning views of...
Project name
Mazeej White Hotel
Architecture firm
Reha, LLC.
Location
North Coast, Egypt
Photography
Nour El Refai
Principal architect
Reha Habib and Ramy Takla
Design team
Reha Habib, Ramy Takla, Mazen Samir
Interior design
Reha, LLC.
Material
Wood, Marble, Concrete
Typology
Hospitality, Hotel
