This Rail Museum site carries 130 years of Taiwan’s urban transformation. Started as a munitions factory where the first railway originated during the Ching dynasty, the site is now a Rail Museum Park adjacent to Taipei Main Station, the main transportation hub for both the city and northern Taiwan.
Project name
Landscape Of Traces
Architecture firm
XRANGE Architects
Photography
Studio Millspace
Principal architect
Grace Cheung
Landscape Architecture
XRANGE Architects
Collaborators
B.Y.Hsu Architect, ZC Architect & Associates
Client
National Taiwan Museum
Typology
Railway department park
Right in the heart of Siwa Oasis, Western Desert- Egypt, Ethnic Chalet is designed to capture the very distinct spiritual energy of the desert and interpret the local inputs.
Project name
Ethnic Chalet
Architecture firm
Swarm Design Studio
Location
Siwa Oasis, Egypt
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Corona Renderer, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Mirna A.Emad
Visualization
Mirna A.Emad
Typology
Residential › House
Even two identically built homes can look different depending on how they’re accented. Letting creeping ivy grow on a trellis can offset a Lannon Stone façade, while a metal roof can better-accent the peaks of a roof.
Written by
Touchstone Lights
Photography
Alexandre Zveiger
Hugging House is based on a project that is mainly capable of fully respecting nature and establishing a connection with the building's environment (not to mention energy, sustainability, and ecology), and that through its impact and experience could generate in the visitor the same respect for the natural world.
Project name
Hugging House
Architecture firm
Veliz Arquitecto
Tools used
SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Jorge Luis Veliz Quintana
Visualization
Veliz Arquitecto
Typology
Residential › House
Photography
Ola Woldańska-Płocińska
This family of six had outgrown the existing footprint of their house, with the small crowded kitchen being the focal point of their family life. Square Feet Architects resolved their space dilemma by removing an internal wall between the kitchen and adjacent living room to create one larger open plan kitchen-dining-living space.
Architecture firm
Square Feet Architects
Location
Mapesbury, London, United Kingdom
Photography
Jeremy Coleman
Principal architect
Daniel Leon
Material
Brick, Concrete, Steel, Glass, Wood
Typology
Residential › House
UK Brand OF. Studio has released Rind Chair. It is the first piece of the Abstract Nature Collection. The surreal geometries of this collection, ambition to create a new ecosystem where the notion of natural and abstract are completely merged and in the constant dialogue.
Use
Indoor and Outdoor Seating
Applications
Residential and Commercial Interior
Characteristics
Its robust and geometric aesthetic is achieved by a folding technique
Size
56 cm x 59 cm x 80 cm
Executive project located in Chalandar, Mazandaran, Iran designed by Hoom Architectural Studio and visualizaed by Siavash Shakibaei. Two triplex units next to each other that the employer wanted to see the integrated facade due to the small width of the land.
Project name
Chalandar Villa
Architecture firm
Hoom Architectural Studio
Location
Chalandar, Mazandaran, Iran
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Lumion
Principal architect
Mahmood Hoseinzadeh
Design team
Siavash Shakibaei
Visualization
Siavash Shakibaei
Status
Under Construction
Typology
Residential › House
It is a project to enjoy Yucatan, its sky, its wind and its vegetation. The footprint of the house is just one fifth of the land extension, always leaving free space and vegetation as the protagonist.
Project name
Akúun House (Casa Akúun)
Architecture firm
Arkham Project / GCW
Location
Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Photography
Yoshihiro Koitani
Principal architect
Benjamín Peniche Calafell, Jorge Duarte Torre, GCW
Design team
Alan May, Iván Valdez, Lorena Cervera
Construction
Cáceres Arquitectos y Asociados S.A de C.V
Material
Concrete, Glass, Steel, Stone, Wood
Typology
Residential › House
Designed by Palestinian architecture student Mostafa Hisham El-Belbeasi, North Eye pavilion is where you can see the beauty of Scandinavian Mountains in Norway.
Architecture firm
Mostafa Hisham
Location
Northern Europe, Scandinavian Mountains (Galdhøpiggen Mountain), Norway
Tools used
Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Mostafa Hisham El-Belbeasi
Visualization
Mostafa Hisham El-Belbeasi
