Al-Seif Staircase #s25k is a project under the umbrella of Amiri Diwan of Kuwait, donated by Tamdeen Group and supported by the Kuwait Municipality, Public Utilities Management Company (PUMC), and Al Ghanim International. It emerges as an initiative by Parallel Studio to refurbish the area that has witnessed significant contribution to cumulative K...
Project name
Al Seif Staircase #s25k
Architecture firm
Parallel Studio
Location
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Photography
Faisal Al Hindi and Yousif Abdulsaid
Principal architect
Mai Al Busairi
Design team
Mai Al Busairi, Daniel Oliveira, Daniel Kiss, Mohammad Najdi, Pil Matando, Uvis Mustathafa, Ali Fakhreddine
Collaborators
Amiri Diwan (Sponsor), Tamdeen Group (Donater), Al Ghanim International (Supporter), Kuwait Municipality (Supporter), Public Utilities Management Company (Supporter), Elevation Burger (Artist Program/ Graffiti Wall)
Structural engineer
Al Farooqi Engineering Consultants
Construction
Creative International, Arif Fawzi
Supervision
Parallel Studio
Visualization
Parallel Studio
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Autodesk Revit, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Material
Granite, Stainless Steel
Typology
Urban Development
Ehab Alhariri: A Futuristic Smart Sustainable Mountain pod designed to utilize solar power using a petals mechanism that allows it to open up and close down to charge up the pod using photovoltaic cells mounted on the petals. Inspired by a flower motion, the petals when open allows for a 360° view of the surrounding, the mechanism could also potent...
Project name
Futuristic Sustainable Mountain Pod
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Lumion, Adobe Lightroom
Principal architect
Ehab Alhariri
Visualization
Ehab Alhariri
Typology
Residential › Mountain pod
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
