Follow the boardwalk through this creative drought-free garden & find state-of-the-art standalone style in this 3 bedroom home. Showcasing an elite Euro appliance kitchen & 2 frameless screened bathrooms including a vast ensuite, this cutting-edge home has dining stepping down to a light-filled lounge & out through glass doors to a room-sized deck in a silver-birch hedged courtyard. …
Yuxi is the birthplace of the famous Chinese composer, Nie’Er, amongst whose works is the Chinese National Anthem. With the completion of the Master Plan for the City of Yuxi, BTA was again commissioned by the City for the new Yuxi Opera Theatre. The main design challenge for this project is to cope with changes in architectural expression, as Yuxi is rapidly transforming from traditional town …
Once devoted to cane plantations, the island of Antigua is now one of the Caribbean’s premiere luxury tourism destinations. The newest member of its splendid lineup of resorts is the elegant Sugar Ridge, named after the nearby sugar-cane-covered hills. Inside and out, Sugar Ridge offers a sophisticated setting that takes its cues from this sweet commodity. Charged with the task of translating …
This building is designed by the prestigious architect from Barcelona Enric Miralles and by Benedetta Tagliabue, who won the call for ideas for the Gas Natural Group’s new head office. The proposal by the EMBT studio is characterised by a spectacular 20-storey glass tower which, given its sinuous, modern architecture has already become a landmark on the skyline of Barcelona. A horizontal …
Put together a world-renown Japanese ceramic artist, a world-class German architect, 35 acres of pristine land in the mountains of Utah, a quest for spirituality, and the result is probably not what you would expect. After 14 years of rented office space converted into sanctuaries and classrooms, the Jewish community of Park City, Utah has opened the doors to its first synagogue, Temple Har …
Plays on volume & proportion require the body to traverse a series of delayed thresholds creating 2 or 3 mains points of discovery as height and volume are compressed and expanded within this single fronted victorian terrace. These spatial rhythms are similarly overlayed & integrated with the change in language from period facade through to the new intervention at the rear. The small …
The Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower, the first in a series of seven towers to be built worldwide. A unique branding concept envisioned by Joachim Swensson, founder of branding specialists PNYG:COMPANY, the building represents branded architecture’s next step. “The Tower marks a departure from traditional architectural thinking”, state the architects Chris Bosse and Tobias …