Tag: architecture

Being encourage to motivate the communities to live sustainably, environmentalist and designers John and Cynthia Hardy make an extra effort for that. Part of it was to introduce and educate people how to built with sustainable materials, namely bamboo. They establish the Green School, and its affiliates: the Meranggi Foundation, which develops plantations of bamboo…

The Wood Box House designed by the architects of Indra Tata Adilaras, is situated on a 11.7m x 25m plot in the middle-class housing neighborhood in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. The design challenge that the architects has to face was to provide both indoor and outdoor spaces continually, in a tropical climate.  Rather than to…

Last March, The Architech Society (UTM, Malaysia) invited few architecture offices from Malaysia and Singapore,  to give presentations on architect’s career and their experiences in the industry, to UTM architecture students. This collaboration event with The Malaysia Institute of Architect, includes Razin Architect which was represented by Aiman. One of the interesting project that Aiman shared…

Sekeping Tenggiri is a homestay located in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is originally built in 1960’s, designer and landscape architect, Ng Sek San of Seksan Design refurbished the whole building and transformed it into two adjoining houses, including the corner lot, into an art warehouse and renting it to other guests. Apart from staying…

Gracia Studio have completed an interesting architecture project located in Todos Santos, Mexico made up of two houses, one available for rent and the other one as a vacation home for the owners. In this project, a typical materials in Mexico called “talavera” tiles and exposed concrete walls were used for finishing touch of the…

The Spanish architecture firm, Selgas Cano has designed its own office in Madrid which is literally engulfed by nature, sitting slightly below ground with a wall of glass as the only separation from the beautiful foliage.  via Archdaily

Made from 500,000 pieces, the multicolor monolith rises up to 31.19 meter high, thus beating Chile’s 2008 world record by 25 centimeters. Located at San Paolo, Brazil,  it takes four days for a group of 6,000 lego fans – which most of them are children to accomplish building the tower. While most of them were…

During our visit to Shanghai, China in October 2010 Located in Shanghai, China, at the north end of the Bund (Huangpu District in central Shanghai), the 74 year-old slaughterhouse has been transformed to a lifestyle design center called 1933. This five storey of maze-like concrete corridors and structure with endless visual aspirations, and the giant…

There is always an argument that smaller is most certainly better than bigger, as bigger does not necessarily equal better. Prefab housing takes hold as a viable, sustainable, contemporary building techniques.  1. WEEHOUSE Design by Alchemy Architects, it is definitely fits into the latter category – already widely-known (and one of the few prefabs actually…

A container as a mobile house/office is not a new concept – but this sustainable container guest house, certainly is.  Located in San Antonio, Texas, USA, this 320 sqf project is originated from the clients’ desire, who lives in a small warehouse on a former industrial site, to experiment the shipping container.  It is a…

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