Herzog de Meuron - Dominus Winery, Yountville CA 1998. Three tiers of gabions hold rocks in varying sizes, creating a somewhat abstract classical hierarchy of scale while providing a thermal skin that combats the region’s extreme temperatures. Photos (C) Margherita Spiluttini.
Motoazabu Apartment sYms by Kiyonobu Nakagame Architect & Associates
Photography by Shigeo Ogawa
Zamora Offices by Alberto Campo Baeza, Spain
This could just as well be made of air…
Cairns Botanic Gardens Visitors Centre by Charles Wright Architects
Photography by Patrick Bingham Hall
Wim Goes Architecture - Project L, Kortrijk 2004. Photos (C) Krisiten Daem.
Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects - House H, Matsudo 2012. Via, photos (C) Fumihiko Ikemoto.
Optical Glass House by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP
Photography by Koji Fujii, Nacasa & Partners
2012 European Prize for Architecture goes to TYIN tegnestue!
The prize is awarded to influential European architects “who have demonstrated a significant contribution to humanity and to the built environment through the art of architecture”.
“Architecture should be a vehicle for social change, social improvement, and real cultural development, and not an end result of over-commercialization, over-consumption, and self- aggrandizement which is so overwhelmingly apparent in our contemporary world.” (Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine)
(Source: archdaily.com)