Architecture Magazine

Architecture Magazine

Architecture Magazine featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Collage of Melodies

The project is the expansion of International School of Beijing, which is a proactive architectural approach to motivate a leading international school to further evolve to the cutting edge of learning environment, enclosing variety of learning communities inclusive of ages, times and cultures. The Collage of Melodies not only counterbalances the solemn appearance of the existing building, but also transforms the school to a new era of education with refreshing Collage of Art and Music Melodies.

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Shamim Polymer

The plant needs to maintain three programs including production facility and lab and office. The lack of defined functional programs in these types of projects is the reasons for their unpleasant spatial quality. This project seeks to solve this problem by utilizing circulation elements to divide unrelated programs. The design of the building revolves around two void spaces. These void spaces create the opportunity for separating functionally unrelated spaces. At the same time acts as a middle courtyard where every part of the building is connected with each other.

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Flowers of Clouds

The flower tower appears as a giant sculpture with a 12 meter high Corten-Steel structure stylized like a lotus flower, lifting the coffee space of 600 square meter at an altitude of 8 meter. A continuous ramp allows visitors to enjoy the gradual view of the landscape like a flowing river before taking in the panoramic view on the rooftop. The entire roof area is a garden to grow large confetti and outdoor coffee space. It is a space where people can observe and feel stunning nature at different angles. Tourists, flower tower and nature are integrated here. All are engulfed in clouds.

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Villafound Jades

The hotel is located in large fertile farmland, advocating harmony between man and nature. It contains a villa pool and a super swimming pools secluded in the countryside. People can directly enter the swimming pool right from their rooms. The designer incorporated elements of Hakka tradition with hundreds of years of history. With a little modification, it cleverly combined contemporary convenience with traditional history, romance with pragmatism during the whole project.

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Next Hub

Next hub is an architecture and landscape integrated project in Jeddah that blends in different facilities including hotel, administration, entertainment, f and b and recreational zones. The designer wanted to create good views for the hotel and admin building because the project plot is not surrounded by any views, this was achieved by creating a dynamic composition of masses with respect to environmental, cultural and financial aspects creating good urban experience with visual and social interaction.

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Villa K

On the sloping south flank of the Holterberg, Van der Jeugd Architecten has designed a contemporary villa with very spacious dimensions. Thanks to the carefully designed integration into the beautiful landscape, a materialization that matches the stature of the villa, and sophisticated detailing, the design approaches that of a "Gezamtkunstwerk". All the more because the house requires little maintenance and is self-sufficient, you can rightly speak of a "sustainable beauty".

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