Tadao Ando Architect
Tadao Ando, born in 1941 in Osaka, is the best knowncontemporary Japanese architect. Winner of the 1992 Carlsberg Prize, the 1995Pulitzer Prize, the 1996 Praemium Imperiale, and the 1997 Royal Institute ofBritish Architects Gold Medal, he has influenced an entire generation ofstudents, mainly through professional publications and travellingexhibitions.
TADAO ANDO
The Langen Foundation is located at the Raketenstation Hombroich, a former NATO base, in the midst of the idyllic landscape of the Hombroich cultural environment.
这是今年的最新成品 Feldbalz is a three-storey sculpture that contains the
family life overlooking the Lake Zurich, Switzerland,
where everybody meets and circulates on the first floor.
Melon district
A student residence in Barcelona
MelonDistrict is a new concept of accommodation for national and
international students who are looking for a place to live in Barcelona.
MEDIAXIS
Conversion of an old Factury into an Publication Agency, Completion May 2008.
Alien is a new headquarters for media agency Mediaxis atSchlieren in Switzerland
The Norwegian Embassy in Nepal
The new Norwegian Embassy is to be built on the north end ofthe existing embassy site in the Patan part of Kathmandu.The building is integrated into the slope of the site, allowing plateaus of outdoorspace to extend into the building. A south facing intimate patio is directlylinked to the vestibule inside.
Location: Kathmandu, Nepal
Building type: Representation and Offices (Consulate)
Client: Statsbygg, The Directorate of Public Constuction and Property
Size: 800m2
Budget: 10 MILL. NOK
Schedule: Completed June 2008
GRIMS GRENKA
Kongens gate 5
0153 Oslo
Norway
ACCOMMODATION
42 deluxe rooms and 24 suites
Oslo finally has its first Design Hotel, perfectly located near the central station, overlooking Akershus Castle and the new Centre for Architecture. The sensual, Asian-influenced décor pairs natural materials such as stone, wood and leather with glass folk art and lamps made from reindeer antlers. Carefully designed by young Norwegian architect Kristin Jarmun
Tjuvholmen, Oslo, Norway2007
The area of Tjuvholmen, on Oslo's seafront, is now being transformed into an architecturally cutting-edge urbanisation, complete with offices, homes, shops, hotels and a Renzo Piano-designed museum of modern art.
Hotel Puerta America is a thing of design and beauty in Madrid, Spain was opened in July 2005.
"Nineteen of the world's best architects createthe hotel of the future in Madrid"
Each of the hotel's 12 floors bears the imprint ofa different design talent. Each floor measures 1300 m2 and the only constraintwas that each had to contain 28 rooms and two junior suites. The externalstructure was developed by SGA Studio and is a fairly standard rectangulartower block. John Pawson did the common areas, while Jean Nouvel designed thecladding on the facade and the 12th floor with 12 luxurious suites (as anexception on the