Villa Isola is one of the most significant art-deco buildings in Bandung on the campus of the University of Education. designed by the Dutch architect Charles Prosper Wolff Schoemaker. The construction of Villa Isola went remarkably fast. The building was constructed within six months, it was began in October 1932 and completed in March 1933.
Bandung is famous amongst architecture lovers for its remarkable collection of colonial era buildings. This building was designed as the home of a colonial media magnate. This towering art-deco mansion remains to be Bandung’s most …

Architects: Wingardh Architecture
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Architects in charge: Gert Wingardh, Cecilia Strom, Per Söderberg
Collaborators: Gustav Appell, Ewa Bialecka-Colin, David Christoffersson, Daniel Frickeus, Bengt Hellsten, Robert Hendberg, Rickard Karlsson, Stefan Nilsson, Hanna Samuelsson
Design Year: 2003
Construction Year: 2007-2008
Client: AB Svenska Bostäder
Construction: Tyréns AB
Installations: PO Andersson Konstruktionsbyrå AB
Lighting: Ljusarkitektur P&Ö AB
Constructed Area: 16,600 sqm
Photographer: Patrik Gunnar Helin
Architect Homepage: www.wingardhs.se
Fifty years after the opening of Vällingby, Sweden’s world famous New Town from 1954, works began with its resurrection. After the glorious days when children and their mothers filled the community in the outskirts of Stockholm …

Architects: LAVA
Location: Duisburg, Germany
Project year: 2008
Project Team: Tobias Wallisser, Chris Bosse, Alexander Rieck with Kadri Kaldam, Martin Völkle, Jan Saggau
Photographs: Gee-ly
Architects Homepage: www.l-a-v-a.net
The Future Hotel forms part of the IAO Inhaus2, a program that focuses on meeting the expectations and requirements of hotel guests using tomorrow’s technology. LAVA has designed the Future Hotel Showcase Room, a demonstration project that investigates the interfaces between architecture, technology and the human body.

Blurring the definition between technology and interior space, the showcase room features the latest innovations in the fields of media and visual …

Designed by Public Architecture, The Falcon residence is a hillside residence located in South Mission Hills. The residence is 1745 square feet in size with kitchen, dining and living combined in one space.

Sited overlooking Raynard Hills, the house was designed to have an urban industrial loft-like feeling. The living space with its expansive glass walls offers views of both Bankers Hill and Downtown San Diego. Use of materials includes cast-in-place concrete, cedar cladding and steel.”

XTEN Architecture has projected this Openhouse design that is located in Hollywood Hills, California. A challenging and dramatic site that led to the creation of a house both integrated into the landscape and open to the city below. Retaining walls are configured to extend the first level living area into the landscape and to create garden terraces on the second level. The front, side and rear facades of the house slide away, opening the interiors to gardens, views and the hillside landscape.

Glass, in various renditions, is the primary wall enclosure …