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Asia de Cuba

Asia de Cuba

Located in the stylish St. Martin’s Lane Hotel in the heart of London’s Convent Garden, this vibrant restaurant and bar serves an unusual fusion of Asian and Latino food. The entire space covers two levels and accommodates around 165 customers.
At the entrance to the Rum Bar – one of the few overt references to Cuban [...]

Cafe Bravo

Cafe Bravo

Auguststrasse, in Berlin’s Mitte District, is rapidly becoming gentrified, attracting artists and cultural institutions. One, the CafĂ© Bravo, has settled in the courtyard of an old margarine factory and is based on an idea of American artist Dan Graham.
This construction of shimmering greenish-silver, mirrored glass and highly polished steel lies in contrast to the classicist [...]

Bar-Restaurant “L’Arca”

Bar-Restaurant

The first impression of this bar/restaurant perched on a wooden gangway jutting out over the water, can be misleading. The structure is simple enough: a single-story rectangle clad in dark wood and somehow reminiscent of a seaman’s bar on some desolate wharf. Closer inspection, however, reveals a subtle combination of sleek design elements, such as [...]

Studio Aisslinger’s LoftCube

Studio Aisslinger’s LoftCube

With the LoftCube, the architect and designer, Werner Aisslinger, from Berlin has created an ideal concept for big city nomads. Studio Aisslinger’s LoftCube combines the appeal of rooftop living with three other emerging trends: smaller living spaces, portable architecture and prefabrication. Essentially a square, caravan-like structure. the lightweight LoftCube is described as a ‘mobile home [...]

Zholtovsky House

Zholtovsky House

The building is a five-storey corner development with the rounded edge typical of this quarter.
It features an unusual mixture of basic classical elements and the Art-Deco forms found in this area and uniquely incorporates them into a large corner building. The facade’s basic architectural pattern is unpretentious. The ground level, clad in stone and with [...]

The Mystic Age in Architecture

The Mystic Age in the history of Architecture is the birth and development of the Gothic in Europe, 1130-1240. Around 1130 a significant change occurred in the Christian religion. The Virgin Mary was gradually introduced as the intercessor in Church stories of the soul’s Judgement, thus bringing an element of feminine sympathy and forgiveness [...]

Klein Penthouse

LOT-EK’s best-known rooftop project is the Guzman Penthouse in midtown New York. Constructed partly from a reclaimed truck container, it is an iconic image of Modernism returned to its industrial roots mixed with the spirit of Post-Modern reappropriation and New York’s famously bohemian loft culture. The project included extensive technological gadgets, most notably a vertically [...]

Moscow Clubhouse

Moscow Clubhouse

The Complex belongs to a shooting range and is located next to a sand dune.
It includes offices for personnel, technical services for the shooting range, public areas, shops and a restaurant.
Three blocks are brought together on one side by an open terrace. Glazed passageways connect the bright-red wooden structures with one another. The visually [...]

The Neo-Classicism in Italy

What most distinguishes Italian neo-classicism is its lack of a unitary character, a result of Italy’s political fragmentation, the absence of a central state, and its domination by foreign powers. Even so, all of the European neo-classical movements drew their inspi – ration from Italy. Its many works of classical Greek and Roman art – [...]

Cultural Center Brno

Cultural Center Brno

The project wished to find the best architectural solution, which would respect building site principals and visibly present its function.
From the urban aspect the new building is closing a present housing block. To identify its function an organic shell was projected, which revises the building volume and relays it to the surroundings. Configuration of the [...]

Romanesque and Byzantine

Times began to improve in the West after 900. The climate was gradually becoming warmer, lengthening the growing season, and the population began to expand again. The raiders settled down, the Vikings being granted Normandy. The Arab sorties across the Mediterranean were curbed and the Huns turned to agriculture. Very slowly, people began to build [...]

Villa Neuendorf in Mallorca, Spain

Villa Neuendorf in Mallorca, Spain

The dialogue between building and landscape is the central theme of a villa in the south of Mallorca. Like a medieval castle it overlooks the spacious site with such a natural air as if it had always been there. Since Claudio Silvestrin, the architect had earth pigment from this area worked into the plaster, [...]