the racing club
The Racing Club is a new concept created by the Hong Kong Jockey Club to entice younger members to join the club. The program is to create a young, trendy nightspot with 3 main components: a bar, a restaurant, and a sushi bar. Situated in a 115 meters …
light house cinema
DTA Architects were commissioned in December 2006 to realise the recreation of the Light House Cinema. The architectural challenge of this project was to combine the ‘insertion’ of four cinema volumes into ‘existing’ basement voids with the creation of …
the song club
The Song Club is a specialized Club for music with multiple functions consisting of a restaurant, bar, showroom, VIPs room and CD store. In order to avoid a space with standard conflicting multiple functions, a large undulated, layered timber containme …
il design degli oggetti per il tempo libero
Laura Andreini – Once upon a time, design and designers, clearly prompted by companies, created objects that could be defined as “useless”, or better, dedicated to leisure and free time. Objects which seem remote in time and to belong to a lost era. Is …
area 101 – álvaro siza
presentazione/introduction Álvaro Siza testo François Burkhardt editoriale/editorial Le ragioni di mettere insieme luoghi e forme testo François Burkhardt scenari di architettura/architectural scenario Tea House and Boa Nova Restaurant/Leça da Palmeira …
le ragioni di mettere insieme luoghi e forme
From the presentation of works which Alvaro Siza designed in North Portugal on occasion of the Europe-America exhibition, at the International Venice Biennale of Art in 1976 up until today, the interest in his work of critics throughout the world has c …
Tea House, Boa Nova Restaurant
The projects on the Atlantic coast north of Porto have been and still are one of the undertakings Siza is most fond of. Right from the beginning of his career he had plenty of opportunities to work in this region, a place close to his heart, where he s …
de Marés Swimming Pool
In all of Siza’s projects dating back to this period, great care is taken in integrating the constructions with their surroundings. In this particular case Siza took this to an extreme, by paying meticulous attention to two fundamental aspects of the p …
Pinto & Sotto Mayor Bank
Between 1969 and 1974 Siza was asked to design two projects for two different banks, finished in the same year. The first one was at Vila de Conde, 30 km north of Porto, the second at Oliveira de Azemeis, 70 km south of Porto. The two plans shared some …