Lighthouse
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about lighthouse
Project • By Tham & Videgård Arkitekter • Private Houses
House Krokholmen
The site is a promontory on the relatively small island of Krokholmen in Stockholm's outer archipelago: a typical archipelago landscape with windswept dwarf pines and soft mountain outcrops produced by the inland ice. The plot benefits from open views, in the east all the way out to the lighthouse Almagrundet in the open sea, and it is at times exposed to strong winds. The family wanted a maintenance-free vacation home in one level with social space both inside and outside.
We proposed a two-part plan. Through a central wall holding the fireplace, a narrow opening gives access to bedrooms, bath and storage, that are oriented to the forest in the west. The large family room with kitchen and entrance could thus face out towards the sea wit... More
Project • By LYCS Architecture • Primary Schools
Yiwu Foreign Languages School
Yiwu Foreign Languages School is located in the main urban area of Yiwu, Zhejiang Province. As the world’s largest wholesale market of commodities, Yiwu is praised as the largest market by the United Nations and the World Bank. The school, a branch of Hangzhou New Century Foreign Language School in Yiwu, consists of a primary school of 48 classes and a junior high school of 24 classes, now is under construction. As the first project of returned overseas Chinese, it’s expected to be designed as a cosy and comfortable campus integrated with the international outlook and Yiwu-rooted culture.
It’s a project with huge challenges. How to define the architectural form of educational building in the high-density urban environment. How to organ... More
Inventons la Metropole de Grand Paris
Triango, the project developed by BSI (Bopro Sustainable Investment), was announced as winner of the large-scale competition “Inventons la Metropole de Grand Paris” for Triangle de Gonesse. The proposal reinvents the business park as a lively and diverse ensemble defined by public space, where sustainability is promoted in every sense of the word.
Inventons la Métropole du Grand Paris is the largest European competition for city planning, architecture and public space. Over 50 sites were put up for public tendering with the high ambition to generate innovative projects that set the agenda for the future of Paris. With more than 400 applicants, 3 teams where shortlisted per site and tasked with developing concrete proposals.
Triango... More
Project • By DFG Architetti associati • Nightclubs
BON TON Yachting Club
The Lighthouse does not only preserve existing values, it is also a symbol and a point of reference for the beautiful and important promenade in Marina di Ragusa. The requalification project aimed to increase the value of the building, trying to highlight its peculiarities while keeping clearness in its volumes and materials, and to create complementary shapes and signs, which suggest a strong nature in its entirety.
Supported by these premises, the elements that "dressed up" the Lighthouse have been set up: the wooden terraces reach out to the sea, floating on the rocks and on the beach, slim and light structures compose the pergolas, white bands, more solid and strong, mark the existing loggia and outline the bar and the seats. These b... More
Project • By PAUL KALOUSTIAN ARCHITECT • Offices
Stereokitchen
The project is an addition to an exciting office building of the 60s located on a prominent site on the northwestern side Beirut’s Center. The building follows a setback typology based on a regulation envelope that defined most of Beirut’s buildings during this period . Our intervention challenges this typology and deals with it by placing a thin metal roof as a closure.
The architectural intervention comes with a dual language with a exciting language, it tries to create a relationship with it rather than being in conflict. On the other hand it is affirmative of a new program and a new strategy with different materials and identity instead of being deceptively a continuation of the existing.
The additional floor is a totally glazed r... More
Project • By Room 11 • Private Houses
Lighthouse
"It has been previously noted that Hobart is a small city in a large landscape. This beauteous mountainous isle is justly renowned. But the most southern capital city in Australia is nonetheless beset by the perennial problem of an ever-expanding edge.
New homes in new suburbs are being built up and down the river further entrenching car-dependency. The lighthouse by room11 architects is a carefully considered consolidation project which demonstrates the potential for beautiful bespoke building which offer an alternative to the unchecked suburban hemorrhage.
The client came to our office with a proposal to deliberately downsize. Selling a large family house to finance construction, they wanted a smaller simpler inner-city home. A doub... More
Project • By FAKRO • Residential Landscape
Rosevia Friends & Family Resort
Rosevia Resort is located in the most charming part of Kashubia in the close proximity of Rozewie Lighthouse between Władysławowo and Jastrzębia Góra. Architecture and infrastructure of the resort woven into the Coastal Landscape Park, 100-year-old forest, the Baltic Sea and beach from which we are separated by only a breathtaking view from the cliff make this place unique, exciting and magical. Guests can also enjoy magnificent view of the sea and surrounding nature through FAKRO roof windows. Using modern technology and the highest quality materials put in use 82 comfortable apartments. This is a unique place for a family rest, romantic getaway for two as well as business meetings. More
Project • By S4A | Space4Architecture • Auditoriums
The Urban Lighthouse Competition - 1st prize winner
The new Kip Island Auditorium is an opportunity to bring new life to the the Riga exhibition complex. Working simultaneously on the new auditorium and on its immediate surrounding, our goal was to transform a very specific visited destination into a new vibrant destination, inspiring public gathering for citizens and visitors alike.
The Auditorium building as an urban lighthouse - The new auditorium architecture and its location are the result of a functional and programmatic ambition: by placing it centered and elevated above the current lobby, we were able to guarantee an easy access and seamless circulation, both horizontally and vertically, among the three buildings. Its strategic location also allowed us to guarantee a much needed u... More
Project • By Aires Mateus Architects • Museums
Museu do farol de santa Marta
Stuck between land and water, along a strip of terrain under permanent change as times went by, human intervention has grounded its most varied settlements. From the 17th Century onwards the amassing of different plans for this place, the material and technological resources employed on each epoch and the convenience of the granted heritage concur to a series of conversions and extensions. Nevertheless the locale features architectonic units of unequivocal reading, disposed according to organizational principles still quite clear. The adulteration and decay of some of its parts is the outcome of a process of natural selection the project seeks to revert to its benefit. Singling out the elements of greater permanence and poetic value, the pr... More
Project • By IDIN ARCHITECTS • Information Centres
Phuket Gateway
The idea is to present the character of vernacular architecture in the south of Thailand through contemporary architecture. Phuket Gateway is to serve as a public space for welcoming the visitors to this province, just like a living room. This scenic town is a melting pot of various cultures and races represent by various architectural styles of local southern, Chinese, Muslim and Sino Portuguese. However, the project does not reveal any single culture significantly but interprets these local values in combination to the original materials providing contemporary pattern and function.
The feature of Phuket Gateway is not designed as a normal threshold as usually found in other provinces of Thailand, on the other hand, it is generated as a... More
Project • By Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) • Bridges
Biocomposite bridge
Walk over the world’s first biocomposite bridge
14-meter long footbridge opens on Thursday at Eindhoven University of Technology
As of Thursday, the general public will be able to use the world’s first fully biocomposite footbridge on the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) campus. This fourteen meter long ‘biobridge’ is made from a hemp and flax-fiber base and is the result of collaboration between a large number of knowledge institutions and companies.
Students fromTU/e, TU Delft and the Eindhoven region’s vocational colleges, among others, have been building the bridge over recent weeks. Tuesday afternoon the bridge will be placed across the Dommel, on the TU/e campus by the Auditorium. Fibers of hempand flax are the basic... More
Project • By Tandem Design Studio • Private Houses
Kensington Lighthouse
The Kensington Lighthouse is situation of a 160m2 strip of land between a former factory and its kitchen, in a densely urbanised, mixed use inner city context.
On the north, the neighbouring house presents a 4m high wall overshadowing the site. North facing sun shells were created to capture and reflect sunlight. They are articulated by exposed timber portal frames lined with timber panels and clad in a lightweight skin of dark grey and deep blue corrugated metal. These sun shells form the roof and southern façade.
Timber framed glass and translucent polycarbonate were used to frame views and admit light while preserving privacy on the west, north and eastern walls.
The house is made from two sun shells forms, connected around... More
Project • By SKOLNICK Architecture + Design Partnership • Private Houses
Ani Villas
Ani Villas, two modern luxury villas of 3,000-4,000 square feet each, reside on a 1 ½ acre plot that slopes up to a sheer, stone promontory, overlooking Little Bay to the west on Anguilla’s north coast. They include soaring indoor-outdoor living spaces with breathtaking views of the sea and the sky. Each villa has four bedrooms with a detached office/guest area, and site amenities include a tennis court, a viewing pavilion and a cliff-top pool and deck area. The white, modern structures – a series of stacked rectangular layers, forming subtly ascending levels and varying sized balconies and infilled with glass – are like a beacon atop the cliff and position themselves within the tradition of tropical modern architecture.
By day, the... More
Project • By Koichi Takada Architects • Apartments
PACIFIC Bondi Beach
Koichi Takada’s signature Lighthouse designs have created spaces that are a ritual of daily experience and a celebration of life.
“The more we looked at the space, the more we knew we had to put the focus on that amazing backdrop of Bondi Beach. Gazing out to the ocean from Pacific’s enormous terraces is so dramatic, it blows your mind.
For us, context is very important. We wanted to draw that natural inspiration inside, juxtaposing the energy and texture of the beach environment – the breeze, the air, the smell of the sea salt – with the refinement and luxury embodied within these oceanfront homes. We sought to capture that natural luxury and represent it in physical form.
Living here is a beautiful experience. Everything you touch... More
Project • By Alexander Gorlin Architects • Private Houses
Nova Scotia Home
On a rocky, granite cliff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean near Ketch Harbour, Nova Scotia, this 5,000 sq ft house is a series of angled glass and raw concrete pavilions that capture the dramatic landscape in each direction. Crowned by gently curving zinc roofs, each pavilion frames views of a historic lighthouse, the sea lanes to Halifax and a World War II Allied bunker.
Set along a linear entry hallway, the pavilions also define programmatic areas, with the den, living/dining rooms, the kitchen and master bedroom each ensconced in their own space. Two additional bedrooms on the second level cantilever off the main body of the house, further enhancing the experience of the site.
The house is set on landscaped terraces that provide a... More