Sapphire, Berlin / Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind is developing his first apartment building in Germany on Chausseestrasse in Berlin, just metres from where the Berlin Wall used to run its’ course. “Sapphire” bears the rough edges characteristic of Libeskind’s work, making the body of the building resemble a cut gem, a sapphire. The project, which will create a total of …

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House IJburg / Marc Koehler Architects

The house is located on a small plot in IJburg; a suburb of Amsterdam. Designed as a vertical garden giving space to flora and fauna to grow in a densely urbanised area. Closed private spaces contrast with open collective spaces, that seem to have been ‘carved out’ from the solid volume as a continuous transparent void. In this way the interior space is visually and physically connected to the street, the garden and roof terraces.