Located in Victoria Park, Hong Kong based Laboratory for Explorative Architecture & Design (LEAD) have create “The Golden Moon”. This unique building explores how Hong Kong’s unique building traditions and craftsmanship can be combined with
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It is not every day that a body is found buried on your building site, but on a summer’s morning in 2012 this is exactly what happened while builders were laying foundations for RIBA award-winning architects AR Design Studio’s latest project. By 6pm they h
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Renovation of a 2400m2 building dating from1775 in Madrid’s historical quarter. The main functional decision was the construction of a second staircase nucleus, which permitted an optimal arrangement of apartments adjusted to the minimum size allowed by pl
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The building is born from the need to give the students of the Catholic University a meeting place, a place they feel their own. Thereby the building becomes SPACE, public space, where the boundaries and possibilities are generated by the students themselv
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Modern buildings are becoming more and more popular in Poland. Original architectural solutions are usually being used not only for projecting malls and office buildings, but also to design family houses. According to this, we can see more and more project
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House in the suburbs of Tel Aviv, Israel. The plot is of 475 sqm, long and narrow, with a green park behind. Modern style and minimal design. Build as rectangular box\ tube – opaque on sides, but transparent to the back and front. Big void in the middle -s
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Stylish Improvement This summer, the architectural workshop ADM is completing the project of renovating a 1950s administrative building, which is to drastically change its appearance. The edifice was built in 1951. First, it was a planning institute, and i
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3XN’s extension to a neoclassical courtbuilding in the Copenhagen district of Frederiksberg is among this years nine European winners. In Respectful Dialogue In accordance with the Danish design tradition, Frederiksberg Courthouse is the result of a
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Renovation project of existing buildings & demolition and reconstruction of buildings for rural tourism The area covered by the settlement in the town of Giarre, between Catania and Taormina, and extends for just shy of 50,000 sq. m. on the eastern slo
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Situated in dramatic sloping site in Cape Town, this stunning house was designed by SAOTA, an well known architecture firm in South Africa. The site falls very steeply and due to the high elevation of the road and the restrictions on the building form, the
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The owners recently purchased a new build 3000 sq foot townhouse in Crouch End, North London enjoying views towards historic Alexander Palace. The house boasts a magnificent ground floor double volume space. The first floor living room overlooks the kitche
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The Hewlett House (Architects : MPR Design Group) boldly sits as a modern insertion into the typically poor building stock of its surrounding environment. The context is of varying building styles, scales and materials so the house creates a deliberate con
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Richard Meier & Partners has completed the Jesolo Lido Condominium in Jesolo, Italy, and celebrates the opening of the project for the summer season. The building is part of a complex comprised of the Jesolo Lido Village, completed by Richard Meier
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On the ashes of an industrial building arises a new residential complex of 25 apartments. The intervention area is situated in the northern outskirts of Milan, near Sesto San Giovanni and viale Monza, one of the major radial avenues of the city. The lot is
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The Fletcher Hotel designed by Benthem Crouwel Architekten. This building is a new landmark for the city of Amsterdam. The 60 meter high hotel has a compact floor plan with a diameter of only 24 meters, resulting in a characteristic slim silhouette along t
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Official opening of The Bow, Calgary’s tallest tower Special events have been held in Calgary this week to mark the official opening of The Bow, a 237-metre-high headquarters tower – the city’s tallest building and Canada’s tallest tower outside Toronto. A
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Adequacy of existing housing, with 262.09m2 of gross floor area, to the actual needs of comfort for an family of 4 persons and the housing laws and rules of construction and building regulations. The building currently in the middle of a great mass of tree
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Rebuild of a hotel complex as an ensemble of buildings, consisting of a main building, a garden suite in front, a reception and entrance area and a wellness house. Time seems to stop in Saalbach-Hinterglemm. Just an hour away from Salzburg, traditional hou
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TFP Farrells Architecture have designed the Kennedy Town Swimming Pool situated at the junction of Kennedy Town Praya and Shing Sai Road and bounded at the western end by Sai Cheung Street North. The design brief was for an iconic structure, housing both
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The building for the Tec de Monterrey University in their Juarez Campus, is in essence a building destined to host most of the extracurricular activities offered to students both in High school as in College and Higher degrees. Surrounding the actual Gym o
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The first issue was achieved by introducing a structural spiral organic element. The vertical solid elevator core of the building is wrapped by a steel spring like spiral element. The spiral element functions as a structural element and as a vertical circu
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Macalister Mansion is designed around the idea of an old English mansion, situated along historic Macalister Road, Penang Malaysia. This building originally built in 1900s and complete restored by Ministry of Design into a luxurious new boutique hotel. Eac
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This project involved the radical transformation of a tiny, awkward apartment at the top of a six-story building. With only 425 square feet (39.5 square meters) of floor area, but a ceiling height of over 24 feet (7.3 meters), the new design exploits the i
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The project, located on one of Australia’s pre-eminent universities Monash University’s Clayton Campus, Melbourne Australia comprises two 5 storeys buildings each containing 300 student studios, flanking a central, common courtyard. The fundamental startin
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The ‘Absolute Tower’ located in Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto Canada. Designed by Chinese Studio MAD Architects, the building is more than just a functional machine: it responds to the significance of being located at the junction of two mai
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This scheme has been planned for the downtown in Miyazaki, located in Southern Japan. The road in front is so busy and noisy, and there are tall buildings for residence at the south. Considering all these factors, I came up with a brilliant idea to harmoni
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“Following the creation of the Loft des Innocents, Frédéric Flanquart Interior Architecture and Design have set themselves a new challenge, with the renovation of the Yacht: an 85m2 apartment located on the last floor of a building on the Parisian Grand Bo
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“Following the creation of the Loft des Innocents, Frédéric Flanquart Interior Architecture and Design have set themselves a new challenge, with the renovation of the Yacht: an 85m2 apartment located on the last floor of a building on the Parisian Grand Bo
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The location of the Project is in the countryside so our main interest was create a building with a strong sense of public space in relation with future expansion of the town, both for business and social activities. It was also released as a part of a who
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This building originally built in 1920 and transform by Pir II AS. The overall concept of the transformation is to show the history of the building as honest as possible. This meant a clear conceptual distinction between what is new and what is old, but al
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Begin with a building with soul, add the architectural free spirit of Dominic and Marie Bagnato. The result is Moonee Ponds’ most memorable home, a residence that thrills the senses throughout spectacular spaces of unlimited luxury and unforgettable
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A concrete meander creates the connection A meandering band of white concrete, which links old and new buildings as well as the outdoor facilities, is not only functional but creates a sense of identity and design coherence. This sinuous ribbon is both a s
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If you want to explore the history of the George W. Bush Presidency, now you have a great place that will provide you a deep insight of his career and life, The post Environmentally Sustainable Building for George W. Bush Presidential Center appeared firs
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Interior designer Eric Carlson of the company “A DIZAINS UN ARHITEKTURA” combining classic with modern style create gentlemen’s apartment interior design. The apartment is in the 19th century building is located in the center of the Latvi
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Imagine, create and build a space whose purpose was family life and friendships, in an area adjacent to the existing home, looking for a larger view and enjoyment of transparency, this was the most significant desire by the owner. The object a single space
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Scheduled for completion in 2013, these unique architectural buildings inspired by floating icebergs will have a considerable contribution to the development of Aarhus, the second largest city in Denmark, transforming the The post Iceberg-Inspired Dwelling
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Munich’s ‘Bau’ trade fair is one of the world’s leading trade fairs for the construction industry. Its particular focus is on building materials. For the ‘Bau 2013’, Armstrong DLW is highlighting its product palette of linoleum and vinyl flooring. The idea
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Munich’s ‘Bau’ trade fair is one of the world’s leading trade fairs for the construction industry. Its particular focus is on building materials. For the ‘Bau 2013’, Armstrong DLW is highlighting its product palette of linoleum and vinyl flooring. The idea
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Dublin Airport’s 75.000 m² Terminal 2 has been designed specifically with the traveller´s needs in mind. The visually striking building makes maximum use of natural daylight, creating bright and airy spaces that are both calm and relaxing. Considerat
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The Vodafone Campus Düsseldorf set as ‘Green Building‘, scheduled completed at December 2012. On the new campus in the district of Düsseldorf Heerdt leads the mobile phone company Vodafone his most employees distributed over various sites in a
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The project created 4 lodging rooms in a farm building in Alsace. A new wood construction was added as a natural and fluid extension of the old farm, not only renovating it but mostly honoring it by the use of its history and details. Thereby, niches were
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Sports hall is placed into surrounding space onto a platform as an autonomous volume at the junction of various programmes and geometries. Due to its floor-plan size and its connection to the principal public areas, the pedestal is converted from a buildin
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Comprehensive Building Renovation In Japan, the lifetime of buildings is very short; they often get scrapped and rebuilt after 30 to 40 years. Recently, however, there are movements to enlarge the market for not only newly built, but also quality pre-owned
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SHH’s ‘Park Place’ Mayfair House Gets Planning Go-ahead Proposals for an elegant, new-build, black-fronted house in Mayfair’s Park Place, inspired by number ten Downing Street and designed by architects SHH, has now been granted planning permission by West
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Lemay will design a new luxury hotel on the Mount Stephen Club site located on 1440 Drummond Street in Montreal. In fact, Tidan Group, owner of this impressive heritage building, has started the construction of an 80-room hotel at the heart of downtown. In
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The Cultural Center of Chapultepec is designed to merge the concepts of aesthetics and functionality. It is to become the icon of the city through its subtle yet dynamic form and overall composition. The building is thoughtfully designed as a singular form
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The Cultural Center of Chapultepec is designed to merge the concepts of aesthetics and functionality. It is to become the icon of the city through its subtle yet dynamic form and overall composition. The building is thoughtfully designed as a singular form
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In a huge botanical garden, an ancient manor house becomes a conference centre and meeting point of excellence, through a careful renovation combined with a reinterpretation of its distinguishing elements. Our architectural firm has worked on the restorati
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Headquarters in Hamburg’s HafenCity. The new building designed for the Hamburg-based, tradition-rich trading company impressed the jury as “an independent urban-planning and architectural contribution characterized by timeless, harmoniously self-contained
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State-of-the-art medical school and integrated transit station will anchor vibrant mixed-use district The University at Buffalo (UB) has unveiled HOK’s dramatic design for its new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences building on the Buffalo Nia
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Located in Victoria Park, Hong Kong based Laboratory for Explorative Architecture & Design (LEAD) have create “The Golden Moon”. This unique building explores how Hong Kong’s unique building traditions and craftsmanship can be combined with
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Environment HEQ This retirement home is being built in Monconseil’s Urban Development Zone (ZAC in France), in the northern suburbs of the city of Tours, where this building will be one of the first footprints in the area. The project, which consists of 81
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The building is located in Limeil-Brevannes, near Paris. It consists of three preschools and of two elementary schools. As the method of commissioning was used so called “conception-construction” system, where the competition teams propose both all plans a
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The assignment arises from a contest to build the dependencies of a construction company, with a diverse program of Warehouse, Workshop, Offices and Cafeteria. The proposal is based on taking the diversity of materials, the recognizable structures and the
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Opened since 1967, Pak Loh is a traditional, Hong Kong based family restaurant that serves Chiu Chow cuisine, a particular Chinese food. Situated in the heart of a building block in Causeway The post VIP Dining Experience at Pak Loh Restaurant in Hong Kong
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Five years ago emerged the concept of the new restaurant Guria Santa Fe, after being located for over thirty years at the Roma neighborhood in Mexico City. Today we present Guria Polanco, in the access floor of a new and elegant office building, a more in
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Five years ago emerged the concept of the new restaurant Guria Santa Fe, after being located for over thirty years at the Roma neighborhood in Mexico City. Today we present Guria Polanco, in the access floor of a new and elegant office building, a more in
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This project in Bucharest manages to develop a small collective housing scheme under a minimal budget, proposing a new way of living as well as a new urbanistic approach for a controversial neighbourhood. Difficult location and impossible regulations This
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A Different Ostozhenka Having responded to all the themes that were set by its architectural context, the new bank building in the Butikovsky Side-street still does not look lost amidst its neighbors. Quite the contrary: one can regard this new building as
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During 2010 Red Shirt Riot, many of Bangkok’s public buildings were set on fire. Podium of ZEN Tower in Central World Complex was totally unrecognizable. Smoke and heat went upward and destroy all furniture and finishing of all interior space on the tower.
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Farang is located in Norrmalm in the heart of Stockholm. Farang combines the intimacy of contemporary Asian restaurant with the urbanity of a Stockholm street level space. Ground floor of an old industrial building was turned into a 700 m² fine dining rest
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General Korean Parking lot types filled Jukjeon Commercial Area Parking lot either frankly reveals itself to be a parking lot without any consideration for design or surroundings, or disguises like a commercial facility. However, both cases are not welcome
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On the 8th of May 2013, the new Air Traffic Control at the Ljubljana airport will be opened. A new building comprises air control center with 24/7 amenities and office premises of the ATCC Slovenia. The Air Traffic Control Centre is a highly demanding and
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At the ceremony which marked the completion of a major project attended German Culture Minister, Mrs Wanka; the Mayor of Munich, Mr Ude; Lord Foster and Dr Helmut Friedl, Director of the Lenbachhaus Museum. The Museum’s historic buildings have been carefu
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Compatibility Test ABD Architects has designed a multifunctional medical center in Shchepkina street in Moscow. A seven-storey building, its front façade stretching along Shchepkina street, was put in commission in October 2012, after a five-year construct
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At the ceremony which marked the completion of a major project attended German Culture Minister, Mrs Wanka; the Mayor of Munich, Mr Ude; Lord Foster and Dr Helmut Friedl, Director of the Lenbachhaus Museum. The Museum’s historic buildings have been carefu
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The competition rules required to design five buildings aligned along the Cardo that characterizes the entire masterplan EXPO 2015 until a large circular water lake. They consist in four two-storey linear buildings that contain various exhibition spaces, m
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The Chipicas Town Houses are four independent single buildings, which were built inside a private garden in downtown Valle de Bravo, Mexico. The vertical design was used to salvage most of the vegetation, as well as, a solution to the small footprint. The
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Design of the arena is a joint venture between by ARM Architecture and Cameron Chisholm Nicol, who based the striking form on the Eternity puzzle, with references to one of Perth’s oldest buildings: the twelve-sided Roundhouse in Fremantle. Its bold, puzzl
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This time we’re presenting a small 450 square feet apartment located in Central Hong Kong, in an old tong lau building, which includes small spaces like this one designed for commercial The post Small 450 Square Feet Apartment Design in Hong Kong appeared
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CUNIPIC is a company devoted to the breed and commercialisation of pets as well as the production and distribution of their food. Its philosophy is based on respect for animals and nature. The proposed building internalizes this philosophy and tries to mat
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The residence’s plot is small and an adjacent building almost blocks the southern sun. The main part of the field should remain free and become the residence itself: an austere prism, centrally supported, hovers above the liberated ground. At first,
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Bekaert (www.bekaert.com) is a world market and technology leader in steel wire transformation and coatings. The new administrative building is built on a site in Zwevegem, near the Bekaert Technology Center (BTC) site. The architects have opted in favour
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In the historic center of Regensburg, in Bavaria (Germany), the project foresees the demolition of a building which is part of a continuous “quint” and its reconstruction with new construction criteria and energy standards. The new building is a private ho
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Bekaert nv is the market leader in the metal industry: high-tech metal processing, high-tech materials and coatings based on metal fibre and fibreglass. The new administrative building is built on a site in Zwevegem, near the Bekaert Technology Center (BTC
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Best possible views of the water The better the location, the higher the density – such wishful thinking on the part of the real estate sector has had negative consequences for the location and the residents on more than one occasion. But that is far from
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The Jerusalem Brain Sciences Building will provide a state-of-the-art research and teaching facility for the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences. This Jerusalem-stone four-story building features two wings surrounding an open courtyard, blendin
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The housing association, l‘Office 64 de l‘Habitat has built a new company headquarter in Bayonne in southern France. The fact that the building is an ecological example is proudly presented for visitors to see. Green architecture is not merely a theme or t
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This is a studio and residence built from the renovation and expansion of a small single-story building. The original building is brick structure with slope roof. Now we take away the old roof and change it into three stories by making use of original bric
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The simple and functional volume of the hotel building is not only surrounded by a garden – it grows together with it, or rather, almost literally, grows OUT of it. The hotel will be built on the Caspian Sea shore in Makachkala’s satellite town
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When planning this building the instructors made a great effort to include all different requirements in the project without, however, neglecting the idea of a unified architectural line. So when the general refurbishment on Bauernfeldplatz in 1090 Vienna
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In spite of all the restrictions that were raining on them from all sides, Vera Butko and Anton Nadtochy were able to build a kindergarten that looks like a toy fairy tale palace. How were they able to do that? Let us find out! The project of a kindergarte
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Being world market leader in the fields of inverters, the company SMA Solar was in need of a training centre in striking distance to the existing facility. The new building was built on stilts on an existing parking area. Construction and design resulted o
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The commission is a small family chapel for 40 seated people in a slightly sloping lot next to a forest of Australian mimosa trees. From the top there are views of a set of vernacular buildings (adobe houses and wine cellars) inserted in a natural landscap
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Being world market leader in the fields of inverters, the company SMA Solar was in need of a training centre in striking distance to the existing facility. The new building was built on stilts on an existing parking area. Construction and design resulted o
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In a context of consolidated historical neighborhood of Madrid, the architects faced strict dimensions and facade regulations. The idea was to make the most out of a very limited area and give charisma to this little building in way it can adapt to its env
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The BBC Middle East Bureau is located on the 15th floor of the tower building at the Malha Technological Park in Jerusalem. The bureau functions as a hub for the entire Middle East for the BBC News, BBC World Service, BBC Arabic and BBC Persian language br
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The commission for this building started as early as 2006. After a long design process, along with extensive design meetings with the principal, the design was ready to be presented to the strict supervising committee of the municipality. Supervisors Ton S
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Exterior Appearance The exterior of the building features staggered metal panels which function to screen views of the vehicles and provide airflow to qualify the building as an open parking structure. Internal ramps and screening vehicles from view is vis
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Located on the blooming nightlife district of Oporto’s downtown, RUA occupies the ground floor of an old building facing a narrow yet busy street. The vaccant space matched in many ways the traditional construction of Oporto old city center: narrow lots wi
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The apartment, 55 sqm, is located on the fifth floor of a ‘900 century building, in the center of Turin. The property included also a small garret of 15 sqm, that it was never been used before, accessible only by an outside staircase. The goal was to able
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In Jossigny, architects Brunet Saunier have realised their newest project – the hospital centre Marne-la-Vallée. Erected on three floors the glazed building block has an actual capacity of 460 beds plus 125 beds in the mental institution. The façade follow
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The Cruise Centre Hamburg is located near the “Fischmarkt” in Hamburg-Altona, between the former England Ferry terminal and the emblematic Dockland building. At one end, the building’s elongated linearity fits in with urban developments on the banks of the
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First Building in Atlantic Canada to Receive LEED Platinum Certification The project is located on a 5-acre site at the southern end of the Halifax downtown waterfront with access from Lower Water Street. The site steps down approximately 7.5m from Lower W
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The maximum height does not exceed the critical angle of 60 degrees from the street Nguyen Tat Thanh. The Project is focused on the correct organization of the building. In a building where the uses are alternated, it is important to establish a clear oper
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A Portuguese architecture studio OVAL has designed a group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based on the in
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Could you believe that handbags remains over time the number one women accessory that nowadays has its very own museum?! Here’s the proof: Simone Handbag Museum, a place which isn’t only dedicated to The post Unique Purse-Shaped Building ̵
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Situated in dramatic sloping site in Cape Town, this stunning house was designed by SAOTA, an well known architecture firm in South Africa. The site falls very steeply and due to the high elevation of the road and the restrictions on the building form, the
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The Hewlett House (Architects : MPR Design Group) boldly sits as a modern insertion into the typically poor building stock of its surrounding environment. The context is of varying building styles, scales and materials so the house creates a deliberate con
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With the purpose in requalifying an old building belonging to a derelict industrial area, this project proposes a new concept for a banking branch by presenting an innovative attendance desk design that leads to a new and fresh appearance, language and wor
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The Fletcher Hotel designed by Benthem Crouwel Architekten. This building is a new landmark for the city of Amsterdam. The 60 meter high hotel has a compact floor plan with a diameter of only 24 meters, resulting in a characteristic slim silhouette along t
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The Firefighters barracks matches the CB1 Type program and is located in Quinta de Geão, at the lot 28, of 4770 m2. The building comprises a total gross area of 1173 m2 and lodges the support functions to the fire brigade. Starting from the “Lobby – Access
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Designed by a Polish architect Jacub Szczęsny in a gap between two buildings, Keret House is considered the narrowest house in the world. Inside, it is only 122 cm in the widest and 72 cm in the narrowest spot. Officially, Keret House is an art installatio
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TFP Farrells Architecture have designed the Kennedy Town Swimming Pool situated at the junction of Kennedy Town Praya and Shing Sai Road and bounded at the western end by Sai Cheung Street North. The design brief was for an iconic structure, housing both
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No wonder that many people are looking for kitchen island ideas whether they are building a new home or remodeling their old kitchen. Kitchens have become over time from simple The post 13 Beautiful Kitchen Island Ideas appeared first on Interior Design, D
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A Portugal-based architecture studio Vitor Vilhena Architects has designed a new house in South of Portugal, Algarve, Tavira. Here the ocean peeks, while the 400 olive trees surround the house. An old building has to give place to a new one, keeping the t
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Macalister Mansion is designed around the idea of an old English mansion, situated along historic Macalister Road, Penang Malaysia. This building originally built in 1900s and complete restored by Ministry of Design into a luxurious new boutique hotel. Eac
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The ‘Absolute Tower’ located in Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto Canada. Designed by Chinese Studio MAD Architects, the building is more than just a functional machine: it responds to the significance of being located at the junction of two mai
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If until now the Kingdom Tower, expected to be completed in 2016, was the next tallest building in the world after the famous Burj Khalifa from Dubai, it seems that it won’t hold The post Azerbaijan Tower, the Next Tallest Building in the World Takes Shape
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This building originally built in 1920 and transform by Pir II AS. The overall concept of the transformation is to show the history of the building as honest as possible. This meant a clear conceptual distinction between what is new and what is old, but al
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The Vodafone Campus Düsseldorf set as ‘Green Building‘, scheduled completed at December 2012. On the new campus in the district of Düsseldorf Heerdt leads the mobile phone company Vodafone his most employees distributed over various sites in a
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The intervention has as its object an apartment from the beginning of the twentieth century, of typology characteristic of yield buildings in Lisbon at this time, and kept to date in its original state. Oriented East / West, with great depth and enclosures
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Leijh, Kappelhof, Seckel, van den Dobbelsteen Architects transformed a historical Dutch church into a unique loft living space in Haarlo, The Netherlands. . Project description The former Dutch Reformed Evangelism Building in Haarlo has been transformed in
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Kent State University has selected four national teams to compete in the final round of an international competition to design a new College of Architecture and Environmental Design building on the university’s new esplanade. The planned facility is part o
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No one understood airports quite like Eero Saarinen. His swooping Dulles International Airport turned 50 over the weekend and its uplifting form is still inspiring today. Saarinen was quite proud of it, too, declaring the building “the best thing I h
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Attention developers! It’s almost time to prepare your visions for one of the largest redevelopment projects in Manhattan, the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA), now that all the approvals are in. While an official Request for Proposals (RFP) wo
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When buying a home most of us consider residential neighborhoods with traditional homes. Few would consider the idea of converting nonresidential structures into homes but there are those who are more adventurous. The range of unusual structures is broad;
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Barriers or freshwater wetlands? New building codes? What about porous pavements or floating city blocks? These were just a few of the ideas batted around at AIANY’s discussion and fundraiser, “Designing the City after Superstorm Sandy,” at the Center for
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Dutch studio MVRDV is proposing a 400-metre skyscraper for Jakarta that looks like a pile of at least ten separate buildings. (more…)
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The residential buildings of Paris appear to be sailing through the sky like kites in these dream-like images created by French photographer Laurent Chéhère (+ slideshow). (more…)
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Located in Victoria Park, Hong Kong based Laboratory for Explorative Architecture & Design (LEAD) have create “The Golden Moon”. This unique building explores how Hong Kong’s unique building traditions and craftsmanship can be combined with
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Architects: Kerstin Thompson Architects Location: Woolamai, Victoria, Australia Design Team: Thompson, Kelley Mackay, Lynn Chew, Erica Diakoff, Julian Patterson Area: 275 sqm Year: 2008 Photographs: Patrick Bingham-Hall Builder: Beachwood Construction
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Architect: Herzog & de Meuron Location: Water Mill, Long Island, New York Client: Parrish Art Museum Photos: Matthu Placek The new building that will now house the collections of the Parrish Art Museum is designed by Herzog & de …
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Located in one of the most distinguished locations in Copenhagen, the second prize winning proposal for the Sølund Retirement Community by Henning Larsen Architects… is designed as one large, continuous building block. Their design engages in close d
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Crone Partners designed the Good House in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. . Description from Crone Partners The Good House was all about creating a home for its occupants; within the relatively tight inner suburban location and restrictive building envel
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This contemporary home is a 2010 project by Architect Thanos Athanasopoulos located in Ekali, Athens, Greece. The architect used traditional Greek building materials such as tile, white plaster, marble, and stone in an unconventional way. One such innovati
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This contemporary home by Johan Sundberg was created for a couple in a seaside resort area called Höllviken, Sweden. The house was designed to satisfy building regulations, as well as the clients, while maintaining the integrity of the site’s natura
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News: Chinese architects need to develop their own design manifesto to stem the tide of “half-assed” building projects in the country, according to Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu of Shanghai studio Neri&Hu. (more…)
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du Besset-Lyon have designed a Library/Cinéma building in Lons-le-Saunier, France. . Description from du Besset-Lyon The existing buildings : the church, the Hotel de Balay and the wall of the prison form an impressive urban setting made up of simple lines
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Architects: Andrew Maynard Architects Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Team: Andrew Maynard, Mark Austin, Tommy Joo Building Surveyor: Metro Building Surveying Engineer: Robin Bliem & Associates Builder: Ficus Constructions Landscaping: Bonnie
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Designed by architect Eli Gotman…, the proposal for the “Yad Labanim” (“A Memorial to the Sons”) is dedicated to commemorating the fallen soldiers in Israel’s wars and helping the bereaved families. The Yad Labanim building in Ramat Yishay, is
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Much has been made of the decline of American industry and, more recently, the rise of small-scale urban industry, but one of the largest international manufacturers, Taiwan-based Foxconn, could change the industrial scene completely if it decides to build
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The aim for the design of the Varaždin University Student’s Restaurant and Home was to connect the new building with the old student’s home with the restaurant treated as a separate pavilion. This first prize winning design by SANGRAD Architects…
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Greenbuild, the world’s largest conference and expo dedicated to green building has commenced in San Francisco with an interesting announcement from the main stage. Google has granted $3 million to the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) in an effort to
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Architects: Haworth Tompkins Location: London, England, UK Area: 4,750 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Courtesy of Haworth Tompkins… The Royal College of Art, the world’s leading post-graduate art College, have opened a new academic building as par
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In spite of angry protests from neighborhood advocates and preservation groups, New York City Council unanimously approved plans Tuesday afternoon to upzone Chelsea Market. The developer, Jamestown Properties, intends on building 300,000-square-feet of off
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50 UN Plaza, Foster+Partners‘ first residential building in the U.S., broke ground this morning. With the Hearst Tower long finished, Tower 2 at Ground Zero near complete, and a new iconic building planned for 425 Park Avenue, 50 UN Plaza will only f
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It has been five decades since there has been a commuter rail station in Brighton, but this will soon change. MassDOT Secretary Richard A. Davey and New Balance Chairman James S. Davis announced this summer that they will build a new Worcester Line commute
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In a letter to Building Design magazine, the Architects Registration Board in London, aka ARB, has requested that BD no longer refer to Renzo Piano and Daniel Libeskind as “architects.” Apparently, neither are registered as architects with the all-knowing
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Architects: Moscato Schere Todo Terreno + MS + DPF UNLa Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Designers: Agustin Moscato, Joaquín Moscato, Ramiro Schere Project Team: Lucia Hollman, Julián Puyal Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Manuel Ciarlotti Project Are
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As part of an ongoing relationship with the North College Hill school district in Cincinnati, fellow Cincinnatians SFA Architects helped the district consolidate its many facilities into the space of one city block. The combined Middle-High School building
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Opening today for Veterans Day, a new pavilion designed by Brooklyn-based Matter Architecture Practice aims to bring a little Peace and Quiet to the hectic liveliness of Times Square. The new temporary pavilion, built yesterday and set to remain standing t
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Architects: René van Zuuk Architects Location: Zeewolde, The Netherlands Architect In Charge: René van Zuuk Structural Engineer: Van de Laar Building Contractor: Kingma Bouw Area: 375 sqm Photographs: Christian Richters, Courtesy of René van Zuuk Architec
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Eugene Cholakh of Gamma Arc Group recently completed the TLV Apartments3 project. The architect designed the interior of this 1,560 square foot apartment located on the 22nd floor of a residential building in Tel Aviv, Israel. Photos by: Kate LynMore...
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Architects: Luís Rebelo de Andrade, Tiago Rebelo de Andrade , Manuel Cachão Tojal Location: Travessa do Patrocínio, Lisbon, Portugal Co Workers: Madalena Rebelo de Andrade, Raquel Jorge, Carlos Ruas & Tiago Moniz Client: BWA – Buildings With Art Area:
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Architects: Luís Rebelo de Andrade, Tiago Rebelo de Andrade , Manuel Cachão Tojal Location: Travessa do Patrocínio, Lisbon, Portugal Co Workers: Madalena Rebelo de Andrade, Raquel Jorge, Carlos Ruas & Tiago Moniz Client: BWA – Buildings With Art Area:
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The proposal for the TBC Bank Headquarters by Studio Kalamar… is composed of new facades, a vestibule, and a new landscape design to transform it from an old military headquarters building. Main volumes are enfolded in a skin of triangular
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Presenting a public art strategy deeply embedded within the design of the building & plaza as a whole, the proposal by Bild + INDEX… is entwined and inseparable from the aesthetic, function, and environmental performance of the plaza and building
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This student housing block in Norway by MEK Architects is named MySpace, as the architects imagined the building as a social network where each of the 116 residents can get to know one another (+ slideshow). (more…)
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Situated on a serene block of Noe Valley, a neighborhood in the central part of San Francisco, California, USA, this two-unit enjoys an ideal mixture of privacy and proximity. According to the broker, this eight bedroom, seven and a half bath building was
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Architects: L3P Architects Location: Ennetbaden, Switzerland Project Leader: Boris Eglidipl. Architect FH REG A SIA, Martin Reusser dipl. Architect FH REG A SIA Building Engineer: Tantanini + Partner AG, Bülach Structural Engineer: WichserAkustik&Bauph
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Visit Greenbuild, the world’s biggest green design conference taking place this year in San Francisco, for a chance to win an iPad Mini and a $250 AMEX gift card thanks to The Architect’s Newspaper, Buro Happold, YKK AP America, Greenscreen, Monodraught, a
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KieranTimberlake has been looking to buy a building for over a decade now, and after a long search, the Philadelphia firm is putting down roots in the Northern Liberties neighborhood with the recent purchase of the 1948 Henry F. Ortlieb Company Bott
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How many Americans know that the Eisenhower Memorial will be the largest presidential memorial in Washington, D.C.? Or that it will be using untested, experimental elements for the first time? Or that it will cost nearly as much to build as the neighboring
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I first talked about reclaimed wood, briefly, in my piece 10 Eco-friendly ways to Renovate your Home…. Now, on the heels of Hurricane Sandy many of us are looking to rebuild or renovate our homes after suffering severe damage and devastation. At Fre
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The RIAS (Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland) has announced OMA… as the tenth recipient of the prestigious Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award for the firm’s “welcoming, light and spacious” design of Maggie’s Gartnavel in G
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Located in Tenerife, one of the most populated islands in Spain, the second prize winning proposal for the ITER Building Technology Park settles in like a crater, relating to its volcanic surroundings. Estudio Lunar…‘s design consists of two el
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Architects: Vahos Architecture Location: Massamagrell, Valencia, Spain Area: 1,320 sqm Year: 2011 Photographs: Courtesy of Vahos… Building-fence as a concept. Fence as an important part of the park. This length, along the whole, reaches almost
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META Architecture…, in collaboration with SW,Technum, and landscape architects, West 8, were recently awarded the first prize in the competition for Building O, an auditorium and laboratory building for the University of Antwerp. The new multi-discip
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Located on a cliff at an altitude of 4100 meters high near Yading Village in China, the proposal for the Yading Cliff Building by ELEV (Elevation Workshop)… was inspired by the terrain of the cliff itself. The local mountain has
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Architects: Sáenz De Oiza Arquitectos Location: Badajoz, Spain Design Team: Marisa Sáenz Guerra, Alberto Arroyo Antón , Adrián Romero Uriz Client: elecnor.es Budget: € 700,000 Area: 768.0 m2 Year: 2012 Photography: Carlos Arriaga… The project p
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Architects: destilat Location: Linz, Austria Area: 260 sqm Year: 2011 Photographs: Mark Sengstbratl… the property is located on a steep slope at the foot of pöstlingberg in the immediate vicinity of the danube. like all buildings along this res
AddBrooklyn United for Innovative Local Development (BUILD), a nonprofit dedicated to connecting unskilled local workers to jobs on the Atlantic Yards site, is calling it quits. According to Atlantic Yards Report, the organization has locked its doors and wil
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Architects: Ector Hoogstad Architecten Location: Haarlemmermeer, The Netherlands Architect Designer: Joost Ector Area: 2750 sqm Year: 2008 Photographs: Kees Hummel, Jeroen Musch… The arts building houses Pier K, the cultural organization respon
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Spanish studio ÁBATON has designed its office/Show-Room in the outskirts of Madrid, Spain. ÁBATON Headquarters by ÁBATON: “Located in a housing estate in the outskirts of Madrid with some outstanding oak trees and next to some well established buildi
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Holm Architecture Office (HAO) and AI… have been invited to create a proposal for the city of Daqiuzhuang in northern China. Sited in a newly developed part of the city, the new cultural building takes its form from the traditional
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Architects: ARTechnic Architects Location: Setagaya, Tokyo Structural Engineer: Naomi Kitayama, NAO Constructor: Hiroshi, Satohide Client: Daizawa Court Area: 520.86 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Nacasa & Partners… A building that sits in mut
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Hyunjoon Yoo Architects… shared with us their proposal for the Green Square Library & Plaza Design in Australia. By locating the building on the west side of the park, this gave them the opportunity to integrate the library and the
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National Building Museum and Metropolis Magazine contributor Andrew Caruso takes you “inside the design mind” of Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger. … It’s rare to find someone willing to pay for opinions these days, and rarer
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Last week AN learned that Hollywood’s Capitol Records building may be in for a dwarfing by two new adjacent towers. Now we learn from our friends at Curbed that the historic Hollywood Palladium, renovated in 2008 by Coe Architects, might also be in t
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Architects: Jacobs-Yaniv Architects Location: Tel Aviv, Israel Developers: Leora Ganor, Irit Kesselman-Millet, Yariv Millet Project Management: Oren Sadot Branding & Graphic Design: Studio Michal Suday Lighting Design: MK Lighting Design Building Contr
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Millennium Partners and Argent Ventures are moving forward with their plan to transform 4.47 acres of vacant parking lots surrounding Hollywood’s iconic, mid-century Capitol Records Building into a transit-oriented, mixed-use development. Located on the fa
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For today’s AD Round Up we have five great public facilities projects. The main image belongs to Herzog & de Meuron’s 1111 Lincoln Road, an amazing mixed-use building in Miami. Check out, Helsinki Seafarers’ Centre by ARK-house Architects or La L
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This university building in Melbourne by Australian architects Lyons is covered in brightly coloured scales (+ slideshow). (more…)
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We appreciate the elegance exhibited by this 285 square meter split level penthouse designed by ÁBATON Arquitects… and located in Madrid, Spain. The project is situated in an unusual circular building, where each of the ten suits it accommodates offe
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This rustic chalet by Oppenheim Architecture + Design is a haunting sight on a moonlit evening in Aspen, Colorado, United States. It is a renovation of one of the first homes built in the area and was designed to minimize the building’s environmental
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Architects: Ocaña Location: Barcelona, Spain Year: 2012 Photographs: Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre… After eight years of extensive renovation the building has been restored to its former glory with many of the original features in tact. During the proce
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Architects: Lyons Location: Canberra, Australia Year: 2012 Photographs: Dianna Snape… The primary idea for this Bioscience Research building is to join together the super-performative needs of a contemporary laboratory research building, with a
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Architects: MARC&CO + coarchitecture Location: Brisbane, Australia Builder: Kane Constructions Workstations: Custom made designed by Marc&Co Lights: Domo, Klik Systems Area: 650 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Jon Linkins… When the continue
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As the northeast is slowly getting back on its feet, non-profit Architecture for Humanity is already commencing its plans for rebuilding and recovery. While it’s still early, the organization, which is partnering with AIA chapters in the hardest hit
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Because of strict FEMA regulations and building codes, SPG Architects faced a variety of obstacles when creating this contemporary home located in Fire Island, New York, USA. The result of their efforts is a two story structure composed of rectilinear form
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This floating-like 152sqm house+atelier building located at a site of 328sqm in Osaka caught my eye today! I just love the inside/ outside feel of the spaces. Japanese studio UID Architects has designed the Atelier Bisque Doll project, an atelier and a
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It is hard to imagine a better environment to build a shelter connected with nature. On the Portuguese coast (about an hour south of Lisbon) lies a hidden piece of paradise … Comporta. Designer and creator of recycled furniture Pequenina Rodrigues, f
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Architects Lab Modus… envisioned and developed the Hongzhu Housing Sales Center in Taoyuan County, Taiwan, an unusual looking building, inspired by a famous Chinese symbol: the dragon. According to the architects, the plan consists of “ two-sto
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Smith Designs have completed the interior of a penthouse suite in a new residential building in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. This penthouse suite served as a display suite for the condo development before being privately purchased recently. 3300 sq
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Found on Alvhem, this 914 square foot penthouse is located on the sixth and top floor of a 1926 building in Gothenburg, Sweden. Photos courtesy of AlvhemMore...
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Elizabeth Street Residence was envisioned and implemented by the creative team at Jackson Clements Burrows… and is located in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Especially developed for a large family, the massive building meets the living needs of it
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World Architecture Festival 2012: in our final movie from the World Architecture Festival we take another look at the World Building of the Year, Gardens by the Bay, as Wilkinson Eyre Architects’ Paul Baker explains
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When planning the design and layout of a home, the owners usually begin by considering aspects such as practicability or the comfort of its inhabitants.The brief for the Lucerne Residence however stated that this building had to be-above all- a cool place
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… We’ve suffered a devastating storm. Those of us who reside in the Northeast are now in the throes of trying to pick up the pieces of our lives and our homes. Hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey with such strength and force that she ripped up and k
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… We’ve suffered a devastating storm. Those of us who reside in the Northeast are now in the throes of trying to pick up the pieces of our lives and our homes. Hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey with such strength and force that she ripped up and k
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What a fantastic way to liven up a building with little aesthetic potential! Street artist ROA recently worked his magic on creating an original painting featuring six enormous African animals on a construction in Johannesburg, South Africa. Employing a cl
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A new visitors pavilion and cafe was recently completed by Emma Architecten… at Fort Diemerdam in Amsterdam, a historical defense line recently put on the UNESCO world heritage list. The undulating curves of the building’s walls were inspired b
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The sun has set on the east coast and trick-or-treaters are beginning to fill the streets, but keep your eyes peeled for starchitects lurking in the shadows. Building Satire has imagined five of our favorite international stars as vampires, witches, mimes,
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What’s scarier, Ando as a mime or Zaha as a witch? With their Costume Critique | Morbid Models post, Building Satire… transformed Tadao Ando, Bjarke Ingels, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Jean Nouvel into creepy trick-or-treaters. Review the
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Luca Zanaroli designed a house in an olive grove in Morciano di Leuca, Italy. . . . Project description The land on which it should have been made the new building was and still is full of beautiful olive trees. The intention of the designer was to maintai
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Architects: BP Architectures Location: Paris, France Design Team: Jean Bocabeille, Ignacio Prego Budget: € 25,670,000 Area: 9,845 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Courtesy of BP Architectures, Sergio Grazia, Luc Boegly… There were two challenges in
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Yesterday, AN got a first hand look at the Space Shuttle Endeavor resting inside its new home, the 18,000 square foot Samuel Oschin Pavilion at LA’s California Science Center. The verdict: go see it. No piece of architecture in recent memory has bee
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Architects: Hiroyuki Ito + O.F.D.A. Location: Minato-ku,Tokyo,Japan Site Area: 161.50 sqm Building Area: 95.15 Area: 229.49 sqm Year: 2011 Photographs: Daici Ano… This three-story house is located in an elevated residential area in Tokyo. The
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South Korean firm Mass Studies has developed a system of five pre-cast concrete modules for building South Korea’s answer to California’s Silicon Valley, starting with this flexible headquarters building for i
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Architects: Barnaby Gunning Architects Location: Bridport, England, United Kingdom Main Contractor: Mike Parsons, Parsons Building & Construction Windows And Doors: Rationel windows and doors Area: 290 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Courtesy of Barnaby Gu
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Ellen Van Loon is an architect at the forefront of her field. Alongside six partners, including Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf, her work at the Dutch architecture practice, OMA, has encompassed some of the most iconic modern buildings in…
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Dutch Design Week: architect Brian Peters has adapted a desktop 3D printer to produce ceramic bricks for building architectural structures (+ movie). (more…)
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A louvred wooden X-shape filled with staircases connects the two laboratory wings of this scientific research centre by architects Lyons at the Australian National University in Canberra (photos by Dianna Snape + slidesho
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Friday marked Designight 2012—AIA Chicago’s annual awards gala—which brought nearly 1,000 members of the area’s design community together at Navy Pier to recognize 39 projects in four awards categories: Distinguished Building, Interior Architecture, Divine
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This proposal for the New Contemporary Art Museum (NCAM) in Buenos Aires embodies the city’s dynamic cultural vibrancy. The building...
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Designers from IAMZ Design Studio sent us this interesting proposal of new L’Oreal office building for Stockholm, Sweden. L’Oreal Products Company requested design from IAMZ Design Studio and hired Ahmed Elseyofi as head architect for the project wit
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Last week, Donaire Arquitectos… was selected as the winner of the international competition, organized by ArchiFolio, to build the new A.M. Qattan Building, which is a charity that has worked towards the development of culture and education, with a p
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Höweler + Yoon Architecture have completed the Sky Courts building in Chengdu, China. . Description from the architects Asked to reinterpret the Chinese courtyard typology as a modern corporate clubhouse, Sky Courts uses its constraints (the building typol
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Seattle has approved Skanska USA’s controversial five-story “deep green” Brooks Sports headquarters building dubbed Stone34 at Stone Way North and North 34th Street under a new code provision that allows the developer to build 20 feet higher than zoning no
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Is time to remember five of ArchDaily Building of the Year 2009 winners. Like the public facilities category winner: the National Tourist Route Trollstigen by Reiulf Ramstad Architects or the Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi designed by Asymptote. Check out…
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SOM… recently shared with us their new tower located in Manila’s Makati Central Business District that has been shortlisted for a 2012 MIPIM Asia award. Rising 33 stories to height of 160 meters, the Zuellig Building is the first premium
AddGrant Associates… shared with us their just released short film of a walk round Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, which recently received the World Building of the Year Award at the World Architecture Festival. One of the largest garden
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Most people would imagine libraries being made up of large platforms fully equipped with rows of desks and bookshelves stacked on one another with strict division of programs in the building. However, the second prize winning proposal by studio SH…
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Juvia is the beautiful new 10,000 square foot indoor/outdoor restaurant and lounge located on the penthouse level of the 1111 Lincoln Road, adjacent to the architecturally-stunning Herzog & de Meuron building on South Beach. Take a private elevator up
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Architects: K.Karklins & A. Birojs – FORMA Location: Ventspils, Latvia Project Team: Krists Kārkliņš, Ināra Kārkliņa, Jānis Zaharāns, Lauris Zaharāns, Juris Križanovskis Year: 2012 Area: 600 sqm Photographs: Indriķis Stūrmanis, Courtesy of K.Kark
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The famous clipper ship Cutty Sark was recently rehabilitated by Grimshaw Architects, who also built an exhibition hall around the vessel. The project, which opened in April, has just received the dubious distinction of winning Building Design’s 2012 Carbu
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We’ve finally gotten a reveal of Millenium Hollywood, the two residential and hotel towers planned on either side of the Capitol Records building in Hollywood. The verdict: What Capitol Records Building? New renderings suggest the landmark 1956 Welto
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US Air Force Academy’s Center for Character and Leadership Development (CCLD), designed by SOM, …is scheduled to break ground this week. This new building will be the most recent addition to the Air Force Academy’s Campus in Colorado Spr
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Architects: Rosenbergs Arkitekter Location: Torsgatan, Lilla Bantorget, Stockholm, Sweden Architect In Charge: Inga Varg Design Team: Pär-Åke Wiberg, Kalle Dinell, Joel Klehn Year: 2009 Area: 18,200 sqm Client: Skanska fastigheter AB Photographs: Åke E:Son
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The busy city of Rotterdam is filled with small living spaces, smartly designed. Due to the municipality’s idea of revitalizing the pre-war buildings, many small apartments have suffered “overnight makeovers”, borrowing glimpses of the ur
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Simpraxis Architects designed this contemporary home in 2011 for a family living in Nicosia, Cyprus. The building is an imposing structure that opens to reveal a light, spacious interior. House 0614 by Simpraxis Architects: “The house designed for a
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German practice J. Mayer H. has replaced the gridded facade of a 1950s office building with organically curved glass and white render. (more…)
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Artechnic have completed the Breeze House in Tokyo, Japan. . . Project description A building that sits in mute repose, like an impassive signpost. In seeking to realize such a building, which becomes part of the scenery around it, acting as part of the ba
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Italian studio Es Arch – Enrico Scaramellini Architetto has designed the Wardrobe project. For a total budget of 25.000€, the architects have squeezed this “micro” weekend retreat (376 square foot) between two farm buildings in Madesimo, a comm
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Laboratory for Explorative Architecture & Design created Golden Moon, a temporary architectural structure that explores how Hong Kong’s unique building traditions and craftsmanship can be combined with contemporary design techniques in the creati
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Architects: Chartier-Corbasson Architects Location: Amiens, France Year: 2012 Area: 1,800 sqm Photographs: R.Meffre & Y.Marchand… The Bouctot-Vagniez Town Hall in Amiens is a remarkable building, an architectural testament to the glories of
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This contemporary home is a 2003 project by Barclay & Crousse Architecture. The designers specifically chose an earth-toned color scheme to match the dusty ecosystem of its location in La Escondida Beach, Cañete, Peru so that the building will not appe
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Several large-scale, eco-friendly projects at the intersection of landscape, architecture, and urbanism were honored at this year’s World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Singapore. Building of the Year was awarded to London-based Wilkinson Eyre’s Gardens by
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OMA has won the design competition for the new École Centrale Engineering school in Saclay, France, a suburb of Paris. The final design calls for an enormous block composed of smaller buildings creating an open plan grid. According to OMA, the concept behi
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Ja Studio and ARTA Design Build have completed the Offset House in Toronto, Canada . . . Design: Ja Studio + ARTA Design and Build Photography: Behnaz Assadi and ADVERTOURS .
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J. MAYER H. Architects have redesigned an office building from the 1950s in Hamburg, Germany. . Project description The project “Schlump ONE” is located directly at the underground station Schlump in Eimsbüttel district in Hamburg. The original
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Architects: Ja Studio + ARTA Design and Build Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Year: 2012 Area: 2,000 sqft Structural Design: Blackwell Bowick Partnership Ltd. Photographs: Courtesy of Behnaz Assadi and ADVERTOURS… The idea of the project is
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Located in Caminha, Portugal is the Design & Wine Hotel by Barbosa & Guimarães Arquitectos. Completed in 2012, the hotel is a remodel of a historic building catering to art and wine lovers alike. Design & Wine Hotel by Barbosa & Guimarães A
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Architects: Arrhov Frick Arkitektkontor Location: Äpplarö, Sweden Year: 2012 Area: 215 sqm Photographs: Åke E.Son Lindman… The proposal collects all required programme – main building, guest house and terraces into one single volume, with sea v
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Japanese studio UID Architects often place gardens inside buildings and this house in Fukuyama is no exception (+ slideshow). (more…)
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Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects, is the first solo exhibition dedicated to the work of Studio Gang…, which will be on view at the Art Institute of Chicago until February 24, 2013. The show immerses visitors in the energy
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Architects: Heinrich Böll Architect Location: Bochum, Germany Year: 2012 Structural Engineer: Lederhose, Wittler & Partner Mechanical Engineer: PSF Client: NRW Photographs: Thomas Mayer… This building was originally built as a pump house w
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Beijing Design Week: traditional Chinese motifs inspired these screens made of steel that’s normally used to reinforce buildings by design studio MICROmacro Lab. (more…)
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The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat held its 11th annual awards symposium Thursday, bestowing architect Helmut Jahn and structural engineers Charles Thornton and Richard Tomasetti with lifetime achievement recognition and awarding Doha Tower th
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Istanbul Design Biennial: Belgian design studio Unfold used open source components including a filter made of 3D printed ceramic to build this water boiler and purifier, which could be used in the developing world. (more&
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Long delayed, Herzog & de Meuron’s 830-foot-tall stacked tower planned for Tribeca in Manhattan is set to resume construction imminently after a three-year hiatus, reports the Tribeca Tribune. The 57-story residential building at the corne
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Only weeks after revealing their designs for 425 Park Ave., soon to be New York’s latest “Iconic” Building, Foster + Partners have now taken a stab at one of New York’s oldest iconic buildings: Grand Central Station. Yesterday, at the…
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Only weeks after revealing their designs for 425 Park Ave., soon to be New York’s latest “Iconic” Building, Foster + Partners have now taken a stab at one of New York’s oldest iconic buildings: Grand Central Station. Yesterday, at the…
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Arch11 have designed the Dihedral House for a young family in Boulder, Colorado. . Description from Arch11 This modern urban house is anchored on a downtown corner site. An all glass living room Site-cast, board-formed concrete walls moor the building to i
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Industrial design has become very popular recently, especially for old buildings that were turned into living spaces. All you need is to create an illusion of rough surfaces and materials that suggest industrial past. The most simple way to show some rough
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Architects: Ronald Lu and Partners Location: Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong Year: 2012 Area: 3,300 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of Ronald Lu and Partners… ZCB is the first zero carbon building in Hong Kong. Energy hierarchy with its priority on energy dem
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A small group of diverse students participating in the inaugural AA Visiting School Eugene were given the responsibility to design and build something that would enhance and reflect the forest, within a ten-day timeframe. More on the Camera Obscura…
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Architects: Barkow Leibinger Architects Location: Berlin, Germany Project Management: Klaus Reintjes Design And Building Staff: Hans-Georg Bauer, Andreas Lang, Christina Möller, Ruwen Rimpau, Tobias Wenz Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Christian Richters,
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Architects: Tonic Design Location: Greenville, North Carolina, United States Architect In Charge: Vinny Petrarca Photographs: Todd Lanning Builder: Tonic Construction… The “GREENville House”/Walters Residence is composed of two primary design c
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Scheidt Kasprusch Architekten… shared with us their first prize winning proposal in the competition for the new building of depot and workshops for the regional authorities for culture and preservation of historical monuments and state museum in Schw
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Architects: Paul Archer Design Location: London, England, United Kingdom Photographs: Helen Fickling , Will Pryce … Retaining just the front and side walls of the original building, a Victorian public house, Paul Archer Design has opened up thi
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New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman waded into the controversy embroiling Chicago’s old Prentice Women’s Hospital Wednesday and wound up soliciting a unique solution from Jeanne Gang that has already garnered praise from the coalition of p
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When we brought you this story back in June, the title read “World’s Tallest Skyscraper To Be Built….in 90 Days! ” … Well, as any architect knows, first estimates are never accurate. Broad Sustainable Building (BSB), the desig
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“Holistic Housing: Concepts, Design Strategies and Processes” is a fundamental reference work on housing construction. The book deals with the issue of sustainability in a planning context but also analyses a building’s usage and ageing o
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AN’s Facades + Innovation Conference wrapped up last Friday in Chicago, rounding out the event’s inaugural run from New York to San Francisco and ending at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Architects, engineers, builders, and designers at today’
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SAOTA – Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects and Three 14 Architects have designed the Glen 2961 House in Cape Town, South Africa. . Project description The clients who lived in an existing house on the property needed to rebuild the house in ord
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The deep-framed windows of this office building by French studio Chartier-Corbasson Architectes burst through mossy walls and piles of stone beside a 100-year old mansion in Amiens. (more…)
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To celebrate the start of a seven-month land use review process, Cornell has released preliminary renderings of the first academic building planned for Cornell Tech – the new world-class technology and entrepreneurship campus in New York City that wa
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To celebrate the start of a seven-month land use review process, Cornell has released preliminary renderings of the first academic building planned for Cornell Tech – the new world-class technology and entrepreneurship campus in New York City that wa
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Japanese modernist Fumihiko Maki… has been chosen to design a cultural and university complex on a 67-acre Kings Cross development in London. As reported by the Evening Standard, the 84-year-old, Pritzker Prize-winning architect will design two build
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Japanese studio UID Architects installed a mound of earth and a tree into the centre of this renovated 40-year-old townhouse in Hiroshima. (more…)
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A partnership of five Danish architectural firms – Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects, Christensen & Co Architects a/s, COBE, NORD Architects and Effekt… – won the competition to build the largest private development in Denmark, including D
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RIBA President Angela Brady has awarded Stanton Williams… the 2012 RIBA Stirling Prize for their Sainsbury Laboratory. The Stirling Prize – the UK’s most prestigious architecture award – is presented annually to the “building that has mad
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Found on Skeppsholmen, this amazing attic penthouse with 61 foot ridge height is located on the sixth floor of a 1882 building in Östermalm, a large district in central Stockholm, Sweden. The apartment boasts 1,646 square feet of living area along with two
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This 1,760 square foot, two bedroom, two and a half bath duplex unit is located on the sixth and seventh floors of a historic building circa 1866 in Tribeca, New York City, USA. 18 foot ceilings, a floating staircase, an impressive glass walkway and two ex
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The Groundbreaking Ceremony for ÖBB Corporate Headquarters recently took place to mark the start of construction for a new high-rise building in Vienna. Designed by Zechner & Zechner…, their proposal was selected as the winner of an EU-wide compe
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Studio Fuksas have completed the Tbilisi Public Service Hall in Tbilisi, Georgia. . Description from the designers The Tbilisi Public Service Hall is situated in the central area of the city and it overlooks the Kura river. The building is 28.000 mq. It is
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The newly constructed Astrup Fearnley Museet, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Narud-Stokke-Wiig…, has opened on a stunning waterfront site in the Tjuvholmen neighborhood of Oslo. The €90 million, 7000 square meter stru
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Paraguayan architecture studio Bauen… came up with an intriguing solution for building two modern single-family homes in Paraguay. By completely reinventing the space and creatively modifying the land, the dwellings were placed symmetrically around a
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It’s been (another) terrible year for Jeanne Gang! From being awarded the MacArthur Genius Grant to starring in the just opened solo exhibition, Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects, at the Art Institute, there appears to be no slowdown in Studio Gang m
AddAn easy to build structure brings advanced parametric design together with Kebony’s revolutionary EcoTimber For the next 48 hours the busy plaza located in London’s Greenwich Peninsula by the O2 Arena (where the Olympic gymnastics were held thi
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News: construction is set to recommence on 56 Leonard Street, a 250-metre-high residential tower in New York designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron and dubbed the “Jenga building”. (more…)
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The Korean architecture firm, AND (Architecture of Novel Differentiation), created this contemporary home for a couple in Gyeonggido, Korea in 2010. The home integrates with the ground in order to form a land-building hybrid. Villa Topoject by AND: “
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Slideshow feature: the winner of this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize will be revealed tomorrow at a ceremony in Manchester, but in the meantime here’s a reminder of the six buildings nominated, which include the L
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Henning Larsen Architects… just won the competition for a new research building for the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research in Stuttgart. The Center is one of Germany’s leading research institutions and conducts research on renewable energy
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20th-Century World Architecture… portrays, for the first time, an overview of the finest built architecture from around the world completed between 1900 and 1999. The unprecedented global scope of this collection of over 750 key buildings juxtaposes
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This student housing building in Paris by Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti was designed to resembled a stack of wooden baskets. (more…)
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Aiming for a Platinum LEED certification (rating system for high performance green buildings), this modern residence designed by Gervais Fortin (from Ecologia Montréal…) was developed using healthy, local and little polluting materials. Sustainabili
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Architects: Kariouk Associates Location: Chelsea, Québec, Canada Architectural Team: Paul Kariouk, Chris Davis, Susan Gardiner, Cedric Boulet Photographs: Courtesy of Photolux Studios General Contractor: Sabean Custom Building Structural Engineering:
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The news that Gardens by the Bay was named World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival leads this week’s issue of Dezeen Mail, which also contains all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen
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We’ve seen various architecture offices on Freshome, yet this one gets close to the top of the list. Located in the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, the Abaton Architecture Headquarters …building resembles the type of contemporary house that we usua
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This contemporary home by David Perri is a renovation of an 18th century building. The architect chose to keep many of the structure’s original details including its marble staircase and exposed wooden trusses. It is located in Messina, Sicily, Italy
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Architects: Cornelius + Vöge Location: Roskilde County, Denmark Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Adam Mørk Project Area: 600 sqm Client: Roskilde Municipality… The project is a conversion and extension of an existing building. The main approach
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SPG Architects… envisioned and implemented Beach Walk House, a modern family residence located in Fire Island, New York, USA. According to the architects, building this home came with many challenges regarding local codes in height, lot line, setback
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This six-sided building covered in mirrors is the new home for the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland in Ohio by London-based architect Farshid Moussavi (+ slideshow). (more…)
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Arcaid Images, in conjunction with The Architectural Review and World Architecture Festival, just announced the 2012 Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Award Winners in the categories of exterior, interior, sense of place, and buildings in use. Images
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This contemporary compound, consisting of a caretaker’s office, caretaker’s cottage, and guesthouse, was the recipient of multiple awards from 2009 to 2010. The project is an elegant solution to the original set of dilapidated structures on the
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Stockholm-based studio Tham & Videgård Arkitekter has designed a one story contemporary vacation house located in the Swedish archipelago. Archipelago House by Tham & Videgård Arkitekter: “A light-weight building in glass and wood, a summerho
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Architects: Charles Rose Architects Location: Vermillion, SD, USA Project Year: 2009 Photographs: John Linden… Our design for the business school grew out of a question: How might a single building energize and transform an entire campus? In ou
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While the idea of living in a house made of mushrooms might conjure up visions from the Smurfs or one of a handful of whimsical houses across the country, artist/inventor turned mycologist Phil Ross is using mushrooms as the buildings blocks for a new cons
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OFIS Architects have completed the Basket apartment building for student housing in Paris, France . Project description The project is located on a long and very narrow site, on the edge of Parc La Vilette in Paris’s 19th district, within an urban developm
AddPeter Hyatt…, of Hyatt and Associates, shared with us his recently completed 53-minute documentary on the 1 Bligh Office Tower. Designed by Ingenhoven Architects, the building is the first office tower in Sydney to get the highest score in
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Architects: CC-Studio Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Project Year: 2012 Photographs: John Lewis Marshall Design & Engineering: cc-studio Gerald Lindner, Peter Heideman, trainee TU/e: Danny van Kessel Builder & Engineering: eb Ontwerp Eri
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Artists Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus revamped the facade of a building in Delme, a village located in North-Eastern France. Entitled Gue(ho)st House, the new structure (part of a property belonging to the Centre d’art Contemporain-La Synagogue de
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Move over Burj Khalifa, a group in China has its eye set on building the next world’s tallest skyscraper, and they plan to do it in just 90 days. Called Sky City Changsha, the tower envisioned for central China’s Hunan province could rise nearl
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h2o Architects have designed the interior of an apartment in the ski resort town of Menuires, France . Description from the architects Our design team was invited to rethink a ski resort apartment in Menuires, France. Located at the far end of a building b
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Architects: BaksvanWengerden Architecten Location: Oegstgeest, The Netherlands Architects: Gijs Baks, Jacco van Wengerden Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Brandwijk & van Geel Project Area: 100.0 sqm Stuctural Engineer: Van Rossum Raadgevende Ingen
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New York’s Mayor Bloomberg… is pushing for an updated zoning code for Midtown Manhattan which will affect the blocks around Grand Central Terminal and the Chrysler Building, and north toward the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and Lever House. This new
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Architects: Gould Evans Architects Location: Tallahassee, FL, USA Architect In Charge: Gould Evans Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Adam Cohen Project Area: 67000.0 sq ft Construction Manager: Peter R. Brown Construction Structural Engineer: Walter P.
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OMA has won a competition to design a new campus for the École Centrale school of engineering in France by proposing a ‘superblock’ of separate buildings within a single gridded structure (+ slideshow). (more&
AddThe New York-based branding and creative agency dbox has won an Emmy for its CGI and Branding work on the Discovery Channel’s six part mini-series Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero…. From executive producer by Steven Spielberg, the series chronicles the
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Pavilion 2012 by pitsou kedem architects has been completed in Shoham, Israel. Pavilion 2012 by pitsou kedem architects: “A structure used by a real estate company as a sales office for residential project they are building. The project examines the
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World Architecture Festival 2012: architects Arcau won the civic and community category at the World Architecture Festival this week for a community building in the French town of Pornic that references traditional local
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News: following this week’s news that the UK government is restricting curved and glass walls on new school buildings, Aberrant Architecture‘s Kevin Haley and David Chambers are urging the Department of Education to look to the standardised sc
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Using state-of-the-art parametric design tools and digital fabrication, KREOD brings together some of the most talented designers, engineers and innovative materials to challenge current thinking and showcase sustainable and forward-thinking building metho
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John Wardle Architects have designed a shearers quarters on sheep farm on North Bruny Island in Tasmania, Australia. . Description from the architects This beguiling shearers quarters sits as a companion building to an existing historic cottage on a workin
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All Hale, a new film written by Anita Banerji, follows the story of college student Alice Walker who finds herself in a small town in Hale County, Alabama building a home for a family that is going through personal and…
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World Architecture Festival 2012: here’s a slideshow of images of the Fazenda Boa Vista Golf Clubhouse by Brazilian architect Isay Weinfield, which was named World’s Best Sport Building at the World Architectu
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In addition to yesterday’s announcement of the World Building of the Year Award, two further awards have also been awarded at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore: Kallang River Bishan Park, Singapore, designed by Atelier Dreiseitl, has won t
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Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay, Singapore, has won the World Building of the Year Award at the prestigious World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards 2012. The project, designed by Wilkinson Eyre, Grant Associates, Atelier One and Atelier Ten, w
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News: as a Chinese company announces plans to build the world’s tallest skyscraper in just seven months, Beijing Design Week creative director Aric Chen says that contemporary China should “slow down” and look to “craft thinking” t
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World Architecture Festival 2012: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Wilkinson Eyre Architects‘ Paul Baker in this interview filmed just moments after the firm’s Cooled Conservatories for the Gardens
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News: a Chinese company plans to build the world’s tallest skyscraper in just seven months using pre-fabricated components slotted together like a Meccano toy. (more…)
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World Architecture Festival 2012: the Cooled Conservatories designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects at the Gardens by the Bay tropical garden in Singapore have been awarded the World Building of the Year prize at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore
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Architects: Rosenbergs Arkitekter Location: Stockholm, Sweden Architect In Charge: Alessandro Ripellino Project Team: Ylva Åborg, Erik Sandberg, Kalle Dinell Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 4,400 sqm Photographs: Axel Kårfors, Tord-Rikard Söderström…
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Architects: JVA Location: Vestfold, Norway Design Team: Einar Jarmund, Håkon Vigsnæs, Alessandra Kosberg, Jan Stavik, Nikolaj Zamecznik Project Year: 2009 Project Area: 300 sqm Photographs: Nils Petter Dale… The house replaces an older building
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Taking the place of the existing building complex that was built in the 70th century for the Soviet Military Headquarters of the Caucasus region, the TBC Bank Headquarters strives towards being an oasis, representing both a nourishing source but also…
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Last we updated you on the David Wright House, the Arizona home Frank Lloyd Wright designed for his son, things were looking up – the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy (FLWBC) had gotten the unanimous decision of the Phoenix Historic Preservati
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In the greenest region of Galicia, Spain, in a small village, lost somewhere in Costa Da Morte, lies an enchanting traditional hotel, called Lugar do Cotariño…. The historical building has been restored by the two owners, Alberto Cuervo and Julia Flo
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Since it launched 23 years ago (to the day, oddly enough), SimCity has been inspiring would-be urban planners to design, build (and, if the mood so calls for it, blow up) the cities of their dreams. The lasest edition of the game,…
AddThis weekend’s Open House New York tours and special building openings will end with a special film screening at Tribeca Cinema. The screening will feature a new Checkerboard Foundation Production of Diller, Scofidio + Renfro that highlights the loca
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News: Foster + Partners has won a competition to design a 200-metre skyscraper for collapsed real estate company Lehman Brothers Holdings and partner L&L Holding Company on Park Avenue in New York. (more…)
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Foster + Partners… is about to break the mold of New York’s static Park Avenue skyline, as they have been announced as winner of the highly publicized competition to replace the aging tower of 425 Park Avenue with a new
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News: there will be no curved or glass walls on any new school buildings constructed in the UK, thanks to a set of government guidelines released this week. (more…)
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[ October 11, 2012; 12:30 to 13:30. ] Taking place at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. on October 11, the Smart Growth: Tactical Urbanism Event features Mike Lydon…, the primary author of Tactical Urbanism Volumes 1 and 2. He will dis
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Tham & Videgård Arkitekter designed a house located in the Swedish archipelago. . Description from the architects A light-weight building in glass and wood, a summerhouse in the Stockholm archipelago. The layout of the plan is generated by the specific
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If you walk down Fifth Avenue and 14th Street toward Union Square and notice a building under construction with crooked columns, don’t worry—it is not about to collapse. According to NBC New York, the SOM-designed New School University Center, previously d
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If you recall, not too long ago we featured a post on Freshome with Google’s new London headquarters which occupies the Central St. Giles Building in the city’s Covent Garden area. Today we would like to present one particular building floor- the YouTube O
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This harbourside art museum by architect Renzo Piano straddles two peninsulas on the edge of Oslo (+ slideshow). (more…)
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Displaying a highly contemporary architecture, House V by I + GC [arquitectura]… was especially developed to answer the needs of day to day family life. The brief of the project was to build a residence around a central patio, while maintaining a fee
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Claudinarelat Arquitectura designed this hairdresser around 3 concepts: peaceful space, connection with the nature and re-us the old furniture giving it a new life. The aim of the project is to repair the defects of the passage of time on a 70’s building.
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Scenario Interiørarkitekter have completed the interior design of the Rica Hotel Narvik in Norway. . Description from the designers Rica Hotel Narvik, Northern Norway’s highest building. The architectural form that towers over 18 floors gives this ho
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This weekend, October 6 and 7, Open House New York (OHNY) is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its popular weekend of tours, lectures, and open houses of many of the New York City’s most important buildings and spaces. In its ten years OHNY has ho
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Architects: Tonic Design Location: North Carolina, United States Builder: Tonic Construction Photographs: Jim West… The pavilion is an outdoor classroom and component of the North Carolina Museum of Art’s Sculpture Park. The structure is wrappe
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Architects: Pitagoras Arquitectos Location: Guimarães, Portugal Design Team: Fernando Sá, Raul Roque, Alexandre Lima, Manuel Roque Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Jose Campos… The buildings that make up the Municipal Market and the space define
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Architects: STGM Architectes Location: Québec City, Québec, Canada Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Stéphane Groleau Client: Laval University… Laval University’s science building, the Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon, was inaugurated in 1962. After fi
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The Junk King – Vince Hannemann - has spent much of his life constructing the Cathedral of Junk in Austin, TX. In 2010, the City of Austin requested a building permit and Vince was forced to tear down nearly half of his…
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Designed by Tokamarch Architects…, the XishuangbanNa Residence deals mainly with the relationship between the modern building and local natural environment. The traditional “Dai” village keeps a great balance with the natural environment
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The RA-50 proposal for the HOME Competition, designed by in situ studio and David Hill, AIA…, focuses on building density through alleyway living. By assessing each existing residential parcel in the city of Raleigh, it was apparent that most
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Found on Skeppsholmen, this 3.465 square foot, triplex penthouse is situated atop a classic building constructed in 1914 in in Östermalm, a large district in central Stockholm, Sweden. This amazing apartment is currently listed at around $5.34 million. Buy
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The Building and Social Housing Foundation is now accepting entries for the 2013 edition of the World Habitat Awards…! The World Habitat Awards were established in 1985 by the Building and Social Housing Foundation as part of its contribution
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Camenzind Evolution have completed a new apartment building in Zurich, Switzerland. . Project description The architecture practice Camenzind Evolution, in close collaboration with the client Swiss Life, have created 46 individual 2.5-4.5 room maisonettes
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[ October 10, 2012 0:00 to October 12, 2012 0:00. ] Taking place October 10-12 at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, the “Beyond Green! – Tall Buildings in a Sustainable Future” symposium focuses on how tall buildings be designed, buil
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In the past decade Asia’s building sector has slowly come around to the idea of the Green building. The movement has picked up pace since 2005 with the introduction of, at last count, 13 national Green building assessment tools. Despite…
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You know low-rise skinny jeans are over when someone builds a monument to them. Oh wait, that’s the RMJM’s Gate of the East! Located in Suzhou, a city west of Shanghai, the building is six times taller than the Arch de Triomphe and intended to commemorate
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Grace Farms Foundation, a not-for‐profit charitable organization in New Canaan, Connecticut, has submitted a proposal to the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission for a SANAA…-designed, meandering structure dubbed the “River”. The project prioritizes
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This factory-like building by architects Haworth Tompkins is the new home for print-making and photography at the Royal College of Art in London. (more…)
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Architects: Studio Manfroni & Associati Location: La Spezia, Italy Architect In Charge: Mario Manfroni, Patrizia Burlando, Danilo Sergiampietri, Daniela Cappelletti Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Roberto Buratta Project Area: 6,750 sqm Structural
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Reincarnated into everything from libraries to bars, it is interesting to witness the growing trend of transforming old cultural sites. With the buildings themselves holding such strong symbolism and history, fusing these ideas together with modern design,
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Tokyo-based SANAA has unveiled its next U.S. project, a meandering structure called The River for the Grace Farms Foundation, a faith, arts, and social justice non-profit in New Canaan, CT. Situated on one acre of the 75-acre Grace Farms, the building is d
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Tokyo-based SANAA has unveiled its next U.S. project, a meandering structure called The River for the Grace Farms Foundation, a faith, arts, and social justice non-profit in New Canaan, CT. Situated on one acre of the 75-acre Grace Farms, the building is d
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Pritzker winner Peter Zumthor will be awarded the 2013 Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal, according to Building Design. Known for his meticulously-wrought projects like the thermal baths in Vals, Switzerland, the Brother Klaus Field Chapel i
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The results of the 9th Annual Emirates Glass LEAF Awards have been announced, honoring the architects designing the buildings and solutions that are setting the benchmark for the international architectural community. The winners were selected from an impr
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Vancouver-based studio Omer Arbel has remodeled a heritage building in Gastown, a national historic site in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 46 Water Street Heritage Building by Omer Arbel: “The project consisted of a seismic upgrade and restorat
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[ September 30, 2012 0:00 to March 3, 2013 0:00. ] Taking place September 30-March 3 at the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck in Remagen, Germany, the ‘Richard Meier. Building as Art‘ exhibition illustrates Richard Meier…’s complex design pro
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Stray balls aren’t a problem on the rooftop tennis court of this sports centre in western Poland by PL.architekci, thanks to the cage that covers the building (+ slideshow). (more…)
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Architects: Hastings Architecture Associates Location: Nashville, TN, United States Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Jim Roof Creative Program Summary:… The restoration and addition to the NABRICO building serves as the beacon for revitalization
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Proving that light-flooded residential spaces can be cozy, this spacious Scandinavian apartment constructs a dreamy scenario for a fulfilled lifestyle. Overlooking Gothenburg from the top level of a seven-story 1907 building, the 90 square meter apartment
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Architects: Estudio Primitivo Gonzalez Location: Burgos, Spain Project Year: 2011 Photographs: FG+SG - Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra… A building is many things. But there is something which distinguishes some buildings from others. These are t
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DawnTown, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting architecture in Miami, is announcing an open call for portfolios for their Design Build competition. Now in its fifth year, Dawntown seeks the talents of a designer or design team to create a…
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For today’s AD Round Up we have five great refurbishment projects. The main image belongs to TANK’s La Minoterie, a rehabilitation of an old flour-mill and an industrial building in lofts along the canal of Roubaix. Check out, Loft L designed by̷
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Architects: Charles Rose Architects Inc. Location: Waltham, MA, USA Project Year: 2009 Project Area: 24,000 sq ft Photographs: John Linden, Peter Vanderwarker… Sited near the campus entrance, the admissions center is one of the first buildings
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In November 2010, we announced that Kengo Kuma & Associates… was selected over a competitive A-list of international architects to design Scotland’s landmark building, the V&A at Dundee. Well now, the £45 million, waterfront project is moving
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To commemorate Chile’s Bicentennial, President Sebastián Piñera Echenique has developed the “Legado Bicentenario” (Bicentennial Legacy) program to create, revitalize and consolidate public spaces/buildings of great urban/cultural importan
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Architects: Estudio Primitivo Gonzalez Location: Burgos, Spain Project Year: 2012 Photographs: FG+SG - Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra… This building, completed at the end of the 19th century in a neo-classical style, is still in use today, as t
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The proposal for the New Harbor Service building by IaN…+ aims to define a simple and severe architecture. The project’s construction scheme reflects eastern philosophy; its clean aesthetic and unadorned simplicity, where structure turns into a decor
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Once a historic building located in Rome, Italy, this contemporary hotel was created to suit modern tastes by Studio Marco Piva. Each suite has been designed to provide guests with every possible comfort while maintaining the integrity of the original cons
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Designed by Cannon Design…, the expansion of the University of California Riverside (UCR) Recreation Center will provide additional fitness and activity spaces integrating with the existing building and site creating a unified recreation complex. Loc
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The buildings of Lyon are pulled apart in these impossible photographs by Norwegian artist Espen Dietrichson. (more…)
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Architects: White Arkitekter + Sprunt Location: Southend Pier, United Kingdom Photographs: Luke Hayes Structural Engineers: Price & Myers Building Contractor: Kier Construction Client: Southend-on-Sea Borough Council … Southend Pier Cultur
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Architects: Superform Location: Ljubno, Mozirje, Slovenia Architects: Marjan Poboljsaj, Anton Zizek Project Year: 2009 Project Area: 420 sqm Photographs: Miran Kambic… The investor reconstructed two existing buildings. The houses are situated o
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Portuguese architect Nuno Silva has designed the Torreira House. Completed in 2011, this 3,014 square foot contemporary home is located in Torreira, Portugal. Torreira House by Nuno Silva: “site characterisation The building sit is characterized by i
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The American Institute of Architects… (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) has announced four recipients of the AIA National Healthcare Design Awards program. The awards program highlights the “best of healthcare building design and healthc
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Yesterday, we announced that Los Angeles based Neil M. Denari Architects (NMDA), in collaboration with Taiwanese architectural firm Fei and Cheng Associates…, have been selected as winner of a highly publicized, international competition for the new
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Architects: Workshop8 Location: El Paso, Texas, USA Project Year: 2012 Project Area: 55,357 sq ft Photographs: Jesse Ramerez… This infill development is surrounded by industrial and civic uses; therefore, our master plan placed the buildings on
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A converted nineteenth century farm building once used for drying hops has been nominated for the RIBA Manser Medal for the best new house in the UK, following a renovation and extension by architects Duggan Morris (+slid
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FRES Architects have completed a social housing building in Béthune, France. . Description from the architects The project is surrounded by heterogeneous elements dating back from the 70′s, and outside of road network. The joining piece for all these
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Wandering on the Western shores of Sweden, we end up in Gothenburg where there’s this perfect cozy spot that defines the destinctive Scandinavian style. An 85 square metres penthouse apartment located at the top floor of an old building represents t
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A converted nineteenth century farm building once used for drying hops has been nominated for the RIBA Manser Medal for the best new house in the UK, following a renovation and extension by architects Duggan Morris (+slid
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Architects: Rainer Köberl Location: Innsbruck, Austria Architect In Charge: Rainer Köberl Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Lucas Shaller… Black and white squares cover the building in a regular pattern. It suggests a chessboard, but also has som
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Neil M. Denari Architects… has been announced as winner of a two-stage, international competition for the new Keelung Harbor Service Building in Taiwan’s major port city, Keelung. The Los Angeles based practice’s complex, metal-clad terminal was sele
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Architectural firm JSa Architecture has completed the Veracruz 60 project in 2009. This five unit residential building is located in Colonia Condesa, an administrative division of the historic center of Mexico City, Mexico. Each apartment is around 2,160 s
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Architects: Mierta & Kurt Lazzarini Architekten Location: Samedan, Switzerland Project Year: 2012 Project Area: 1,540 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of Mierta & Kurt Lazzarini Architekten… The new Gewerbehaus Islas was desinged as a modern a
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News: “There may be architects that can design better than me but the important thing is making it happen,” architect John Pawson told Dezeen today, at the ground breaking for the new London Design Museum that he’s designed. (more…
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For those readers who asked to see more interiors from Zaha Hadid’s Pierres Vives government building in Montpellier, here’s a reading room lined with glowing bookcases by architect Stephane Hof (+ slideshow).
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Architects: T2.a Architects Location: Budapest, Hungary Architects: Gábor Turányi, Bence Turányi Project Team: Éva Pinczés, Levente Skultéti, László Nyitray Project Year: 2008 Photographs: Zsolt Batár Project Area: 6,638 sqm Building Constructions: La
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Typology, volume 2 of the new series Christ & Gantenbein Review, presents more than 150 buildings located in Rome, New York, Hong Kong and Buenos Aires that have been analyzed by the chair of Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein at…
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Last night, ArchDaily indulged in building our very own LEGO® Architecture Villa Savoye. As one of the most influential buildings in the International style of architecture, it is no surprise that architecture and LEGO fanatics rejoiced last month when LEG
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Kim HyunJoo has designed the Grid sofa and matching stool for the lobby of the SK Group building at the 2012 Yeosu Expo in Korea. . Description from the designer ‘Grid’ sofa shows modern style with the grid line instead of classic style with embossed
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Architects: Léon Wohlhage Wernik Architekten Location: Munich, Germany Project Year: 2009 Project Area: 12,250 sqm Photographs: Christian Richters… Living by the Mittlere Ring, Munich. The residential buildings directly adjoin with the heavily
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When you don’t have money to build a big house, the conversion of your garage into a small residence may be a solution. But, in this case, we don’t speak about lack of money…the garage designed Brunete Fraccaroli represents love for Maser
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Swedish studio Love Arbén Arkitektkontor has designed the interior of this 1,151 square foot apartment located on the sixth floor of a 1936 building on Kungsholmen, an island in Lake Mälaren part of Stockholm City, Sweden. Currently on the market, the apar
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Austrian design duo Mischer’Traxler talk to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about how their basket-building machine will only work when someone’s watching in this movie we filmed at Clerkenwell Design Week
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Located on the top floor of the former Gretsch Musical Instruments building, this 3,198 square foot three bedroom three bath loft-like penthouse describes itself as “the best apartment in Williamsburg”, a neighborhood in the New York City borou
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Found on ESNY, this nice 904 square foot, two bedroom, one and a half bath pad is located on the top floor of a 1882 building in Östermalm, a large district in central Stockholm, Sweden. Offered at around $1.66 million. Buy it now! Photos courtesy of ESNYC
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Irish studio Grafton Architects have acknowledged the influence of celebrated Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha on their work by constructing limestone models of his buildings and theirs at the Venice Architect
AddTwo new projects prove that concrete’s rigidity is no longer set in stone From Peter Eisenman’s Berlin Holocaust Memorial to Paul Rudolph’s Art and Architecture building, concrete has been used with finesse in minimalist and brutalist structures and,
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Architects: JUUL FROST Architects Location: Malmö, Sweden Project Year: 2012 Project Area: 9,600 sqm Photographs: Felix Gerlach… Media Evolution City officially opened in June and today more than 450 media people work in the building. The build
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Abu Dhabi’s dizzying building boom slowed down somewhat after the 2008 financial collapse dried up the liquidity that inspires big projects. The damage appears not to have been permanent, however, as the UAE capital will forge ahead with a 24-story specula
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Grab your 3D glasses, the artists at Visionaire, an art and fashion publisher, have added dramatic new depth to architectural photography. The work of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who brought Modern design to Sao Paolo, Brasilia, and Rio de Janeiro,
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Renzo Piano, the Pritzker-Prize Laureate born in Genoa, Italy, turns 75 today. While Piano was originally expected to follow the family tradition of building, Renzo rebelled to study architecture in Milan. Even so, to this day, Piano maintains a healthy
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Next month Lehman College CUNY will dedicate its $70 million Science Hall designed by Perkins+Will. The new Bronx facility will abut Gillet Hall, one of the campus’ depression-era gothic buildings, while sparring with Raphael Viñoly’s massive metallic wave
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Studio Gang Architects… and Kalamazoo College have announced plans to break ground October 9, at 4PM, on a new campus building to house the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership in southwest Michigan. The 10,000 square foot, wood masonry center
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Being used to imposing, concrete buildings often defying their landscape in order to transform its energy, this ‘Hydroelectric power plant Punibach’ came as a pleasant surprise. Envisioned and implemented by Italian practice Monovolume Architec
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News: Grimshaw architects’ steel and glass cocoon containing the historic Cutty Sark tea clipper has been named the ugliest new building in the UK, with a juror describing it as “the final death of High-Tech as a design language worthy of resp
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Architects: Torafu Architects Location: Shibuya, Japan Project Area: 2,200 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of Torafu Architects… This is an office for a Shibuya based company that is moving onto the IT business, located in the HikarieBuilding. It c
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Architects: De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Location: Louisville, Kentucky, United States Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 524 sq ft Photographs: Courtesy of De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop Design Intentions… As a joint
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Architects: Project A01 Architects Location: Klosterneugurg, Austria Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Philip Kreidl Project Area: 211.7 sqm Design + Interior Design: project A01 architects, ZT GmbH Arch. Andreas Schmitzer… The idea to build a re
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Architects: Luigi Rosselli Architects Location: Bronte, NSW, Australia Design Team: Luigi Rosselli Project Architect: Corrado Palleschi Interior Design: Alexandra Donohoe Photographs: Justin Alexander Builder: Sydcon Building Sevices Structural Consul
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In the first of three movies filmed at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Reinier de Graf of OMA talks about Pimlico School, a brutalist building in London that was demolished last year and which features in OMA’s Pu
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NBBJ’s… design for the Amazon’s new headquarters in downtown Seattle, Washington, promises to consolidate the companies currently scattered buildings into a 3-block development that includes high-rise towers, a variety of open spaces, and
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Our friends from CEBRA… shared the latest on their newest education building. After being awarded first prize for their proposal, CEBRA has created a school organized by three bands that respond to functional needs of the building. These bands are
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Ever wondered where the staff of the world’s larger poker site works? PokerStars recently acquired an additional floor to their existing London office building and commissioned the creative team at Area Sq… to reinvent the space. Amanda Godwin
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Wentworth Rd House by Edward Szewczyk Architects is located in Vaucluse, Sydney, Australia and was completed in 2012. Wentworth Rd House by Edward Szewczyk Architects: “This building takes full advantage of being on the sunny side of the street. Wher
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We spotted the Miura Hotel on designeast.eu and decided to show you some photos because it has a very interesting concept design. It was realized by Labor 13, a Czech architectural firm. The building is located on a flat plain among the hills of Beskydy M
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Located in Chengdu’s prosperous and rapidly expanding business district, the innovative office building design for Pinncale One by Make Architects… will be an impressive addition to the growing urban landscape, known as the financial hub of Western C
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Architects: de Blacam and Meaguer architects Location: Atzaró, Ibiza, Spain Design Team: John Meagher, Juan Echeverría Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Courtesy of de Blacam and Meaguer architects Project Area: 480.0 sqm Builder: Construcciones Collado
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Dezeen archive: we’ve published a few buildings and interiors made of bamboo recently so we thought it was time to round up all our stories that feature the famously fast-growing material. See all the stories » See all our archive stories
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The lighting for the Central Bus Terminal in Munich by pfarré lighting design… aims at giving the appearance of a building floating on a cushion of cold white light. As a result, warm light is used in the upper floors
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Architects: Hill Thalis Architecture Location: Sydney, Australia Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Brett Boardman Project Area: 1225.0 sqm Engineers: Bekker Engineering Design Buro… The existing building was constructed in 1921 as the Majestic T
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Ever wonder how you could have the ability to replicate the historic ‘Italianate’ buildings without having to be artistically skilled? Well, all you need is a set of Paper Neighborhood Stamps. Twenty-one pieces make up the collection of wood an
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Inspired by a reaction to the tsunami, the proposal for the Istanbul Disaster Prevention and Education Center is symbolically and practically rising above the streams. Designed by CRAB…, the studio of Sir Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham, the building
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On September 15th and 16th modular home builder Blu Homes is hosting its own home tour in Joshua Tree in the Mojave Desert. The three-bedroom house on view was factory built, transported by truck and recently unfolded on site (see video after the jump). Of
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The student led humanitarian initiative ‘Build Our Nation…’ has begun a two-week workshop as part of the Biennale Sessions 13th International Architecture Exhibition. Through workshops and events students are collaborating to explore and experiment w
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With an undeniably beautiful architecture, this family home on Portugal’s sunshine coast displays an intriguing combination of building materials shaping an elegant, almost unreal design. Created out of a collection of bold touches, Quinta Villa expresses
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Grove Architects have designed the Woollahra House 11 in Sydney, Australia. . Description from the architects The opportunity to build a completely new house in the heart of a heritage conservation precinct on Sydney’s urban fringe, is a rare privilege. Th
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The challenging environment of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia was an important factor that came into play during the design of this contemporary home by KG Studio + Asociados. A “second skin” of wooden slats protects the building from high wi
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Architects: Jun’ichi Ito Architect & Associates Location: Minatu-Ku Tokyo, Japan Architect In Charge: Jun’ichi Ito, Naoko Ito Project Year: 2008 Photographs: Naoomi Kurozumi Project Area: 1805.56 sqm Collaborate Architect: Kaoru Yuzawa Structure D
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Architects: Brewster Hjorth Architects Location: Wagga, Australia Project Year: 2010 Project Area: 3,500 sqm Photographs: Christian Mushenko… The CSU School of Dentistry building at Wagga-Wagga provides specialist dental teaching facilities for
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Eduardo Souto de Moura’s structure overlooks the old buildings in front of the Arsenale from the waterfront, on the path leading to Alvaro Siza’s structure that we featured yesterday. This structure is an exploration of material, building syste
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BOLLES + WILSON… recently received an ‘International Architecture Award 2012‘ for their design of a new headquarter for a concrete plant in Erwitte, Germany. The building, which is highlighted by an optimal concrete beam, is a combination of the exis
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Despite unique climate challenges in the city of Keelung, Taiwan, the design for the Joint Office Building and Passenger & Cargo Terminal by de Architekten Cie.… is an example of how one can naturally ventilate the building during the winter
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The Nka Foundation has announced a new competition, open to all students and graduates of design, architecture, art, engineering and schools interested in rural community projects in Africa, that is a design-build challenge at the Abetenim Arts Village nea
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In a unanimous vote today, the New York City Planning Commission approved Jamsestown Properties’ plans for expansion at Chelsea Market with few modifications. The building was rezoned to be included in the Special West Chelsea District, thereby allow
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Currently under construction on the edge of the city of Istanbul, the Alemdag Housing, designed by Baraka Architects…, is made up of four building blocks which contain 70 flats, 2 retail units and social facilities. The 6.000 m² plot
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With professional cycling rapidly developing in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico in the last decade, there is an interest in building Culiacan’s new velodrome, as well as incorporating policies that favor cycling as a mode of transportation into the city
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Architects: Metcalfe Architecture & Design Location: Cornwall, CT, USA Design Team: Alan Metcalfe, Jason Manning, Matthew Pickering Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Barry Halkin Project Area: 1,932 sqm Contractor: Prause Building Construction Lands
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Bright lights, prime numbers and a map of the universe are installed amongst the abandoned oil tanks of a former shipbuilding workshop in what’s now the Chinese Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012. (more…)
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This combined house and gallery in Singapore by architecture studio Lekker Design comprises a single rectilinear building with another twisted inside it. (more…)
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Integrated in a natural forest retreat in Watermill, NY , the Watermill Houses project consists of several buildings: the main house, guest house, pool house, bunk house, and garage. The most intriguing is the glass residence (main building), which stands
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This medium-sized Taipei apartment located on the 6th floor of a 15 story-high building was transformed from a four bedroom apartment into a modern bachelor pad. By removing two brick walls separating the kitchen, living space and office, designer Dillon C
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Yves is a luxurious development of seven apartments situated on the corner of Manning Road and Pine Hill Avenue in the heart of Sydney’s stylish Double Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Completed in January 2012, the building, designed by Jaa Studio,
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Marking the entrance to Stockholm’s inner city center, the Stockholm City Station. Designed by 3XN Architects…, integrates the station, a hotel, conference center, and apartments. The main idea behind the design was to create a building that ge
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SUPERFABER Industry is a trade company incorporated in the year 2001, having as main activity object the building of stairs and balustrades. We receive this description from Bogdan Samoila, architect at SUPERFABER industry’s: ” SUPERFABER conc
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Spearheading the development of the new district in Egedal, Demark, the town hall and health center will be the uniting center of the new Municipality of the city as one of the first buildings in the new planned urban area…
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When people think architecture school they think of training that teaches them how to make things: build spaces or develop sites for, primarily, human use. Over the years, this concept has expanded to encompass social activism. In the States, for…
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Architects: RNL Location: Denver, CO, USA Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Frank Ooms Project Area: 51,000 sq ft Contractor: Kiewit Building Group Mechanical Engineer: MKK Consulting Engineers Structural Engineer: Jirsa Hedrick & Associates Client:
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Found in the urban Linnéstaden district of Gothenburg, this apartment is located in a turn of the century building overlooking the Oscar Fredrik church. Its whitewashed interior walls beautifully contribute to creating a bright and cheery atmosphere in all
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We enjoy observing complex renovation projects which preserve important visual features of the existing building. This particular Victorian home located in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia features quite a few exquisite details, most of them reminiscent of
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National Building Museum and Metropolis Magazine contributor Andrew Caruso takes you “inside the design mind” of architect Steven Holl. This year, the American Institute of Architects conferred its highest honor – the AIA Gold Medal – upon Steven HollR
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The basic idea of the Adana City Hall and Cultural Center building by MTF Proje… was based on the surrounding of the building, which is mostly captured with green areas. Half of the building is designed just under the green
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[ August 29, 2012 to November 25, 2012. ] The village of Kigutu in Burundi, Africa is on its way to rebuilding a rural, off-the-grid medical site designed by Louise Braverman, Architect… in collaboration with Village Health Works. The 40-acre master
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Architects: David Perri Location: Porto Salvo 5, Messina, Sicily, Italy Project Area: 180 sqm Photographs: Peppe D’Urso… This renovation of a building from the 18th century is one of the few examples of architecture survived at the 1908’s eart
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LEGO® has just announced the newest classic building to join the collection of renowned architectural replicas in their Architecture series, the Villa Savoye, designed by Le Corbusier. Capturing the essence of the modernist villa, the small scale replica a
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The National Building Museum has named Paul Goldberger as the fourteenth laureate of the Vincent Scully Prize… for “his lifetime work of encouraging thoughtful discourse and debate about the importance of design”. The Pulitzer Prize-winning architect
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Commencing. A Brief History of Balconies entails the examination of subjectivities above ground, on little bits of buildings in air, looking down, at pennies on the sidewalk, oddly visible from the 34th floor, which appears to be the same level…
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Architects: Artau Architecture Location: Ottignies, Belgium Project Year: 2006 Project Area: 395 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of Artau Architecture… The building accommodates epileptics with poor mobility. It is located within a pinewood at the ed
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Hill residences are sometimes some of the most challenging projects architects deal with in their career. The one we present you today is located in Beverly Hills, surrounded by oak trees and it was realized by Heusch Architecture Studio. The building look
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Home builder Luis Bosch has sent us images of a house he recently built in Miami Beach, Florida. . . Construction: Luis Bosch .
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The design for the new Dalian Planning Museum by 10 Design… in Dalian, China is envisioned to become a new civic sculpture at the heart of the city’s main governmental district. The building is part of the first steps made
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Competition: architecture critic Rowan Moore‘s new book Why We Build is released today, and we are publishing an extract as well as giving readers the chance to win one of five copies. (more…)
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Dezeen Wire: “we’re advocating other UK architects to design on water,” architect Alex de Rijke told Dezeen at the Venice Architecture Biennale this week, where his firm dRMM are exhibiting proposals for floating housing at the British P
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Dezeen Wire: “we’re advocating other UK architects to design on water,” architect Alex de Rijke told Dezeen at the Venice Architecture Biennale this week, where his firm dRMM are exhibiting proposals for floating housing at the British P
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Dezeen Wire: “we’re advocating other UK architects to design on water,” architect Alex de Rijke told Dezeen at the Venice Architecture Biennale this week, where his firm dRMM are exhibiting proposals for floating housing at the British P
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Designed as an iconic building in Ahmedabad, the hotel proposal by Studio Symbiosis… focuses on interweaving the concepts of waves in nature. Using fold lines as movement trajectories and perception along with programmatic requirements, the project&#
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Architects: Schneider & Lengauer Location: Kirschlag, Austria Project Year: 2008 Photographs: Paul Ott… The newly constructed building of the Parish Centre Kirchschlag tries to cater to the needs of a jointly controlled parish without a loc
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Two congressmen really seem to have it in for the planned new U.S. courthouse and federal building in downtown Los Angeles, for which several prominent LA firms have been shortlisted. According to the LA Times, California Representative Jeff Denham earlier
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Last week Philadelphia’s new zoning code went into effect, but projects nurtured under the old code may still be rising. Just yesterday, architect Peter Gluck presented a tower proposal to the Old City Civic Association for a 16-story building adjacent to
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Architects: Studio B Architects Location: Paso Robles, California, USA Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Derek Skalko Contractor: US Building + Development Structural Engineer: Taylor + Syfan Consulting Engineers, INC… Nestled within the fertile
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Spanish architect, Ricardo Bofill, designed the W Hotel in Barcelona. Completed in 2009, this 24 story, sail-shaped building, has become a landmark on the shoreline, providing exceptional Mediterranean views. W Barcelona: “An avant-garde icon of stun
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We found this great short video by London-based illustrator, artist and animator Patrick Vale…. The Manhattan perspective is taken from the Empire State Building looking south toward the new development of the Freedom Tower. The Flat Iron building
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Architects: Duch-Pizá Arquitectos Location: Palma, Spain Main Collaborator: Claudio Hernández Technical Architect: Oscar Menendez Collaborators: G. Riveron, P. Skytta Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Courtesy of Duch-Pizá Arquitectos Construction: Ar
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Architects: Lekker Design Location: Singapore Design Team: Ong Ker-Shing, Joshua Comaroff, Germain Goh, Sio Lim, Peter Then Project Year: 2012 Project Area: 3,500 sqm Photographs: Darren Soh… This is a small building, with two programs–a
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An impressive four-story atrium and an indoor-outdoor living green wall defines the new office building for Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte (B/S/H/) in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands. Envisioned by William McDonough + Partners, together with D/DOCK…, the office
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OMA present an archive of buildings designed by European local authority architects in the 1960s and 70s at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012, which opens to the public this week. (more…)
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Dealing with existing infrastructure has become the most important task facing German architects today. The greatest, most problematic challenge that lies ahead is the downsizing and conversion of postwar buildings, erected from 1950s to the 1970s, which a
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PES-Architects have designed the Wuxi Grand Theatre in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China. . Description from the architects The Wuxi Grand Theatre is located on a man-made peninsula of Wu-Li Lake, south of Wuxi centre city and is the most important new cultural buildin
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Architects: CCS Architecture Location: California, USA Project Area: 280 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of CCS Architecture… The project consists of four new studios for The Djerassi Resident Artists Program, a place where visiting artists from arou
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The Campus 54 office building, designed by Pelletier de Fontenay…, aims to create a setting where spaces for leisure, stimulation, relaxation, health, nature and ad hoc encounters would seamlessly blend into the work spaces. At the heart of this
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Architects: Schneider & Lengauer Location: Linz, Austria Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Kurt Hoerbst Project Area: 1,480 sqm Building Site Area: 5,269 sqm Gross Floor Area: 3,472 sqm Volume: 12,994 sqm Client: Immobilien Linz GmbH & Co KEG
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Designed by MUS Architects…, their proposal for the Tokyo Fashion Museum was recently named the winner of the World Architecture Awards 20+10+X. The whole structure of the building, from the entry yard to the top of the tower has
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Italian architect Enrico Scaramellini squeezed this narrow holiday house into the passageway between two farm buildings in the Alpine countryside of northern Italy. (more…)
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Jane McDougall from alsoCAN architects… sent us photos and information about a project entitled 2 Townhouses. Designing a townhouse each for a builder and a plumber they work with, alsoCAN architects managed the clients’ brief to lift the townhouses
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Dezeen archive: this week one of our most popular stories was about a robot that builds architectural structures from sand (bottom left), so our latest archive is all about sand. See all all the stories » See all the archive stories »
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Together with the surrounding Design Museum and the Museum of Finnish Architecture, the Pavilion is the heart of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012. An open and easy to approach building designed by Aalto University Wood Studio students and specialists
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Linnéstaden is filled with spectacular apartments, some created with elegant details, other displaying exuberant design lines. Occupying 100 square meters in a building dating back to the 1900s, this cozy crib shelters beautiful residential spaces all thro
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The series of square waterfalls at the memorial in the footprints of the World Trade Centre buildings (above) is just one of many projects with square or cube-shaped features we published this time last year. (more…)
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Architects: Edward Szewczyk Architects Location: Vaucluse, Sydney, Australia Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Justin Alexander Structural Engineer: D’Ambrosio Consulting. On the sunny side of the street… This building takes full advantage of bei
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A 100 percent PET plastic garden grows in London If you were fortunate enough to visit the London Olympics this summer and happened to walk through Victoria Park or the main quad at University College London (UCL) on your way to the games, then you experie
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A decaying mosque, a staircase of scaffolding and the steel structure of London’s Olympic stadium feature in the twelve shortlisted images from a photography competition to capture architecture from around the world
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Architects: Areal Architecten Location: Affligem, Belgium Design Team: Chris Eeraerts, Thomas Cols, Barbara Morisse Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 496.0 sqm Photographs: Cafeine © Thomas De Bruyne… The task involves building a spacious family
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Josep Lluís Mateo is one of Spain’s-and Europe’s-most prolific and visible architects. Mateo has designed corporate headquarters, housing units, office blocks and hotels throughout Western Europe, and has also renovated urban centers in Gerona
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Barely two years after the groundbreaking ceremony, Hamburg-Harburg Technical University will be inaugurating its new main building tomorrow, on time for the scheduled completion date. Designed by the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp), a new b
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Architects: Smart Architecture Location: Susung-gu, Daegu, South Korea Architect In Charge: Gun-cheol, Sung-hoon Project Year: 2012 Project Area: 400 sqm Photographs: Jung-sik… Louver Haus is the multi-household building which was built for lea
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[ August 29, 2012 18:00 to November 25, 2012 18:00. ] Wood has always been Finland’s preferred building material, as both nature and the forest has long provided a livelihood and enduring source of inspiration for Finnish artists and architects. Now, with
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Located in a charming apartment building in Gothenburg’s Kungsladugård area, this 51 square meter two floor apartment apartment spreads over two levels. Wooden floors are highlighted by natural sunshine bouncing off white walls. Two windows facing di
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The square windows and mansard roof silhouette of this Bavarian townhouse by German architects SoHo Architektur are an echo of the building that formerly occupied the site (+ slideshow). (more…)
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The one-acre parcel for the Hinge House was located within a planned subdivision with a requisite builder and had already been cleared for a McMansion-style house. Instead of following in the footsteps of all the other houses on the block, the client engag
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Welcome to a charming attic home located in downtown Gothenburg, Sweden, cleverly divided into three rooms. Found on Alvhem…, the apartment is situated atop a romantic well-maintained Art Nouveau building, dating from the early 1900s, with great roof
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[ September 24, 2012; 18:30 to 20:00. ] Taking place September 24th at the National Building Museum, the Spotlight On Design: Intensities: Recent Work by Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis event highlights the firm’s ability in using the constraints of small budg
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Located in Australia is the Cerise Residence by FMD Architects. Cerise Residence by FMD Architects: “Retaining the existing building footprint was a key consideration for both economic and philosophical reasons. Building expansion was not an essentia
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Next time you visit old town Pasadena you may be in for a suprise. When you slink down an alley off of Fair Oaks and Colorado, the next thing you see will be a four-story, 35-foot-tall skyscraper, sitting in the middle of a courtyard. It’s an install
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Mies better have a big old casket, because he’s undoubtedly been doing a lot of rolling over lately. First, the project to convert the lower floors of the IBM building into an eye-rolling five-star hotel called the Langham Chicago is back on. And now the c
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Using building materials like steel, glass and metal cladding, Australian studio TT Architecture… constructed a complex set of architectural details gathered under a simple name: Carey House. This modern family home was designed to include an extensi
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PENSON have completed their design for the new Google London headquarters located in the Renzo Piano-designed Central St. Giles Building in Covent Garden, after being appointed in May to carry out the concept. A dance studio, gym, massage parlour, secret g
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This light, positive and spacious apartment is located in Warsaw, Poland, on the first floor of the intimate building in Wilanow district. It was design by Chalupko Design studio… to be multi-functional and display a modern collection of spaces and f
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Completed July 2012 in Stuttgart, Germany, the winners of the 72 Hour Urban Action competition were recently announced. With only three days and nights to design and build interventions in public space, 120 creative people, working in 10 international team
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Located within the Sendagaya neighborhood of Tokyo’s Shibuya ward, this building displaying undulating lines captured in a volumetric architecture steals the spotlight. Spreading over 992 square meters on a 221 square meter corner lot, the Sunwell Mu
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Pracownia Architektoniczna Poznań Projekt, in collaboration with mode:lina Architekci…, shared with us their design for the main entrance to the Voivodeship Police Headquarters in Poznań, Poland. The building, which is part of a historic urban
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Designed by Jessica Helgerson Interior Design, this house is an interesting experiment in reduction and reuse, just because the building itself (until now) was recycled for fourth time. It’s only 540 square feet was remodeled using exclusively reclai
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Architects: Art&Build Architects Location: Toulouse, France Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 13,000 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of Art&Build… The construction of building BOH3 on the site of Rangueil is meant as an environmental action. T
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John Pardey Architects in collaboration with Strom Architects, have completed the Hurst House in Buckinghamshire, England. . Description from the architects The Hurst House is a new build one-off contemporary house located on the edge of the village of Bou
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Architects: ONL Location: Közraktárak Budapest Hungary Design Team: Kas Oosterhuis, Ilona Lénárd, Gijs Joosen, Owen Slootweg, Bas Wijnbeld, Anna Nagy, Bujdosó Attila, Márku Judit, Romvári Péter, Tom Krzempek, Rafael Seemann, Paulina Gurak, Michael Gorczyns
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HENN Architects have completed the Porsche Pavilion at the Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany. . Description from the architects The organically shaped building is sitting – in mirrored location to the Volkswagen Pavilion- at the central axis of the theme par
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Dezeen Wire: the winners have been announced for this year’s Open Architecture Challenge, hosted by non-profit organisation Architecture for Humanity, with the top award going to a Ugandan proposal to build community hubs in a former refugee camp. (
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Architects: Archi5 Location: Paris, France Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 3,989 sqm Photographs: Thomas Jorio… The project’s design and planning focus on a thorough understanding of the local context. The building responds to existing scales.
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Architects: Shatotto Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 20,667 sq ft Photographs: Daniele Domenicali … The building envelope of this three-storey residence is a pure square, constructed of a single material, cast-concr
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Architect: HWKN (Hollwich Kushner); Partner in Charge: Matthias Hollwich, Marc Kushner Team: Egbert Chu, Tim Aarsen Location: New York City Builder: Grant Davis Thompson Inc Client: MenScience Photographs: Courtesy of HWKN… In the wake of HWKN&#
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Architects: Bourne Blue Architecture Location: Seal Rocks, NSW Australia Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Brett Boardman, Richard Birch, Shane Blue Project Area: 219.0 sqm Engineer: Izzat Consulting Engineers Builder: Bruce Brown Site Area: 400 sqm Cos
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The role architecture plays in our everyday lives is astronomical. From the cool houses we marvel at on Freshome’s pages to historical & iconic buildings that we recognize instantly, architecture surrounds us daily. The architects behind these building
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Architects: elton+léniz arquitectos asociados Location: Lo Barnechea, Santiago, Chile Design Team: Mirene Elton, Mauricio Leniz Architect Office: Cristobal Teixido Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Natalia Vial Project Area: 75.0 sqm Builder: Eric Meina
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London design studio Bare Conductive‘s kits to build light-up greeting cards and houses are available as part of London design month at Dezeen Super Store. (more…)
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Architects: ART & BUILD ARCHITECT Location: Strasbourg, France Project Area: 800 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of Art&Build… In the context of the construction of the new administrative building for the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, the
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Rather than erasing all trace of this Kyoto townhouse’s previous owners, Japanese architects Q-Architecture Laboratory preserved the earlier haphazard extensions as a timeline of the building’s history. (more&
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An icon of avant-garde architecture, the new W Barcelona Hotel rises high above the Mediterranean, in one of Spain’s most appealing cities. The massive building was envisioned by modern architect Ricardo Bofill and decorated by Charles Farruggio̷
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Architects: Westfourth Architecture Location: Bucharest, Romania Design Team: Vlad Arsene, Călin Negoescu, Zzing Lee, Sînziana Nicolae, Alexandru Cutelecu Envelope Consultant: Aludesign Structural Engineer: Popp şi Asociaţii Mechanical Engineering: Air Con
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[ October 10, 2012 0:00 to October 12, 2012 0:00. ] Focusing on the relationship between tall buildings and sustainability, the ‘Beyond Green! – Tall Buildings in a Sustainable Future’ international symposium will take place October 10-12
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Look! The house we found on dwell.com seems transplanted from an avant-garde district of Tokyo! Actually, it is placed in a tiny town of Landskrona, Sweden, among traditional terraced cottages with their orange-tiled roofs.This project is a great example
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Look! The house we found on dwell.com seems transplanted from an avant-garde district of Tokyo! Actually, it is placed in a tiny town of Landskrona, Sweden, among traditional terraced cottages with their orange-tiled roofs.This project is a great example
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Look! The house we found on dwell.com seems transplanted from an avant-garde district of Tokyo! Actually, it is placed in a tiny town of Landskrona, Sweden, among traditional terraced cottages with their orange-tiled roofs.This project is a great example
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In yet another example of public private park partnerships, New York City has put out an RFP for a developer to buy air rights for land near Newtown Creek in Brooklyn, DNA.info reports. The deal would allow the city to finance a promised park on the Greenp
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So what exactly is BIMx and how can it be used? Graphisoft BIMx is an interactive 3D presentation tool that allows all the stakeholders in a project to have access to the building model, without requiring any specialized BIM skills.…
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ITN Architects have completed The Hive Apartment in Melbourne, VIC, Australia. The building is a collaborative project between the architect and a graffiti artist. The Hive Apartment by ITN Architects: “The Hive Apartment was designed by architect Zv
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Cards featuring illustrations of iconic modernist buildings in London and prints of the BT Tower by designer Stefi Ozari are now available at Dezeen Super Store as part of London design month. (more…)
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At a time when sustainability is high on the agenda and construction costs continue to soar, many Cambridge residents are questioning a proposal to demolish a sound and respected school building to replace it with a new school one that…
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Designed by Hans Hollein & Partner…, the Tehran Stock Exchange aims to become a civic symbol that not only accommodates the stock exchange functions but also repents the practice in its entirety. As an architectural intervention, The buildings’ a
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Leading companies like Google can’t afford not getting noticed. The company’s new London headquarters occupies the Central St. Giles Building in the city’s Covent Garden area. Welcoming employees with a true London feel displaying Union J
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Fearon Hay Architects… envisioned and implemented Storm Cottage house, a residential project nestled on the east coast of Great Barrier Island in New Zealand, located just steps away from the sea. All the materials used to build the black timber box
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Architects: ART & BUILD ARCHITECT Location: City of Brussels, Belgium Project Year: 2010 Project Area: 9,600 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of Art&Build… The Solvay business school has upheld traditions of academic excellence for many decade
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Energy Star program has launched the 2012 National Building Competition: Battle of the Buildings. This year, 3,200 buildings across the country will be competing to improve energy efficiency, lower utility
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Yo Yamagata Architects have completed BB in Tokyo, Japan. BB by Yo Yagamata Architects: “The site is facing the street of 4m wide one back from the main road entering the center of Tokyo. Along a main street have a scale of 10-story building but the
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Now in its eighth year, the Maggie’s London Night Hike invites you to participate in a ten to twenty mile “hike” through the capital city and explore a number of landmark buildings and iconic structures. In collaboration with the Open…
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“Legos were the ultimate building tool, capable of making the most advanced space ships, powerful vehicles, impressive buildings, and incredible cities. As a child, everyone I knew loved Legos, and this never seemed to change. In high school, wheneve
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Robert Harvey Oshatz Architect… designed the Chenequa Residence, a family home showcasing an original and very dynamic design. The building as a whole can not be entirely understood while analyzing it from a single standpoint; its diversity exposes f
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Architects: Olgoo Office Location: Pardis Technology Park,Tehran, Iran Architect In Charge: Mehran Khoshroo Project Team: Almara Melkomian, Adel Ataee, Mehdi Atashbar, Amir Masoud Nafisi, Mahsa Mamaghani, Soodabeh Ghorbani, Kourosh Asadzadeh, Hamid Reza Et
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Clooney restaurant is located in Auckland, New Zealand and was designed by Fearon Hay Architects. Clooney occupies an existing concrete and steel building which has been stripped bare and, within which, a sophisticated exploration of space and materials
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Architects: Art&Build Architecs Location: Gennevilliers, France Architect In Charge: J.P. Rozé Project Year: 2010 Project Area: 30,000 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of Art&Build… The 5-level central body of the project is surrounded by seve
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Architects: ART & BUILD ARCHITECT Location: Gennevilliers, France Architect In Charge: J.P. Rozé Project Year: 2010 Project Area: 30,000 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of Art&Build… The 5-level central body of the project is surrounded by se
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HOK Chief Executive Officer Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA, explains why the term “BIM” doesn’t convey the real promise of building information modeling over time. In this video, MacLeamy breaks down the mega acronym “BIM-BAM-BOOM!…” and addresses the
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Zaha Hadid’s streamlined glass and concrete government building in Montpellier (above) heads up the lastest issue of Dezeen Mail, along with new jobs, competitions, movies and music. Read Dezeen Mail issue 113 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail
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The result of the combined efforts of Florida-based firm Oppenheim Architecture + Design and Swiss studio Huesler Architekten…, Kirchplatz Office and Residence is an eighteenth century building in northern Switzerland re-purposed to provide a practic
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This luxury New York residential building known as the HL 23 condominium project reshapes the city block hosting its 14 story-high body into a glimpse of the future. Building materials were forced into submission under the attentive supervision of Los Ange
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Architects: Renzo Piano Building Workshop Location: Trento, Italy Architect: Renzo Piano Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Courtesy of RPBW, RPBW – Stefano Goldberg, RPBW – Paolo Pelanda, Colombo Costruzioni – Alessandro Gadutti, RPBW ̵
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When building your own home, there are so many factors to consider, especially when it comes to building the foundation. If you don’t carefully inspect the terrain of the lot you’ll be building on and build accordingly, you could delay the buil
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Architects: Stephenson & Turner NZ Ltd Location: Wellington, New Zealand Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Paul McCredie Project Area: 500.0 sqm Engineers: Stephenson & Turner NZ Ltd… Situated in a historic building, S&T’s multiple a
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Dezeen Wire: Dutch architects MVRDV will create 676 miniature LEGO towers at the Venice Architecture Biennale later this month for an exhibition to promote the inclusion of architectural discourse within European Union development policies. (more…)
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Dezeen Wire: architect Winy Maas of MVRDV and the studio’s think tank The Why Factory will create 676 miniature LEGO towers at the Venice Architecture Biennale later this month for an exhibition to promote the inclusion of architectural discourse wi
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The proposal for the New Keelung Harbor terminal building by Synthesis Design + Architecture (SDA)… focuses on the synthesis of three core concepts into a coherent, elegant, and iconic solution which signals the formation of a new identity for Keelun
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Drivers crossing the border from Canada into the USA at Calais, Maine, would never know that there’s a tranquil rock garden sandwiched between the checkpoint buildings designed by New York firm Robert Siegel Archite
AddFrench architect Patrice Bideau has designed this bioclimatic house located in Pluvigner, Brittany, France. Bioclimatic House in Pluvigner by Patrice Bideau: “In 2002, the first owner wanted to build a house according to the French RT 2005 energy reg
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After falling a bit off the radar, the folks from Quadriad Reality are back in Washington Heights with a revised plan to build a cluster of towers just down the hill from The Cloisters, DNAinfo reports. The 34-story towers will be an anomaly in a neighborh
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For today Ad Round Up, we have some great mixed use buildings previously featured in ArchDaily. Here’s five you can’t miss: The Ford Assembly Building by Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects, the historical factory was transformed into a vibrant center of
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Architects: Art&Build Architecs Location: Strasbourg, France Associate Architect: Denu & Paradon Project Year: 2007 Project Area: 22,000 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of Art&Build… In this case the clear identification of the occupant e
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This 2012 project, located in Melbourne, Australia, has had many personalities over the years. It was originally an Edwardian residence that was converted into an Art Deco apartment building in the 1930′s and then back to a single family home in the
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Architects: Teatum+Teatum Location: London, England Structural Engineer: Fluid Structures Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Lyndon Douglas… Using the left over spaces of the city, Hidden House is formed between existing buildings. The house makes
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Google recently released a new, intriguing type of software, which allows programmers to make a room come alive with interactive spaces. The new software framework, which is called ‘Interactive Spaces’, works by providing a high-level architect
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London’s Royal Opera House (ROH) has launched an invited architectural competition dedicated to transforming the entrances and surrounding public areas of the Covent Garden building into a more “open and tantalizing” space. Seven firms have been invited to
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The West Coast edition of AN’s 2012 Facades Conference, “The Art and Science of Building Facades,” held at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center on July 26 examined the state of the art in building envelope design. The common thread: collaboration. The fi
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UNStudio… has unveiled their design for the redevelopment of Singapore’s UIC Building (1973), located in the heart of the city’s Central Business District. The concept integrates lush sky gardens throughout a 53-story residential tower and a 23-story
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As innovation and new developments in technology now follow each other faster and faster, making yesterday’s architectural fantasies today’s construction realities, there’s already a movement to return to the essential things in life: be
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O.A.S.E. Medical Library is a daring contemporary architecture project by HPP Architects…, raising 38 meters high in Düsseldorf, Germany. With a smooth, white facade, the building stands out in its environment and is visible from a great distance. Ac
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Rio de Janeiro is planning to build a gigantic energy-generating artificial waterfall for the 2016 Olympics! The next Olympics will be in Rio de Janeiro, and it will be a giant generator of sustainable energy, a skyscraper that would also be a waterfall,
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We have gathered a list of 30 Modern Corner Windows to serve as inspiration for your future architectural project – either you start building from ground floor up or re-imagine your home in a much-needed remodel project. One of the most famous examples of
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Italian architectural firm Traverso Vighy has completed the Casa Ceschi in Vicenza, Italy. This restoration project was completed in 2010. It features a newly constructed, light-weight interior within the original walls of the building. Photos by: Alessand
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Architects: A3 Digital Location: Franklin D. Roosevelt 3120, Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina Design Team: Santiago Luppi, Javier Ugalde, Andrea Winter Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Alejandro Peral Project Area: 800.0 sqm Col
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Thanks to innovations in building materials, design technologies, and construction tools, a new generation of architects can finally realize structures that would have previously remained mere dreams. This emergence of a new vernacular of radically sculpte
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In an industrial section of Düsseldorf squats a relatively unremarkable yellow-tiled modernist-looking building. It looks like the sort of building that went up in the post-war reconstruction (the city was bombed nearly flat in night raids during WWII). Th
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An unusually eye-catching building became a dream come true for architect Zvi Belling of ITN Architects… – his home is inspired by hip-hop culture and graffiti, making it uniquely inspiring. From the outside in, this stunning graffiti house cre
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Movie: as part of the build-up to an exclusive event we’re hosting at the Nike+ House of Innovation next week, we’ve filmed a series of movies with Nike‘s global creative director for the Olympics Martin
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William McDonough + Partners, together with D/DOCK, designed a new office building for Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte (B/S/H/) in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands. At the center of the office, is a four-story atrium with an indoor/outdoor Living Green Wall. . Descript
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How a boutique Brooklyn design-build collective strung up NeoCon’s first major installation. Attendees of NeoCon in Chicago’s Merchandise Mart rode the escalators and ascended towards Wolf-Gordon‘s large crystalline canopy hanging overhead. Tho
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Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects has joined the campaign to promote the architects and engineers who designed buildings for the London 2012 Olympic games but have been unable to promote their work because of a marketing agreement wit
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Architect: UNStudio, Ben van Berkel Principal-in-Charge Location: No. 5 Shenton Way, UIC Building, Singapore Client: UIC Investments Building surface: 85.507 m2 Project Team: Astrid Piber and Nuno Almeida with Ariane Stracke, Cristina Bolis; Derrick Dipor
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Architects: ITN Architects Location: Melbourne, VIC, Australia Project Architect: Zvi Belling Project Team: Silas Gibson; Jenny Cham; Atsushi Kubota Builder: Kalitek Constructions Engineer: Meyer Consulting Engineers Building Surveyor: Building Strategies
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In a neighborhood of glass and steel, Fitterman Hall stands out. The new building, part of CUNY’s Borough of Manhattan Community College’s downtown campus, is designed by Pei Cobb Freed and sits adjacent to the World Trade Center. The 17-story buildi
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Omiros One Architecture have designed the Yas Island Yacht Club in Abu Dhabi. A composition of dynamic and fluid forms link the buildings to the nautical theme, the heritage of the locale and the new F1 character of Yas Island. Yas Island Yacht Club is de
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Architects: Ehrlich Architects Location: Irvine, CA, USA Project Area: 55,000 sq ft Photographs: Lawrence Anderson… The winning entry in a design-build competition, this 55,000 square foot college Contemporary Arts Building is finely attuned to
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Architects: Atelier Thomas Pucher Location: Graz, Austria Design Team: Thomas Pucher, Christa Pucher, Hannes Stöffler, Gustav Ibing Project Area: 240.0 sqm Photographs: Lukas Schaller… The initial assignment for the Villa SK was to rebuild with
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Michael Knight, a house builder in Victoria, BC, Canada, has sent us images of a house designed by Victoria Design Group, that his company has built. . Design: Victoria Design Group Builder: M. Knight Construction Photography: Vince Klassen .
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Zaha Hadid has completed a streamlined concrete and glass building for three government departments in Montpellier, France (+ slideshow). (more…)
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Light up dark areas in your home during daytime using this green and sustainable concept. Recycle used clear plastic soda bottles, add water+bleach, then install. Each solar lamp contains one liter of water mixed with bleach which creates the same amount o
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Designed by kit Architects…, in collaboration with schibliholenstein architekten, the winning proposal for a 33 apartment housing development in Nuerensdorf, Zurich, Switerland consists of six buildings, which occupy the land equally. The loose alter
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Movie: architect Piers Gough of CZWG and structural engineer Hanif Kara explain their design for Canada Water Library, a bronzed, hexagonal building on a constrained site in south London, in this movie by filmmakers Livin
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Architects: Make Architects Location: Weihai, Shandong, China Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Shu He Client: China Resources Land Ltd… Make Architects has announced the completion of its first building in Mainland China: a large seaside pavilio
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The National Building Museum‘s latest exhibit presents a new way to beat the summer heat—12 holes of mini-golf designed by prominent local architects, landscape architects, and developers. But if it’s windmills and castles you’re after, tee off elsew
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These tree house-like cabins by Thai designer Worapong Manupipatpong are built up around the column of a building rather than over the branches of a tree. (more…)
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Photographer Vicente de Paulo has captured some of the most iconic buildings by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and has manipulated the results so that they come to life when seen through 3D glasses. (more…)
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Photographer Vicente Depaulo has captured some of the most iconic buildings by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and has manipulated the results so that they come to life when seen through 3D glasses. (more…)
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Architects: Fearon Hay Architects Location: Auckland, New Zealand Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 5000.0 sqm Photographs: Patrick Reynolds … Built between 1886 and 1911, the Imperial Buildings are a rich mix of heritage spaces and building fabr
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Defining the necessities of a luxurious lifestyle, this exquisite villa located at 818 N Roxbury Drive… in Beverly Hills boasts a unique combination of building materials – stone, glass and wood – composing a functional, well-proportioned
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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced four international projects shortlisted for this year’s RIBA Lubetkin Prize – an award presented to the “best new international building outside the EU”. Three of the projects are located
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When construction was completed on the Empire State Building (ESB) in 1931 it cost $25.6 million—that’s just $9.20 per square foot. You can’t even build a single floor for that nowadays, much less a 1,454-foot tall skyscraper (adjusting for inf
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Florida-based firm Oppenheim Architecture + Design and Swiss studio Huesler Architekten have created offices for themselves in an eighteenth century building in northern Switzerland constructed a new house in the garden b
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Architect: RA-DA - Rania Alomar, AIA, RA, DA Location: La Brea Art & Design District – Los Angeles, CA Completed: May 2012 Building area: 4000 sq ft RA-DA Design Team: Rania Alomar – Design Lead; Jesse Madrid – Job Captain/Designer.…
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Designed by idcode…, the Science and Technology Park, located in Opole, Poland, is a combination of the horizontal character of the building with the existing landscape of suburban fields. By creating a landscape project in which the field and
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It looks like Mies van der Rohe’s Lafayette Towers in Detroit may avoid the auction block a little longer. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) foreclosed on the high-rise apartment buildings in February, and HUD had planned to put them up
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“What if mobile, self-sufficient living units were the building blocks for future cities?” asked New York artist Mary Mattingly. She explored this question in her Flock House Project, experimenting with migratory living solutions through fantastical inhabi
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The London 2012 Olympics start today, and once again architecture is on the spotlight. With a big focus on reusable and adaptable structures, the lineup includes renowned architecture firms such as Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Hopkins Architects, Populous an
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Occupying the 10th and 11th floor of a building on West 19th Street, New York, this modern penthouse comes with sweeping views of the Hudson River, the High Line Park and cityscape. Moreover, the inhabitants of this opulent apartment currently on sale, wil
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Alfonso Architects, along with The Beck Group…, have been awarded $17 million to design-build the expansion of the Tampa International Airport in Florida. The existing complex will be expanded with an additional 30,000 square feet and will include t
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Modular offices open out to terraces on each floor of this building in Barcelona by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki (+ slideshow with photographs by Filippo Poli). (more…)
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Brought to you by: In an economic environment in which competition amongst homes for sale is fierce, homeowners, architects and designers are turning to the garage. According to the National Association of Home Builders House Price Estimator, adding a gara
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HDR… was recently chosen by Nanjing University to provide conceptual and schematic design services, as well as a masterplan, for its new College of Engineering and Applied Sciences building. The facility will house four academic departments (material
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Have you ever gazed upon the New York skyline and thought to yourself, there’s an amusement park missing from this picture. Have you ever dreamed of twirling around the top of New York’s fourth-tallest building while strapped into flimsy carnival swi
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The Sammlung Goetz, an internationally renowned collection of contemporary art in Munich housed in a purpose-built Herzog & de Meuron building, is home to private collector Ingvild Goetz’s eclectic acquired works of paintings and video projection
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Designed by MAD Architects…, Destination Forus is intended to be a clear, robust and effective masterplan to become an exclusive commercial district, both in form and function, which radically differentiates itself from the surrounding building fabri
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Studio O+A designed a variety of spaces on the first floor of AOL’s office building in Palo Alto, California., including the public lobby, a coffee shop, a gym, and a tech incubator. . Description from Studio O+A 395 Page Mill Road in Palo Alto is th
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