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Category: Architecture, Culture, Interior Tags: Contemporary architecture, Glass, Museum, Theater, USA architecture, Yazdani Studio
A LA practice Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design has won the Museum of Tolerance renovation and expansion. The key components of the renovation include: exhibit spaces, two theaters, a children’s multi-functional learning center and multi-purpose rooms for approximately 34,450 sq ft of improvements for the Museum.
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Concrete, Contemporary architecture, Features, Glass, Minimalism
This is not a public car showroom, but a private house for car collection which is designed by Spanish architect Joan Anguita. The house is located on the mountain where to have a nice view to the city. + Press release below and images provided by yellowagency.es This house in the mountains, designed by the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Concrete, Europen architecture, Minimalism, Swimming pool
Chile based g8vs arquitectos has designed a house that interplay between the materials. The materials are clearly defined by its form and function of the space.
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, Contemporary architecture, Features, Folding architecture, Timber, Wood
Australian Letterbox House, designed by McBride Charles Ryan. The reason why this building named “letter box” is the building begins as the letterbox and unfurls to become an irregular open verandah. + Project description below provided by architect – McBride Charles Ryan It’s like a half space, half enclosed, half open. Neither in nor out [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: China architecture, Competition, Contemporary architecture, ESD design, Features, Iconic architecture, Skyscrapers, Theater, Visiondivision
A young Sweden based architecture firm Visiondivision believes in strong concepts and constantly re-investigating their role as architects by always pushing the limits of their field of work and the strategies of their design. Tornado, is an entry for an opera competition in Taiwan which was a collaboration with Markus Wagner, a member of Svensk [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Courtyard architecture, Dellekamp Arquitectos, Glass, Mexico, South American architecture
This is another apartment project by Dellekamp Arquitectos, Project CB 30. This building has 3 apartments looking onto the street as well as a 2-story house in the back that looks into an interior patio. The public areas are contained in a single space looking out to the street or into the interior void.
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Category: Architecture, House, Residential, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, Dellekamp Arquitectos, Glass, Mexico, South American architecture, Timber
Project CB 29 by Dellekamp Arquitectos is an apartment building that containing three gardens for social interaction, the timber finished wall cuts in angle adding an additional feature to the elevation. In Mexico City, in a residential area called Polanco, this four story building contains three apartments organized in relation to three gardens. The street [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial Tags: Concrete, Dellekamp Arquitectos, Lattice screen, Restaurant, South American architecture
La Capital, by a Mexico based architect – Dellekamp Arquitectos. This project featured the 3 portions on its facade with nice proportional placement. La Capital has infused a modern twist on the cantina while evoking its spirit through the volumetric qualities of the tall, narrow space inside.
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Concrete, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Features, Lattice screen
Situated in Pilar – Buenos Aires, surrounded by a natural area that composes the landscape of the house; it sits on a central position of a 1500m2 site generating multiple gardens towards where the house looks at. Casa Viguet is an intentional and minimum single room house where uses hybridize and link with the exterior.
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Contemporary architecture, Glass, Landscape architecture, USA architecture
Further to the first project – Ruth Hiller Residence. Here is the second project submitted by Michael P. Johnson Design Studios Ltd – Yoder/Doornbos Residence. Of the multitude of structures built across the country each year, few ever become elevated to a level considered the “art of architecture” by architectural critics and/or historians. The vast [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Glass, Landscape architecture, USA architecture, Wood
Designed by USA practice Michael P. Johnson Design Studios Ltd. Ruth Hiller Residence is flying above the dense evergreen forest where located at the Winter Park – Colorado, USA. The building is set on the existing foundation and all the living spaces are planned at the top of the house to have the best view [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Mixed Use Tags: Aquarium, Europen architecture, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Performing Arts Center, Waterfront architecture, White, Zaha Hadid
Regium Waterfront project designed by London practice Zaha Hadid Architects for the Municipality of Reggio Calabria in southern Italy. The project composed of 3 separated elements that will house a museum of Mediterranean history and performing art center, serving a gathering place for all ages.
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