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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Community Center, Marcy Wong & Donn Logan Architects, Stone, Timber, USA architecture, Western Red Cedar
California-based architect Marcy Wong & Donn Logan Architects designed the Orange Memorial Park located in South San Francisco. The building is conceived as a pavilion in a park and an icon for the community. + Project description courtesy of Marcy Wong & Donn Logan Architects Orange Memorial Park is the most important public recreation venue [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Cino Zucchi Architetti, Glass, Italy, Park Associati, Refurbishment / Extension, Steel
Milan-based architectural firm Park Associati and Zucchi & Partners have completed the renovation of Tiziano 32 Headquarters located in Milan, Italy. The project consist of a seven-floor block, an imposing metal canopy and a thin walled garden. The entrance was upgraded as a featured canopy which leaded to the basement level and accessed via a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Cino Zucchi Architetti, Fluid form, Italy, Park Associati, Random pattern
Italian architect Cino Zucchi Architetti and Park Associati designed the Salewa Spa Headquarters in Bolzano, Italy. The project is now on site and scheduled to complete on 2011. + Project description courtesy of Cino Zucchi Architetti + Park Associati The new Salewa Headquarters, one of the most prominent manufacturers in Bolzano, is situated in an [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, Sweden, Visiondivision, Zinc
Sweden-based architectural firm Visiondivision has designed an extension for a lake house in southern Stockholm. + Project description courtesy of visiondivision Visiondivision was commissioned to design an extension to a villa for two kids in a picturesque lake setting in southern Stockholm. The owner of the old house had met his new wife in Thailand [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Concrete, Courtyard architecture, France, N+B architects, School, Stone
French architectural practice N+B architects has completed the new middle school – Morières les Avignon in France. Interplay between concrete and stone are the main feature for this project, it gives rhythmic effect to the facade as a contemporary appearance. The “VERS” stone establishes sides façades of folds in concrete. It offers a thermal slowness [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel Tags: Australia NewZealand, ESD design, Landscape architecture, Omiros One Architecture, Swimming pool, Timber, Tropical architecture
Ala Moana, is a recently completed project on Hamilton Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. The house was designed by Australian architect Omiros One Architecture to maximize the views and set at different levels to follow the natural ground slope with minimal cutting into the site. Together with the harmonious exterior colour scheme, these elements diffuse [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Christoph Klemmt, Germany, Green architecture, School
German architect Christoph Klemmt has designed the Parascape project – a new architecture school in Stuttgart. The project was developed as a place for communication and the exchange of ideas, social and gathering spaces are everywhere integrated into the buildings. The building is designed to be transparent, allowing visual connections from each area into the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Balcony, Color architecture, Courtyard architecture, ECDM, France, Random pattern, Skin
Paris-based architectural firm Emmanuel COMBAREL Dominique MARREC Architects (ECDM) has completed a social housing for students in a suburb of Paris called Epinay. The conception of our project is from a second reading of the landscape, particularly the road of Saint leu, by integrating its history and transformations to assert its manners and qualities and to [...]
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Category: Commercial, Interior Tags: Europen architecture, HHF architects, Refurbishment / Extension, Switzerland
The renovation of the Confiserie Bachmann flagship coffee and chocolate house in Basel, designed by HHF architects is now completed and open to public. Confiserie Bachmann is Basels most traditional and most famous chocolate manufacturer, specializing in high-quality sweets. Although the space is small, the renovation creates a spacious, yet intimate atmosphere with the use [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Fluid form, USA architecture, Waterfront architecture
San Francisco-based designer Joanna Borek-Clement has designed the Tafoni Floating Home located in Sausalito, California. This is a conceptual house designed to promote a new type of residential design, living and lifestyle. It is also a multi-purpose living pavilion that serves as a permanent house, a weekend retreat, a relaxing summer destination or a place [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Andrea Tognon Architecture, Italy, Landscape architecture, Refurbishment / Extension, Stone
Residance O is the refurbishment project designed by Italy-based Andrea Tognon Architecture, the new square floor plane was completed by filling the missing corner to the old L shape plan, it looks clean. + Project description courtesy of Andrea Tognon Architecture The building we were call to refurbish was built in the 70′s as imitation [...]
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: Group Two Design, Modern light, Pendant light
Canadian design studio Group Two Design has designed the Led Chandelier. + Design statement courtesy of Group Two Design Our LED chandelier is made possible by the malleable nature of a particular LED Linear lighting strip that has been cast into translucent resin. This technology granted us the ability to create the ‘substance’ of a [...]
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