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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Europen architecture, Museum, Netherlands, Refurbishment / Extension, Serge Schoemaker architects
Maluku Museum (MUMA) commissioned Serge Schoemaker Architects to design a plan for the conversion and extension of the museum building. The design replaces a part of the existing building from the eighties and exploits the currently unused museum courtyard. The building costs of the MUMA extension are 1 million euro. It is expected that the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Sport Tags: Architectural membrane, Concrete, FIFA World Cup 2010, gmp architekten, Iconic architecture, South Africa, Stadium, White
The 68,000 spectators Green Point Stadium designed by gmp architekten, is one of the major stadiums to host the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa. With its horizontal facade expression and the curving contours, the architectural design was intended to enhance the horizontal line of Table Mountain, and appeared as an iconic building in [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Color architecture, Germany, Gnädinger Architekten, Refurbishment / Extension, Visitor center
German architectural firm Gnädinger Architekten has converted a former textile factory into a Visitor Center – “Haus des Gastes” located in Beeskow, Germany. The project comprises a new modern building and a restored historic industrial complex which are connected by a glass bridge. + Project description courtesy of Gnädinger Architekten A former textile factory was [...]
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Category: Commercial, Interior Tags: Display design, EASTERN design office, Japan
Japanese studio EASTERN design office has designed the MOSTIP shoe shop in one of the huge shopping mall in Japan. With its dynamic form, the triangle was shaped from the moon to give the sense of non-static, the shoes are displayed and placed on it, as symbolizing an invisible man enjoying a moonwalk. + Project [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: 70°N arkitektur, Norway, Timber
In Norway, 70°N arkitektur has designed the Brinken Terrace situated on top of the Tromsø island facing west with its beautiful view. The project is composed of two apartment buildings with 48 large apartments, and the different approach in the flats’ design in the blocks gives variation in the window placements and facade expression. + [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Berlin, Fluid form, Germany, Gnädinger Architekten, Iconic architecture, Skin, White
The Otto Bock Science Center Medical Technology by German architectural firm Gnädinger Architekten was started from the idea of human muscle fibers, a metaphor for the simulation of complex biological processes and structures. Gnädinger created an amorphous, abstract façade, which wraps dynamically around the six-storey, reinforced concrete frame, encompassing around 1,000 square meters of floor [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Coop Himmelb(l)au, Germany, Skyscrapers
Austrian architects Coop Himmelb(l)au won a competition to design the new headquarter for European Central Bank in 2003 with double-towered proposal. North tower comprises 45 floors with 185 meters, and South tower 43 floors with 165 meters. This year May, the groundbreaking takes place in Frankfurt, Germany. The project is scheduled to complete in 2014. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: China architecture, gmp architekten, Lattice screen, Religious architecture, Skin, White
Hamburg-based architectural practice gmp architekten has designed the Zhongguancun Christian Church located in Beijing, China. The project features vertical fins running along the building’s perimeter that forming an unique homogeneous skin. It creates a special lighting atmosphere inside the church hall, matching the ecclesiastical function of the space. The shape of the church body does [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Modern furniture, Timber
Bhagvanji.M.Sonagra recently has designed a multifunctional furniture ‘M-Square‘. + Product description courtesy of Bhagvanji.M.Sonagra ‘M-Square‘ is a multifunctional furniture for urban house. Now a day space constrain is the biggest problem in the house. Whenever people think to buy some new furniture but the question comes in the mind that where this can be fitted? [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry, Selected Tags: Concrete, Italy, Landscape architecture, monovolume, Power station
Italian architectural firm monovolume architecture + design designed this hydroelectric power station located at 800m above sea level, near Winnebach brook in Dörfl (Italy). It is a two storeys building comprising a ground floor and a the basement. Due to its site condition, it is partly built into the slope, and the polygonal form is [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture, Industrial Tags: Korea, Minimalism, Ramei Keum
A South Korean designer Ramei Keum recently has finished his latest design – Stand Hanger ‘Axis’. Axis is a stand hanger which its frame itself has a function of a hanger. Some people will have an experience not hanging up clothes since a stand hanger doesn’t have an aid hanger (a small hanger). In such [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: A-cero, Landscape architecture, Madrid, Spain, Stone
The spanish architecture firm A-cero recently has completed the 108 housing in Madrid. It has been designed from a clear sculptural inspiration; the blocks appear dressed in marble travertino and create curved shapes and edges. These elements emphasize the project’s wings and contribute to give weightlessness to the building. A-cero + Project description courtesy of [...]
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