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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: AH Asociados, Cladding, José Manuel Cutillas
The building is like an experimental deposit box, a music box where the architecture, as a spatial experience, takes place in time. It is born like from a proposition parting from it’s position upon the site and through the search and protection of the spare directions it has. Starting from an excessive site development programme, [...]
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Category: Automotive, Design, Events/News Tags: Austria, Events/News
MINI USA’s exciting MINI Snowman event was held few days ago in Kühtai, Austria. Prototypes of the new MINI John Cooper Works Countryman were previewed and guests had the opportunity to test drive this special vehicle. The event marked the first time MINI has announced that the John Cooper Works Countryman has been built/sold. The [...]
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Category: Architecture, Master Plan, Residential Tags: Competition, OODA, OOIIO Architecture
The design of the proposal was instinctively developed under basic and determinant assumptions reflected from the local. Water, rurality, urbanity and cultural habits and traditions. We have tried to form an interactive balance among all the premises and found in nature a conceptual framework that served as a starting point for the formalization of our [...]
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Category: Design, Interior, Lighting Tags: Israel, Pendant light
The offices of the Diaghilev is the headquarter of the Boutique Live Art Hotel in Tel Aviv. Set over 100 Square metres, the office is a hub for the hotel staff, maintenance, call centre, accounting, exhibitions and events department, in-house cafe administration, and general hotel management. Arranged around a central workspace, the layout physically, and [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: USA
Designed by award-winning designer Steven G., Trump Hollywood is a luxury residential building located on the beautiful beach of Hollywood, FL. The project is one of the most prestigious condominiums in south Florida. It holds 200 residences which all feature floor-to-ceiling windows, large balconies to take in the view of the ocean and top of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Folding architecture, Refurbishment / Extension, Shine Architecture, Timber
This refurbishment intends to offer a new quality-based, morphological-exploration for a social entrepreneurship incubator in a low-income area in León, Guanajuato, México. The initiative of these social interventions is lead by two main institutions: Tecnológico de Monterrey (one of the best private universities in México) and Bancomer (one of the main banks of the country). [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Modern bookcase, Modern Chair, Modular design
Artist + Designer William Lee announces the release of his latest work in a geometrically inspired series completed this Fall. He is also the designer for LEAN, a multi-functional + sculptural piece released in June this Summer.
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: AH Asociados, Concrete, José Manuel Cutillas, Spain
The building has been planned as a well worked “pile” which rests on the terrain, adapting to its natural contours. It works from the precepts of superposition. It is placed on top of its supporting devices, and develops a layering, a coincidence and a meeting up with the natural and built environment. The solution allows [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: AH Asociados, Concrete, Spain, Stair
Designed by AH Asociados, this project, executed in two phases, was born of the overarching need to improve conditions of stability on the earthworks where the old parish church is tucked away. It is an item in the baroque tradition which constitutes practically the only historical reference to the town of San Adrián, whilst at [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: AH Asociados, José Manuel Cutillas, Spain, Steel
Pergola in Echavacoiz Norte is a project by AH Asociados. The urbanization responds to two basic objectives: to define areas of support, (infrastructures, pavements, etc.,) in an important residential area and to design a linear park, other border for the risen up city, which confirms its horizontal walkway character, supported at the edge of the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Master Plan, Residential Tags: Competition, Germany, OOIIO Architecture
OOIIO Architecture recently has designed a housing project in Wurzburg, Germany. It consists of 15 sustainable apartment blocks, with 6 floor high each one, placed in front of a Second World War runway. The buildings are related with a famous landscape exhibition in Germany called “Bundesgartenschau” and special gardens will cross all the development. According [...]
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Category: Architecture, Sport Tags: AH Asociados, Concrete, Landscape architecture, Spain
In spite of a previous urban development which supported a spread of sporting programmes in a splintered isolation where management control was difficult, this time it has been a question of maintaining the unique flavour of the university campus, as a great civil park where free space covered in trees is the main feature, in [...]
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