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Category: Master Plan Tags: China architecture, Random pattern
The aim for the competition proposal to design a commercial pedestrian street with offices business, club houses and hotels, has been to become part of an active process that involves the appropriation and exploitation of a natural space with a powerful presence, creating an opportunity for a dialogue with the existing territory. The site has [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: AH Asociados, Concrete, Random pattern, Spain
In the surroundings of the central park in Mendillorri, it has been proposed a building which keeps a relationship with the surrounding area, its views, and its functions. A type of monument which distances itself from people hasn’t been sought out, but rather a constructed place which plays second fiddle to the park and the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: AH Asociados, Lattice screen, School
This building is built just a few metres away from Banyoles Lake, on a narrow strip of land surrounded by two irrigation canals under open skies and close to an old big house deemed to be of patrimonial interest.The teaching block was installed in a linear building at the northern end of the plot, leaving [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: AH Asociados, Refurbishment / Extension, School, Spain
The ‘Tierra Estella’ school is one of the latest educational centers that AH asociados has designed for the government of Navarre. The building has been designed under environmental criteria (energy certification rating B), complying with the brief and established requirements, and avoiding the saturation of the building plot within the immediate surroundings. The initial design [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Kitchen appliances, Stair
The Dutch interior designer Remy Meijers viewed it as a challenge to transform a double bungalow, designed by the famous architect Gerrit Rietveld and situated in the village of Baambrugge, into a suitable family home. That wasn’t easy, due to the layout of the two adjoining bungalows: dating from 1958 and offering just 250 square [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Brooks + Scarpa, Reflective pool, Refurbishment / Extension, Workplace
The film editing profession requires small, dark environments free from distraction and light reflection—in essence, hermetically sealed boxes. Yet at the same time, a film editing company, if it is to be competitive, must exist in a stimulating, socially interactive workspace, alive to workers and clients alike—a place where people will want to be. It [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Color, Manfred Kielnhofer, modern bench
The moment you try the artwork in my thoughts and words to capture, one realizes that this task almost limitless variations, offers viewpoints and approaches. Kielnhofer redeemed by shape, material, resulting in an avalanche of application functionality and solutions / results on different levels of perception. Manfred Kielnhofer The “Glowing Light Ball Bench” created by [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: EASTERN design office, Japanese architecture, Refurbishment / Extension
Japanese architectural firm EASTERN design office recently has completed the T Residence. + Project statement by EASTERN design office 1. A ghost and a samurai residence “I’m scared, scared. This house is haunted by a ghost.” This is what my kids said when they saw the house before remodeling. I am their mom. I am [...]
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