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Category: Architecture, Civic, Selected Tags: 3XN, Folding architecture, Netherlands, Stair, White
From Growing Pains to Growing Commitment The new City Hall and cultural center in the Dutch city of Nieuwegein, is designed to create cohesion and the foundation for a stronger local community. A modern participatory democracy requires transparency and communication at eye level in the encounter between citizen and authority. These elements have been the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: David Wakely, LEED, School, Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects, USA architecture
This is a new student commons at an independent high school in Marin, California. Designed by Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects, the Branson School Student Commons gives students a much-needed gathering space with an unusual degree of connection to the outdoors. Sited in a narrow glen between upper and lower campuses, the structure includes a dining [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial Tags: JAM, Japanese architecture, Restaurant
The site faces the main street of the busy shopping district in Osaka Central City. The outer wall which faces the corner lot of the existing building is covered with glass, and has drawn the attention from the circumference. After calculating the efficient degree of lighting of daytime, and the height of eyes of walkers [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial Tags: JAM, Japanese architecture, Restaurant, White
The site is located at the foot of Mt. Wakakusayama in northern Nara. Here, in a region of a historical area including Machiya – traditional wooden townhouses -, Shin-Yakushi-Ji Temple and Buddhist temples. The Intention was to create a rich relaxation place for tourists and neighbors. The building which should be repaired is an old [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: France, LAN Architecture, Random pattern
The 70°Sud project, an apartment building recently completed by LAN in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. In this operation we have let aside exhaustive studies on urbanity and potential grabbing –costly and previously explored methods at the agency–, to pivot back around an essential postulate: a space exists only if it is built. Simplification, substraction and timeless values [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic Tags: Courtyard architecture, ECDM, Random pattern
Paris-based architectural firm Emmanuel COMBAREL Dominique MARREC Architects (ECDM) has recently designed the Cité municipale de Bonneuil-sur-Marne. + Project facts Owner: SADEV 94 on behalf of the City Council Bonneuil sur Marne Project manager / Architect: ECDM Consulting firm structure: EIFFAGE Val de Seine Engineering and design fluid: SNC Lavalin Contractor: EIFFAGE Val de Seine [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Poland, WAMHOUSE
The house interior design has been created with a young, modern family in mind. The building has a lot of glazing, which made it easier to achieve the effect of spaciousness. An additional factor which influences reception of space are bright colours. An element which joins all interiors is whiteness and wood – bleached oak [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Glass, Hans van Heeswijk, Netherlands, Stair, Waterfront architecture
We all occasionally fantasize about our dream home, but few of us ever manage to make it a reality. And how does the architect himself live? In this case, the private home of architect Hans van Heeswijk led to a spacious and light-filled house full of special details. The client and architect Van Heeswijk was [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: nemaworkshop, USA
Over the last decade, coffee shops have been serving up more than a cup of coffee to loyal patrons. From a friendly meeting place to a quiet study room, coffee shops have become an extension of our living room, a place we feel safe to harbour for a few hours while incessantly checking our email, [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Giorgos Sfakianakis, Greece, Kois associated architects
The design is the renovation and the union of two separate neighbouring apartments located in the seaside suburb of Alimos in south east Athens metropolitan area. The design process initiated with extensive talks with the client regarding his life style habits, desires, goals and attitude. The client is an Athenian bachelor with many professional obligations [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Office Tags: COR-TEN, Switzerland, Valerio Olgiati, Workplace
The Bardill Studio building has replaced an old barn in the protected centre of the village of Scharans. Building permission was granted by the local authorities on the condition that the new building would have exactly the same volume as the old barn. The client, Linard Bardill, who lives in a house a very short [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Bin, Jangir Maddadi, Sweden, White
Jangir Maddadi Design Bureau has come out with a new product, The Butler: The Impeccable Bin with Character. Only Jangir Maddadi could design a waste bin that can truly be described as elegant. But that is exactly what he has done. Elegant and unassuming, a butler provides all your needs before you even have to [...]
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