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Category: Architecture, Commercial Tags: Refurbishment / Extension, Shopping complex, South Africa
+ BRIEF Liberty Promenade was purchased by Liberty Properties in 2004. The existing development consisted of a number of separate buildings on a 22.9 hectare site bounded by AZ Berman Drive to the east and Morgenster road to the north, with the railway line forming the western boundary. The existing shopping centre had a GLA [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Brick, Concrete, H arquitectes, Recycle, Spain, Stair
Located in a pleasant residential neighbourhood, the house is a compact building (almost a cube) surrounded by a 3 meters wide perimeter necessary courtyard, which is the minimum mandatory gap based on current regulations. The pre-existing yard, the swimming-pool and the shed set at the back of the plot are preserved by the express wish [...]
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Category: Architecture, Events/News Tags: Events/News, Exhibition, USA architecture
Tom Sheehan Sketches and Collaborations exhibition from April 20 to May 19.2012 Excerpts of his sketchbooks, Tom Sheehan exhibits a selection of drawings from 1997 to 2012. Sketches as notes, as research or as a condition, are the datum of the carrier of a Parisian creator open to the world. The sketch is the irreducible [...]
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Category: Installation, Landscape Tags: Fluid form, Installation, USA architecture
Most of people, except Korean, may not be familiar with the name of Ahn Chang Ho (1878-1938), also known as Dosan, who was one of many Korean independence activists during Colonial Era. However, the small city in east of USA, Riverside commemorate him along with Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. by providing statues [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Italy, msX2, White, Workplace
Just like a brand new trip, we investigate and look for new realities, new uses, new sensations. The restyling concept for the place where we book this trip aims to transmit to the traveller a different vision from the usual travel agency polychromy and clutter, hardly forcing on shapes, colors and contents simplicity. A simple [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Clock
A digitally crafted ornamental timepiece designed by Angela and Mark Gilbert from Manchester based design studio Gilbert13. “Fable” is a sculptural mantle clock which displays the time in an engaging and captivating way. The classically shaped domed cage frames a tranquil scene, the rotating tree moves with every second gently swaying the swing as time [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: AC-CA, Bridge, Competition, Events/News
Last year, we introduced the calling of [AMSTERDAM] Iconic Pedestrian Bridge Competition. Recently the result is announced, we’re here to publish the top 3 winners and 7 honorable mentions out of 324 proposals. + Judge’s report 1st Place _Nicolas Montesano _Victor Vila _Boris Hoppek Country: Spain Team Type: Architect Registration Number: 039578 The winning project [...]
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Category: Architecture, Sport Tags: Bridge, Fluid form, Margot Krasojevic
Clean CANAL Water is the proposal entry by Margot Krasojevic for the Competition Amsterdam footbridge 2012. Water management is still the most important function of Amsterdam canals. Without them, the city would drown. Circulating the water is also vital for sanitary reasons. In the days when windmills had to do the job, the stench of [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Timber, Waterfront architecture
Tucked against the wall of a natural cliff and right on the water’s edge in Gig Harbor, Washington, this project answered the unique challenges of its site. The footprint for the new structure replaces an old guest house and boathouse, and was limited in its size by an agreement through a regulatory process. The design [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: China, Display design, Fluid form, OOBIQ
OOBIQ Architects tried to artistically interpret women’s most distinctive qualities in its recent interior design project – SCFASHION. SCFASHION store has been open for a few days. The fashion always remains dynamic. The designers practiced the broadest extension of artistic creativity, making this boutique into a fashion set. The sight of the special object, which [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: LEED, Library
Designed by THA Architecture in collaboration with Karin Payson A+D, this new library replaces an outdated facility, completed in 1969, with an enhanced neighborhood branch that celebrates the community’s unique history and culture. The 9,000-square-foot library is part of San Francisco’s voter-approved Branch Library Improvement Program, and is one of only eight new facilities from [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, New York, Stair, Stelle architects, Swimming pool, USA, USA architecture, White
The house is sited on a bluff overlooking the bay within a grove of cedar and locust trees. Discrete volumes of varying public and private functions are organized around an axial promenade, extending to the outdoors. Single story volumes, separated by glass interstitial spaces, were utilized to lessen the overall impact of the structures while [...]
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