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Carlos III Avenue \ AH Asociados

The current urban area of the Carlos III and Roncesvalles avenues were designed for the flow of vehicular traffic. It is a strongly directional area, isotropic along its axes, whose job it is to deliver the greatest amount of traffic flow with the minimum of fuss, where the only difficulties presented along the length of [...]

Illyteca \ Metroarea

Italian studio Metroarea has designed Illyteca in Illy home city Trieste, a prototype of a new colorful series of shop to be built worldwide. It is designed to unify in a single shop the five brands owned by Illy: Illy coffee, Domori chocolate, Dammann Freres tea, Agrimontana jam and bakery products, Mastrojanni wine. Each of [...]

Lot 4 – Gentilly \ ECDM

Paris-based architectural firm Emmanuel COMBAREL Dominique MARREC Architects (ECDM) has designed the new office building Lot 4 – Gentilly. + Project facts Program: office building Owner: SODEARIF Architect: ECDM Location: Gentilly (94) Area: 5250 sq.m. Cost: 10.8 M € Contest: 2011 + All images and drawings courtesy ECDM

Farmyard, 4 houses at Oud-Empel \ HILBERINKBOSCH architects

Due to the demolition of several old sheds a unique plot became vacant in Oud-Empel. Oud-Empel is a small village situated along side embankment of the river Maas. The dike divides the village in two parts: the unsafe waterfront where the smaller labourers cottages are situated and a protected side with the large farms and [...]

Table and chair “rajtuzy” \ WAMHOUSE

Polish design studio WAMHOUSE recently has created the Table and chair “rajtuzy“.

New Headquarters and Production Complex for Pratic \ GEZA

In Fagagna, a town in the province of Udine, in Northern Italy, the new headquarters and production complex for Pratic by GEZA architects Stefano Gri and Piero Zucchi has been recently inaugurated. The building demonstrates architecture’s ability to reinterpret the notion of landscape as well as to redefine the quality of industrial space. The inauguration [...]

GRANDMA Multi-function Chair \ Bora CAKILKAYA

Designer Bora ÇAKILKAYA designed the Multi-function chair for grandmothers. Many of our grandmothers pass their time in their homes with knitting and sewing works. At least, this was the situation in my environment. I wanted to design such a product that will simplify this works of our grandmothers and that will give them the feeling that [...]

New Valer Church \ OOIIO Architecture

A few years ago, the inhabitants of Valer, an quiet Norwegian village not too far from Oslo, surrounded by forests and close to the Swedish border, watched how sadly their ancient wooden church was on fire and got totally destroyed. This is why at the end of 2011, they decided to invite architects from all [...]

Primary school in Welsberg \ Klaus Hellweger

The primary school of Welsberg is located in a scenic mountain village in South Tyrol/ Italy. It is situated in close proximity to an existing secondary school in order to create a schoolcenter where existing infrastructures can be used together. The school is built according to the demands of the New Learning. It offers both [...]

Fire station in Montal \ Klaus Hellweger

Italian architect Klaus Hellweger has completed the fire station. The fire station of Montal is located in a little village in South Tyrol in Italy in proximity of the church and the cemetery. It represents the northern margin of the village. The fire station perpetuates the existing scale of the surrounding houses with a dispersed [...]