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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Fluid form, Germany, UNStudio
Ben van Berkel / UNStudio‘s Centre for Virtual Engineering (ZVE) realised and receives Gold certification from the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB). The Centre for Virtual Engineering (ZVE) is a prime example of what I like to refer to as ‘attainabilty’. The building combines the affordable with the sustainable through a combination of its compact [...]
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Category: Architecture, Sport Tags: Color architecture, Ethiopia, LAVA, Random pattern, Stadium
Football and athletics-loving Ethiopians will have a new FIFA and Olympic-standard 60,000 seat stadium in Addis Ababa thanks to a competition winning design combining local identity with new technology. LAVA, the Laboratory for Visionary Architecture, and Designsport collaborated with local Ethiopian firm JDAW to win the international architecture competition for a national stadium and sports [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Folding architecture, Prefab, Slovenia
COODO has developed the group of the modular units which consists of multifunctional pavilion, pergola, summer kitchen, mobile living units and residential building. COODO MODULAR UNITS Nowadays we are noticing growing changes in people’s lifestyles that call for new forms of dwelling. The space is becoming more and more valuable and residential architecture is rapidly [...]
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Category: Book Tags: Publication, Thomas Heatherwick
Thomas Heatherwick: Making is the first comprehensive monograph on one of the world’s most innovative designers. Only two decades into his career, Briton Thomas Heatherwick has been heralded as one of the most original creative talents in years. His retrospective solo exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum runs from May 31 – September 30 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Healthcare, Selected Tags: Austria, Clinic, Mirror, x architekten
Austria-based architectural firm x architekten recently has completed PARKPRAXIS, which is a country doctor’s practice with in-house pharmacy located in Austria. Task Dr. Fehrmann decided to build her new practice in the centre of the lower Austrian community of Kasten. The community’s centre consists of buildings which surround a green park on three sides. On its [...]
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Category: Installation, Master Plan Tags: Berlin, Germany, Green architecture, Peter Ruge Architekten
“Bambooline berlin” by Peter Ruge Architekten is a sustainable development strategy for Berlin, it is exhibited and supported by the GALLERY DEN. Brief The bambooline berlin explores the cities urban development and proposes a new approach for the temporary, interim use of sustainable urban wasteland. A new, imaginary band complements the historically developed lines of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Installation Tags: Competition, Pavilion
Ubicuo Diseño + Deriva Colectivo proposed the Architecture Pavilion for the competition of Arhitekton magazine. + Project statement Our intention was to forget about formal aspects of the skin of the pavilion, we were interested more in what could happen inside of that relatively small container (12.0 x 3.60 x 4.0 mts), in their surroundings [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Japan, Japanese architecture, Minimalism, Naoko Horibe, Stair, Timber, White
Japanese architect Naoko Horibe recently has completed the House in Kyobate, Japan. This home for a family with young children centers around a Japanese-style mezzanine with tatami flooring. Extending out into the first floor living/dining/kitchen area, and with a view of both that room and the second floor children’s rooms, the mezzanine serves to link [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic Tags: Landscape architecture, Prison
OOIIO Architecture recently has designed the Female Prison in Iceland. How to build a prison that doesn’t look like a prison? For designing this project we decided to start asking to people that lives and work on real prisons. That was the first step on the design process!. And we end up with the conclusion [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Ghirardelli architetti, Italy, Stair, Timber
HOUSE WITH ONE WINDOW The project consists of a single compact and clear volume divided into three indipendent units; is a three storeys building and a basement. The idea of this residential building is to have block with the aim of creating the feeling of being as a piece of solid wood; idea that comes [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Ghirardelli architetti, Italy, White
Italian architectural practice Ghirardelli Architetti has recently completed a house in Rimini, Italy. + Project facts Type: Residential Location: Rimini (Italy) Building status: built in 2011 Site size: 400 m2 Site type: urban Building area: 176 m2 Company: Ghirardelli Architetti Website: www.ghirardelliarchitetti.it Photographer: Valentina Bove Project Leader: Giancarlo Ghirardelli (architect) Team: Delphine Chouaib (architect), Mario [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: France, h2o, Paris, Random pattern
The client’s specific request for this press conference room was to create a project that would be both contemporary and timeless in order to match the Institution that it would represent. h2o Architectes aimed to transform this “technical tool” into a space of representation and communication for the Minister and its politicians. A high number [...]
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