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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Australia NewZealand, Courtyard architecture, Phil Darwen, Swimming pool, White
Phil Darwen Design has designed the Serpentine House. This hilltop location cried out for a structure of unparralleled design and unique liveability. The house itself contains virtually no straight walls and instead consists of generous curves and sinuous connecting arcs to create a unique courtyard style design. The entry boasts a crescent shaped intrusion of the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Australia NewZealand, Phil Darwen, Stair, Swimming pool, White
Phil Darwen Design has designed the Kings Beach House. Equivalent to a lavish, five-star resort, this residence occupies one of the best, elevated ocean-view blocks in Kings Beach, Caloundra, with spectacular 280-degree ocean views both north and south over the Pacific. Spread over four palatial levels with a separate guest wing, this home exceeds expectations at [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Transportation Tags: A-001 Architectural Workshop, Bridge, Iconic architecture, Italy
A-001 Architectural Workshop has designed the Museum-Bridge in Venice, Italy. The arch as a string instrument that inspires the structural melody of a bridge in Venice, two points of tension and multiple lines that distribute the forces. This project is the alternative of an uncommon solution: proving that the equilibrium, does not require symmetry. The [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: 10 Design, Architectural video, Kinetic design
Erupting Stability – (Tornado Proof Suburb) By Ted Givens AIA (Design Partner at 10 Design Hong Kong) Isn’t the Wizard of Oz a clear example of the awesome force that a tornado can muster? How can Jaws drive people out of the ocean screaming when a house blown through the sky brings back nostalgic memories? [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: 10 Design, ESD design, Fluid form, Skin, Skyscrapers
With a focused look at sustainability, the Hong Kong-based architecture firm lO has been developing a series of research projects aimed at improving the quality of the built environment. One project, the Indigo Tower, takes an active stance and addresses the problem of urban pollution by helping purify the air of our cities through a [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Germany, LAVA, Refurbishment / Extension
Modernisation of the Berchtesgaden Youth Hostel– Design meets Adventure: Haus Untersberg – now open LAVA‘s reinterpretation of an existing youth hostel has resulted in a completely new type of space. The transformation of the youth hostel is underway! The design is all about the individuality of spaces – LAVA achieved this by the clever reorganisation [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Australia NewZealand, Color architecture, Kitchen appliances
This pavilion at the rear of the large Edwardian house faces directly west, a striking colourful screen was devised to filter the heat load, views to neighbouring properties, provide privacy and to animate interior spaces with a lovely warm afternoon glow through the coloured glass louvres. The copper clad building was designed to graft onto [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: ESD design, Landscape architecture, Swimming pool, USA architecture
Cascading Creek House was conceived less as a house and more as an extension and outgrowth of the limestone and aquifers of Central Texas. The primary formal gesture of the project inserts two long native limestone walls to the sloping site, serving as spines for the public wing and private wing of the house. The [...]
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Category: Master Plan Tags: Architecture Award, AWP, France, Paris, Public square
AWP has won the competition to deliver a master plan for the development of all urban spaces in the La Défense central business district, Paris. Our vision at this stage of the process consists in developing, as the major point, spatial continuity with as few separate elements as possible… This spatial continuity is the provison [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: Concrete, Shelter, Switzerland
The market square’s new cover represents a sensitive approach to urban planning that is as much an engineering feat as a challenge for the town planners. The aim has been to combine nature and novel architecture to create a harmonious and symbolic whole that is adapted to all the activities associated with Renens’s town centre. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Concrete, Mexico, Random pattern
In the northern section of Polanco, one of the modern districts of Mexico City, an area with high growth potential and current vitality which is also to become one of the most emblematic places in the city, stands Cervantes Saavedra 639, a new mixed-use project designed by the Mexican firm ZD + A, whose leader [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: ASPECT Studios, Australia NewZealand, Public square
ASPECT Studios has just completed a transformation of the public domain of Darling Harbour. This public domain project, commissioned by SHFA and Lend Lease now known as Darling Quarter, is a major place-making project for Sydney with a world class children’s playground as its centre piece. At over 4000m2 it is the largest in the [...]
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