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Category: iPhone/iPad app Tags: Architectural video, Publication
I believe you’ve got Edition29 ARCHITECTURE on your Ipad, Edition29 has just released another new iPad app: Edition29 STRUCTURES. This new iPad magazine series focuses on incredibly interesting structures from around the world. This first issue includes interviews with noteworthy new architects such as Neil Denali and the HL23 in NYC. The highlight of this [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Courtyard architecture, Glass, Italy, Stair, Translucent
The new Cultural Center in Ranica, medieval town near Bergamo in Northern Italy, contains a public library, an auditorium, a kindergarten, and a school for dance and theater. With its 2.000 square meters, the Center is conceived as a new catalyst of urban life. Not only is the building a laboratory for education and information, [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Division1, Refurbishment / Extension, Stair, Steel
8030 is located in an industrial site in Silver Spring, MD. The site has been retrofitted with café’s, and artist’s studios. There has also been a surge of condominium construction around the sites periphery. The site acts as a hinge between residences, retail, and 2 major streets. The stairs act as a focal point while [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected Tags: Bar Lounge, Color architecture, Division1, Restaurant, USA architecture
The restaurant captures American and Chinese Cultures through layers of decorative design elements. Conceptualized around different dining experiences within the same restaurant, the rectangular space is sliced into three different zones, with each providing its own unique dining hall. Each zone [Bar, Communal and Dining] is separated through a design element, such as color, a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Concrete, Division1, Stair, USA architecture
Division1 has designed the Lacey condominium building located in Washington, DC. Program The Lacey is a 26-unit, four level, 25,000 SF residential building organized around a three-level central corridor/atrium. Outdoor space is ample with a communal second floor terrace and rooftop, as well as private balconies, courtyards, and terraces for the units. Neighborhood The Lacey [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Foster + Partners, Lebanon, Skyscrapers
3Beirut – the first project designed by Foster + Partners to break ground in Lebanon – is revealed on 9 June. Responding directly to the site and culture of Beirut, the scheme will create a sustainable residential and retail development of international quality. The development will also strengthen Beirut’s role as a centre for tourism, [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Balcony, Division1, USA architecture
The W Street Residence is organized into three levels: the first level functions as an office, guest quarters, or rental studio with access from within the main house and the street; the second level comprises the main living/social space and is defined by an open plan that extends beyond the perimeter wall to become an [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Division1, Refurbishment / Extension, USA architecture
Designed by American architecture firm Division1, the ¾ acre site of the Roberts Residence is bound by, a residential street along its west edge, single-family detached residences on adjacent lots to the north and south, and a wooded park towards the rear. At the front of the site along the street edge the site drops [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, France, LAN Architecture, Random pattern, Stair, Wood
French architects LAN (Local Architecture Network) recently has completed 5 buildings complex of student accommodation located in Paris, 18 Arrondissement. The driving idea guiding our project stems from the challenge of responding to the necessity for urban integration and creating optimum comfort for the residence’s occupants in a convivial and intimate environment. LAN The context [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: C+S Associati, Courtyard architecture, ESD design, Glass, Green architecture, Italy, School
In Ponzano Veneto, Italy, C+S Associati designed the Ponzano Primary School for 375 children aged from 6 to 10. It has 15 classrooms and special classrooms for art, music, computer, language and science, a gymnasium, a canteen and a library. Inside the sprawl of the Veneto Region, where Ponzano is settled, this Primary School constitutes a [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: AQSO, Folding architecture, Ireland, Lattice screen
A Spain and China based young architectural firm AQSO arquitectos office has designed the Burke House in Galway, Ireland. In a country like Ireland, where many families live in private houses with a courtyard, extensions are a very common way to adapt the residence to new family situations. This house stands in a low density [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: Jesús Torres, Spain
Spanish architect Jesús Torres García recently has completed the Lorca’s Square located in Salobreña, Spain. + Architect’s statement by Jesús Torres García Spanish “LOW-TECH”*1 It was the first week of April in 2009, the journal EL PAÍS had a strange headline: “The capitalism has become a corpse”, it was Santiago Niño Becerra, IQS’s Professor, in [...]
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