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Category: Architecture, Industry Tags: Gordon Murray architects, UK, Waterfront architecture
British architectural firm Gordon Murray Architects were commissioned by Forth Energy, a joint venture between Forth Ports Plc and SSE (Scottish Southern Energy) to develop conceptual design proposals for a series of new Biomass Renewable Energy Plants at their ports of Dundee, Grangemouth, Rosyth and Leith in support of Section 36 Applications. The projects have [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic Tags: Albania, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Iconic architecture, Parliment, Skin, Stair
The world-renowned architect Wolf D. Prix/ COOP HIMMELB(L)AU presented The New Parliamentary Complex of the Republic of Albania in Tirana which incorporates fundamental democratic values such as openness, transparency and public co-determination. The building, located on a site area with approximately 28,000 m², is going to be the first project in Albania for the Viennese headquartered [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Atelier Thomas Pucher, Austria, Cladding, Modular design
In Graz, Austria, NIK is the recently completed office building project by Austrian architectural firm Atelier Thomas Pucher & Bramberger. Nikolaiplatz as it stands today was a process of conversional development which took its shape over a period of time. While the architectural style (as well as the desired building density) changed, the site layout [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Architecture Award, Australia NewZealand, Call for entries, Design Award, Events/News
Think Brick Australia is currently accepting interest for the Think Brick Awards 2011. This award aims to encourage designers, architects and students to consider the artistic, environmental, and the versatile features of clay brick use. Think Brick is the leading representer of Australia’s clay brick and paver manufacturers. They aim to ensure, and are committed [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: COR-TEN, Courtyard architecture, Denmark, Kristine Jensens Tegnestue, Public square
Sct Nicolai School Centre from the 1850’ ies is a continuous reincarnation of everything from the traditional Danish school with gyms and schoolyards. With five art houses as the new function the possibility of a new typology of creative and dynamic culture centre emerges. The project evolves with the idea of the schoolyard as the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Balcony, Bates Masi + Architects, Concrete, Landscape architecture, Swimming pool, Timber, USA architecture, Waterfront architecture
Designed by Bates Masi + Architects, the Lion’s Head house was designed to set on a narrow property atop a bluff overlooking Gardiner’s Bay, this house replaces a vacation home shared by two brothers and their families for over 25 years before it was destroyed by fire. Since originally building on the site, new regulations [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Bates Masi + Architects, Cladding, Landscape architecture, Stair, Timber, USA architecture
The client, a New York actor, sought a retreat for relaxation and casual entertaining on a restrictive narrow lot fronting the tidal estuary of Noyack Creek. The house became a study in architectural theatre: a series of spaces in a carefully scripted sequence that subtly reflect his professional life. The path begins at the front [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Bates Masi + Architects, Landscape architecture, Stair, Swimming pool, Timber, USA, USA architecture
American architectural firm Bates Masi + Architects completed the Pryor house located in Montauk, NY. The house occupies a hill in Montauk with a distant view of ocean. A site that the owners, a couple with two young boys, spent years to find. It is the couple’s reprieve from their home in the city, to [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Coates Design, ESD design, Landscape architecture, LEED, Stair, Timber, USA, USA architecture
American architectural practice Coates Design has completed the Ellis Residence in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Ed, house owner, describes the first morning in their home, When I saw the sunrise with the skyline of Seattle as a backdrop the whole process was all worth it. Perched high upon Yeomalt Bluff, the Ellis Residence enjoys a commanding [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Africa, Contemporary architecture, ESD design, Fluid form, Foster + Partners, Lattice screen, Morocco, Nigel Young
The world-renowned architect Foster + Partners have completed their project in Africa with BMCE branches in Morocco. The BMCE flagship branches – our first completed buildings in Africa – reinterpret elements of traditional Moroccan architecture, combining these with a contemporary interior that reflects the Bank’s progressive approach to its customers. This blend of ancient principles [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: A.flo, Mexico, Serrano Monjaraz Arquitectos, White
Casas San Juan is a housing project located in Cuernavaca, Mexico, designed by Mexican architectural practice A.flo. The Project lies in a very dry area in the city of Cuernavaca, Morelos in Mexico. The city was nicknamed the “City of Eternal Spring” by Alexander von Humboldt in the 19th century. One our away from México [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Lattice screen, Leddy Maytum Stacy, Ramp, Tim Griffith, Timber, USA, USA architecture
Commemorating the life of an international leader and educator in the disability rights movement, the Ed Roberts Campus recently opened in Berkeley. When Ed Roberts founded Berkeley’s Center for Independent Living (CIL) in 1972, it was the world’s first organization to be run by and for people with disabilities. After Roberts’s death in 1995, the [...]
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