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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Mixed Use, Office, Residential Tags: Chapman Taylor, Folding architecture, Iconic architecture, London, Shopping complex, Turkey
London-based Chapman Taylor has designed the The Mall of Istanbul. This mixed-use development forms a strong sculptural statement set within a lush, green, landscaped environment. The Mall of Istanbul comprises a mix of uses – retail, leisure, offices, hotel and residential. The development concept is inspired by existing geographic streetscapes within Istanbul to create an [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Glass, Mexico, REC Arquitectura, Stair
Petatglass is an interesting project done by REC Arquitectura. Creating a certain level of comfort is the main concern for the project while avoiding the use of conditioning air. It is a good attempt of using the traditional raw material that applied on the wall which is usually used for roof covering, it created a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Art Gallery, Mexico, REC Arquitectura, School
REC Arquitectura has designed the Art Center UAEM located in Morelos, Mexico. + Project description by REC Arquitectura The university of Morelos is located within a special region in Cuernavaca in regard of altitude, vegetation and topography, which summed up to its programmatic requirements, resulted in a design strategy focused on the idea of a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Landscape architecture, Library, Mexico, REC Arquitectura
Mexico-based firm REC Arquitectura has designed the Central Library in Morelos, Mexico. + Project description by REC Arquitectura The building complex is conceived in sub elements, each element rationally positioned and connected to one another with three generating ideas: culture, cultivation and domesticity. The wagons: Volumes dedicated to book collection and reading rooms with clean [...]
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Category: Master Plan Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, Foster + Partners, Hong Kong
After the year-long public consultation in Hong Kong, Henry Tang, Hong Kong’s chief secretary and chairman of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, announced that Foster + Partners‘ ‘City Park‘ conceptual masterplan has been selected for West Kowloon Cultural District. The project is considered to be the largest cultural initiative in the world today. The [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, CiRCA Architecture, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Landscape architecture, Waterfront architecture
Australian architectural firm CiRCA Architecture has designed the Saffire project located in this beautiful Great Oyster Bay in Tasmania, Australia. The resort is also organic in its relationship to the site. Its form evokes memories of coastal land forms, dunes, waves or sea creatures. The journey moves from the monumental to the more intimate personal [...]
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Category: Master Plan Tags: China, China architecture, Populous
Populous has won the competition to design the mater plan for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China. + Project description by Populous The master plan for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China has been awarded to Populous, the world’s pre-eminent firm for the design of sporting special events including Olympic Games, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Library, Mexico, Serrano Monjaraz Arquitectos, Theater
Serrano Monjaraz Arquitectos has designed the Pabellón Cultural de la República located in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, México. It is a cultural unit formed by five buildings communicated by circulations that the visitors can use to go from one building to the other or just for an outdoors walk. Surrounding a central garden the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Glass, Mexico, Migdal Arquitectos, Skyscrapers
Mexico city-based architectural firm Migdal Arquitectos has completed the Plaza Residences. The shape of the building gives richness and movement to the urban context. Plaza Residences becomes a sculpturesque object that acts as a showcase that defines the Monument to Columbus on one of the most sightly corners of Avenida Reforma. Migdal Arquitectos + Project [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Lattice screen, StudioArch
Italian firm StudioArch/AgostinoMarinoni has design the Villa Aget. Realising the problem of these space limitations, I have decided to underline this sad reality through the concept, almost figurative, of a tape that moves inside of these limits. This tape bend and fold for functional and energetic reasons forming, sometimes, a sunscreen and other times catching [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry Tags: Competition, Green architecture, Hinton Cook Architects, Power station, UK
Hinton Cook Architects has designed the Biomass Power Station. The approach was taken to create an attractive building, which will sit comfortably within its surroundings, is sensitive to its Green Belt location and will act as an exemplar of architectural and environmental design. + Project description by Hinton Cook Architects THE SITE Situated in a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry Tags: Contemporary vernacular, Farm, Glass, Hinton Cook Architects, Refurbishment / Extension, UK, Wood
UK-based architectural firm Hinton Cook Architects have worked with the Milton Keynes Parks Trust to transform a grade II listed barn into something special. Incorporating modern elements to further highlight the original traditional beauty of this once derelict barn. + Project description by Hinton Cook Architects Located in the historic railway town of Wolverton, this [...]
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