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Category: Architecture Tags: Competition, Netherlands, Skyscrapers
Every year, the internationally renowned eVolo Skyscraper Competition takes place. The award seeks to discover young talent, whose ideas will change the way we understand architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments. This year, Benjamin Feenstra and Jelmer Frank Wijnia, two young Dutch designers, won an honorable mention. Their entry; The ‘On [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Random pattern, School, USA, USA architecture, Valerio Dewalt Train
Valerio Dewalt Train Associates has designed the new Laboratory Schools, Early Childhood Center for University of Chicago. Founded by John Dewey in 1886, the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools have been a successful and evolving experiment in an educational model that prioritizes the learning environment as teacher. In 2007, the Schools embarked on one of [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Austria, Courtyard architecture, Franz Architekten, Minimalism, Swimming pool
Streckhof Reloaded is a family house designed by Austria-based firm Franz Architekten. The spatial organization is clearly divided and determined by 3 volumes (parking, living, sleeping) linked up by a glazed passageway. Viewing from the street, the first black box serves as the parking and storage spaces with the entrance located in between. Once entering [...]
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Category: Architecture, Book, Culture, Selected Tags: Concert Hall, Glass, José Marini Bragança, Portugal, White
Portuguese architect José Marini Bragança shared with us his office’s new monographic book, which features some of the works and projects of the architecture office, Marini Bragança. Party Hall is one of the project featured in this book. The building provides a strong relationship with its natural surroundings. To minimise its visual impact, the building [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Sport Tags: Atelier Mauch, Austria, Franz Architekten, Landscape architecture
Franz Architekten, in collaboration with Atelier Mauch have completed the FK Austria Wien Training Academy in Vienna, Austria. The academy training grounds of the junior teams of Austria Vienna – one of the most traditional football clubs in Austria – lies close to the ‘Franz Horr Stadium’. They include a training hall and three grass [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected Tags: Chapman Taylor, Cladding, Color architecture, Iconic architecture, Random pattern, Serbia, Shopping complex
Chapman Taylor has created an iconic UŠCE shopping center in Belgrade, Serbia. It features the sculptured facade which are achieved by the interplay of materials, colour and forms. During the day, natural light floods through the skylight that covers the entire length of the roof, giving life to the elegant theme of the contemporary interior [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Architecture Award, C. F. Møller Architects
The Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum in London, designed by C. F. Møller Architects, has been announced winner of the prestigious 2011 Civic Trust Award. The Civic Trust Awards scheme was established in 1959 to recognise the very best in architecture, design, planning, landscape and public art. Awards are given to projects of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Events/News Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, Events/News, Skyscrapers
WINNERS OF THE 2011 SKYSCRAPER COMPETITION ORGANIZED BY EVOLO MAGAZINE IN NEW YORK CITY eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, along with [...]
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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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