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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Competition, Complex City, Fluid form, France, Lattice screen, Perforated, School, Switzerland, White
Dress Code is an elementary school designed for the community of Fréchy in SWITZERLAND. It is surrounded by farming areas and nearby hills. Under the idea that once the program and the function are defined, the architect’s job consists in dressing up architecture; Dress Code was conceived. It gives a major importance to the facades [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: France, Lattice screen, Random pattern, Timber, TVK
Trévelo & Viger-Kohler architectes (TVK) has designed the Boomerang House located in Sèvres, France. + Project description by Trévelo & Viger-Kohler architectes The Maison de Sèvres sits on a parcel of exceptional character. It is a square garden, 22 meters on each side, invisible from the street, but that one discovers with surprise at the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Cladding, Fluid form, France, Glass, School, TVK
In Arcueil (Paris Suburbs, France), due to its site condition that surrounded by residential blocks, Trévelo & Viger-Kohler architectes (TVK) has maximized the accessibility and visibility, while giving an strong identity to this Groupe Scolaire school project. Considering the diversity of the surrounding architecture and other elements, we propose a continuous, homogeneous and calm form. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected Tags: Balcony, Bar Lounge, Concrete, Counter-Design, Korea, Stair
In Seoul, Bikyoshoki is a 4 story mixe-used building designed by Jae K. Kim of Counter-Design (Architecture CODE) to accommodate a bar, café and apartment. The goal of this project is to make people to have a similar experience to climbing a small mountain through their movement in relation to architectural form and space. Jae [...]
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Category: Master Plan Tags: Eriksen Skajaa Architects, Norway, Waterfront architecture
Eriksen Skajaa Architects did an urban study for the municipality of Askøy at the west coast of Norway. Its a development of an old industrial site by the harbor into dwellings. Eriksen Skajaa Architects worked with the existing qualities in the harbour and made a dense conglomeration of wooden houses with a wide range of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: André Espinho, FG+SG, Portugal, School
Portuguese architectural firm André Espinho Arquitectura has designed the School Center Paredes – Alenquer. School Center Paredes is composed of a white volume resting on four black volumes, thus marking the separation between floors. The majority of the project works around the creation of three patios/playgrounds and the relationship of the building with the slope [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Architecture Award, Art Gallery, BIG, Competition, Fluid form, Greenland, Iconic architecture, Landscape architecture
Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, in collaboration with TNT Nuuk + Ramboll Nuuk + Arkitekti have won the competition to design Greenland‘s New National Gallery. The Danish functionalistic architecture in Nuuk is typically square boxes which ignore the unique nature of Greenland. We therefore propose a national gallery which is both physically and [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Folding architecture, Garduño Arquitectos, Mexico, Stair, Swimming pool
Mexico-based Garduño Arquitectos recently has completed the Alpes House in Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico. We decided to use concrete as our main language, dialoguing with the natural context as well as the different spatial, functional and mood necessities. The color of the concrete was made to match a sample of “tepetate” (a brittle volcanic rock), [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Switzerland, TOPOTEK 1
German landscape architecture studio TOPOTEK 1 has designed the Sports Facility Heerenschürli, it is one of the largest sport facility in Zurich, Switzerland. + Project description by TOPOTEK 1 The Heerenschürli sports facility, one of the largest in Zurich, is located between a nature reserve, a highway crossing, residential housing and large-scale industrial buildings. It [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Belgium, Iconic architecture, Religious architecture
TOWER 2.0 designed by PLANCONTROL wins the first prize at the “A_TA 2010 Architecture Annual” with the contest solution for Antwerp cathedral’s second tower. Tower 2.0 is therefore very much present on its user’s minds, yet it remaining absent for those who chose not to look at it. Daniel Tellman, PLANCONTROL + Project description by [...]
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Category: Installation Tags: Atelier Oslo, AWP, Glass, Iconic architecture, Norway, Pavilion, Wood
French-Norwegian team AWP + Atelier Oslo has won the SANDNES / LANTERN international competition. It was opened on the occasion of Stavanger (NO) being european capital of culture, and further nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe prize. The Lantern proposal displays an open roof of such dimension that it becomes the symbol of this [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Architecture Award, BIG, Competition, Courtyard architecture, Iconic architecture, New York, Skyscrapers, USA, USA architecture, Waterfront architecture
Durst Fetner Residential selects BIG to design 600-unit residential building on W57th Steet in Manhattan, New York. The building is conceived as a cross breed between the Copenhagen courtyard and the New York skyscraper. The communal intimacy of the central urban oasis meets the efficiency, density and panoramic views of the tall tower in a [...]
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