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Category: Architecture Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, DSBA, Iconic architecture, Skyscrapers, Taiwan, upgradestudio
“FLOATING OBSERVATORIES” Proposal by Dorin STEFAN’s DSBA, Mihai CARCIUN and upgrade.studio wins the “Taiwan Tower” Conceptual International Competition. Starting from the ‘geographical’ visual of Taiwan – which is an island resembling a leaf – we have developed the concept of the technological tree: we have designed 8 spatial leaves (with eight being a propitious number [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: designstudio, Indonesia, Tropical architecture
Indonesia-based architectural firm designstudio has designed the Cigadung House in Indonesia. + Project description courtesy designstudio It is a concept of stacked house/villa approached in an urban site at Jalan Cigadung, Bandung, and West Java, Indonesia. It derives from the ‘crowd’ of its residential complex that challenges us to recreate the program within the site. [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Architecture Award, C. F. Møller Architects, Norway, Random pattern
This summer, C. F. Moller Architects & Space Group / Brisac Gonzalez won the shared first prize in the international architectural competition to design the new opera and culture house in Kristiansund. Congratulation to C. F. Moller Architects who have been selected as final winner. Here are some of new images of the project, or [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Alberto Campo Baeza, Concrete, Landscape architecture, Photography
Carlos Lozano shared with us his recent work of Rufo House which was designed by Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza. + Architect’s statement courtesy Alberto Campo Baeza The brief was to build a house on a hilltop outside of the city of Toledo. The hill faces southwest and offers interesting views of the distant horizon, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, Glass, Green architecture, Hoz Fontan, Random pattern, Skyscrapers, Spain
Spanish architectural firm Hoz Fontan Arquitectos recently has completed the Zaisa Office Tower in Irun, Spain. Located close to the border between Spain and France, the new office tower is the last building of the Zaisa transportation hub in Irun, and houses Zaisa’s headquarters and rental office space. The tower is inserted in front of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Car Park, Concrete, HHF architects, Switzerland
Switzerland-based architectural firm HHF architects, in collaboration with ARchos Architektur designed the Parking Sonvida Basel. The project is located on the outskirts of Basel and is part of a new housing project with different sized villas and small apartment buildings. The underground parking is designed as an underground street (approximately 150m long) which allows to access [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, OODA, OOIIO Architecture, Skyscrapers, Taiwan
Portuguese-based architectural design office OODA & OOIIO win Merit Award in Taiwan Conceptual Tower International Competition. The competition intention was to create a pioneering and innovative design concept which will stand as a new-age landmark and a symbolic voice to the world of Taiwan’s new spirit. The Tower was planned to be at least 300-meter [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel Tags: 3XN, Construction, Denmark, Iconic architecture, Random pattern, Skyscrapers, White
Right now the construction of the Bella Sky hotel in Copenhagen is the largest building site in Denmark. In only 6 months Bella Sky will open as one of Scandinavia’s largest and most spectacular hotels Visually the hotel will be characterized by the two leaning towers, creating a spectacular and unspoiled view over the green [...]
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Category: Architecture, Healthcare Tags: Courtyard architecture, Denmark, Henning Larsen architects
Danish architectural practice Henning Larsen architects has designed the Hospice Søndergaard. The purpose of Hospice Søndergaard was to offer terminal patients as much quality of life and dignity as possible in the concluding part of life. The physical surroundings should be dignifying and inspiring – regardless if you are a patient, nurse or relative. Henning [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Architecture Award, Events/News, USA
HIGH BRIDGE: BRONX, BUILDING CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE. ENYA INTERNATIONAL DESIGN IDEAS COMPETITION EXHIBITION OPENING Exhibition Opening & Book Launch November 11th 2010 5:30– 8:00 PM Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place New York, NY 10012 Free Admission + FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA), AIA New York Chapter, is thrilled to announce [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use Tags: Australia NewZealand, Competition, Peddle Thorp Architects, Random pattern
Australian Architectural Review (AR) recently awarded Peddle Thorp Architects, Melbourne and Sustainable Built Environments (SBE) a commendation for their finalist listed entry in the Proposition 2065 design competition. Jury report The major strengths of this scheme related to the way scale and connectivity have been handled. The fractured volumes of the key buildings were seen [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Contemporary architecture, Courtyard architecture, Stair, Za Bor architects
«House of mister R.» is a clear manifestation of the ‘aesthetic of chaos’, which Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev are so fond of discussing with colleagues and journalists. But ‘chaos’ has a limited presence here. «The accidental rearrangement and (self) organization of form» (as the architects say about their method) turns out to be the [...]
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