Architects of Inbo in the final of the open ideas Competition for the Washington Monument Grounds in Washington D.C., USA. Jacques Prins, Kevin Battarbee and Egidijus Kasakaitis, architects of the Dutch multidisciplinary office Inbo, have proceeded to the third and final round with their proposal “Monument of Unity”. The task given to competitors by the [...]
Shared by Italian firm STUDIO 06, this project is to redesign a new city hall in Borgaro Torinese, near Turin, Italy. + Architect: STUDIO 06 srl (Roberto Guadrini, Massimo Guglielmotto, Paolo Mattiolo) + Collaborator: Roberto Raglia + All images courtesy STUDIO 06
metamorphOse, a group of 5 young Belgian architects in Brussels, have proposed «Synapse» as their competition entry for Brussels Courthouse Contest: imagine the future. The «Synapse» has been chosen as one of 30 finalist proposals out of 200. The exhibition of this contest takes place in BOZAR, Brussels, from the 31st of March to the [...]
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 [...]
Spanish architectural studio Diaz and Diaz Architects, in collaboration with Antonio Desmonts Sierra have completed the Building of Control CCS of the Outer Harbour of Ferrol for Port Authority of Ferrol-San Ciprián. As the prow of a ship ready to weigh anchor and set sail, on the hammer of the main dock of the Outer [...]
The winning proposal for Denmark‘s new state prison on the island of Falster: The prison is uniquely designed as a small village and integrates several landscape features, among other things animal husbandry, within the perimeter wall. C. F. Møller Architects has won the competition to build a new, closed state prison on the island of [...]
Brazil-based AUM arquitetos won the competition for the headquarters of the Regional Council of Administration of Santa Catarina. + Architect’s statement by AUM arquitetos The strategy of implementation of the Regional Council of Administration of Santa Catarina was based on the exploitation of the topography and its potential visual axes. The program is distributed in [...]
Danish practice 3XN has won the competition to design the Frederiksberg Courthouse located in Copenhagen, DK. The facade is designed as an expression of the structure’s solidity, which to create a better relationship with the existing building and the surroundings in the neighbourhood of Frederiksberg. The new Courthouse will be a natural extension of the [...]
David Chipperfield Architects’ 2002 winning project Barcelona & L’Hospitalet de Llobregat City of Justice has been recently completed, it has been programmed into 9 buildings with the total GFA of 240,000 square metre, four of the buildings house courtroom, office spaces and are linked by a continuous four-storey high concourse building. The principal proposition of [...]
Kortrijk Central Library in Belgium is a competition winning project designed by New York-based architecture firm REX. The design combines functions of Library, Life-Long Learning Center and Music Center. The new combination was named the project “LLLibrary”. + Project description courtesy of REX REX and Principal in Charge Joshua Prince-Ramus have been named the winner [...]
Norway-based Kristin Jarmund Architects has designed The Royal Norwegian Embassy located in Kathmandu, Nepal. The aim of the projects was to create a representative yet modest building which presents Norway in a modern and quality conscious way…This form gives the house a” face” while at the same time allowing the rooms on the first floor [...]
Spanish architect Jon Tugores recently has designed a new contemporary church located in Barcelona, Spain. 2 distinct glass boxes designed to symbolize between the city and the sky. + Project description courtesy of Jon Tugores Designing the project of a church without using traditional and rhetorical arguments that are easily understood by the public, was [...]
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
