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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Selected Tags: Europen architecture, Features, Foster + Partners, Glass, Modular design, Skin
UK practice architect Foster + Partners has designed a new five-star hotel close to Heathrow Airport – Riva Hotel which to accommodate 577 hotel rooms. The Riva hotel features a distinctive layered glass shell, which floods the public spaces with daylight and contributes to a highly efficient energy strategy. The glass envelope is to act [...]
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Category: Architecture, Installation, Selected Tags: Concrete, Creative design, HHF architects, Iconic architecture, Mexico, South American architecture, View point
Ruta del Peregrino Lookout Point, designed by Swiss architects HHF architects. + Text below provided by HHF architects Context and shape of the building Ruta Peregrino is a path that goes from Ameca to Talpa de Allende, in the State of Jalisco near Guadalajara, Mexico. During holy week, about 2 million people walk along this [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior, Selected Tags: Concrete, ESD design, Features, FKL architects, Green architecture, Stair, Timber
A-House is a single-family house located on a mews lane, in a Victorian suburb of Dublin, designed by Ireland based FKL architects. The house is an exploration of diagonal space within an orthogonal form and the possibilities of integrating environmental concerns at a fundamental level.
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Brazil, Concrete, Marcio Kogan, Minimalism, South American architecture, Swimming pool, Timber
Osler House, designed by Brazil practice architect, Marcio Kogan. The plan of the Osler house is structured by a ground floor volume, a suspended volume and a deck with an outdoor pool. The box of concrete and wood on ground, houses the main suite, a bedroom, bathroom, the utilities area and the garage. The vertical [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: COR-TEN, Courtyard architecture, Frederick Fisher and Partners, Landscape architecture, Steel, Swimming pool, USA architecture
A beautiful private house – Santa Ynez Residence, sitting atop a spectacular ridge with endless views over the Santa Ynez Valley, designed by Los Angeles architects Frederick Fisher and Partners. This truly unique, modern masterpiece graces the landscape with its dramatic design and reflective soul, and is a striking example of the essence of subtle [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior Tags: Kitchen appliances, Lattice screen, Marmol Radziner, Timber, USA architecture
Another beautiful prefab home, designed by Marmol Radziner + Associates. The Palms Residence is located on a narrow, urban lot in Venice, CA. The home looks inward, incorporating covered decks and a small courtyard space, giving the structure a sense of privacy despite its location on an infill lot. The exterior of the home is [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Master Plan, Selected Tags: Competition, ESD design, Europen architecture, Herreros Arquitectos, Museum, Spain, Waterfront architecture
Spanish architect Herreros has been awarded First Prize of the competition for the Munch Area in Oslo, Norway. The design was inspired by Edvard Munch’s statement I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color. + Text below provided by architect, Herreros Arquitectos introduction DIAGNOSIS AND POSSIBILITIES The competition for [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior, Selected Tags: Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Features, Lattice screen, Minimalism, Poland, Stair, Swimming pool, Tamizo architects group
H-house, designed by Poland based architect, Tamizo architects group. The openings in the solid box are well organized and proportioned. Minimal design on the elevation as a result of complying the restrictions of the local law – maximum of 3 different materials on the elevation. + Text below provided by architect, Tamizo architects group Requirements [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior Tags: Concrete, Glass, Landscape architecture, Marmol Radziner, Swimming pool, Timber, USA architecture
Designed by Los Angeles based architect Marmol Radziner and Associates, the Vienna Way residence for a young family, is located on a large, extensively landscaped lot in Venice, CA. Floor to ceiling glazing and outdoor living spaces fully integrate the home within the California native landscape. Working within the restrictions posed by the narrow site, [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, Glass, Japanese architecture, Minimalism, Miyahara Architect Office, Modernism
Japan practice architect, Teruo Miyahara / Miyahara Architect Office recently has completed a private house – House Sz, located in Ibaraki , Japan. Use of internal courtyards to act as buffer zones between the spaces, and also to maximize penetration of the natural daylighting into the interior spaces. + Text below provided by architect, Teruo [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior Tags: A-cero, Concrete, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Folding architecture, Spain
The spanish architecture firm A-cero, directed by Joaquin Torres, has built a new house in the Madrid outskirts that synthesizes the evolution of the studio’s signature design language and its technical experimentation over the last years. The house can be aesthetically inscribed in the series of projects made by the studio since its international expansion, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected Tags: A-cero, Cladding, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Features, Glass, Madrid, Showroom, Spain, Stair
Spain based architect A-cero has designed a contemporary GIBO showroom in Madrid, Spain. The use of contemporary geometrical form to shape the building facade with the big display windows is the feature of this project. + Text below and images provided by architect, A-cero Purity, force, expressiveness; starting from an old construction that has already been [...]
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