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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Pavilion, Space Group, Superunion, White
As the Central Park in New York was built before the Manhattan grid was condensed around it – RUTEN has remained as a buffer in the urban development in anticipation of something bigger. Sandnes’ historic center was a small-scaled urban structure with the country’s longest shopping street. The new district by the waterfront has another [...]
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Category: Hotel, Interior Tags: Hirsch Bedner Associates, India architecture
HBA continues their rich tradition of integrating faraway cultures with the height of modern luxury with the design of the Park Hyatt Hyderabad. The contemporary, international hotel is situated only minutes from the city’s banking and financial district and represents top of the line luxury to an emerging location. The most distinguishable design feature in [...]
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Category: Architecture, Healthcare, Interior Tags: Australia NewZealand, Clinic, Fluid form, Lighting concept, White
ENTER Projects recently have completed the Medical Centre specialising in the treatment of Autistic Children. At 150sqm, the project was modest in its footprint but sets a clear example of digitally fabricated interiors, and a prototype to see how these projects perform. In early conversations with the client, priorities were quickly realised: 3 radiating treatment [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: 3XN, Cladding, Norway, Stair, White
3XN recently has completed the Plassen Cultural Centre in Norway. The Norwegian city of Molde has just 25,000 inhabitants, but every July the biggest stars of jazz and about 100,000 jazz enthusiasts flock to the town’s world famous international jazz festival. In designing the city’s new cultural center, the challenge faced by 3XN was to create [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Beckmann-N'Thepe, Library
Beckmann-N’Thepe Architects recently has completed the University Library Marne-la-Vallée. The Beckmann-N’Thépé agency chose an audacious strategy for the design of the new Marne-la-Vallée university library, which resembles a mound of earth ‘torn from its natural environment,’ in harmony with its surroundings. ‘Between naturalism and terror, ‘the Marne-la-Vallée Library puts us in touch with our dreams – active, joyous, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Events/News Tags: Arup, Events/News, Waterfront architecture
The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Contemporary Art is to reopen on 29 September in Tjuvholmen, the newest arts district of Oslo. Daylight in Norway, particularly in the winter months, is precious. With this in mind, we designed a roof system that allows as much winter sun in as possible and, through a series of layers, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Complex City, Concrete, Fluid form, Library, Random pattern
A media library, space which preserves and gives access to audio-visual contents, sound documents and video recordings, material considered as cultural testimony with the same value than written documents. Divided between paper and virtual information, it characterizes a reality of a modern way to use space, these places will evolve in a parallel manner to [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Balcony, Baraka, Fluid form
The 6.000 m² plot is located on the edge of the city of Istanbul on the exact interface between the city and the surrounding forest. The first input for the housing complex was the location itself. This spot has been an important dynamic. It is where the urban texture starts to dissolve and the built environment [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Beckmann-N'Thepe, Color architecture, Random pattern, White
This project is part of the scheme to reconsider urban identity in the Centre Urbain, the new neighbourhood that is the emblem of the future Evry. Rows, set back buildings, an interplay of terraces, and “urban windows” create an openness towards the heart of the small island. The heart of the development is a landscaped [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Beckmann-N'Thepe, Concrete, France, Paris, Random pattern, White
Designed by Beckmann-N’Thepe Architects, this is a three-storey private house with basement, facing east/north-east on the rue de Nice and west/sout-west across its courtyard. It is clad in puttycoloured concrete from top to bottom, which makes it look as if it is cut from a single block. Its colour, echoing that of the stone or [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Events/News Tags: Arup, Events/News, Fluid form, Museum, Netherlands, White
The new levitated superstructure contains exhibition space, a restaurant, a shop and the new entrance. Arup is responsible for the structural design and the lighting design. Designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects, the new building, popularly called ‘the Bath Tub’, adds over 9,000m2 to the historic museum building. This includes programme space as well as 3,400m2 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Competition, Mexico
The Architects’ Association of the State of Veracruz launched an open architectural design competition for its headquarters to be located in the city of Cordoba. The mission of the Architect’s Association in Mexico is to promote the architectural profession developed within the highest standards of legal, moral, and responsible practice while promoting professional development, public [...]
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