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Category: Architecture, Industry, Interior Tags: ACXT, Folding architecture, Spain, Workplace
Scheme and Conditioning Factors A complex of 3 buildings and landscaping destined for R&D+i in the Automotive Sector. Two of the buildings are intended for use as Development Units (halls) with laboratories and small-scale production. The third, the Main Building, houses research units of various companies in the automotive sector, a laboratory (for common projects [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Glass, Lattice screen, Tetrarc, Timber
Tétrarc proposal for those 39 social housing shapes as 11 “Houses” gathered side by side. The resultant continuous volume describes a light 21 degrees inflexion on its half, creating two distinct households. As the first one contains 6 rental houses, the second one is dedicated to the 5 sold houses. In order to optimize the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Cladding, Color architecture, Concert Hall, Concrete, Cultural center, Refurbishment / Extension, Skin, Tetrarc
On the “île de Nantes”, La Fabrique takes place on one side of the previous Dubigeon warehouse, near the Alstom warehouse ( the upcoming centre of the “Quartier de la Création”) and the old shipyard turned to great gardens. This context gave Tétrarc the opportunity to gather the recalls of a place abandoned by History [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Ake E.son Lindman, Auditorium, Cladding, Concert Hall, Concrete, Fluid form, Performing Arts Center, Random pattern, Sweden, Wingardh arkitektkontor
Spira has four different performing arts venues: a main concert hall that seats 910, a 450-seat theater, a 200-seat black box, and a 200-seat café stage. The building is situated on an artificial peninsula jutting out into Lake Munksjön, right in the center of downtown Jönköping. The layout follows from a foyer that opens to [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: BIG, Canada, Courtyard architecture, Random pattern, Skyscrapers
The 490-foot-tall Beach and Howe mixed-use tower by BIG + Westbank + Dialog + Cobalt + PFS + Buro Happold + Glotman Simpson and local architect James Cheng marks the entry point to downtown Vancouver, forming a welcoming gateway to the city, while adding another unique structure to the Vancouver skyline. BIG’s proposal, named after [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Concert Hall, Goettsch partners, Music center, USA architecture
GOETTSCH PARTNERS DESIGNS NEW MUSIC BUILDING FOR NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Groundbreaking for new home of Bienen School of Music to be held in May Architecture firm Goettsch Partners (GP) has designed the signature building that will be the new home of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music and provide additional space for the School of Communication [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Architectural video, Future Cities Lab, USA, Waterfront architecture
Future Cities Lab recently completed speculative interactive proposal: HYDRAMAX. The drawings and interactive model are currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as part of their ‘Utopian Impulse’ show. HYDRAMAX proposes a radical rethinking of the relationship of San Francisco to its waterfront post sea-level rise as a machinic, biotic and productive [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Lattice screen, Refurbishment / Extension, Spark, Thailand, Workplace
Fai-Fah, which means “light energy”, is a corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme initiated in April 2010 by TMB Bank. The programme acts as a catalyst for change in Thai society through working with underprivileged children and teenagers in their community using the arts as a vehicle for self-development and creative thinking. In October 2010, Spark [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected Tags: Cladding, Folding architecture, Malaysia, Shopping complex, Spark
Starhill Gallery is perhaps Kuala Lumpur’s most iconic shopping mall, featuring an extraordinary array of luxury shops and fine dining restaurants. Spark’s design proposal dealt with the reinvention of the existing façade of Starhill Gallery facing Bukit Bintang. This reinvention of Starhill Gallery is designed by Stephen Pimbley, founding director of Spark and the architect [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Childcare center, Color architecture, illiz architektur, Kindergarten, MAGK, Random pattern, White
An influx and increasing birth rate in the community situated to the south of Vienna called for the creation of more, particularly state-of-the-art child care facilities. Therefore a competition tender submission for a new child care centre was issued in 2008. The existing 19th century ‘Gründerzeit’ school was to be extended by eight primary school [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Austria, Cladding, Franz Architekten, Random pattern, Reflective pool, School
one (school) for all Central and still removed from the heavy traffic of the federal highway one can find the most important public institutions of Deutsch-Wagram lined up along a footpath: city administration, kindergarten, primary and secondary schools. In order to enable school education up to university entrance qualification, the municipal council decided the erection [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: aceboXalonso, Angel Acebo & Victoria Alonso, Architectural video, Lighting concept, Museum
Shared by animation studio 24studio, this is their latest audio-visual production of the project National Museum of Science and Technology in La Coruña for architects Angel Acebo & Victoria Alonso. + Project facts Nacional Museum of Science and Technology La Coruña. Spain Client: FECYT (FUNDACION ESPAÑOLA DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA) Architects: Angel Acebo & Victoria [...]
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