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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Contemporary architecture, Ecuador, Landscape architecture, South American architecture, WE Architecture
Denmark-based studio WE Architecture has designed the +House located in Puerto Cayo, Ecuador. The house is composed of two linear volumes intersecting each others, one of the volumes is placed perpendicular on the coast line, following the terrain down the slope and the other is places along the same high of the hill crossing the [...]
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Category: Culture, Interior Tags: China, Fluid form, MET Studio
Multi-award-winning masterplanners and exhibition designers MET Studio have been commissioned to create three galleries for China’s new Ningbo Science Exploration Centre, due to open in Spring 2012. The 50,000 sq m new-build centre will house six permanent galleries in total, across two storeys, and MET Studio (in a joint undertaking between the company’s London and [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Courtyard architecture, Landscape architecture, PAR, USA, USA architecture, White
American studio Platform for Architecture + Research has designed the Desert House located in La Quinta, USA. We aimed to contain land disturbance by siting the villas within their natural topography as much as possible. We also developed more compact building footprints by increasing outdoor living spaces that take advantage of the temperate, sunny climate. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Office Tags: AS/D, Glass, Mexico
Mexican architectural firm AS/D designed the PSJ building located at the commercial strip of Tlalnepantla, Estado de Mexico. + Project description by AS/D The Building has been designed to allocate both retail and office space in a 900 square meter site located at the commercial strip of Tlalnepantla, Estado de Mexico. The building has two [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Biselli + Katchborian, Brazil, Color architecture, Concrete, Reflective pool
Brazil-based architectural studio Biselli + Katchborian architects completed the Center of Arts and Education of Pimentas in São Paulo, Brazil. + Architect’s statement by Biselli + Katchborian architects The Center of Arts and Education of Pimentas is located in Guarulhos, in Pimentas neighborhood, a place with few community equipment directed to education, leisure and sports. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic Tags: Architecture Award, C. F. Møller Architects, Competition, Denmark
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic Tags: AUM arquitetos, Brazil, Competition, Random pattern
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: dom arquitectura, Pablo Serrano Elorduy, Spain, Swimming pool, White
Spanish architect Pablo Serrano Elorduy has designed a private house in Menorca. + Architect’s statement by Pablo Serrano Elorduy Being a summer house, the main idea is not only creating the interior spaces of the house, but distribute all outer space. The interior spaces seek good relations with the outside world, colonizing their surroundings and [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Atelier 11, China, China architecture, Concrete, Construction, Religious architecture
Designed by the Chinese architecture studio Atelier 11, this is a church located in Pan Long Gu, a national scenic area at Ji County in the city of Tianjing, China. As a religious facility built for a neighboring Spanish-style residential development, the design of the church takes the reference from the European architectural language and [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Courtyard architecture, Glass, LEED, Random pattern, USA, USA architecture
In Portland, Oregon, the Cyan/PDX Building by THA Architecture and GBD Architects has recently opened its doors to offer urban residents a new mode of high density, sustainable living in the heart of downtown. As a LEED Gold-certified high rise, Cyan meets a growing demand for an environmentally conscious, affordable urban lifestyle. Through strategic detailing [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, Sweden, Visiondivision
Nature’s Choice, is one of the latest project Sweden-based architectural firm Visiondivision designed to to blend in with the surrounding nature in the north of Sweden. On the site lies also an old bunker which was constructed to prevent a potential invasion from the Russians. The bunker also had to be discreet when built, but [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Architecture Award, Atelier Thomas Pucher, Austria, Competition, Concert Hall, Fluid form, Performing Arts Center, Theater
Austrian architect Atelier Thomas Pucher has won the international competition for the new seat of the world renowned Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra in Warsaw. The 20.000m2 cultural centre is housed on the site of a former Veterinary Institute with existing – yet asleep – buildings and a fairy tale park. The centre inhabits a 1.800 seat [...]
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