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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Competition, ESD design, Folding architecture, Iconic architecture, Sweden, Terminal, Waterfront architecture
C. F. Møller Architects won the competition for the new terminal for Stockholm’s ferry connections to Finland and the Baltics. The terminal will be a landmark for the new urban development Norra Djurgårdsstaden – due to a significant architecture and a significant sustainable profile. As a transit zone the terminal is one of Stockholm’s major [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial Tags: Display design, Exhibition, Fluid form, Klingmann, Showroom
Klingmann Architects and Brand Consultants challenges the approach behind flagship stores. The firm’s plans for flagship stores of the future are recession friendly and reduce overhead costs. The firm understands the psyche of modern consumers, and aims to create an interactive experience for the customer. At their most ideal, they (flagship stores) promote both an [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Mixed Use, Office, Residential Tags: Africa, Bridge, Swimming pool, Vivid architects, Waterfront architecture
Crystal Towers designed by Africa-based firm Vivid architects is conceived as a building that exudes a constant life, energy and glow. The site occupies a strategic position within context of Century City, Cape Town, and this development is seen to play a new pivotal role, an iconic landmark building that would integrate, influence and generate [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, Lebanon, Nabil Gholam
The H Chalet by Nabil Gholam architects was designed to tuck into the steep landscape of Faqra Club, Mount Lebanon, the H Chalet is a vacation home designed to cater for a family of four, with a slight accent to the parent’s activities. Subtle games of hiding, exposing, gazing and peeking shape the dynamics of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Master Plan, Residential Tags: Egypt, Green architecture, Nabil Gholam, Random pattern
Nabil Gholam architects has designed the Cairo Eastown residential project located in the residential area of the Cairo Eastown development; bordered by a pedestrian green spine, the plots are structured around a central green space that is shared between the different clusters. The plots benefit from a strategic view towards a public green space. Project [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Green architecture, Lebanon, Nabil Gholam, Skyscrapers, White
Skygate is the Residential project designed by Lebanon-based architectural practice Nabil Gholam architects. The seducing aspect of Beirut’s juxtaposing architecture, of past and present, traditional and modern creativity sets the milieu for the Skygate development. Located on a hilly promontory of Ashrafieh, Skygate provocatively completes what appears as an urban wall rising in this central [...]
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Category: Architecture, Design, Landscape Tags: Berlin, Installation, Pavilion, Plastic, Plastique Fantastique
This is an interesting design project by Plastique Fantastique that creates public architectural works in the cities using giant plastic bubbles that astonish the public. Plastique Fantastique wishes its architectures to be spacial experiences and platforms for multi-sensorial actions. The plastic-spheres was custom designed for special events worldwide. The visitor can experience the bubble by [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: 36 The Calls Design Competition, Project O, UK, Waterfront architecture
We featured two (Aedas Architects + P+HS Architects) of the shortlisted entries for the 36 The Calls architectural competition run by the Architects Journal with developer Citu. This is another iconic proposal designed by Portuguese architects Project O Arquitectos Associados. + Project description courtesy Project O Arquitectos Associados Concept: Single conceptual volume, formed by the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: FujiwaraMuro, Japanese architecture, Stair, White
Japanese architectural firm FujiwaraMuro Architects recently has completed a small yet contemporary house in Showa-cho, Japan. Showa-cho is a quiet place even though it is downtown. There are many people residency from a long time ago. The design of the residence has a narrow frontage, which is a part of a row house (17.89m ×3.94m). [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Coo Planning, Japanese architecture, Minimalism, Timber, White
Japanese architect Akiyoshi Nakao of Coo Planning designed a house in Hamadera. It is a house where three families who built in Osaka Prefecture Sakai City live. It is located in a still residential area where an old station and the tram named hamadera suwanomori remain. The master bought land for this town where memories [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Courtyard architecture, South Africa, studioMAS
JoziRows in Forest Town, Johannesburg, is one of the latest residential building designed by South African office studioMAS architects + urban designers. The design was based on the ideas in the Courtyards in Oxford project. The project aims to achieve the spacious house with the feeling of safety with openness. It consists of 4 “lock-up-and-go” [...]
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Category: Architecture, Sport Tags: Competition, Iconic architecture, Link-Signatur, NBBJ, Norway, Peter Pran, Stadium
Winning a design competition for the Valerenga Football Club’s new stadium, the team of NBBJ / Link-Signatur / Multiconsult designed a 22,000 seat facility in addition to the Master Plan for the overall site: stadium, public amenities and up to 100,000 square meters of commercial development. The stadium was designed with the ability to expand [...]
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