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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Concrete, Courtyard architecture, Korea, Lattice screen, Stair, Timber, Wood
South Korean design architect Sae Min Oh 0f bang by min emerging design group designed the H-House (Hyun Deok Jae). It was awarded ‘The 30th Seoul Architecture Prize in 2012’ and ‘Korea Interior Design Best Awards 2012’. Located at the alley of Seongbuk-dong where community of village has formed for a long time, ‘H-House’ is [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Spain
The intervention develops the necessary adaptions to reuse an old abandoned building like a senior residence. We propose a better relation between the garden-courtyard space and the building by itself, and the improvement of the principal access. We facilitate the movements in the parcel with clarity for its users. The access to the hall is [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Courtyard architecture, FG+SG, Portugal, Stair, White
The 2 storey house is located on an 8 x 40 meters (24 x 120 feet) lot in the historical urban fabric of the city of Cartaxo, Portugal. It presents itself as a white volume over a transparent ground floor. A central patio and a garden allow the light to enter the different spaces of [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Austria, Landscape architecture, White
SITUATION The woodside property which slopes down steeply to the Danube lies at the foot of the Pöstlingberg – surrounded by woods, fields and orchards – at the end of the settlement street. The forest protection zone and the development plan only allow the building to be situated in the north-eastern part of the property. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Concrete, Enrique Abascal Arquitectos, Waterfront architecture
The port of Barbate, a few miles from Cape Trafalgar, is the nearest sheltered point in the coast near the western side of the Strait of Gibraltar, and anchorage area prior to pass of the strait. In the western side of the port is situated the nautical-sports area, based on docks that protect the sea [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: China architecture, Nomad Office Architects
NOA is commissioned to design the R&D headquarters for Rastar. In collaboration with Greendwell, the design takes an environmental approach from the beginning to drive building form and envelope design, the objective is to optimize building performance and human comfort in the context. Unlike the conventional large and deep office floor plate in the industrial [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Donner Sorcinelli Architecture, Korea, Landscape architecture
The surrounding hills, with their pleasant scenery and colors, were the cornerstone of the entire creative process around which developed the project. The decision to base the morphology of the house on a residential primary archetype, was in fact created by the conceptual abstraction of forms in the local urban morphology, according to the principle [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Donner Sorcinelli Architecture, Korea, Landscape architecture, White
The butterfly house is located near green hills, in the country of Gapyeong (50 km north east from Seoul), which cultural and environmental context has deeply influenced the concept of the building. A building is considered sustainable according to how well it integrates with the natural elements of the surrounding landscape and with the habits [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: BIG, Iconic architecture, Skyscrapers
BIG is commissioned by Novawest to design a 420 ft tall mixed-use observation tower to serve as a symbol for the city of Phoenix, Arizona. Located in downtown Phoenix, the 70,000 sf Observation Tower shall add a significant structure to the Phoenix skyline from which to enjoy the city’s spectacular views of the surrounding mountain [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Zoo
HHF and BURCKHARDT+PARTNER are delighted to present their input to the competition “Zoo Basel Ozeanium”. AN OZEANIUM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY Zoo Basel is embedded in the city and used as a park by residents and visitors. The redesigning of the green area Nachtigallenwäldeli and the construction of the new Ozeanium, an ocean [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: France, Tetrarc
MERVAU BY TETRARC: A WELL THOUGHT-OUT URBAN RENOVATION In Saint-Gilles Croix de Vie, a well known Atlantic port, Tetrarc is undertaking a social housing project with Vendée overtones, Mervau. After having reviewed the housing site (Arborea), its classification (Playtime) and its services (Boreal), and its construction using the wood option (Rosa Park), Tetrarc is giving [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: France, Tetrarc
Situated in southern France, Nîmes is well known for its exuberant character, its fashionable artists and….. its tumultuous/spectacular storms. Tetrarc has fed on Nîmes’ special identity in order to create the complex dedicated to contemporary music that has just been opened at the entrance to the town between a flying club and a district made [...]
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