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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Norway, Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, School
Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects‘s largest school project – The Thor Heyerdahl School of Advanced and Further Education recently has been completed in Larvik, Norway. We have chosen to rethink and challenge the traditional boundaries surrounding school buildings. We wanted to create an architectonic base for a well functioning student environment and increased cross [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Cladding, Concrete, Mexico, Perforated, Plataforma de Arquitectura, South American architecture
Mexico-based architecture firm Plataforma de Arquitectura recently has completed 151 SA project. + Project description courtesy of Plataforma de Arquitectura The project was conceived from the will of building a space of multiple relationships between interior and exterior, maintaining the intimacy of two design studios. The program is defined by the spatial needs of an [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial Tags: Annex architecture, Cladding, Color architecture, LED, Paris, Pascal Grasso, Perforated, Restaurant
Parisian architect Pascal Grasso and artist Laurent Grasso has designed and installed the Nomiya Temporary Restaurant on the roof of the « Palais de Tokyo » museum. The restaurant only allows twelve people to dine in with a panoramic view over the Seine and the Eiffel tower. + Project description courtesy of Pascal Grasso Nomiya [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Balcony, Blanca Lleó, Concrete, Courtyard architecture, MVRDV, Random pattern
Dutch architects MVRDV in collaboration with Madrid architect Blanca Lleó have completed a social housing project – Celosia Residence in Madrid, Spain. The large housing block is divided into 30 small staggered blocks of apartments to create the wide openings for communal patios throughout the building. + Project description courtesy of MVRDV MVRDV with Blanca [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Europen architecture, Modular design, MVRDV, Norway, Stone
Designed by Dutch architects MVRDV in collaboration with Norwegian firms DARK Arkitekter AS. The construction for DnB NOR Headquarters has been started in this year September and scheduled to be completed in 2012. The pixelated design adapts to the urban context and combines an efficient and flexible internal organisation, based on small-scale working entities, with [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Alberto Campo Baeza, Concrete, Landscape architecture, USA architecture
Designed by Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza. The high transparency of living and dining spaces in Olnick Spanu House are planned on the top of the cement box to get the best view over the landscape, while giving a sense of privacy to the sleeping zone in the solid cement box which is anchored to [...]
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Category: Architecture, Healthcare Tags: Alberto Campo Baeza, Italy
Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza has designed the Day Care Center for Benetton located in Treviso, Italy. + Project description courtesy of Alberto Campo Baeza A BOX OPEN TO THE SKY We built a square box composed of nine smaller squares. The center square emerges to bring light from the heights of the vestibule. The [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Alberto Campo Baeza, Concrete, Courtyard architecture, Europen architecture, Museum, Ramp, Spain
Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza has designed the Andalucia’s Museum of Memory located in Granada. A very good attempt of creating the interesting spatial experience through an elliptic central court which is designed to connect 3 levels spaces via the featured circular ramp. The new building, silent in its forms, is resounding in its elements [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Education, Selected Tags: Competition, Iconic architecture, Library, Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, Waterfront architecture
Denmark-based Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects‘ winning proposal for the international competition to design “Urban Mediaspace”, the largest public library in Scandinavia, is part of a wider plan to regenerate the old cargo docks on the harbour front in the Danish city of Aarhus. The building’s distinctive heptagonal-shape design will be a landmark in Aarhus. Urban [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Folding architecture, Laboratory, Morphosis, New York, School, Skin, Steel
41 Cooper Square is the Advancement of Science and Art building for the Cooper Union designed by Morphosis Architects. The project has won the Best Green Design of 2009 Awards from the New York Construction. Built with sustainability goals, 41 Cooper Square is the first LEED certified academic laboratory building in New York City. For [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Glass, Museum, Research, UK
The new phase 2 of the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum by C. F. Møller Architects had the grand opening on 14 September 2009 and unveiled to the public on 15 September. The new Darwin Centre features a huge eight-storey concrete cocoon surrounded by a glass atrium, this iconic form expresses the enormous [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial Tags: Esrawe Studio, Fluid form, Lattice screen, Mexico, Restaurant, Rojkind Arquitectos
Japanese Tori-Tori Restaurant in Mexico City by Mexico based architect firm Rojkind Arquitectos in collaboration with Esrawe Studio is now under construction. The building features the organic façade and landscape that become an extension of the restaurant to create a strong relationship between the inside and the outside. + Press release courtesy of Rojkind Arquitectos [...]
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