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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Concrete, Japan, Japanese architecture, Miyahara Architect Office, Perforated, Stair
House Uc by Japan-based Miyahara Architect Office is a private house located in residential area of Tokyo standing on a small and narrow site of irregular shape. House Uc was designed to imply the essence of the house within the urban context by bringing out the characteristics of the finishing material. Miyahara Architect Office + [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Japanese architecture, Miyahara Architect Office, Stair, Timber
Japan-based Miyahara Architect Office has designed the House TTN located in Tokyo , Japan. The house was designed to accommodate three families with independent kitchen unit, bathroom, and toilet. The main spaces are separated by outdoor common decks which also act as buffer zone between families. + Project description courtesy of Miyahara Architect Office, text [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Auditorium, Cladding, Glass, Rafael de La-Hoz Architects, Spain
Spain-based Rafael de La-Hoz Architects has designed the Rafael del Pino Auditorium Building next to Madrid’s Paseo de la Castellana. The facade of the building stands out for its metallic arboreal structure that supports the structure of the building on both sides. “It is about transforming a garden into an inhabited garden” Rafael de La-Hoz [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, Europen architecture, Glass, Rafael de La-Hoz Architects, Skin, Spain
Distrito C, Telefónica’s Headquarters is a largest European corporate project designed by Spanish practice Rafael de La-Hoz Architects. Distrito C also represents the first private open European space. The campus is open 24 hours a day, all year long, for anyone to visit… Conceptually, an environmental canopy or roof is laid out between these cubes, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Architecture Award, Brazil, CHN arquitetos, Cladding, Landscape architecture, Museum, Perforated, Skin, South American architecture
Bazil-based architectural firm CHN arquitetos has won the International Public Competition for the Architectural Project of the Exploratory Science Museum – Campinas, Brazil. The surface of the facade is created from the idea of infinity: a reference to the essence of its form, recognizable from its cosmological scale to its most minimal. CHN arquitetos + [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: 3GATTI, Architecture Award, China architecture, Courtyard architecture, Exhibition, Folding architecture, Museum
This is a project winner of the international invitation competition for the construction of the Automobile Museum in Nanjing, designed by Italy-based architecture studio 3GATTI to explore the relationship between car and museum. The competition was organized last year by the government of Nanjing and Jiangsu Head Investment Group. A building to be dedicated to [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Landscape architecture, Norway, Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Timber
Inside out cabin by Norway-based firm Reiulf Ramstad Architects is located on top of the hill in Hvaler – Norway, overlooking the ocean and the horizon. The house was designed to harmonize with its surrounding, by the choice of the raw material and big glasses, it blurs the edge between inside and outside. + Project [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Balcony, C. F. Møller Architects, Concrete, Courtyard architecture, Lattice screen, Random pattern
Finderup Park project is a new mix-use complex with 92 housing units and 1500 m2 commercial space at ground level designed by C. F. Møller Architects. + Project description courtesy of C. F. Møller Architects Located next to the western ring road of Aarhus, Finderup Park is a new mix-use complex with 92 housing units [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Art Gallery, Denmark, ESD design, Europen architecture, Museum, Reflective pool, Steven Holl
Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Herning, Denmark is a first prize winning project designed by Steven Holl Architects to accommodate exhibition galleries, 150 seat auditorium, music rehearsal rooms, restaurant, media library and administrative offices. The museum will open to public on September 9 2009. + Project description courtesy of Steven Holl architects The Herning [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Europen architecture, Exhibition, Landscape architecture, Library, Museum, Norway, Steven Holl, Timber
Steven Holl Architects has designed the Knut Hamsun Center located in Hamarøy, Norway. This is an historical museum for writer Knut Hamsun including exhibition areas, library, reading room, cafe and 230 seat auditorium. The concept for the museum, “Building as a Body: Battleground of Invisible Forces,” is realized from inside and out. Here the wood [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Architecture Award, BIG, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Library, Perforated
Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group has won the first prize in an open international design competition to design Kazakhstan’s new National Library in Astana. The Astana National Library has been designed and developed as a Möbius strip interlocked by a perfect circle and a public spiral. + Project description courtesy of BIG BIG [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Interior, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Hong Kong, Mosaic, Random pattern, studio OFF
This project is a full-scale conversion & façade modification of Hotel V from a 30+ years old office block located in Wanchai, Hong Kong. It was designed by studio OFF with an idea of roughness as a metaphor. The wall finished with a special mosaic expression tile – Tri-tonal Tile® to give different visual expressions [...]
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