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AutoSura Bogotá | Entorno AID →  March 18, 2010

Colombia-based architectural firm Entorno AID has designed a car service center - AutoSura Bogotá in Colombia. One of the architectural proposals for the volume of the building is to maintain a direct visual relationship with the outside through a metal lattice that covers most of the façade, and integrates advertising volumes in the large loose truss. Entorno [...]

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Electric Ramps at the Old Centre | Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura →  January 24, 2010

Electric Ramps at the Old Centre is the winning project by Spanish architectural practice Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura in 2007. Due to its extreme winter condition in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain), the ramps are covered by dramatic envelope that intended to create the improvement of the visual impact in the historic district. We understand that uncovered ramps would have [...]

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RATP Bus Centre | ECDM →  January 5, 2010

The RATP Bus Centre by Paris-based architectural firm Emmanuel COMBAREL Dominique MARREC Architects (ECDM) appears like a monolith with rounded edges, polished, and partially cut out to expose multi-colored glass skin. Characterized by a dense square plan (35m x 35m) developed on 2 levels, the skin Ductal ® extended from the road surface to the façades, [...]

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Multimodal Station | CC Arquitectos →  December 9, 2009

Mexican architectural practice CC Arquitectos recently has completed the Multimodal station in mexico (mexipuerto bicentenario azteca), the project consist of a mixed use retail (subway, urban transportation, hospital, shopping center, financial center and cinemas. With a pedestrian transit of 140,000 passenger per day, the terminal have 75,000 m2 of construction. It is a public- private [...]

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Norreport Train Station | COBE + Public Architects →  November 4, 2009

Danish Architects COBE, in collaboration with Public Architects, Grontmij Carlbro and Bartenbach LichtLabor, have won the international competition for the new Norreport Train Station in Copenhagen, Denmark. The design is conceived as series of floating roofs, covering the transparent glass pavilions, it creates the welcoming sense and is easily accessible and visible from all around. Norreport [...]

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