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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Brooks + Scarpa, Courtyard architecture, ESD design, Green architecture, Perforated, Random pattern, USA, USA architecture
Brooks + Scarpa Architects has designed the Cherokee Mixed-Use Lofts in Los Angeles, California, USA. The building is inspired by the series of paintings by the British artist Patrick Hughes titled, “Perspectivity”, whose paintings appear to be ever changing and physically moving while being viewed. At Cherokee the main architectural feature of this project is [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Brooks + Scarpa, Color architecture, Courtyard architecture, ESD design, Green architecture, Lattice screen, LEED, Perforated, Random pattern, USA, USA architecture
The several awards winning project Step Up on Fifth by Brooks + Scarpa Architects was designed to accommodate 46 studio apartments, ground level retail space and subterranean parking. The building is loaded with energy-saving and environmentally materials/devices with 71% recycling rate achievement. The front facade is designed with a series of water jet cut aluminum [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Japan, Japanese architecture, Random pattern, Stair, White, yHa
Japanese architectural firm yHa architects has recently completed the YNH house located in Tokyo, Japan. The facade has “autonomously” opening system grid-like continuous pattern and its size are “heteronomously” translated in relation to views or surrounding environment or interior function. yujin HIRASE, founder of yHa architects + Project description by yHa architects I thought mainly [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Japan, Japanese architecture, Landscape architecture, Minimalism, Stair, Takashi Yamaguchi, White
Japanese architect Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates has designed a house in Ise, Japan. The building is composed of two volumes arranged in parallel. A vertical void links the rooftop terrace and the light court on the first floor, drawing nature into the interior. Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates + Project description by Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Transportation Tags: Glass, Iconic architecture, KGP, Refurbishment / Extension, Steel, USA, USA architecture
We’ve featured the Bicycle Transit Center by KGP Design Studio few days ago, here is supplemental information, including full project description, credits, images, drawings and diagrams shared by architect. If you missed our previous post, let’s check it out here. + Full description by KGP Design Studio Summary At the cusp of a livable cities [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Sport Tags: Landscape architecture, Lattice screen, Multiplan, Refurbishment / Extension, Slovenia, Stair, Timber, Waterfront architecture
In Bled – Slovenia, this newly renovated rowing centre designed by MultiPlan arhitekti is recently completed and it will be used to host the World Rowing Championships this year. The building is well integrated into the sloping site, while providing a huge viewing platform and seating area following the terrain down the slope. Viewing platforms [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Balcony, Folding architecture, Italy, Tisselli studio architetti, White
VC1 is the latest completed residential project by Italian architectural practice Tisselli studio architetti. It is designed to accommodate 1 level of basement car park, 8 apartments in first 2 floors and a garret apartment. Beyond a mere functional description of the intervention, action focus is still the wish to reinstate the architectural quality to [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Transportation Tags: Glass, Iconic architecture, KGP, Refurbishment / Extension, Steel, USA, USA architecture
Washington-based architectural firm KGP Design Studio recently has completed the Bicycle Transit Center (BTC) at Union Station, Washinton DC. It is designed to store 150 bicycles as well as a locker/shower and a repair rental store. While “differentiating” itself from Union Station itself, the Center does merge with its surroundings adapting the vocabulary of the bronze [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Atelier 11, China, China architecture, Refurbishment / Extension, Stair
In Beijing, China-based architectural studio Atelier 11 has successfully converted the 30 years old factory building into the contemporary Inside-out Art Center. A simplistic aesthetic was adopted for the interiors of the Art Center with the intention to keep some characteristics of the previous industrial building, as a reflection to the history of the site. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Sport Tags: Color architecture, Concrete, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Multiplan, OFIS, Refurbishment / Extension, Slovenia, Stadium
OFIS Arhitekti, in collaboration with Multiplan Arhitekti has designed the extension of the football stadium in Maribor, Slovenia. + Project description by OFIS Arhitekti The plot that was used as a multi-functional sport field and is located in the centre of the city. In the sixties a small tribune was built along one side of [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Residential, Selected Tags: Landscape architecture, OFIS, Slovenia, Timber
Slovenian architectural practice OFIS Arhitekti designed the contemporary yet affordable 3 bedroom housing development with private garden located in Podpec, Slovenia. The main proposal was a condensation of village cores with branching – a traditional and historical rural layout of condensed longitudinal buildings along a road with kept green area around it. OFIS Arhitekti + [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Concrete, L3P Architekten, Refurbishment / Extension, Stair, Switzerland, Timber
Switzerland-based architectural firm L3P Architekten recently has completed the renovation / extension, conversion of the former restaurant Metzger Hall, Dielsdorf apartment house with 3 newly constructed apartments, 5 renovated apartments, and 1 commercial area. From an architectural view the extension, with its form and materials, should be truly distinguishable from the main building. Through this, [...]
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