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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: ESD design, Green architecture, Minimalism, Perforated, Refurbishment / Extension, Steel, Studio Comoglio Architetti
Italian architect Giorgio Comoglio recently has completed the renovation of the Ex Sellerie, which is located in the area of the ex military arsenal in Turin, Italy. The task of the project is to increase the original building’s floor area and height. The minimal form of perforated steel envelope has been introduced to integrate the existing [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Axelrod, Concrete, Minimalism, Swimming pool
Axelrod Design has designed the eHouse which is located in Tel Aviv. The beauty of the eHouse is the marriage of livability and minimalist/Mediterranean design sense. In plan, the house is defined by two axes; one running lengthwise through the main living space and one perpendicular from the main entrance to the staircase. The longitudinal [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Concrete, Francisco J. del Corral & Federico Wulff, Spain, Swimming pool, Timber
Spanish architect Francisco J. del Corral del Campo recently has completed the semi-detached house – House Zafiro located in Huetor – Vega, Granada, Spain. Next to the low-lands (Vega) of Granada, still a rural zone with spread constructions, we propose a volumetric disintegration as an answer to the compact volumes of the new housing placed [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Cladding, Color architecture, Europen architecture, GROUP A, Netherlands, Random pattern
The Netherlands-based GROUP A recently has completed the ‘Student Housing Tower Blok 1‘ in Presikhaaf, Arnhem, the Netherlands. The building is situated on an isolated location and surrounded by nature, it built to act as a landmark in Presikhaaf area. The facade will be covered in paneling with a slightly differing finish, creating a subtle [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: COR-TEN, Francisco J. del Corral & Federico Wulff, Landscape architecture, Public square, Spain
Architect Francisco J. del Corral & Federico Wulff have designed the Public Space for Events Forum de Negocios located in Granada, Spain. Our landscape carpet tries to create a new reality to dialogue with the existing one instead of using other camouflage strategy. Francisco J. del Corral del Campo + Project description courtesy of Francisco [...]
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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, 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, 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, Office, Selected Tags: Architecture Award, BIG, China architecture, ESD design, Fluid form, Folding architecture, Green architecture, Skyscrapers
Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, in collaboration with ARUP and Transsolar have won the first prize to design sustainable skyscraper – Shenzhen International Energy Mansion in Shenzhen, China. The façade is conceived as a folded skin that shades the office complex from direct sunlight and integrates solar thermal panels, reducing the overall energy [...]
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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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