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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: César San Millán, Francisco Mangado, Minimalism, Museum, Spain, Steel
Museum of Archeology in Vitoria is a competition-winning project designed by Spanish architect Francisco Mangado. We like to think of an archaeology museum as a compact jewel box concealing the treasure that history has entrusted to us piece by piece. But not any kind of history, or at least not the scientific history of experts, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Landscape, Master Plan, Selected Tags: Contemporary architecture
Synergetic Regionalism by William Alfredo Villalobos Fernàndez is a theoretical endeavor for a site in the south of Venezuela (in the “La Gran Sabana” area) near the border with Brazil. + Project description courtesy of William Alfredo Villalobos Fernàndez Synergetic Regionalism establishes a syncretic relationship between emergent occidental architectural models and existing indigenous organizational strategies [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Office, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Europen architecture, Glass, NBBJ, Norway, Peter Pran, Skin, USA architecture
Peter Pran & Jonathan Ward of NBBJ recently has completed the Akerselva Atrium mixed-used building located along the Akerselva/Aker River in Oslo, Norway. The project composed of two distinct architectural forms split by the central lift core with a dramatic striking color glass atrium, where the entrance of the project is defined. One part of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Europen architecture, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Lattice screen, Russia, Theater, UNStudio
Dutch architectural practice UNStudio‘s winning design for Dance Palace has been selected in St. Peterburg, Russia. The project features high level of transparency from inside to outside, introduced by a facade system of triangular cladding panels. + Architect’s statement courtesy of UNStudio UNStudio/ Ben van Berkel’s design selected for Dance Palace in the historic centre [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: K2Ld Architects, Lattice screen, Singapore, Swimming pool, Timber, Tropical architecture
Singapore-based architecture firm K2Ld Architects has designed a landscape house located in Cluny Hill, Singapore. The primary motivation behind the project was to respect this ground and to only allow the house to “touch the ground” as lightly as possible. K2Ld Architects + Project description courtesy of K2Ld Architects A stunning landscape calls for a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Mixed Use, Office, Selected Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Europen architecture, Iconic architecture, Kristin Jarmund Architects, Norway, Skyscrapers, Waterfront architecture
C. F. Møller Architects and Norwegian firm Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter cooperate to design a new landmark for Oslo. A high-rise development, located at Norways most important traffic hub in central Oslo, and with fantastic views of the waterfront and fjord-landscape beyond. The project is expected to be completed within 3-5 years. + Project description courtesy [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Selected Tags: Bar Lounge, Indonesia, Lattice screen, Restaurant, Stair, Swimming pool, Tropical architecture, WOW Architects
The five-star Hilton Hotel in Bandung, Indonesia, designed in contemporary-modern style by Singapore-based architecture firm Warner Wong Design | WOW Architects, yet fused with local traditional craft. We began the entire design process by understanding the cultural, economic and geo-climatic context of the Bandung area… In order to tap into the visitors of this great [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Interior, Selected Tags: Bar Lounge, Color architecture, Concrete, Glass, India architecture, Random pattern, Restaurant, Stair, Swimming pool, WOW Architects
The Vivanta, designed by Singapore-based architecture firm Warner Wong Design | WOW Architects for Taj Group of Hotels. Taj Vivanta is located at the entrance to the International Tech Park in Bangalore, India, a contemporary 5-star hotel featuring touches of whimsy and contemporary technology. The hotel’s unique façade changes colour, texture and tone to reflect [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Concrete, Courtyard architecture, Ireland, Minimalism, ODOS architects, Religious architecture, Timber
Irish architecture studio ODOS architects has designed an extension and refurbishment project for an existing protected friary building in Knocktopher, Co. Kilkenny. A new central courtyard has been organized and surrounded by new and old buildings, and further developed as a contemporary cloister. + Project Description courtesy of ODOS architects This project is an extension [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Office, Residential, Selected Tags: Netherlands, Rem Koolhaas OMA, Restaurant, Skyscrapers, Waterfront architecture
Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has designed a mixed-used development – De Rotterdam ‘Vertical City’ located in Rotterdam, Netherlands, with approximately 155.000 m2 floor area and 150 meters high, scheduled to be completed in 2011. + Project description courtesy of OMA Part of an effort to regenerate the Kop van Zuid area of Rotterdam, these [...]
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Category: Architecture, Healthcare, Residential, Selected Tags: ARJM architecture, Concrete, Europen architecture
Jerusalem project is a social housing & medical center located in rue de Jerusalem, Chaussée de Haecht, Schaerbeek, designed by Brussels-based architecture and urbanism office ARJM. We decided for a project that responds to the vibrancy of its surroundings by a vital architecture ARJM architecture + Architect statement courtesy of ARJM architecture How to introduce [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: AH Asociados, Concrete, Europen architecture, Landscape architecture, Religious architecture, Spain, Stone
Project “Renovation of Arantzazu 2001” designed by Spanish architecture studio AH Asociados, is a Franciscan Sanctuary located in Gipuzkoa (Spain) between ravines, rocky mountains and rivers. + Project description courtesy of AH Asociados The Sanctuary of Our Lady Arantzazu is located in an exceptional natural enclave at the foot of the Urbia open field, between [...]
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