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Category: Architecture, Industry Tags: Concrete, COR-TEN, ESD design, Foster + Partners, Landscape architecture, Nigel Young, Spain, Winery
Faustino Winery by world-renowned architect Foster + Partners recently opens in Spain. Bodegas Portia is our first winery, so we had no preconceptions about how it should work. It was an opportunity to start from first principles – to examine the different stages of wine production and to try to create the ideal conditions for [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Concrete, Finland, Green architecture, Marco Casagrande, Refurbishment / Extension, Research, Taiwan
Finnish architect Marco Casagrande has successfully converted an abandoned apartment block into the Ruin Academy in Taipei, Taiwan. The Ruin Academy is operated in co-operation between Casagrande Laboratory / Finland and JUT Foundation for Arts & Architecture / Taiwan. It moves in-between architecture, sociology, environmental sciences (including urban design) and environmental art. The house used [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Concrete, Courtyard architecture, Landscape architecture, PIQUE, Timber, USA architecture
America-based architectural firm PIQUE designed the Kenneally Residence located in the Tetherow golf development in USA. It was most inspiring for us to see how this golf course is naturally nestled into the uniform topography, pine trees and lava flows of the high dessert. With this in mind, it became incredibly important for us to [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Australia NewZealand, Concrete, Hassell, Lattice screen, Timber, Zinc, Zoo
In Adelaide Australia, the multidisciplinary design practice, Hassell designed The Adelaide Zoo Entrance Precinct which comprises a series of interlinked forecourts that unfold over 2000 square metres to create a natural transition and physical connection between the roads, parklands and waterways. The Zoo boasts Australia’s first purpose-designed ‘green roof’ to support wildlife shelter and extensive [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior, Selected Tags: A-cero, Concrete, Landscape architecture, Spain
The architecture studio A-cero presents one of its last works about a big single-family house. It takes place in the outskirts of Madrid on a 5000m2 plot. It is a single storey building and it has a 1.600 m2 built surface. The first sensation that this house produces when people go into the plot is [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Concrete, Iconic architecture, Kim In Cheurl, Korea, Perforated, Skyscrapers
Korean architect Kim In Cheurl designed the innovative Urbanhive tower located in Seoul, South Korea. Urbanhive is a 17 levels of 70 meter high tower with white exposed concrete and contextually sits on the corner of the street within the urban matrix, featuring the perforated architectural façade. The holes in the skin are designed to [...]
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Category: Architecture, Sport Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Concrete, Denmark, Refurbishment / Extension, Stair
C. F. Møller Architects recently has completed the Aarhus Gymnastics and Motor Skills Hall. The project is an extension of the Aarhus Gymnastics and Trampoline Hall. A sculpturally-formed climbing frame, called the seashell, extends across the hall, stretching right up under the ceiling, where there is a look-out tower at a height of eight metres [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Concrete, Fluid form, Landscape architecture, Spain
Spanish architectural studio peña ganchegui y asociados recently has completed the Urrezkoenea House in Getaria. The house is located in the steep site overlooking the Cantabric sea. + Project description courtesy of peña ganchegui y asociados URREZKOENEA: A VILLA ON THE CANTABRIC COAST In a plot with a steep slope towards the North, aligned to [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, Concrete, Green architecture, McGregor Coxall, Public square
The Sydney-based landscape design studio Mcgregor Coxall as the lead designers designed the Ballast Point Park sited on the Birchgrove Peninsula in the inner reaches of Sydney harbour, Australia. + Project description courtesy of Mcgregor Coxall Ballast Point Park This 2.8ha park is located on a contaminated former industrial lubricant production site on the Birchgrove [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Industry, Office, Selected Tags: Concrete, Italy, Lattice screen, monovolume
Blaas general partnership project by monovolume architecture + design is a new head office for the company Blaas in Bolzano specializing in electro-mechanics. It is a three storeys building with a basement designed to accommodate the sales division, repair service and administration office. The interplay between glass and sun shading are specially designed for the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Sport Tags: Architectural membrane, Concrete, FIFA World Cup 2010, gmp architekten, Iconic architecture, South Africa, Stadium, White
The 68,000 spectators Green Point Stadium designed by gmp architekten, is one of the major stadiums to host the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa. With its horizontal facade expression and the curving contours, the architectural design was intended to enhance the horizontal line of Table Mountain, and appeared as an iconic building in [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry, Selected Tags: Concrete, Italy, Landscape architecture, monovolume, Power station
Italian architectural firm monovolume architecture + design designed this hydroelectric power station located at 800m above sea level, near Winnebach brook in Dörfl (Italy). It is a two storeys building comprising a ground floor and a the basement. Due to its site condition, it is partly built into the slope, and the polygonal form is [...]
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