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Category: Architecture, Book, Culture, Selected Tags: Concert Hall, Glass, José Marini Bragança, Portugal, White
Portuguese architect José Marini Bragança shared with us his office’s new monographic book, which features some of the works and projects of the architecture office, Marini Bragança. Party Hall is one of the project featured in this book. The building provides a strong relationship with its natural surroundings. To minimise its visual impact, the building [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Glass, Mexico, REC Arquitectura, Stair
Petatglass is an interesting project done by REC Arquitectura. Creating a certain level of comfort is the main concern for the project while avoiding the use of conditioning air. It is a good attempt of using the traditional raw material that applied on the wall which is usually used for roof covering, it created a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Glass, Mexico, Migdal Arquitectos, Skyscrapers
Mexico city-based architectural firm Migdal Arquitectos has completed the Plaza Residences. The shape of the building gives richness and movement to the urban context. Plaza Residences becomes a sculpturesque object that acts as a showcase that defines the Monument to Columbus on one of the most sightly corners of Avenida Reforma. Migdal Arquitectos + Project [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry Tags: Contemporary vernacular, Farm, Glass, Hinton Cook Architects, Refurbishment / Extension, UK, Wood
UK-based architectural firm Hinton Cook Architects have worked with the Milton Keynes Parks Trust to transform a grade II listed barn into something special. Incorporating modern elements to further highlight the original traditional beauty of this once derelict barn. + Project description by Hinton Cook Architects Located in the historic railway town of Wolverton, this [...]
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Category: Architecture, Healthcare, Office, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, Fluid form, Germany, Glass, Pysall Ruge Architekten
German architectural firm Pysall Ruge Architekten has designed the office building and health centre – LTD 1 located in Lübeckertordamm, Hamburg, Germany. The office building’s configuration, composed of four boomerang-shaped elements laid over each other, creates a representative entrance situation, an interior courtyard, and a transitional space to the residential courtyard in the rear. As [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Concrete, Exhibition, Glass, Museum, Poland, Pysall Ruge Architekten, Stair
German architectural firm Pysall Ruge Architekten has completed the Polish Aviation Museum located in Cracow, Poland. The idea of flying, the spirit of the place, the structure of the historic airfield – the new building for the Museum of Aviation takes up these references intellectually and synthesises them into an expressive and emblematic structure. Justus [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Cladding, Fluid form, France, Glass, School, TVK
In Arcueil (Paris Suburbs, France), due to its site condition that surrounded by residential blocks, Trévelo & Viger-Kohler architectes (TVK) has maximized the accessibility and visibility, while giving an strong identity to this Groupe Scolaire school project. Considering the diversity of the surrounding architecture and other elements, we propose a continuous, homogeneous and calm form. [...]
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Category: Installation Tags: Atelier Oslo, AWP, Glass, Iconic architecture, Norway, Pavilion, Wood
French-Norwegian team AWP + Atelier Oslo has won the SANDNES / LANTERN international competition. It was opened on the occasion of Stavanger (NO) being european capital of culture, and further nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe prize. The Lantern proposal displays an open roof of such dimension that it becomes the symbol of this [...]
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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, Office Tags: Austria, Balcony, Cladding, Color architecture, Folding architecture, Glass, Paul Ott, Pichler & Traupmann, Random pattern, Stair
Austrian architectural firm Pichler & Traupmann Architekten recently has completed a new office for the Raiffeisen Finance Center in Eisenstadt, Austria. The design of the building playfully responds to the restrictions imposed by the building regulations as well as to the schedule of accommodation for the different floors, and develops an encasing figure that encloses [...]
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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: Design, Industrial, Interior Tags: Glass, Paul Housberg, Random pattern
Paul Housberg was approached to create six art glass walls for the new Frick Chemistry Laboratory at Princeton University designed by Hopkins Architects (London) in collaboration with Payette Associates (Boston). The walls are located at the north and south ends of the central corridor of the office wing of the building, one pair on each [...]
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