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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: L3P Architekten, Museum, Refurbishment / Extension, Steel, Stone, Switzerland
Swiss architect L3P Architekten has converted a castle-tower to the Vertical Museum. The castle-tower is under historical monuments’ protection and is a distinctive landmark in the region of Zurich. The tower is 21 metres high, the walls being up to 3 metres thick, and the interior radius averaging about 3.5 m. As old as the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Education, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, Glass, Kim In Cheurl, Korea, Library, Random pattern, Refurbishment / Extension
CAU Central Library: Overlap is a refurbishment project designed by Kim in-cheurl+archium. It was restructured on the existing library which was built in 1959. Architecture is an identification of place, a creation of individualism that makes it unique to anything else in the world. The place thus creates a memory with time. The meaning of [...]
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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, Culture Tags: Europen architecture, Museum, Netherlands, Refurbishment / Extension, Serge Schoemaker architects
Maluku Museum (MUMA) commissioned Serge Schoemaker Architects to design a plan for the conversion and extension of the museum building. The design replaces a part of the existing building from the eighties and exploits the currently unused museum courtyard. The building costs of the MUMA extension are 1 million euro. It is expected that the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Color architecture, Germany, Gnädinger Architekten, Refurbishment / Extension, Visitor center
German architectural firm Gnädinger Architekten has converted a former textile factory into a Visitor Center – “Haus des Gastes” located in Beeskow, Germany. The project comprises a new modern building and a restored historic industrial complex which are connected by a glass bridge. + Project description courtesy of Gnädinger Architekten A former textile factory was [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Concrete, Courtyard architecture, Mexico, Refurbishment / Extension, Taller5
15 Notary by Mexican firm Taller5 architecture, is a building transformed from a house, serving as a notary office in León, Gto, México. + Project description courtesy of Taller5 architecture The 15 Notary respond to each city prevailing needs of recreate obsolete buildings which use an specific piece of land, to create new spaces that [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: GRAD arkitekter, Refurbishment / Extension, Sweden
In Sweden, an extension of a house is completed by GRAD Arkitekter. + Project description courtesy of GRAD Arkitekter A single mother contacts us to build an extension for her villa. The house has a very nice garden, which she loves and wants to enjoy from early spring to late autumn. The client has in [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Balcony, Color architecture, Concrete, Courtyard architecture, France, Lattice screen, N+B architects, Refurbishment / Extension, School, Steel
High school Albert Einstein, Brassens site, in France, was recently restructured and extended by French firm N+B architects . The project took into account the notions of flexibility, educational project, and environmental use functionality and to enable the programmatic entities, to be linked together around exterior spaces. The ambition of this project is to offer [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Balcony, Color architecture, Concrete, JSª, Mexico, Random pattern, Refurbishment / Extension
Mexican architectural office JSª has completed the Amsterdam 235 in Mexico. The project consists in the intervention in an old Art Deco house, catalogued by the National Institute of Beaux Arts. The new interpretation of the house was delivered by its formal arrangement, randomized window pattern with textures and colors, as well as clean detailing. [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, Neostudio, Poland, Refurbishment / Extension
Neostudio Architects has designed a refurbishment project which was converted from a home of seed drying installation to a private house near Poznan. The form seems interesting and has a perfect match with the existing structure, it has divided into 2 volumes which is defined by 2 contrast materials and colors. The entire building is [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Krueck & Sexton Architects, Refurbishment / Extension, Steel, USA architecture
Architects Krueck & Sexton has completed restoring 860-880 Lake Shore Drive which was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1951. Widely recognized as one of the 20th Century’s most iconic residential projects, 860-880 Lake Shore Drive consists of two 26-story rectangular condominium buildings surrounded by an irregular travertine plaza. The steel and glass [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Air Architecture, Concrete, France, Refurbishment / Extension, School
French architects Air have completed a raw yellow concrete extension to the Apprentice Formation Center in Saint Maur des Fossés, near Paris in France. The project comprises a new three-storey building containing a double volume hall, plumbers workshop, classrooms, and meeting rooms, as well as the refurbishment of an existing cafeteria, classrooms and offices. + [...]
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