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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Norway, Religious architecture, WE Architecture
The beautiful Vaaler church from 1805 burnt down in the spring of 2009. We have designed a new church as a symbolic landmark to succeed the old building. The new Vaaler church is placed further east from the placement of the old church, marking the historic axis with its tower. The new building is designed [...]
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Category: Architecture, Healthcare Tags: Competition, Denmark, ESD design, Green architecture, WE Architecture
The new Cancer Care Center in Næstved is located in close proximity to the regional Hospital. The purpose of the center is helping anyone affected by cancer through professional help in exceptional buildings specifically designed for this. The surroundings of the oblong site are mainly characterized by a trafficated road to the east and outdated [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Competition, Landscape architecture, Norway, WE Architecture
Elements is a Pilgrim Center located in a scenic mountain landscape in Western Norway. Elements is a visitors’ center in close connection to the wooden church, “Røldal stavkirke”, from the 13th century. Røldal Stavkirke is one of the best preserved wooden churches in Norway and the church is the most frequent pilgrimage destination in the [...]
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Category: Master Plan Tags: Denmark, WE Architecture
Today suburbia is a typology that has been greatly criticized. We believe that suburbs have great potential in becoming qualified and generous spaces for the inhabitants. This competition was initiated by Realdania in order to create debate and visions for “The Suburbs of the Future”. Farum is today a fragmented suburb located 20 km from [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Sport Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, Denmark, Refurbishment / Extension, School, WE Architecture
Light Box by WE architecture, is the 3rd prize proposal for an extension of the existing high school of Falkonergården. The building is a Danish international style complex worthy of preservation. As a result of increasing popularity and the addition of an athletic department, Falkonergården is in high lack of improved gym facilities and a larger assembly [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: City hall, Landscape architecture, Library, Museum, Norway, Waterfront architecture, WE Architecture
Notodden Townhall has decided to join several cultural functions such as a cafe, a museum, and a library under one roof; this allows the possibility of creating a building where people of different ages and interests can meet and interact. As a tribute to the history of the site, the roof of the building is [...]
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Category: Master Plan Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, Denmark, JWH Arkitekter, WE Architecture
Danish architectural firm WE architecture & JWH Arkitekter have won the 2nd prize for the Rødovre Syd urban planning project. Rødovre Syd is a suburbian area of Copenhagen, characterized by a mixture of open green areas, a network of roads, large apartment complexes and low row-housing enclaves. The project offers to transform the existing planning [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Glass, Landscape architecture, Poland, Refurbishment / Extension, Theater, WE Architecture
Theatre Of Floating Garden is an extension project for an old theater in Szczecin, Poland. The new extension will be experienced as a light roof with transparent facades, connecting all the functions of the house and acting as a pavilion in the garden. Our aim was to create an open house; a house for the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Contemporary architecture, Courtyard architecture, Ecuador, Landscape architecture, South American architecture, WE Architecture
The Triangular House by WE architecture was designed and developed based on the characteristics from both colonial and original housing in Ecuador. The house seeks to join these two building styles into a contemporary house. A house which is organized around a triangulated green patio always giving you the sense of being close to nature [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Contemporary architecture, Ecuador, Landscape architecture, South American architecture, WE Architecture
Denmark-based studio WE Architecture has designed the +House located in Puerto Cayo, Ecuador. The house is composed of two linear volumes intersecting each others, one of the volumes is placed perpendicular on the coast line, following the terrain down the slope and the other is places along the same high of the hill crossing the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Denmark, Folding architecture, Iconic architecture, Perforated, WE Architecture
WE Architecture, in collaboration with Sophus Søbye Arkitekter, MASU Planning, Øllgaard Consulting Engineer, Spangenberg & Madsen Consulting Engineer and Hausenberg have won the first prize to design the Mariehøj Culturcenter in Holte, Denmark. + Project description courtesy WE Architecture The future “Mariehøj culturcenter” draw a clear profile in the landscape. With a new foyer, the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Denmark, Landscape architecture, Perforated, Thailand, Tropical architecture, Waterfront architecture, WE Architecture, White
The young Danish architectural firm, WE Architecture, designed this TT-Villa located in one of the most attractive island in asia – Phuket, Thailand. The house is composed of 3 linear forms which are well integrated into the landscape. We have chosen to split the program of the house into three categories. These are divided on [...]
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