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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Color architecture, Random pattern, WRNS
The existing 1958 clubhouse and playground at the intersection of Hayes and Buchanan Streets had become outdated and rundown. It also presented significant accessibility and safety issues for its diverse users. Because San Francisco’s Hayes Valley and Western Addition neighborhoods have few parks in the vicinity, the nonprofit Trust for Public Land (TPL) partnered with [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Color architecture, Denmark, Refurbishment / Extension
New life for Denmark’s oldest school Denmark’s oldest school, the listed Sølvgade School built in 1847, close to King Christian IV’s famous historic naval barracks, Nyboder, in Copenhagen, has for many years been lacking space and modern facilities. C. F. Moller has carefully renovated the school and done an extension which in its form and [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Architectural Resources Group, Color architecture, David Wakely, Museum, Stair, Waterfront architecture
The National Maritime Museum Building is the most fully developed example of Streamline Moderne nautical style in San Francisco. Designed by local architect William A. Mooser III and constructed during the Great Depression by the Works Progress Administration, the building was originally intended to serve as a bath house at the center of the city’s [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Cladding, Color architecture, Random pattern
TWO BUILDINGS – ONE PROJECT The brief of the competition, held in 2003, was to transform the building of the former Hallemans breweries into 31 housing units for artists, including an in-house workspace. On top of the transformation, a new construction was necessary to provide the needed surfaces. This new wing creates space and views [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Color architecture, Courtyard architecture, David Baker, Random pattern, USA architecture
This complex development fills a formerly industrial city block with an innovative housing mix: Affordable urban townhomes to keep growing families in the city and family housing adjacent to senior apartments to prevent seniors from living in isolation. Leading a trend of transit-oriented development along the district’s main business corridor, the development lies just a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Japanese architecture, Lattice screen, molo, Museum, Waterfront architecture
In 2001, Stephanie Forsythe + Todd MacAllen of molo were shortlisted for an international architectural competition for the city of Aomori. Their first trip to Japan took them to Tokyo University to present models and drawings to Tadao Ando, Jean Nouvel and city officials. In Japan, we’ve been given intimate experiences of true design: a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Transportation Tags: Airport, b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, Color architecture, Folding architecture, Spain
The programme of requirements includes a terminal building, a control tower, and two spaces for storages. Given their size, none of these elements were obvious candidates to represent a new airport. The strategy pursued therefore seeked to link the three programmes by means of a common visual element that avoids the impression that a strange [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Courtyard architecture, Glass, Italy, Stair, Translucent
The new Cultural Center in Ranica, medieval town near Bergamo in Northern Italy, contains a public library, an auditorium, a kindergarten, and a school for dance and theater. With its 2.000 square meters, the Center is conceived as a new catalyst of urban life. Not only is the building a laboratory for education and information, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected Tags: Bar Lounge, Color architecture, Division1, Restaurant, USA architecture
The restaurant captures American and Chinese Cultures through layers of decorative design elements. Conceptualized around different dining experiences within the same restaurant, the rectangular space is sliced into three different zones, with each providing its own unique dining hall. Each zone [Bar, Communal and Dining] is separated through a design element, such as color, a [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: COEN!, Color, Color architecture, Netherlands
Omroep Brabant is a regional broadcasting company. It touches the peoples hearts in the Brabant region. COEN! Translated this feeling into the new interior of this organisation. A warm welcome in the entrance hall, a poem and floor pattern about the purple heath and subtle translation of the typical Brabant flag. A visualisation of tradition [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Concert Hall, Glass, Henning Larsen architects, Iceland, Performing Arts Center, Random pattern, Theater, Waterfront architecture
In Reykjavik, Iceland, Harpa Concert & Conference Centre by Henning Larsen architects is nearly completed, the centre gathers inspiration from the northern lights and the dramatic Icelandic scenery. Situated on the boundary between land and sea, the centre stands out like a large, radiant sculpture reflecting both sky and harbour space as well as the [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: COEN!, Color architecture, Display design
COEN! developed an innovative concept. This concept is created after some brainstorm sessions with our team. We are sure that this investment in design pays itself back in time twice over. Jaap Bothof, owner of ‘Kameleon’ Kameleon, a jeweller, has chosen COEN! to take care of its design management. All communication of this trendsetting jeweller [...]
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