Browsing Tag »Concrete«
→ November 22, 2009
Madrid-based architectural firm Moneo Brock Studio has designed the Termas de Tiberio project to accommodate the thermal baths in Panticosa, Spain.
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Our project for a new building to house the thermal baths clearly attempts to reinterpret the thermal tradition at Panticosa. The Balneario had developed in the [...]
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Tags: Concrete, Moneo Brock Studio, Spa, Spain, Swimming pool
→ November 15, 2009
Spanish architect Jordi Badia, founder of BAAS architects has designed the Can Framis Museum located in the 22@ District, Barcelona. The project consists in restoring the two current factory buildings which are connected by a new linear block. A new courtyard therefore is formed to define an entry plaza to the project.
With “Can Framis” we [...]
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Tags: BAAS architects, Concrete, Courtyard architecture, Museum, Spain
→ November 7, 2009
Araras Cultural Centre designed by Brazil-based AUM arquitetos, is a winning project in the national competition in 2004, the goal of the project was to restore an old railway station and transform to a cultural center.
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The growth of the center east of São Paulo was supported with the expansion [...]
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Tags: AUM arquitetos, Brazil, Concrete, COR-TEN, Refurbishment
→ November 6, 2009
Israeli designers Ilan Adar and Ronen Landes recently have completed the Ran Stone – Hairdresser interior design project located in Netanya, Israel.
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The barbershop is located next to the beach – on a hill overlooking the sea in Netanya City center.
Concept
showing a clean / minimalist / modern / bright and [...]
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Tags: Concrete, Israel
→ October 23, 2009
Peruvian architect Juan Carlos Doblado has designed a beautiful private house near Andes, Peru. The house is composed of 2 distinct concrete boxes, one box is set in the sloping ground and the other is raised and projecting towards the landscape.
The house is set in the top of a sloping ground, enriching the relationship with [...]
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Tags: Concrete, Juan Carlos Doblado, Landscape architecture, Peru, Swimming pool
→ October 18, 2009
Palaeontological Pavilion and the Educational Park by Polish architectural practice Goczolowie Architekci and OVO Grabczewscy Architekci, it was designed with the idea of protecting and exhibiting the unique fossils of Triassic reptiles and fossilized amphibians found in Krasiejów.
Using different concrete textures on the retaining wall in the layer-structure presents the idea of layer- structure [...]
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Tags: Concrete, Goczolowie Architekci, Landscape architecture, Museum, OVO Grabczewscy Architekci, Pavilion, Poland
→ October 17, 2009
Mexico city based architect Pascal Arquitectos has designed the Galileo Apartments Building located in Polanco, Mexico. The combination of materials are used to achieve the degree of privacy to the residential units, meanwhile creating the variation of pattern on the facade.
it’s façade achieves transparency and at the same time privacy by combining different cristal, [...]
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Tags: Concrete, Glass, Mexico, Pascal Arquitectos, South American architecture, Stair, Timber
→ October 13, 2009
Grabmal F.C. Gundlach by German architect Roland Poppensieker is a minimal concrete box of a tomb for Hamburgian photographer and art collector F.C. Gundlach. The tomb is composed of four precast concrete elements of the size of 3 by 3 by 3 meter.
Dependent on the change of light and shadow and according to the time [...]
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Tags: Concrete, Germany
→ October 12, 2009
Axelrod Design has designed the eHouse which is located in Tel Aviv. The beauty of the eHouse is the marriage of livability and minimalist/Mediterranean design sense.
In plan, the house is defined by two axes; one running lengthwise through the main living space and one perpendicular from the main entrance to the staircase. The longitudinal axis [...]
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Tags: Axelrod, Concrete, Minimalism, Swimming pool
→ October 3, 2009
Spanish architect Francisco J. del Corral del Campo recently has completed the semi-detached house – House Zafiro located in Huetor – Vega, Granada, Spain.
Next to the low-lands (Vega) of Granada, still a rural zone with spread constructions, we propose a volumetric disintegration as an answer to the compact volumes of the new housing placed on [...]
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Tags: Concrete, Francisco J. del Corral & Federico Wulff, Spain, Swimming pool, Timber
→ September 29, 2009
Argentina-based Sternberg Kohen Arquitectos has designed the Mine Hotel Boutique located in Argentina.
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The job assignment for this Boutique Hotel started off from the search of the location where the architecture and decoration project would be settled. The building is located on a quite unusual site in [...]
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Tags: Argentina, Concrete, Courtyard architecture, Sternberg Kohen Arquitectos, Swimming pool
→ September 24, 2009
Mexico-based architecture firm Plataforma de Arquitectura recently has completed 151 SA project.
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The project was conceived from the will of building a space of multiple relationships between interior and exterior, maintaining the intimacy of two design studios.
The program is defined by the spatial needs of an architecture studio [...]
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Tags: Cladding, Concrete, Mexico, Perforation, Plataforma de Arquitectura, South American architecture
→ September 22, 2009
Dutch architects MVRDV in collaboration with Madrid architect Blanca Lleó have completed a social housing project – Celosia Residence in Madrid, Spain. The large housing block is divided into 30 small staggered blocks of apartments to create the wide openings for communal patios throughout the building.
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MVRDV with Blanca Lleó [...]
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Tags: Balcony, Blanca Lleó, Concrete, Courtyard architecture, MVRDV, Randam pattern
→ September 21, 2009
Designed by Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza. The high transparency of living and dining spaces in Olnick Spanu House are planned on the top of the cement box to get the best view over the landscape, while giving a sense of privacy to the sleeping zone in the solid cement box which is anchored [...]
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Tags: Alberto Campo Baeza, Concrete, Landscape architecture, USA architecture