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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, House, Selected Tags: Concrete, Fluid form, Landscape architecture, Spain
Spanish architectural studio peña ganchegui y asociados recently has completed the Urrezkoenea House in Getaria. The house is located in the steep site overlooking the Cantabric sea. + Project description courtesy of peña ganchegui y asociados URREZKOENEA: A VILLA ON THE CANTABRIC COAST In a plot with a steep slope towards the North, aligned to [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, Concrete, Green architecture, McGregor Coxall, Public square
The Sydney-based landscape design studio Mcgregor Coxall as the lead designers designed the Ballast Point Park sited on the Birchgrove Peninsula in the inner reaches of Sydney harbour, Australia. + Project description courtesy of Mcgregor Coxall Ballast Point Park This 2.8ha park is located on a contaminated former industrial lubricant production site on the Birchgrove [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Industry, Office, Selected Tags: Concrete, Italy, Lattice screen, monovolume
Blaas general partnership project by monovolume architecture + design is a new head office for the company Blaas in Bolzano specializing in electro-mechanics. It is a three storeys building with a basement designed to accommodate the sales division, repair service and administration office. The interplay between glass and sun shading are specially designed for the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Sport Tags: Architectural membrane, Concrete, FIFA World Cup 2010, gmp architekten, Iconic architecture, South Africa, Stadium, White
The 68,000 spectators Green Point Stadium designed by gmp architekten, is one of the major stadiums to host the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa. With its horizontal facade expression and the curving contours, the architectural design was intended to enhance the horizontal line of Table Mountain, and appeared as an iconic building in [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry, Selected Tags: Concrete, Italy, Landscape architecture, monovolume, Power station
Italian architectural firm monovolume architecture + design designed this hydroelectric power station located at 800m above sea level, near Winnebach brook in Dörfl (Italy). It is a two storeys building comprising a ground floor and a the basement. Due to its site condition, it is partly built into the slope, and the polygonal form is [...]
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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: A-cero, Concrete, Landscape architecture, Spain, Swimming pool
The spanish architecture firm A-cero recently has completed the Concrete house in Madrid, Spain. + Project description courtesy of A-cero With the combination of design, quality and functionality arises this new A-cero´s work: a house of 1.500m2 defined by a set of clean lines and perfect volumes. The grey colour of the concrete that make [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Concrete, Garduño Arquitectos, Stone
The Canelos 59 Building by Garduño Arquitectos is a residential building to accommodate 6 units of vertical home in Mexico. The main objective of this program was to give every space a view of the green area without visual interference from the immediately adjacent buildings. With this design in mind, we built a façade which, [...]
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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, Transportation Tags: Color architecture, Concrete, France, Lattice screen, N+B architects, Timber
French architectural practice N+B architects recently has completed a parking lot and an urban planning in Carros, France. The project took into account the notions of flexibility, and environmental use functionality and to enable the programmatic entities, to be linked together around exterior spaces. The intervention takes into account the program, but also, the architectural [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Concrete, Glass, L3P Architekten, Random pattern, Switzerland
The 6 Family House Staldern Regensberg ZH in Switzerland, is a housing project designed by Swiss architect L3P Architekten. It features the randomized glazing and openings on the facade with its unique panorama view. The architectural expression is essentially defined through the location of the property, with its unique panorama view, and the historical reference [...]
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