Browsing Tag »Contemporary architecture«
→ April 15, 2009
H-house, designed by Poland based architect, Tamizo architects group. The openings in the solid box are well organized and proportioned. Minimal design on the elevation as a result of complying the restrictions of the local law – maximum of 3 different materials on the elevation.
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Modern, elegant, [...]
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Tags: Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Features, Lattice screen, Minimalism, Poland, Stair, Swimming pool, Tamizo architects group
→ April 11, 2009
The spanish architecture firm A-cero, directed by Joaquin Torres, has built a new house in the Madrid outskirts that synthesizes the evolution of the studio’s signature design language and its technical experimentation over the last years. The house can be aesthetically inscribed in the series of projects made by the studio since its international [...]
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Tags: A-cero, Concrete, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Folding architecture, Spain
→ April 9, 2009
Spain based architect A-cero has designed a contemporary GIBO showroom in Madrid, Spain. The use of contemporary geometrical form to shape the building facade with the big display windows is the feature of this project.
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Purity, force, expressiveness; starting from an old construction that has already been reformed previously, [...]
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Tags: A-cero, Cladding, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Features, Glass, Showroom, Stair
→ April 8, 2009
This is the invited competition project won by New York practice Leeser Architecture – Helix Hotel. The five-star luxury hotel in the Zayed Bay in Abu Dhabi, featuring an iconic design and state of the art technology that creating dynamic mini-city in the UAE.
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Leeser Architecture, an internationally [...]
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Tags: Abu Dhabi architecture, Contemporary architecture, Waterfront architecture
→ April 7, 2009
Portugal based architect Claudio Vilarinho has designed a private house, House 1 in Penafiel. The idea of the project is to build a house that sitting on the sloping green terrain and cantilevered towards the valley, the car-porch space is defined by the overhanging white volume where the living and dining space take place.
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Tags: Claudio Vilarinho, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Portugal
→ April 1, 2009
This is the part 2 for the Embassy Of Finland In Tokyo by Architects Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Ltd. The success of this project is architect attempts to harmonize between Finnish and Japanese culture and architectural form in this project.
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Architecture
“Aiki” is based on the use of universal [...]
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Tags: Architects Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Ltd, Competition, Contemporary architecture, Embassy, Japanese architecture, Lattice screen, Minimalism
→ April 1, 2009
The Embassy Of Finland In Tokyo, by Architects Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Ltd. This is a first prize in the architectural competition arranged by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. I like the project in terms of the clean building form with a blurred shadow effect during the night when the interior lit up. It seems to [...]
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Tags: Architects Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Ltd, Competition, Contemporary architecture, Embassy, Features, Japanese architecture, Lattice screen, Minimalism
→ March 29, 2009
A LA practice Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design has won the Museum of Tolerance renovation and expansion. The key components of the renovation include: exhibit spaces, two theaters, a children’s multi-functional learning center and multi-purpose rooms for approximately 34,450 sq ft of improvements for the Museum.
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Tags: Contemporary architecture, Glass, Museum, Theater, USA architecture, Yazdani Studio
→ March 27, 2009
This is not a public car showroom, but a private house for car collection which is designed by Spanish architect Joan Anguita. The house is located on the mountain where to have a nice view to the city.
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This house in the mountains, designed by the architect Joan [...]
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Tags: Concrete, Contemporary architecture, Features, Glass, Minimalism
→ March 23, 2009
Australian Letterbox House, designed by McBride Charles Ryan. The reason why this building named “letter box” is the building begins as the letterbox and unfurls to become an irregular open verandah.
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It’s like a half space, half enclosed, half open. Neither in nor out – a [...]
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Tags: Australia NewZealand architecture, Contemporary architecture, Features, Folding architecture, Timber, Wood
→ March 22, 2009
A young Sweden based architecture firm Visiondivision believes in strong concepts and constantly re-investigating their role as architects by always pushing the limits of their field of work and the strategies of their design. Tornado, is an entry for an opera competition in Taiwan which was a collaboration with Markus Wagner, a member of Svensk [...]
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Tags: China architecture, Competition, Contemporary architecture, ESD design, Features, Iconic architecture, Skyscrapers, Theater, Visiondivision
→ March 19, 2009
Situated in Pilar – Buenos Aires, surrounded by a natural area that composes the landscape of the house; it sits on a central position of a 1500m2 site generating multiple gardens towards where the house looks at. Casa Viguet is an intentional and minimum single room house where uses hybridize and link with the exterior.
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Tags: Concrete, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Features, Lattice screen
→ March 19, 2009
Further to the first project – Ruth Hiller Residence. Here is the second project submitted by Michael P. Johnson Design Studios Ltd – Yoder/Doornbos Residence.
Of the multitude of structures built across the country each year, few ever become elevated to a level considered the “art of architecture” by architectural critics and/or historians. The vast majority [...]
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Tags: Contemporary architecture, Glass, Landscape architecture, USA architecture
→ March 11, 2009
F House by Japanese architect Katsufumi Kubota. The contemporary geometrical facade is so precise, clean, striking and structurally very provocative. It folded to become a roof and opened up the interior space into the landscape.
The house reminds me Tadao Ando works, perhaps because of its concrete finish and clean interior space with light. This is [...]
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Tags: Concrete, Contemporary architecture, Folding architecture, Japanese architecture