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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Contemporary architecture, Glass, Landscape architecture, USA architecture
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Concrete, Contemporary architecture, Folding architecture, Japanese architecture
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Concrete, Contemporary architecture, Landscape architecture, Ragazzi
The weekend retreat was designed at protected natural area – Gerês hillside, without destroying the nature of the ground and all the trees must be preserved. The house opens up at one end and almost half length was cantilevered towards the river side.
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Category: Architecture, Civic Tags: Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Waterfront architecture, Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid architects has won a competition for the port house – headquarters of Antwerp Port Authorit (APA), Antwerp, Belgium. The new port house design consists of two entities: the existing fire station and a new crystalline volume lifted above the retained building. Together they form a new landmark as the headquarters of the Antwerp [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Biselli + Katchborian, Competition, Contemporary architecture, Features, South American architecture
Brazil based Biselli + Katchborian architects has designed a Information Center of the new Petrochimical Complex of Rio de Janeiro – COMPERJ – PETROBRAS, located in Itaboraí, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. + PROJECT MEMORIAL History and Geography equally contributes to the construction of the extraordinary beauty of the site. The Geography through different geologic accidents [...]
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Category: Architecture, Landscape, Selected, Sport Tags: Bridge, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Features, Waterfront architecture
An outdoor swimming pool center by Dierendonck Blancke Architecten in association with L.U.S.T Architecten in OOSTDUINKERKE, Belgium where located in-between the city center, sea and beach. The design seems to be integrated into the city planning that become a focal point and a transitional ‘urban bridge’ between city and beach, where is in-line with the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior Tags: Concrete, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Landscape architecture
Austrian architects Maria Flöckner und Hermann Schnöll has designed a house named 47°40’48”n/13°8’12”e, where is its exact site location. However, architect’s idea – “home at any place, could just as well elsewhere are”, the house is also interchangeable with other sites. Due to its two bold horizontal plates and full height curtain wall in-between, a [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior Tags: Brazil, Contemporary architecture, COR-TEN, Features, Marcio Kogan, Minimalism, South American architecture, Swimming pool, Timber
A minimal design by Marcio Kogan, Casa Corten House. A simple plan with high ceiling level and large opening that use to harmonize between inside and outside. When you walk through the building, you can see material changed in the journey, it is a good project to demostrate how the interaction between the materials that [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior Tags: Contemporary architecture, COR-TEN, Japanese architecture, Steel
As you can see, a very contrast materials between inside and outside, where external skins are covered by rusting effect steel and fine materials with lighting effect internally. The idea of the house was to spatially distinct between public and private area in Architects Nakayma‘s spatial organization. 2 bedrooms with a bathroom are placed just [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Color architecture, Concrete, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Iconic architecture
The new Campagneplein dormitory with 87 apartments at Twente University campus, Enschede, Netherlands is designed by Arons and Gelauff Architects. The building features a nine stories high climbing wall on one side, this climbing wall was an integral part of the building’s design from the first design sketches, whereby the wall and the apartments helped [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic, Culture, Education Tags: Competition, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Library, Zaha Hadid
One of our favorite architects and also the Pritzker Archietcture Prize 2004 winner, Zaha Hadid, has won the competition for the library and learning centre at the university of economics and business in Vienna. The linear distorted line, form or even the space always can be seen in Zaha hadid‘s project. No doubt, they all [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry, Residential Tags: Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Metal, Perforated, Steel, Switzerland
Phalt architect has designed a replacement building for metal workshop and office which is located at the Limmat River water, Zurich, Switzerland. The bold cantilever canopy with single materialization is the main feature for the project that set in heterogeneous urban situation. Due to its huge cantilever roof, the space under the big roof become [...]
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