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Kenneally Residence | PIQUE

Kenneally Residence | PIQUE

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| August 5, 2010 | 0 Comments

America-based architectural firm PIQUE designed the Kenneally Residence located in the Tetherow golf development in USA. It was most inspiring for us to see how this golf course is naturally nestled into the uniform topography, pine trees and lava flows of the high dessert. With this in mind, it became incredibly important for us to [...]

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CAU Central Library: Overlap | Kim In Cheurl

CAU Central Library: Overlap | Kim In Cheurl

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| June 23, 2010 | 0 Comments

CAU Central Library: Overlap is a refurbishment project designed by Kim in-cheurl+archium. It was restructured on the existing library which was built in 1959. Architecture is an identification of place, a creation of individualism that makes it unique to anything else in the world. The place thus creates a memory with time. The meaning of [...]

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Townhouse | Elding Oscarson

Townhouse | Elding Oscarson

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| May 26, 2010 | 0 Comments

Sweden-based studio Elding Oscarson has designed a minimal style townhouse on a narrow site in Landskrona, Sweden. Our intention is to use small means to create an array of different spatial experiences in this very small project. Elding Oscarson + Project description courtesy of Elding Oscarson The narrow site is sandwiched between very old neighboring [...]

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15 Notary | Taller5 architecture

15 Notary | Taller5 architecture

Category: Architecture, Office Tags: , , , ,
| May 10, 2010 | 0 Comments

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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Restructuration and Extension of High school Albert Einstein | N+B architects

Restructuration and Extension of High school Albert Einstein | N+B architects

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| May 2, 2010 | 0 Comments

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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ELM & Willow House | Architects Eat

ELM & Willow House | Architects Eat

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| March 10, 2010 | 1 Comment

Australian architectural practice Architects Eat recently has completed the restoration of the existing Edwardian house and named it as ELM & Willow House. The U-shaped plan was organized to enclose a courtyard, which to provide a series of visual layering between the spaces, while also creating a better relationship between inside and outside. Our intention [...]

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A crystalline landmark for Helsingborg | Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects

A crystalline landmark for Helsingborg | Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects

Category: Architecture, Hotel, Master Plan, Mixed Use, Residential, Selected Tags: , , , , ,
| February 2, 2010 | 0 Comments

In Sweden, Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects‘s winning project aims to create a crystalline landmark for Helsingborg. By giving the new life to the existing city waterfront, the project consists of a 16,900 m2 congress and hotel facility and 17,100 m2 housing. It was inspired by the city’s block structure, skewed and developed from [...]

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Restructuration and Extension of the High School Paul Valéry | N+B architects

Restructuration and Extension of the High School Paul Valéry | N+B architects

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| January 18, 2010 | 0 Comments

In Menton, France, N+B architects created a flexible and sustainable solution for the Paul Valéry High School. + Project description courtesy of N+B architects Paul Valery Highschool buildings in MENTON, France was recently restructured and extended by N+B architects. The project took into account the notions of flexibility, environmental use functionality and to enable the [...]

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Middle School, Morières les Avignon | N+B architects

Middle School, Morières les Avignon | N+B architects

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| January 12, 2010 | 0 Comments

French architectural practice N+B architects has completed the new middle school – Morières les Avignon in France. Interplay between concrete and stone are the main feature for this project, it gives rhythmic effect to the facade as a contemporary appearance. The “VERS” stone establishes sides façades of folds in concrete. It offers a thermal slowness [...]

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Résidence étudiante & médicalisée | ECDM

Résidence étudiante & médicalisée | ECDM

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| January 11, 2010 | 0 Comments

Paris-based architectural firm Emmanuel COMBAREL Dominique MARREC Architects (ECDM) has completed a social housing for students in a suburb of Paris called Epinay. The conception of our project is from a second reading of the landscape, particularly the road of Saint leu, by integrating its history and transformations to assert its manners and qualities and to [...]

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YN-13 House | Morris Sato Studio

YN-13 House | Morris Sato Studio

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| January 6, 2010 | 0 Comments

New York-based architectural firm Morris Sato Studio has designed the YN-13 House located in Shelter Island. The house was organized on its site as three independent volumes (Main, guest house and garage) enclosing a swimming pool and a courtyard, conceived as a buoyant mass and inspired by historic Japanese residential structures in Kyoto and Kanazawa, [...]

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Living Around a Court | Julio Barreno

Living Around a Court | Julio Barreno

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| January 3, 2010 | 0 Comments

“Living Around a Court” is the recently project by Spanish architect Julio Barreno in Ubrique, Cadiz, Spain. Designed with the goal of keeping the traditional typology of  Ubrique city, it was restored from a traditional patio house, and fully utilized the advantage of internal court where to maximize the penetration of natural daylighting into the [...]

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