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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Aquarium, Behnisch, Cladding, Europen architecture, Features, Fluid form, Germany, Museum, Skin, Waterfront architecture, White
Germany-based architecture and planning firm Behnisch Architekten has designed a very large public aquarium in the German city of Stralsund – Ozeaneum German Oceanographic Museum. The new museum is an open structure flooded from all sides by light, similar to the way stones in the sea near the water’s edge are flooded by the surrounding [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: BIG, Competition, Features, Iconic architecture, Lattice screen, Mexico, Museum, Perforated, Rojkind Arquitectos, Skin, South American architecture
Copenhagen architects BIG and Mexico practice Michel Rojkind architect have won cultural competition in Mexico. The New Tamayo Museum will sit on steep hillside with large cross-shaped roof-top platform overlooking Mexico city. + Project description provided by architect, BIG New Tamayo Museum overlooking Mexico City – BIG and Michel Rojkind win cultural competition in Mexico. [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Concrete, Europen architecture, Features, France, Landscape architecture, Philippe Stuebi
A beautiful house for Draeger Family, designed by Swiss architect Philippe Stuebi Architekten. The house was designed to sit on a square ruin over looking the sea, architect has created a large roof terrace that having a great sea view from the living space. Under the terrace is a guest room which is connected by [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Cladding, Features, Skin, Studio 0.10 Architects, USA architecture, Zinc
Los Angeles based architect Studio 0.10 Architects has designed a house – Mush Residence for a small family in Los Angeles. Vertical spatial organization in relation to circulation is the key feature for Mush Residence. + Project description provided by architect, Studio 0.10 Architects A single-family residence designed for a couple and set in a [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: COR-TEN, Europen architecture, Features, Landscape architecture, Mobius architekci, Poland, Reflective pool, Swimming pool
Nemo House, by Polish practice Mobius Architekci. The house was designed to integrate with the sloping site, from the higher side, it seems to be emerged from the water. + Project description provided by architect, Mobius Architekci Building is placed on a beautiful plot inclined in a lake direction. The plan of the Nemo house [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic, Selected Tags: Concrete, Europen architecture, Features, Italy, Religious architecture
New Church in Foligno – San Paolo Parish Complex, designed by Italy practice Fuksas architects, which was successfully presented by Architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas on 24th-26th April 2009, in the event “In the sacred architecture – Three days with the architecture of Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas “. This project features the use of pure [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Selected Tags: Europen architecture, Features, Foster + Partners, Glass, Modular design, Skin
UK practice architect Foster + Partners has designed a new five-star hotel close to Heathrow Airport – Riva Hotel which to accommodate 577 hotel rooms. The Riva hotel features a distinctive layered glass shell, which floods the public spaces with daylight and contributes to a highly efficient energy strategy. The glass envelope is to act [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior, Selected Tags: Concrete, ESD design, Features, FKL architects, Green architecture, Stair, Timber
A-House is a single-family house located on a mews lane, in a Victorian suburb of Dublin, designed by Ireland based FKL architects. The house is an exploration of diagonal space within an orthogonal form and the possibilities of integrating environmental concerns at a fundamental level.
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior, Selected Tags: Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Features, Lattice screen, Minimalism, Poland, Stair, Swimming pool, Tamizo architects group
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. + Text below provided by architect, Tamizo architects group Requirements [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected Tags: A-cero, Cladding, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Features, Glass, Madrid, Showroom, Spain, Stair
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. + Text below and images provided by architect, A-cero Purity, force, expressiveness; starting from an old construction that has already been [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Residential, Selected Tags: China architecture, Concert Hall, Features, Iconic architecture, Perforated, Skin, Theater, Yazdani Studio
Located in the southwestern part of Inner Mongolia, in Ordos City, the Kaokaoshina New District is an emerging art and cultural district organized by Ai Wei Wei. Kaokaoshina is positioned to be a thriving tourist destination, in anticipation, the development calls for a series of villas for people to live and visit to experience this [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Convention center, Features, Folding architecture, India architecture, Yazdani Studio
An International Convention Centre proposal by Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design in Bangalore, India. The feature of this project is how the architect transformed India’s traditional industry – silk weaving into architecture and created a series of spatial sequences in this project.
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