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Category: Architecture, Civic, Selected Tags: Architects Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Ltd, Competition, Contemporary architecture, Embassy, Features, Japanese architecture, Lattice screen, Minimalism
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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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Concrete, Contemporary architecture, Features, Glass, Minimalism
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. + Press release below and images provided by yellowagency.es This house in the mountains, designed by the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, Contemporary architecture, Features, Folding architecture, Timber, Wood
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. + Project description below provided by architect – McBride Charles Ryan It’s like a half space, half enclosed, half open. Neither in nor out [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: China architecture, Competition, Contemporary architecture, ESD design, Features, Iconic architecture, Skyscrapers, Theater, Visiondivision
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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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Concrete, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Features, Lattice screen
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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Category: Architecture, Hotel, House Tags: Features, Landscape architecture, Waterfront architecture, Zaha Hadid
Dellis Cay has a surface of 560 acres and should hold 124 private villas, 154 residences, the Mandarin Oriental hotel, as well as a marina. The construction began on June 4th 2008 and is expected to be completed in the end of 2009. The vision of the project is to realize the beauty of nature [...]
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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: 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: Interior Tags: Features, Minimalism, Modernism, Wood
An incredible lighting design in Gilbert Yoga center, Yoga Deva. Designed by Blank Studio. The Yoga Center offers student a better mind and body connection practice environment. The architect attempts to design a calming atmosphere that the spaces dimly lit by cove lighting. The lighting condition changes in every spatial sequences, from a slender strip [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, Features, Landscape architecture, Visitor center, Wood
How do architecture bring your awareness of Aboriginal culture in response to its history and environment? What happens when architecture considers itself a small component of a larger system, as opposed to a self-referential all-encompassing whole? Let’s have a dialogue with The Pinnacles Interpretive Centre, which is designed by Woodhead.
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior, Selected Tags: Contemporary architecture, ESD design, Europen architecture, Features, Germany, Glass, Pott Architects
A ‘house L‘ situated in Glienicke Germany, designed by Pott Architects. A house was designed to harmonize with its natural surroundings.
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