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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected Tags: Cladding, Folding architecture, Malaysia, Shopping complex, Spark
Starhill Gallery is perhaps Kuala Lumpur’s most iconic shopping mall, featuring an extraordinary array of luxury shops and fine dining restaurants. Spark’s design proposal dealt with the reinvention of the existing façade of Starhill Gallery facing Bukit Bintang. This reinvention of Starhill Gallery is designed by Stephen Pimbley, founding director of Spark and the architect [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic, Selected Tags: 3XN, Folding architecture, Netherlands, Stair, White
From Growing Pains to Growing Commitment The new City Hall and cultural center in the Dutch city of Nieuwegein, is designed to create cohesion and the foundation for a stronger local community. A modern participatory democracy requires transparency and communication at eye level in the encounter between citizen and authority. These elements have been the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Folding architecture, Matteo Cainer architects, Museum, Spain
The fractured tectonic of the Santiago Ydañez Museum, in the town of Puente de Génave expresses the relationship between the work of the artists, the site and the building program. Conceptually a jazz improvisation, the intersection of the integrated and sculpted grids is conceived as a musical rhythm where the new museum becomes a reactive [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: AH Asociados, Courtyard architecture, Folding architecture, Spain, White
This house is located in an area dotted with residential buildings. Building a house that creates an isolated world for its inhabitants requires a simple but determined execution. It has been necessary to make the most of the views by making use of the elevated position of the plot to protect it from the impact [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Folding architecture, Refurbishment / Extension, Shine Architecture, Timber
This refurbishment intends to offer a new quality-based, morphological-exploration for a social entrepreneurship incubator in a low-income area in León, Guanajuato, México. The initiative of these social interventions is lead by two main institutions: Tecnológico de Monterrey (one of the best private universities in México) and Bancomer (one of the main banks of the country). [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected, Transportation Tags: Concrete, Damilano Studio, Folding architecture, Petrol station, White
Damilano Studio Architects have recently completed the GAZOLINE Petrol Station location in Cuneo, Piemonte, Italy. The design of a service station is a strong reference to the idea of travel, short or long-distance routes interrupted only by a few stops and then back on the road. A break for refueling, or just to stretch a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Transportation Tags: Airport, b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, Color architecture, Folding architecture, Spain
The programme of requirements includes a terminal building, a control tower, and two spaces for storages. Given their size, none of these elements were obvious candidates to represent a new airport. The strategy pursued therefore seeked to link the three programmes by means of a common visual element that avoids the impression that a strange [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: AQSO, Folding architecture, Ireland, Lattice screen
A Spain and China based young architectural firm AQSO arquitectos office has designed the Burke House in Galway, Ireland. In a country like Ireland, where many families live in private houses with a courtyard, extensions are a very common way to adapt the residence to new family situations. This house stands in a low density [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected Tags: Cladding, code ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Folding architecture, Iconic architecture, Japanese architecture, Restaurant
With GR230, we have created a beautiful piece of architecture that commands a dignified presence during the foliage-rich summer months, and a quieter one that seemingly dissolves into the surrounding landscape during the long, reclusive winters. Naoji maekawa, code ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN Designed by Japanese firm code ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, GR230 is a highway service center located [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Exhibition, Folding architecture, Iconic architecture, Museum, UK, Waterfront architecture, Zaha Hadid, Zinc
The Riverside Museum in Glasgow by world renowned architect Zaha Hadid Architects will be unveiled in JUNE 2011. Check it out our previous story here. The historical development of the Clyde and the city is a unique legacy; with the site situated where the Kelvin flows into the Clyde the building can flow from the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Folding architecture, Iconic architecture, Italy, KUADRA, Random pattern, Religious architecture
As documents they recount the millennial history , ancient and modern, which is renewed in the modernity of the forms and the faith which is recalled though prayer. Enrico Tealdi As befits its central role in the community, this Church is a Landmark and point of congregation for all in the area of Piacenza. The [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, BKK architects, Folding architecture, Landscape architecture, Swimming pool, Timber
Entering this home begins with the decision to leave the city. The recurring ritual that plays out in the journey to the holiday home is integral to the conception of this house: the car and its contained interior; the stop off for provisions in the last town before arrival; getting out and unchaining the entry [...]
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