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Category: Architecture, Culture, Mixed Use, Office, Selected Tags: Cladding, Daniel Libeskind, Folding architecture, Glass, Ireland, Theater, Waterfront architecture
Architect Daniel Libeskind recently has completed the Grand Canal Square Theatre and Commercial Development. It comprises two extensive office buildings and a stunning theatre with the dynamic formal expression. The project aims to enhance the new urban structure of Grand Canal Harbor in Dublin, serving as a focus point for its context. The architectural concept [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry, Office, Transportation Tags: Colombia, Entorno AID, Folding architecture, Lattice screen, South American architecture
Colombia-based architectural firm Entorno AID has designed a car service center – AutoSura Bogotá in Colombia. One of the architectural proposals for the volume of the building is to maintain a direct visual relationship with the outside through a metal lattice that covers most of the façade, and integrates advertising volumes in the large loose [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Ake E.son Lindman, Claesson Koivisto Rune, Folding architecture, Sweden, Timber, Waterfront architecture
On the Muskö island in Sweden, Swedish architectural studio Claesson Koivisto Rune designed the Folded Roof House which is an one-storey house with an asymmetric folded roof plane, bedrooms are located at two gable ends and separated by the living and dining rooms, with a full glazed opening and recessed terrace. It provides an interesting [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Fluid form, Folding architecture, Italy, PROGETTOSPORE, Waterfront architecture
Italian studio PROGETTOSPORE has designed The [F] club located in LIDO DI CAMAIORE [LU] Italy. The plan’s aim is to build a structure which answers the needs of a beach Club and at the same time is not a visual barrier but a frame between people who walk along the shore and the seaside. The [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Folding architecture, Italy, PROGETTOSPORE
Italian studio PROGETTOSPORE and Samuele Calamai have designed the Parish complex which was developed from the idea of the ribbons wrapping around the spaces. This our formal choice arises from the evaluation that the contemporary individuality –exactly such the ribbons are- cannot be understood without knowing the others to whom it is linked. Wishing more [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected, Transportation Tags: Color architecture, ECDM, Folding architecture, France
The RATP Bus Centre by Paris-based architectural firm Emmanuel COMBAREL Dominique MARREC Architects (ECDM) appears like a monolith with rounded edges, polished, and partially cut out to expose multi-colored glass skin. Characterized by a dense square plan (35m x 35m) developed on 2 levels, the skin Ductal ® extended from the road surface to the façades, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Arquitectura en Proceso, Cladding, Folding architecture, Mexico, South American architecture
Mexican architect Arquitectura en Proceso has completed the Darcons Headquarters in suburbs of Delicias City in the Chihuahua state of Mexico. + Project description courtesy of Arquitectura en Proceso The site is located at a suburban lot of a middle size city in northern Mexico. As one drives towards it and away from de city, [...]
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Category: Commercial, Interior Tags: a10 studio, Bar Lounge, Folding architecture, Mexico
a10 studio has recently completed the Re*evolution Lounge & Bar located in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The project explored the redefinition of the “ground”, the manipulation of the ground surface, transforming an element that carries a fixed code into an active field, complex and mutant. The ambiguity between the surface and the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Annex architecture, Europen architecture, Folding architecture, Kraus Schoenberg Architects, Refurbishment / Extension, UK
Hanover House by Kraus Schoenberg Architects is the refurbishment and extension project on the rooftop of a Victorian warehouse building located in Bradford, United Kingdom. The sculptural aspect of the roof silhouette is no mere architectural fancy, but reflects the roofscape of the surrounding buildings and has been used to form the living spaces. Kraus [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: A-cero, Dominican Republic, Folding architecture, Landscape architecture, Stone
Spanish architecture firm A-cero recently has completed a house located in Dominican Republic, sleeping zone and living zone was organized into 2 blocks and connected by a covered veranda, while featuring curved volumes emerged from the ground. The stone of exterior Coralline interferes inside to offer visual continuity… The exterior sensation – interior ends up [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Exhibition, Folding architecture, Francisco Mangado, Landscape architecture, Spain, Stone
Spanish architect Francisco Mangado recently has completed the Avila Congress and Exhibitions Municipal Centre located in Ávila, Spain. The project was inspired by the nature of landscape, it was designed as a sculpture carved out of the terrain. The project combines two different geometries: the most orthogonal and elongated space contains the auditoriums and main [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Exhibition, Folding architecture, Glass, Krueck & Sexton Architects, USA architecture
In Chicago, Krueck & Sexton Architects created Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies to accommodate 400-seat multi-use theater, college classrooms, library, permanent and temporary exhibition space. The faceted, folding wall of glass is an expression of light, both metaphorical and actual, which is fundamental to Jewish religious and intellectual traditions. + Design statement by Krueck & [...]
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