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 & Sexton [...]

The Connector by formodesign, is an extension project for Architecture and Engineering buildings at Technical University of Lodz, Poland. The project is composed and stacked by 3 linear forms with the open views towards the park. The idea for our concept was not only to make a form that would connect the buildings but which [...]

Italian designer Massimo Iosa Ghini recently has completed the Ferrari Factory Store located in Serravalle Scrivia, Italy. The color, form, and graphical style has been carefully designed to transmit the architectural idea to identify the ‘Ferrari’ image. + Project description courtesy of Massimo Iosa Ghini Ferrari Factory Store of Serravalle Scrivia, entirely designed by Iosa Ghini Associates, [...]

Gentofte Hospital Extension in Gentofte has been inaugurated in 22nd October 2009, it was a winning competition project designed by C. F. Møller Architects to extend the hospital by inserting a new, modern core in the original eight-shaped complex. By placing the new buildings as the logistical heart in the middle of the figure-eight layout, Gentofte [...]

Mexico city based architect Pascal Arquitectos has designed the Galileo Apartments Building located in Polanco, Mexico. The combination of materials are used to achieve the degree of privacy to the residential units, meanwhile creating the variation of pattern on the facade. it’s façade achieves transparency and at the same time privacy by combining different cristal, [...]

The new phase 2 of the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum by C. F. Møller Architects had the grand opening on 14 September 2009 and unveiled to the public on 15 September. The new Darwin Centre features a huge eight-storey concrete cocoon surrounded by a glass atrium, this iconic form expresses the enormous [...]

Spain-based Rafael de La-Hoz Architects has designed the Rafael del Pino Auditorium Building next to Madrid’s Paseo de la Castellana. The facade of the building stands out for its metallic arboreal structure that supports the structure of the building on both sides. “It is about transforming a garden into an inhabited garden” Rafael de La-Hoz Architects + Project [...]

Distrito C, Telefónica’s Headquarters is a largest European corporate project designed by Spanish practice Rafael de La-Hoz Architects. Distrito C also represents the first private open European space. The campus is open 24 hours a day, all year long, for anyone to visit… Conceptually, an environmental canopy or roof is laid out between these cubes, to [...]

Spanish architect Jon Tugores recently has designed a new contemporary church located in Barcelona, Spain. 2 distinct glass boxes designed to symbolize between the city and the sky. + Project description courtesy of Jon Tugores Designing the project of a church without using traditional and rhetorical arguments that are easily understood by the public, was our first [...]

Peter Pran & Jonathan Ward of NBBJ recently has completed the Akerselva Atrium mixed-used building located along the Akerselva/Aker River in Oslo, Norway. The project composed of two distinct architectural forms split by the central lift core with a dramatic striking color glass atrium, where the entrance of the project is defined. One part of [...]

The Vivanta, designed by Singapore-based architecture firm Warner Wong Design | WOW Architects for Taj Group of Hotels. Taj Vivanta is located at the entrance to the International Tech Park in Bangalore, India, a contemporary 5-star hotel featuring touches of whimsy and contemporary technology. The hotel’s unique façade changes colour, texture and tone [...]

Italy-based architect firm Park Associati has designed a 145 m high Regnum residential and office tower located in Istanbul, Turchia. The sinuous form of the tower consists of three main elements united around a central transparent volume and its various façades change according to the position of the viewer. + Project description courtesy of Park Associati The [...]

Croatia-based 3LHD Architects has won a competition for a business center in Zagreb, Croatia. + Project description courtesy of 3LHD Architects The competition program is placed on a crossing of two streets, Miramarska and Bednjanska. It is a point of colliding two urban city concepts: north part with classical city blocks of the Zagreb’s lower city enclosed [...]

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