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Category: Architecture, Commercial Tags: Courtyard architecture, Glass, Italy, Milan, Minimalism, Piuarch, Stair, Steel
Milan-based architectural studio Piuarch has designed the New D&G Headquarters located in Milan, Italy. The facades of the building housing the showrooms are entirely glazed and feature a series of vertical, closely spaced louvers of opal glass. This membrane, made of glass, acts as a filter, softly diffusing the daylight through the building and serving [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Glass, GROUP A, Refurbishment / Extension, Timber
Dutch architect GROUP A recently has completed the interior design project for Aramco Overseas Company. + Project information courtesy of GROUP A The Aramco Overseas Company head office has recently moved into their new accommodation in The Hague. The new office, housed in an existing building from the eighties, needed to be fully refurbished. Following [...]
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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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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Bridge, formodesign, Glass, Minimalism, Poland, School
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry Tags: Color architecture, Fluid form, Folding architecture, Glass, Italy, Massimo Iosa Ghini
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Healthcare Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Courtyard architecture, Denmark, Europen architecture, Glass
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, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Concrete, Glass, Mexico, Pascal Arquitectos, South American architecture, Stair, Timber
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, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Glass, Museum, Research, UK
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Auditorium, Cladding, Glass, Rafael de La-Hoz Architects, Spain
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, Europen architecture, Glass, Rafael de La-Hoz Architects, Skin, Spain
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, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic, Culture Tags: Glass, Jon Tugores, Religious architecture, Spain
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Office, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Europen architecture, Glass, NBBJ, Norway, Peter Pran, Skin, USA architecture
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 [...]
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