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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Interior, Selected Tags: Bar Lounge, Color architecture, Concrete, Glass, India architecture, Random pattern, Restaurant, Stair, Swimming pool, WOW Architects
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 to reflect [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Residential, Selected Tags: Europen architecture, Glass, Green architecture, Park Associati, Skyscrapers, Turchia
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Office, Selected Tags: 3LHD, Features, Glass, Modular design
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Art Gallery, Contemporary architecture, Features, Glass, Lattice screen, Museum, Renzo Piano, USA architecture
© The Art Institute of Chicago, Ph. Campbell © Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Ph. Charles G. Young, Interactive design architects © Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Ph. Charles G. Young, Interactive design architects The Modern Wing at Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano, a world renowned Italian architect and recipient of the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: David Chipperfield, Glass, Museum, USA architecture
A new 8,000 m2 Anchorage Museum Expansion designed by UK-based firm David Chipperfield Architects will be opened to public on 30 May 2009. Five distinct linear volumes vary in height and length arranged along the western face of the existing building, creating an interesting skyline to the west side of the existing museum. The glass [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Residential Tags: Australia NewZealand, Elenberg Fraser, Glass, Showroom
Clara Display Suite by Australia-based architect Elenberg Fraser, is a sales and display unit for Clara residential project located in South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia. Both projects are designed to harmonize the built forms with landscape that respects the scale and diversity of the surround. Also visit our next feature, the Clara South Yarra project, which [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Selected Tags: Abu Dhabi architecture, Asymptote, Color architecture, Features, Fluid form, Glass, Skin, Structure
The Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi is targeting an opening in this coming October, 2009, designed by New York-based practice architect Asymptote Architecture. This is really an beautiful iconic building located in the site of Formula 1 on Yas Island, comprised of two towers linked by a bridge spaned over the Formular 1 track. The Yas [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Concrete, Europen architecture, France, Glass, LAN Architecture, Landscape architecture
French architects LAN Architecture has designed a headquarter office for Marchesini France in Paris. The new building is composed of two distinct volumes, one of volume contains flexible work spaces while the other encloses a showroom, maintenance space and storage areas. Entrance is defined by intersection of two volumes. The office spaces are raised above [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Selected Tags: Europen architecture, Features, Foster + Partners, Glass, Modular design, Skin
UK practice architect Foster + Partners has designed a new five-star hotel close to Heathrow Airport – Riva Hotel which to accommodate 577 hotel rooms. The Riva hotel features a distinctive layered glass shell, which floods the public spaces with daylight and contributes to a highly efficient energy strategy. The glass envelope is to act [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior Tags: Concrete, Glass, Landscape architecture, Marmol Radziner, Swimming pool, Timber, USA architecture
Designed by Los Angeles based architect Marmol Radziner and Associates, the Vienna Way residence for a young family, is located on a large, extensively landscaped lot in Venice, CA. Floor to ceiling glazing and outdoor living spaces fully integrate the home within the California native landscape. Working within the restrictions posed by the narrow site, [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, Glass, Japanese architecture, Minimalism, Miyahara Architect Office, Modernism
Japan practice architect, Teruo Miyahara / Miyahara Architect Office recently has completed a private house – House Sz, located in Ibaraki , Japan. Use of internal courtyards to act as buffer zones between the spaces, and also to maximize penetration of the natural daylighting into the interior spaces. + Text below provided by architect, Teruo [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected Tags: A-cero, Cladding, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Features, Glass, Madrid, Showroom, Spain, Stair
Spain based architect A-cero has designed a contemporary GIBO showroom in Madrid, Spain. The use of contemporary geometrical form to shape the building facade with the big display windows is the feature of this project. + Text below and images provided by architect, A-cero Purity, force, expressiveness; starting from an old construction that has already been [...]
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