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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Japan, Japanese architecture, Landscape architecture, Minimalism, Stair, Takashi Yamaguchi, White
Japanese architect Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates has designed a house in Ise, Japan. The building is composed of two volumes arranged in parallel. A vertical void links the rooftop terrace and the light court on the first floor, drawing nature into the interior. Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates + Project description by Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Henning Larsen architects, Iconic architecture, Landscape architecture, Nigeria
Danish architectural firm Henning Larsen Architects has won the international architectural competition for the new Calabar International Conference Center in the southeastern part of Nigeria. The Calabar International Conference Centre consists of four adjoining, sculptural volumes which are situated on top of a hill and has a panoramic view from the foyer. We visited the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Sport Tags: Landscape architecture, Lattice screen, Multiplan, Refurbishment / Extension, Slovenia, Stair, Timber, Waterfront architecture
In Bled – Slovenia, this newly renovated rowing centre designed by MultiPlan arhitekti is recently completed and it will be used to host the World Rowing Championships this year. The building is well integrated into the sloping site, while providing a huge viewing platform and seating area following the terrain down the slope. Viewing platforms [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Residential, Selected Tags: Landscape architecture, OFIS, Slovenia, Timber
Slovenian architectural practice OFIS Arhitekti designed the contemporary yet affordable 3 bedroom housing development with private garden located in Podpec, Slovenia. The main proposal was a condensation of village cores with branching – a traditional and historical rural layout of condensed longitudinal buildings along a road with kept green area around it. OFIS Arhitekti + [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Glass, Landscape architecture, Poland, Refurbishment / Extension, Theater, WE Architecture
Theatre Of Floating Garden is an extension project for an old theater in Szczecin, Poland. The new extension will be experienced as a light roof with transparent facades, connecting all the functions of the house and acting as a pavilion in the garden. Our aim was to create an open house; a house for the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Contemporary architecture, Courtyard architecture, Ecuador, Landscape architecture, South American architecture, WE Architecture
The Triangular House by WE architecture was designed and developed based on the characteristics from both colonial and original housing in Ecuador. The house seeks to join these two building styles into a contemporary house. A house which is organized around a triangulated green patio always giving you the sense of being close to nature [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Contemporary architecture, Ecuador, Landscape architecture, South American architecture, WE Architecture
Denmark-based studio WE Architecture has designed the +House located in Puerto Cayo, Ecuador. The house is composed of two linear volumes intersecting each others, one of the volumes is placed perpendicular on the coast line, following the terrain down the slope and the other is places along the same high of the hill crossing the [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Courtyard architecture, Landscape architecture, PAR, USA, USA architecture, White
American studio Platform for Architecture + Research has designed the Desert House located in La Quinta, USA. We aimed to contain land disturbance by siting the villas within their natural topography as much as possible. We also developed more compact building footprints by increasing outdoor living spaces that take advantage of the temperate, sunny climate. [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, Sweden, Visiondivision
Nature’s Choice, is one of the latest project Sweden-based architectural firm Visiondivision designed to to blend in with the surrounding nature in the north of Sweden. On the site lies also an old bunker which was constructed to prevent a potential invasion from the Russians. The bunker also had to be discreet when built, but [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Abu Dhabi architecture, Foster + Partners, Iconic architecture, Landscape architecture, Museum
The design of Foster + Partners for the Zayed National Museum have been officially unveiled today by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Conceived as a monument and memorial to the late [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: A-cero, Courtyard architecture, Landscape architecture, Spain, White
Designed by Spainish architectural studio A-Cero, a dwelling of generous proportions developed over a single storey to facilitate the indoor-outdoor connection and to make the most of the environment in which it stands. Surrounded by meadows, tree groves, chestnut, pine and oak trees and wildlife represented by stags, wild boar and roe deer, the edifice [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Aquarium, Hoz Fontan, Landscape architecture, Refurbishment / Extension, Spain, Waterfront architecture
The Aquarium of San Sebastian has been lodged for more than 100 years in a building on Mount Urgull’s feet, in one of the most visible zones of La Concha Bay. It is an institution for which its own building, while being at the same time its identity seal, had become an obstacle for its [...]
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