Italian architect Cino Zucchi Architetti and Park Associati designed the Salewa Spa Headquarters in Bolzano, Italy. The project is now on site and scheduled to complete on 2011. + Project description courtesy of Cino Zucchi Architetti + Park Associati The new Salewa Headquarters, one of the most prominent manufacturers in Bolzano, is situated in an exceptional location [...]

Paris-based architectural firm Emmanuel COMBAREL Dominique MARREC Architects (ECDM) has completed a social housing for students in a suburb of Paris called Epinay. The conception of our project is from a second reading of the landscape, particularly the road of Saint leu, by integrating its history and transformations to assert its manners and qualities and to reveal [...]

Italian architect Cino Zucchi Architetti, in collaboration with One Works and Buro Happold London to design the Central Pasila Tower Area in Helsinki, Finland. The goal of the project is to unite the often separated issues of sustainability and urban quality, donating a new living landmark to the city. + Project description courtesy of Cino Zucchi [...]

California-based DRDS, in collaboration with Ilshin Architecture and Engineering have won the Invited National pre-qualified competition to design a broadcast headquarters and cultural media facility – KNN Media Center. The project aims to become a new landmark in Busan’s Centum City, which to house a broadcast and news studio, office condominiums, retail, and [...]

Danish practice 3XN has won the competition to design the Frederiksberg Courthouse located in Copenhagen, DK. The facade is designed as an expression of the structure’s solidity, which to create a better relationship with the existing building and the surroundings in the neighbourhood of Frederiksberg. The new Courthouse will be a natural extension of the existing [...]

Danish architectural studio 3XN recently has completed the head office for Danish law firm Horten in Copenhagen, DK. The project has been developed as an energy saving building which is featuring the three dimensional façade in fiberglass and travertine, it acts as a screen against the sun while still providing a view to the water. + [...]

In Maracon, Switzerland, it is a beautiful and contemporary house by Swiss architectural practice Localarchitecture sitting in the Swiss countryside, it was designed to respect the morphology and scale of the other constructions in the village. The project is inspired from traditional architectural forms and codes and is reinterpreted to the use of the building and [...]

Elementary School ‘Dender’ was the winning project by Compagnie-O architecten in 2003, and was recently completed. There are 8 new classes, a polyvalent space, reception and sanitary have been extended to the existing school. + Project description courtesy of Compagnie-O architecten History The existing primary school of Geraardsbergen nests itself in an absurd inner area in the center [...]

‘Dragen’ Children’s House by C. F Møller Architects has recently been inaugurated. This integrated kindergarten is one of the passive house in Denmark that using a minimum of energy. The fundamental architectural concept is a simple and clear geometric form on two levels, with the children’s areas located in the best-lit southern end. The [...]

Tessiture Nosate office building by Italian architectural practice Frigerio Design Group is the extension project for a leader textile factory in Milan outskirts. + Project description courtesy of Frigerio Design Group Woof and Warp For the extension of a leader textile factory in Milan outskirts we focused on the character of the main, south facing, elevation. A delicate [...]

VBM architects has designed the BSBO School in Halmaalweg Sint-Truiden, Belgium. The school was built to take care of mentally handicapped and autistic children, this is the good attempt of the randomized openings on the elevation which is the result of the program to stimulate the visual sensitivity of the children. + Project description courtesy of [...]

Paris practice LAN Architecture has designed a 142m high the Tower 486 Mina El Hosn, the ‘mirror-tower’ for Beirut, Lebanon. The exterior skin consists of sliding perforated sheet stainless steel panels with a mirror finish, ideally to reflect and symbolize the history and culture of the city within a heterogeneous context. The Cluster Houses materialize the [...]

Nocios Apartment House by Lithuania-based architectural firm Paleko ARCH Studija is located on Nocios St. in Vilnius. This is a four levels apartment building with a level of basement carpark which features the rhythmic openings on the facade. Building forms a new way of interpretation of historical Lithuanian architecture. One more “vila” in dense vilas district [...]

Norwegian firm Kristin Jarmund Architects recently has completed the Gjerdrum Secondary School, which was the 1st prize project in the invited competition in 2007. + Project description courtesy of Kristin Jarmund Architects The project won 1st prize in an invited competition the autumn of 2007. With very few adjustments the competition project was realised. The roof is shaped [...]