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Category: Interior Tags: Bar Lounge, Refurbishment / Extension, Restaurant, Söhne & Partner Architekten
When planning this building the instructors made a great effort to include all different requirements in the project without, however, neglecting the idea of a unified architectural line. So when the general refurbishment on Bauernfeldplatz in 1090 Vienna started it was important to connect the different levels and to open up the restaurant towards the [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Portugal, Refurbishment / Extension, Stair, White
BAU.UAU ARQUITECTURA has completed a private house in Viseu, Portugal. The conditions are similar: the limits of the intervention are defined by the exterior walls and by the sloping planes of the roof, the accesses are defined by the two existing stairways, the solar orientations are brought to the interior by the existing openings of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Interior, Office Tags: Norway, Refurbishment / Extension, Space Group, Stair
In 2012 Space Group completed the refurbishment of the former industrial building designed by architects Ove Ekman and Einar Smith and erected from 1896 to 1899. This area along the Akers River was historically referred to as Ny York (New York) due to its explosive development in 1858. Today the area reflects a transformation towards a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Classical architecture, Refurbishment / Extension, Tom Eliot Fisch, USA architecture
Hoover Pavilion first opened as Palo Alto Hospital in 1931 and was expanded in 1939. Stanford University operated the hospital for the city until taking over ownership in 1959, renaming it Hoover Pavilion and converting it to house medical offices. Designed in the Art Deco style, the 85,000-square-foot building features ziggurat massing with four-story wings [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Architectural Resources Group, David Wakely, Refurbishment / Extension, USA, Workplace
In 2008, California Institute of Technology created the Ronald and Maxine Linde Center for Global Environmental Science to study global climate change. The Linde Center needed a facility that could bring together faculty from chemistry, engineering, geology, environmental science, and other fields. To house the Linde Center, the institute chose to rehabilitate the Henry M.Robinson [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Refurbishment / Extension, Serge Schoemaker architects, White
Serge Schoemaker Architects has transformed and extended the attic of this charming Dutch house of the twenties in a radical way. The upper part of the roof construction was completely dismantled and the original rafters were replaced by laminated wood portal frames. The result is a bright, high and spacious attic. Dating from the early [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: France, Random pattern, Refurbishment / Extension
When addressing this project for an office building, we started off by thinking about the entire city block as a series of buildings with spaces between them to introduce light and air into the empty space. In this way we began to see the building as a mass that formed Rue Emile Zola, like a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: David Wakely, Refurbishment / Extension, Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects, USA
Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects recently completed Bayview Center for the nonprofit College Track. Founded in 1997, College Track is a nonprofit organization that aims to empower students from under-resourced communities to obtain a college degree. Over the course of eight years, from the summer before high school through college graduation, College Track engages these students [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Courtyard architecture, Joao Morgado, Landscape architecture, Portugal, Refurbishment / Extension, White
Joao Morgado shared with us one of his latest architectural photography. Designed by Vitor Vilhena Architects, this house is located in South of Portugal, Algarve, Tavira. Here the ocean peeks, while the 400 olive trees surround the house. An old building has to give place to a new one, keeping the two volume-footprint in the soft [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Courtyard architecture, Refurbishment / Extension
The project, designed by architects Anna Puigjaner and Guillermo Lopez, members of MAIO design team (www.maio-maio.com), involves the conversion of a space that formerly housed a washing place into an open studio for professionals from different fields of architecture and design. The existing 40-meter long building was a continuous space, with variable sections and extremely [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Classical architecture, LEED, Library, Refurbishment / Extension, Tom Eliot Fisch, USA architecture
As part of the San Francisco Public Library’s Branch Library Improvement Program, Tom Eliot Fisch and Paulett Taggart Architects renovated the historic Golden Gate Valley Branch Library in the city’s Cow Hollow neighborhood. Completed in 1918 as a Carnegie library, the two-level brick and terra cotta Beaux-Arts structure was designed by Ernest Coxhead in the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: L3P Architekten, Refurbishment / Extension, Switzerland
L3P Architekten has completed the new replacement apartment house at Glättlistrasse 31 and 33. The Glättlistrasse neighbourhood, located in the Zurich district of Altstett, is a typical 1950s suburban development. The construction brief for this project was to replace four terraced houses and a kindergarten that was no longer needed with a single apartment house [...]
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