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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: China architecture, gmp architekten, Lattice screen, Religious architecture, Skin, White
Hamburg-based architectural practice gmp architekten has designed the Zhongguancun Christian Church located in Beijing, China. The project features vertical fins running along the building’s perimeter that forming an unique homogeneous skin. It creates a special lighting atmosphere inside the church hall, matching the ecclesiastical function of the space. The shape of the church body does [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Selected Tags: Cladding, India architecture, Skin, Waterfront architecture, Yazdani Studio
American architectural firm Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design has designed an iconic Taj Hotel for Taj Lands End design competition entry in Mumbai, India. The hotel is developed from the idea of “wave” that shaped by fins from its podium to hotel tower, while creating a cascade of terraces and decks at southern edges, it [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial Tags: DRDS, Random pattern, Shopping complex, Skin, White
California-based DRDS, in collaboration with Kunwon have won the invited competition to design the Pangyo Global R+D Center located in Korea and it is scheduled to be completed in 2010. The project goal is to create a landmark facility for the Pangyo Techno Valley Campus and invigorate research facilities through design to attract global companies specialized [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Color architecture, Denmark, ESD design, Glass, Green architecture, Skin
C. F. Møller Architects recently has completed the office complex – Vitus Bering Innovation Park located in Horsens, Denmark. The building’s dynamic and innovative character is expressed via its spiral shape. On the facades, the movement is seen in the glazing strips that stretch towards the sky across the six storeys of the building and [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Balcony, Color architecture, Courtyard architecture, ECDM, France, Random pattern, Skin
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Mixed Use Tags: Color architecture, Dubai architecture, Fluid form, Shopping complex, Skin, Söhne & Partner Architekten
DSO-PLEX Information Technology & Electronics Mall by Austria-based Söhne & Partner Architekten, it was designed to express the image of modern and advanced technology, the skin was made of glass and solar panels in various colours, to give different visual expressions in different weather conditions and viewing angles. + Project description courtesy of Söhne & [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Transportation Tags: CC Arquitectos, Mexico, Skin
Mexican architectural practice CC Arquitectos recently has completed the Multimodal station in mexico (mexipuerto bicentenario azteca), the project consist of a mixed use retail (subway, urban transportation, hospital, shopping center, financial center and cinemas. With a pedestrian transit of 140,000 passenger per day, the terminal have 75,000 m2 of construction. It is a public- private [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Folding architecture, Laboratory, Morphosis, New York, School, Skin, Steel
41 Cooper Square is the Advancement of Science and Art building for the Cooper Union designed by Morphosis Architects. The project has won the Best Green Design of 2009 Awards from the New York Construction. Built with sustainability goals, 41 Cooper Square is the first LEED certified academic laboratory building in New York City. For [...]
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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, Culture Tags: Architecture Award, Brazil, CHN arquitetos, Cladding, Landscape architecture, Museum, Perforated, Skin, South American architecture
Bazil-based architectural firm CHN arquitetos has won the International Public Competition for the Architectural Project of the Exploratory Science Museum – Campinas, Brazil. The surface of the facade is created from the idea of infinity: a reference to the essence of its form, recognizable from its cosmological scale to its most minimal. CHN arquitetos + [...]
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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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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected Tags: Display design, Features, Italy, Lattice screen, Perforated, Showroom, Skin, Studio 63
DEX Showroom in Osmannoro, Firenze, designed by Italy-based firm Studio 63 architecture and design. The showroom is given identity by the facade design that appears like a pixelized picture of the trees, filtering the natural and indoor lighting between inside and outside, creating a dramatic screen along the street. + Project description below courtesy of Studio [...]
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