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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Concrete, Courtyard architecture, France, N+B architects, School, Stone
French architectural practice N+B architects has completed the new middle school – Morières les Avignon in France. Interplay between concrete and stone are the main feature for this project, it gives rhythmic effect to the facade as a contemporary appearance. The “VERS” stone establishes sides façades of folds in concrete. It offers a thermal slowness [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Andrea Tognon Architecture, Italy, Landscape architecture, Refurbishment / Extension, Stone
Residance O is the refurbishment project designed by Italy-based Andrea Tognon Architecture, the new square floor plane was completed by filling the missing corner to the old L shape plan, it looks clean. + Project description courtesy of Andrea Tognon Architecture The building we were call to refurbish was built in the 70′s as imitation [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: 3XN, Cladding, Denmark, ESD design, Green architecture, Lattice screen, Random pattern, Stone
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. [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: A-cero, Dominican Republic, Folding architecture, Landscape architecture, Stone
Spanish architecture firm A-cero recently has completed a house located in Dominican Republic, sleeping zone and living zone was organized into 2 blocks and connected by a covered veranda, while featuring curved volumes emerged from the ground. The stone of exterior Coralline interferes inside to offer visual continuity… The exterior sensation – interior ends up [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Australia NewZealand, Cladding, Landscape architecture, Marcus O'Reilly archtiects, Steel, Stone, Wood
Australian architectural firm Marcus O’Reilly Architects has designed a beach house in Sorrento on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula in Australia. + Project description courtesy of Marcus O’Reilly Architects The Colour of Tea Trees Marcus O’Reilly Architects has carefully designed a low key, site responsive beach house in Sorrento on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula in Australia. The timber [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Exhibition, Folding architecture, Francisco Mangado, Landscape architecture, Spain, Stone
Spanish architect Francisco Mangado recently has completed the Avila Congress and Exhibitions Municipal Centre located in Ávila, Spain. The project was inspired by the nature of landscape, it was designed as a sculpture carved out of the terrain. The project combines two different geometries: the most orthogonal and elongated space contains the auditoriums and main [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Arquitectos Anónimos, Minimalism, Poland, Stone, Timber, Wood
The NG House in St. Tirso, Portugal was designed by Arquitectos Anónimos to sit on the existing stone wall, the house is finished in wooden skin and full glass at both sides, creating a beautiful contrast on the materials. + Architectural concept courtesy of Arquitectos Anónimos Sometimes we dig up foundations only to cover them [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Cladding, Lithuania, Paleko ARCH Studija, Random pattern, Stone
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 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Europen architecture, Modular design, MVRDV, Norway, Stone
Designed by Dutch architects MVRDV in collaboration with Norwegian firms DARK Arkitekter AS. The construction for DnB NOR Headquarters has been started in this year September and scheduled to be completed in 2012. The pixelated design adapts to the urban context and combines an efficient and flexible internal organisation, based on small-scale working entities, with [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Argentina, Sternberg Kohen Arquitectos, Stone, Swimming pool
Argentina-based Sternberg Kohen Arquitectos has designed a house in Nordelta, Buenos Aires, Argentina. + Project description courtesy of Sternberg Kohen Arquitectos Far from the predesigned and homogeneous models, the architects decided to put the accent in the surroundings, joining the functionality of the house with its context, incorporating natural materials such as stone and wood, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic, Selected Tags: Embassy, Kristin Jarmund Architects, Nepal, Norway, Stone, Zig-Zag
Norway-based Kristin Jarmund Architects has designed The Royal Norwegian Embassy located in Kathmandu, Nepal. The aim of the projects was to create a representative yet modest building which presents Norway in a modern and quality conscious way…This form gives the house a” face” while at the same time allowing the rooms on the first floor [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: AH Asociados, Concrete, Europen architecture, Landscape architecture, Religious architecture, Spain, Stone
Project “Renovation of Arantzazu 2001” designed by Spanish architecture studio AH Asociados, is a Franciscan Sanctuary located in Gipuzkoa (Spain) between ravines, rocky mountains and rivers. + Project description courtesy of AH Asociados The Sanctuary of Our Lady Arantzazu is located in an exceptional natural enclave at the foot of the Urbia open field, between [...]
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