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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: David Wakely, LEED, School, Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects, USA architecture
This is a new student commons at an independent high school in Marin, California. Designed by Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects, the Branson School Student Commons gives students a much-needed gathering space with an unusual degree of connection to the outdoors. Sited in a narrow glen between upper and lower campuses, the structure includes a dining [...]
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Category: Architecture, Events/News Tags: Events/News, Exhibition, USA architecture
Tom Sheehan Sketches and Collaborations exhibition from April 20 to May 19.2012 Excerpts of his sketchbooks, Tom Sheehan exhibits a selection of drawings from 1997 to 2012. Sketches as notes, as research or as a condition, are the datum of the carrier of a Parisian creator open to the world. The sketch is the irreducible [...]
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Category: Installation, Landscape Tags: Fluid form, Installation, USA architecture
Most of people, except Korean, may not be familiar with the name of Ahn Chang Ho (1878-1938), also known as Dosan, who was one of many Korean independence activists during Colonial Era. However, the small city in east of USA, Riverside commemorate him along with Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. by providing statues [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, New York, Stair, Stelle architects, Swimming pool, USA, USA architecture, White
The house is sited on a bluff overlooking the bay within a grove of cedar and locust trees. Discrete volumes of varying public and private functions are organized around an axial promenade, extending to the outdoors. Single story volumes, separated by glass interstitial spaces, were utilized to lessen the overall impact of the structures while [...]
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Category: Culture Tags: Art Gallery, BIG, Competition, Fluid form, Stair, Timber, USA architecture
BIG + Architectural Nexus + Dunn Associates + VBFA + Envision Engineering + Big D design the winning proposal for the renovation and expansion of Kimball Art Center in Park City, projected for completion by Mid-2015. The Kimball Art Center, home to Sundance House during the Annual Sundance Film Festival, invited an international group of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Allied Works, Art Gallery, Concrete, Museum, Stair, USA architecture
ALLIED WORKS DESIGNS NEWLY OPENED CLYFFORD STILL MUSEUM IN DENVER, COLORADO New York City – Following an invited international competition in 2006, Allied Works was selected to design the Clyfford Still Museum, a single-artist institution devoted to the life and work of the 20th-century painter. Opened to the public on November 18th, the museum houses [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Architectural video, Delaine Isaac, Fluid form, New York, Pavilion, UNStudio, USA architecture, White
Shared by a New York-based architect Delaine Isaac, he has recently completed the first episode for “Great Spaces“: UNStudio Amsterdam Pavilion. The Amsterdam Pavilion was commissioned by the Battery Conservancy, is a gift from the Netherlands to New York in honour of 400 years of friendship. It was unveiled to public in September 2009, if [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Architecture Award, Cook+Fox Architects, LEED, Perforated, USA architecture
Live Work Home Achieves LEED Platinum Certification NEW YORK, NEW YORK – November 21, 2011 – Live Work Home, a winning design proposal from Cook+Fox Architects in the From the Ground Up Competition in Syracuse, New York, has been awarded LEED-NC (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for New Construction) Platinum certification, the highest possible [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel Tags: Color architecture, USA architecture
Stamberg Aferiat recently has completed the Saguaro Hotel in Scottsdale. The architects, Stamberg Aferiat, are known for their bold use of color in architecture, and their ideas about color theory in design. This is their first hospitality project. The hotel’s vivid façade features hues of white, green, yellow, orange and pink, which are applied to [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: ESD design, Landscape architecture, Swimming pool, USA architecture
Cascading Creek House was conceived less as a house and more as an extension and outgrowth of the limestone and aquifers of Central Texas. The primary formal gesture of the project inserts two long native limestone walls to the sloping site, serving as spines for the public wing and private wing of the house. The [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: ESD design, Swimming pool, USA architecture
Studio E Architects Designs Environmentally Responsive Living for UC Davis SAN DIEGO, CA. Studio E Architects is proud to announce the grand opening of West Village at University of California, Davis. The official ribbon cutting of UC Davis West Village’s $300 million first phase was held Saturday, October 15th. Now the largest planned Zero Net [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic Tags: Competition, inbo, Public square, USA architecture
Architects of Inbo in the final of the open ideas Competition for the Washington Monument Grounds in Washington D.C., USA. Jacques Prins, Kevin Battarbee and Egidijus Kasakaitis, architects of the Dutch multidisciplinary office Inbo, have proceeded to the third and final round with their proposal “Monument of Unity”. The task given to competitors by the [...]
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