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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Car Park, Perforated, Random pattern, USA, USA architecture, White, WRNS
In San Francisco, WRNS Studio has recently completed a dramatic multi-story parking structure in the heart of the city’s Mission Bay redevelopment zone. This new seven story elevated parking structure serves adjacent laboratories and offices with 1,420 spaces. The north and east façades, which border a public plaza, are clad in perforated aluminum panels whose [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Art Gallery, Cladding, Foster + Partners, Glass, Minimalism, Nigel Young, USA architecture
The concept for Sperone Westwater represents both a response to the Bowery’s dynamic urban character and a desire to rethink the way in which we engage with art in the setting of a gallery. The moving gallery animates the exterior of the building and creates a bold vertical element within. Like a kinetic addition to [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Concrete, Courtyard architecture, Landscape architecture, PIQUE, Timber, USA architecture
America-based architectural firm PIQUE designed the Kenneally Residence located in the Tetherow golf development in USA. It was most inspiring for us to see how this golf course is naturally nestled into the uniform topography, pine trees and lava flows of the high dessert. With this in mind, it became incredibly important for us to [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: FOA, Madrid, Museum, USA, USA architecture
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, is the London-based architectural firm Foreign Office Architects (FOA)‘s first major building in the United States, and its first museum. It is approx. 34,000-square-foot with four-story structure, located at the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Mayfield Road, the new MOCA is a flagship project of Cleveland’s emerging Uptown [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: Farm, Landscape architecture, USA architecture
The Huntington Urban Farm designed by New Zealand architect Tim Stephens, is a case study for an urban farming precinct to be located within existing communities, it aims to become a hub for social activity and interaction that are sorely missing in many existing communities. The Huntington Urban Farm is to pave the way for [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Ten arquitectos, USA architecture
The building is called 580 Carroll and is designed by world-renowned architect Enrique Norten which has just been completed in the heart of Park Slope, Brooklyn – a rare modern addition to a neighborhood known for its older historic buildings. It is a 17 unit residential building – a five story structure made of concrete [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial, Lighting Tags: Creative design, Outdoor lamp, USA architecture, WEATHERS
Climate Design™ series – Wanderings by Chicago-based design studio WEATHERS investigates its ‘climatic infrastructure’ that augments and re-configures existing external micro-climates for occupation and programmatic use. The attempt is to create multiple zones (micro-climates) that pull from and alter the existing climatic context, creating distinct and definable edges, boundaries and transitions of these materials. ‘Wanderings‘ [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Architecture Award, ESD design, Green architecture, H3AR, Skyscrapers, USA architecture
Polish 4th year students of architecture Academy of Fine Arts, Ryszard Rychlicki and Agnieszka Nowak of H3AR received a special mention for their proposal in the 2010 skyscraper competition – Rain Collector Skyscraper. The proposal understands the water consumption of its inhabitants in US, it aims to capture rainwater as much as possible through the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, Timber, USA architecture, Waterfront architecture
Stunningly Modern Bainbridge Island Home The clean modern lines of this newly constructed waterfront home are a rare and perfect match for the person looking for simplicity and a zen-like quality in a home. Striking and progressive materials are utilized throughout in this smart and edgy design. Featured in a recent Seattle AIA exhibition, the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Krueck & Sexton Architects, Refurbishment / Extension, Steel, USA architecture
Architects Krueck & Sexton has completed restoring 860-880 Lake Shore Drive which was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1951. Widely recognized as one of the 20th Century’s most iconic residential projects, 860-880 Lake Shore Drive consists of two 26-story rectangular condominium buildings surrounded by an irregular travertine plaza. The steel and glass [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Community Center, Marcy Wong & Donn Logan Architects, Stone, Timber, USA architecture, Western Red Cedar
California-based architect Marcy Wong & Donn Logan Architects designed the Orange Memorial Park located in South San Francisco. The building is conceived as a pavilion in a park and an icon for the community. + Project description courtesy of Marcy Wong & Donn Logan Architects Orange Memorial Park is the most important public recreation venue [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Fluid form, USA architecture, Waterfront architecture
San Francisco-based designer Joanna Borek-Clement has designed the Tafoni Floating Home located in Sausalito, California. This is a conceptual house designed to promote a new type of residential design, living and lifestyle. It is also a multi-purpose living pavilion that serves as a permanent house, a weekend retreat, a relaxing summer destination or a place [...]
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