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Madurodam, Scheveningen, The Hague, the Netherlands, 1952
Madurodam is a miniature city located in Scheveningen, The Hague, in the Netherlands. It is a model of a Dutch town on a 1:25 scale, composed of typical Dutch buildings and landmarks, as are found at various locations in the country. -- wikipedia
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Glass bottling Plant Cristalchile, Llay-Llay, V Región, Chile, 2006 designed by Guillermo Hevia
Both, day and night, the undulating shapes of a big ascending roof are the image of a mantle moved by the winds of the area ; the transparencies of the glass façade that makes the production process transparent are an architectonic speech of easy and categorical understanding, emphasizing the handling of light and shadows, shows the huge scale and gains meaning when faced to the immediate area surroundings and geography. -- ArchDaily
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Southern Cross Station, Melbourne, Australia, 2007 designed by Grimshaw Architects
The design focus of Southern Cross Station is the dune-like roof that covers an entire city block. The roof’s form plays a crucial role as part of the environmental envelope ensuring that it is symbol of sustainable architecture developed in response to the hot external climate and the internal need for diesel extraction and ambient cooling via natural ventilation. -- architect's web site
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Ribbon House, Perth, Australia, 2007 designed by Hartree + Associates Architects
The circular form of the water unfurls playfully into the lakeside elevation, defining interlocking volumes, where the cantilevered glass living room block projects out dramatically over the landscape to become an open verandah and engage the water. Private functions, such as bedrooms are tucked around the garden spaces on the ground floor. -- architect's web site
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| Source: Oliver llaneza archdaily.com |
Residence in Papudo, Papudo, Valparaíso Region, Chile designed by Raimundo Anguita
A curved roof of exposed concrete covers the hall, living and dining rooms, and terrace- giving it a unique specialty and creating, in balance with the maritime environment, an atmosphere of tranquility and belonging. -- ArchDaily
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YouTube Headquarters, San Bruno, California, USA, 2008 designed by William McDonough + Partners
....this office building at 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, California. Now home toYouTube, the building was awarded the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Platinum rating. -- wikipediaRead a post from Business Insider
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| Source: Sebastian Nagy archdaily.com |
Triangolo, Nitra, Slovakia designed by Sebastian Nagy
The apartment house TRIANGOLO was created as a dialog between natural predispositions, town and the construction site locality. The Nitra’s upland, Zobor and meander of the river Nitra represented basic inspirational dominants. Triangular parcel and the roof of harmonic curve together with dispositional and material concept eventually formed architecture into its final resemblance. -- ArchDaily
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Samuel Brighouse Elementary School, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, 2011 designed by Perkins+Will
The building's signature feature is its wavy roof, made from two-by-fours joined side by side to produce gentle slopes. The roof also allows for passive ventilation, through windows at the peaks of the wave. Exposed wood roof decking throughout the interior forms the ceilings, and the floors of the ground level are concrete to convey heat from the school's geoexchange system. -- Architectural Record
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| Source: Mario Bellini Architect(s) archdaily.com |
New Department of Islamic Art, the Louvre, Paris, France, 2012 designed by Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti
The “enormous veil” is constructed of a free-form lattice of 8,000 steel tubes and insulating double glazing, cloaked in gold and silver aluminum mesh. Triangular polished aluminum honeycomb panels are also integrated into the floating structure to refract the external images and diffuse daylight.
The roof weighs a total of 120 tons with a thickness ranging from 20 centimeters to 1.50 meters and a maximum height of 8 meters. It is supported by eight “light” and “slightly inclined” pillars that accentuate a sense of lightness. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Nic Lehoux archdaily.com |
Tsing Tao Pearl Hill Visitor Center, Qingdao, Shandong, China, 2012 designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
....the precedent of traditional Chinese architecture composed of stone plinths and curved roof forms, a building with a heavy stone base and cloud-like roof was sketched. Three key locations were identified in the building; the entry point, the sales desk, and the tea bar and from each of these positions the undulation of the roof frames the view of the Pearl Hill ridge line. A forest of columns reminds the visitor of the bamboo groves of the entry drive. Native vegetation on the roof further mimics the site in color and texture. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Nico Saieh archdaily.com |
Carozzi Production and Research Food Center, San Bernardo, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile, 2012 designed by GH+A | Guillermo Hevia
The shape of the factory roofs recreate the mountains of the Andes on the surrounding geography, the dialog harmoniously with the previously existing building, the flour mill of 1964, an icon in chilean modern architecture. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Leonardo Finotti archdaily.com |
MAR – Rio Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 2013 designed by Bernardes + Jacobsen Arquitetura
A fluid and extremely light structure, simulating water surface waves. A poetic architectural character full of meaning, simple and at the same time modern in regards to the structural calculation. This element shall be seen near and by far, and from below to who is arriving at the Praça Mauá, from above by those who are at the Morro da Conceição. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Brian Gassel archdaily.com |
Music City Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 2013 designed by tvsdesign
The plan for the Music City Convention Center is designed to serve as a catalyst for new business by respecting the surrounding neighborhood and turning a welcoming face to the community. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG archdaily.com |
Winery, Presandães, 5070-129 Alijó, Portugal, 2014 designed by A.Burmester Arquitectos Associados
....a project in which the aesthetic and spatial options are guided by the functional aspects of the economic and procedure functions. It is an industrial unit dedicated to wine and wine storage from Douro and Porto. -- ArchDaily
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