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Curutchet House, La Plata, Argentina, 1953 designed by Le Corbusier
....included a small medical office on the first floor. The house consists
of four main levels with a courtyard between the house and the clinic.
The building faces the Paseo del Bosque park. The main facade incorporates a brise soleil. --
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Milam House, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA, 1962 designed by Paul Rudolph
....the Milam House, completed in 1962, takes a more muscular approach to
design—using more concrete block and less steel or wood framing, and
incorporating large, fixed panes of glass (and air-conditioning) instead
of operable windows. --
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| Source: Tony Cenicola New York Times |
Orange County Government Center, Goshen, New York, USA, 1971 designed by Paul Rudolph
The extrusions of the boxes as seen from the exterior reveal fundamental
ideas of the forms found within the walls, as they punctuate what would
be a massive exterior wall to another scale. --
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| Source: Patrick Miara archdaily.com |
ST JEAN, Bordeaux, France, 2009 designed by Leibar-Seigneurin
....propose architecture which is not just another kind of singular structure, but which, on the contrary, does its best to build up a form of continuity with the decidedly distinctive typology of the building in Bordeaux which structures the architectural landscape. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Daniele Domenicali archdaily.com |
Tortona 37 Multi-Purpose Complex, Milan, Italy, 2009 designed by Matteo Thun & Partners
A building project which salvages a former industrial plant covering 25,000 square metres (it used to belong to General Electric) and restores it to the city through cutting-edge energy-efficient technology. The glass facade, incorporated in a system of outside curtains, is highly efficient at reducing the impact of sunlight (up to 87%) to prevent the interiors from overheating during summer. Further screening is provided by the wooden shutters (a material used “purely”) on the window frames and large overhanging bow-windows, so that its image evolves naturally over time. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Shantanu Starick archdaily.com |
AM60 Building, Brisbane, Australia, 2009 designed by Donovan Hill
The major frontage is characterised by a slick and colourful glassy façade, which wraps around the corner into the minor street where tactile concrete and masonry elements give a contrasting character and scale, as well as more substantial solar control. A fragment of the tactility is an embellished masonry screen protecting 4 levels of glass-skinned board rooms. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Gustavo Soza Pinilla archdaily.com |
EEUU 4263 Building, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, 2009 designed by BAK Arquitectos
....a building with a façade devoid of accents or articulations, and if possible, be constructed with a single material. The main adaptation was leaving the concrete exposed only on the facades, the vertical core and a series of internal walls that serve the dual function as room dividers and load bearing structure. -- ArchDaily
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Mokuzai Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan designed by Tomohiko Yamanashi / Nikken Sekkei + Takeyuki Katsuya / NSD
The headquarters of the Tokyo Lumber Wholesalers Association has a facade crafted from Japanese cypress, forming engawa porches outside each floor. In order to conform to Tokyo’s stringent fire code, the main structure is reinforced concrete. Robotic CNC cutters were used to join the timbers, adapting traditional joinery techniques. -- Ja+a
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| Source: Tamara Uribe archdaily.com |
FI House, Cholul, Yucatan, Mexico, 2010 designed by Punto Arquitectónico
Upstairs is designed to follow the two wings of the geometry downstairs; one is for the master bedroom, and the other, the kid’s room and a guest room. Both elements are linked direction south with the TV room. Northward,a free bridge connects the master bedroom with the kid’s room. Serving as a viewer and framing the visuals of the TV room. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Arsh Design Group archdaily.com |
2 Offices, 2 Brothers, Tehran, Iran, 2010 designed by Arsh Design Group
The [architectural] skin, via which the non-domestic interior would interface with the domestic exterior, had to maintain a low-key profile while establishing itself as high art in the most subtle way. The spatial relationship of the informal domestic and the Enterprise had to be inverted. The domestic was outside, while the Enterprise was encapsulated, dissolving within the extended domesticity without being subdued by it. The Enterprise cherished the exteriorized domus of the street, and therefore was embraced by it. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: nred arquitectos archdaily.com |
Z House, Gran Canaria, Spain, 2011 designed by nred arquitectos
The house is a frame that contracts and expands…theoretically
infinite…an isotropic structure cut by a determined contour, roughly
rectangular…parallel ribbons of different heights…free composition,
matted with small gardens…the house resembles a curtain that rises and
falls repeatedly. The zig-zag cut defines the façade which is only closed by glass and
latticework: wooden in the ventilation openings and concrete in the
patios. --
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| Source: Santiago Robayo archdaily.com |
Spectra Building, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, 2011 designed by Espacio Colectivo Arquitectos
....a system of deep facades that gives thickness to the skin of the
building, which succeeds in making an efficient climate transition and
addresses the need to protect every space of the building. --
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| Source: Ryota Atarashi archdaily.com |
BMA Project, Tokyo, Japan, 2011 designed by Ryuichi Sasaki + Sasaki Architecture
BMA is a three-storied mini fashion business office tenant complex. Its gate-shaped frames line up in slightly shifted way like a series of modern art sculptures. Within these frames, printed glass screens overlap each other, creating unique scenes that changes as you walk in. The slits between gate-shaped frames filter sunlight just like trees and make interior space naturally rich in light and warm atmosphere. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Jon Linkins archdaily.com |
Kane Offices, Brisbane, Australia, 2012 designed by MARC&CO + coarchitecture
A series of meeting rooms on the street edge, overlook a park to the
east, as well as looking back into the open office space. Dark zinc
reveals around the windows frame and intensifies the view of sky and
green. Double height volumes allow an ambiguous scale to the façade, and
a transparency to the internal rooms. --
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| Source: Jeffrey Cheng archdaily.com |
Housing, Taipei, Taiwan, 2012 designed by Chin Architects
The elevation on the East side uses white cracked-ice glaze mosaic and
black stone mosaic to form a modern representation of vertical village
on an 80 meter long city wall. The building envelope with various
protruding white frames becomes the in-between interface involves an
individual with the city. The frames with depth not only provide the
necessary sun screen, but the resulting visual artistry also evokes
imagination. --
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| Source: Gürkan Akay archdaily.com |
Miracle Residence, Kurtkoy, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012 designed by BFTA Mimarlik
Miracle Residence seems as a gate for this promising area. It consists two 100m. blocks creating 250m. long hotel and residential block with the social facilities in between. This 25m.x250m. long surface not designed as if its another ordinary building in the area but, taken as a residential block design experiment. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Brett Boardman archdaily.com |
Apex, Waterloo, NSW, Australia, 2012 designed by Turner
The ‘tall’ building is assembled as a series of stacked boxes. Taking advantage of the city views, internal living areas are pushed closer to the building edge. In response to the internal planning the boxes are stretched and pulled between levels and facades. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Walter Salcedo archdaily.com |
SL 2401 Building, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, 2012 designed by CMS Arquitectas
The repetition of the typical floor plan is characterized by the use of
the structural frame; this is where the apartment balconies are located.
This element that characterizes and formally identifies the building is
composed of exposed concrete slabs and interspersed columns, and
consolidates the corner by reinstating the right angle of contact of the
two streets along the height of the building. The cantilevered
structural frame is supported, at its rear, by an interior frame of
walls and beams that make up the load bearing structure of the building. --
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| Source: Iwan Baan archrecord.construction.com |
Coach Omotesando Flagship, Tokyo, Japan, 2013 designed by OMA
Oriented vertically and horizontally, the Omotesando units are six-by-two-feet—dimensions sized for Coach’s standard mannequins and merchandise. Though the boxes look stacked, steel frames secure them inconspicuously. Bolted to this structure and held together by silicone, seismic joints, each box is made of laminated, quarter-inch thick layers of glass, one clear and one frosted (it acts like a louver), plus insulated glass end panels that reduce heat gain. -- Architecture Record
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Aesop Fillmore Street, San Francisco, California, 2012 designed by NADAAA
The predominant element in each is a tapestry of shelving crafted from reclaimed wooden boxes. Subdivided and pixilated by the varying dimensions of the boxes, the arrangement invites visual and tactile exploration; its dominance is balanced here by a cork wall and ceiling, and dark masonite flooring. -- OpenBuildings
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| Source: Julien Lanoo archdaily.com |
38 Social Housing in Eaubonne, 32-34 route de Margency, Eaubonne, France, 2013 designed by LEM +
The result is a low key, well structured architecture that respects the residents having lived on this site for over ten years. The architects have provided glazed common areas as well as dual aspect housing units with living rooms giving onto balconies that generate a real visual continuity and offer residents generous views over the surrounding environment. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Kyungsub Shin archdaily.com |
Chungha Building, Seoul, South Korea, 2013 designed by MVRDV
Chungha is a multiple identity building which was transformed into a collection of shop windows so each commercial venture imposed onto the facade would have a fitting canvas for its display. The building’s facade becomes more advertisement, and in that sense paradoxically more honest. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Martin Kudryavcev archdaily.com |
Dzintaru 32, Jūrmala, Latvia, 2013 designed by SZK/Z Architects
Jūrmala’s wooden architecture is elegant and airy, with lots of details – carved lace, small towers, weather vanes, verandas and stained glass windows. Jūrmalas wooden architecture has been recognized as unique in the European context. Since 1988 Jūrmala’s historical centre and some residential areas are a UNESCO heritage site. The building’s architecture can be regarded as an interpretation of Jūrmala’s wooden heritage, seeking inspiration in both traditional ornamental carvings and the scale of the existing urban fabric. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Alberto Zavala Arquitectos archdaily.com |
Dunas 22, San Benito, Yucatan, Mexico, 2013 designed by Alberto Zavala Arquitectos
....the north facade has a transparente treatment to take advantage of the views. Large eaves protect from summer solar incidence and rain. The bioclimatic design is of great importance due to conceiving the architecture as an autonomous structure with excellent environmental behavior. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: César Sanmillán archdaily.com |
Kindergarten, Sondika, Biscay, Spain designed by NO.MAD
....proposed an space intended to create an alternative children´s world which a well defined territory: the tactile reachable limit of a children, let´s say, one meter fifteen centimeters high. That strange world would be constructed with materials, doors, windows and objects created for that “small size” of the main users. The rest of the space should belong to the unreachable boring world of the teachers. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Jack Hobhouse archdaily.com |
ORTUS, Home of Maudsley Learning, London, UK designed by Duggan Morris Architects
The building has a simple rectilinear form, with elevations composed to compliment the Georgian principles of proportion, scale, hierarchy and materiality. A 1200 mm vertical grid, of precast concrete fins, articulates the contrasting materials of brick and glass, whilst floor slabs are expressed in the same material ensuring the stagger of the floor plates is abundantly clear to even the casual passer-by. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Andre J. Fanthome archdaily.com |
Saxena Apartments, New Delhi, Delhi, India designed by Vir.Mueller Architects
The choice of monolithic, sandblasted Gwalior sandstone panels for the facades enabled us to collaborate with the stone craftsmen, creating shade screens as thermal buffers on the street. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Coldefy & Associés Architectes Urbanistes archdaily.com |
L’ Arboretum, 47 Rue Jean Prouvé, France, 2013 designed by Coldefy & Associés Architectes Urbanistes
The facade on the boulevard takes the form of a grid of an infinitely
extensible module. Applied as a “plug-in”, it responds to the function
within, expanding to form loggias or expanding to develop a double
height – exposing the duplex apartments that form the “skyline” of the
block. Sometimes taut, sometimes porous, the module allows all functions
to coexist harmoniously, revealing only the texture of its material. --
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| Source: Matteo Piazza archdaily.com |
Sense Hotel, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2013 designed by Lazzarini Pickering Architetti
The base, the only element finished in stone, ensures a continuous link
with neighbouring buildings. The new façade that sits atop this plinth
is characterised by a glazed surface interrupted by a metal grid
defining the pattern of windows in the guestrooms. Fixed panes alternate
with operable rectangular windows that provide fresh air, in
alternative to the mechanical air conditioning system. --
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| Source: Werner Huthmacher archdaily.com |
Beiersdorf Children’s Day Care Centre, Eimsbüttel, Hamburg, Germany, 2013 designed by Kadawittfeldarchitektur
....the kindergarten resembles an abstract version of an apothecary cabinet.
Featuring a shelf-like structure, the facade caters for a variety of
functions and requirements and, at the same time, creates a light and
transparent atmosphere indoors. The large window formats provide perfect
conditions for play and educational work. --
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| Source: Pablo Casals-Aguirre archdaily.com |
Costanera Lyon 2, Providencia, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile, 2014 designed by Eugenio Simonetti + Renato Stewart
The structure was designed based on rigid reinforced concrete frame and
core that allows to transfer all the vertical and seismic loads through
the facade to the foundations by 12 meters long reinforced concrete
diagonals leading down from the third floor to a slab capital 70cm thick
located in the first basement. --
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| Source: Stéphane Cuisset archdaily.com |
Community House of Lorient, Lorient, France, 2014 designed by Jean de Giacinto Architecture + Duncan Lewis Scape Architecture
This is a cuboid four facades adorned with different specifications
depending on their orientation but aesthetic uniformity. They split into
two skins creating a buffer space to enable the management of the flow
of air around the massif. --
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