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El Palmeral of Surprises, Málaga, Spain, 2011 designed by Junquera Arquitectos

EL PALMERAL OF SURPRISES, events, varied and changing, permanent or temporary, a new space for Malaga with the aim of becoming the benchmark public space that the city needs a place of peaceful coexistence. -- ArchDaily

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Tagus Linear Park, 2625-039 Póvoa de Santa Iria, Portugal, 2013 designed by Topiaris Landscape Architecture

The Tagus Linear Park is an area of 15 000 sq m that was conquered by the surrounding communities of the industrial private sector and was felt as a democratic intervention by those forever deprived of access to the River. -- ArchDaily

Skin of Architecture: Grids

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Casa del Fascio, Como, Italy, 1936 designed by Giuseppe Terragni

Planned within a perfect square and half as high as its 110 foot width, the half cube of the Casa del Fascio established the pinnacle of strict rational geometry. Looking like a giant Rubik’s Cube, the building is a serious game of architectural logic. Each of the building’s four facades is different, hinting at the internal layout and rhythmically balancing the open and closed spaces.  On every side except the south-east elevation which articulates the main stair, the windows and the external layers of the building are employed in such a way to express the internal atrium. -- ArchDaily

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Council House, Perth, Western Australia, 1963 designed by Howlett and Bailey Architects

Built in a modernist style, the building has been the subject of vigorous public debate about its heritage value. Some parties, such as the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, consider the building to be an important example of modernist architecture in the city, whilst others consider it ugly. These conflicting views led to animosity in the 1990s, when the State Government refused to heritage list the property, and instead recommended its demolition. Despite this, the City of Perth opted to renovate the tower and keep it as its headquarters. Following this, the building was admitted to the State's Heritage Register. -- wikipedia

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Student Apartments in Luzern, Steinhofstrasse, Lucerne, Switzerland, 2013 designed by Durisch + Nolli Architetti

The vertical and horizontal development of the modular building, allows an adaptation to the topography and the adjustment of the building volume to the program; also allows a limitation of the height of the building in relation to the residential neighborhood. The new building is built in a modular complex form. -- ArchDaily

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Internat Montceau Les Mines, Montceau-les-Mines, France, 2013 designed by X’TO Architectes

On the south & west front, balconies induced by the structural grid ensure solar & rain protection for the façade: wood timber frame & square wooden sections. -- ArchDaily

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Office Off, Burgenland, Austria, 2013 designed by heri&salli

From the material point of view a compressed climate envelope was integrated in a spatial grid structure, departing from the boundaries of the property as a plane piece of land. -- ArchDaily

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Blue Office Bochum, 44801 Bochum, Germany, 2013 designed by SSP SchürmannSpannel

The unique location with a beautiful view over the Ölbachtal provides an excellent combination of indoor and outdoor spaces through room high glazing and a spacious terrace. Maximum energy efficiency according to the Passivhaus-Standard is generated by the building through an optimal ratio of building surface to volume and a highly insulated facade. -- ArchDaily

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NT24, Tlaltenango, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, 2013 designed by Aflo Arquitectos

The apartments are arranged so as to have the greatest amount of natural lighting and ventilation, to optimize power savings. -- ArchDaily

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30 Social Housing Units, Nantes, France, 2014 designed by Antonini + Darmon Architectes

The community building is a slender volume rising towards the sky where it culminates in a point, a steady prow, proving to be simple but strong. Echoing the urban thread, the facade receives a skin like surface, an almost living moucharaby or lattice work, alternating between solid, void and the movement of the shutters as they are opened and closed. -- ArchDaily

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Administration Extension, La Nucia, Alicante, Spain, 2013 designed by CRYSTALZOO

....a modern building that responds to its environment, a building whose architecture reflects the fusion of uses, accentuating the new identity of La Nucía’s population with a progressive character, banking on innovation and fusion of styles in the city. -- ArchDaily

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Chameleon House, Praha-Lipence, Czech Republic, 2014 designed by Petr Hajek Architekti

The house is located in the centre of a garden. Each single room is oriented to one of the trees. The living room faces the apple tree, the master bedroom, the cherry tree, the bathroom faces the peach tree, the guest room, the silver spruce and the children’s room, the walnut. Each room has its unique view and atmosphere. -- ArchDaily

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Tu Primary School, Lalandsvegen 410, 4340 Bryne, Norway, 2014 designed by Alliance arkitekter

Each function has been given a separate wing with generous daylight‐conditions and the wings are organized in a star‐shaped plan. The star provides sheltered exterior spaces and gives each wing an independent identity. The main space of the school is a double height room in the center of the star containing reception‐area, library and canteen. -- ArchDaily

Skin of Architecture: Cuts 3

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Spinpark, Guimarães, Portugal, 2008 designed by Cerejeira Fontes Arquitectos

The building was designed in order to exploit the use of natural light in all its spaces, mostly reflected or indirect, enhancing energy savings and visual confort. The exterior concrete envelope provides shade in the summer avoiding overheating in the interior spaces. -- ArchDaily

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Jean Cocteau Museum, Menton, France, 2011 designed by Rudy Ricciotti

....looks terrific in close-up detail shots and aerial night views, where writhing fingers of finely molded concrete extend around it like “octupus tentacles,” “flowing hair,” or “chandeliers,” in the words of the architect, who drew these images from Cocteau's dreamy 1946 film La Belle et la bête. Seen firsthand, however, the building is rather one-dimensional. The architect concentrated all his attention on those fascinating concrete tentacles, but they do little to relate the building to the town. -- Architectural Record

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Spordtgebouw, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2011 designed by NL Architects

By applying a function to the elevation the obligatory ‘sports hall look’ could be avoided. The expressive character is created by ‘slicing’ a standard climbing hall; the interior is exposed and becomes Logo! -- ArchDaily

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Scunthorpe Central Park Pavilion, Scunthorpe, UK, 2010 designed by S&P Architects

To break the mass, the tectonic screen of 92 no. fins wraps the forms, animating the sculptural profile as you move around it. A series of studies was carried out in optimising and generating the form and dynamics of the screen by using Rhino+Grasshopper in conjunction with key views around the structure. In developing the geometry of the screen, two sine curves are assigned to the fin geometry – one at a low frequency and the other at a high frequency. The spacing of the fins was also assigned a variable in order to optimise the density of the fins. By establishing these variables and parameters, one could control the economics in terms of material use, meeting planning legislation and public safety concerns whilst simultaneously being able to articulate the architectural aspects such as form, scale and appearance.  -- ArchDaily

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Gordailu Building, Irun, Gipuzkoa, Spain, 2014 designed by Astigarraga y Lasarte

The purpose of the building is to house and store all items belonging to the artistic, archaeological, and ethnographic public collections not exhibited in museums. It is therefore a container building, adapted to be used for storage, a building with a certain “bunker” character which seeks to achieve optimal storage conditions for the works. The building is surrounded by a metal lattice, an outer skin that is a “cage”, symbolizing the idea of ‘safe’ or ‘treasure box’ from Gipuzkoa. -- ArchDaily

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Carlsberg Innovation, Research And Development Centre, Boulevard de l’Europe, Obernai, France, 2014 designed by S&AA

The offices and laboratories are widely glazed and benefit from a good natural light. Vertical timber slats are built in front of the facades to create a visual and solar filter. The lower parts of the slats are raised to allow the entrances and exits of the building. The upper parts of the slats are waving to remind the Carlsberg logo. -- ArchDaily