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Tower of Winds, Yokohama, Japan, 1986 designed by Toyo Ito Associates Architects

In the Tower of Winds Ito represents the visual complexity of Tokyo metaphorically in terms of a never-ceasing, ever-changing wind. The tower, a light sculpture that responds to wind speed and directions, was designed years before anyone else explored the use of photo-responsive glass or ‘interactive architecture’ in the same way.  -- RIBA Royal Gold Medal 2006

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Lipstick Building(53rd at Third), New York City, New York, USA, 1986 designed by John Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson

The building receives its name from its shape and color, which resemble a tube of lipstick. The shape, which is unusual in comparison to surrounding buildings, uses less space at the base than a regular skyscraper of quadrilateral footprint would use. This provides more room for the high numbers of pedestrians who travel via Third Avenue. -- Wikipedia

the unusual shape, which has given the building its nickname, was a requirement of the developer, to make the building stand out and compensate for the less fashionable location of Third Avenue. The elliptical shape also claims to make all the exterior offices "corner" offices. -- galinsky

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Office Silo & Containers, Tajonar, Navarra, Spain, 2005 designed by Vaillo + Irigaray

The office buildings is composed by an elliptical construction, as a counterpoint to the wings: in front of an horizontal and pointy construction, a curved tall tower appears, searching for the minimum “friction” between the rest of the buildings. -- ArchDaily

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Barceló Raval Hotel, Madrid, Spain, 2007 designed by CMV Architects

The hotel was built as an elliptical construction, made up from two basements, a ground floor and ten high-rise floors. The project was born with some specific volumes marked by “PERI” of Ravalin Barcelona, and all the attention goes in the direction of the axes of the elliptical plant. In the same way, depending on the direction from which it is seen, the building is perceived in a more or less volumetric way. -- ArchDaily

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Parc Zodiaco Building, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2010 designed by GPA&A

The residential building was developed to harmonize with its surroundings, so we used curves, balconies, and gardens as a way to insert it into the landscape, softening its contours.  -- ArchDaily

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1 Bligh Street, Sydney, Australia, 2011 designed by Architectus and Ingenhoven Architects

After considering a number of schemes, the architects adopted an elliptical plan, with its long side facing toward the harbor. The ellipse gives each office space floor-to-ceiling panoramic views.  -- ARCHITECT Magazine

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Coffee Plaza, Hamburg, Germany, 2011 designed by Richard Meier & Partners Architects

Raised on a podium overlooking nearby Sandtorpark, the oval-shaped tower mediates the separation between the park and plaza. Inside, behind a ventilated façade, the oval configuration improves visual and physical connections between the office workers, resulting in greater collaboration.  -- ARCHITECT Magazine

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Bank Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2011 designed by NPS Tchoban Voss

The tower contrasts them by its height and its special silhouette. On the riverside its glass façade bends inwardly along the entire height. The resulting waistline adds subtle dynamics to the building making it appear elegant from almost every direction from across the river.   -- ArchDaily

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Al Bahar Towers, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2012 designed by Aedas

For Abu Dhabi’s newest pair of towers, Aedas Architects have designed a responsive facade which takes cultural cues from the “mashrabiya”, a traditional Islamic lattice shading device. Completed in June 2012, the 145 meter towers’ Masharabiya shading system was developed by the computational design team at Aedas.  Using a parametric description for the geometry of the actuated facade panels, the team was able to simulate their operation in response to sun exposure and changing incidence angles during the different days of the year. -- ArchDaily

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Police Headquearters & Charleroi Danses, Boulevard Pierre Mayence, 6000 Charleroi, Belgium, 2014 designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel + MDW Architecture

The Charleroi police headquarters has been installed in a blue tower building which is a reminder of the dark blue colours of the police force. The idea was to create a city scale landmark which is not too high, as a sort of dialogue with the City Hal belfry, and as a message stating that the police force services are open to all at all times. -- ArchDaily

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Taquari House, Brasilia – Distrito Federal, Brasil, 2013 designed by Ney Lima

The transparent and circular elements are featured for the walls and bring a perspective of communication between the environments having as passing the tree and leisure area. -- ArchDaily

Source: Derek Swalwell archdaily.com

Westgarth House, Northcote VIC, Australia, 2013 designed by Kennedy Nolan Architects

The original house primarily accommodates the family’s own space; call it private. The new building is where day to day life is played out between kitchen and living. This public zone establishes a direct connection to the north lawn. The roughcast rendered garden wall sits somewhere between landscape, sculpture and building. It is both garden edge and entry wall. -- ArchDaily

Source: Marc Rifà-Rovira archdaily.com

NH House, 08569 Cantonigròs, Barcelona, Spain, 2013 designed by Marc Rifà-Rovira

This is a project with an extremely low budget, for a family with three young children. With a very definite program: house in a single level of about 170m2, which is complemented with a large porch, a 100m2 study, and a garage. -- ArchDaily

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Long Museum West Bund, Longteng Avenue, Xuhui, Shanghai, China, 2014 designed by Atelier Deshaus

Before the commencement of the design, a Coal-Hopper-Unloading-Bridge of about 110m in length, 10m in width and 8m in height, which was constructed in the 1950s, is remained with a two-storey underground parking completed as early as two years ago. The new design adopts the cantilever structure featuring “vault-umbrella” with independent walls while the shear walls with free layout are embedded into the original basement so as to be concreted with the original framework structure. -- ArchDaily

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Samaranch Memorial Museum, Tianjin, China, 2011 designed by Archiland

The Samaranch Memorial Museum is in its design a result of the use of the 5 Olympic rings: 2 converted into an infinity shaped looping ramp illustrating the nature of one mans life and further 3 to become sunken courtyards. -- ArchDaily

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Yanqing Grape Expo, Yanqing, Beijing, China, 2011 designed by Archea Associati

....the international wine exhibition is part of a broader program of initiatives sponsored by the Chinese government for the 11th International Conference on Grapevine Breeding and Genetics....

This is a major recognition for Italian design and architecture. The Chinese government built the project with great skill and speed given the exceptional scope and importance of the works built. Pavilions have been deisgned as circles as a metaphor for grape bunches spread over the landscape. -- ArchDaily

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ESO Headquarters Extension, Garching, Germany, 2013 designed by Auer Weber

The extension was designed to complement the original building (Architects: Fehling+Gogel). The office building, implementing a similar curved shape, boasting two inner courtyards, makes extensive use of natural light sources. The technical building is a cylinder construction with a diameter the size of the 39-metre primary mirror of the E-ELT. -- 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

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Al Dar Headquarters, Al Raha Beach, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2010 designed by MZ Architects

The AlDar Headquarters designed by MZ Architects has a distinctive and innovative design: a semispherical building comprising two circular convex shaped facades linked by a narrow band of indented glazing. This iconic fully glazed structure is completely circular in elevation and curved in all other directions. -- ArchDaily

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Guangzhou Circle, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 2013 designed by Joseph di Pasquale architect

The total height is 138 mt for 33 floors, 85.000 square meters of floor area and about 50 million euros of global investment. The inner hole is a unique space that has no equal in the world with its almost fifty meters of diameter (48 mt). -- ArchDaily

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Thames Barrier Park, London, UK, 2000 designed by landscape architect Allain Provost, architect Patel Taylor in collaboration with Group Signers and engineers Ove Aarum

On the north bank of the Thames and with stunning views of the awesome flood Barrier lies a jewel in the crown of London's parks. Thames Barrier Park lies in Silvertown, and is supported by the London Development Agency.

Set within 22 acres of lawns, trees and hedges, the waterside park features fountains, gardens, wildflower meadows, a children's play area and a 5-a-side football/basketball court, with magnificent views of the barrier. -- official web site

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Calder Woodburn Rest Area, Goulburn Valley Highway, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia, 2008 designed by BKK Architects

There is a long and rich history of the service station as an urban, suburban and rural icon within Australian car culture. The familiar image of a large floating roof providing shelter go the services below is a strong memory for all that have taken a road trip.

The Rest Station marks a point on the journey, a place for pausing; a place for reflection and to strech ones legs. The roof serves as both shelter and sign in the landscape. It celebrates road culture and acts as a nodal point in a countinuing journey. -- Open Buildings

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UB House, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia, 2009 designed by Alejandro Restrepo Montoya + Camilo Andrés Mejía Bravo + Andrés Felipe Mesa Trujillo

The access of the house is located between two volumes that conform the entire compound of the house. Then, after crossing this, follows is the Tree patio that with its 3 different levels and shadow games relates every single space of the house. -- ArchDaily

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CATT, 1001 Fanshawe, London, Ontario, Canada, 2011 designed by Architects Tillman Ruth Robinson

A sustainable design approach incorporates water management strategies, extensive use of natural light and passive solar shading as well enhanced building automation systems into the building experience. -- ArchDaily

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Zacatitos 02, Baja California Sur, Mexico, 2011 designed by Campos Leckie Studio

Zacatitos 02 is an architectural experiment that fully explores the concept of architecture as a device which mediates occupation of the site and experience of the landscape. -- ArchDaily

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AVEK – House in a Garden Park, Flanders, Belgium, 2012 designed by DEVOLDERarchitecten

Inside the building, the spaces are linearly arranged along the stretched plan. Made accessible through a double enfilade, these subsequent spaces make up for a very tranquil experience. All of the different living rooms open up widely to the garden park. -- ArchDaily

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Zhukovka XXI, Moscow, Russia, 2013 designed by UNK PROJECT Architects

....the tree “growing” within the house. It was actually planted after construction, hence the terrace with ovular opening in the roof above. -- ArchDaily

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House on the Hill, Lima, Peru, 2013 designed by Jose Orrego

This project was very promising, its location was in an area where the view was beautiful, it stood on a hill and the slanted terrain gave many possibilities to explore ways of doing a unique residential building and at the same time accomplish the household and social functions.  Being in a high place made the main rooms of the house to face the pleasant view. -- ArchDaily

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1.14 The Kite, Fontaniva Padua, Italy, 2013 designed by C+S Architects

It is a big roof, a kite which has been captured during its flight to become the repair under where activities take place. The kite is a thick concrete made structure, without any insulation working with its own thermal inertia to protect from the summer heat and creating a constant temperature inside the spaces. -- ArchDaily

Source: Eduardo Abreu archdaily.com

RD House, Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic, 2013 designed by VASHO

Burying the house is proposed as a visual action. Hiding the overall volume of the work to the existing natural geography to cushion the impact of the volume to the eye upon arrival, being conscientious of the paradisiacal surroundings, but always seeking to make the natural surroundings appear from the interior before the user: “Disappear to make appear”. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jussi Tiainen archdaily.com

Omenapuisto Day-Care-Center, Helsinki, Finland, 2013 designed by Hakli Architects

The paved internal courtyard opening onto the foyer has a ceiling with a large circular opening which allows the movement of the sun to be a part of the courtyard. In the courtyard, there is a sculpture by the artist Pasi Karjula representing the Universe, which consists of twenty spheres made of larch wood. -- ArchDaily

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Kindergarten in Stabio, Stabio, Switzerland, 2013 designed by Studio WE

The kindergarden is a solitary building on a green field. Only paths and walls connect the new building to landscape in order to create a subtle and strong texture of reference points within the site. -- ArchDaily

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Wanderers Lodge, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, 2013 designed by Garcia German Arquitectos

Wanderer’s Lodge is a small pavilion gently placed amongst existing trees in the garden of an extraordinary property in the north of Spain. In its daily use, it overlaps functions of protection, storage, entertaining, dining, barbecues, napping, acting as a small theater, etc. -- ArchDaily

 

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Zauia House, Vale da Lama, 8600 Odiáxere, Portugal, 2014 designed by Mário Martins Atelier

Paradoxically, the design of the house was inspired by the restrictions and limitations imposed on its construction. It is intended to be an architectural object of great simplicity and lightness: balanced, precise and remarkably modern. -- ArchDaily

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Dots, Hanoi, Hoàn Kiếm, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2014 designed by grup8asia

Located in the park in front of the main office building, the pavilion disappears into the landscape. The drawn profile of the building blends into the vegetation of the surrounding park. Mingling with trees, it seems that the users lose the perception of its limits. -- ArchDaily

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School of Communication, San Jorge University, Autovía Mudéjar, Spain , 2007 designed by Taller Básico de Arquitectura

The strict order that the building showed upon arrival becomes free and dynamic, with its spaces forming five fingers, which curiously overlook the hillside onto the irrigated fields. This comb structure divides the classrooms from the areas for special uses. In this scheme we sought, as mentioned, the best light for teaching (classrooms to the northwest side, avoiding direct sunlight). Similarly, the largest and unique spaces receive the most light. -- ArchDaily