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| Source:Sergio Grazia archdaily.com |
The atrium houses a monumental ramp, a unifying element at the heart of the building that invites exploration and visual contact between the different levels. The height of the atrium renders the building’s layout readily comprehensible and brings the sky right into the heart of the building. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Ossip van Duivenbode archdaily.com |
The Fire station in Doetinchem is designed as a villa, integrated in the landscape. It is a green oasis situated along side the major thoroughfare in Doetinchem. The horizontally oriented building is surrounded by majestic trees and has clear, crisp lines and surfaces. The grass of the surrounding countryside is pulled over the building in a large slope and evolves into a series of roof gardens and patios on top of the sheltered area for the fire trucks. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Filip Dujardin archdaily.com |
On top of the two utilitarian floors there is a domestic floor with a living room, kitchen, fitness, sleeping rooms and an outdoor sports field, arranged around a patio. The sports field, located on the corner of the building, is covered with a semi-transparent wooden panelling and therefore stays in contact with outside. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Andrew Pogue archrecord.comstruction.com |
....the new Galveston Fire Station #4, designed by HDR, is a rock-solid, two-story, 14,000-square-foot bunker with the look of an unpretentious yet polished beach house. -- Architectural Record
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| Source: John Gollings archdaily.com |
....to emphasise the parallels between the disciplines in the built form. The layered façade references the tools, prosthetics and the human frame. The design creates interplay between the 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional qualities of the X-ray, another essential analytical tool of the surgeon. The façade emphasises the thinness of an X-ray sheet, while developing a depth through layering film, steel and recycled plastic forms. As it is backlit by the interior, the façade mimics the visual qualities of the X-ray on a lightbox. -- ArchDaily
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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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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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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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| Source: CMV Architects archdaily.com |
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| Plan, Source: archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Jomar Bragança archdaily.com |
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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| Source: architectmagazine.com |
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| Source: architectmagazine.com |
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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| Source: architectmagazine.com |
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| Plan, Source: architectmagazine.com |
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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| Source: Aleksey Naroditsky archdaily.com |
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| Plan, Source: archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Aedas archdaily.com |
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. -- ArchDailyRead a post from inhabitat
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| Source: Filip Dujardin archdaily.com |
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| Site plan, Source: archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Reading Tom archdaily.com |
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| Plan, Source: archdaily.com |
Resting on four stilts perfectly centered on each side, it cantilevers seventy-two feet over the sidewalk and features a trademark 45-degree sloping crown at its summit. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Rafael Vargas archdaily.com |
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| Plan, Source: archdaily.com |
The tower strictly follows the floor plan and height established in the original plans, and the proposition that it was to be perceived as a united figure and not only as a simple superimposition of horizontal floors, led to the suggestion of the spiral glasswork which encases everything.
The floor plans of the tower- a 27.5m by 27.5m square- shows the importance of the core, which not only resolves the vertical connections, and the service and mechanical elements, but also contributes to defining and structuring the usable space. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Young-chae Park archdaily.com |
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| Site plan, Source: archdaily.com |
Four atriums reaching up to 6 floors and sky garden of 25m depth reverse-slope influence characteristic of a building as drastic and creative element. Formativeness of a diagonal line shown on the elevation of a tower building is simple and dynamic figure. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Daici Ano archdaily.com |
Gentle bulges and dents elaborate the façade of opal beige reliefs. With these pattern, the façade reveals various appearances in sunlight, and also during the night, the LED lights behind the reliefs lit the façade to render another expression reminiscent of Louis Vuitton’s monogram. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Edgard Cesar archdaily.com |
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
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| Source: Derek Swalwell archdaily.com |
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
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| Source: Marc Rifà-Rovira archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Su Shengliang archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Andrés Valbuena archdaily.com |
This hotel is an attempt to open or permeate the norm: it is slim and has four open facades due to side setbacks; the larger facades are set back to allow a double skin of metal and glass, and the main facade articulates urban life and cantilevers the 1.5 m allowed by the building code. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Harry Cock archdaily.com |
Within the new station hall an undulating ‘vault’, which has been designed to evoke an “unforgettable arrival experience”, features a scaled 1877 map of the Dutch city rendered in blue and white. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Archiland archdaily.com |
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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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| Source: Cristiano Bianchi archdaily.com |
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| Plan, Source: archdaily.com |
....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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| Source: Roland Halbe archdaily.com |
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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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| Source: Guillermo Hevia García archdaily.com |
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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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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| Source: Walter Mair archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Jérôme Beg archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Paul Ott archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Jörg Hempel Photodesign archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Rafael Gamo archdaily.com |
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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| Source: Alexandre Wasilewski archdaily.com |
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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| Source: David Frutos archdaily.com |
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....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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| Source: Benedikt Markel archdaily.com |
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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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| Source: Terje Skåre archdaily.com |
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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
