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333 Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1983 designed by KPF

while the northwestern side mirrors the river with a reflective green-glass skin and graceful curving façade, emerging from its context as a luminous glass volume.  -- architect's web site

Ugh--a new sign atop 333 W. Wacker -- Cityscapes

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Pacific Design Center, Green Building, West Hollywood, California, USA, 1988 designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

The Green Building is an expansion of the Pacific Design Center, which started with the iconic Blue Building. The Pacific Design Center building was originally envisioned as a single, free-​standing structure to house showrooms for the interior design trades. Today, it is a multi-​building complex that includes offices for the design, entertainment and arts industries. The Green Building is unique in shape and color, although materials, scale and detailing correspond to the first building. Both buildings are organized as a series of stacked two-​level atria. The buildings connect at the terrace and first floor levels. -- architect's web site

Source: Paul Warchol archdaily.com

Sarphatistraat Offices, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2000 designed by Steven Holl Architects

The porous architecture of the rectangular pavilion is inscribed with a concept from the music of Morton Feldman’s “Patterns in a Chromatic Field”. The ambition to achieve a space of gossameroptic phenomena with chance-located reflected color is especially effective at night when the color patches paint and reflect in the canal. -- ArchDaily

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Amalia House, Styria, Austria, 2007 designed by GRID Architects

Located on top of a hill in Styria, overlooking the valley of Kirchbach Amalia offers space for up to six people, without having to spare any comfort.

Organised in 2 levels, one of them split, she lets the landscape float in and gives view to her surrounding from everywhere within. -- ArchDaily

Source: Luuk Kramer archdaily.com

Animal Refuge Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2007 designed by Arons en Gelauff Architecten

This building is folded like a ribbon along the waterway around the plot. Inside this, two large play spaces for the animals have been created. -- ArchDaily

Source: Julian Weyer

Vitus Bering Innovation Park, University College Vitus Bering, Horsens, Denmark, 2009 designed by C. F. Møller Architects

The building’s dynamic and innovative character is expressed via its spiral shape. On the facades, the movement is seen in the glazing strips that stretch towards the sky across the six storeys of the building and create the impression of a spiral sequence, while internally it is expressed via the main staircase in green fibre cement, which runs in a spiral form between the storeys in the unifying internal atrium.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Christian Richters archdaily.com

Mittlerer Ring, Munich, Germany, 2009 designed by Léon Wohlhage Wernik Architekten

There are five buildings of the same type, along which the façade continues, following the line of the curved street. The gables of the old buildings are revealed at regular intervals between the residential buildings. The entire lengthy front can really only be appreciated while driving past it, since it cannot be perceived in a single view. A characteristic, unmistakeable sculpture is the overall result and has already picked up the nickname “the crocodile”. -- ArchDaily

Source: Gramazio & Kohler archdaily.com

Public Toilets, Uster, Switzerland, 2011 designed by Gramazio & Kohler

The public toilet in the city park of Uster has a complex facade of 295 folded aluminumstrips. The depth of the folding and the slightly different colors of each strip generate a shimmering facade that changes depending on sun angle and the observers’ perspective. -- ArchDaily

Source: Aitor Ortiz archdaily.com

IDOM Headquarters, Bilbao, Spain, 2011 designed by ACXT Arquitectos

An imaginary green carpet has been designed as if simply placed over the roof, hiding all air conditioning units which in most office buildings are visible, with the resulting sound and visual impact. 

.... some “brise soleil” whose design emerges as an imaginary extension of the roof carpet as something that has been stretched over the façades and “folds” in its singularities: an existing balcony facing the canal, the entrance, access points for firemen through the façade and other unique areas. -- ArchDaily

Source: Hamonic +Masson archDaily.com

Villiot-Rapée Apartments, Paris, France, 2011 designed by HAMONIC + MASSON

Each level and each flat has a different floor lending itself to different practices and uses. Rather than being like a balcony, a loggia (or a terrace), which can be seen and used on a daily basis, winds its way around the outside of the flats and gives residents the feeling that they live outdoors. This “poured garden” creates close ties to the building’s external environment. The silver-colored gangway ceilings underscore the difference between inside and outside. The loggias in the covered ribbons are clad in aluminium and the balcony areas in stainless steel. Then, a system of aluminium screen walls, colored glass, stainless steel lists and mirror sheets, stacked up on top of each other, story on story, contribute to deconstructing the façades and to mix up inside and outside, giving our two towers a Parisian caravanserai look. -- ArchDaily

Source: Andy Ryan archdaily.com

BSA (Boston Society of Architects) Space, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2011 designed by Höweler + Yoon Architecture

....is centered around a highly visible “cloud” ceiling and an iconic stair. These two architectural elements act as brand markers for BSA Space and an invitation into the exhibits and meeting spaces above. -- ArchDaily

Source: Sergio Grazia archdaily.com

Primary School & Nursery in the “Claude Bernard” ZAC, Paris, France, 2012 designed by Atelier d’Architecture Brenac-Gonzalez

The entrance hall is treated as a flow interchange that highlights the oddly shaped stairways that occupy and cross the empty space. The three-storey atrium clarifies the way the building functions as a whole and shows how the different sections have been superimposed. The monumentality of the entrance hall contrasts with the other areas; it emphasizes movement and creates criss-cross perspectives that lend the design a playful narrative force. -- ArchDaily

Source: ARTEC Architekten archdaily.com

Multi-generational: Living at Mühlgrund, Vienna, Austria, 2012 designed by ARTEC Architekten

A cascade stair in the narrow zone between the corridor and the metal wall leads from the main entrance on the west side, through the building, to the top level. In between is a vertical garden with 1000 plants in eleven 7-metre-long, prefabricated-concrete planters, whose tension cables were developed three-dimensionally. -- ArchDaily

Source: Platoon Kunsthalle Berlin archdaily.com

Platoon Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2012 designed by Platoon Cultural Development

Platoon Kunsthalle is built of 33 iso cargo containers. as icons of a flexible architecture in a globalized culture, the stacked containers form a unique construction that can be rebuilt anywhere else any time. -- ArchDaily

Source: Marcel van der Burg archdaily.com

Sports Hall, Rietlanden, The Netherlands, 2012 designed by Slangen + Koenis Architects

To accentuate the placement of the new structure, we created very colourful facades at the two sides that intersect the existing buildings, accentuating the contrast between old and new. The two front facades are very crisp and light with white colours in varying materials. -- ArchDaily

Source: David Frutos archdaily.com

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