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Pacific Design Center, Center Blue, West Hollywood, California, USA, 1975 designed by Cesar Pelli

The Pacific Design Center, or PDC, is a 1,200,000 square feet (110,000 m² ) multi-use facility for the design community located in West Hollywood, California. One of the buildings is often described as the Blue Whale because of its outsize nature relative to surrounding buildings and its brilliant blue glass cladding. -- wikipedia

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Antiquities Museum, Arles, France, 1995 designed by Henri Griani

The Musée départemental de l'Arles antiques, opposite the remains of the Cirque Romain, was inaugurated in 1995. Henri Ciriani's architectural project, decidedly modern, is adapted to the basic functions of an archaeological museum:

1. The transmission and presentation of collections to the public;
2. Conservation and restoration, with a mosaics conservation and restoration workshop and an archaeology laboratory;
3. The reception of different kinds of publics (visits, workshops, internships).

The building's triangular layout symbolically incarnates these three functions. -- official web site

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Source: Herzog & de Meuron

Forum 2004 Building and Plaza, Barcelona, Spain, 2004 designed by Herzog & de Meuron 

the elevated flat triangular body emerged almost spontaneously, because it maximizes the possible footprint by forming an extensive cover for the plaza and perfectly expresses the specific situation of the land it occupies between the branches of the right-angled Cerda Grid and the Avenida Diagonal.  -- architect's web site

Museu Blau, Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2011 designed by Herzog & de Meuron 

Relocating the Museum of Natural Sciences into the Forum Barcelona building signals the beginning of a new life cycle for both institutions: one where each mutually benefits from the space, program and potential of the other. And the Museum of Natural Science promises to energetically revitalise the existing building, replacing vacant space with intense new public activities.   -- architect's web site

Source: Koichi Torimura archdaily.com

On the Corner, Shiga, Japan, 2011 designed by Eastern Design Office

The site is a wedge-shaped flatiron lot which resides at a corner where two streets merge at an acute angel. It was left behind neither used for residential nor for industrial development. Since no one wanted to buy it, and the public sector would not invest to change it into a park, the lot remained.

It is a triangular building configured by the square elements. The cross confines the power of the mixed materials into one. -- ArchDaily

Source: construction.com

Copenhagen Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009 designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel

From the outside in bright light, it looks like nothing more than a large rectangular box that for some reason is swathed in electric-blue scaffolding net and plopped down in an industrial landscape. When the sun goes down, it is transformed into an ethereal, dematerialized object with images of musicians eerily flitting across the screens of glass fiber with a PVC coating.

Seating 1,809 and raised above the lobby, it looks in section like some giant clam caught among pilings within a huge (190 by 315 feet) blue cage, 148 feet high.  -- Architectural Record

Source; Rob 't Hart archdaily.com

Melanchthon College Schiebroek, Rotterdam, The Netherlands designed by OIII Architecten

The broad daylight limits the use of artificial light and provides a pleasant learning atmosphere. The contemporary look that is achieved partly by the bright violet-blue glass facade and slender “golden” frames gives the school a distinctive and welcoming place. -- ArchDaily

Source: openbuildings.com

Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2006 designed by Jean de Gastines

Situated next to the old Washburn-Crosby A Mill, in the heart of what was once the greatest flour-milling complex, the new Guthrie Theater Center pays homage to its industrial neighbors while capturing the magic of the theater.

The exterior is a composition of metal and glass that evokes industrial forms, rendered in a modern way. The large circular form of the thrust theater echoes the area’s adjacent grain silos, while the towering rectangular structure of the proscenium theater is in harmony with nearby flour mills. At dusk, the exterior walls flicker with the ghosts of great dramatic moments played out on the Guthrie stage. Barely discernible, these urban memories inhabit the facade. They stir in the dark shadows of twilight, when evening descends and the theater comes to life. -- Open Buildings

Source: Nelson Kon archdaily.com

OZ House, São Roque – São Paulo, Brasil, 2013 designed by Andrade Morettin Arquitetos Associados

The house is built with exposed concrete and a modular wooden structure. The roof and facade cladding is made of metal tiles and a polystyrene filling for thermal protection. -- ArchDaily

Source: popupcity.net

Smurbanism Works!

What was supposed to be a temporary transformation looks to be a permanent change. The South Spanish town Juzcar was turned entirely blue for the latest Smurfs movie by Sony Pictures. After 141 days blueness, the inhabitants of the small town have voted to keep the façades of the buildings blue forever. -- The Pop-Up City