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Casa Milà, Barcelona, Spain, 1910 designed by Antoni Gaudí

Gaudí designed the house around two large, curved courtyards, with a structure of stone, brick and cast-iron columns and steel beams. The facade is built of limestone from Vilafranca del Penedès, apart from the upper level, which is covered in white tiles, evoking a snowy mountain. -- wikipedia

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An der Alster 1, Hamburg, Germany, 2007 designed by J. Mayer H. Architects

The horizontal striped facade with its floating ‘eyes’ celebrates the view onto this unique context. A public park in front of the building continues the design strategy of the facade into the landscape. The ‘eyes’ in the facade and the platforms in the park form places to meet and contemplate. -- ArchDaily

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Maizières Music Conservatory, Maizieres-les-Metz, France, 2009 designed by Dominique Coulon & Associés

The music school is a monolithic block 100 metres long and 40 metres wide.  It is sited perpendicular to the main road, projecting into the public area by 16 metres. The building is set against a forest of giant sequoias, also aligned perpendicular to the main road. The group forms a doorway marking the entrance to the town. -- ArchDaily

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The Park Hotel, Hyderabad, India, 2010 designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill

The facade provides a range of transparency according to the needs of the spaces inside. Perforated and embossed metal screens over a high-performance glazing system give privacy to the hotel rooms while allowing diffused daylight to enter the interior spaces, and provides acoustic insulation from trains passing nearby. The opaque areas of the cladding shield the hotel’s service areas from public view. The shape of the facade’s openings, as well as the three-dimensional patterns on the screens themselves, were inspired by the forms of the metalwork of the crown jewels of the Nizam, the city’s historic ruling dynasty. -- ArchDaily

Source: Ludger Paffrath archdaily.com

JOH 3, Berlin, Germany, 2012 designed by J. Mayer H. Architects

The sculptural design of the suspended slat facade draws on the notion of landscape in the city, a quality visible in the graduated courtyard garden and the building’s silhouette and layout. -- ArchDaily

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Schlump ONE, Hamburg, Germany, 2012 designed by J. Mayer H. Architects

The building’s facade has been completely renovated and redesigned to form a single unit that freely interprets the original building’s 1950s linear design. The organic formal language of the facade is continued in the design of interiors. The project is embedded in a sophisticated, open space planning design with oversized tree sculptures. -- ArchDaily

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Mestia Police Station, Mestia, Georgia, 2012 designed by J. Mayer H. Architects

Its towerlike shape pays homage to the medieval stone towers which are traditional to Mestia’s mountainside region. The facade is comprised of prefabricated textured concrete and large openings which offer a maximum of transparency. -- ArchDaily

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Kayseri Ice Ring, Kayseri/Kayseri Province, Turkey, 2012 designed by BKA-BahadırKulArchitects

This clear prism shaped amorphous structures become noticeable and make a difference with the amorphous gaps. The colored glasses on the amorphous gaps validate that the structure was intended to build for entertainment and sports. -- ArchDaily

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Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, Germany, 1919 designed by Mies van der Rohe

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Maquette Glass Skyscraper, Berlin, Germany, 1922 designed by Mies van der Rohe

The randomly curved glass-façade of the 1922-project is not the result of an internal, autonomous form. The glass surface has its own logic and is dependent on- and connected with the city-life through the properties of the glass. But the design is also not a direct effect of its situation; it is a critical interpretation of it. The glass curtain wall – alternating transparent, reflecting, and refracting depending on the sun and the point of view – reflects and deforms the image of the city, and places the building in a specified time and place. -- Eikongraphia

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Lake Point Tower, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1968 designed by John Heinrich and George Schipporeit

Lake Point Tower was inspired by Mies van der Rohe’s 1922 design for a glass-curtained skyscraper in Berlin. Schipporeit and Heinrich took van der Rohe's unbuilt office building concept and converted it to a residential building. Lake Point Tower is much taller than van der Rohe’s original project, more regular in form, and its exterior glass curtain wall is tinted; however, the building owes much of its innovative design to the van der Rohe original - and because of the design's origins, many in Chicago still consider Lake Point Tower to be a Mies van der Rohe building, albeit executed by two of his protégés. -- Wikipedia

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Water Tank, Travessa da Aldeia Nova, 8650 Budens, Portugal, 2000 designed by Pedro Bandeira + João Figueira e Associados

It recalls the chimney of Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation, but it now stands on the ground, suggesting that the entire building has been buried. This is a metaphor that demonstrates a significant movement away from the more radical theories of the Modern Movement and towards the process of participation involved in the construction of the new village. -- ArchDaily

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O-14, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2010 designed by Reiser + Umemoto

.... the office tower typology has been turned inside out – structure and skin have flipped to offer a new economy of tectonics and of space. -- ArchDaily

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Higashifuchuu Apartments, Fuchuu-shi, Tokyo, Japan, 2010 designed by Mejiro Studio

It is nine apartment complexes in the suburbs. We try to find its independent appearance in such vague scenery peculiar to the suburbs. The building is planned at an angle of 45 degrees to surrounding and the surface of the building is uneven. -- ArchDaily

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Instituut Verbeeten, Breda, The Netherlands, 2010 designed by Wiegerinck

The shell around the building creates various patios in the waiting and treatment rooms. It forms a filter between the outside world and the building, creating a feeling of openness and privacy. -- ArchDaily

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Villa Musu, Finland, 2010 designed by Sanaksenaho Architects 

Villa Musu is located on a beautiful lake shore lot with a pine tree forest surrounding the house. The design is shaped into a soft, organic plan that naturally flows into the landscape. -- ArchDaily

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Cerro del Obispo Lookout Point, Cerro del Obispo, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, 2012 designed by Christ & Gantenbein

The column on the peak of the Cerro del Obispo, a mountain with almost 2,000 metres height, protrudes like a huge bone out of the woody landscape above the valley of Ameca. A detached, organically shaped monolithic concrete wall composes the tower of 26.55 metres that can be acceded from one side through a small entrance. Inside a unique view into the sky awaits the visitor – and the sunlight, that comes in through the opening, reflected from the light concrete walls, gathering on the floor. -- ArchDaily