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De Rokade,Groningen, The Netherlands, 2007 designed by rons en Gelauff Architecten
In 2003, Groningen municipal council launched a project “The Intense City” to keep the city compact by increasing the building density of districts around the Centre. The Rokade Residential Tower Block is situated on one of the first increased density locations, and marks the corner of the Corpus den Hoorn Laan and the Sportlaan, the avenue providing access to the Hoornse Meer district. The building is 21 floors high and seems very slim due to the cross-shaped ground plan. The four apartments are situated in L-form around the inside angles of the tower. In this way, the dwellings combine the beautiful view with an introverted quality. -- ArchDaily
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Tram stop in Alicante, Alicante, Spain, 2007 designed by SUBARQUITECTURA
The frontal access to the platforms is reached in 32 possible ways trought a fractionated system of paths that get round the existing vegetation.( Watch a
video) Over them, two hollow boxes, 36 meters long, 3 meters wide and 2.5 meters high, create a floating emptiness slightly above the travelers’ heads in a scale closer to the Tram than to the street furniture. There is no distinction between finish and structure, nor between walls and roof. It is an isotropic material in its conception and construction. Eight hundred circular drillings lighten as well as provide resistance against normal strains. Light and air pass throught its pores, softening the shade and providing a breeze in the summer months while at the same time offering less resistance against the wind. --
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Residential building, Barletta, Italy, 2008 designed by Michele Sfregola
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Lightmos, Bangkok, Thailand, 2008 designed by Architectkidd
The development of the exterior facade followed the interior modifications. The idea of creating an “accidental facade” was inspired by the resourcefulness of shophouse owners and the ways they adapted their buildings in a hot tropical climate. Owners would use low-cost and lightweight metal materials that are cut into panels to create ad-hoc facades. Despite these simple modifications, these shophouse facades can sometimes provide intriguing and surprising results. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Park, Young-chae archdaily.com |
Urban Hive, Seoul, South Korea, 2008 designed by ARCHIUM
The simplicity of monolith is a gesture to hold an atmosphere of
floating city. The combination of round holes is not intended to express
effectiveness of modeling but an attempt as a mechanical settlement of
structural walls which is exposed to outside on double skin. --
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| Source: John Gollings archdaily.com |
Hue Apartments, Richmond, VIC, Australia, 2008 designed by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects
The eastern and western facades are sheer 4 story walls that bookend the building. They are articulated by a series of circular windows of varying diameters that break the mass of the wall plane down in an engaging and abstract manner. The façade becomes an enigmatic presence within the street. The dark stained cedar cladding serves to amplify the textural and experiential qualities of the building as well distinguish the development from others in the marketplace. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Andrea Lhotakova archdaily.com |
Research Library, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, 2008 designed by Projektil Architekti
The five-storey building represents a concrete construction with the final visual in the form of a monolithic concrete façade. The original shape of the building is the precast concrete letter “X”. --
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I.M.A.M., Móstoles, Madrid, Spain, 2009 designed by nodo17 Architects
Each courtyard generates two facade systems: the north facades, formed by large concrete walls washed with surface deactivant agent, and colored methacrylate bubbles; and the south facades, formed by large panes of different types of glass according to the sun’s position. Both structural facades are also supported by V-shaped pillars, which free the ground floor space. -- ArchDaily
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Ribera del Duero Headquarters, Roa, Burgos, Spain, 2010 designed by Estudio Barozzi Veiga
The building becomes a transition element. Aware of the re-composition of the small scale context, and at the same time, establishing a dialogue with the horizon and the landscape monumentality, through the tower volume. A timeless monolith suspended over the plateau. --
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| Source: Pedro Pegenaute archdaily.com |
Water Treatment Station of Benidorm, Benidorm, Alicante, Spain, 2010 designed by Otxotorena Arquitectos
....a panel enclosure surround tone metallic sheet, called to print the look of lightness volume, sophistication, elegance and modernity. It also works on the gaps and openings to the outside, or scenic spot, so if acting as lookouts on the entire system, with the eventual support of eaves and sun protection devices, sensitive to the orientations of facades. -- ArchDaily
The Orange Cube in Lyon, France by Jakob + MacFarlane also has two layers of skin-- The outer façade, or “veil,” is a screen of punched aluminum panels designed to shield the building from the sun. Read an article from
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Dream Downtown Hotel, New York City, New York, USA, 2011 designed by Handel Architects
the sloped façade was clad in stainless steel tiles, which were placed in a running bond pattern like the original mosaic tiles of Ledner’s Union building. New porthole windows were added, one of the same dimension as the original and one half the size, loosening the rigid grid of the previous design, while creating a new façade of controlled chaos and verve.
The tiles reflect the sky, sun, and moon, and when the light hits the façade perfectly, the stainless steel disintegrates and the circular windows appear to float like bubbles. The orthogonal panels fold at the corners, continuing the slope and generating a contrasting effect to the window pattern of the north façade. -- ArchDaily
0-14 Tower in Dubai by Reiser + Umemoto has a white concrete exoskeleton 3 feet away from its glass-walled inner enclosure. Read an article from
Architectural Record, August 2011.
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Dae Student Building, Avenida Eugenio Garza Sada, Barranquilla, Aguascalientes, Mexico, 2011 designed by Arkylab + Mauricio Ruiz
....a monoblock with an envelope of effervescent tone showing the cumulus of
spirits through the passage of light. 960 circular perforations are
transformed in the course of the day, giving a dynamic target to the
architectural static object. -- ArchDaily
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NiNo House, Gyé-sur-Seine, France, 2011 designed by Hérard & da Costa
Along the trail, the long concrete façade protects the house from
disturbances and from the prevailing winds and rain coming from the
west. To grant a certain delicacy to this wall we pierced it with small
round windows placed in an apparently random manner. They animate the
inside hallway. --
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Incheon Children Science Museum, 108-1 Bangchuk-dong, Gyeyang-gu, Incheon, South Korea, 2011 designed by HAEAHN Architecture + Yooshin Architects & Engineers + Seongwoo Engineering & Architects
....design of irregularity and distinctive perforated elevation (Dream
Icon), and diverse outdoor spaces (Eco Icon) where three-dimensional
experience is possible for communicating with a city and harmonizing
with the building had to be considered. --
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| Source: Yongkwan Kim archdaily.com |
Paul Smith Flagship Store, 16-9 Dosan-daero 45-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea, 2011 designed by Chanjoong Kim + THE_SYSTEM LAB
....curved Styrofoam blocks using an NV cutter as concrete moulds, Compared
to manipulating plywood moulds by correction, this method was
significantly more cost-efficient. The semi-gloss industrial paint
finishes are expected to conceal commercial and structural devices and
imbue freer and pleasant feelings to viewers-much like a typical design
from Paul Smith. --
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| Source: Lenikus GmbH / Anna Blau archdaily.com |
Hotel Topazz, Vienna, Austria, 2012 designed by BWM Architekten und Partner
Its brown mosaic façade, which absorbs and reflects the natural light, ensures that this building – on one of Vienna’s smallest building sites – is a real eye-catcher. The design, created by BWM Architekten und Partner, is characterised by striking elliptical window openings that jut out slightly. This unconventional, distinctive treatment of the façade gives this round-cornered building a sense of weightlessness and elegance as well as an unusually physical presence within the fabric of Vienna’s historical architecture. -- Contemporist
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| Source: Anja Schlamann archdaily.com |
Forum:Terra Nova, Elsdorf, Germany, 2012 designed by Lüderwaldt Architects
Daylight enters through the boxed windows in the ceiling and illuminates the central, two-storey-high atrium with the café, the main hall of the foyer. Exhibition and lecture rooms are located on both sides of the atrium on the upper floor. They are linked by the “distant view passage”, which is perforated by telescope-like round windows and opens up into a view of the surface excavation landscape. With the asymmetrically arranged bull’s eyes within an elsewise closed cube shape the building seeks the balance between retentiveness and the inviting openness of an information centre. -- ArchDaily
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Modern House, Lucerne, Switzerland designed by Philippe Stuebi
On both, the front and the lake side, this sculptural modern house shows very expressive and ornamental facades. Facing Mount Pilatus the white concrete elements are dotted with circular openings that allow glimpses into the two-leveled orangery with its exotic plants, as well as the lounge, the guest tract and the staircase accessed through one of the openings at the ground floor. The lake side with superb mountain views of the Rigi and the Bürgenstock shows off a protruding, glistering loggia made of round glass bricks. -- Modern Design
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Vin Rouge Headquarter, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea designed by Lee Eunseok + K.O.M.A.
The front wall has a round-shaped hole, making it look like a wine rack.
The small cylinders attached to the upper part of the exterior wall
remind viewers of corks. --
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| Source: Carl Lang archdaily.com |
House in Isla Fuerteventura, Fuerteventura, Spain, 2013 designed by Ilya Escario
The project is at the foot of a volcano on the north coast of the island
of Fuerteventura, Spain The plot offers spectacular 360 degree views
which want to be maximized by the customer. --
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| Source: Paul Kozlowski archdaily.com |
Salle Festive Succieu, Succieu, France designed by Guillaume Girod Architecture
The western façade is made of one perforated concrete wall. This
specific part aims to avoid the light getting into the building trough a
thick filter. It is working as a Halloween pumpkin at night offering a
smooth light to the surrounding. --
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| Source: Tord-Rickard Söderström archdaily.com |
Quality Hotel Friends, Råsta Strandväg, Solna, Sweden, 2013 designed by Karolina Keyzer + Wingårdhs
The house with thousand eyes creates an illusion; like waves from a
point in middle of the northern facade. The image appears from a
distance. It makes the stiff block soft, even wet. The impression is
formed by windows in three different sizes: 1.4, 1.7 and 2 meters in
diameter. The variations furnish the standardized rooms with a kind of
individuality, especially in corners. --
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| Source: Simón García archdaily.com |
Social Facilities in Roses, Avinguda Barcelona, 17480 Roses, Girona, Spain, designed by Exe arquitectura
The ventilated facade is finished with perforated plates that form the
same geometrical pattern as the original mosaic that covered the floor
of the old house, donated to the City. With the placement of the plates
that cover the two visible facades of the building, we emphasize the
past of the site where the new building stands, and display the previous
existence of the popular Anita tip Estanco. --
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| Source: Jordi Comas 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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| Source: Tim Van de Velde archdaily.com |
Incineration Line in Roskilde, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark, 2014 designed by Erick van Egeraat
The façade consists of two layers: the inner layer is the skin which
provides the actual climatic barrier, allowing the second skin to be
treated more freely – raw umber-coloured aluminium plates with an
irregular pattern of laser cut circular holes. The aluminium plates are
treated to give them the desired colour and patina at day time. At
night, the programmable lighting, installed between the two facades,
gives the building an additional metaphor. --
ArchDaily
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| Source: Peter Guenzel archdaily.com |
Theatre de Stoep, Spijkenisse, The Netherlands, 2014 designed by UNStudio
Above the glazed lower levels of the facade, the upper portion comprises
two layers of aluminium, Glimpses of the purple coloured back layer can
be seen through circular perforations in the outer white panels, with
LED lights fitted between the two facade layers to light the building in
the evenings. --
ArchDaily
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| Source: Simon Chaput archdaily.com |
El Blok, Vieques, Puerto Rico, 2014 designed by FUSTER + Architects
The exterior of the hotel is made of glass fiber reinforced concrete
(GfRC) panels; whose design is derived from corals. These panels act as a
continuous screen that filters natural light and fresh air into the
balconies of the guest rooms. The patterns of natural light created by
these panels and other building apertures act as perpetually changing
ornamentation within the hotel. --
ArchDaily
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| Source: André J Fanthome archdaily.com |
The Digit, New Delhi, Delhi, India, 2014 designed by Anagram Architects
....the most common idiom of identity, the thumbprint. The shimmering,
fluttering, red screen perforated with the company’s logo is an idiom
for its “digital identity”. --
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