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Hot Dog House, Harvard, Illinois, USA, 1975 designed by Stanley Tigerman

Tigerman on 'Chicago Tonight,' plus thoughts from the owners of his 'Hot Dog House' -- cityscape

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Cœur Défense, Paris, France, 2001 designed by  Jean-Paul Viguier

Cœur Défense is a large complex made of two main bodies connected to one another by a smaller body and seating on a wide basis made of several smaller bodies. The edges of all bodies are rounded. The cladding is white, with large windows. An electronic system monitors white blinds which can be drawn or opened all together at the same time. -- wikipedia

Source: Jens Willebrand archdaily.com

LTD_1, Hamburg, Germany, 2008 designed by Peter Ruge Architekten

The office building’s configuration, composed of four boomerang-shaped elements laid over each other, creates a representative entrance situation, an interior courtyard, and a transitional space to the residential courtyard in the rear. As a result of this building form, every office has direct sunlight and an unobstructed view. -- ArchDaily

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Parking Garage ‘de Cope’, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2008 designed by JHK Architecten

The façade consists of inward curved, perforated ‘Platibond composite panels’ with a golden coating, which give the aluminum surface coat its golden metallic look. The panels were specially developed for this project in collaboration with the façade supplier. The gradual changes in the perforations and the jumping panels create the impression of a woven structure.  -- ArchDaily

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Repository, Asahikawa, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, 2012 designed by Jun Igarashi Architects

Plan surrounds the two halls (living dining/master bedroom) and washing room by small rooms , which form a buffer zone. Washing room has top light and it introduce the light to the entire of house. -- ArchDaily

Source: Toshihisa Iishi archdaily.com

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Enviromental Building, Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, 2012 designed by Henri Gueydan

Close to Nagoya, this environmental building for rental and shops, complements an older type of housing, now fully renovated and colorful. In this rather dreary suburb, the idea is to break with the existing view as if the start making of a new urbanity.   -- ArchDaily

Source: AEC Krymow & Partners archdaily.com

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Pomeranian, Gdynia, Poland, 2013 designed by AEC Krymow & Partners

During the design process of the buildings, the architects were inspired by polish modernist architecture of Gdynia of the 1920s and 30s. The rounded parts of the facade are especially associated with the historic architecture of Gdynia. -- ArchDaily

Source: Murat Germen archdaily.com

Esas Aeropark, Yenişehir Mh., Osmanlı Bulvarı No:7, 34912 İstanbul/Istanbul, Turkey, 2013 designed by Tabanlıoğlu Architects

Soft curves of each two building, location of spaces and their connection arcs create an elegant flow; the major reason of the form comes from the idea of breaking the strong north-east wind. Positioning of the two building is relative to the movement of the sun, and grant optimum daylight for both masses. -- ArchDaily

Source: James Steinkamp Photography archdaily.com

New Hospital Tower Rush University Medical Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2013 designed by Perkins + Will

The geometry of the bed tower maximizes views and natural light for patient rooms while also creating an environment for efficient and safe health care. -- ArchDaily

Source: Tom Ferguson archdaily.com

Southern Highlands House, New South Wales, Australia, 2013 designed by Benn & Penna Architects

The new building is part of a set of three free standing pavilions that each contain the functions of sleeping, living and working a configuration reflecting a harmonious life-cycle balance that is interwoven into its natural environment. -- ArchDaily

Source: Luuk Kramer archdaily.com

de Trefkoele+ Community Center, Dalfsen, The Netherlands, 2014 designed by MoederscheimMoonen Architects + Spring Architects

The oval-shaped monumental library remained and underwent a thorough restoration. Underneath the striking construction the different childcare-facilities and the Historic society find their home. As a result the library has moved closer towards the heart of the complex. In becoming this transit-space it joins the different functions in a natural manner. -- ArchDaily

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House in Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan designed by Tato Architects

It resulted in the white oval cylinder with forty-two windows, in which wooden boxes and a floor were inserted to create a living space. It was placed diagonally in the site, remaining space between adjoining houses. Many windows segment the view and make the façade work as a filter. -- ArchDaily

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Bus Drivers Building, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2015 designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects

In addition, because of the roundness and the linear character, the shape of the bus drivers building connects to the previously realized tubular supervisor building on the other side of the bus platform. The positioning of the facility areas ensures that on the ground floor the façade can be closed and can be made graffiti resistant. -- ArchDaily

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Educatorium, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1997 designed by OMA

The Educatorium is composed of two planes which fold to accommodate a range of distinct programs, including an outdoor plaza, two lecture halls, cafeteria and a testing facility. Planes interlock to create a single trajectory in which the entire university experience – socialization, learning, examination – is encapsulated. -- architect's web site

Source: Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra archdaily.com

Bus Station of Rio Maior, Rio Maior, Portugal, 2005 designed by Domitianus Arquitectura

It is a blade, or piece of white concrete with high-intensity plastic that solves the whole proposal, revealing an autonomous body coated by wood panels which are organized, in two different floors the area of service users. -- ArchDaily

 Source: Benthem Crouwel Architekten

Penthouse Las Palmas, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2008 designed by Benthem Crouwel Architekten

The Penthouse floats a good three metres above the Las Palmas building, held aloft on thin steel columns. This two-story office volume is rounded off vertically at the head ends, in deliberate contrast with all other buildings on Wilhelmina Pier.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Benthem Crouwel Architekten

Elicium RAI(ICA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2009 designed by Benthem Crouwel Architekten

The Ballroom is a single large column-free space that may be divided up using sliding partitions. A seven-storey stack rises above the congress halls. Elicium puts the RAI in a better position to attract large multi-day international events and gives it a bold new front.  -- ArchDaily

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Sheraton Milan Malpensa Airport Hotel & Conference Centre, Milan, Italy, 2010 designed by King Roselli Architetti

The building is a study in contrast and fluidity. The firm devised a comblike shape with alternating room modules and external courtyards that link to an elongated spine housing lounge and circulation areas. Roselli and his colleagues chose white “pultruded” fiberglass, a pliable, pulled, and extruded membrane used in such applications as prefabricated emergency housing. Inside, King Roselli carried its bold gestures into the public areas, using arcing ribbons of plasterboard across ceilings and around walls that recall the facade's fiberglass strips, and penetrating the hotel's core with a soaring atrium.  -- Architectural Record

Source: David Adika archdaily.com

Beam House, Arbel, Israel, 2010 designed by Uri Cohen Architects

The beams of the roof rest on that ‘central concrete wall’ and serve as cantilevers to the linear roof of the living area. This keeps the northern glass façade free of columns. The circular external lines affect the interior design creating a resting bench in the living room and unique lines in the windows and walls of the private spaces. -- ArchDaily

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Water Villa Omval, Amsterdam,  the Netherlands , 2010 designed by +31 Architects

Resting on the water, +31 Architects' latest residence offers a gently curving form complete with a roof terrace. According to the architects, “The split-level principle of the watervilla is accentuated by the round design of the facade.” -- ArchDaily

Source: Espaço Cidade Arquitectos archdaily.com

Center for High Performance Athletics in Jamor Lisbon, Portugal, 2010 designed by Espaço Cidade Arquitectos

The formal and volumetric aspect of the building translates its interior and the specific conditions imposed by the different modalities, resulting three volumes, one is a longitudinal volume, with 10 meters high opened to the landscape, another with variable height that projects the interior of the racing track and the last one a “box” that articulates the other two and defines the entrance. -- ArchDaily

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Sports Facility Strijp, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2012 designed by LIAG architects

The structure of the complex consists of long horizontal bands that culminate in rounded edges. To help the different groups of users maintain their own distinct identity, the bands around the parts of the building used by the different groups are in their own colours. The main shape of the building is created by a flowing continuous line with curved edges. -- ArchDaily

Source: Mierta & Kurt Lazzarini Architekten archdaily.com

Sport and leisure centre Promulins, Samedan, Switzerland, 2012 designed by Mierta & Kurt Lazzarini Architekten

The dynamic and floating form of the building represents the flow and the motions of the athletes. The growing concrete slab in the north, which houses the cloakrooms, forms, through a folding at the end, the comfort for the Stübli and restaurant. -- ArchDaily

Source: Markus Bollen archdaily.com

The Tree House, Hechtel-Eksel, Belgium, 2012 designed by Baumraum

The major image of the design is a sheet of paper that is pleated and encloses both interior and exterior spaces. THE TREEHOUSE is based on five elements: two cabins on different levels, connecting terraces, a staircase and a connecting roof. -- ArchDaily