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Ordos Museum / MAD Architects

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:25 PST

Ordos Museum / MAD Architects
The futuristic curved metal Ordos Museum in China’s Inner Mongolia Region is finally complete. Designed in 2005 by MAD Architects, the undulating building houses the regions’ cultural relics...
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Small House / By Domenic Alvaro

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:35:57 PST

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Domenic Alvaro
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Photo © Courtesy of Trevor Mein - meinphoto Pty Ltd

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: HOUSE
Small house is an ultra-compact concrete vertical house that adds to the urban fabric of inner city Surry Hills in Sydney. The site is so small it can fit into the garage of your typical sprawling suburban home (7mx6m).
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Pixel Building / By studio505

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:25:25 PST

Melbourne, Australia
studio505
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Photo © Courtesy of Ben Hosking

FIRST CARBON NEUTRAL BUILDING AT CARLTON BREWERY SITE
Grocon will start construction of the first Carbon Neutral office building of its type in Australia, and possibly the world, later this year.To be located at Grocon’s Carlton Brewery site at the top end of Swanston Street, the Pixel building will become a project office for the duration of the $1 billion urban renewal program.
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Won Dharma Center / By Hanrahan Meyers Architects LLP

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:16:35 PST

Claverack, NY, United States
Hanrahan Meyers Architects LLP
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Photo © Courtesy of Michael Moran

The Won Dharma Center, USA, is a 32,000 square foot recreational and spiritual retreat in Claverack, New York for the Won Buddhists, a Korean organization that emphasizes balance in one's daily life and relationship to nature.
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Metalmorphosis Sculpture / By David Cerny

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:02:39 PST

SCULPTURE, METAL WORKING

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
David Cerny
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Photo © Courtesy of David Cerny

‘Metalmorphosis’ is a giant dynamic sculpture 30 feet high, located by the main façade of the business centre ‘Whitehall’ in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was the first permanent public construction in USA by a Czech sculptorDavid Cerny.
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Red Bull Headquarters Interior / By Sid Lee Architecture

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:22:12 PST

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sid Lee Architecture
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Photo © Courtesy of Ewout Huibers

Picked over 2 different firms, Sid Lee Architecture and Sid Lee’s Amsterdam atelier were mandated to make the new Red Bull Amsterdam head offices.
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SA Residence / By Shatotto Architecture

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:29:05 PST

Dhaka, Bangladesh
Shatotto Architecture
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Photo © Courtesy of Daniele Domenicali, Rafiq Azam

Unfolding Nothingness…
1. Inspiration

Water the most precious and abundant and life subtly woven with it, makes Bangladesh a country of toil and poetry.

Miguel Rio Branco Gallery / By Arquitetos Associados

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:43:20 PST

Brumadinho, MG, Brazil
Arquitetos Associados
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Photo © Courtesy of Leonardo Finotti

Located on a sloping terrain, surrounded by forest, this pavilion redesigned the topography so that the volume of the building blends.
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Eight Spruce Street ( Beekman Tower) / By Gehry Partners, LLP

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:43:30 PST

8 Spruce Street, Newyork, United States
Gehry Partners, LLP
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Photo © Courtesy of Gehry Partners, LLP

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Structural Design of the Year
The 867 ft, 76-story iconic Beekman Tower, designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry, is New York City’s tallest residential tower. Located in the middle of the block bounded by Nassau, Beekman, Spruce and Gold Streets, just south of the Brooklyn Bridge, the 1.1 million SF mixed-use building has redefined the skyline of Downtown Manhattan.

JLI House (Nest House) / By MCP Arquitectura

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:46:19 PST

La Cañada, Valencia, Spain
MCP Arquitectura
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Photo © Courtesy of Joan Roig

A project to affirm concepts: A perimeter full of content, indoor/outdoor character of spaces, plasticity of the structure as composite material, definition of areas and uses through flexible technical nodes, and the idea of a deep and solid façade that changes with the quality of the material.
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Looptecture F / By Endo Shuhei Architect Institute

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:11:28 PST

Minamiawaji, Hyogo, Japan
Endo Shuhei Architect Institute
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Photo © Courtesy of Shuhei Endo

The function of this architecture is security and controlling all the floodgates located at port of Fukura, enlighten dangerous of the Tsunami for tourists, and use as a place of refuge in case of the Tsunami warning.
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Casa en Brione / By Markus Wespi Jérôme de Meuron architects

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:16:50 PST

Brione sopra Minusio, TI, Switzerland
Markus Wespi Jérôme de Meuron architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Hannes Henz

This house is located in a prime urban area above Locarno, with an impressive view of the city, mountains and a lake.
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Norwegian Wild Reindeer Center Pavilion / By Snøhetta

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:33:39 PST

Hjerkinn, Norway
Snøhetta
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Photo © Courtesy of Ketil Jacobsen

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: DISPLAY
The Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion is located at Hjerkinn on the outskirts of Dovrefjell National Park, overlooking the Snøhetta mountain massif.
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A Mother River Recovered--The Sanlihe Greenway / By Turenscape

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:40:54 PST

Qian'an, Hebei Province, China
Turenscape
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Image © Courtesy of Turenscape

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: LANDSCAPE

The Qian'an Sanlihe Greenway is transformed from former garbage dump and sewage drainage.

Family House in BIRŠTONAS / By Architectural Bureau G.Natkevicius + Partners

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:34:04 PST

Birštonas, Lithuania
Architectural Bureau G.Natkevicius + Partners
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Photo © Courtesy of G.Česonis

Birštonas is one of the four famous resorts of Lithuania. Balneological and mud therapy resort is famous for it‘s local mineral water. The city of Birštonas with it‘s 3200 population is situated in the loop of the biggest river in the very heart of Lithuania.
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Raas Jodhpur / By The Lotus Praxis Initiative

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:49:33 PST

Jodhpur, India
The Lotus Praxis Initiative
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Photo © Courtesy of Andre Fanthome--Overview of restored site and new hotel block

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: HOLIDAY
CREATIVE CONCEPT:
Hand crafting a story for today.

Set in the heart of the walled city of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, RAAS is a 1.5-acre property uniquely located at the base of the Mehrangarh Fort. The brief was to create a luxury boutique hotel with 39 rooms in the context of the Old city quarter of Jodhpur.

Hanimaadhoo International Airport / By Integrated Design Associates Limited

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:07:44 PST

Maldives
Integrated Design Associates Limited
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Image © Courtesy of Integrated Design Associates Limited

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Future Project of the Year

The new airport, designated as the country’s second international gateway, is located on an island with very limited land mass for an international airport of this size.

Decameron / By Studio MK27-Marcio Kogan

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:37:39 PST

São Paulo, Brazil
Studio MK27-Marcio Kogan
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World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: SHOPPING

The showroom of the Decameron furniture store is located on a rented site in the furniture commercial alley in São Paulo.

Kurilpa Bridge / By Cox Architecture

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:51:33 PST

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cox Architecture
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World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: TRANSPORT

Kurilpa Bridge is the world’s largest structure to be based upon the principles of ‘tensegrity’, the term coined by Richard Buckminster Fuller to describe a system of balanced compressive and tensile forces.

Carbon Bar Interior / By B3 Designers

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:56:08 PST

London, England
B3 Designers
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The Carbon Bar is a welcome addition to the Cumberland Hotel, also home to the Kelly Hoppen designed Gary Rhodes’ W1 restaurant. Carbon features an interior inspired by industrial architecture and brings low-key, yet chic Shoreditch style to the West End.
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Saint Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church / By Marlon Blackwell Architect

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:57:35 PST

Springdale, United States
Marlon Blackwell Architect
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Photo © Courtesy of Timothy Hursley--At night, St. Nicholas presents a glowing, balanced composition. The architects embedded blue and yellow glass windows and a red cross in the white, western elevation. To further delineate the church, they surrounded it with a skirt of black mulch.

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: CIVIC AND COMMUNITY
Saint Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church is the result of a transformation of an existing metal shop building into a sanctuary and fellowship hall in anticipation of a larger adjacent sanctuary on the same site.
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In Between House / By Koji Tsutsui & Associates

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:58:06 PST

Karuizawa, Japan
Koji Tsutsui & Associates
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World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: Villa
The client chose a sloped site surrounded by Japanese larch trees in a mountainous region of Karuizawa, Japan, (an hour commute away from Tokyo on a bullet train) as the ideal location for their home.
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CZP Chalet Zermatt Peak / By MLS Architekten AG

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:40:16 PST

Zermatt, Switzerland
MLS Architekten AG
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Chalet Zermatt Peak has been created not only as a technical marvel, but a truly inspirational design project with many items bespoke designed and hand made.
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Simone de Beauvoir Footbridge / By Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:19:47 PST

Paris, France
Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
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The pedestrian bridge with a length of 304 meters links the new districts of Paris- Bercy and Tolbiac - and at the same time the new national french library with the Park Tolbiac.
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House D / By Panorama Arquitectos + WMR Arquitectos

noreply@blogger.com (Kitticoon Poopong) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 07:47:15 PST

Matanzas, Chile
Panorama Arquitectos + WMR Arquitectos
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The project is situated in Matanzas – Chile, at the top of a cliff, 65 mts. approximately above sea level.
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