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1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:48:00 +0000

Herzog & de Meuron have produced not a new cultural behemoth but a strange sculptural structure, reviving the idea of the car park as a figure in the city. 1111 Lincoln RoadDesign Team:...

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M&G Ricerche by Samyn and Partners

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Mon, 31 May 2010 16:45:00 +0000

The building is situated like an island in the middle of a rectangular pool and follows the outline of the foundations of a convent which once occupied this site. M&G Ricerche Research...

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Pearl Academy of Fashion by morphogenesis

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Fri, 21 May 2010 10:16:00 +0000

The building is protected from the environment by a double skin which is derived from a traditional building element called the ‘Jaali’ which is prevalent in Rajasthani architecture. Pearl Academy...

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Safe Haven Bath house by TYIN Tegnestue

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:37:00 +0000

In order to leave the locals useful model for future construction, the project were highly localized, built with the help of locals, using locals materials and based on local traditional methods....

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Villa Astrid by Wingardh Arkitektkontor

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Sun, 16 May 2010 12:20:00 +0000

The difficulties of the site, is the oblique angle of the steep cliff to the view, and a huge rock that was incorporated into the design of the resort house. Villa AstridDesign Team: Wingardh...

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Bucky Bar by DUS Architects

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Sun, 16 May 2010 03:00:00 +0000

Bucky Bar is a spontaneous street party, a temporary public building designed by DUS architects. The dome-bar, entirely made of umbrella's, appeared seemingly suddenly out of nowhere on the street...

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De Boogjes by Mecanoo Architecten

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:11:00 +0000

The shops also acquire an awning, which at the two ends of the street is raised up vertically in the form of bookends. This serves to create a grouping of the four blocks and enabling the complex to...

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House in Romeirão by ARX Portugal Arquitectos

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:21:00 +0000

Our architecture doesn't follow a lexicon or a stabilized language. In every new project we try to find the "vocables" for a specific language to the new context. As in the House in Romeirão, the...

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Petting Farm by 70F

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:16:00 +0000

The retreat is a well-crafted structure, with all the design process focus on sustainability, low-impact and off-the-grid design mandate to the site which would precede the design and construction of...

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St. Mary of the Angels Chapel Mecanoo Architecten

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:27:00 +0000

With its impressive roof, its golden ceiling and wave-like ”moving” wall, the new Rotterdam chapel exhibits the sensual elements of the baroque. The intimate inner room has an aura of contemplative...

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Villa Chabrey by GD architectes

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:04:00 +0000

Sculptured in wood and fitting in with the topography of the orchards, this house reminds the world of a hangar and of a barn. It also preserves the rural characteristics of the surroundings and the...

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Southend Pier by White arkitekter

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:53:00 +0000

A key element of the proposed design is to make sure that the people of Southend use the Pier and take it into their heart. The Pier Head should be a vibrant place filled with activities with a...

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La Llotja theatre and conference centre by Mecanoo Architecten

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:41:00 +0000

Regarded from the large scale of the region, the building forms a link between the river and the mountain. Viewed from the urban scale, La Llotja and the river form a balanced composition. At street...

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Bornhuetter Hall by LTL Architects

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:07:00 +0000

Wood-clad study nooks cantilever, like box seats, into the theatrical space of the courtyard, producing a dynamic entrance to the building and establishing private study areas in a collective...

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National Heritage Museum by Mecanoo Architecten

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:31:00 +0000

A path built of recycled cobblestones leads one past something that looks like a huge boulder, 13 metres high and without any visible entrance. National Heritage MuseumDesign Team: Mecanoo...

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House for Everybody by Kohki Hiranuma Architect

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:01:00 +0000

In trying to create an architectural space that establishes in its environment, the house was design & built with focused on the volumn of the small space in the particular size of its' residents...

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Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum by KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:19:00 +0000

The design for the museum was developed with many references to the historic urban environment that surrounds the site. Two u-shaped blocks interlock and refer to the geometry of the surrounding...

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Municipal Theatre and Auditorium by FOA

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:17:00 +0000

Given the scarce amount of space in the plot in respect to the required program, the design is to lifts the auditorium from the ground level, letting the plaza penetrate the plot, becoming a foyer...

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Cloud Tower by next-ENTERprise

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:00:00 +0000

The pavilion inserts itself into the landscape and, through its topographical configuration, reinterprets formal elements of the landscape garden — the play with perspective and visual relations,...

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Koushu House by Akasaka Shinichiro Atelier

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:36:00 +0000

The Koushu house caughts between two worlds: with noisy bustling road at the front but an haven in the backyard with wetlands, forest and a river running through.Koushu HouseDesign Team: Akasaka...

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Bazar Amsterdam by Kossmann.deJong

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:26:00 +0000

A former Buiten-Amstel Church on Albert Cuypmarkt street has been converted into a melting pot of cultures where everyone can come to eat, drink and endlessly look around.Bazar Amsterdam Design Team:...

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Ikea Restaurante by Estudio Mariscal

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:45:00 +0000

Ikea means a small hill in Basque. To conceptualize the interior decoration of Ikea, the designers imagined it as a restaurant in a farmhouse set on the top of a small hill, surrounded by a forest of...

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Ílhavo Maritime Museum by ARX

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:32:00 +0000

The building where the museum resides, inaugurated on the 21st of October 2001, is itself a public work of art. Water is visible from all parts of the building, it is a beautiful model of the modern...

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House in Kodaira by Suppose Design Office

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:29:00 +0000

The house keeps private yet it could open to the outside with a tent garden. The tent is coveting the garden as if it was a roof, a wall and a fence. This house dilute the limits between interior...

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Oresen house by Akasaka Shinichiro Atelier

noreply@blogger.com (Skott Chun) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:03:00 +0000

Though at first glance, from the snow-filled surrounding this little house looks as if it is in a suburb of Oslo or Helsinki, it is actually in Japan.Oresen House Design Team: Akasaka Shinichiro...

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