Talca Hotel & Casino by Rodrigo Duque Motta + Rafael Hevia García-Huidobro in Talca, Chile

Talca Hotel & Casino by Rodrigo Duque Motta + Rafael Hevia García-Huidobro in Talca, Chile

Talca hotel and Casino was design by Rodrigo Duque Motta + Rafael Hevia García-Huidobro architecture. The hotel is located in a student area, close to universities such as Universidad Católica del Maule and Universidad Autónoma de Chile. Since the very beginning, this commission was determined by a preexisting disposition of the various parts of the [...]

June 14th, 2011In Hotels and Restaurants

Research Library by Projektil Architekti in Hradec Kralove

Research Library by Projektil Architekti in Hradec Kralove

This research library in the Czech Republic was designed by the Prague-based architectural studio Projektil Architekti. Opened in September 2008, the new library is the result of the winning proposal in an open architectural competition in 2002. It is situated on a river bank in the Eastern Bohemian town of Hradec Králové, near the secondary [...]

June 14th, 2011In Museums, Culture and Libraries

House Gross by EM2N in Greifensee, Switzerland

House Gross by EM2N in Greifensee, Switzerland

The owner of the house needed more space to accommodate his family and didn’t want to ask permission to all the neighbors, so EM2N decided to create an underground expansion that led to the creation of two large sunken courtyards. In fact, all the clients originally wanted was a larger living room window – now [...]

June 14th, 2011In Houses and Residential

Ewha Univeristy’s Campus Center by Dominique Perrault in Seoul, Korea

Ewha Univeristy’s Campus Center by Dominique Perrault in Seoul, Korea

The Campus is designed by Dominique Perrault after an international competition launched in 2004. This past April, Dominique Perrault completed the campus center for Ewha University in Seoul, Korea. The new ‘campus valley’ provides both Ewhaians and prospective female students with much-needed space for continuing education and student services.
The center, which began with a [...]

June 14th, 2011In Educational Buildings

Museum of Luz by Pedro Pacheco + Marie Clément in Luz, Mourão, Portugal

Museum of Luz by Pedro Pacheco + Marie Clément in Luz, Mourão, Portugal

Museum of Luz was design by Pedro Pacheco + Marie Clément. Located in Luz, Mourão, Portugal. Luz is the name of a small village in the south of Portugal, with 300 inhabitants. Due to the Alqueva’s Dam construction, the Luz village was submersed. Its inhabitants as well as its culture and origins, had to be [...]

June 14th, 2011In Museums, Culture and Libraries

Jönköping-Västra Kajen by Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter in Sweden

Jönköping-Västra Kajen by Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter in Sweden

Stockholm practice Tham & Videga?rd Hansson Arkitekter have won a competition to design a residential project in Jönköping, Sweden. Two six storey housing blocks located on the quayside in central Jönköping, Sweden. The facade, a wooden trellis, has been perforated with large openings which dissolves the scale.
The concept is to create attractive housing on one [...]

June 13th, 2011In Houses and Residential

Zulte Stone Company by BURO Interior

Zulte Stone Company by BURO Interior

BURO Interior has renovate Zulte Company, It is a natural stone company. The renovated display hall cum meeting and office space was decorated austerely and elegantly with the natural stone product as a calling card used in all its facets. Belgian practice BURO II was in charge of this renovation.
Natural stone is the ideal natural [...]

June 13th, 2011In Office and Factory Buildings

Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China

Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China

The Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design is a studio within a large, national practice focused on design exploration and excellence in architecture. Located in the southwestern part of Inner Mongolia, in Ordos City, the Kaokaoshina New District is an emerging art and cultural district organized by Ai Wei Wei. Kaokaoshina is positioned to be a [...]

June 13th, 2011In Houses and Residential

Fleischmann – Ossa house by Mas y Fernández Arquitectos in Santuario del Valle, Santiago, Chile

Fleischmann – Ossa house by Mas y Fernández Arquitectos in Santuario del Valle, Santiago, Chile

Architects from Mas y Fernandez Arquitectos : Cristobal Fernandez and Andres Mas has finished built the Fleischmann-Ossa House in Chile with solid architecture of a concrete house. This is a modern design that’s unique for a number of reasons. House young family, considering as part of the commission to achieve a connection and visual integration [...]

June 13th, 2011In Houses and Residential

CHA:COL’s Fairwood Building in western India

CHA:COL’s Fairwood Building in western India

Los Angeles based husband-wife studio, CHA:COL (Chinmaya+Apurva Collaborative), recently designed the Fairwood Building as part of a proposed Infrastructure City for hi-tech services in western India. The towers, that aim to replicate interconnected figures, will benefit the growing commercial district with their programmatic elements.
The commercial spaces and landscaped public areas of the 265 meter [...]

June 13th, 2011In Commercial Building, Office and Factory Buildings

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Los Canteros Mountain Refuge by dRN Arquitectos in Farellones, Chile

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Los Canteros Mountain Refuge by dRN Arquitectos in Farellones, Chile

Here are Los Canteros Mountain Refuge Design dRN Arquitectos in Farellones, Chile. This house was designed with monolithic volume of stone that partially fills the void left by the existing containment walls.
The site was an existing void in the middle of a slope, bound on two sides by magnificent old containment walls built [...]

House of Sweden by Wingardh in Washington DC, USA

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House of Sweden by Wingardh in Washington DC, USA

Swedish-based firm Wingardh Architect has completed in 2006 of modern building an architectural project of Swedish Embassy offices for Swedish-American liaisons in Georgetown, Washington D.C. House of Sweden architects, Tomas Hansen and Gert Wingardh of Wingardhs Architects, were given a very simple design brief. “Design a building that communicates the message that Swedish government and [...]

Villa Mon Repos by Ravnikar Potokar Arhitekturni in Bled, Slovenia

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Villa Mon Repos by Ravnikar Potokar Arhitekturni in Bled, Slovenia

Slovenia based architects, Ravnikar Potokar Arhitekturni have designed new villa building design located in Bled, Slovenia. The new building, called Villa Mon Repos, transposes the orientation and the cube-like shape of the old manor with the addition of some displaced elements, such as the stairway and the entrance hall or vestibule on the north side, [...]

Student House by Peter Gunawan in Karawaci Tangerang , Indonesia

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Student House by Peter Gunawan in Karawaci Tangerang , Indonesia

This house was designed by Peter Gunawan. This dormitory house at Taman Permata Millenium, Lippo Karawaci, situated on a 375 sqm land in a currently urbanized area, is one of the many others with similar typology dotting the area to provide rentable one-person residential spaces. What separates this one from the other is what its [...]

Whitney Water Purification Facility and Park by Steven Holl Architects in South Central Connecticut, USA

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Whitney Water Purification Facility and Park by Steven Holl Architects in South Central Connecticut, USA

Architecture firm Steven Holl Architects has collaborated with landscape architects Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. and the Regional Water Authority in the development of the Whitney Water Purification Facility and Park in Hamden, Conneticut. The sustainable complex houses an underground water purification plant, above-ground operational facilities, an abundant habitat/sanctuary for migrating species of birds, a [...]

Exhibition Space of Level Green Exhibition by J. MAYER H.Architects

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Exhibition Space of Level Green Exhibition by J. MAYER H.Architects

German based architects J. Mayer architects together with Art+Com Berlin were commissioned to develop a permanent exhibition on the topic sustainability for the volkswagen autostadt (car city) in Wolfsburg, Germany. The exhibition Level Green encompasses approximately 1000 m2 and the architecture project displays various aspects of the topic while creating an informative environment that addresses [...]

Rio de Janeiro Residence by TAMABI in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Rio de Janeiro Residence by TAMABI in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rio de Janeiro Residence designed by TAMABI Architecture, located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Two basic principles guided our project for the construction of a new penthouse foor to house a single 234-square-meter apartment, located at the base of the Corcovado Mountain in Rio de Janeiro’s forested Jardim Botânico neighborhood.
The first was a demand for an [...]

55 Blair Road by Ong & Ong in Singapore

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55 Blair Road by Ong & Ong in Singapore

Architects ONG&ONG have completed a contemporary open-plan interior for the renovation of a terrace house in Singapore, merging the interior and exterior spaces. The new owner however believed it was too dark and desired more light in the living spaces. This residence brings a balance between nature and contemporary living in a renovation of an [...]