Completed in 2019 by Formafatal Architects, Atelier Villa is a minimalistic tropical house in Costa Rica. The project is part of the Art Villas Resort, which includes villas done in collaboration with Refuel works and Archwerk studio.
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Completed in 2019, the Public Service Center of Yuanheguan Village designed by LUO Studio, was built in only two months. To ensure fast construction the architects chose an abandoned site with concrete foundations and took three measures: they coordinated design & construction, they used prefabricated construction, and they avoided non-standardized parts.
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Completed in 2020 by ARCHSTUDIO, the Qishe Courtyard House is a renovation project located in a hutong within an old core quarter of Beijing. It’s a small Siheyuan (a traditional Chinese residence typology) with three courtyards. It originally consisted of 7 pitched-roof buildings. ARCHSTUDIO embedded a veranda into the old Siheyuan to link up the seven separated pitched-roof houses.
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Completed in 1972, the Philips Exeter Academy Library is acknowledged to be among Louis Kahn’s most successful buildings. The structure stands 80-feet high and 111-feet wide on all four sides. Its façade is primarily built in brick with teak wood panels.
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In 1997, Shigeru Ban completed the Wall-less House, also known as the House Without Walls. In this project, Ban creates a “universal floor,” a term coined by Robert Kronenberg in “Transportable Environments.” Walls disappear, and only the essential elements for living remains. Each space is part of the “universal floor”: the floor of the restroom is the same used in…
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The Tokyo Metropolitan Festival Hall (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan), designed by Kunio Maekawa in 1957, opened in April 1961. The building was Japan’s first concert hall and was located in Tokyo’s Ueno Park. The heavy cornice and roof superstructures are reminiscent of Le Corbusier’s works, for whom Maekawa had previously worked. Directly adjacent to the hall stands the National Museum of…
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Completed in 2014, the Social Charity Institution Padre Rubinos Headquarters designed by Elsa Urquijo Architects is a shelter for the life that transcends in it. The use of horizontal lines arises from the search for peace and relaxation creating a sequence of measured and ordered spaces.
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Architecture design firm Cobe has been commissioned the new Geely Design Center in a unique campus named “Uni3 by Geely” on Gothenburg’s harbor front. It is set for completion in 2022. The new building is going to form the setting for Geely Design’s development of, among others, the new electric car brand Lynk & Co.
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Completed in 1592, la Villa Capra ” La Rotonda” was designed by Andrea Palladio in 1567. Commissioned by Paolo Almerico, he asked the architect to create a place for his recreation, a building that combined the housing needs with duties, a place where he could spend his last years between lethargy and ‘holy agriculture’.
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In 2003, MVRDV completed the Silodam, a polychromatic apartment building on Amsterdam harbor that was part of an extensive urban operation that transformed a former dam and silo building. A mixed program of housing, offices, workspaces, commercial spaces, and public spaces was arranged in a 20 meter deep and ten-story-high urban envelope.
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