Snowflakes Geometry Variations
December 21, 2019
The photographs of snowflakes show how many vairations nature creates while keeping strictly within a triangular, and hence hexagonal framework.
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White U House / Toyo Ito
December 16, 2019
The U House was designed by the famous Japanese architect Toyo Ito in 1976 for his older sister, who had just lost her husband to cancer. Built in the centre of Tokyo, it was demolished in 1997.
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Family House at the Emporda / Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
December 10, 2019
Located at the Emporda in Giron well-known Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill designed a summer house for his parents. Built on the ruins of an old country home, the Family House is organized around a brightly red central courtyard that captures different views of the surroundings.
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Louis Kahn’s Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad
September 17, 2019
The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, better known as IIM Ahmedabad or simply IIMA, is a management institute located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The old campus was designed by Louis Kahn who was an exponent of exposed-brick architecture, with the help of B.V. Doshi & Anant Raje. The most distinctive features of the plan are the numerous arches and square…
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FAU Urbanism and Architecture University / Vilanova Artigas
August 24, 2019
João Batista Vilanova Artigas was a Brazilian modernist architect. Born in Curitiba, Artigas is considered one of the most important names in the architectural history of São Paulo, and the founding figure of the Paulista School.
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Dutch Embassy and Residence in Ethiopia / mecanoo
May 29, 2019
The new Dutch embassy in Adis Abeba designed by mecanoo is located in a site with five hectares of eucalyptus woods, dropping steeply into a valley. The new buildings blend with the landscape, with a winding road as the connecting element with the historic villa.
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Sainte Marie de La Tourette / Le Corbusier
April 24, 2019
Le Corbusier designed Sainte Marie de La Tourette Monastery in 1960 for a Dominican Order priory in a valley near Lyon, France. The Dominican Order convent sinks into the edge of a forest in a small valley and it is one of the greatest works of Modernism produced. Rough concrete stained by time gives an exterior unfamiliar to religious structures.
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Suzuki House / Bolles + Wilson
February 2, 2019
The house the Australian architecture duo Bolles + Wilson designed and built between 1990 and 1993 for Mr. Suzuki in Tokyo is a playful unicum, yet a perfectly contextualized fragment in the Japanese city.
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Commune by the Great Wall Hotel / Kengo Kuma & Associates
January 28, 2019
In China, japanese architect Kengo Kuma was chosen among ten Asian architects to design ten residences each, creating a hundred residences all together in a forest adjacent to the Great Wall of China, an environmentally mutual commune.
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Dushan School Complex / West-line studio
January 17, 2017
The Dushan School Complex designed by West-line Studio is located in Baiquan Town, the so-called “South Gate of Guizhou” at the border with Guangxi province. Architects based the design of this school complex in order to create a series of courtyards with different levels of privacy, where “listen to the sound of wind and to the sound of reading” according to…
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Piazza Castello / Onsitestudio
December 21, 2016
The Piazza Castello project, designed by Onsitestudio proposes a redimension of an important open space in the city of Milan, reasoning on an urban scale attempting to address the spaces that structure the city.
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Danxia Exhibition Center / West-line studio
December 19, 2016
The Exhibition and Tourist Center designed by West-line Studio is located in Fuxing Town, inside the Danxia landform area and on the main tourist routes. The site highlights the typical characteristics of this particular area, with its complicated morphology. The whole building has been designed following the movement of the soil in a circular route around the central open courtyard.
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