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Calçada House is located in Porto, Portugal. There was an existing house from the 18th century and several annex buildings that Ren Ito Arq. refurbished to serve as a residence…
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Completed in 2019 by Portuguese Architecture firm COVO Interiores, the Grandfather’s Martinho House is located in a small Portuguese village. The architects have maintained the traditional appearance and materiality, inspired…
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Completed in 2018 among the forested mountain landscape of Tapalpa, Mexico, COA arquitectura nestles the DSA Development dwellings. The intimate stone structure stands isolated from civilization as visitors travel out…
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Completed in 1592, La Villa Capra “La Rotonda” is a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture designed by architect Andrea Palladio. Commissioned by Paolo Almerico, the villa was intended to serve as…
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Completed in 2007 by Swiss architecture firm 2b architectes and NB.Arch La Tuffiere Cultural Center blends into the village context and evokes vernacular architectural archetypes through the reinterpretation of well-known silhouettes.
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In 2018, Swiss architecture studio Think Architecture completed in Zurich “House in a Park”. Taking their inspiration from the natural environment the house integrates harmoniously with the landscape of the…
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Taliesin West was architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home and school in the desert of Arizona from 1937 until 1959. Today it is the main campus of The School of…
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In 1986, Mogno, a small Swiss village, was hit by an avalanche that destroyed its 17th-century church. In response, architect Mario Botta was commissioned to design a replacement, the San…
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The Calvet house (or Casa Calvet) is a modernist-style building designed by Antonio Gaudi in 1900 for a family of industrial textile manufacturers in Barcelona (Ensanche district). Gaudí collaborated with…
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In 1949 the Southwest Christian Seminary in Phoenix commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright (then 82 years of age) to design a Classical University that included other programmatic buildings and a chapel….
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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…
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Designed by Khammash Architects and completed in 2014, the Royal Academy for Nature Conservation in Jordan sets in an abandoned quarry that catalyzes an imaginative intervention providing educational programs and…
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The new WADI RUM Desert Resort designed by the Florida-based firm Oppenheim Architecture takes advantage of the natural landscape in order to appreciate the surrounding landscape. Residences, rooms and hotel…
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Pueblo Bonito (Spanish for beautiful town) is the largest and best-known great house in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico. It was built by the Ancestral Puebloans who occupied the structure between AD 828 and…
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