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Éclats de verre / Atomic3
Apr 15th
Courtesy of Atomic3 Montreal has long been known as the ”city of a hundred steeples”. Through the heart of this northern metropolis, ATOMIC3 has scattered Éclats de verre: a giant shattered stained-glass window reorganised into a playful maze that offers a unique immersive experience to its visitors, and a colourful panorama to passersby.
Social Security Administration Building In Barcelona / BCQ Arquitectura
Mar 14th
© Pedro Pegenaute Architects: BCQ Arquitectura – David Baena, Toni Casamor, Maria Taltavull, Manel Peribáñez Location: Carrer Arc del Teatre 63, Barcelona, Spain Collaborator: Catarina Crespo, Marta Cid, Mika Iitomi, Kim Hamers Area: 6,291 sqm Completion: 2011 Photographs: Pedro Pegenaute © Pedro Pegenaute Planning of the complex The building negotiates its orientation with the urban fabric. The original planning proposal adapts to the reality of the existing urban setting. The ground floor and the basement floor are located within the boundaries of the site; upper floors, however, move and align with the street l’Om.
Zap’ Ados by Bang Architectes
Feb 14th
French studio Bang Architectes has converted a former peanut factory in Calais into a skateboarding park with a bright orange mesh facade (photos by Julien Lanoo ). (more…)
Exeter College by Alison Brooks Architects
Nov 26th
British architect Alison Brooks has won a competition to design a new quadrangle for a college at the University of Oxford . (more…)
Woliatta Village / Ethiopia Studio
Dec 25th
Courtesy of Ethiopia Studio Woliatta Village is a collaborative project designed by Ethiopia Studio , eleven ASU graduate students led by a practicing architect.
Heaven / Visiondivision
Dec 16th
© Visiondivision A few days ago, we shared Visiondivision’s Nature’s Choice – a series of vacation homes that attempt to blend into their unique site placement. The firm just shared their latest competition entry for a hotel room atop a cloud.
On the Way to the Sea / Derman Verbakel Architecture
Nov 28th
© Yuval Tebol We just recieved this very interesting project from Derman Verbakel Architecture .
AD Classics: Casa Batlló / Antoni Gaudí
Nov 23rd
©Wikipedia The inspiring imagination of Antoni Gaudí undoubtedly reveals itself in one of his most poetic and artistic designs for a building, Casa Batlló . His synthesis of animal shapes, vine-like curves, hints of bone and skeleton, and his use of lustrous colored bits of glazed ceramic and glass create a masterpiece that will forever astonish its observers.
AD Classics: Dessau Bauhaus / Walter Gropius
Nov 11th
© Thomas Lewandovski Interested in creating a new form of design found at the intersection of architecture, art, industrial design, typography, graphic design, and interior design, Walter Gropius was inspired to create an institution known as the Bauhaus at Dessau, with an emerging style that would forever influence architecture.
