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Crossroad Offices Extension / OFIS Arhitekti
May 17th
Courtesy of OFIS Arhitekti The new extension for the Crossroad Offices by OFIS Arhitekti acts as a crossroad regulator between the existing villa and its approach from the street on the south side and the underground parking on the east side. The actual form derives from the main logical directions on the site to the main destinations as the new volume is positioned behind the existing villa with individual cut outs, ‘green bays’, in function of the extended external park coming into the pavilion.
Harvest Pavilion / Vector Architects
May 17th
© Shu He Photo Architect: Vector Architects Location: Kunshan , China Client: Kunshan City Investment Company Design-Partner-In-Charge: Gong Dong, Chien-ho Hsu Project Architect: Feng Xu Project Advisor: Nan Wang Building Area: 150 sqm Completion: 2012 Photographs: Shu He Photo © Shu He Photo Sited in an Eco-farm alongside the Yang Cheng Lake, Kunshan the project consists of 4 small scale public buildings: a club house, a harvest pavilion, a botanical showroom, and an information center.
Los Nogales School Chapel / Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos
May 17th
© Ricardo Amado Fotografía Architects: Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos Location: Bogotá, Colombia Photographs: Ricardo Amado Fotografía © Ricardo Amado Fotografía Los Nogales School’s chapel Los Nogales School’s Chapel, is conceived based on human life’s dualities. A pure and elemental prism represents the pureness, the essential and the harmony. The various volumes and cracks that this prism suffers represent the spiritual sense in human lives, therefore harmony’s alterations.
RIBA Photography Competition
May 17th
Inland Revenue Centre by Hopkins Architects © Martine Hamilton Knight/Builtvision RIBA recently launched a new photography competition open to entries from all RIBA members in any category.
Italian-Venezuelan Centre New Services Building / Roberto Puchetti
May 17th
© Roberto Puchetti Architects: Roberto Puchetti Location: Caracas , Venezuela Project Team: Yesenia Di Sabatino, Fernando Blanco, Andrés Cova, Karina Rodriguez Engineering: Manuel Ramírez, Roberto De Adessis, Ricardo Ortega Completion: 2011 Built Area: 465 sqm Client: Centro Italiano Venezolano, A.C. Construction: Constructora Proyectos La Torre, C.A
Dancing Dragons by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
May 16th
We’re running a series of stories about the Yongsan International Business District in Seoul: following designs by BIG and MVRDV are a pair of skyscrapers with glass scales by Chicago firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture . (more…)
Dancing Dragons by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
May 16th
We’re running a series of stories about the Yongsan International Business District in Seoul: following designs by BIG and MVRDV are a pair of skyscrapers with glass scales by Chicago firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture . (more…)
S. Roque House I / Bruno Armando Gomes Marques
May 16th
© Miguel Coelho Architects: Bruno Armando Gomes Marques Location: S. Roque, Municipality of Oliveira de Azeméis , Portugal Contributors: Architect Gonçalo Freitas, Architect Rita Cunha Designers of expertise: Ponte Urbana, Ltd Completion: 2011 Photographs: Miguel Coelho © Miguel Coelho This house is located in Oliveira de Azeméis, specifically in São Roque
Police Station in Barcelona / MIZIEN
May 16th
Courtesy of MIZIEN Architects: MIZIEN Location: Palau-solità i Plegamans, Barcelona , Spain Client: Palau-solità i Plegamans Municipality Completion: 2011 Area: 450 sqm Cost: 1,062,847.25 € Photographs: Courtesy of MIZIEN Courtesy of MIZIEN Like many towns in El Vallès, in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, Palau-solità has tripled its population since the 1980s and extended by means of single-family houses and low-rise apartment blocks. In this context, a public building may be designed to give the main streets in the fabric an urban, civic character or to fit in with the series of warehouses, shopping centres and franchises that form the periphery of this sprawling urbanization. The headquarters of the local police force is an example of the former.
