Beginning with a story of the designing company Whitaker Studio: In the spring of 2017 my client in LA had some friends visiting and, having a little time to spare, they all went on a road trip to visit the client’s plot of land in...
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Recycled concrete, repurposed double-glazing and discarded flooring boards were all used in the construction of Upcycle Studios, a Copenhagen housing development designed by Lendager Group. Danish architecture studio Lendager Group built the series of 20 new townhouses in the Ørestad district of Denmark's capital city. All...
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Bridges in China have a long tradition not only as traffic links but also as social gathering places. This heritage is revived in the design by the architects at Atelier FCJZ for Jishou Art Museum in central China. The Jishou Art Museum in the county-level city...
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On the hights of Cheongdam-dong avenue, in Séoul, South Korea, the new Louis Vuitton store is full of contemporary and traditional inspiration. Seen as a reference to the Korean culture, art and creativity are honored. The curved glass facade from Franck Gehry is similar to the...
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SEATOPIA·Bright & Bay Food by Guchuang Design is a supporting property of Sino-Ocean Group. The 2,000 square meter building space accommodated an owner’s canteen and two themed restaurants. SEATOPIA is a Coastal holiday complex developed by the Sino-Ocean Group in Beidaihe New District. It covers an...
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Liyang Museum is located in the southeast corner of Yan Lake Park in the new urban district, connecting an urban public space to the new nature. The organic lines and undulating mountains compose melodious music in the mountain forest. An Open Attitude welcomes people from...
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Workshop Architects has created the Filux Lab for artistic design as part of the International Festival of Light in Mexico. They transformed an old colonial house located in the city of Merida into a real place of knowledge sharing, research, but also an art gallery....
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New York studio Weiss Manfredi has beaten competition from Dorte Mandrup and Diller Scofidio + Renfro to develop the park and museum accompanying Los Angeles' historic La Brea Tar Pits. Weiss Manfredi's design will occupy the active paleontological research centre situated on the eastern portion of...
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The new multi-cinema project takes place in the future site of the “Jardin de la Culture” close to the historical city center of Riom. Once this cultural enclosure, was the “Redemptoristine convent’s garden”. Nowadays, this new program offers: a multimedia library project, a music school...
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On the former campus of Manchester Metropolitan University, Mecanoo have designed a residential district of brick and new urban connection points. Inspired by the archetype of Dutch canal houses, Mecanoo have designed brick apartment buildings on the old campus of Manchester Metropolitan University. Together, the...
On the former campus of Manche...
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A house designed by K2Ld architects in a quiet residential street that reflects no particular historical period, but has fine examples of the various housing styles built throughout the last 100 years. Also, like many streets in Melbourne’s inner eastern suburbs, it is lined with...
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The Chinese Architecture Studio Vector Architects, a realization a seafront chapel on the Bohai Coast in China. This building that mixes traditional with futurism offers an exceptional view of the sea. The faithful can feel like on a drifting boat that face the immensity of the...
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Text description provided by the architects. Saigon is a metropolitan city of Vietnam with the highest density of construction, vehicles and population. With that, followed the blooming of urban infrastructure and traffic congestion. On the other hand, it causes the lack of green spaces, where...
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Pennsylvania architecture studio ISA has designed a slender five-storey house in a developing Philadelphia neighbourhood, as a housing prototype for tiny vacant lots. The narrow Tiny Tower is built like a mini-skyscraper, using a steel-reinforced wood frame that is clad in painted metal across its...
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In Danish market town Aabenraa, ADEPT and Topotek1 have recently completed a transformation of the historic city that creates strong links between the visionary urban master plan, won by the team in 2014, and redesigned public space formed by local conditions. With a playful design...
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Designed by Singapore-based firm WOHA, ‘sky green’ is a mixed-use development located at the heart of Taichung city, Taiwan. located in a densely developed and vibrant neighborhood, the site is made up of two rectangular plots: one facing the main city thoroughfare, gongyi road; and...
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Montreal studio Thomas Balaban Architect has turned a gabled farmhouse in Quebec's Eastern Townships completely white, and then contrasted it with an extension covered in weathered cedar cladding. The Knowlton Residence is located in rural Canada, a few hours outside of Montreal, in a popular ski...
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After few other features, we are going back to another project by a local bureau in Kosova, an educational institution with in the city of Prishtina, designed by Maden Group. Read more on the project by the architects. Being a kid and even a teenager is...
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The project is distinguished mainly by the visual impact of the proposed volumes, which besides the plastic appeal, cooperates functionally with details of comfort and efficiency of the house. In addition to influencing the volumetric conceptualization of the project, a cobogo-lined face marks the entry with...
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Built by the Morphosis architecture studio, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science trône of Dallas amazes. This atypical building has needed four years of confection – two for the design, two for the construction. The visitor is then taken into an immersive experience inside...
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When a family in China approached architectural firm AZL Architects to create a house that could accommodate four generations, they probably didn’t expect that a wheelchair ramp would become the main design element. But that’s what they got with Song House, a modern three-story, five-bedroom home...
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What’s a museum without a collection? Typically, the artifacts come first, followed by the buildings that house them. But in Shanghai, the newly opened West Bund Museum reversed the order, creating a vessel for culture that preceded its contents, with an inaugural exhibition program finalized...
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When Frode Danielsen invited his then-girlfriend Tone Beathe Øvrevoll on a holiday to Hallvardøy Island in northern Norway, little did he know that she would fall so deeply in love with the area that they would spend the next two years putting down roots on...
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American studio The Ranch Mine has completed a residence in Phoenix that features a mix of gabled and flat volumes wrapped in corrugated metal, white stucco and honey-toned wood. The Pleats house is located near the Dreamy Draw Mountain Preserve, just north of Uptown Phoenix. The...
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Read MoreIn the 1980s, malls were a place to meet, to hang out, to find your entertainment while socializing. Malls made "deciding what to do" simple because they offered a variety of shopping, movies, restaurants, and arcades. But with the rise of online shopping, home video,...
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A rebuild kindergarten project in Matsuyama, Ehime. Recently cars are daily necessities in a provincial city and it gets more common children go to kindergarten by bus or car. So they have fewer chances to take exercises in daily life. An increasing number of children...
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This apartment building by Lussi+Halter Partner AG + Lola Domenech, was an initiative of four couples of friends join in a common project to build a building of five apartments in Barcelona with communal spaces of coexistence. The promoters of the building are the users...
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White concrete cantilevered slabs define a new tennis club in the middle of the nature that combines a social building together with tennis courts; a total of 17 courts of all surfaces: grass, clay and hard. A Master series facility. The strong natural context defines the...
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The Finnish designer Robin Falck comes back with a new minimalist and very elegant cabin , wishing to get rid of the useless things, and then simplifying the best he could. Developed in partnership with the energy company Neste, “Nolla” has an ecological footprint equal...
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Portland-based Waechter Architecture has released images of The Society Hotel Bingen, a new 20,000-square-foot lodging and recreational destination for visitors seeking a refined, off-the-beaten-trail experience in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Initiated in 2017, Society Hotel Bingen consists of five distinct yet related...
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Located on Lize Road in southwest Beijing, Leeza SOHO tower anchors the new Fengtai business district - a growing financial and transport hub between the city centre and the recently opened Beijing Daxing International Airport to the south. The new business district is integral to...
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This unusual 1,256-square-foot residence in Okayama Prefecture, Japan, looks like a simple wooden box from the outside. However, the interior features a surprising layout with a sunken living area set within a dug-out "pit" in the ground. Designed by Hiroshima–based UID Architects for a couple with...
This unusual 1,256-square-foot...
Read MoreWhat is good architecture and why the world does not need more star architects. For star architects, all too frequently it is all about expressing their creativity and “genius” in their architecture. But truly great architecture is selfless. It is not self-serving but about making designs...
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Architecture studio FREAKS has clad an old printing warehouse in France shiny corrugated metal cladding and converted it into a research centre for lighting company Sammode. Located in Lamotte-Beuvron close to Orléans, the converted offices combine highly controlled testing areas and well lit work spaces. To achieve...
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Australian architecture studio M.O.D.O designed this brilliant modern home which surrounds a central landscaped backyard in Aberfeldie, Victoria. On following the description by the architects. We have recently completed a new home for a young family of 4, located in the middle of the western suburbs. The...
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With a growing reputation for celebrating the heritage of the Republic of Kosovo, 4M Group sought to reflect the cultural legacy and illustrate a renewed optimism in Pristina with the creation of H House. Demonstrating awareness of the dichotomy of Kosovo’s recent history, the client...
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Architectural firm Tham & Videgård won the international competition to elaborate a new addition for the Swedish Exhibition and Congress Centre in Gothenburg. The selected proposal puts in place a new hotel tower and a main entrance for the venue. Considered one of Europe’s largest integrated...
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This clifftop holiday home by British designer John Pawson presents white windowless facades to its guests, but at the rear large windows and a roof terrace face towards the sea (+ slideshow). Pawson's London-based studio designed Okinawa House for a family who spend most of the year in Tokyo, but want to escape to the island of Okinawa during...
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Bangkok architecture studio Archismith has built a garden enclosed by 20,000 glass bricks as part of a sales office for a residential development in Bangkok, Thailand. Archismith designed the space to be largely disconnected from its site as a rival developer's sales gallery is located nearby. The main building is set back from...
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Istanbul based Tabanlioglu Architects have designed a new national stadium for Kosovo. Located in Drenas, the 30,000-seat stadium will be built 12 miles from the country's capital of Pristina and become the new home for the Kosovo national football team. Made to bring people together, the urban project aims to...
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‘It feels like some giant has left a mega artefact across the river,’ says Bjarke Ingels, observing The Twist, a new 1,000 sq m art museum designed by his firm BIG in southern Norway, one hour outside Oslo. Not only does this building span a...
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Located in a historically industrial site in the heart of Eindhoven, the Van der Meulen-Ansemsterrein (VDMA) may soon be transformed into a lively hub for housing, offices, and public space. OMA and Being Development, along with associate architects diederendirrix and FABRICations and landscape architect Delva, recently won...
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A new major attraction in the Arctic Circle is on its way and Dorte Mandrup was just selected to build ‘the whale’ ahead of other major contractors. Norway has announced the building will be constructed in Andenes — a site located at the northernmost tip...
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A large training complex has been appointed and designed exclusively for the football club of Prishtina. This facility is the next chapter in the club’s rich identity, set to make an ongoing contribution to quality of sports, especially football. The complex design is well integrated in...
A large training complex has b...
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US Embassy in Prishtina is nearing its completion, therefore we would like to bring to you more from the inside, together with the perspective of commissioned architects, Davis Brody Bond, which played quite a role to this renewed architectural measure to America's diplomatic presence in Kosova. By creating...
US Embassy in Prishtina is nea...
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Within a decade, the city of Prishtina, has changed a lot, especially on the construction field, redefying the silhouette of the city with all newly build projects, some of which we have featured at our site during these years. The most notable one was ENK...
Within a decade, the city of P...
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The Kosova's Pavilion concept in Biennale of Venice curated by Eliza Hoxha, revolves around the idea of ”house” as a compensation for the city. During ‘90s Kosovo Albanians were expelled from all activities of public institutional life because of the political conflicts in ex—Yugoslavia. Due to...
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We have been featuring different proposals for the Museum of Natural History competition including the proposal by G+A Architects and the winning proposal by Hidroing_DK. Also Fatlum Radoniqi and Visar Dushi, who came up as the second place winners of the competition (later after they...
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Announced by the YAC – Young Architects Competition the international architectural competition launched last month the Observatory Houses competition aiming to find a new use for Roccascalegna taking advantage of the potential of an oneiric setting with remarkable skies. The aim of this contest of ideas was to create...
Announced by the YAC – Young A...
Read More"Architecture can improve people’s lives" speech of Gëzim Paçarizi at TEDxTirana. Gëzim strongly believes that Architecture should improve peoples lives. A city should be a good place to live. A School should inspire learning. A House should be a place inspiring happiness....
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