Altis Belém Hotel / RISCO Architects

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FS + SG RISCO Architects‘ new 5-star Altis Belém Hotel contains 50 rooms and a number of facilities intended to support water sports.  The hotel is designed in a way as to not constitute a visual obstacle along the axis between the Belém Tower and the Monument to the Discoveries.  The hotel is a very narrow [...]

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Monaco Pavilion for Shanghai World Expo 2010 / NAÇO Architecture

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Designed by NAÇO Architecture, Monaco’s Pavilion for Shanghai World Expo 2010 will feature a movie that will take visitors on a lap of Monaco Grand Prix and show a luxury ecological car prototype of the new Venturi Volage. The 2,000-square-meter pavilion will invite visitors to explore the evolution of casr, city transformation and KERS system [...]

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Theater 11 / EM2N

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© Hannes Henz Architects: EM2N Location: Zurich, Switzerland Project Leaders: Christof Zollinger, Verena Lindenmayer Project Team: Dirk Harmdorf, Elke Kirst, Sidsel Kromann, Verena Lindenmayer, Claudia Meier, Mathias Müller, Verena Nelles, Daniel Niggli, Claudia Peter, Frank Schneider, Christof Zollinger Client: MCH Messe Schweiz (Zürich) AG Construction Management: Bauengineering.com AG Structural Engineering: Aerni + Aerni Mechanical Engineering: [...]

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5th Festival of Lively Architectures in Montpellier

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Since 2006, The Festival des Architectures Vives tries to make people aware to architecture giving them tools to understand it by allowing people who live in town to meet people who draw the town. This Festival offers young architects to propose, think, investigate and experiment new fields of architectural design in relation with the classic [...]

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Cave Home / The Sleepers

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Lars Tunbjork In an interesting article from the New York Times this week, different families completed not so typical renovations.  A few years ago, the Sleeper family moved from their crowded Missouri ranch house when they saw an eBay offering for three acres with an empty sandstone cave in Festus, Missouri.   The initial idea [...]

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Residence / NeoStudio Architekci

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NeoStudio Architekci shared their completed design for a residence in Garby near Poznan, Poland.  Located on a sunken site, the building rests on a steep southern slope.  With the client’s desire for a double height, two-level living room, the home takes its form around that central room.    The back of the home has been fitted to [...]

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House of Spread / FORM | Kouichi Kimura

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© Takumi Ota Architects: FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects Location: Shiga, Japan Client: Private Site Area: 707,21 sqm Constructed Area: 152,33 sqm Construction Year: 2010 Photographs: Takumi Ota This is the house for a couple aged 30-something. When I began to design the house, the client requested that the living room should be connected to a Japanese [...]

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Indemann / Maurer United Architects

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“] Architects: Maurer United Architects [MUA] Location: Inden, Germany Project Leaders: Marc Maurer, Nicole Maurer Collaborators: Gaby Vanhommerig, Joost Eggermont, Christoph Meyers, Roy Konings, Alan Frijns, Annika Frencken, Peggy Maurer, Danielle Konings Construction Advisor: Arup GmbH, Düsseldorf W-Installations Advisor: Ingenieurbüro Inco GmbH E-Installations Advisor: T + N Ingenieure GbR Contractor: Metalbau Teufert GmbH Project Area: [...]

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