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Kelly Residence by Abramson Teiger Architects
The Kelly Residence is an exploration of balance: solid versus void, private versus exposed, stoic versus playful. These dichotomies combine under a collective architectural theme of contrasting box figurations. Le […]
Red Ice
LEDUS (ICE) is NRJA’s winning proposal for the architecture competition in Riga for the development of an 893 sq. m. the urban land plot on 40a Kr. Barona Street. The […]
Chaoyang Park Plaza
MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, has completed “Chaoyang Park Plaza”, which includes the Armani apartment complex. Positioned on the southern edge of Beijing’s Chaoyang Park ─ the largest remaining […]
Private house OGLE
Two separate apartments for two families make up the volume which complies with the strict regulations of Riga historical centre. The height of the volume corresponds to the buildings across […]
Bistro EK
The empty and forgotten semi-basement space in the 19th century Ljubljana corner building, which faces the riverside and a rarely frequented stairs-street, housed diverse ventures in the past, from a […]
The Big Tiny Coffee House Challenge Winners
The Big Tiny Coffee House Challenge invited participants to reinvent the staple of modern urban culture: the coffee shop. Participants were tasked with expanding the premise of the modern coffee […]
Huangshan Mountain Village
Huangshan, located near the ancient villages of Hongcun and Xidi in China’s Anhui province, is home to one of the country’s most beautiful mountains. Known for its rich verdant scenery […]
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects to design the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
The approximately 30,000-square-metre campus complex will comprise a pair of sustainable, modern buildings that will enliven both the science and greater Oslo community. Oslo, Norway–January 18, 2018–NGI – Norwegian Geotechnical […]
Prysmian HQ
Workspaces with no hierarchies in harmony with the architecture’s transparency A unique workplace, a vast extroverted space, whose architectural features open up to the outside through transparency and luminosity. A […]
Bayreuth Sports Youth Hostel
It’s the new generation of youth hostels – innovative, integrative and international – and has recently opened in Bayreuth, Germany. The fluid structure is integrated into the landscape, with contemporary materials […]
Yamamay Concept Store
The client is a famous women’s lingerie company, the designer one of the most famous architectural firm in the fashion world. The meeting between Yamamay and Piuarch arises from the […]
Binet Business Hotel
A building that is part of its neighborhood To the north-west of Paris, the Porte de Montmartre district is a sector of economic and social reconquest, through a Great Urban […]
Window in the Sky Feinliner
In a business world characterized by a progressive digitalisation of work processes and increased staff mobility, locations and elements of emotion and identity become central to the concept of modern […]
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects Wins International Competition for Solvay
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects wins international competition to design the new sustainable headquarters for global chemical company, Solvay. The forward-thinking, resiliency-minded design of the building and green campus is a […]
AGi architects Win 2nd Prize for Centro de Arte de las Arquerías de Nuevos Ministerios
The AGi architects’ project for the Centro de Arte de las Arquerías de Nuevos Ministerios, in Madrid, Spain, was awarded second prize at the competition organized by ENAIRE Foundation. The […]
SU House
On a plot in a villa quarter at the edge of a forest in the south of Stuttgart, a villa thoroughly designed down to the smallest detail was build for […]
KAKURU Jewelry Store
The concept of the jewelry store KAKURU is all about bringing the principles of the creator into architecture, into life. Design curves, inspiration from nature and materiality, all in an […]
ArchiTeam Interviews John Clemow / RMJM Principal
Nowadays, every major city has a selection of high-rise buildings to take pride in. How have they affected the profile of the city and how much do they contribute to the density of the […]
The Nippon Apartment by Urban Soul Project
The apartment is located in the 16th arrondissement, in the iconic Auguste Perret building on Benjamin Franklin street. The building is an architectural monument as it is one of the […]
Zac du Port Housing
A new construction of 60 housing units along the Ourcq Canal is completed by AZC Architects. The creation of block 04, made up of 60 + 60 housing units, is […]
Woodbridge Residence by Manuelian Architects
A ranch-style house in Los Angeles is re-imagined as a light-filled contemporary home. The clients approached us with a request to transform an existing modest one-story ranch style house with […]
Embassy of Egypt in Lisbon
Located in Lisbon’s affluent quarter of Restelo, the new Embassy of Egypt stands on a plot in Avenida Dom Vasco da Gama which is typologically characterized by a string of […]
Construction Underway on ENOTA´s Winning Koper Central Park Competition Proposal
Construction started this week on ENOTA Architects recent winning proposal for a Central park in Slovenian coastal town of Koper. The basic building blocks of the new city park are […]
Trieste Airport
Trieste Airport’s intermodal platform opened to the public thirteen months after the first stone was laid. The new transport hub for the Friuli Venezia Giulia region is a combination of […]
House Heidehof
The almost triangular shape of this plot with its long street front and an impressive plane tree worthy of protection at the rear necessitated an elongated building running parallel to […]
House am Oberen Berg
A house for life, behind protecting walls and with great openness towards the surrounding landscape – a generation villa „from which one never needs to move out again“, as the […]
Pool Yard House by Studio Ardete
Located on a busy sectoral road of the city of Panchkula, the Pool House was designed for an elderly couple and their visiting family and friends. The design brief was […]
IDF Habitat Headquarters
Extreme organizational flexibility, attention to environmental quality and an accurate interpretation of the setting: these were the requirements for the headquarters of IDF Habitat, the French company in charge of […]
CaoHeJing Guigu Creative Headquarters Breaks Ground in Shanghai
The new CaoHeJing Guigu Creative Headquarters breaks ground in Shanghai, China. Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects design for the new CaoHeJing Guigu Creative Headquarters in Shanghai has broken ground on Monday […]
Wind Tower
Understanding and reinterpreting local environmental techniques is one of the main targets of this design. The service’s core of the building is thus located on the southern wing, in order […]
San Pablo Airport’s Control Center
The design of San Pablo Airport’s Control Center presents a clear duality. On the one hand, the most specific functions, linked to the activity of the control centre and concentrated around […]
Sun House by David Guerra
The owners of the house, a couple with two married children and grandchildren, had decided to make a new house in the same neighborhood and street where they used to […]
Marina and Fishing Point in Chipiona
This project includes a complex of buildings within the port that aims to gradually fulfill all the necessary services. As the main characteristic, it is necessary to refer to the […]
Emporium Santa Isabel
The idea for Santa Isabel Emporium was to build a technological, contemporary architecture in a more effective way, referring to the tradition of the countryside and baroque style of Minas […]
Mountain House by David Guerra
Weekend refuge for the mother, her two married sons, her daughter-in-law and her grandchildren. It is located in a condominium with big sites, surrounded by an ecological reserve. The idea […]
Konan House by ALTS Design Office
A house under the eaves. This residence was built next to the main building in the area, where many old houses stand side by side. The client’s request was “I […]
PETRA The Stone Atelier by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Petra The Stone Atelier is a space in which three activities live together. On the one hand, it is an exhibition space for the company Stonehegen that shows stones from […]
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects Announces 1st US Project
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects announces first US project – the Monroe Blocks, a major mixed-use development in the heart of downtown Detroit. Located at the center of the spokes that […]
Site Sanctuary Competition Winners
This international one-stage architecture ideas competition invites all architecture students, young architects and young professionals with a degree in architecture studies (≤ 40 years old) to develop and submit compelling […]
Iran Historical Car Museum by RMJM
Situated approximately 20km west of the capital city, Tehran, the Iran Historical Car Museum currently houses one of the largest and most valuable car collections in the region, comprising sports […]
Zhuhai Convention and Exhibition Complex
RMJM won the competition for the iconic Zhuhai Convention and Exhibition Complex with a design that tries to encapsulate the characteristics that make the city so unique: its relationship to […]