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The house was designed for a young couple and their daughter and is situated on the outskirts of Nicosia. The house falls into the category of "half plots" where two distinct residences are...
View ArticleALD House
This weekend retreat is projected on a land of a little over 10,764 square feet and it is articulated in two main volumes: a prism into which another rectangular wooden prism is embedded. Since the...
View ArticleDear Jingumae Project
This is a conversion project that totally renovated a 25-year-old office building, located on a back street of Omotesando in Tokyo, in order to facilitate commercial functions. The client requested a...
View ArticleIntegrated Technology Hub
Box Hill Institute’s new Integrated Technology Hub is a purpose-designed technical skills education facility with a new degree-oriented teaching space above. Adjacent to a previous Spowers project...
View ArticleSunshine Canyon House
Up until a few years ago, this 4.5-acre property located in a rocky canyon above Boulder, Colorado, was a dense forest of pine and fir trees. But on Labor Day, 2010, the Four Mile Canyon fire scorched...
View ArticleAbsolute Stunners: The 10 Sexiest Models of All Time
Would I really stoop as low as clichéd architectural innuendo to act as click-bait for an article? Why, yes, it appears I would. Well, now that you’re here, you may as well take a peek at this perfect...
View ArticleWhatever Happened to the Column? 10 Examples that Redefine the Concept of...
In case Alberti’s approach to designing a column seems overly pedantic, you might prefer Venturi’s idea of what a column should look like. Cartoonishly oversized, his “Ironic” column at the 1977...
View ArticleWatch Mies's Farnsworth House Become a New Media Light Fantasy
Every architect has studied Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's iconic Farnsworth House, the modernist glass box built in Plano, IL from 1945-51. In its steel-and-glass geometry, the residence was a pivotal...
View ArticleWunderbugs
Wunderbugs: interactive architecture for insects and humans. Wunderbugs is an interactive wooden pavilion with sensors collecting environmental changes and allowing insects to modulate music. It's a...
View ArticleRichard Meier's Residential Prowess Takes Shape in Taiwan
A+ Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Richard Meier, will soon begin construction on the Taichung Condominium Tower, his firm's first ever tower in Taiwan. Located in the city's vibrant center, the...
View ArticleSingle Family House in Thiva, Greece
Design and supervision: Takis Exarchopoulos, Panos E. Gerakakis, Eleni Exarchopoulou Structural design: Georgios Mamalis Mechanical design: Ioannis Kavvadias This residence has been built for a family...
View ArticleHardware for Revit and Optimizing Performance
Computer configuration is no easy task. Even a well-seasoned pro can get caught up in the never ending and constantly changing options for speed, size, manufacturer, and price, and how all these parts...
View ArticleWaterfront Redevelopment
This project is a redevelopment of a waterfront site including new summer houses, a restaurant, toilet facilities, a waterfront walkway, beach restoration, and a children's playground.
View ArticleMedieval Parametricism: Inside Gaudí's Unfinished Masterpiece
An exhibition explores the digital nature of the ongoing design and construction of Antonio Gaudi's Sagrada Familia.
View ArticleBalmoral Residence
This northeast facing residence located on the slopes above Balmoral Beach spans three levels supported by a forest of tall columns beneath a flat, sinuous roof. From the property’s street level...
View ArticleSee How Mecanoo Crushes Cultural Commissions
Soon, you won't have to travel the world to appreciate the broad scope of the interdisciplinary design firm Mecanoo, as their breadth of built work will be presented in an exhibition at the Coop...
View ArticleThis Transparent Cabin Is a Sustainable Hedonist Escape
Germany’s Theather der Welt is committed to providing a room with a view. Hotel ShabbyShabby commissioned the construction of 22 temporary standalone hotel rooms for the Mannheim-based theater...
View ArticleGeeveston Child and Family Centre
This project, in the southern Tasmanian rural township of Geeveston known for its apple and forestry industries, oversees the reuse of a set of 1950s weatherboard buildings. The Geeveston Child and...
View ArticleMarcel Breuer's Whitney Closes Its Doors As a Controversial Brutalist Icon
After two 24-hour days of visitors to its Jeff Koons retrospective, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York locked the doors to its iconic Marcel Breuer building for the last time on Sunday...
View ArticleBASWA cool
This product class combines sound absorption with a water-bearing capillary tube system, and creates a room climate that is in tune with our clients’ specific needs. BASWA cool evenly cools a space...
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