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Happy Birthday, Eiffel Towers!
One of the world's most recognizable icons turns 125 years old today, and we're celebrating our beautiful old friend with a lifetime achievement award of sorts. Gustave Eiffel designed the original...
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VL House
Climatic and programmatic possibilities, along with geometrical conditions resulted in the architect's strategy of peripheral occupation for the VL House. Filling all of the setbacks with simple...
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Splash Into 9 Breathtakingly Scenic Oceanside Pools
If you are going to buy property with a breathtaking view of the Mediterranean or the Indian Ocean, you'll most likely want to maximize the time you spend gawking at your purchase. So naturally, your...
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Belimbing Avenue
A lightwell with a reflecting pool divides this terrace house constructed in off-form concrete and tropical timbers. Covered by a glass and timber trellis, the lightwell provides shelter from the rain...
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Hits and (Mostly) Misses in Ballpark Architecture
Opening Day is this week, and Major League Baseball will begin its 162-game season with a full schedule of games. This means that the stadiums are up and running, though some better than others. While...
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Plug System
Inspired by traditional partition screens, Plug is a wooden vertical lattice containing applications that serve as supports and anchors for various accessories. The modular unit measures 75x35 inches,...
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Christmas at Google is April 1st: A Brief History of Google Maps Jokes
Today is the one day of the year when our beloved internet go-to is not to be trusted. Google has won the loyal trust of its users over the years, but with such hard work comes equally enthusiastic...
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Cave
This house, located in the northern part of Oita Prefecture is situated in an area where residential construction has expanded to the southwest, and the vast countryside is left open on the north...
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Baltimore Gets Schooled: A New Design in Education
Inspired by the blocks of row homes seen throughout East Baltimore, Rogers Partners' design for the Henderson-Hopkins School seeks to mimic the scale, composition, pattern, and rhythm of the...
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House in Balsthal
This timber house is about different ways of perceiving the landscape surrounding it. There are two principal floors; one set nearly 3 feet below the earth, the other 5 feet above. The ground floor...
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Convertible Courtyards House
This house kinetically adapts to the notoriously variable climate found in Melbourne. A previously overlooked yet charming weatherboard cottage in the inner urban suburbs of Prahran, the project added...
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A+ Award Winners: A Win for Architecture by the Numbers
Today, we announce the 2014 winners of the A+ Awards, which reminds me of a video we made more than a year ago introducing the Architizer A+ Awards to the world. It was sparked by one simple...
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An Eames Icon Gets an Eco-Friendly Makeover
Charles and Ray Eames’ Shell Chair was revolutionary for its groundbreaking use of technology. In 1950, it was the only mass-produced plastic chair in the world, and its single-process fiberglass form...
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Hackney Townhouse
A late 1960s terraced townhouse receives a complete refurbishment and extension in this project. The existing three-story building was completely stripped back, including removal of all the exterior...
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Announcing the Winners of the 2014 A+ Awards
Drum roll, please: After successive rounds of voting by our blue-chip cast of more than 300 jury members and tens of thousands of votes from Architizer readers across the world, we now present to you...
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FiftyThree
FiftyThree is a space to create - a combination of work space, library, home and forest. Following a creed of honest material use and understated confidence, +ADD created a space with an open layout...
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All Bets Are Off: New Concepts in Casinos
We're not sure whether or not Zaha Hadid's grandiose sculptural design for a hotel and casino in Macau will delight the world as a "city of dreams" once its constructed. However, one thing about the...
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Solo House
This unique residence occupies a dominant position in a rural landscape of vineyards and olive groves, set against a background of medieval villages and rocky outcrops. A bare horizontal volume is...
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Berklee College of Music
Fronting on Massachusetts Avenue, the new multi-use residence hall for Berklee College of Music strengthens the College’s multiple connections to the city of Boston. The transparent facade reveals the...
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A+ Awards Winners Delight Both Jurors and Public
The Architizer A+ Awards winners have been announced, and two sets of victors have emerged: Jury Winners and Popular Choice Winners. A few select projects belong to the purple-hued intersection of our...
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