Tag: Reinforced concrete

Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut

Zaha Hadid Architects

The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, commissioned and financed by Lebanese minister Issam Fares and designed by Zaha Hadid Arc

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The Hill Cork House

Contaminar Arquitectos

The hills above Leiria in central Portugal are covered with vineyards, olive groves and cork oak woods. Yet the single-family homes that have sprung up over the

# Portugal (81) # Residence (1664) # Contaminar Arquitectos

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Fondation Louis Vuitton

Gehry Partners

The Jardin d’Acclimatation on the northern edge of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris is a world of timeless pleasures drawing in 1.5 million visitors a year.

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Biocasa_82 - private house

Rosario Picciotto

Although built to the strictest environmental requirements, the new detached house in the Veneto countryside of northeast Italy, has not relinquished any aspect

# Italy (3161) # Residence (1664) # CEA Design (25) # Paolo Castelli Spa (30) # Rosario Picciotto

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Education Institute Hospitalhof

Lederer Ragnarsdottir Oei

A building is always part of a whole - part of an urban or natural landscape. Its very presence changes the relationships between other parts of the surrounding

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La Vela, restoration and alteration

Rebosio + Spagnulo

The original reinforced concrete building was a 1970s restaurant on the Tuscan coast and, in seeking to transform and restore this structure, the architects ado

# Italy (3161) # Restaurant (249) # Rebosio + Spagnulo

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Hadaway House

Patkau Architects

Architects have long been drawn to mountains. To the efficient integration of material and form in weathered Alpine chalets. Or, as with German notions of the S

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Perched above the Pacific. A house that exploits the drama of the central California coastline

Fougeron Architecture

Big Sur, located on the central coast of California, is one of the world’s magical places. Meadows and redwood forests clad the mountains that tumble into

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Reid Building, Glasgow School of Art

Steven Holl Architects

It is both rare and difficult to erect a new building next to amuch-admired, well-known and beloved masterpiece.Ever since Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed an

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Conservatory of Music

Kengo Kuma and Associates

The new Darius Milhaud Conservatory in Aix-en-Provence in southern France is an example of architecture that is both expressive and functional. Named after the

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Two Residential Complexes

5+1AA Alfonso Femia Gianluca Peluffo

The northern Italian city of Brescia near the foothills of the Alps has recently acquired two new, very different, residential estates: one a private complex; t

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Gl Events Headquarters

Studio Odile Decq

Located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône on an isthmus oriented towards the hills of the city, the old industrial port of Lyon was fi

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