Tag: Wood Structure

Boncompte & Font Arquitectes

The building melds with its environment, the three concrete levels slotted into the hillside and surrounded by natural vegetation and green lawns. The first lev

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115 Studios - Cirque du Soleil

Les Architectes FABG

As an international capital of circus arts, Montreal has made a new site available to “La Cité des arts du cirque”, a non-profit organization founded by En

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Remota Hotel

Germán del Sol

The sheep farms of Patagonia were the inspiration for this hotel. Not the traditional “estancias”, the warm houses closed to the outside world, but the sple

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Brosmith Residence

SPFa Pali Fekete

The Brosmith Residence, a single-family villa, is sited on a ridgeline overlooking the Mulholland Scenic Parkway, a road running above the San Fernando Valley i

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Patio Island

MVRDV

The 1994 Ypenburg Masterplan, an expansion area for approx. 11,000 houses on the site of a former military airfield, was commissioned by the Ypenburg Joint Vent

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The Contemporary Home, a Prototype

Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten

The “contemporary home” designed by Allmann Sattler Wappner for the competition sponsored by publisher Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2003, is an experiment in con

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Three Houses

Alison Brooks Architects

Canadian-born, London-based architect Alison Brooks is a reinventor of housing design typologies. UK mass housing is controlled by big business, and the boxy ho

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Wood Church In Kärsämäki

Lassila Hirvilammi Architects

The ancient parish church of Kärsämäki, picturesquely located on the banks of a river, was demolished in 1841. The move to “reconstruct” the monument was

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Private Residence

Tonkin Liu Architects

Young architects have traditionally created most of their ingenious design tricks for private clients. In a residential neighbourhood of London not noted for it

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Solar Umbrella Residence

Pugh + Scarpa Architecture

Nestled amidst the suburban neighbourhood of single-storey bungalows of Venice,California, the Solar Umbrella Residence is the result of extending a 650 square

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“Kloostertuin” Housing Estate

Wiel Arets

A vacant lot on the outskirts of the Dutch city of Apeldoorn was the site of this housing estate for about 50 homes, a project by the Wiel Arets practice, winne

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Cathedral “Christ the Light”

SOM | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

The newly completed Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland is a revelation. Craig Hartman, a partner in the San Francisco office of SOM, who previously led a

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