SANTA MONICA CIVIC CENTER PARKING STRUCTURE by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners in Santa Monica, California
The design team was challenged to create a building that exemplified the city's commitment to sustainable design while strengthening the urban fabric and providing public facilities. Intended as an integral part that completes a quadrant of civic buildings, the new structure will provide 900 parking spaces on six levels above grade and two below grade while visually uniting the tableau of diverse buildings. Read More...
One of the local residents at Gudbrandsjuvet, is building a landscape hotel. The idea emerged at another site, Aurland, but it was never realized there.
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Leaf House by Undercurrent Architects
This house integrates the environment and catches qualities of its landscape.
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The Yoyogi is a 80 m2 house in Shibuya ward, Tokyo by Front Office Tokyo
The mission with this project was to construct a house that consisted of a rather small area in central Tokyo and then give it a modern look. Since the house didn’t have the fortune of a site with a long view, they wanted this to become the undertaking of the garden. See how they from the problem reached the result.
Structure: Alan Burden (structured environment)
Construction: Tokyu Kensetsu
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Neu Architects have completed the alteration of the Assay Office, London, one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious organisations, The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. The result is a sleek and contemporary £1.2m renovation of retail, office and leisure spaces within the Goldsmiths’ Hall, which takes the usage of modern, high-quality materials and is infused with the history and heritage of the 700 year old organisation.
The Assay Office, London tests and hallmarks precious metals for the country’s leading jewellers, and has done so for over 700 years - with the last 500 years from the same location: Goldsmiths’ Hall, a scheduled monument in the heart of the City of London. The Company’s generous support also set up the world-renowned Goldsmiths’ College, where young designers and artists study before going out into industry and the creative world.
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Kochi Architects Studio has constructed the Garden House in Tokyo.
Location of Two boxes and its Meeting Point
In the early stage of the design, the two boxes were originally located separately. However, it was against the principle to have ONE building on ONE site. In addition, these two boxes were also requested to touch each other to optimize both structure and an internal movement.
In the final design, the two boxes were connected in the corner by sharing one structural column. The access between these two boxes was obtained through the inserted small pure glass box. The stainless structure of this glass box is kept minimally to be a part of the geometry. The interior sensation via this glass box provides a nature experience.
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Adams Mohler Ghillino Architects has remodeled an existing, dilapidated triplex which establishes a dialogue between existing and new construction while they've, in a meaningful way, integrated the work of their client, a glass artist. The completed project consists of an owner-occupied loft residence atop two ground level studio apartments.
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The directional building has been designed to abstract itself from the common building scheme, rejecting analogies and mimesis, while intended to assume technology and innovation as its essence.
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Art Nouveau is French for "new art" and was a cultural style epoch that approximately began in 1890 and started to fade when "Art Deco" came in the 1920s.
Art Nouveau covered all visual arts; architecture, interior design, graphic design, arts and fashion. Although Art Nouveau became popular internationally, its greatest impact was in Europe. Jugendstil is the term for Art Nouveau in German.
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Art Deco was a design style during the 1920s-1940s, it was also called the "style moderne". It came after "Art Nouveau" and it was applied in the areas of architecture, interior design, graphic design, fashion, and other visual arts.
Trademarks:
- Geometrical patterns and shapes (being inspired by Cubism)
- Curving surfaces and sunburst patterns
- Motifs of nature and animals: birds, flowers and leaves
- Eclectic
- Bold decorative colors
- Popular materials are glass, stainless steel and inlaid wood
- Glass figurines, potteries and sculptures.
In New York City the Art Deco became quickly popular durning the Great Depression because the style involved simplicity and sensibleness. Here are some of the numerous Art Deco architectures we can find in New York City.
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Paramount Theater
The Paramount Theater was built in 1926 and is located in the Times Square district. It was in the Paramount Theater that Paramount pictures had its premiere.
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Having cool glasses to drink from is always fun. At MoMAstore.org you can find these cool designs.
Curved Glasses, By Leonardo Design Team, Year 1997
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Remodeling the entire kitchen can be rather expensive, so for you that need to stick to a small budget, there are plenty of things that can be done that will change the overall look of your kitchen.
1. What is the first thing that pops up in your head when thinking of a kitchen? Maybe food? Food is of course the reason we mainly have a kitchen, so why not have it as decoration as well. Bowls and baskets of fruit and vegetable are always a charming way to invite people into the kitchen, and you don’t really need pay a lot of money for these accessories since you probably always need food around anyway. If we take modern kitchens, the common approach to this is having green apples or oranges in glass bowls.
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The Gothic style came to birth during the medieval period. Gothic design has always been very decorative and began in the 12th century of France, and lasted and evolved for about 200 years, to the 16th century, during the late Renaissance. The Gothic design was foremost used in cathedrals and churches. Today it is used in interiors and exteriors as a traditional style.
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CODE: SEM
PROJECT: Shenzhen International Energy Mansion
TYPE: Invited Competition, 1st Prize.
SIZE: 96.000 M2
CLIENT: Shenzhen Energy Company
COLLABORATORS: Arup, Transsolar
LOCATION: Shenzhen, China
STATUS: Ongoing
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