This house was renovated by architect Johannes Norlander. It is located on a small Swedish island and covered with a layer of black plywood.
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Teamplaying Architecture – New Adidas Building in Herzogenaurach by kadawittfeldarchitecture
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In the right light
In Vilnius a collector of antique books built his family home round the historical walls of a cannon foundry.
The Viennese architecture firm Solid architecture landed the contract to design the new Bene showroom in the Austrian capital.
The architects of the new ThyssenKrupp development integrated a place of peace and quiet ( "Raum der Stille") in it that is intended for use just as much by guests as by the employees.
Custom-made perforated sheet metal decorated the facades and sun-protection sections used for the houses in Berlin's Marthashof.
The venerable town hall in London's Bethnal Green district stood vacant for a long time and was only used as a film set. Now it has morphed into a cutting-edge, luxurious hotel.
For the design of the fashion boutique "Delicatessen", the New York architects from Z-A studio chose a low-price, highly prevalent material: the shop is clad almost entirely in perforated white chipboard.
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Elektra Bakery
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Forest house
The Riverbank House by David Walker Architects is located directly at the Thames in London. A great number of special glass systems by Schollglas have been integrated into both the building's shell and interior construction. The project is presented as a new reference of the company Schollglas at BAU 2011 in Munich.
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Refined glass-and-steel load-bearing structure
The circular skylights and large glass facades bring natural light into the rooms of the house Spreng.
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Program-free Architecture
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The High House and the Long House
"Haus KA", designed by lynx architecture, is a clear cube that consist of only a very few different materials.
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Unifying Art and Urban Living
What an unusual task: to design a pool house! A pool house made of glass, steel and fabric is light and transparent and a far cry from a tool shed.
A traditional stone house in the Pyrenees was converted into a comfortable and handy second home.
The studio of Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola came up with the interior for luxurious hotel Mandarin Oriental in Barcelona. Scarcely recognizable as a hotel from the outside, inside it is all the more inviting, providing a temporary home for design enthusiasts from all over the world.
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Red, redder, reddest
The Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark, known in short as the "heart", is more than just a showplace for contemporary art. As a center of the cultures it unites exhibition rooms with nothing less than a concert hall, a library, an open-air stage and a café.
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A control center for the Games
A single-family apartment for four people is situated in a stately building in southern Amsterdam. The original structure, with rooms for staff, a double hall and long hallways with lots of doors has been transformed into a spacious, transparent dwelling full of light and air.
Wide and tall panorama windows held by fine-line, lightweight frames create fluid boundaries between inside and outside and offer stunning views of the surroundings.
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A crystal made of glass and concrete
The new college building of the Cooper Union rises like a metallic monolith above New York's East Village. Thom Mayne's spectacular architecture incorporates an equally exciting lighting design.
The different opportunities covering a façade or roof with slate offers, as well as the newer types of slate themselves, have led to a true renaissance of slate as a material in architecture in recent years.
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Light architecture
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Look out without looking in
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Corporate Architecture
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A gem among stones
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Black, with a view
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Nightingale, I cannot hear you!
The new Convention Center in Zaragoza takes up the theme of "water" by creating the impression of a water surface in motion.
Owing to technical shortcomings, the building Max Bächer designed on Stuttgart's Königstrasse, erected in 1974 and boasting an almost sculpturally staggered façade, has been given a new skin. The old façade...
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Fusionopolis. A vertical city made of glass
The sleek, icy white façade of the Seeko'o hotel is already making a statement in the dockland area of Bordeaux. Seeko'o means "iceberg" or "glacier" in Inuit... and from the
start this was an unusual and adventurous concept.
start this was an unusual and adventurous concept.
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An orange-colored temptress
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The complex requirements for museum glazing
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Riding on the Biarritz wave
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My house has four corners
Cafeteria Rog is located in the center of Ljubljana, directly at the site of a new cultural center, named “Rog”.
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Remixing Lisbon
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Place for religious encounters
A weekend house in the Nationalpark Eifel is covered from top to bottom in aluminum shingles.
Alluding to the saddle roofs of the adjacent houses and with care not to intrude on the village surroundings, Zurich-based architects Gramazio& Kohler have found a daring reinterpretation of the "detached home" in Riedikon, Switzerland.
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Urban Revitalization
The motif of a vine, inlaid in prefabricated concrete building parts and perforated metal panels is growing across the entire shell of a building at a winery in Hungary.
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Shimmering facade
At the BAU trade fair, Solarlux will be presenting a new façade concept with its "Co2mfort façade". This aims to reduce the use of artificial lighting and complex building air conditioning technology and, in turn, sustainably reduce CO2 emissions.
The Unilever Head Office in Hamburg's Havencity, designed by Behnisch Architekten, was that first office building of its kind to rely completely on LEDs for light. Moreover, a curtain of transparent high-tech plastic foil runs like a second skin across the entire facade.
The example of a former dairy in Somerset, England, shows just how wooden planking and blocks of glass can be joined such as to be weatherproof.
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Metamorphosis of the facade
A gynecological clinic specialized in assisted reproduction required new premises. They acquired a 200sqm flat in downtown Athens, in an area where most of the apartments have already been converted into offices, health centers and similar programs.
The Empire Riverside Hotel is located on the former industrial site of the Bavaria Brewery in the center of Hamburg. When selecting the materials, David Chipperfield Architects paid special attention to their aging process.
The "Atrium House" in the heart of the Sierra Calderona in Spain is a marvelously geometric, linear residential complex.
A penthouse apartment in Stuttgart is a well thought-through composition comprising three monolithic cabinet systems and a free-standing kitchen block.
A residential house near Munich was given an artificial touch in a bid to better control the wood's natural graying process.
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Staying at the Viura
If you look up the term single-room house in the specialist literature, you will find a simple sentence explaining this type of dwelling: the single room is the simplest way to divide up a groundplan, as it entails a house with no inside walls or separate rooms.
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Translucent, folded and perforated
A residential house that doubles up as a dance studio: This was the assignment a Yokohama couple presented to Japanese architect Junichi Sampei from A.L.X architecture office.
Today, one increasingly comes across gold-plated architecture - be it on the facade of a department store that deals in precious metals, an information pavilion or a museum building. But now you can even find it lending a gleam to educational facilities and kindergartens, not to mention bakeries and police stations.
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Bringing nature into the home
Firmly anchored in the ground like a solid rock but with an airy and extremely open presence, the house stands in the rugged Wapiti Valley in Wyoming, United States.
A ‘balneario' is a Spanish spa. In redesigning the Tiberius Baths in the Spanish town of Panticosa, the architects from Madrid-based studio Moneo Brock came up with a highly contemporary and yet decidedly sensitive reinterpretation of the classic ‘balneario'.
In the context of the renovation works on the Holmenkollen ski jump ramp, the impressive landmark near Oslo has succeeded in increasing its appeal.
It is the world's first ski jump featuring a permanent windbreak.
It is the world's first ski jump featuring a permanent windbreak.
As one of the smallest door manufacturers in the industry, the established Swabian company Eber Designtüren has specialized in the production of unusual door elements.
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Where is the door?
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Positioned in seamless rows
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Not becoming invisible but rendering visible
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The Pure
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May the water flow for this purpose
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Going through walls
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Shower in white while enjoying the ivy
On the exterior, a rainscreen cladding system of brightly colored fiber cement panels are arranged in a seemingly random distribution pattern to animate the facade and to speak to the center's youthful orientation and re-birth of a community.
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A golden veil for the synagogue
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An architectural answer to integrating people
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Gleaming in the countryside
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Energy generating glass facade
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The brick avant-garde
Usually you have to opt for one specific facade, but thanks to the new generation of horizontal folding shutters the character of a building can be changed after all.