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BABYDOG OFFICE / CUAC ARQUITECTURA

January 25, 2019 Rayen Sagredo 0

The advertising company BABYDOG decided to move to an old house located on the fourth floor of a building in the center of the historic center of the city of Granada. This was an elongated and compartmentalized dwelling, with a short façade to the street and delimited by a narrow courtyard and a tiny space for ventilation.

Collective Architecture completes contemporary art venue on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill

January 25, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Collective by Collective Architecture in Edinburgh, Scotland

Scottish studio Collective Architecture has transformed a former observatory in Edinburgh into the Collective contemporary art centre, which is joined on its hilltop site by a new gallery, restaurant and welcome kiosk. The City Observatory, which comprised a cluster of buildings atop Calton Hill designed by William Playfair in 1818 to evoke a Greek temple,

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This is How a Complex Brick Wall is Built Using Augmented Reality

January 25, 2019 José Tomás Franco 0

Fusing augmented reality with the physical space, Fologram seeks to facilitate the construction of complex designs (for example, parametric designs that require a series of measurements, verification, and specific care) through digital instructions that are virtually superimposed into the workspace, directing a step-by-step guide for bricklayers during the construction process.

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lacime architects reflects the suzhou leisure center in pools of water in china

January 25, 2019 macnadusa 0

lacime architects has designed the ‘shimao longyin’ leisure center in suzhou, china. the vast program combines a number of separate buildings which together form the development. the individual structures are connected via a series of landscaped areas that takes visitors on an elegant journey through the complex, while also reflecting the traditions of suzhou garden […]

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Port Tower Kokkola / Arkkitehtitoimisto Antti Luutonen Oy

January 25, 2019 Martita Vial 0

In 2006, Kokkolan Teollisuuskylä Oy, an enterprise owning and governing premises within the town of Kokkola, commissioned a draft phase design for a new building along the new Satamatie, acting as a gateway to the large-scale industry and harbour area. The working title for the project was “Port Tower”. The building would host business premises for local enterprises as well as occupational health care, training, and catering services. Additionally, information, security, and monitoring services of the whole area and services for cargo transport operation would be centralized in the building. As the name “Port Tower” suggests, the building was intended as a landmark and a gateway for the area.

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Horizontal House / Ayutt and Associates Design

January 25, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

The Thai well-known architecture firm Ayutt and Associates design (AAd) designs a latest modern vacation house at Khao Yai, Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand in the gated-residential community. The site is surrounded by national forest and heritage mountain, Where the natural curtain of lush tropical trees surrounds the site, whilst its slightly slopping terrain offers an ideal location for the house itself. The owner bought this 6 standard plots of land which is almost 10,000sq.m. of site area. This gated community is nothing new, just like the standard community in Thailand. All the standard houses are designed in the same way by copy and paste with bad ventilation, bad taking view and similar look for all the house types. Thus, the owner asked AAd to design their dream vacation house instead of buying the standard house from the developer.

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3 Courtyard House / O2 Design Atelier

January 25, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

Most of typical terrace housing in Malaysia always having a deep interior space and narrow due to developer want to maximize the number of units within the plot of land. The challenge is to transform the existing dark and tight interior spaces with many partition walls and low ceilings.  Privacy, security and cost are the prime concerns for the house owner.