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Projects By Professionals

Brewster�s Discovery Walkway by Sturgess Architecture

Canadian firm Sturgess Architecture have designed a glass viewing platform to cantilever over a glacial valley in the Columbian Icefields of Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada. Called Brewster’s Discovery Walkway, the project also involves creating a 400 metre walkway in the mountain...

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Saffire Resort by Circa Architecture

'saffire resort' by circa architecture, great oyster bay, tasmania, australia images courtesy of circa architecture australian studio, circa architecture, has designed 'saffire', a twenty-suite resort located in great oyster bay, tasmania, australia. situated on a scarred and damage...

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Mimesis Museum by �lvaro Siza Arquitecto

Portuguese photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his photographs of this museum for modern art in South Korea by architects Alvaro Siza , Carlos Castanheira and Jun Sung Kim. Mimesis Museum has a flowing concrete form that wraps around a central courtyard, and was inspired by a sketch of a...

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Shenyang Civic Sports Center and 2013 National Games Arena by EMERGENT Tom Wiscombe

Los Angeles-based practice EMERGENT Tom Wiscombe has shared with us its competition-winning design for the new Shenyang Civic Sports Center and 2013 National Games Arena in China's Northeast. The 123,000 sqm facility combines a sports civic center, a national games taekwondo arena and a swimming are...

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Bamboo School by Eleena Jamil Architect

Eleena Jamil Architect completes rustic school with bamboo roof in the Philippines Located at Nato High School in Camarines-Sur of the Bicol Peninsula in the Philippines, the project is conceived as a response to the need for a new classroom prototype that is able to withstand strong winds. The pro...

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Schmidt Hammer Lassen�s New City of Westminster College

The new City of Westminster College in London which opened to students on January 10, 2011 is the first completed building by Danish Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects in the UK, soon to be followed by The Learning Zone – Library and Learning Centre in Sheffield and the University of Aberde...

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SFSU�s Mashouf Performing Arts Center by Michael Maltzan Architecture

San Francisco State University unveiled designs for the Mashouf Performing Arts Center, a 242,150 square foot state-of-the-art facility that will transform creative arts education and performing arts at SF State and throughout the region. The new performing arts center will house SF State's programs...

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2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing by Populous

The masterplan for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China, which has been designed by Populous, the architecture and design practice behind the London 2012 Olympic Stadium, will see over 189 hectares or 3 million sq m of new floor space built into the city, including several public buildings...

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Prefab Home On Cusabo Island by Carter Woollen

Sun screens, wide overhangs and louvered doors provide shade protection. Designed by Seattle-based Woollen Studio and built by Park City, UT-based EcoSteel, the Cusabo Island home is a prefab wonder. Engineered to exceed FEMA flood zone code requirements, with helical foundations, a steel structure...

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Wooden House Extension by Wim Goes Architectuur

The bucolic setting of this lovely private refuge is located in a tiny hamlet in the Flemish district of Belgium, about 10 kilometers from the country’s third-largest city of Gent. Gent-based architecture studio Wim Goes Architectuur designed the beautiful extension to this residence. The wood...

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St. Barts Residence by Barnes Coy Architect

The house designed by Barnes Coy Architects is sited on a high, thin peninsula, affording 270 degree views from South through West to North. The long axis of the house is perpendicular to the axis of the peninsula, aligning it with sunrise and sunset. The main space is open from North to South, with...

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Providence Pedestrian Bridge by inFORM studio

Mayor David N. Cicilline has announced that the design submitted by inFORM Studio in association with the engineering firm Buro Happold has been selected as the winner of the Providence Pedestrian Bridge Design Competition. inFORM Studio, whose website states that the firm takes an environmentally s...

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Green-Roofed Municipal Pools by Barbosa and Guimaraes Arquitectos

Designed by Barbosa and Guimaraes Arquitectos, the public indoor pools are housed in a series of basalt rock volumes cut into the side of the hill on a site that was formerly used by the city for outdoor sports. Inside, the building is naturally lit by skylights that pierce holes through the green r...

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Black Diamant

V35K18 residence by Pasel.Kuenzel.Architects is located on the southern corner of an urban block comprising 18 utterly different houses. Due to its distinct design, clear materialisation and dark color the compact building forms a dominant ‘corner stone’ within the existing urban fabric....

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Disaster-Proof Bamboo Housing

These unique bamboo houses are part of a much larger disaster resistant community concept for the Philippines designed by a group of Indian architects - Komal Gupta, Vasanth Packirisamy, Vikas Sharma, Sakshi Kumar and Siripurapu Monish Kumar. Images Courtesy of Vasanth Packirisamy and Team &nb...

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SKYCOURT by Keiji Ashizawa Design

SKYCOURT by Keiji Ashizawa Design is an ambitious renovation project that involved transforming a Japan "bubble era" house into a modern home connected to the city and the sunlight. The house is located in a quiet residential area, a couple of blocks away from Tokyo's business district. Th...

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UCSF Stem Cell Building by Rafael Vinoly Architects

The Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine Building at the University of California (UCSF) hosted a grand opening to celebrate the completion of a challenging construction project. Designed by Rafael Vinoly Architects with executive architect the Smith Group and DPR Construction, the new facili...

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House in Paco de Arcos by Jorge Mealha Arquitecto

Portuguese studio Jorge Mealha Arquitecto have completed a house in Lisbon, Portugal, featuring clusters of rectangular volumes and courtyards. Called House in Paço de Arcos, the building sits on a sloping site and the volumes have been arranged in such a way to maximise the amount of sun...

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The Cocoon Hotel by Dodeca Architects

Cocoon Hotel by Dodeca Architects A "soft" hotel designed to shelter guests from a "hard" industrial environment, the new hotel not only provide accommodations but an expanse of new green spaces for the public to enjoy. The new hotel also connects to its sister hotel - a recycle...

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National Gallery of Greenland by BIG

National Gallery of Greenland in Nuuk by BIG 'National Gallery of Geenland' by Bjarke Ingels Group in Nuuk, Greenland All images courtesy Bjarke Ingels Group A partnership between Bjarke Ingels Group, TNT Nuuk, Ramboll Nuuk and Arkitekti has been chosen by a unanimous jury panel as the winner...

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Projects By Students

Airport Terminal in Addis Ababa

Design Philosophy: The architecture of sub-cultures of Ethiopia was used as the organizing element for the design of the Airport Terminal. The name for traditional houses in Addis Ababa is Tukul. The architecture of the tukul consists of a cone shaped roof supported by a main structural column at i...

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Jomo Wahtuse gets Guinness World Record for Largest Steelpan - Jomoline

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Paddington Reservoir Gardens by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer & JMD

Sky Village by ADEPT Architects

Iceland Academy of Arts by ADEPT Architects

The Tolerant City by ADEPT Architects (Denmark)

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