46 North Avenue Leichhardt, Sydney residence

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Design: Rolf Ockert Design: the site is located in a heritage conservation area that is fiercely protected by Leichhardt council. Being in one of the few streets in the Inner West Sydney that are still largely original in their streetscape, any alteration or addition was bound to be somewhere between controversial and impossible.

Multifunctional Sports Centre Randers, Denmark

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Design: Elkiær + Ebbeskov and LETH & GORI. A team lead by architects Elkiær + Ebbeskov and LETH & GORI has been announced as the winner of Randers Municipality and The Danish Foundation for Culture and Sport Facilities’ competition for the Langvang Multifunctional Sports Building. The proposal by E+E and LETH
& GORI was selected after a 2-phased competition.

Ljubljana Apartment Renovation, Slovenia

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The apartment design by Studio 360 is in the heart of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. It is divided into living area (consisting of a large living room with kitchen and dining room) and more intimate / sleeping area (two sleeping rooms and a study room). In between these two spaces there is a service part offering two contemporary bathrooms and one utility.

Bezos Center for Innovation opens in Seattle

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Design: Olson Kundig Architects. The Bezos Center for Innovation is now open at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI). Generously supported by Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos, the Bezos Center for Innovation is a groundbreaking exhibition dedicated to the theme of innovation, featuring multimedia, interactive and hands-on experiences as well as artifacts, images and oral histories that explore Seattle’s creative history and ignite the innovator within.

100 Cheapside London Office Building

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Design: Skanska. A new commercial building in the City of London moved a step closer to completion today with the topping out of 100 Cheapside. The 134,548sqft (12,500sqm) building is the latest addition to Skanska’s portfolio of commercial projects in the City. Due to complete in September, it will offer office accommodation over nine floors, plus retail facilities on the ground floor and basement storage.

Fairfax Avenue Apartment, Bellevue Hills, Sydney

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Rolf Ockert Design were approached by a bachelor who had just bought a penthouse apartment in an upmarket suburb of Sydney’s East. The apartment occupied the entire top floor of a 1940’s building and had great views over Sydney harbour.

River Champagne Bar Competition

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The aim of this International Competition is to design a Champagne Bar along the Paris river “Seine” and by the romantic “Pont des Arts”. Paris is the capital and most populous city of France. It is situated on the River Seine, in the north of the country. Within its administrative limits (the 20 arrondissements), the city had 2,234,105 inhabitants in 2009.

Familistère in Guise, France Building

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Design: h2o architectes. The Familistère is a vast housing complex founded by Jean-Baptiste André Godin in 1859 in relation with the stove manufacturing business. Until 1968, this Social Palace was the theatre of a unique social experimentation in the industrial world

Melbourne Park Western Precinct Arena

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Procurement begins for second stage of Melbourne Park redevelopment. Work to begin on the $338m second stage of the Melbourne Park redevelopment. Expressions of Interest called to design the new Administration and Media building.

Punta Ixtapa Resort Development, Mexico

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Design: JSª. The complex has 102 apartments, of about 2,700-2,960 sq ft (duplex and simplex), in four towers, with different distribution layouts with a total area of 305,360 sq ft. Inside the complex there are two swim clubs with three pools each, one pool for free swim, one for training, and one for kids.

Carlos Monsivais Personal Library, Mexico City

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Design: JSª. Located in the west wing of the “Jose Vasconcelos” Library in Mexico, the personal library of Carlos Monsivais is a space where the personal collection created by the writer’s mind is safeguarded for public use. The architectural project´s starting point is a selection of specific characteristics of Carlos Monsivais.

New House in Montferrier sur Lez, France

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Design: NBJ architects. Situated in a pine forest on a plot with a steep, the first job was the creation of an enabling environment for the establishment of a home. The slope is both the first constraint and the major asset of the place to embrace an open landscape on the horizon.

Bronte House, Sydney, New South Wales coast home

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The client approached Rolf Ockert Design architects to create house of their dreams on a site perched high over the Pacific Ocean, a home that was to make them feel like being on holiday every day.