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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki wins World Building of the Year at World Architecture Festival 2013: A striking, beautiful building that is dominated by its oversailing roof shaped like fingers reaching out into the sky.
Walking or jogging through the Genneper Parken you’ll immediately notice the new sports college. Sporting figures are incorporated in the dark brick walls – a swimmer, a footballer, a hockey player.
The PIBAMARMI pavilion at the 2013 edition of MARMOMACC in Verona was designed by the Spanish architect Alberto CAMPO BAEZA, winner of the Fair’s International Award Architecture in Stone 2013 for the office building of the Castilla León Junta in front of the Cathedral in Zamora.
Waterfall Bay House New Zealand: In a remote bay in the Marlborough Sounds this house emphasises the steepness of the topography. Set close to the water it runs along the contour as a two storey primary element incorporating living areas above and guest rooms below.
Beach Retreat House New Zealand: on a waterfront site in the Bay of Islands, five separate wings are located to reinforce the natural typography and create a sense of community around the central living area.
The design strategy conceives the large depth of the space as a quality of its own and therefore organizes the various uses of the tattoo studio by positioning three simple volumes of different heights along the enclosing wall.
The Blue Planet Copenhagen, Denmark – design by 3XN, architects – Danish Aquarium building: Blaa Planet København, new Danish architecture
Inspired by the shape of water in endless motion, Denmark’s new National Aquarium, The Blue Planet is shaped as a great whirlpool, and the building itself tells the story of what awaits inside
The impressive Jamia Mosque Sultania and Education Centre in the mill town of Brierfield, Lancashire, United Kingdom, is now complete following a ten year design and build project
ANV Barcelona Headquarters, offices in Catalunya, Spain design by LAB Arquitectos – HQ office building, modern Spanish architecture photos
The project is situated in the Vallvidrera neighborhood, a residential area with views overlooking the city of Barcelona, surrounded by the Collserola natural park, in a very sloped and small plot situated between a valley and a pine forest
Brown Vujcich House located on a narrow urban site in the heart of Herne Bay. Tight site controls and a sloping site resulted in a long narrow building form that steps down the slope of the site.
In 2010 St Mary’s CE Infant school’s existing foundation stage classroom were deemed undersized and unsatisfactory, Church Green Witney building, Oxfordshire, southern England, UK, design by Jessop and Cook Architects.
Andy Martin Architects were selected from a shortlist of acclaimed British restaurant designers to restore and convert a classic 50s villa, situated in the elegant Anfa District, fancy heart of Casablanca, Morocco’s most cosmopolitan city.