Design Museum Architecture Award, London

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Tour Bois-le-Prêtre, Paris, France

The Design Museum announces the seven category winners for the annual Designs of the Year Awards. The awards celebrate the best of international design from the last 12 months. The overall winner for the Design of The Year 2013 will be announced on Wednesday 16 April at an awards evening held at The Angler, South Place Hotel, London.

Chapelton Development, Aberdeenshire New Town

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Chapelton buildings Aberdeenshire

The developers behind Aberdeenshire’s planned new town, Chapelton, have put sustainability at the top of the agenda with the appointment of advisors focused on finding low-carbon, affordable solutions for the utilities provision for the 8,000 home town.

Wood Sculpture Museum: China Building

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MAD Architects unveiled the completed China Wood Sculpture Museum located in Harbin, China. The 200-meter long building, sheathed in metal, sits nestled in a densely residential area, adding a cultural and surreal essence to the surrounding urban context

Port-au-Prince Cathedral Competition, Haiti

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Haiti Cathedral Competition Port-au-Prince building design

Haiti was shocked by a catastrophic earthquake, affecting around three million people, more than 315,000 fatalities and over 280,000 collapsed or damaged buildings. Port-au-Prince was the most devoured city by this tragedy, and within its lovely cathedral, “Notre Dame de l’Assomption”.

The Shed London National Theatre

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The Shed London design by Haworth Tompkins – London National Theatre temporary venue, English architecture, England theatre building images

Renault Electric Concept Car: Twin Z

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Renault Electric Car, Twin Z Concept, Designer Ross Lovegrove, Conceptual Design Milan Renault Electric Concept Car : Twin Z Milan Project – by Designer Ross Lovegrove 9 Apr 2013 Renault Twin Z Electric Concept Car Renault launched its electric concept car, the Twin Z designed by UK star designer Ross Lovegrove Design: Renault / Ross … Read more

Casa S – Mexican Residence

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Pascal Arquitectos’ relationship with the render has been complex and complicated. Never the less, we start getting more satisfactory results, although we prefer handmade drawings, in this case the level of coherence and congruence is achieve among all the elements.

Aspire Tower Sydney, Parramatta building

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Aspire Tower Sydney - Parramatta Building

The Aspire Tower emerged from a design excellence competition held by the Council and is set to establish a new benchmark for innovative, passive-environmental design in Australian high-rise developments.

La Peninsula Marina Vallarta, Mexico

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The guidelines upon which this project was developed are based in two concepts: one that allows a maximum exploitation of possibilities without falling on a typical saturated low range residence, and a second one, very important too, to obtain an acceptable investment return estimate

Clerkenwell apart’hotel London

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BuckleyGrayYeoman Architects has completed the £8m transformation of a prominent industrial building on Rosebery Avenue, creating a new luxury apart’hotel in an area that has become London’s focal point for creative industries.

Hilton Lobby Bar Mexico, Colonia Centro Hotel

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Due to the new circumstances, and the fact that the controlled obsolescence cycles were reaching its own terms (fact that allows to recycle ourselves at the same time), we are changing the actual bar to fit the new conditions

Psychiko House Athens Residence

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Psychiko House Athens Residence

The house is conceived and experienced as a series of surprises playing with light and scale while the design exploits the tension between conflicting elements – opaqueness and transparency, intimacy and openness, curves juxtaposed with angular geometry