The word chamber refers to an enclosed space or cavity as in a gun and it can also be used to denote a closed hall or room. Chamber is also synonymous of a private assembly or the body of people who meet in the hall or room.
Stadshuis Nieuwegein, City Hall Building Holland, Dutch 3XN Project, Design Stadshuis Nieuwegein, Holland : Dutch City Hall Nieuwegein City Hall Development – design by 3XN in The Netherlands 27 Mar 2009 City Hall ‘Stadshuis’ Nieuwegein Location: Nieuwegein, The Netherlands Architect: 3XN A/S The ‘Stadshuis’ – City Hall – of Nieuwegein mix traditional city hall features … Read more
From human being origins, people doing circles around someone who is speaking, singing, dancing or arguing – under a tree shadow if possible – has been the main characteristic of performing.
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Hatlehol Church Aalesund: young Danish architects Cornelius + Vöge has won a large international competition on a new church in Norway, from 123 competitors from all over Europe.
Public Inquiry decision: Wilkinson Eyre retention on the project by Circleplane halted. Comment from architect Jim Eyre, Director, Wilkinson Eyre, “We are very pleased for our client, Circleplane and, of course, for the team at No. 1 Blackfriars.”
House of Arts and Culture Beirut: design by Lebanon architecture competition winner – Alberto Catalano. Cultural project funded by a grant from the Sultanate of Oman to the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lebanon.
Design: Ensamble Studio, architects. The building traps, a domestic space, and a distant horizon. And it does so playing a game with structures placed in an apparently unstable balance, that enclose the living spaces allowing the vision to escape.
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU has been commissioned for the Art Museum Strongoli and selected for the project “Walking through the History” as a result of a two-staged tender in Perugia.
The architecture practice headed by RIBA Stirling Prize-winning architect Amanda Levete, has completed Central Embassy, a striking 37 floor tall retail, leisure and hotel tower in central Bangkok for Central Group, Thailand’s leading retailer and department store operator.
Construction has begun on the first phase of the new, £300m Mittal Children’s Medical Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOSH), which is on target to become the UK’s ‘greenest’ medical building to date.
Mayors of middle sized European cities live in a turmoil of political, corporate, cultural and private life. The residence operates in flexible ways between these four conditions like a multicore processor.
The site of this private house is part of a residential redevelopment in Katendrecht, a harbour pier south of Hotel New York. Until the 1970’s Katendrecht was still completely surrounded by harbours and ships.
C.F. Hansen Medal, Architecture Award Denmark – awarded to Kim Herforth Nielsen in 2009: information on architects, buildings, images – Danish Architecture Award, news
The hut is situated in a small Alpine village, part of Triglav national park with very strict rules of construction and architectural design. The client bought the site together with existing construction permit for the generic project.
All recreative, scientific and commercial program is organised in compact enclaves (islands and water parcels), with a maximum variation parallel to the dam and maximum functional use perpendicular to the dam.
Energy from the Earth: With its establishment in 1992 the Forschungszentrum Dresden – Rossendorf took over the task of developing a modern, internationally competitive research institution at this location. For this purpose steps had to be initiated to modernize buildings and infrastructure in order to run them on a commercially viable basis.