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Design: Alexander Brown Architects: Beresford Estates approached the Alexander Brown to create a wine tasting venue that celebrated and showcased their wines. ABA created a building that is functional yet unique, simple yet interactive.
Design: Gehry Partners LLP with architect Daryl Jackson Robin Dyke. A key construction challenge was the unique, undulating brick façade, comprising of 320,000 bricks, all laid by hand in situ. The bricks, a reference to Sydney’s sandstone heritage, will sit on top of a steel substrate.
Design: SuperLimão Studio. The aim to provide more visibility and convey attributes linked to a century of corporate furniture brand, the big challenge was to build a new facade to an existing building located on one of the most important avenues in the city.
Brick tends to be the default choice when building an extension, but there are many alternatives including glass, wood and copper. These materials have unusual qualities, create different visual effects, and suit a range of budgets.
Easy to install, and wonderful for letting more light into a room, a Juliet balcony consists of a safety railing or balustrade across an opening on a higher floor, most commonly in an external wall.
Design: Patrick Mauger Architecture
An arbitrary jumble of 5 colours of roof tiles, both enamelled and non-enamelled, cheer up the elevations of the new campus building, helps identification.
Architect: FJMT Studio. Employing a novel timber-and-glass façade system Mirvac and FJMT Studio’s recent tower at 200 George Street heralds a new era in high rise building design, particularly in Australia.
Design: brandt + simon architekten. The atypical facade of green tiles makes this house an outstanding element of the urban fabric. At the same time as being unusual the busy passerby will not necessarily notice the greenish structure blending with the vegetation in the space between the neighboring buildings.
Design: Studioninedots, architects. How to make 364 students smile? New residents enjoy sunshine on the shared terraces that form the stepped roof in Zeeburgereiland. Outdoor spaces facilitate a collective culture and the dynamic use of the building.
KSR Architects collaborated with KTBS Ltd on the design and the display lumination with Lighting.London. The forest parts like a stage curtain to unveil 7 For All Mankind’s brand new b(air) jeans mysteriously floating in the centre of the display.
Design: Jun Murata architect, JAM. A new white louver of cedar is painted white. The surface is ‘dimly grained’ in terms of reflectivity, like metal. With sunshine angles through the day various expressions are apparent.
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Architects: MVRDV. New building opens at 133 Wai Yip Street: an office transformation, with retail and restaurants. It strips an old industrial building down to its bare bones and uses only glass with stainless steel infill to build up the interior spaces.
Design: Henning Larsen Architects. This vibrant Danish building receives the 2016 Green GOOD DESIGN award from the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design & Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design
Design: 4N Architects collaborate with lululemon design team based in Vancouver, B.C. on the shop front design at the shopping hub of Hong Kong Island – Causeway Bay. This was their second key location in Hong Kong.
Design: Studio Ardete, architects. The project, located on an industrial site in Panchkula, India, presented a unique problem for the architects, necessitating them to come up with an unusual solution.
Design: Verdevertical. This vertical garden is located inside an old Colonial building in Downtown Mexico City, the building now works as a restaurant and hotel.
Design: Verdevertical. A large vertical garden measuring a total of 265 square meters (2852.44 square feet) located inside an old historical building in Downtown Mexico City, the building now works as the El Claustro de Sor Juana university.
