COAF Smart Center Armenia Building
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The website features a selection of the best new civic buildings around the world. We feature modern society properties by respected designers.
Samppalinna Outdoor Pool Building, Finland
For Architect Mikko Lemmetti Sustainability was a key pillar of the renovation which contributed towards Kebony being selected for the pool house and the outdoor seating. The swimming pool was also equipped with flush pools and outdoor showers to facilitate more users.
Multifunctional Centre for Norcia, Perugia, Italy
Design: Stefano Boeri Architetti. Opening news for new pavilion building: the first of four projects to allow people living in Norcia to use temporary collective spaces, while expecting the reconstruction of their public buildings damaged by the October 30th 2016 earthquake.
Youthscape Headquarters in Luton: HOK
Design: HOK. The 10,000-sq-ft headquarters and youth centre for UK charity Youthscape, designed by HOK, has been recognised with an Inspirations Award by Contract magazine.
Dwana Smallwood Performing Arts Center Brooklyn
Design: Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture. Located in a former industrial building, JPDA developed a series of dramatic architectural interventions that transform the exterior and create bright, airy and playful dance studios, offices, a library, and dressing rooms for the bustling families that arrive each day.
Sawmill, Tehachapi, California building
Design: Olson Kundig Architects – set in the remote, harsh high desert of California, Sawmill is a family retreat that reflects and weaves into the beautiful, tough, scrubby site.
Skt.Mafia, Vila Velhaa, Espírito Santo skateboarding space
Architects: ANGATU. The design for the SKT.Mafia store creates an ideal space for the skateboarding scene. The building design allows for diverse use as a skate park, store, event space and bar.
TREC Community Center in Newark, NJ
Design: ikon.5 architects – located in Newark’s South Ward in a residential neighborhood bordering Weequahic Park, an Olmsted-designed landscape, the TREC provides vital education, training and recreation services to the underserved citizens of Newark.
Geelong Library & Heritage Center, Victoria Dome
Design: ARM Architecture. “One of the big strategic objectives for the city was that the building actually be iconic, to be a landmark building. And I think you can say that they’ve achieved that quite successfully.”
Lusanga International Research Centre building
Designed by OMA, the White Cube is a central element of the Lusanga International Research Centre for Art and Economic Inequality, located in the heart of the plantation system.
True North, Detroit Quonset Hut Village
Design: architect Edwin Chan, EC3 – True North is a winner of an honorable mention in the 2017 P/A Awards: “I appreciate its lightfootedness in thinking about how to rebuild Detroit. By taking some of empty land and filling it rather inexpensively with a community program, it creates a beacon that would be great to visit.”
Merida Youth Factory, Spain: selgascano
The roof is understood, and extends, like a light cloud, protective, translucent; constructed with a three-dimensional mesh structure 1 meter thick covering different levels.
Brooklyn Grange, New York: Navy Yard Farm
Brooklyn Grange is the leading rooftop farming and intensive green roofing business in the US. They operate the world’s largest green roof farms, located on two buildings in New York City, and grow over 50,000 lbs of organically-cultivated produce per year.
Re-ainbow Community Facilities in Duc Tho
Design: H&P Architects: the aim of the project is to help improve public capability to adapt and respond to climate change via re-use of waste items and efficient use of energy.