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Community building designs and architects

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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.

Ceremony Hall Oita, Japanese Civic Building

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The requirements from a client: A ceremony room is a capacity of 40. Space like a cave. Space which descends to the deep place toward the center. In contrast with it, it is bright and a lounge is open space.

Nebuta-no-ie Warasse, Nebuta Festival

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Nebuta-no-ie Warasse, Nebuta Festival, Aomori, Japan – design by molo + d/dt Arch + Frank la Rivière Architects inc – In August, Nebuta Festival (origin 8th century) fever descends upon Aomori: paper lantern like floats showing warriors from Japanese and Chinese history and myth in dramatic poses often showing battle scenes.

los Mondragones Granada, Vitoria Building

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los Mondragones Granada, Vitoria Building

This intervention is located on the banks of the Beiro River north of the city of Granada. The presence of a white wall delimits the former military property of Los Mondragones and its watchtowers determine the place’s characteristic image.

Landsbyhuset, Gyrstinge Building, Jutland

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The landsbyhuset in Gyrstinge is an attractor in a small community – a magnet for sports and social activity. Since it is a facility for the whole village, it is intended as a visual symbol that can be a part of a common consciousness

Iron Market Port-au-Prince Building, Haiti

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When the Haiti earthquake mangled Port-au-Prince’s Iron Market, it destroyed a symbol of the nation. Built in France and bound for Cairo to serve as a railway station, the vagaries of history, tides or captains led it to end up here, where it served as a perfectly good market hall until ravaged first by fire in 2008 and then by earthquake.

De hood Amsterdam-Osdorp Youth Centre

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De hood Amsterdam-Osdorp Youth Centre

The realized building consists of the simple stacking of two – diametrically opposed – concepts of space. The ground floor level is designed as a flat sandwich-space, which opens up completely to the surroundings thanks to the glazing on all sides.

Raasay Community Hall Skye Building

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Raasay Community Hall Skye building

Raasay Community Hall Isle of Skye Project, north west Scotland – by Dualchas Building Design Architects. The hall is rendered civic through this heightened awareness of scale and through minimal detailing. Externally all detail is removed – no rainwater goods.

Gola Forest, Sierra Leone Building

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Gola Forest, Sierra Leone building design Africa

Man’s obsession with marking out his land is not new. Even the World Bank currently has a program dedicated to assigning land tenures to vulnerable populations.