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Municipal Gym of Salamanca / Carreño Sartori Arquitectos

January 3, 2017 Valentina Villa 0

This sport facility located in Salamanca, was designed on 2007, but completed on 2016 due to the economic situation of the construction company.

The 9-year period allowed specific modifications based on observations and opportunities given by the site. The initial ideas kept playing important roles and they finally modified the building.

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Grey brick Amsterdam townhouse by 31/44 Architects features large rooflight and sunken living room

January 3, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

James Jeffries of 31/44 Architects has designed a spacious and light-filled Amsterdam townhouse for his family, faced in grey brickwork and illuminated inside by a large skylight. Architect Jeffries, who co-founded of the London- and Amsterdam- based practice with William Burges and Stephen Davies, designed the three-storey townhouse to slot into a narrow plot. The aim was to reference the

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Hermansson Hiller Lundberg adapts Adolf Loos concept for brick House Juniskär in Sweden

January 3, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture firm Hermansson Hiller Lundberg has completed a monolithic brick house for a sloped site in Sundsvall, Sweden, featuring staggered interiors based on Adolf Loos’ Raumplan concept. Stockholm-based Hermansson Hiller Lundberg designed House Juniskär for site in the Swedish city that steps down from the higher entrance level to the lower garden at the rear. To adapt to the

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Venice Isn’t Sinking, It’s Flooding – And It Needs to Learn How to Swim

January 3, 2017 James Taylor-Foster 0

“Will you look at that? St. Mark’s Square is flooded!” An Australian day tripper is astonished. “This place is actually sinking,” her friend casually exclaims. They, like so many I’ve overhead on the vaporetti, are convinced that the Venetian islands exist on a precipice between the fragility of their current (mostly dry) condition and nothing short of imminent submersion. With catastrophe always around the corner a short break in Venice is more of an extreme adventure trip than an elegant European city-break. If it were true, that is.

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BigBek Office / SNKH Architectural Studio

January 3, 2017 Cristobal Rojas 0

The office of Armenian software development company BigBek is located in Yerevan’s Soviet era automotive manufacturing plant called ErAZ (Erevanskiy Avtomobilny Zavod) which is now transforming into office spaces for Armenia’s intensively growing IT community. 

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Four Practices Reveal Runner-Up Proposals in Lithuania’s Science Island Contest

January 3, 2017 Alyssa Wu 0

Earlier this year, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius of Lithuania announced three winners and five runners-up of the Science Island international design contest. The competition drew 144 entries from 44 countries, and among the three winners selected by the international competition jury, Kaunas City Municipality will choose one to realize their proposal, which is scheduled to open in 2018.

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35m2 Flat / Studio Bazi

January 3, 2017 Sabrina Leiva 0

Main task was to create a comfortable open space plan with enough area for storage with access to natural light . I decided to design a furniture system that would make the most of the existing space.

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Busan Times / Moon Hoon

January 2, 2017 Sabrina Leiva 0

Although I am afraid that if I call it the owl, it will continue going by this nickname and it will be regarded within this context, I would nevertheless like to call it the owl. If you look at the building from the roadside, you may associate the shape formed by the angles of the setback regulation that has now been abolished with big head and two eyes.

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This apartment interior is filled with creative storage and decor ideas

January 2, 2017 Erin 0

Photography by Alt Kat Photography   COA Mimarlik have designed this 2 bedroom apartment for a newlywed couple that live in Istanbul, Turkey, Upon entering the apartment, you’re presented with the living and dining room on the left, and the kitchen on the right. Further down the hallway is the bathroom and both bedrooms.   […]