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New junior school building in Melbourne designed by McBride Charles Ryan

The new PENLEIGH AND ESSENDON GRAMMAR SCHOOL Junior boys building in Essendon, Melbourne, located in a residential area with Federation buildings, was designed by the architecture office McBride Charles…

Diaz y Diaz Arquitectos design the nursery school in La Coruña, Spain

The building work on the Escuela Infantil de Los Rosales (Los Rosales Nursery School) in La Coruña, in Galizia, designed by Díaz y Díaz Arquitectos was completed in 2008. The…

‘Nowhere but Sajima’ by Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects

This new ingenious resort Nowhere but Sajima in Yokosuka has been created by YASUTAKA YOSHIMURA ARCHITECTS, already designers of the original project Bayside Marina Hotel in Kanagawa. This…

Koseki architect office in Kyoto designs the extension of a nursery school

Japanese Architect Office Kosekis project "Connect" is a two-floor extension of a previously existing nursery school in Kiotanabe, in the Kyoto prefecture, Japan. The internal arrangement of…

The Nolitan Hotel in New York designed by Grzywinski + Pons

55 rooms in the heart of Nolita, one of New York Citys most endearing and authentic neighbourhoods. The Nolitan Hotel, the first boutique hotel to grace Nolita, designed by the New York City practice Grzywinski+Pons,…

The magical atmosphere of Héctor Esrawe's hotel Azul

Hotel Azul, designed by Héctor Esrawe was recently opened on an old estate in Oaxaca, the Mexican state renowned for its magical atmosphere. The boutique hotel has 20 rooms,…

A magic carpet designed by Rudy Ricciotti and Mario Bellini

The new Department of Islamic Art at the Louvre, designed by architects Rudy Ricciotti from France and Italian Mario Bellini, is almost ready for the official opening. The project which won the international…

Stožice Sports Park designed by the SADAR + VUGA practice

At the end of 2011, the Stožice Sports Park in Ljubljana, Slovenia designed by the practice SADAR + VUGA was definitively completed with the inauguration of the shopping centre, the final piece…

2b.group's 380 sq.m Ukrainian Loft on the river Dnieper

This huge and delightful Loft in Kiev was designed by Vyacheslav Balbek and Olga Bogdanova of the Ukraine architecture bureau 2b.group. “Working on the Project we tried to prove to the client and…

The new Natural History Museum in Utah designed by Ennead Architects

The new Natural History Museum of Utah designed by Todd Schliemann of Ennead Architects occupies a prominent place on the Campus of the University of Utah a few miles from Salt Lake City. The…

Rangr Studio's Broadway Loft

The Broadway Loft, in New York, was designed by Jasmit Singh Rangr (RANGR STUDIO). The renovation of this full floor & roof space creates the illusion of one large loft space while integrating…

Rudy Ricciotti designs the new Jean Cocteau museum in Menton

Last November the new Musée Jean Cocteau, dedicated to one of the towns most famous citizens, was inaugurated in Menton on one of the most beautiful promenades on the Côte d’Azur. Rudy…

The OCT Design Museum in Shenzen China

The construction work of the OCT Design Museum in Shenzen China, a surreal space dedicated to design along the gulf designed by the practice Studio Pei-Zhu, has been completed. The unusual spheroidal…

Duplex archaeology in Paris

Although the Duplex in Paris building designed by VMCF Atelier, was built back in 1850, the project was officially created in 2003. Indeed, this was when the 60 sq.m flat on the 5th floor of a classic…

The LIT Bangkok Hotel by VaSLab Architecture

Hotel LIT Bangkok, designed by VaSLab Architecture, is located in a complex urban area full of contradictions, surrounded by a shopping centre and street vendors. The hotel is L-shaped with 79 rooms,…

Ronald McDonald Centre Amsterdam

“Everyone here is champion”: This is the motto of the Ronald McDonald Centre in Amsterdam. The sports complex designed by FACT architects was created to satisfy all recreational and…

Sõmeru Community Center in Estonia

The Someru Community Center, located just outside the the Estonian town of Rakvere, was designed by the young Tallin firm Salto Architects. The multi purpose building containing a library,…

Montecarlo Residence

“The project for a private residence invariably has to take account of the client’s family structure. The house is a kind of exoskeleton in which human relations, even before family ties, develop…

Tel Aviv Museum of Art: the new wing designed by Preston Scott Cohen

The simultaneous presence of two apparently irreconcilable architectural paradigms is the most characteristic feature of the new wing of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art: neutrality and spectacular architecture…

Wild Reindeer Centre: the natural observatory by Snohetta

The Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion, designed by the architectural office Snøhetta has a wooden heart. Made to commission by the Norwegian Wild Reindeer Foundation, the small volume…

The TYIN ‘boat house’ by tegnestue Architects

Many traditional Norwegian boat houses have been converted for summer recreational use. The TYIN tegnestue Architects project, called Naust paa Aure or fish Boathouse, recovers a boat house in terrible…

Titanium zinc and glulam for the Olgiata Sporting Club

The composition of volumes characterised by a light roof, covered in titanium zinc sheets, gives life to the Olgiata Sporting Club complex in Rome, designed by LAD laboratorio di architettura e design. The…

Pine pavilion for the Andalusian "Museo del agua"

The Museo del Agua (water museum), designed by Spanish architect Juan Domingo Santos has been created in the Mountain community of Lanjarón on the southern flank of Sierra Nevada. The…

Kitzbuehel Mansion by Splendid Architecture

The starting point for the overall planning of the Kitzbuehel Mansion designed by Nina Schmid of Splendid Architecture was its axis and line of sight over the Alps. Based on this, two wings were…

Park Associati and Electrolux's 'The Cube' in Milan

The second stage on the European tour of The CUBE, a nomadic, stateless and cosmopolitan entity, is Milan. This contemporary pavilion is to be used for a specific time to accommodate a small restaurant. The…

"La Biennale": Chipperfield appointed director of the Architecture sector

F Looptecture: the corten steel and copper tidal wave proof building

The new Tsunami monitoring and prevention centre designed by the Shuhei Endo Architect Institute in Minamiawaji in the bay of Osaka has a cor-ten steel and copper skin. Lithe profiles generating two…

Hotel Missoni Edinburgh: a homage to design in the purest state

Hotel Missoni opened shop a year and a half ago in the heart of the old part of Edinburgh. The interiors, designed by creative director Rosita Missoni (one of the founders of the Missoni label), are…

Herman Hertzberger named as recipient of RIBA Royal Gold Medal 2012

Herman Hertzberger, the internationally acclaimed Dutch architect, has been named as the recipient of the 2012 Royal Gold Medal. Established in 1848, the award is given annually to a person or group of…

VIGILIUS MOUNTAIN RESORT

The Vigilius Mountain Resort in South Tyrol designed by architect Matteo Thun is located at 1,500 meters of altitude on the legendary Monte San Vigilio. The view from here is simply fantastic,…

Freya's cabin

This cabin (Freya’s Cabin) is part of a project for two small structures on the banks of Kielder Water, an artificial lake in Northumberland England, to provide a stopping place for visitors walking…

THE NEW RED BULL AMSTERDAM HEADQUARTERS

The New Red Bull Headquarters in Amsterdam has been designed by Sid Lee Architecture. It is situated north of the port in a charming location that provides a fine reflection of the…

The Timmelsjoch experience

In 2009 North Tyrol and South Tyrol undertook a joint project of redeveloping the alpine road of Timmelsjoch or Passo del Rombo in Italian, the panoramic route created in the 1960s on the South Tyrolean…

The new Pratic headquarters designed by studio Geza

A seven million euro investment that the Orioli brothers have transformed into reality in less than two years with an architectural project which provides a perfect reflection of the innovative character…

Moses Bridge: the magical “invisible” bridge

The Moses bridge crossing the water of the moat in Fort de Roovere was designed by the architects of RO&AD Architecten in Halsteren in the south-west of the Netherlands. The bridge is made…

One Shelly Street Sydney designed by Clive Wilkinson Architects

The headquarters of the Macquarie group, located in a new building in Sydney called One Shelley Street, has been designed by Clive Wilkinson Architects and covers an area of almost 31,000…

One Shelley Street di Clive Wilkinson Architects

Il progetto per l’headquarter del Gruppo Macquarie, denominato One Shelley Street, porta la firma di Clive Wilkinson Architects e si sviluppa su una superficie di quasi 31.000 mc di uffici per…

Studio Lad wins the "Vocazione Roma" award

The Roman architectural office LAD laboratorio di architettura e design has won the "Vocazione Roma" award. This award, given by the Private Association “Vocazione Roma”, aims at promoting…

Lanternen in Sandnes, Norway

When in 2008, Sandnes and Stavanger were chosen as cultural capitals of Europe, the two municipalities launched a series of competitions called "Norwegian Wood", aimed at promoting contemporary timber…

The Raiffeisen Bank in Zurich

Designed by international design studio NAU Architecture, based in Zurich, in collaboration with Drexler Guinand Jauslin Architects, the interior of the Open Lounge of the Raiffeisen Bank Zurich is…