Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Featured,FUNCTIONAL,Green Project,Harmony With The Context,HISTORY & STORY OF THE BUILDING,MATERIALS USED,Metal Sheet,NATURAL VENTILATION,Prefabricated elements,Steel,SUSTAINABILITY,Training Centre,USABILITYMay 18, 2013
The design effort has been led by Steven Holl architects, a Columbia University faculty member and world-renowned architect who has won several awards including the AIA NY Sustainable Design Award and the American Architect Award. The Campbell Sports Center, the flagship of Columbia’s athletic renewal. The first new athletics building since the Marcellus Hartley Dodge Physical Fitness Center was built in the mid-1970s, The Campbell Sports Center is the new cornerstone of the revitalized Baker Athletics Complex…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Architecture Award,ATMOSPHERE,Circulation,Exotic Idea,GREEN AREA,Green Project,Harmony With The Context,Landmark,MASS & SHAPE,Prefabricated elements,Public Facilities,STRUCTURAL,Structural Award,SUSTAINABILITY,Travel,ViewPoint,Wooden,World's Best Places to VisitMay 17, 2013
The Tree Tower, designed by the Architekt Josef Stöger from Schönberg, features an impressively airy architectural structure and a unique concept for enclosing the three very old, up to 38 m tall fir and beech trees in the egg-shaped tower. 16 arched glued laminated timber girders (GL28c larch), each over 40 m long, support the 17 t look-out platform…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Architecture Award,Cozy,Editor's Picks,GREEN AREA,Green Project,Harmony With The Context,Lodge & Tented Camp,Lodge & Tented Camp Interior,MATERIALS USED,Modern Tropical Style,OUTDOOR SPACE,Planting Area,Pool / Pond,Relax,Resort,Resort Space,Romantic,SUSTAINABILITY,WoodenMay 13, 2013
Nine private casitas comprise Nicaragua´s most upscale nature resort, located on a private island in Lake Nicaragua. A short boat ride from the colonial town of Granada, the lodge offers spectacular views of the Mombacho Volcano across the lake…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Architecture Award,ATMOSPHERE,Chapel,DAYLIGHTING,Famous / Popular / Great / World : Building,Featured,glass facade,Green Project,Harmony With The Context,HISTORY & STORY OF THE BUILDING,INTERIORs SPACE,Steel,STRUCTURAL,SUSTAINABILITY,Travel,VOID,World's Best Places to VisitMay 11, 2013
The Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Ark., The small but soaring glass and cross-braced pine chapel, designed by the late E. Fay Jones, the 1990 AIA Gold Medalist, nestles into an eight-acre woodland setting on a sloping hillside in the Ozark Mountains. It stands 48 feet with 24-foot-wide by 60-foot-long dimensions for a total of 1,440 square feet. Its 425 windows, made of 6,000 square feet of glass, filter woodland light across its upward diamond-shaped pine trusses to form ever-changing patterns of light and shadow throughout the day and night…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Activity / Multipurpose Area,Circulation,Editor's Picks,Green Project,Landscape Award,Landscape Element,Park,Pavement / pattern,Plant Materials Used,Planting Area,Pool / Pond,Public Space,TravelMay 10, 2013
The Australian Garden is Australia’s Botanic Garden and is located 30km south of Melbourne at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne. It is a garden that displays Australian flora in creative, interactive and educative ways…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in 3. Medium House - (201 sqm - 450 sqm),Countryside / Suburb House,Courtyard,Door / Windows,Editor's Picks,Green & Sustainable House,Green Project,Harmony With The Context,Hill House,House Award,House Interior,House's Circulation,Indoor / Outdoor : Garden,Interior Space,Modern Country Style,Natural Stone & Rock,Renovation House,Site Environment,Stone House,Ventilation,ViewsMay 9, 2013
Spanish firm ÃBATON faced the challenge of transforming an abandoned stable tucked away on a hillside far from city infrastructure into a state-of-the-art, environmentally conscious family residence without disturbing the pristine ecological and aesthetic milieu of Cáceres, Spain…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Adaptive Reuse,Architecture Award,ATMOSPHERE,DAYLIGHTING,Featured,Green Project,HISTORY & STORY OF THE BUILDING,INTERIORs SPACE,LIGHTING EFFECTIVE,NATURAL VENTILATION,Prefabricated elements,Steel,STRUCTURAL,Structural Award,Terminal / Station,TravelMay 4, 2013
The refurbishment of the Grade I Listed Western Range is a fundamental part of the overall King’s Cross redevelopment programme. The design and construction teams from Arup, John McAslan + Partners, and VINCI Construction, along with key external stakeholders English Heritage and Camden Council, have sympathetically restored the 150 year old building to reflect its heritage, meet the current operational needs of the station and its staff, and complement the new Western Concourse…
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