X-House / Cadaval & Solà-Morales The X-House sits atop a steep hill in Cabrils, Barcelona, with impressive views over a valley. Fashioned in the shape of its namesake, albeit in giant concrete form, the house is the handiwork of young Mexico City and Barcelona-based architects, Cadaval & Sola-Morales, known for bold, formal gestures and modern lines…
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Scope House / mA-style architects mA-style architects received commissioned to start thinking about how building this venue. Landslide prevention area because of the site is below the cliff, building less land, so the architects with support from a surface of a wall and a thin building north of the main body of the infinite beauty amount. This volume trapezoid, the largest north-facing, to seize the the outside beautiful natural changes — landscape, light, wind. Very simple and comfortable throughout the building space, keep the inside and outside of appropriate open…
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Busan Cinema Center & Busan International Film / Coop Himmelb(l)au The Cinema Center in Busan, South Korea, designed by Wolf D. Prix – COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. The annual Busan International Film Festival (PIFF) has established itself as a prominent and representative film festival for Asia. Aiming to create a multi-functional event location which permanently houses the PIFF and also provides an attractive public institution for the region, an international architectural competition was launched in 2005. The team of Coop Himmelb(l)au was awarded the first prize…
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