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Adharshila Vatika childrens' centre in New Delhi, India is a redesign of an existing facility where the emphasis of the design was to maintain the functional requirements and the character by retaining the elevation. Spaces Architects, India, have won a Merit Award in the DESIGNSHARE Awards 2008 and are the only Asian firm to have achieved the 'merit' accolade for 2008. The original two stories

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Designed by architect Marlon Blackwell and his wife Meryati (a partner in MBP) for their young family, this a modern house is located in Arkansas. The bridge-like structure was built over a seasonal creek. The façade is finished with horizontally lain redwood strips that act as a rain screen and the elevation is punctuated with long, black framed windows.

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Floathouse was designed by architects Ontwerpen is located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The architects, Ontwerpen, found this to be highly enjoyable but challenging project to undertake, with progress having been stalled by the Rotterdam authorities for 2 years. As a result they have only recently been able to realise the completed project in full. The shape of the 3 storey house is the combined

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The Akershus University Hospital, the Norwegian super hospital in near Oslo, Norway was designed and constructed by C. F. Møller Architects, it has a total area of 137,000 sq m and cost €1 billion to construct. During construction, from 1 March 2004, to 1 October 2008, some 1,400 people from 37 different nations contributed over 6.2 million man-hours erecting the new ‘super hospital’. The

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Piers Morgan on Dubai, 30.01.09

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Jacque Fresco is an industrial designer, author, lecturer, futurist, inventor, and a pioneer in the field of human factors engineering, based in Venus, Florida, USA. Fresco has worked as both designer and inventor in a wide range of fields spanning from biomedical innovations to totally integrated social systems. He believes his ideas would maximally benefit the greatest number of people and he

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The Festival took place in June and July 2008 and was attended by over 250,000 people.

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The California Academy of Sciences is one of the greenest museum in the world. Find out what this amazing building is doing to get a platinum level LEED certification. Located in San Francisco, California, it opens 2008. This unique, vacation destination was designed by Renzo Piano, with sculptures by Maya Lin. It has a living roof, rainforest, planetarium and aquarium. It opens in 2008

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architecture and towers planned and under construction

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Planning consent has just been granted by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham for a 100,000 sq ft office development on the New Kings Road in London designed by ORMS Architecture Design. The £30m project for Commercial Estates Group involves a significant refurbishment, re-cladding and extension to an existing 1970's building, to provide modern grade A office space.The project will

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The new architecture construction for the Menzis health insurarce company designed by Branimir Medic & Pero Puljiz, de Architekten Cie is situated on the edge of the Europapark urban expansion of the city of Groningen. At city scale level, the construction expresses its iconographic character toward the urban circular and the A7 motorway, the Europaweg. At ground floor level, the street alignment

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The project, Chevron Headquarters in Nanjing, China, was designed by architects Perkins + Will is a headquarters for a manufacturer of power tools. The client’s business exemplifies the process of globalization, with global markets combining with local labor. The architecture represents this process by emphasizing the intersection of the contemporary and traditional. It symbolizes this

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Architects: AT 103 / BGP ArquitecturaLocation: Colonia Juarez, Mexico City, MexicoArchitects: Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta, Julio Amezcua, Francisco Pardo y Hugo SánchezCoordinator: Hermenegildo AcoltzinCollaborators: Jessica Barba, Margarita Flores, Daniel Ramírez, Jorge Vázquez, Tiberino WallentinDesign Year: 2005Construction Year: 2006Services: GLM Ingeniería S.A. de C.V.Contractor: SARE

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Designed by AD+RG architects, the Hong Kong based firm’s project is an 18-storey institutional building for the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong Community College. The site is located at one of the highest residential density areas in Hong Kong, Hung Hom District, adjacent to the Hong Kong Victoria Harbor.The form composes of various teaching blocks stacked spirally in the air, which

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Chongqing Library is located in Chongqing, China, and was designed by Perkins Eastman, completed in 2007. Full architectural services for a 540,000 sf glass and stone modern public library for use as an educational, cultural, and social center.

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Beijing South Railway Station is the largest station in Asia and a core Olympic project which opened on 1st August 2008. China’s Ministry of Railways has hailed Farrells’ Beijing South Railway Station as an exemplar project that will be used as a benchmark for massive new investment for China’s railway infrastructure.The project was led by Gavin Erasmus and Stefan Krummeck from Farrells’ Hong

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Responding to an acute need for affordable housing for its students, CCA constructed its first dedicated dormitory. The new building is adjacent to the idyllic Oakland campus, and acts as a strong edge, as well as a transitional element, between the commercial or institutional urban fabric to the west and the residential neighborhood to the east.The 14,000 square foot parcel is built out with a

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Since 1010 LaTrobe Street completion in 2006, 1010 LaTrobe Street has received two highly acclaimed architectural awards and has been published internationally in Dutch magazine Mark. 1010 LaTrobe Street was designed by Ashton Raggatt MCDougall is located in Melbourne, Australia1010 LaTrobe Street is unique to Docklands, in that it is the only building to achieve a 5 Star Green Star Certified

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Checkland Kindleysides have designed a new store for Timberland, located in the Westfield London shopping mall, with a contemporary facade interpretation of the Timberland identity which makes the store a landmark site within the mall. As part of the brief for their new store at Westfield London, Timberland challenged Checkland Kindleysides to bring the brand’s iconic tree logo to life and show

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The building was designed by Arons and Gelauff Architects is nine stories high, and features a climbing wall on one side. The University of Twente, located in the city of Enschede in The Netherlands, has a new building with 87 apartments for students.Description from the Arons and Gelauff Architects:The high rise at the Campagneplein location lies in the middle of the Residential and Social

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The Docks of Paris is a long, thin building built in concrete at the turn of the last century, that was a depot for goods brought up the Seine by barge. In 2004, the city of Paris launched a competition to create a new cultural building on the site. Whether or not to keep the existing concrete structure was a choice left to the participants. Jakob+MacFarlane opted to retain the existing structure

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As designed by architect Howard Raggatt (design architect and design director for the project), The National Museum of Australia is a cultural history museum with three permanent galleries, a touring gallery, three high definition digital theatres, workshops and unloading facilities, curatorial facilities and major public function and orientation spaces, restaurants, retail and grand public

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Location: Ditzingen, GermanyDesign: Auditorium with cafeteria and kitchenArchitects: Barkow LeibingerCustomer: TRUMPF GmbH + CoSize: 5400 m²Built: 2006-08

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Location: Partille, SwedenDesign: Factory and officeArchitect: Thor Björnsson + EdgrenYear built: 2005Size: 3000 m²

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