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14-10-2015

Mateo Arquitectura: Castelo Branco Arts Centre, Portugal

The Castelo Branco Arts Centre in Portugal is the last building in the project by Mateo Arquitectura to redevelop Praça Largo da Devesa as a new town centre.

07-10-2015

Kouhsar Villa by Nextoffice: redevelopment of a house in Kordan, Iran

The new Kouhsar Villa by Nextoffice in Kordan, near the Alborz mountain range, is architecture on the border between geometry and organicism. The hermetic exterior opens into a dialogue with the landscape thanks to the new floor-to-ceiling facade in concrete and glass. The central void designed by Nextoffice, creates a dialogue between the two floors.

25-09-2015

Flanagan Lawrence Acoustic Shells West Sussex UK

A project for the community, a reference point on the seafront and a social meeting place: this, in short are the acoustic shells designed by architect Flanagan Lawrence in Littlehampton, West Sussex, UK.

23-09-2015

Chyutin: Polonsky Academy for the Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem

Jerusalem's Van Leer Institute has been completed with the Polonsky Academy of Advanced Studies by Chyutin Architects. The result of a competition, the new building by Israeli studio Chyutin fits the expressive vocabulary of the Van Leer campus and the Jerusalem Theatre to the south, establishing a dialogue with the greenery of the Talbieh district.

23-09-2015

Architecture and Geometry: Stoki House by ReForm Architects

Polish architect Marcin Tomaszewski continues his research into statuary architecture, made up of regular, geometric blocks. The point of contrast is the material difference of various blocks: the windows and rough cement, black shiny surfaces and white, opaque ones.

14-09-2015

Madama della Rocca by Fabio Fantolino

Turin architect Fabio Fantolino has designed the interiors of a number of places in his native city, including Madama della Rocca, a restaurant where diners enjoy their meals in a fascinating atmosphere of semi-darkness.

03-09-2015

Zaha Hadid Messner Mountain Museum Corones

Architect Zaha Hadid designed the latest of the six museums dedicated to the mountaineer Reinhold Messner, the Messner Mountain Museum Corones in Plan de Corones, which was inaugurated on 23rd July with a moving ceremony. Christiane Bürklein, member of the Floornature and Livegreenblog editorial staff, was also present.

20-08-2015

Cazu Zegers Arquitectura, House Do, Chile

House Do, a holiday home designed by architect Cazù Zegers, is a standard apartment enclosed by two semi-curved walls in front of the Pacific Ocean in Chigualoco, Los Vilos, a small town on the northern coast of Chile.