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10-11-2011

Claudio Nardi: Mocak in Krakow

Viewing industrial architecture as a link between the past and present of a place, Claudio Nardi and Leonardo Maria Proli have converted the old Schindler cookware factory, the place where 1200 Jews were saved from extermination by the Nazis, into a contemporary art museum (Mocak).

10-11-2011

Barozzi-Veiga: home of Ribera del Duero

Founded in 2004, the Italian/Spanish practice of Barozzi-Veiga, which recently completed Aguilas auditorium in Spain, converted and expanded a former medieval hospital which is now a winery and centre for the promotion of the locale red wine, “Ribera del Duero”. The architects' successful choice of materials and compositional sensibility won the project the Barbara Cappochin Prize for Architecture.

04-10-2011

Rafiq Azam: house with pool of water in Dhaka

A key representative of a new form of architecture that combines natural elements with cement, Rafiq Azam completed his most recent home in the centre of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2010. The strong contrast between the artificial and the natural represents an attempt to create something unique despite the degradation of the city around it.

04-10-2011

Cano Briceño: La Semilla home in Jiutepec

The La Semilla home in Jiutepec, Mexico is a project for integration between the natural and built environments that makes it impossible to identify the boundary between landscape and interior: the vegetation surrounds the building and the building is designed on the basis of the vegetation. Glass and cement reinforce the concept of living without barriers and without spatial definitions.

12-09-2011

BP: duplex homes in Paris

In 2011 an eight-level apartment building was constructed in Place de la Bastille in Paris, designed by BP Architecture. The project is characterised by the façades: the wall over the square is a glass sunshade, while the side walls are made of modular panels with variable inclinations and coloured inserts.

12-09-2011

Steven Holl: Cité de l’Océan et du Surf

Inaugurated on June 25 2011, Cité de l’Océan et du Surf was built around the symbols of the sea and sports that make Biarritz the top tourist destination in Basque France. Competition winner Steven Holl uses the shape of the coastline as his starting point for creation of an underground museum, the roof of which becomes a plaza from which to admire the ocean.

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01-09-2011

Carbon Negative Cement absorbs CO₂

Carbon Negative Cement, developed by Novacem, represents a greener alternative to regular cement, which is responsible for the emission of large quantities of carbon dioxide.