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11-06-2014

Lund Hagem architects: house on Lyngholmen Island

Lund Hagem architects designs a contemporary building inspired by the colours and shapes of the Norwegian landscape. This holiday home on Lyngholmen Island uses white cement, treated ash cladding and glass, drawing inspiration from the rocky landscape sloping down to the sea.

04-06-2014

Otxotorena: Navarra University campus, Pamplona

In the new Faculty of Economics complex in Pamplona, Juan M. Otxotorena applies a specific vocabulary to the façade, going back to the archetype of the entrance colonnade and using vertical elements with a triangular section to lighten its form. Bare concrete, glass and metal are the materials he puts together.

21-05-2014

Vector Architects: Vanke Group exhibition centre in Bayuquan

Vector Architects have designed a contemporary multilevel building in Bayuquan, China, an exhibition centre for the Vanke real estate group which becomes part of the city’s waterfront. The materials chosen for the building’s cladding underline a compositional solution in which the boundaries between inside and outside are blurred.

09-05-2014

Robert M.Gurney FAIA Nevis Pool & Garden Pavilion

Robert M.Gurney FAIA Architect’s project mediates the transition between natural and artificial.

07-05-2014

Saitowitz: bridge home in California

Stanley Saitowitz of Natoma Architects underlines the originality of the site of his bridge-shaped home in California, built out of the most commonly used materials in modern American architecture: steel, concrete and glass, employed here in both the structure and the cladding.

30-04-2014

David Chipperfield Nobel Center – "Nobelhuset" Stockholm

David Chipperfield Architects of Berlin, directed by architects David Chipperfield and Christoph Felger, has unanimously been chosen as the winner in the contest to design the Nobel Center – ‘Nobelhuset’ in Stockholm: the new headquarters of the prestigious Nobel Prize.

29-04-2014

A-Lab, Statoil regional and international offices

An iconic building suggesting the meeting between public and commercial spaces in Norway, the land of democratic design. The project represents typically Scandinavian values despite its unconventional forms.