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Torres Arquitetos

Residential Bulding

Sunday, 12 May 2024

Borgio Verezzi

Borgio Verezzi is a residential building with twenty-two floors, in the city of Caxias do Sul, in the extreme south of Brazil. The choice for a differentiated residential product was a conviction of the developer and the architectural firm since its earliest studies. Volumetrically, the building is constituted of a vertical monolith of which they were suppressed volumes in their corners where are located their balconies. These balconies are pushed and stretched for a better viewing and sunlight of each plane.

Snorre Stinessen

Gondola

Saturday, 11 May 2024

Narvik Top Station

The Narvik ski resort is located directly above the city centre and is characterised by a very steep height to length ratio - from a 1000 meter above sea level all the way down to the sea. The new gondola brings the skiers up to the mountain top. The gondola top station is custom designed for the gondola functional requirements and the harsh climatic conditions, but also to form an integrated part of the overall Narvik Arctic Resort design strategy.

MadeMake Architects

Public Space

Friday, 10 May 2024

Starry Town

Setting off from the visitor center, guests will explore the starry town along two curve aluminum walls under the 1200 square meters leaf-shape extending roof. The center is the spiral staircases and transparent lift leading up to an 8 meters high lake view platform. The entrance represents a moon using mirror tempered glass. The U-shaped tempered glass is coherent with other metals. Besides, the stair steps are located along the nonlinear edges of the entrance to roof, it comes to the ribbon structure. What’s under the ribbon-like bridge become a kid playground.

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Secondary School

Thursday, 9 May 2024

Nankai LiangJiang

This project embodies the open and well-rounded educational idea. The crucial design approach is to integrate its unique educational thinking with the site, and to maximize its spatial efficiency to bring together a pleasantly balanced campus. The school is centered around a highly efficient idea of a “10-minute campus”, where the time for students to circulate and rotate during a compact daily curriculum can be achieved within 10 minutes. A forest is grown within the main building, forming mountains and valleys thanks to the natural topography.

FENG CHENG

Commercial Architecture

Wednesday, 8 May 2024

Taizhou Mansion

The project was designed by UCGD, commissioned by VANKE. And this is VANKE’s first project to implement the standardized module design. The design of the building focuses on making a positive contribution to the surroundings.Because of the narrow site, the project was to create natural surroundings of the building and keep connection in-between. Due to referencing Chinese garden, the walls give the project its own character, which not only lowed the impact of messy environment, but also create many winding paths and framed beautiful spaces.

PARALLAX

Weekend Getaway

Tuesday, 7 May 2024

House On Pipes

A grid of slender steel pipes laid out in a staggered manner minimise the building footprint while providing the rigidity and stability to hoist the living space above this. In keeping with the minimalist icon approach, this farmhouse has been designed within the framework of the existing trees to reduce the internal heat gain. This has been further aided by the intentional staggering of the Fly ash blocks on the facade with the resultant void and shadow naturally cooling the building. Elevating the house also ensured that the Landscape was uninterrupted and the views were unrestricted.

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