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Melopee School in Ghent: A Steel Frame Filled with Life
Lack of space has often sparked creative solutions in architecture – including the Melopee School by Xaveer de Geyter Architects in the port of ...
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Swimming Pools - Architecture for Water-based Sports and Recreation
Swimming, splashing, playing, sauna, spa, wellness: Bath facilities offer spaces for various functions – from pure fun to exercise, from health-...
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La Fontaine Sporting Complex in Antony
Situated to the south of Paris in the town of Antony, with a population of 60,000, the La Fontaine sports centre presents itself as a matt-gleaming m...
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Streetmekka in Viborg
With specifically aimed measures and a limited budget, the Copenhagen office of Effekt Architects has transformed what was formerly a deserted indust...
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Sports Centre near Tarragona
The light, airy, communal sports hall in Vila-seca, Catalonia, has only little in common with the existing structure dating from 1986. The earlier bu...
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Brombach Sports Hall
In Lörrach, to the north of Basle, a series of building projects is being realized at present promoted by the foundation of the former Schöpflin text...
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Überlingen School Campus Sports Centre
With the new building Wulf Architekten intended not only to create a replacement for the old sports hall, but most of all a new centre for the school...
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Sports Centre Turó de la Peira in Barcelona
The sports centre is located in a high density residential area at the periphery of Barcelona. Turó de la Peira is an urban quarter that lacks places...
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Student Housing in Paris-Saclay
On its own, a student dorm might seem a pretty banal commission – and a public parking garage even more so. But put the two together, along with...
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Dream House or Rabbit Hutch?
During the post-WW II economic boom, the single-family home became a symbol of prosperity and upward mobility. Politicians dedicated to the middle cla...
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Structural Design and Engineering
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Viewing Tower at Schönbuch Nature Park near Stuttgart
Schönbuch Nature Park to the south of Stuttgart has been one tourist attraction richer since summer 2018. On the top of the Stellberg Hill at 580 m ab...
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St Philips Footbridge in Bristol
The new St Philips Bridge over the Avon in Bristol opens a convenient pedestrian and cycleway connection between two quite different parts of the city...
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Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore
An elliptical volume in the shape of a flattened, glass torus forms the new centre of the airport at Singapore. The recently completed “Jewel Ch...
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The Vessel in New York
Looking like a gigantic inverted beehive, “The Vessel” occupies the central public open space in Hudson Yards on the west bank of Manhatta...
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Oodi Central Library in Helsinki
Helsinki’s new central library lies in the heart of the city, between the parliament building, Lake Töölönlahti and the main railway station. Th...
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taz Publishing House in Berlin
Newspaper publisher taz moved into its new building at Friedrichstrasse 21, just a couple of hundred metres away from its former seat in Rudi-Dutschke...
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Coal Drops Yard in London
BFWith an emblematic roof sculpture, the newly opened Coal Drops Yard shopping centre in Kings Cross, London, invites visitors to drop in, shop and st...
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Experimenta Science Center in Heilbronn
The Experimenta Science Center opened in 2009 in a former warehouse by the River Neckar in Heilbronn, Germany. The objective was to make the natural s...
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Meixi Urban Helix in Changsha
A conical, 30-metre-high double helix forms the new landmark of Meixi International New City. This new city development area in Changsha, a seven-mill...
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Macallan Distillery in Aberlour
With a series of five artificial hills on a green roof, the new building for the Macallan Distillery blends into the Speyside landscape, an area of no...
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Bridges
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Town Hall on the Faroe Islands
From the history of architecture, we are familiar with bridges on which watchtowers, houses and shops were built. But a bridge that also functions as ...
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Essay: Bridge Construction, Quo Vadis?
Today’s designs should be based on the experience and knowledge of both earlier and historical bridge construction.
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Discussion: The Architectural Expression of Moving Bridges
In a world in which physical systems of communication such as roads, railways, canals, rivers, etc. are used ever more intensively, bridges are vital ...
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Report: Footbridge in Ditzingen
Completed in 2018, the new footbridge at the headquarters of the tool and laser machine specialist Trumpf in Ditzingen connects two parts of the compa...
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Footbridge in Freising
The town of Freising has grown much larger over the years; mainly on the right bank of the Isar, the side of the river opposite the town centre. With ...
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Report: Tanderrum Bridge in Melbourne
The 300 m long, 7.7 m wide Tanderrum Bridge creates a new pedestrian and cycleway link between the centre of Melbourne and Melbourne Park.
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Queensferry Crossing near Edinburgh
Opened in September 2017, the Queensbury Crossing road bridge spans the Firth of Forth and connects Edinburgh with northern Scotland. It replaces an o...
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Specialist know-how: Demolishing major bridges
The demolition of bridges over narrow valleys or close to superstructures carrying traffic requires new demolition concepts. As with new bridges, the ...
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Kienlesberg Bridge in Ulm
Following a 2012 design competition won by engineers Krebs+Kiefer in a consortium with Knight Architects, the client, Stadtwerke Ulm, initiated bridge...
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De Lentloper Bridge in Nijmegen
The capacity of watercourses in many parts of the Netherlands is being increased to prevent flooding. A sharp bend in the river Waal near Nijmegen was...
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