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Icefjord Centre in West Greenland: On the Wings of the Snowy Owl
About 1 km south of the town centre, the new Ilulissat Icefjord Centre stands on a slight hill. Congregating below its curved roof are an exhibition ...
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Masterpieces by Gio Ponti
Anyone who has ever been to Milan knows Gio Ponti. Opposite Milano Centrale, the main railway station, one of his masterpieces soars 127 m into t...
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Ski Lodge near Lillehammer
The architect couple designed their own holiday home located in the ski resort of Kvitfjell north of Lillehammer. They opted for a construction compri...
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Office Block in Alpnach
In Alpnach im Kanton Obwalden in der Nähe von Luzern liegt der neue Verwaltungsbau des Schweizer Holzbauunternehmens Küng. Das viergeschossige Gebäude...
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Kindergarten near Bern
At a first glance, the new kindergarten in Ittingen presents itself as a stringent timber construction with strict geometry. A closer look reveals the...
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Residential Building in Oslo
Timber buildings are rather uncommon in the hip quarter of Grünerløkka in Oslo. Alliance architecture studio created a five storey residential complex...
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Cultural Centre and Hotel in Skellefteå
The Swedish city of Skellefteå with its roughly 35,000 inhabitants is located 770 km north of Stockholm at the Gulf of Bothnia. With its floor area o...
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Refugee Quarters in Geneva
In the cosmopolitan district round the League of Nations building in Geneva, the refugee quarters in the Parc Rigot immediately catch the eye as ...
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Showcase for Screws: Hardwood Production Hall
The SWG Schraubenwerk Gaisbach in Waldenburg, Baden-Württemberg, has been developing innovative and high-quality screws for half a century. These incl...
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New Ikea Building in Vienna: Greener Shopping in the City
The new Ikea in downtown Vienna wants one thing above all – to be a good neighbour. Can the new building deliver on this promise? ...
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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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