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Archive of the Future in Lichtenfels
Redensification typically increases usable area. In the village centre of Lichtenfels in northern Bavaria, Peter Haimerl and his clients chose a diff...
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Het Platform in Amersfoort
The Dutch architect team of Space Encounters expanded an old warehouse based on a very clear concept: They literally built over it. Similar to a tabl...
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Courtyard Building in Düsseldorf
For decades, the courtyard of a block in the urban centre of Düsseldorf was occupied by low sheds. They were replaced by a new, four storey structure...
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Residential Tower in Paris
When the clients bought a run-down two-storey house in a backyard in Paris it was initially uncertain whether a conversion or additional storeys woul...
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Health Campus in Göttingen
New architectural elements comprising steel and glass are clearly distinguishable from the historic brick buildings located on the factory grounds in...
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Kindergarten near Paris
The architect team of the Paris based office Antonio Virga Architecte required only few interventions in order to provide the Centre de la Petite Enf...
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Redensification? Not here, please!
To achieve sustainable development, increasing the building density of our cities is considered the way forward among planners. The approach focuses ...
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Design as Problem Solver
Shigeru Ban is both an architect and an activist. The Pritzker Prize laureate develops concepts for emergency shelters and prefers using renewable ma...
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Closing the Insulation Cycle
The recyclability of insulation materials is often questioned. How far has the industry progressed on the path to a circular economy?
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Simple and inexpensive building
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Wohnen 500 Residential Complex in Mäder
A charitable housing society from Vorarlberg has succeeded in combining cost-effective and ecologically high-quality as well as well-designed housing....
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Housing Rack in Berlin
The underlying concept of the architect Marc Frohn in the present scheme was the creation of economical housing with a precast-concrete structure. On ...
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Robust Architecture - Low Tech Design
The book gives detailed information on the concepts behind Robust Architecture and Low-Tech Design.
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Housing and Commercial Development in Zurich
The temporary Fogo development on Vulcan Square in Zurich combines housing for refugees, trainees and students, with studios and spaces for courses an...
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Building Affordably? Building Simply! – Interview Florian Nagler
Many of Florian Nagler’s buildings seem austere and rooted within the region, based on their traditional appeal. However, they possess global r...
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Temporary Apartments in Barcelona
Millions of shipping containers arrive in Barcelona’s harbour every year. After a relatively short period of use spanning roughly ten years the ...
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Commercial Building in Thalgau
The architects achieved this aim by creating a thrilling interplay between existing and new construction. They maintained the overall impression of t...
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Technology: Houses without Heating
A concept is catching momentum. It calls for buildings to provide a pleasant room climate without the help of conventional heating, cooling and venti...
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Cultural Centre in Móstoles
The cultural centre »El Soto« is located near a park under the same name in a suburban area of Madrid. The centre was originally supposed to be demoli...
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Technology: Saving Costs, Maintaining Quality - Strategies for Housing
The topic affordable building is in the news, because in Germany housing costs have gotten too high. In metropolitan areas the general population can’...
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Social housing apartments White Clouds in Saintes
The architects describe their three apartment buildings in Saintes, one and a half hours north of Bordeaux, as “white clouds”. And indeed ...
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Holiday Home on Fanø
By adopting the aesthetics of raw, unfinished materials the young, Copenhagen-based architects reinterpret the traditional long houses of Fanø. ...
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Social Housing Scheme in Paris
The 11th arrondissement in Paris is characterized by its narrow street grid with stone fronts to the houses. The present development by the architects...
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Patio Houses in Badajoz
At first glance, the two white housing structures in Cabeza del Buey look like a modern interpretation of the simple, traditional houses of the region...
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Housing Development in Rive de Gier
The design projects of the French Tectoniques Architectes are based on a sustainable approach to building. The present housing complex south-west...
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Housing Blocks Montmartre in Paris
These two buildings by Atelier Kempe Thill in collaboration with Fres Architects stand on what was formerly an industrial site at the foot of Montmart...
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Zwicky-South Housing District in Dübendorf
In Dübendorf, on the eastern edge of Zurich, the site of the former Zwicky spinning works is being transformed into a new urban district. Situate...
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Report: Building is Fairly Simple
The french architects Lacaton & Vassal want to create good architecture for everyone. A talk with Anne Lacaton on the occasion of their exhibition...
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Journal: Sports Hall in Haiming
American engineer John Calvin Jureit obtained his first patent for the galvanised nail plate in 1956. Today, the connector plate, which is pressed int...
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Student Residence in Mbombela
The University of Mpumalanga is one of the two new universities founded in South Africa since the ending of apartheid. It is located on the ...
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Social housing in Luxembourg
There are few places in Europe where one can find as high a concentration of major banks and public administration bodies as Kirchberg district of Lux...
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Agricultural School in Cochabamba
The integration of teaching and practice is a common principle in architectural education. To build a real building, however, by far exceeds the scope...
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Housing for the Homeless in Ingolstadt
A charitable housing association in Ingolstadt has dedicated itself to the creation of affordable housing for socially vulnerable individuals and thos...
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Residence and Workshop in London
Lordship Lane is a historic link road that once ran through a rural surrounding and connects London with East Dulwich. Behind the row of houses border...
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Architecture in Barcelona
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Barcelona - Urban Architecture and Community Since 2010
This book presents the most exciting buildings that have been built in Barcelona since 2010. Buy now!
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Museum Can Framis in Barcelona
The Museum Can Framis presents itself in a pleasantly restrained way, situated among the mostly new multi-story commercial buildings within the former...
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Oliva Artés Museum in Barcelona
There is no mistaking old from new in this adaptive reuse project by Baas Arquitectura for the Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA) at Oliva Artés. The or...
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Cristalleries Planell in Barcelona
This civic centre in the north-west of Barcelona is at first sight fascinating for its severe architectural stance. The two listed facades, which stan...
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Caracol Housing near Barcelona
Self-confident and resembling a monument, the green rectangular volume is situated in the newly created park of Sant Boi de Llobregat, located between...
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Cooperative Housing La Balma in Barcelona
La Balma is the first cooperative housing project in Barcelona based on a competition. Due to the participative planning process, the omission of park...
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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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Community Centre in Barcelona
Wood facades are seldom in Spain. Due to fear of fire hazards and scorching heat in summer leading to rapid deterioration, wood is not the first choic...
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Factory Conversion in Barcelona
The site of the textile works Fabra i Coats in the district of San Andreu forms part of a restructuring programme of the city of Barcelona that embrac...
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Essay: Prestressed Stone Towers for the Sagrada Família
Five generations and 137 years after its foundation stone was laid in Barcelona, the “Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família” i...
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Temporary Apartments in Barcelona
Millions of shipping containers arrive in Barcelona’s harbour every year. After a relatively short period of use spanning roughly ten years the ...
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Research Institute in Cerdanyola del Vallès
The research institute on the campus of the University of Barcelona (UAB) focuses on environmental sciences and palaeontology. The demands made o...
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Torre Agbar in Barcelona
This 142-metre-high headquarters of a water-supply undertaking was designed like a “fluid mass that shoots out of the ground under constant pressure”,...
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Law-Courts District in Barcelona
This new urban district with courts of justice is situated on the border between Barcelona and l’Hospitalet, forming a city within the city. The...
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Travel architecture
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Morpheus Hotel in Macau
The Morpheus Hotel in Macau, China, is part of the City of Dreams high-rise premier leisure and entertainment complex. In addition to 770 hotel rooms ...
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Tree Hotel in Harads
Five “tree houses” are scattered about the woods of Harads in Sweden, and more are planned. These unusual hotel units, 15–30 m 2 in ...
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Alpine retreats - Unique hotel architecture
A travel guide to unique places and accommodation throughout the Alps.
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Guesthouse Rosana in Rosenheim
Timber, clay and wickerwork: The small guesthouse in the forest bordering the Mangfall river was built with natural materials. The expansion to an exi...
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Shangri-La Shougang Park in Beijing
To this day, cooling towers and a tall factory smokestack indicate the industrial prehistory of the five star hotel in Beijing’s Shougang Park. ...
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Hotel Zoku Vienna near the Prater
The Prater Glacis ensemble consists of three buildings located directly next to the popular amusement park in Vienna’s second district. Two hosp...
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Hotel Seeloge in Eutin
The inclusion hotel Seeloge in Eutin, a city with a population of 17000 located between Kiel and Lübeck, lives up to its name: It is surrounded by pa...
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Guesthouse and Art Museum near Sydney
In the guesthouse of Bundanon, a three hour drive south of Sydney, the wonders of art and nature are close together. Towards the east, views are dire...
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Hostel Silo Erlenmatt in Basel
Many building types exist that the modern hospitality industry has not yet adapted for its purposes: treehouses, prisons, cranes, lighthouses and aban...
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What Type of Hotel are You?
Hotel or B&B? Deciding where to stay used to be reasonably straightforward, but for today’s travellers, the choice is often overwhelming. Pi...
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Hotel Icaro in the Dolomites
The meadows of the Seiser Alm belong to Europe’s greatest high altitude plateau. It is situated in the UNESCO World Heritage natural site of the...
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Heritage Building as Passive House
The former headquarters of the tyre company Armstrong Rubber in New Haven can hardly be overlooked. In 1969 the brutalist building was completed accor...
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Shiroiya Hotel in Maebashi
Guests who visit the Shiroiya Hotel in the Japanese industrial city of Maebashi are offered the choice of sleeping in a dramatically gutted post-war b...
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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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Schönburg Conversion in Berne
For 44 years, the Schönburg complex in Berne served as the headquarters of the Swiss Post Office. Down to 2014, some 1,400 people worked in the eight-...
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Hotel in a Former Sugar Factory in Yangshuo
Hidden in a narrow bay of the River Li, the dark brick buildings of a disused sugar factory had gradually decayed since its closure in the 1990s &ndas...
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Hotel with Apartments in Maloja
The Aparthotel Longhin stands at the foot of a mountain in the Swiss village of Maloja. With its exposed-aggregate concrete facade and compact polygon...
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Lobby of Canberra’s Hotel Hotel
The Nishi building complex in Canberra, Australia houses offices, a cinema, shops, apartments and a hotel. They are spread over two very different bui...
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Guest Pavilions in Olot
The assignment was nothing out of the ordinary: a restaurant owner in Olot, Catalonia, wanted to offer his guests a place to stay for the night. The a...
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Sports Hotel in Savognin
“Cube” is a new hotel concept with reasonable prices and an emphasis on sports and entertainment aimed at young guests between the ages of 18 and 30 ....
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Hotel »The Waterhouse« in Shanghai
The area surrounding the South Bund along the banks of the Huangpu, situated east of the historic urban core and in direct vicinity to the new in-quar...
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Old hospice, St. Gotthard Pass
Ever since the 13th century and at more than 2000 meters above sea level, travellers, pilgrims, and merchants have found refuge in the old h...
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Building in existing contexts
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Centre for Glass Art in Meisenthal
A curved surface consisting of smooth concrete spatially unites the free-standing historic factory halls of the former glassworks in Meisenthal withi...
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Heritage Building as Passive House
The former headquarters of the tyre company Armstrong Rubber in New Haven can hardly be overlooked. In 1969 the brutalist building was completed accor...
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From Airship Hangar to Cultural Centre
In a wooded area in Meudon, 10 km southwest of Paris, the landscape architect André Le Nôtrea designed a hangar where the French military developed b...
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New Life for Ghent’s Book Tower
What happens to architectural icons as they age? How can the buildings be adapted to current uses and energy standards without compromising their arch...
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Education Centre in Vorarlberg
In the Frastanz-Hofen education centre near Feldkirch, Pedevilla Architects united existing and new within an harmonic complex. The transitions betwee...
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Blasón House and Studio in Madrid
The small workshop on Calle Blasón is one of the few industrial buildings that still survive in the centre of Madrid. Increasingly stringent requireme...
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Casa Rossa in Chemnitz
Rough and blunt – that is how the facade of the townhouse and its exposed Imperial German format bricks appears to viewers. It establishes a str...
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Extension of the College of Construction and Design in Innsbruck
The new rooftop addition of the Technical College of Construction and Design offers 1650 m2 of additional usable area for classrooms, CAD labs and re...
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Béton House in Sheffield
The four blocks that make up Park Hill social housing estate were left to decay for decades. The external envelope was slowly disintegrating under a t...
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Redhill Barn in Devonshire
A rectangular building layout bordered by 75 cm thick limestone walls, a row of masonry pillars of the same material on the inside – that was a...
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Conversion in Cuneo
In the early decades of the 20th century the Italian railway service built housing for its employees all across the country. Also southwest of Turin,...
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The Chapel in London
The function of a building isn’t always made obvious by its exterior. The surprise is particularly big when a sacred building conceals a home hi...
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Gare Maritime in Brussels
Tour & Taxis, a 37 hectare site near the financial centre of Brussels, was one of Europe’s largest transshipment stations, well into the 198...
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Town House in Linz
Generally, dilapidated buildings in inner city locations that are not under a preservation order are demolished and replaced by new buildings. With th...
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Cultural Centre on Corsica
The former monastery and its expansion clad in sheet copper constitute a new, unified building that displays an impressively poetic aura. Combined the...
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Jacoby Studios in Paderborn
In converting the the Capuchin convent of St Vincent in Paderborn into the headquarters of a medium-size firm, David Chipperfield Architects undertook...
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Mole House in London
It is quite normal for single-family houses to say something about their occupants. Rarely, however, do the residents reveal their inclinations to suc...
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Factory Conversion in Barcelona
The site of the textile works Fabra i Coats in the district of San Andreu forms part of a restructuring programme of the city of Barcelona that embrac...
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Day Nursery in Memmingen
In her will, the entrepreneur Karoline Goldhofer decreed that a day nursery should be created on the site of her villa, which was situated on the edge...
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Redevelopment of the Fermi School in Turin
To the south, the two classroom tracts of the Fermi Secondary School open via access balconies on to a park-like environment. Implemented as part of t...
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Individual living
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Holiday Home, Texel
The North Sea island of Texel is located off the northern Dutch coast, in the Frisian Wadden Sea. Its rich fauna and flora make it a popular holiday d...
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Villa L near Munich
Concrete, glass and oak – this restrained material selection characterises the house that Pool Leber Architekten created on the outskirts of Grä...
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House on a Meadow in Carinthia
The idea of spending weekends and holidays in the place of your childhood might not appeal to everyone, unless, perhaps, it could offer such attractiv...
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At Home - Architecture for Urban Living
By means of 26 townhouses, urban multi-storey residential buildings and residential quarters this book presents a range of current lifestyle and livin...
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Town House in Linz
Generally, dilapidated buildings in inner city locations that are not under a preservation order are demolished and replaced by new buildings. With th...
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Blasón House and Studio in Madrid
The small workshop on Calle Blasón is one of the few industrial buildings that still survive in the centre of Madrid. Increasingly stringent requireme...
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Single Family Home near Tokyo
The residential house in Takasaki, about 100 km northeast of Tokyo, is not only home to a family of four. It also represents a sensual interplay of co...
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Leyton House in London
A subtle interplay of light and shadow enlivens the interiors of the end-of-terrace house that architects Louise and Sean McMahon designed for a filmm...
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Retirement Retreat in the Allgäu
Wood surfaces characterise the residence built by a couple from Berlin for their retirement in the small community of Oberreute in the Allgäu. On the...
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House with Shed Roof in Kanazawa
The large, steeply sloped shed roof of the residential house in Kanazawa already indicates that the city experiences significant rainfall. The house ...
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Earth House near Osaka
There is, in fact, no shortage of greenery here, but the client of Tomohiro Hata’s Earth House wanted more con- tact with nature and a building...
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House S near the Bavarian Alps
The single family house owned by the Schwab family is a monolithic brick building located in the village of Kottgeisering in the foothills of the Bava...
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House Rosa in Dornbirn
The three-storey house that Vorarlberg architect Sebastian Brandner built for himself and his four-person family is only 5 metres wide but 17.50 metre...
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House SO in Esslingen
With its facades that are closed on three sides the new home for a retired couple is more like a large garage than a small single-family house. In fac...
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Conversion in Cuneo
In the early decades of the 20th century the Italian railway service built housing for its employees all across the country. Also southwest of Turin,...
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At home - Architecture for Rural Living
In this book, 26 exemplary single-family houses are presented down to the structural detail.
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Construction for climate protection
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Manual of Recycling - Buildings as sources of materials
The Manual of Recycling provides the necessary expertise for the associated paradigm shift in construction.
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Plankstetten Abbey in Bavaria
Preserving creation is everyday living practice to the Benedictine monks of Plankstetten Abbey. Their monastery, located on a site between the cities ...
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Demountable Office Building in Delft
The office building created by the planners of cepezed in Delft follows the Cradle to Cradle principle. According to this principle, the required...
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Straw Bale Social Housing
Discussions that increasingly deal with resource conservation in the field of building and the carbon footprint of construction materials generate new...
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Floating Office Rotterdam
Constructions with limited use life span should be built in a way that enables easy demolition and reuse of components. It is seldom the case that the...
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School Building in Geneva
Shorter transport routes seem hardly possible: The material used for the loam bricks the load bearing walls of David Reffo’s school building in ...
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Urban Mining Design in Practice
For Korbach’s town hall, the planning team implemented an Urban Mining concept that spans from reusing the concrete from the existing building t...
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Office for Environment and Energy in Basel
Energy guzzler or passive house? Buildings don’t always tell which is which simply by looking at them. The Office for Environment and Energy in ...
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Elys Cultural and Commercial Building in Basel
In order to transform the former Coop distribution centre in the Lysbüchel area of Basel into the Elys cultural and commercial building, the planners ...
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City Hall Renovation near Brussels
With their new central administration facility, the municipality of Uccle, located south of Brussels and home to 80 000 residents, sets a signal for ...
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CO2 Neutral Hotel in Ludwigsburg
In 2014 the city of Ludwigsburg received the National German Sustainability Award for their “integrated, systematic and dedicated sustainab...
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Energy-Plus Housing Block in Paris
In Paris, Avenier Cornejo Architects have created the first social-housing structure to be certified with the label Bepos Effinergie 2013. “Bepo...
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St Gallen Agricultural Centre
Important for a high degree of sustainability and energy efficiency are the use of local, renewable materials, the exploition of natural resource...
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Recycling House in Hanover
The single family home in a new development in Hanover is a striking sight: Between the uniformly rendered neighbouring houses, the compact ...
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Gare Maritime in Brussels
Tour & Taxis, a 37 hectare site near the financial centre of Brussels, was one of Europe’s largest transshipment stations, well into the 198...
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Deichman Library in Oslo
When it comes to introducing BIM methods in Europe, Norway plays a leading role. In 2008 the public building authority, Statsbygg, published an initia...
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Ilse Wallentin House in Vienna
Clients from the public realm have high hopes for BIM, also in Austria. For the Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft, a quasi-governmental company that manage...
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The Plus Factory Building in Norway
About 100 km east of Oslo, halfway between the headquarters of the outdoor furniture manufacturer Vestre and the company’s steelworks in Torsby,...
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Student dormitory in Paris
The Quartier La Chapelle is located in the north-east of Paris. It offers a diverse and dynamic context for this student dormitory along the Rue Pajo...
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Sports buildings
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Heuried Sports Centre in Zurich
Alterations and extension works at the Heuried Sports Centre in Zurich took two years. It opened again in autumn 2017 with a new ice sports hall. The ...
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Velodrome in London
The velodrome for the 2012 Olympic Games in London is an elegantly curved shell structure with seating for 6,000 spectators. The overall form is divid...
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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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Sports Facilities - Leisure and Movement in Urban Space
The book presents sports buildings, which stand out for the quality of construction, integration into the urban context, and their objectives.
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Journal: Design Study − An Olympic Stadium for the 21st Century
How would an Olympic stadium for the 21st century look if it were designed by the likely main users of our future sports facilities? Prompted by the s...
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Technology: Renewal of the Suspended Ceiling at the Olympic Swimming Facility in Munich
The Olympic swimming facility in Munich was one of the structures erected for the 1972 Summer Olympics. More than 30 years later, the load-bearing cap...
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Otl Aicher Munich 1972
Edition DETAIL is launching the card game “Otl Aicher. Munich 1972” with 32 pairs of cards.
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50 Years after Munich 1972
The 1972 Summer Olympic Games were held in Munich. It was a stroke of luck for the city that can still be felt today.
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Olympic Stadium in Berlin
The football World Cup 2006 has focused international attention once more on the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. Nearly 70 years ago, it stood in the limel...
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Site and Main Sporting Arenas for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich
The main venue of the summer Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 is the “Oberwiesenfeld”. The central arenas comprise the Olympic Stadium, the sports hall...
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New Olympic Ski Jump Garmisch-Partenkirchen
The form of the new ski jump, which replaces the previous Olympic facilities, was developed from the dynamics of the sport and takes up the topography...
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Sports Hall in Haiming
In line with the motto “less is more”, many designers have adopted as a guiding principle the achievement of high functionality through co...
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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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Bellevue di Monaco in Munich
Another side of Munich: Thanks to a public initiative, an apartment building in the Glockenbach district was saved from demolition and now offers the...
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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 Hall in Calais
On the Quai de la Moselle in Calais, France, stands a new sports hall with seating for around 1500 spectators. It forms part of an urban development p...
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The Timber Roof of the TUM Campus in Munich
The TUM Campus is the greatest construction project developed in Munich's Olympiapark since the 1972 Olympics. The overall concept of the building an...
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Sports Hall in Puig d’en Valls
Since a short time ago the basketball and handball players from Puig d’en Valls on Ibiza have been able to train in their new sports hall whatev...
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School Swimming Pool near London
In many British private schools great importance is attached to sport. This is true also of the City of London Freemen’s School in Ashtead, to t...
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Essay: Active Cities
The rise of fitness awareness leaves its mark on cities, with facilities for sport and exercise increasingly impacting public space. This leads to new...
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Oriam Sports Performance Centre in Edinburgh
Scotland’s National Sports Performance Centre lies on the southern edge of Heriot Watt University campus in Edinburgh. Two asymmetrically curved...
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Playground in Copenhagen
How, in a densely built-up district, can one best create open spaces for sport and games? In Copenhagen’s Nordhavn this question is posed with a...
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