Armstrong Place Family + Senior Housing in San Francisco, United States

Designed by David Baker + Partners, Armstrong Place Family + Senior Housing is located in San Francisco, United States. This complex development fills a formerly industrial city block with an innovative housing mix, introducing affordable urban townhomes to keep growing families in the city and family housing adjacent to senior apartments to prevent seniors from [...]

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Wales Institute for Sustainable Education in Machynlleth, Wales, United Kingdom

Wales Institute for Sustainable Education that located in Machynlleth, Wales, United Kingdom, was designed by Pat Borer and David Lea. The WISE building is constructed of materials with low embodied energy: glulam timber frame, hemcrete walls, rammed earth, lime renders, slate, cork, home-grown timber flooring and finishes of natural paints and stains. It is well [...]

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Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate, United Kingdom

Designed by David Chipperfield Architects, Turner Contemporary Gallery is located in Margate, United Kingdom. The quiet coastal town was once a hub of activity as holidaymakers flocked to its beaches during the brief flashes of British summer sunshine. Over the years, Brighton and Blackpool have slowly replaced Margate as the first choice for England’s sunseekers, [...]

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Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate, United Kingdom

Turner Contemporary Gallery that located in Margate, United Kingdom, was designed by David Chipperfield Architects. The concept comes from 2007 RIBA Stirling Prize, RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture and now 2011 Mies van der Rohe winner David Chipperfield, whose sensitive approach to the design location ensures that the clean lines and somewhat heavy exterior [...]

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Garden House, remodel of a 1980?s house in Brazil.

Designed by David Guerra, Garden House, remodel of a 1980?s house is located in in Brazil. The director of a company, with the head office in London chooses a house in the 80’s decade, projected by a big architect, to transform it into your residence in Brazil. The office was hired to make a reconstruction [...]

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