Harpa Reykjavik Concert + Congress Centre in Reykjavik, Iceland

The Harpa Reykjavik Concert + Congress Centre designed by Henning Larsen Architects is located in Reykjavik, Iceland.  The glass prisms of the facades capture and reflect light, mirroring the time of day and the seasons like ‘a calendar of light’.Inspired by crystallised basalt columns commonly found in Iceland, the 12?sided southern facades create kaleidoscopic reflections [...]

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Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavik, Iceland

Reykjavik, Iceland that located in Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre, was designed by Henning Larsen Architects. Arguably the most noteworthy feature of the building is its kaleidoscopic facade, designed by HLA and Olafur Eliasson whose newly opened ‘Your Rainbow Panorama’ installation rests atop schmidt hammer lassen’s ARoS Museum in Aarhus. The glittering facade has [...]

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The University of Tennessee Medical Center Heart Hospital in Knoxville, United States

Designed by BARBERMcMURRY architects, The University of Tennessee Medical Center Heart Hospital is located in Knoxville, United States. The impetus for this project was to expand the patient capacity for a regional medical center and provide CVICU care housed within a new ‘Heart Hospital’ wing. In identifying the most logical available real estate at the [...]

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Ajurinmäki Daycare Center in Espoo, Finland

Ajurinmäki Daycare Center that located in Espoo, Finland, was designed by AFKS. The Ajurinmäki daycare center is situated in the district of Leppävaara in Espoo, Finland. The building comprises three separate ‘home areas’ for different groups within the children’s daycare centre, as well as an open door daycare centre. The rear of the plot rises [...]

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Collage Paris in Paris, France

The Collage Paris is a 63 unit social housing block that located in Paris, France by local architecture firm Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec architectes (ecdm architects). This exceptional architectural design model for French social housing à la rue picpus have designed to integrate into the exquisite existing Hausmannian architecture, maintaining the original stone façade to [...]

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