Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas Texas, USA

Won the 2008 American Institute of Architects New Jersey Chapter Award, the Irving Convention Center that located at Las Colinas, Texas was designed by RMJM Edinburgh-based international architects to be as efficient and flexible as possible, reducing the footprint and making it appealing to a wide range of organisations. In an effort to avoid the [...]

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Pyramids Heights Residence in Giza, Egypt

Located in Giza, Egypt, Pyramids Heights Residence was designed by Shahira H. Fahmy Architects. The design model of this house is organised into two interweaving volumes, connecting in different points that become shared spaces. Formally, the spatial interplay of the interior creates four loosely defined quadrants of the house: the formal living space for social [...]

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Vanguardia Offices in Santiago, Chile

Vanguardia Offices that located in Santiago, Chile, was designed by Gonzalo Mardones. The intercropped office spaces and circulations are interspersed allowing an interconnected series of spaces and spatial variety. The architectural space is enhanced through a functional poly-space. Besides the use of the roof through the fifth façade (term coined by Le Corbusier), the building [...]

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Conservatory House (a.k.a Home Tree House) in Varna, Bulgaria

The Conservatory House (a.k.a. Home Tree House)  located in Varna, Bulgaria, was designed by Ignatov Architects,  is designed for the enjoyment of nature and music. The client asked for a residence with a space for hosting small music events and a large conservatory for growing flowers. These requirements were in line with local building code [...]

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Chabad Lubavitch Center in Berlin, Germany

Chabad Lubavitch Center that located in Berlin, Germany, was designed by nps tchoban voss GmbH & Co. KG,  The 1922-founded building was designed for the electricity company ‘Elektrizitätswerk Südwest AG’. Its use as a voltage transformer station and later as a laboratory for street illumination and has nothing in common with the today’s aim of [...]

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