Jefferson Hall-USMA Library and Learning Center in New York, United States

Designed by Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture, Jefferson Hall-USMA Library and Learning Center is located in New York, United States. Thomas Jefferson Hall Library and Learning Center was built to meet the growing educational needs of the 4,400 cadets plus faculty. By bringing together the Cadet Library, the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Center for [...]

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Heritage Solar Slate in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

The Heritage Solar Slate, was designed by Heritage Solar Slate Ltd, located in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, These innovative solar slates have been developed with similar aesthetic properties to roofing slates. They are fully weather proof and blend in with standard roof slates to provide an aesthetically pleasing solar panel roof ideal for use in conservation [...]

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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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National Library of China in Beijing, China

The new National Library of China building, Designed by KSP Jürgen Engel Architekte, located in Beijing, china is the third largest library in the world and houses as many as 12 million books. The structure is the new home for the ‘Siku Quanshu’ (‘Complete Library in Four Branches of Literature’) which was completed in 1782. [...]

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One Alfred Place in London, United Kingdom

Located in London, United Kingdom, One Alfred Place was designed by Michaelis Boyd Associates. Designers of Babington House, London based Michaelis Boyd Associates, have just completed One Alfred Place, a business club in central London. Babington House, a converted Georgian pile in the Wiltshire countryside, was a trend setting destination when opened in 1998 to [...]

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