Silver Spring Civic Building and Veterans’ Plaza in Silver Spring, United States

The Silver Spring Civic Building and Veterans’ Plaza designed by Machado and Silvetti Associates is located in Silver Spring, United States .  This MSA project treats the civic building as the terminus of an important pedestrian axis that links the building and Veterans’ Plaza – via the town’s newly developed main shopping street, Ellsworth Drive [...]

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The Ice Cubes, complete retail building with frit glass cubes in Tokyo, Japan

Located in Tokyo, Japan, The Ice Cubes, complete retail building with frit glass cubes was designed by Jun Mitsui & Associates Inc. Architects. By developing the formal strategy as a series of interlocking cubes the architects were able to massage the complicated building envelop shape into a dynamic composition. This strategy not only solved the [...]

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Redondo Beach Container Home in Redondo Beach, CA, United States

Designed by DeMaria Design Associates Inc, Redondo Beach Container Home is located in Redondo Beach, CA, United States. The redeployed containers are a critical element of the transportation infrastructure that facilitates global trade and with the ongoing trade imbalance; millions of containers remain in ports around the USA. Combined with technologies from the neighbouring aerospace [...]

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Trinity School Enrichment Center in Menlo Park, United States

The Trinity School Enrichment Center designed by Mark Cavagnero Associates is located in Menlo Park, United States. Beyond providing much-desired program space, the project provides two covered terraces that knit the addition into the existing campus. The terraces and a monumental stair create a new formal gathering space for the community of students and teachers [...]

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Parag Shah’s Residence in Surat, India

The Parag Shah’s Residence designed by Matharoo Associates, located in the industrial city of Surat, India  with its recent history of plague, riots, earthquake and floods, and presently dealing with uncontrollably booming economy; the irregular site lines generate a skewed box in concrete as if to ward off all externally disturbing forces. Nature-trapping volumes along [...]

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