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AOC Long Beach Courts Building in Long Beach, United States

July 20, 2011 Filed Under: Goverment, Public Buildings
AOC Long Beach Courts Building in Long Beach, United States

Designed by Perkins+Will, AOC Long Beach Courts Building is located in Long Beach, United States. Dictated by context and solar orientation, it opens itself to the City and simultaneously embraces those arriving. The Court Building rises from an office podium of fluted concrete panels, while eight courtrooms per floor are organised in a ‘V’ configuration and expressed in shiplapped precast concrete.... 

Mary M. Gates Learning Center at United Way Worldwide in Alexandria, VA, United States

July 10, 2011 Filed Under: Education, Public Buildings
Mary M. Gates Learning Center at United Way Worldwide in Alexandria, VA, United States

Designed by TPG Architecture, Mary M. Gates Learning Center at United Way Worldwide is located in Alexandria, VA, United States. The renovation began with removing approximately 40% of the original pre-cast concrete panels from the exterior of the annex building and replacing them with an energy efficient glass curtain wall system. The lobby entrance housed a massive cubiform passageway which, located... 

Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower in Tokyo, Japan

June 3, 2011 Filed Under: Education, Public Buildings
Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower in Tokyo, Japan

Located in Tokyo, Japan, Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower was designed by Tange Associates. The tower floor plan is simple. Three rectangular classroom areas rotate 120 degrees around the inner core. From the 1st floor to the 50th floor, these rectangular classroom areas are arranged in a curvilinear form. The inner core consists of an elevator, staircase and shaft. The Student Lounge is located between the... 

Portico, Prospect Bay Beach, St James in Barbados

May 11, 2011 Filed Under: Commercial Building, Hotel
Portico, Prospect Bay Beach, St James in Barbados

The Portico, Prospect Bay Beach, St James designed by Roldano Bellori is located in Barbados.  Portico, which is opening its doors this year, is ideally located on the west coast of Barbados and draws attention from the outside by its sleek glass-curtain wall. On entrance once comes to a glass bridge above a reflecting pool, where water and stone organically merge with concrete and glass, replicating... 

R, Anthony Fieldman Architect in New York City, United States

April 27, 2011 Filed Under: Cultural, Public Buildings
R, Anthony Fieldman Architect in New York City, United States

The R. Anthony Fieldman Architect  designed by Perkins+Will is located in New York City, United States.  A building should reveal something exceptional about a specific place, culture or programme; its form should result from an open investigation into that particular context, and its architects should embrace the unexpected discoveries that result from that process. Once it is built, the phenomena... 

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