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 provides the basement... 

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KEPCO Headquarters in Naju, South Korea

The KEPCO Headquarters designed by Haeahn Architecture + H Associates is located in Naju, South Korea. The site strategies in the project challenge the clearly segregated tower / podium / landscape hierarchy which dominates the current office complex typology. The design inverts the normative scheme to create a polycentric, campus-like organisation with dispersed volumes and lively public promenades.... 

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Cinépolis Headquarters in Morelia, Mexico

The Cinépolis Headquarters designed by KMD Architects is located in Morelia, Mexico. Cinépolis was designed to be a workplace that embraces creativity and the vision of the company for which it was designed. This campus includes a sculptural centerpiece, a four-storey structure in which the third and fourth stories are cantilevered over the lower two. At 41 metres long, it’s one of the world’s... 

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Doha Souks in Doha, Qatar

Doha Souks, that located in Doha, Qatar was designed by Nabil Gholam Architects. The proposed scheme is based on a low-rise perimeter block type development with active external and internal edges. The built-up area is distributed over three floor plates, each self-contained with its own vertical circulation and services core. The passages between these blocks become the entrances and alleys leading... 

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Indian Institute of Advanced Nursing in Chennai, India John McAslan + Partners

Indian Institute of Advanced Nursing, that located in Chennai, India, was designed by John McAslan + Partners Comprised of two buildings – The Institute for teaching and The Hostel for student accommodation – the IIAN is spread over a five acre site, dotted with indigenous plants and local trees with medicinal properties. These structures are both anchored by individual courtyards and arranged... 

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