Bagley Classroom Building in Duluth, United States

Located in Duluth, United States, Bagley Classroom Building was designed by Salmela Architect. The nature reserve where this building is located is a contiguous natural area, 55 acres in size, deeded to the University which charged the architect with designing a facility to serve eight different departments for the nature portions of their teaching. The University desired that this building have minimum... 

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Bardessono, LEED Platinum pursuing Luxury inn and spa completes in California, United States

The Bardessono, LEED Platinum pursuing Luxury inn and spa completes designed by WATG is located in California, United States.  The inn includes a spa with four treatment rooms, a 75-foot-long rooftop infinity pool, a fine-dining restaurant, and meeting space. The design reflects a blending of the Valley’s agrarian character, the high refinement associated with its wines, and the indoor/outdoor... 

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Education Executive Agency and Tax Offices in Groningen, Netherlands

Designed by UNStudio, Education Executive Agency and Tax Offices is located in Groningen, Netherlands. A monochromatic form with repetitive projecting fins, the structure towers above its neighbours in the public realm, its asymmetric form ‘set amidst small, ancient woodland, sheltering rare and protected species’. External developments are still in progress, as concepts for a sizeable public garden... 

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A Silver Cloud to house a LEED Platinum hotel in prime seafront site in La Coruña, Spain

A Silver Cloud to house a LEED Platinum hotel in prime seafront site that located in La Coruña, Spain, was designed by miyarq. The form of miyarq’s buildings evolves in response to critical drivers and morphs as the project is progressively refined, while respecting the knowledge derived from traditional forms of architecture. The balance of thermal mass, orientation, the aspect of internal... 

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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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