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    ‘Stormcloud’ Installation

    by Oyler Wu Collaborative
    With the Southern California Institute of Architecture celebrating its 40th anniversary, the Stormcloud installation was designed and built by the office of Oyler Wu Collaborative, along with students of SCI-Arc, for the after-party of its…
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    The Avenue on Portage

    by 5468796 Architecture
    The Avenue on Portage revives two historic commercial buildings from the early 1900s, turning them into into an apartment block with commercial space.
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    The Stables

    by AR Design Studio
    AR Design Studio undertakes a large scale refurbishment on a piece of overlooked historical heritage to create a perfectly working family home, bursting with contemporary style juxtaposed against delightful period character.
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    Ikibana Paral Restaurant

    by El Equipo Creativo
    The Ikibana restaurant offers a fusion of Japanese and Brazilian gastronomies, and its design similarly stands at the meeting point of the two cultures that seem so antagonistic: the first one - quiet and minimalist,…
  • Featured Building 18 May 2013

    Bear House

    by Onion
    Bear House is on Cha-Am Beach, a famous seaside resort town in central Thailand, three hours drive from Bangkok. The brief is to renovate a three-storey building of eight metres wide and twenty-eight metres long,…
  • Featured Building 18 May 2013

    Bryghusprojektet

    by OMA
    Work has begun on the OMA-designed headquarters of Denmark's national centre for architecture in Copenhagen.
  • Featured Building 17 May 2013

    Fuyi River Housing Sales Center

    by Lab Modus
    The curvilinear form, conceptualized from sea shell, provides a strong visual image to the neighborhood. The scheme consists of a three-story grey glazed volume and a sequence of double-curved white coated metallic panels. This set…
  • Featured Building 17 May 2013

    Seacombe Grove House

    by b.e architecture
    B.E Architecture has designed a minimalistic two-storey residence designed in Melbourne, Australia.
  • Featured Building 17 May 2013

    Elena Garro Cultural Center

    by Fernanda Canales, arquitectura 911sc
    The project is based on the idea of highlighting the existing early 20th century house and creating an open space for a new bookstore as well as adding spaces for cultural activities. The preexistence of…
  • Featured Building 16 May 2013

    Nowhere but Sajima

    by Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects
    Nowhere but Sajima provides a temporary ‘home’ for its guests. The weekly rental service provided by Nowhere Resort is a relatively new method of operating resort properties in Japan, and allows different tenants the opportunity…
  • Featured Building 16 May 2013

    Sant Josep Library

    by Ramón Esteve Architecture
    The library is a detached building within green surroundings splashed with trees that penetrate into the openings of the building. It is a prism box where the interior fragments with planes that flow between the…
  • Featured Building 16 May 2013

    Voyager Maritime Museum

    by Bossley Architects
    This is an extension to the NZ Maritime Museum in Auckland, which is designed as an exhibition building for NZL32, the yacht which first won the America's Cup for New Zealand. NZL32 is suspended within…
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