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State Library of Queensland
Designer: Donovan Hill / Peddle Thorpe
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Image Credits: Dan Hill
The key feature that everyone immediately picks up about the State Library of Queensland (SLQ hereafter) is its openness. It’s a cliché, almost, particularly in Queensland architecture, to talk about ‘inside:outside’ spaces.
→ cityofsound.com
Posted: 02/17/2009
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Ordino Complex
Designer: Arteks Arquitectura
Location: Ordino, Andorra, Spain
Image Credits: Pedro Pegenaute & Eugeni Pons
The puiet complex is a building composed by four different programmatical activities. Because of its dimension, complexity, trying to obtain a better-scaled relationship with the urban context of the town of Ordino, and adapting itself to the different existent typologies, the volume of the building has been fragmented following its different activities. Differentiating roofs, materials and façade depths.
→ archdaily.com
Posted: 02/17/2009
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House of Ruins (Drupas)
Designer: NRJA
Location: Saka, Latvia
The House of Ruins is located in Latvia on the coast of the Baltic Sea. It is a new family house built inside the19th century ruins of a traditional Latvian barn.
→ archdaily.com
Posted: 02/17/2009
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Casa en Zapallar
Designer: CASG
Location: Santiago, Chile
The house, home to a small family, is located on the north hillside of Zapallar bay, north of Santiago, sitting on a steep 30 per cent slope overlooking the bay and the nearby village. Despite the house’s privileged location, the site’s position on the hill meant that the best views were looking towards the opposite side from the recommended sun orientation, so the team had to make some difficult decisions.
→ wallpaper.com
Posted: 02/17/2009
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Cantilever Bridge
Designer: unknown
Location: Leeuwarden, Netherlands
In Leeuwarden, Netherlands they enjoy the comforts of a robotic overlord controlling a road bridge. It looks less like a bridge than a giant transformer crouching next to the river, holding down a thin spatula of road surface.
→ www.yankodesign.com
Posted: 02/17/2009
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