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Llorenç house Designer: Eneseis arquitectura
Location: Mutxamel, Spain
Image Credits: Jose Alberto Vicente The parcel is located in Mutxamel (Alicante, Spain), in a single housing development near the town center, but depending on the car. The project connects the public street with a 40m narrow pass, so the building is surrounded on every side, but on the northwest side it opens to a tree zone and to a beautiful mountain view. The building opens itself towards the mountain view, and closes itself, looking for its own privacy against the surrounding buildings. → www.materialicious.com Posted: 01/22/2009 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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GQ Bank Concept Designer: Neil M. Denari Arhitects
Location: Japan
For an issue dedicated to banking in the future, GQ Japan approached CIA Tokyo and NMDA to develop concepts around this premise. Our work focused on a 33 meter high building on corner site in central Tokyo. The exterior design is a smooth metal and glass surface that shifts and distorts according to views and internal programs. → nmda-inc.com Posted: 01/22/2009 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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Taipei Performing Arts Center Designer: Neil M. Denari Arhitects
Location: Taipei City, Taiwan
Given the near schizophrenia of the site (lush green vs beige postmodernism), surely a powerful reason to choose this location, we have proposed a scheme that rises to a height of 57 meters (top of the Grand Theater fly tower) as a way to challenge the vertical dominance of the perimeter blocks. This decision has other positive benefits (as will be stated later), yet it is the anticipation of an even taller city that inspires such logic. → nmda-inc.com Posted: 01/22/2009 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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Torre del golf Designer: Neil M. Denari Arhitects
Location: Lima, Peru
Due to the expansion of global economies and transnational flows of various currencies, the world of condominium design has radically changed in the last five years, especially in major urban centers such as New York, London, and Shanghai. In unexpected fashion, this building type has allowed architects to explore a range of expressions not previously supported by the luxury housing market. Though still often limited by the conditions of FAR and net to gross ratios of sellable square meters, these new global conditions have nonetheless fostered a new energy toward innovative housing design. → nmda-inc.com Posted: 01/22/2009 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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Hotel Habita Designer: Landa Arquitectos (Architecture), Joseph Dirand (Interiors)
Location: Monterrey, Mexico
Image Credits: Hotel Habita Opened in August this year, Hotel Habita Monterrey strikes with captivating architectural desicions by Agustin Landa and a rooftop pool bar that offers a 360-degree view combined with the comfort of a cool concrete canopy. The interior design is courtesy of Parisian Joseph Dirand and includes some of the most prominent furniture pieces like Swan Chair and Swan Sofa by Arne Jacobsen… → www.yatzer.com Posted: 01/22/2009 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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