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House of Sweden
Designer: Wingardh
Location: Washington DC, USA
Image Credits: Wingardh
It is hot and very humid. The architectural competition has begun.
Sweden has the chance to win a spectacular site - a peninsula surrounded by the Potomac and Rock Creek.
The National Swedish Property Board, with Jan Thews as its representative, has a clear goal. The city plan allows a certain volume and that has to be exploited to make the project financially reasonable. There is one drawback with this site, however - it floods regularly.
→ archdaily.com
Posted: 01/09/2009
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House in Yokohama
Designer: NISSYO KOGYO Co.
Location: Yokohama, Japan
Image Credits: Jun-ichi Nakagawa / Nissyo Design Dept.
Japan based company NISSYO KOGYO Co. has completed "House in Yokohama" in yokohama, japan. NISSYO KOGYO Co. has designed and constructed it.
→ architecturephoto.net
Posted: 01/09/2009
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Basque Health Department Headquarters
Designer: Coll-Barreu Arquitectos
Location: Ensanche, New Town, Spain
Image Credits: Aleix Bagué
The restrictive city rules compel to repeat the shape of the neighbouring walls, reducing penthouses according to a curved directive, chamfering the corner and building a tower on it. The building concentrates services and communications in a vertical spine attached to the longest party hedge and generates seven open floors assigned for offices. Above this, there are two floors for local representative and institutional use. The board hall takes up the double height of the tower. The assembly hall, its lobby and its appendages are situated in the first basement. Further below there are two parking floors and one fourth level for archives. The car lifts allow access to all the basement levels.
→ yatzer.com
Posted: 01/09/2009
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Boxhome
Designer: Rintala Eggertsson Architects
Location: Oslo, Norway
A compact house of 19 m² which despite its few square meters contained four rooms, kitchen with measuring, bathroom, living room and bedroom.
Boxhome var ett försök/studie i att bygga ett smart hem med moderna bekvämligheter, men på färre kvadratmeter. Boxhome was an attempt / study in building a smart home with modern amenities, but on fewer square feet. Resultatet blev en modern, mysig bostad på 19 m² som enbart kostade ¼ av en motsvarande lägenhet. The result was a modern, cozy home in 19 m² which only cost ¼ of an equivalent apartment.
→ www.belowtheclouds.com
Posted: 01/09/2009
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FlatFlat
Designer: SAKO Architects
Location: Harajuku, Tokyo
Image Credits: SAKO Architects
The concept of the store is ‘the future park’ and we attempted to combine virtual element with real space opens to anyone. It is not only the space where ‘organic principle’ and ‘inorganic principle’ stay together, but it represents the modern society consists of real and virtual environments.
→ www.contemporist.com
Posted: 01/09/2009
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