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Pumping Station Home
Designer: Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset
Location: Berlin, Germany
Image Credits: Mark Simon for The New York Times
The artists Michael Elmgreen, left, and Ingar Dragset, once a couple but now just artistic partners, bought an old water-pumping station in a Berlin suburb and turned it into their home and studio.
→ nytimes.com
Posted: 10/15/2009
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Field Chapel in Boedigheim
Designer: Students of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology & Ecker Architekten
Location: Boedigheim, Germany
Image Credits: Robert Piotrowski, Dea Ecker, Klaus Hilger & John Ruffalo
The Field Chapel is a project designed and executed by the students of an Advanced De-sign/Build Studio at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture in Chicago for a ecumenical church co-operative in Boedigheim, Germany. Led by Professor Frank Flury, the project was assisted on a pro bono basis by the firm of Ecker Architekten (Buchen, Germany) with the craftsmen, volunteer workers and townspeople of the Odenwald/Bauland, a rural region in northern Baden-Württemberg.
→ archdaily.com
Posted: 10/15/2009
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Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
Designer: Max Dudler Architects
Location: Berlin, Germany
Image Credits: Stefan Müller
After more than three years construction time today the new Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Center in Berlin – Germany’s biggest open access library – will be opened. The library of Berlin’s Humboldt University was designed by the Berlin, Franfurt and Zürich based Max Dudler Architects.
→ www.dailytonic.com
Posted: 10/15/2009
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House Equanimity
Designer: Joseph N. Biondo
Location: Northampton, PA
Image Credits: Steven Wolfe Photography
Situated in a typical nondescript subdivision of Eastern Pennsylvania, this home is surrounded by other single-family houses of all shapes and sizes, redolent with clichés and conventions which can be just as easily elsewhere as here. For that reason it is the surrounding landscape and history of the region that largely determines the design. The primary building materials, site poured concrete and various concrete products, pay respect to the history of Northampton – the birthplace of American Portland Cement.
→ bustler.net
Posted: 10/14/2009
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The Healthcare Center for Cancer Patients
Designer: NORD Architects
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
The Healthcare Center for Cancer Patients is a new typology between the tranquility of a home and the sophisticated treatment at a hospital. The center’s design was inspired by the concept of ‘Maggie’s Center’ in the UK. The building is run in collaboration with the Danish Cancer Society.
→ bustler.net
Posted: 10/14/2009
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