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Beigang Cultural Center | MAYU Architects
03-25-2017:ArchDaily: The interior spatial flow and the transparency created by the ground-touching ribbon glass windows do contrast with the substantial opaque building volumes above. In fact, the transparency below the opaque volumes becomes a datum line that links the opaque ...
House in Gerês | Correia Ragazzi
03-24-2017:MODERNi: The project of this house foresees both to reconstruct and augment a ruin into a weekend retreat at a plot with extraordinary morphological characteristics, within Cavado River and its tributary. The plot, of 4.060m2, is located in a protected ...
Stella Maris Chapel |Â Alejandro Beautell
03-23-2017:ArchDaily: On a material level the construction results from great austerity, the simplicity of the used materials and the use of resources such as natural lighting, which provide the building with an ascetic character that seeks the essential. The crushed ...
Concrete Box House | Robertson Design
03-22-2017:MODERNi: The design of this relatively modest house has a definite Japanese influence. The carefully choreographed entry sequence, the material clarity, and the sculptural presence of the house all have their roots in the Japanese residential tradition. The building is ...
Walsh College | Valerio Dewalt Train
03-21-2017:MODERNi: Due to a 40% enrollment increase, Walsh College began an ambitious three-phase building program to increase capacity and flexibility at its Troy, Michigan campus. The first phase consists of a two-story 36,000 SF addition that presents a refreshed identity ...
AESOP DTLA | BROOKS+SCARPA
03-201-2017:MODERNi: Taking cue from the neighborhood culture and the empty bolts of fabric strewn about costume shops and fashion houses, the environment consists of 6-inch round cardboard tubes to create walls and furniture. This natural palette is warm and inviting, ...
Flynn Mews House | Lorcan O’Herlihy
03-18-2017:MODERNi: This home engages with the historic core of Dublin in a uniquely intimate way. With its main entrance by way of a small mews, or alley, the site’s historic coach house façade was restored and incorporated into the new ...
Vlooyberg Tower | Close to Bone
03-17-2017:MODERNi: Standing unsupported at almost 11.5 metres tall, the staircase "floats" above its picturesque setting in the the Tielt-Winge municipality. The structure known as Vlooyberg Tower was designed by the Belgian studio to replace an existing wooden lookout post on the site, ...
Rapperswil-Jona Janus | MLZD
03-17-2017:DesignBoom:  The winning design of a competition held in 2007, one of the criteria for the new building was to leave the overall townscape as seen from the north unchanged. in response, the project inserts itself discreetly by a narrow ...
