Modern cafe in the face of Indian university campus

The new cafe, design studio designed Romi Khosla Design Studios was built as the centerpiece of student life and all events on school grounds in New Delhi, India. The problem of local cafes and restaurants is mainly the lack proper ventilation and air conditioning. In the summer months when temperatures in the capital city of India reached 45 ° C, most such areas is almost uninhabitable. Romi Khosla Design Studios decided to solve this problem peculiar. Half open, half closed. This is Castro Cafeteria in New Delhi, which blurs boundaries between exterior and interior.

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Dynamic sculpture in Frankfurt Bank

Interesting steel ball appeared in the entrance hall of the bank in Frankfurt, Germany. Front part, established between the two huge towers that are a landmark for miles away, got a new face thanks to the sculpture by the Italian architect Mario Bellini. The entire building has undergone extensive Deutsche Bank renovations at which buildings were to have the latest technology to ensure its sustainability and nízkoenergetičnost. The new entrance area with a glass roof has become the most important element in the transformation of a large sealed

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Sensitive simultaneous extension of the historic architecture offers Art Brut in Lille

Lam, Museum of modern, contemporary and marginal art located in the French border Lille, since 1983 brick building boasts an original design based on the famous French architect Roland Simouneta. It is no longer considered its short existence managed to become a national historic monument. Museum in addition to the interesting area also attracts visitors to its set in the free city park. Call to expand the current museum, which was built before the author's home Manuella Gautrand and certainly not a simple challenge.

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The house literally embedded into the surrounding landscape

Dutch landscape near the town grow Geldrop had an atypical one family house. Right from its roots on the surface appears perfectly simple, functional family housing, which represents the current trend of family architecture - traditional rural life in the form most modern design.

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Family residence in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo

At first glance an interesting house in the Brazilian city of Piracicaba was built as a meeting place for families whose members are scattered across various cities. Designed by Isay Weinfeld architectural firm, from the same country. Architects have managed to design an interesting, three-storey house, which is their establishment on a specific site. For each floor because we can easily go directly to the ground. For such location of the house played in particular that the relatively steep slope is poorly oriented to the road.

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Torn House Exploded

Exploded House is located in southwest Turkey in Bodrum and is part of the architectural team of GAD. It is surrounded by arid, Mediterranean landscape with a history dating back thousands of years ago. It is set in a steep slope, which is trying to blend in as much as possible. Due to the local regulations that dictate very strict requirements for buildings with an area of 75 m 2 , the house got its final appearance only, but also descriptive name. Architects him literally "rozthaly" on individual pieces, each of which has less than those 75 m 2 . Three independent of matter are interconnected large atrium, which forms a central social space. fourth piece is designed to accommodate guests.

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Stimulating environment for future generations

In Oslo, Norway, grew up building a new nursery that attracts non-traditional processing and contemporary design. Aim of the project was clear: to build a sufficiently stimulating and motivating environment for future generations, whose first steps out of the climate of the family will be formed in these areas. Kindergarten is surrounded Fagerborg green park on the site of the former nursery, which had not suit current standards. We managed to architects from the studio Reiulf Ramstad Architects really create an environment that will be for young children the right start in life?

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Bubbly Red House

At first glance, eye-catching building is situated in a densely wooded valley in Oslo, Norway. Placing the house on a plot was deliberately chosen perpendicular to the flowing river that was compounded by the dramatic potential of the site and also to house the outlook did not prevent its neighbors, which form the most simple, wooden houses of the postwar period. Architectural studio JVA sought to keep the house in his character and detail in symbiosis with the original construction, the necessary dynamics and extravagance injected into the concept of a distinctive color of stained wood paneling. Red was chosen to reflect the lively personality of the investor.

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Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles

The Pan Pacific Park in Los Angeles architects have built, from Santa Monica, a new museum of the Holocaust. Create a space where visitors are introduced to despair, helplessness and pain, is a challenge, because only through careful selection of the appropriate architecture, environment and other aspects it is possible to make everyone understand due to the horrors of the past. Therefore, the choice seems to be a special place in the middle of a green park museum, where people spend their free weekends, around the dogs running around and screaming children. Belzberg Architects Architects from the study, however, his task with dignity.

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House in Singapore, Tanggu

Two-storey house floor plan is shaped to the letter L, which forms a roofed courtyard. From there, residents may enter the spacious garden. The main entrance to the house is located on the other side, the road that has receptive and conservative appearance. Covered Court works perfectly as a seamless transition between interior and exterior. After a straight staircase can ascend directly from the courtyard to the second storey. The house is surrounded by spacious floor plan, recessed pool in which the architects used a favorite trick. One of its glass walls, open spaces of the house. All flat roofs are designed as green.

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White House Prahran, Australia

A small house, but try to the greatest possible number of metaphors and angles of looking, grew up in Victoria, Australia, as a joint work of two architectural firms. Under the project are signed by both Reed Nervegna Architecture and Architects ph, chief designer of the project is Toby Reed. The relatively small house, seated on a very narrow plot of land, has two above ground and one underground floor, which is located in a private showroom. Investor in a project is an art gallery director, who yearned for a modern design and living.

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