Architect: Edouard François
Location: Paris, France
Client: Groupe Lucien Barrière, Groupe ACCOR
Structural engineers: COTEBA Ingénierie
Decorations: Jacques Garcia
Gardens: Pré Carré, Marc Vatinel
Lights and illumination: Light CIBLES, Louis Claire
Year of enchargement: 2003
Year of completion: 2006
Constructed area: 18,000 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Agence Edouard François

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Architects: h2o architectes
Location: Paris, France
Client: private
Programme: 60 sqm apartment
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Julien Attard

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Architects: AH Asociados – Miguel A. Alonso del Val, Rufino J. Hernández Minguillón, Marcos Escartín Miguel
Location: Oñati, Euskadi, Spain
Design Team: Juan Biain Ugarte, Isabel Gordoa Mendizábal, Francisco Trujillo Baute, Jesús Sanz Castro, Juan Oroz Barbería, Patricia Biain Ugarte, Miguela Modrego Jiménez, Eduardo Ozcoidi Echarren, Juan Manuel Filice Viale, Pablo Branchi Borrell
Technical Architects: Michel Aldaz García-Mina, Saioa Iñurrategui Olalde, Fernando Azpiazu Ugarte, Ana Moral García, Edurne Urcelai Azpiazu, María López Morquecho
Engineering: GE& Asociados
Developer: Provincia Franciscana de Arantzazu
Contractor: AH& project management y Construcciones Ugarte S.L.
Project Date: Marzo, 2002
Completion Date: Julio, 2005
Built Surface: 8,400 +120 sqm
Urbanization Surface: 22,900 sqm
Photographs: José Manuel Cutillas – Proyectar

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Architects: CHA:COL / Chinmaya+Apurva Collaborative
Location: Westwood, California, USA
Constructed Area: 232 sqm
Photographs: Benny Chan of Fotoworks

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Architects: EM2N
Location: Greifensee, Switzerland
Programme: new building: 3 childrens’ rooms, 1 bathroom, 2 patios, 1 home cinema/hobby room
Client: Private
Engineers: Tragwerk Bauingenieure GmbH, Zürich
Design year: 2003-2008
Constructed Area: new building: 67 sqm, conversion ground floor: 127 sqm
Photographs: Hannes Henz

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Architects: Yazdani Studio
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Project Team: Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design – team includes: Mehrdad Yazdani, Design Principal; Scott F. Reed, AIA, LEED AP, Project Principal; Paul Gonzales, Project Manager; John Gormley, Project Manager (conceptual design); Hansol Park, AIA, Senior Designer; Jessica Yi, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP Project Architect; Philip Ra; Senior Designer (Phase II only); Jeremy Whitener, Project Designer; Jack Poulin, IIDA, Interior FFE; Mimi Lam, LEED AP, Designer; Josh Moratto, Designer; Sepideh Nabavi, Designer
Structural engineer: KPFF Consulting Engineers
MEP (conceptual): IBE Consulting Engineers
Electrical engineer: IBE Consulting Engineers
General contractor/ Construction Manager: Matt Construction
Lighting designer: Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design
Mechanical, Engineer: ACCO Engineered Systems
Electrical, Engineer: ESSCO
Acoustician: Veneklasen Associates
Audiovisual: Electrosonic Systems
Exhibit Designer: Houghton Kneale Design and Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design
Fire/Life/Safety: Rolf Jensen Associates
Photographs: Benny Chan of Fotoworks

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The CDL (City Development Land) Headquarters in Singapore created a competition to redesign their existing façade in an effort to attain high international sustainability standards.  The winning proposal by London and Madrid based Daniel Statham Architects incorporates a banded façade that creates innovative spaces and responds to environmental factors.

Further project description and more images after the break.

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Architects: Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Principal in Charge: Rick Sundberg
Year: 2008
Photographs: Lara Swimmer

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NBBJ just revealed their latest design for UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion, slated to begin February 2010 and be completed just in time for the 2012-2013 basketball season.   Upon UCLA’s decision to renovate the existing Pavilion due to its strong sentimental value, NBBJ’s design includes new lobby and concourse space, as well as new facilities for the athletes and additional seating for fans.

Project description and more images after the break.

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Architect: Standard
Location: West Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA
Architect in charge: Jeffrey Allsbrook
Constructed Area: 223 sqm
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Benny Chan

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Architects: Camprubi i Santacana / Estela Camprubí Amat & Eugènia Santacana
Location: Monroyo/Mont-roig, Teruel, Spain
Year: 2009
Photographs: Jaime Font Furest & Consolacion Hotel

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Architects: LOHA Architects
Location: Burbank, California, USA
Principal in Charge: Lorcan O’Herlihy
Project Team: Pierre de Angelis (PM), Mark Mendez
Client: Authentic Entertainment, Inc.
Project year: 2008
Constructed Area: 1,393 sqm
Photographs: Douglas Hill

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Our friends from Allard Architecture sent us their proposal for the Silo Competition in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The Biotope converts the remains of an old water purification plant in an ecological mixed use development. Conceived as an ecological education centre, the Biotope will be the home for eco-related institutes like IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), for several schools of Amsterdam, for residential spaces and for sport facilities.

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Architects: superkül inc
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Principals: Andre D’Elia and Meg Graham
Project Architect: Drew Sinclair
Construction Manager: Boszko and Verity Inc
Structural Engineer: Robert E. Brown Associates
Mechanical Engineer: GPY + Associates Engineering Inc
Constructed Area: 75 sqm
Year: 2008
Photographs: Tom Arban Photography / Lorne Bridgman

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Italian practice studiometrico shared with us how they converted an old cinema in Milan, into the new  Bastard flagship store, which also includes a suspended bowl and offices for Comvert.

Skateboarders dreamed place to work.

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Architects: Amordad design developer
Location: Esfahan, Iran
Principals: Kamran Kopaei, Farshad Shagoshtasbi, Golrokh Kopaei
Owner: Sepahan beyond research (structure & mechanic office)
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Amordad design developer

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Los Angeles is often portrayed as the example of the car-friendly city. The traditional image of the town is an endless pattern of single family dwellings, interconnected by traffic-clogged freeways, where transit is undeveloped and the air is choked with smog.

However, Los Angeles is changing. The city’s Transport Authority has planned in the last years a series of measures aiming to improve quality of life through improving transit and walking and providing alternative to car commuting.

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Belgian practice BURO II designed some new projects around this historic site with a great importance to the city of Ostend. This is, amongst others, determined by its location: the proximity to the sea the Royal Galleries and the historically important Thermae Palace. The former racecourse for horse racing was turned into a collection of projects, and a crossroads of activities, which bring a new urban dynamic to ‘the queen of seaside resorts’.

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French architects Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec sent us the transformation of this small apartment, with a clear strategy: Decompartmentalise the place so as to fit out an open plan and elude the demand of an extra room by conceiving in the center of the volume a suspended white cube which generates comic and disconcerting use situations.

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Architects: Ezzo
Location: Leça da Palmeira, Portugal
Architect in Charge: César Machado Moreira
Planning Supervisor: Fátima Barroso
Structural Engineer: José Pedro Rocha
Main Contractor: Albopiges Lda.
Project year: 2008
Constructed Area: 200 sqm
Photographs: Ezzo

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