Architects: JSª: Javier Sánchez - Juan Soler, Diana Elizalde, Angelica Soberanes, Enrique Salazar, Ana Luna, Alejandro Ita
Location: Temístocles 12, col. Polanco, Mexico D.F., Mexico
Project year: 2006
Client: Grupo Pegaso
Structure & Services: Hector Margain, Fernando Valdivia
Contractor: Ménsula México S.A. de C.V.
Architectural Supervision: Mariana Ugalde
Technical Supervision: Hugo Mendoza
Average Area: 150 sqm
Total Area: 1,892 sqm
Number of Units: 9 apartments
Photographs: Paúl Rivera (PR), Mariana Ugalde (MU)

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Architects: Boyd Cody Architects - Sinead Bourke, Dermot Boyd, Peter Cody, James Corbett, Ryan Kennihan
Location: Rathmines, Dublin 6, Ireland
Programme: Residential House
Engineer: John Casey
Site Area: 121.5 sqm
Constructued Area: 110 sqm
Budget: 250,000 EURO (US $394,900)
Design & Construction: 2004-2005
External Materials: Brick, Satin Anodised Aluminium Windows
Interior Materials: White Oak, Concrete, Plaster and Rubber

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Architects: FOA Foreign Office Architects, Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Location: Istambul, Turkey
Collaborators: Friedrich Ludewig, Kenichi Matzusawa, Chris Yoo; Schemes, Detail Design: Friedrich Ludewig, Christian Wittmeir, Samina Azhar, Andrei Gheorghe, Emory Smith, Ebru Simsek, Eduarda Lima
Client: Metro Group AG
Constrution year: 2007
Constructed Area: 55.000 sqm
Budget: 34 M EURO ( US $53,37 M)
Photographs: Cristóbal Palma, Friedrick Ludewig

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Architects: MAD Office
Location: Beijing, China
Construction year: 2006
Constructed Area: 487.2 sqm
Interior Area: 189.7 sqm
Project Directors: Yansong Ma, Yosuke Hayano
Project Architect: Florian Pucher
Design team: Shen Jun, Christian Taubert, Marco Zuttioni, Yu Kui
Associate Architects & Engineers: IDEA Design Studio
Photographs: Shu He

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Architects: AMP Arquitectos, S.L.
Location: Lercaro Urbanization, La Orotava, Spain
Architecture team: Felipe Artengo Rufino, Fernando Martín Menis, José Mª Rodríguez Pastrana Malagón
Furniture: Rafael Hernández Hernández, Andrés Pedreño Vega
Engineering: Martín Díaz
Structure Engineering: Arcal
Contractor: Construcciones Rodríguez Mesa
Client: Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deportes del Gobierno de Canarias
Photographs: Hisao Suzuki & Miguel de Guzman

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Architects: Jaime Rendon Arquitectos
Location: Medellín, Colombia
Project Team: Jaime Rendon, Felipe Campuzano, Fernando Zapata
Structure Engineer: Luis Bernardo Gonzalez
Contractor: Luz Estella Orrego
Soil Study: SOLINGRAL LTDA
Electrical Design: INGELECTRICA LTDA
Construction year: 2006-2007
Photographs: Sergio Gomez, Felipe Campuzano

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Architect: OTH, Ontwerpgroep Trude Hooykaas bv
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Iniciative Year: 1997
Start Construction Year: 2006
First half Completion: June 2007
Final Completion: November 2007
Project Team: Trude Hooykaas , Julian Wolse / Steven Reisinger, Gerald Lindner
Client: ING Real Estate Development Netherlands, Den Haag
Project Adviser: INBO Adviseurs Bouw, Woudenberg
Structural Engineer: Aronsohn raadgevende ingenieurs, Rotterdam
Contractor: Contractors combination M.J. de Nijs en Zn., Warmenhuizen / Bot Bouw, Amsterdam
Installations: Huygen Installatie adviseurs, Rotterdamm
Building Physics: Lichtveld, Buis & Partners BV, Nieuwegein
Project Management: Grontmij / Kats & Waalwijk, Gorinchem
Constructed Area: 12.500 sqm
Photography: Christiaan de Bruijne / Rob Hoekstra / Fotostudio FdW - Fedde de Weert / OTH

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Architect: AMP Arquitectos, S.L.
Location: Tincer, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Collaborator: Fernando Martin
Project team: Felipe Artengo Rufino, José Mª Rodríguez Pastrana Malagón, Mariola Merino Martín (PROJECT MANAGEMENT)
Competition team: Adán Ramos ,Claudia Colmar, Mathias Fuchs, Rafaél Hernández, Mónica Rodríguez, Andrés Pedreño
Project year: 2007
Technical Architects: Rafaél Hernández Hernández, Andrés Pedreño Vega
Strcutural Engineers: Fhecor Ingenieros Consultores, Juan José Gallardo
Technical Engineers: Milián Associats S.A., CITE Ingerieros S.L.
Contractor: Dragados, Obras y Proyectos
Constructed Area: 36.000 sqm
Client: Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, Ayuntamiento de Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Photographs: Hisao Suzuki & AMP arquitectos

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Architect: Marsino Arquitectos Asociados
Location: Antofagasta, II región, Chile
Project Year: 2002
Construction Year: 2004
Collaborators: Diego Achurra, Alejandro Rojas D., Jaime Fuentes D., Paula Herrera, Arturo Steinberg, Gonzalo Días
Client: Universidad Catolia del Norte
Structural Engineer: Ivan Vladilo
Contractor: Empresa Constructora Villalobos - Convi S.A.
Lighting: Enzo Anziani
Landscape: Mauro Manetti
Site area: 331.696 sqm
Constructed Area: 4.261 sqm
Structure Materials: Concrete

Marsino Arquitectos designed the Central Library for the Universidad Católica del Norte in Chile. Several access points, circulations and gathering spaces result in a fluid space that fits with current educational methodologies.

The architectural container materializes the gathering in spaces to develop the social and collaborative role of contemporary libraries, distant from the old archive-like approach for libraries.

Its facade consolidates the institutional image of the University, that has been developed as a series of temporary constructions.

More pictures and plans after the break.

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The new building for the Ibere Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil designed by Portugal´s Alvaro Siza, is a big rectangular white concrete structure. It has a big central space enclose by circulations and exhibition spaces. Some of this circulations separate from the main body as arms going out through the facade.

I´ve always loved the big white orthogonal Siza buildings, and i think that this form is really informed by brazilian modernists, resulting on sculptural rock in front of the river with an amazing light use, a tradition on Siza´s works.

Pictures by Grazielle Bruscato, plans taken from Fundação Iberê Camargo.

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Architects: Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Architects MNAL
Location: Stavanger, Norway
Building type: Private House
Construction year: 2004
Primary Architects: Einar Jarmund, Håkon Vigsnæs, Alessandra Kosberg, Hanne Bergan
Client: Withheld at owners request
Consultants: Walter Jacobsen
Constructed Area: 260 sqm

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Young chilean architect Harald Opitz shared with us this impressive hotel located in the deep chilean south, that uses local wood for its skin, made in part of sticks.

Architect: Harald Opitz
Location: Camino a Ensenada, Puerto Varas, Chile
Contractor: Inmobiliaria Cielos del Sur Ltda
Structure Engineer: Jose Torres Herrera
Site Area: 14.000 sqm
Constructed Area: 1.500 sqm
Project Year: 2006
Construction year: 2007-2008
Materials: Wood, Steel & Concrete
Photographs: Francisco Negroni

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