© Yves André

Architects: meier + associés architectes
Location: Landeyeux, Switzerland
Project Year: 2007
Project Area: 1,440 sqm
Photographs: Yves André

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© Drew Gregory

Architects: assemblageSTUDIO
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Landscape architect: Attanasio Landscape Architecture
Project area: 8,000 sq. f.t
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Drew Gregory

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© Patrick Miara

Architecture photographer Patrick Miara shared with us the Tower of Arts in the city of Les Herbiers, France designed by Forma 6 Architects with an outer skin made of copper and aluminium creating some great color changes during the day.

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© Dacian Groza

Architects: Vlad Sebastian Rusu
Location: Cluj Napoca, Romania
Structural Engineering: Sc. Asiza Srl./ eng. Ovidiu Rusu
Servicess: Sc. Steve Impex, Sc Procont Impex/ Cluj
Construction: Sc. Decorint Srl./ Cluj
Project Area: 1,370 sqm
Project Year: 2007-2009
Photographs: Dacian Groza

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© Antonio Ravalli Architetti

Architects: Antonio Ravalli Architetti
Location: Ferrara, Italy
Project Team: Antonio Ravalli, Simone Pelliconi, Mauro Crepaldi, Giuseppe Crispino, Valentina Milani, Lorenzo Masini
Project Area: 110 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Antonio Ravalli Architetti

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© Jim Stephenson / clickclickjim

Architects: Conran & Partners
Location: East Sussex, United Kingdom
Project Area: 425 sqm
Budget: £1.8million
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Jim Stephenson

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© Richard Barnes

Architects: Della Valle Bernheimer
Location: Town of Hillsdale, Columbia County, NY, USA
Partner in Charge: Andrew Bernheimer
Project Manager: Erik Helgen
Project Team: Brian Butterfield
Client: Andrew, Nicole, and Isaac Bernheimer
Contractor: Andrew Bernheimer with Dean Contracting
Project Area: 2,590 sq ft
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Richard Barnes

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© Paúl Rivera - archphoto

Architects: Davis Brody Bond Aedas
Location: Washington DC, USA
Co-Lead Designers: Peter Cook, AIA & J. Max Bond, Jr., FAIA
Project Team: Christiane DeJong, AIA, LEED AP, Jeffrey Harrigan, Nathan Hoyt, FAIA, Andrew McGee, Cody McNeal, LEED AP, Charlie Salinas
Contractor: Forrester Construction Company
Structural/Civil Engineer: Delon Hampton
Geotechnical Engineer: Professional Consulting Corporation
Mechanical Engineer: JVP Engineers
Lighting Consultant: MCLA
Landscape Architect: Lee and Associates
A/V, Security, IT: Polysonics
Elevator Consultant: Williams-Huntt & Associates
Furniture Management: Fahrenheit, LLC
Cost Estimator: S.C. Meyers & Associates, Inc.
Community Outreach: Circle Point
Owner’s Representative: A-1 Construction
Project Area: 22,000 sq ft
Project Cost: $10,000,000
Project Year: 2008-2010
Photographs: Paúl Rivera – archphoto

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© Iwan Baan

The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum by Herzog & de Meuron is a remarkable revival of a building that no longer exists. The original museum, which opened in 1895, was an outgrowth of a fair modeled on the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition the previous year known as the California Midwinter Internation Exposition of 1894. Located in the sunny San Francisco, California, the museum was formerly named for one of the city’s newspapermen M.H. de Young. The old museum was a bulky structure decorated with concrete ornaments, which began falling off the building and became hazardous, leading to their removal in 1949. The building was completely destroyed, however, in 1989 by the Loma Prieta earthquake.

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© Ignacio Bisbal Grandal

Architect: José Juan Barba (Project & Management)
Location: Valle del Órbigo, Benavente, Zamora, Spain
Collaborating Architect: Concha Llorden (Project)
Technical Collaborators: Miguel A. Vecino (Quantity Surveyor), Daniel Juan (Quantity Surveyor) Rosa Pérez Fdez. (Civil Eng.)
Collaborators: Andrés Ferrero, Alex Puigborn, Pablo Cruz (infography), Juan Carlos Yusto (model), Menelaos Yorgos
Structural Engineering: Ramón Barreiro
External Collaborators: J.M. Aller (interior models), Illione (furnishing), Alberto de Prado, Consultoría Lumínica / Hess-Iluminación (lighting), Agustín Maestro (Air Conditioning), Ferroblan S.L. (Concrete), Luis Aragoneses (PERI)
Contractors: Villar y Vara, Ferroblan (concrete vertical structure & ramp), Manuel Rubial S.L. (Stainless Steel), Terraconti (Floors), Asprosub (gardens)
Promotor: Proyectos Interreg. Unión Europea. España/Portugal
Built Area: 900,00 sqm
Garden Area: 220,47 sqm (Total 1.120,47 sqm)
Site Area: 2 Ha. (aprox. 20.000 sqm)
Budget: 1,225,000.00 €
Project Year: 2004
Furnishing & Model Project: 2005
Construction Year: 2005-2009
Educational Elements: 2009
Photographs: Ignacio Bisbal Grandal

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© Alexandre Kapellos

Architects: XPACE architecture + urban design / Maud Cassaignau, Markus Jung
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Realization: Maud Cassaignau
Engineer: Reto Bonomo
Contractor: Prefalux
Project Area: 86 sqm
Project Year: 2006–2009
Photographs: Alexandre Kapellos

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© Courtesy of Valerio Olgiati

Architect: Valerio Olgiati
Location: Scharans, Switzerland
Collaborators: Nathan Ghiringhelli (project manager office Olgiati), Nikolai Müller, Mario Beeli
Client: Linard Bardill, musician + poet
Construction Supervisor: Linard Bardill
Structural Engineer: Patrick Gartmann, partner of Conzett, Bronzini, Gartmann AG, Chur
Project Area: 285 sqm
Project Year: 2006-2007
Photographs: Courtesy of Valerio Olgiati

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© Yuichi Higurashi

Architects: Archivision
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Principals in Charge: Yoshihiro Hirotani & Yusaku Ishida
Structural Engineers: Umezawa Structural Engineers
Mechanical Engineers: Azu Planning
General Contractor: Daido Housing
Site Area: 67.88 sqm
Constructed Area: 108.31 sqm
Project Year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Yuichi Higurashi

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Architect: Bates Masi Architects
Location: East Hampton, NY, USA
Client: Private
Structural Engineer: Steven L. Maresca
Landscape: Coen & Partners
Contractor: Robert Padden Company & Brian Mannix Builder
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Michael Moran Photography

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Architect: Anne Menke (Dipl.-Ing. / MSc) in collaboration with Winkens Architekten, Berlin
Location: Hameln, Germany
Year of Construction(Existing Building): 1957
Site Area: 1,550 sqm
Living Area Before/After: 124 sqm/284 sqm (excl. cellar)
Total Constructed Area: 364 sqm
Annual Heating Energy Requirements: 74 kWh/m2a
Project Year : 2009
Photographs: Monika Marasz, Norbert Priebe, Anne Menke

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Architect: Smiljan Radic Clarke
Location: Talca, Chile
Collaborators: Loreto Lyon, Danilo Lazcano, Augusto Vergara, Gonzalo Torres
Contractor: Constructora Covasa Ltda.
Constructive System: Steel frame
Project Year: 2004
Construction Year: 2005
Site Area: 5,000 sqm
Constructed Area: 165 sqm
Photographs: Cristobal Palma

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Architects: Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Architects MNAL / Einar Jarmund, Håkon Vigsnæs & Alessandra Kosberg
Location: Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
Design Period: 2001-2003
Construction period: 2003-2005
Collaborators: Anders Granli, Nevzat Vize, Sissil Morseth Gromholt, Thor Christian Pethon, Halina Noach, Harald Lode, Stian Schjelderup
Client: Statsbygg / Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property
Interior Desgin: Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Architects MNAL, Nina Stokset Nilsen
Landscape Architect: Grindaker A/S
Structural Engineer: AS Frederiksen
Electrical Engineer: Monstad AS
Mecanical Engineer: Erichsen & Horgen AS
Climatic Consultant: Byggforsk v/Thomas Thiis
Gross Area: 8.500 sqm
Photographs: Nils Petter Dale

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