Architect: René van Zuuk Architekten
Location: Roosendaal, the Netherlands
Client: Gemeente Roosendaal / NL
Design Team: René van Zuuk, Jorrit Spel, Chimo Villa Belda
Program: Pavillion – shops/lunchroom/office / entrance for parking area
Project Year: 2005-2009
Constructed Area: 620 sqm
Photographs: Christian Richters

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Architects: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA
Location: Puebla, México
Client: Plus Arrendamientos
Associate Architect: Serrano Monjaraz Arquitectos
Interiors: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA, SerranoMonjaraz Arquitectos
Structure: García Jarque Ingenieros, SC.
Electrical & Services Consultant: Proyectos de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Sistemas Automatizados S.A. de CV.
Landscape Architects: Espacios Verdes
Contractor: Grupo Huitzilin SA de CV
Kitchen Consultant: DIPREC
Lighting Consultant: Luz y Forma
Graphic Design: CENTRO
Art: Laureana Toledo
Constructed Area: 3000 sqm
Exteriors Area: 711 sqm
Site Area: 1178 sqm
Project year: 2007
Photographs: Undine Pröhl

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Architects: Bernardes Jacobsen Architecture
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Partners in Charge: Thiago Bernardes and Paulo Jacobsen
Collaborators: Fabiana Porto and Gabriel Bocchile
Interior Design: Marco Aurélio Viterbo
Design year: 2003
Setting up: 2007
Photographs: Leonardo Finotti

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Architects: Carlos Castanheira & Clara Bastai, Arqtos Lda.
Location: Gerês, Portugal
Collaborators: Pedro Carvalho, João Figueiredo (3D)
Engineering: HDP, Gabinete de serviços e projectos de engenharia civil, Lda. / CONCILIARUM, Projectos e soluções de engenharia, Lda.
Carpentry & General Contractor: Carpicunha madeiras Lda.
Copper Works: ASA, Antonio Sousa Alves Lda.
Metal Works: Val e Quintão Lda.
Concrete: Imobiliaria CMCJC Lda.
Glass: Lusoduplo lda.
Exterior Works: Domingos Príncipe
Electricity: Electrilouro Lda.
Air Conditioning: Oliveira e Araújo Lda.
Domotics: Enancer Electronica Sa.
Canalization Works: Branco Pichelaria
Client: Tiago Sousa Lopes
Project Year: 2005-2008
Site Area: 18,700 sqm
Constructed Area: 190 sqm
Photographs: FG+SG - Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

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Architects: Felipe Assadi + Francisca Pulido
Location: Alto Rungue, Chile
Constructed Area: House 150 sqm, Deck 370 sqm
Structure: Patricio Stagno
Photographs: Cristóbal Palma

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Architects: x Architekten
Location: St. Oswald, Austria
Client: Golf und Tourismusförderung
Contractor: Passivhaus
Constructed Area: 757 sqm
Project Year: 2003-2004
Photographs: Dietmar Tollerian

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Architects: Montage DESIGNBUILD
Location: Islamabad, Pakistan
Project year: 2003
Construction year: 2004-2007
Site Area: 1,000 sq yds
Constructed Area: 697 sqm
Budget: US $202,500
Photographs: Montage DESIGNBUILD

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An interesting concept for a camouflaged hotel on a tree by Swedish architects Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter:

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Mexican architects BGP Arquitectura designed this stylish hotel in Mexico City. The glass skin acts as a buffer to the busy outside, while converting into a lamp during night. Cool pool on the roof top.

Location: Lamartine 201, Colonia Polanco,  México City, Mexico
Architects: TEN Arquitectos – Enrique Norten, Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta
Team: Aarón Hernández, Sergio Nuñez, Francisco Pardo, Julio Amezcua, Hugo Sánchez, Claudia Marquina, Carlos López, Martine Paquin, Adriana Díaz, Rubén Garnica, Miguel Ríos
Area: 2,500 m2
Design: 1996-1998
Construction: 1998-2000
Photography: Luis Gordoa, Undine Pröhl, Jean Luc Laloux

More images after the break.

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I like how this house uses an existing structure to hide, in both landscape and against the strong winds, creating a new habitable interior. This house by NRJA (this weeks AD Futures pick) won the Gran Prix for the Latvian Architecture Prize (2005), the Best Technology Award at the Interior Digest Magazine (outstanding implementation of a project using contemporary construction, constructive and electronic technologies, 2006) and was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award (2007).

Location: Saka, Latvia
Architects: NRJA (Uldis Luksevics, Martins Osans)
Client: Una and Andris Vitolins
General Constructor: RBS Skals
Object: private house
Size: 200 sqm2
Year: 2002

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Architects: Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter
Location: Danderyd, Sweden
Architects in charge: Bolle Tham & Martin Videgård Hansson
Site Area: 1,006 sqm
Constructed Area: 360 sqm + roof terrace
Project year: 2004-2005
Client: Private
Photographs: Åke E:son Lindman

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Architects: Vallo & Sadovsky Architects
Location: Pekná Cesta, Bratislava-Rača, Slovakia
Construction Year: 2006
End section house constructed area: 162 sqm
Terraced house constructed area: 138 sqm
Photographs: Pato Safko, Vallo Sadovsky Architects, Jan Polverini & Linda Antalova

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Architects: Kotaro Ide / ARTechnic architects
Location: Kitasaku, Nagano, Japan
Assistants: Moriyuki Fujihara, Ruri Mitsuyasu, Takashi Mototani (former member), Kenyu Fujii
Collaborator: Manami Ide (designer of customized metal work)
Structural Engineer: Naomi Kitayama / NAO
Mechanical engineer: Hiroshi Nakayama / TNA
Electrical Engineer: Jyunetsu Satou / EPS
Contractor: Kenji Kusunoki / GIKAKU
Site Area: 1,711 sqm
Constructed Area: 329 sqm
Construction year: 2008
Photographs: Nacasa & Partners Inc.

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Architects: Studio Paralelo
Location: São Francisco de Paula, RS – Brazil
Contractor: Sull Frame
Steel Frame: Formac Brasil
Steel Frame Engineering: Formac Chile
Concrete Engineering: Multiprojetos
Lighting: Eficientysul
Wood Stoves: Amesti Brasil
Site Area: 1610 sqm
Constructed Area: 82 sqm
Project Year: 2006
Construction Year: 2007
Photographs: Eduardo Aigner

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Architect: Eduardo Cadaval & Clara Solà-Morales
Location: Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
Collaborator: Eugenio Eraña Lagos
Structures: Ricardo Camacho de la Fuente
Construction Managment: Marcial Burgos & Hugo López Solano
Constructed Area: 350 sqm
Project Year: 2005-2006
Photograhs: Santiago Garcés / Cadaval & Solà-Morales

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Architects: Wingårdh Arkitektkontor
Location: Washington DC, USA
Principal Architects: Gert Wingårdh & Tomas Hansen
Architects in Charge: Gunilla Murnieks
Competition Team: Gert Wingårdh, Thomas Hansen, Ulrika Davidsson, Fredrik Gullberg, Pål Ericsson, Jacob Sahlqvist, Jacek Zalecki, Petter Leyman, Ola Frödell, Henrik Schulz, Tobias Fasth, Robert Hendberg
Building Team: Gert Wingårdh, Thomas Hansen, Gunilla Murnieks, Susanna Ringnér, Birgitta Stenvaller, Andreas Henriksson, Gustav Appell, Markus Furby, Björn Nilsson, Therese Ahlström, Taito Lampinen, Robert Hendberg, Daniel Frickeus, Fredrik Gullberg, Sven Nestgaard, Sara Helder, Pål Ericsson, Maria Olausson, Fredrik Prytz, Anna Palm, Hanna Samuelson, Alexandra Pripp
Construction Year: 2004-2006
Project Managment: National Property Board Sweden
Structural Engineering: Flygfältsbyrån AB
Lighting: Ljusarkitektur P & Ö AB
Constructed Area: 8,157 sqm
Photographs: Wingardh

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Architects: XTEN Architecture
Location: Manhattan Beach, California, USA
Principals: Monika Haefelfinger & Austin Kelly, AIA
Client: Jennifer & Nick Hall
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Art Gray Photography

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Architects: at103 / Julio Amezcua + Francisco Pardo
Location: Acapulco, Mexico
Project Team: Jorge Vazquez, Aida Hurtado
Constructed Area: 600 sqm
Project year: 2006
Construction year: 2007
Photographs: Frida Escobedo, Adolfo Pardo

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Architects: XTEN Architecture
Location: Hollywood Hills, California, USA
Principals: Monika Haefelfinger & Austin Kelly, AIA
Client: Randolph Duke
Contractor: Peddicord Construction
Interior Area: 418 sqm
Total Area: 697 sqm
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Art Gray Photography

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Architects: Dellekamp arquitectos
Location: Colonia Polanco, Mexico DF, Mexico
Project Leader: Alejandro Santillanes
Project Team: Rodrigo Alcocer, Aisha Ballesteros, Tania Velazco, Aline Wallach, Victor Jaime
Program: Apartment Building
Project Year: 2004-2006
Photographs: Dante Busquets & Oscar Necoechea

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