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Sanwell Office Building / Braham Architects

May 11, 2015

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Architects: Braham Architects
Year: 2014
Manufacturers: Austral Plywood
Professionals: Atelier JV, Braham Architects, Datum 101, Pritchard Francis, Sanwell Plumbing and Civil, +2

New Arquia Banca Office in Girona / Javier de las Heras Solé

May 11, 2015

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Architects: Javier de las Heras Solé
Area: 186 m²
Year: 2015
Professionals: Blázquez-Guanter, Fusteria Guixeres Joan Guixeras, Joan Illa Casellas Construccions Viladasens, Proisotec Engineering

RSC Residence / Jacobsen Arquitetura

May 11, 2015

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Architects: Jacobsen Arquitetura
Year: 2014
Manufacturers: Alwitra, Arteal, Avec Design, Belas Artes, Bille Lareiras, +9Deca, Instituto Cidade Jardim, Lightworks, Luzes e Cores, Marmobello, Oficina de Marcenaria, Tuboar, Uniflex, Vidros Queiroz-9

AD Classics: Limoges Concert Hall / Bernard Tschumi Architects

May 11, 2015

For those familiar with the more canonical work of Bernard Tschumi, the Limoges Concert Hall may seem a puzzlingly conventional departure from the radical, intensively theoretical projects that introduced the world to the Swiss architect. In one sense, the visual clarity of the design doesn’t provoke the same complex discourses on architectural violence and eroticism that guided his early-career pursuits, and it is certainly a more functional evolution of his polemic on non-programmatic space that was famously exhibited at Parc de la Villete. In another sense, the concept and form of Limoges aren't anything novel, either, emerging almost in its entirety from a concert hall prototype Tschumi developed in the late 1990s for a similar venue at Rouen. But Limoges is important for other reasons: in addition to its thoughtful material and spatial choices, it is one of the more articulate illustrations of Tschumi’s explorations of movement and enclosure—“vectors and envelopes”—that inform much of his recent work.

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