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• Architects

  Apaloosa Estudio de Arquitectura y Diseño, Simetría Estudio de Arquitectura

• Location

  Tehuantepec, Mexico

• Category

  Houses

• Lead Architect

  Luis Armando Gómez Solórzano, Emmanuel Coutiño Netro, Victor Ernesto López Cordero

• Builder

  Apaloosa Estudio de Arquitectura

• Area

  102.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Carlos Berdejo Mandujano

Reiulf Ramstad Architects will inaugurate a new exhibition series “In the World of an Architect” at The Utzon Center, focusing on “architecture and design created in the tension field between local and global.” The exhibition will consist of a number of spatial installations spread across five rooms, setting out the concept of “Nordic” and appreciating the importance of the architects’ standpoint.

Rather than cancel the importance of a regionally-based building tradition in a globalized profession, the exhibition invites a more diverse, nuanced understanding of what it means to be a Nordic architect in a globalized era.

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• Architects

  OAB, Xavier Martí, Lucía Ferrater

• Location

  Spain

• Category

  Houses

• Area

  289.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Alejo Bagué, Joan Guillamat

Milan-based Studio PARE has won a competition for the design of a small concert hall in Valsolda, Lake Lugano, Italy. The competition called for a new space to house the 40-person Valsolda Philharmonic Orchestra, with Studio PARE responding with a scheme inspired by the music box: a mechanical device prevalent in the 19th century which could generate melodies without the need for live musician.

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The Fundació Joan Miró presents Lina Bo Bardi Drawing, the first exhibition to focus specifically on the role of drawing in the life and work of the Italian-born Brazilian architect.

The exhibition features a carefully selected collection of a hundred drawings from the Instituto Lina Bo e P. M. Bardi, bearing witness to the importance of drawing in all the stages of Bo Bardi’s multifaceted career. The project has been curated by another architect, Zeuler Rocha Lima - also an artist, researcher, and international expert on Bo Bardi - with support from the Fundació Banco Sabadell.

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• Architects

  Estudio Berzero Jaros

• Location

  Córdoba, Argentina

• Category

  Houses

• Lead Architect

  Agustín Berzero, Valeria Jaros

• Structural Engineering

  Edgar Moran

• Area

  165.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Federico Cairoli

Architectural education has always been fundamentally influenced by whichever styles are popular at a given time, but that relationship flows in the opposite direction as well. All styles must originate somewhere, after all, and revolutionary schools throughout centuries past have functioned as the influencers and generators of their own architectural movements. These schools, progressive in their times, are often founded by discontented experimental minds, looking for something not previously nor currently offered in architectural output or education. Instead, they forge their own way and bring their students along with them. As those students graduate and continue on to practice or become teachers themselves, the school’s influence spreads and a new movement is born.

2018 marked a banner year for ArchDaily. Our global audience has continued to grow in leaps and bounds, taking advantage of the nearly 40,000 new articles and 4300 projects added to our site. We are proud and excited to reach readers in every corner of the world, and we savor the opportunity to continue sharing the inspiration, knowledge, and tools needed to design a positive urbanizing world.

We recently shared with our readers the trends that will define the field of architecture in 2019. We are able to confidently identify these trends, not just because of our experience in reporting on them but also due to our data-driven approach. We are committed to listening to and sharing the interests of our readers - and no effort exemplifies this better than our annual Building of the Year awards.

The 2019 edition of BOTY, presented in partnership with Unreal Engine, is a particularly exciting one for ArchDaily, as it marks ten consecutive years of our flagship award program. With the Building of the Year award, we ask you, the reader, to share in the responsibility of recognizing and rewarding the projects making an impact in the profession. In sharing your opinion, you become part of an unbiased and representative network of jurors and peers that have been dedicated to elevating the most relevant projects in the profession of the past decade.

Over the next three weeks, your collective wisdom will whittle the more than 4,000 projects published in the last year to just 15 stand-outs––the best project in each category on ArchDaily.

This is your chance to reward the architecture you love by nominating your favorite for the 2019 Building of the Year Awards!

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• Architects

  Vitor Vilhena Arquitectura

• Location

  São Bartolomeu de Messines, Portugal

• Category

  Houses

• Arquitetos Responsáveis

  Vítor Vilhena, Fábio Plácido Guimarães, Nuno Gonçalves, João Simões

• Area

  3229.17 ft2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Hulu has announced that they will be adapting a story of H.H. Holmes, America’s first documented serial killer, into a television series on the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Based on the nonfiction book The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, the series will explore murder and architecture around the so-called “Murder Castle." The show will feature the labyrinthine structure that Holmes built and stories around architect Daniel H. Burnham's infamous World Expo.

Rwanda’s largest publicly funded project, Bugesera International Airport is on track to be the first certified green building in the region. A few pieces of this net zero emission complex include: a 30,000 square metre passenger terminal, 22 check-in counters, ten gates, and six passenger boarding bridges. Funded by Public Private Partnership, the project is cost estimated at $414 million USD. The international hub was only one of several initiatives discussed by the Africa Green Growth Forum (AGGF) in Kigali at the end of last year.

Louis Kahn (February 20th 1901 – March 17th 1974) was one of the United States' greatest 20th century architects, known for combining Modernism with the weight and dignity of ancient monuments. Though he did not arrive at his distinctive style until his early 50s, and despite his death at the age of just 73, in a span of just two decades Kahn came to be considered by many as part of the pantheon of modernist architects which included Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.

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• Architects

  Steimle Architekten

• Location

  88079 Kressbronn, Germany

• Category

  Cultural Architecture

• Lead Architects

  Dipl.-Ing. Arch. Jens Oehmigen

• Area

  860.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Brigida Gonzalez

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• Architects

  Andreas Fuhrimann Gabrielle Hächler Architekten

• Location

  Zúrich, Switzerland

• Category

  Houses

• Lead Architects

  Nicole Wallimann, Christine Bickel

• Area

  525.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Valentin Jeck

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• Architects

  RMA Architects

• Location

  Alibag, India

• Category

  Houses

• Lead Architects

  Rahul Mehrotra, Robert Stephens

• Area

  7000.0 m2

• Project Year

  2014

• Photographs

  Tina Nandi, Rajesh Vora, Rahul Mehrotra

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• Architects

  Aaksen Responsible Aarchitecture

• Location

  Kiaracondong, Indonesia

• Category

  Renovation

• Lead Architects

  Yanuar Pratama Firdaus

• Design Team

  Gea Sentanu, Rio Bravo, Azzahra Dartaman , Auliya Putri, Agung Kurnia, Bayu Herdiadi

• Area

  191.0 m2

• Project Year

  2019

• Photographs

  KIE

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• Architects

  Koichi Hankai Architect & Associates

• Location

  437 Monju, Miyazu-shi, Kyōto-fu 626-0001, Japan

• Category

  Train Station

• Lead Architects

  Koichi Hankai Architect & Associates

• Area

  299.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Yohei Sasakura

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• Architects

  BIAD-ZXD ARCHITECTS

• Location

  Dunhuang，Jiuquan, Gansu, China

• Category

  theater

• Architect in Charge

  Xiaodi Zhu

• Design Team

  Weiwei Hui, Qi Jia, Yuwei Fang, Gukai Huang

• Area

  19900.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  He Shu, Du Yi