Today, thousands celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day throughout the world. Named after the most commonly recognized of the patron saints of Ireland, we didn’t want to be left behind in this celebration. So for today’s Round Up, we bring you previously featured architecture projects in Ireland. Don’t forget your green shirt, drink responsible and check five great projects from Ireland after the break.
Dwelling at Maytree / ODOS architects
It’s getting closer and closer. Shanghai World Expo 2010 is around the corner and we want to remind you some pavilions we’ve been featuring in the post. Check our fourth selection after the break!
French Pavillion
Jacques Ferrier Architects were selected to design the French Pavillion at Shanghai Expo 2010. Their project ‘The Sensual City’ is a simple building with a big style French garden inside. Surrounded by water it appears to be floating. The 6000 square meter pavillion will use advanced building materials and environmental protection technology including solar panels on top of the roof (read more…)
Whether you practice archery or you like jogging in a gym with a nice view, you’ll like our third selection of previoulsy featured sports architecture projects. Check all of them after the break.
Archery Center / Atelier Phileas The archery centre of Chennevières-sur-Marne is located in an area of low density in a green setting. For this reason, we choose to articulate our project around three majors axis: The treatment of the outdoor shooting field is completely part of the building: Its implantation is justified by the need to orientate the outdoor shooting lanes and the targets, north (read more…)
Tomorrow, Estonia will celebrate its independence day. So to start their celebrations, we’d like to show you some great projects from Estonia. Enjoy all of them after the break.
Guesthouse at Seedri street / JVR Arhitektuuribüroo The resort town Pärnu is also known as the capital of Estonian functionalism. It is home to the pearls of Estonian functionalism of the 1930s – the Rannahotell (waterfront hotel), Rannahoone (beach building) and numerous functionalist villas from the same period. Since the 1970s, Pärnu has been enriched with an abundance of new neofunctionalist resort architecture, which gives the town its characteristic appearance (read more…)
For the third selection of public facilities (check the first here, second here), we chose four projects from Spain and one from France. See all of them after the break.
Picos de Europa / Capilla-Vallejos Arquitectos The Picos de Europa (Peaks of Europe) forms an enormous karstic complex. Through the years, the action of water and ice on the limestone has generated spectacular canyons, glacial cirques, lakes and moraines. La Liébana is a region surrounded and protected by the three massifs of the Picos de Europa (read more…)
Studies have shown that your work environment can affect a lot your performance. I don’t think the people working on these offices have this kind of problem. Check the other four after the break.
NORTH / Skylab Architecture NORTH is not an advertising agency. They are a team of designers, writers, creative directors, film, and music makers joined by an expeditionary force landing them in the Pacific Northwest. They asked Skylab Architecture to help them to create a space that was not an office (read more…)
From Norway, Spain, Mexico, USA, and Chile. Fantastic hotels for you to enjoy your stay! See the First Part and Second Part. Check the other four after the break.
Turtagro Hotel / JVA The old Turtagrø Hotel, which has been the starting point for climbing in the Hurrungane Mountains for more than a hundred years, burned down in 2001. The owner wanted to create some of the atmosphere of the old building – a recognisable scale, spatial sequence, colours and materials, relating to a nearby timber annex. Outside of this the requirement was for a hotel with a new architectonic expression and an efficient layout (read more…)
Some really amazing lake houses from Norway, Switzerland, England and New Zealand for today’s Round Up. Check the first part of this selection right here. And have a look at the other four after the break!
House in Scaiano / Wespi de Meuron This house for vacations is located at the border of a small historical village, which is still quite good preserved. There is a beautiful view over the lake and towards the mountains. It’s only possible to reach the house by foot. There isn’t a street leading close to the site, what made the construction more difficult (read more…)
We start this week’s Round Up with Part III of Health Architecture. Check the first part and second part in case you missed them. The other four, after the break!
T-Clinic / Suppose Design Office With this project we wanted to see what we could do amidst the functional constraints of a clinic. Instead of keeping places normally used for movement such as an elevator shaft or stair wells closed, we wanted to open them up to collect light, using them as lightwells to maintain the lighting coming- in from above (read more…)
At ArchDaily we also have place for those projects or ideas that doesn’t seem to fit anywhere else. Ideas, toys or rankings, these are the posts we enjoy for their creativity and of course, sense of humour. Enjoy!
From Italy, Chile, Austria, Taiwan and Argentina. Here’s our second Round Up from our previously featured industrial architecture. Check our first part here!
For today’s Round Up, we wanted to show you the inmense variety of big scale projects (houses were not included), in China. Enjoy!
Designing a place for 50,000 people to enjoy a sports event may be quite a difficult task. In this second part of stadiums (check the first one here), we include a Winter Olympic Games, Asian Games and the biggest and most spectacular stadium ever built for an NFL team. Enjoy!
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This picture was taken by fdo h in Beijing, China. Check the other four after the break.
Great brick houses from Europe and Australia make today’s Round Up. Don’t forget to check the first part of our brick houses selection!
Shanghai World Expo will take place this year in China, with several countries designing and building their own pavilions. We’ve featured many of them, and we still have a few left. Check our first and second part if you missed some of them, and enjoy our third part to end this week’s Round Up.
Christmas and New Years are times to spend with the family, relaxing and enjoying the last days of the year. In doing so, we understand you may not be able to do what you do every day (check your e-mails, check your Facebook, check ArchDaily). So to start this year’s Round Up, we bring you a selection of great posts you may have missed these holidays. Enjoy!
Many more to come. But for now, let’s go back and see previously featured ORDOS 100 houses. Check the first and second part also!