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TELUS Spark / DIALOG

March 16, 2015

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Architects: DIALOG
: DIALOG
Area: 13500 m²
Year: 2011
Manufacturers: Kalzip, Kingspan Insulated Panels
Professionals: DIALOG, Stebnicki Robertson, Morrison Hershfield, Kasian Architecture Interior Design & Planning, O2 Planning + Design, +1

Trinity Long Room Hub / Mccullough Mulvin Architects

March 16, 2015

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Architects: Mccullough Mulvin Architects
Year: 2010
Professionals: Bruce Shaw, Duggan Systems Limited, Michael McNamara & Co, Michael Slattery & Associates, Punch Consulting, +1

New Visitor Entrance, Benedictine Archabbey Of Pannonhalma / CZITA Architects

March 13, 2015

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Architects: CZITA Architects
Year: 2013

Baiyunting Culture and Art Center / Dushe Architectural Design Co

March 13, 2015

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Architects: Dushe Architectural Design Co
Area: 25000 m²
Year: 2014
Professionals: KGM International Lighting Design Co.Ltd, Shanghai Dadeng Interior Design Co.Ltd, Shanghai Ruibo Architectural Exterior Design and Consulting Co.Ltd

RENOVA Store & Theatre / Phyd Arquitectura

March 12, 2015

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Architects: PHYD ARQUITECTURA
Area: 374 m²
Year: 2014
Professionals: Fragoso&Filhos Lda

KHVatec Headquarter / _SYSTEM LAB

March 12, 2015

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Architects: THE_SYSTEM LAB
Area: 462 m²
Year: 2012
Professionals: KCC Engineering & Construction Co.Ltd, Kumkang enterprises Co.Ltd, Seojun Engineering, Thekujo

Ennead Tapped to Design Shanghai Planetarium

March 09, 2015

Ennead Architects has won an international competition to design the Shanghai Planetarium. The “celestial” design hopes to elevate the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum’s (SSTM) “scientific and technological capacity” while redefine the district Lingang upon its completion in 2018.

“Drawing inspiration form astronomical principles, our design strategy provides a platform for the experience of orbital motion, and utilizes that as a metaphorical reference and generator of form,” says Ennead Architects.

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CALS Children’s Library / Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects

March 09, 2015

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Architects: Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects
Area: 38500 ft²
Year: 2013
Professionals: East Harding Construction, Engineering Consultants Inc., Julie Grisham Interiors, Landscape Architecture Inc., Ecological Design Group, +2

AD Classics: Robarts Library / Warner, Burns, Toan & Lunde

March 09, 2015

If the architectural volte face of the late 1960s heralded the genesis of postmodernism, deconstruction, and a golden age of theory, it came at an equally destructive cost. Escaping the totalizing regime of modernism demanded from architects more than the promise of new ideas; it required the falsification of modernist axioms and the wholesale annihilation of its spiritual eidos. In this critical moment of death and rebirth, some pieces of the modern project survived only by hiding under the cloak of the technological progress, while others—like modern city planning—persisted only because there was no way to turn back the clock.

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MoMA PS1 YAP 2015 Runner-up: Roof Deck / Erin Besler

March 08, 2015

Despite Andrés Jaque of Office of Political Innovation emerging as the winner of the 2015 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program (YAP), his competitors put up quite a fight. One of this year's five shortlisted proposals, Erin Besler's Roof Deck breathes life into arguably the most overlooked aspect of architecture - the roof - by injecting it with an active public program and making it a vessel for summer celebration.

Read on after the break for more on Besler's proposal.

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Architects' Propose Flexible Art Pavilion for Singapore

March 07, 2015

This active multi-use pavilion by Bence Pap and Parsa Khalili took second prize in the OUE Artling ArchiPavilion Design Competition in Singapore. Designed around the principles of continuity and flexibility, the Artling Pavilion provides an adaptable space that accommodates evolving programs and ensures constant adherence to the occupants' needs.