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KUD STUDIO / Kavellaris Urban Design

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COAS Offices and Headquarters / Otxotorena Arquitectos

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Bilbao, Spain

Unit T2 for Goodman / MAKE Creative

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  • Architects: MAKE Creative
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Masson for Light
  • Professionals: Inaphase

Gucci Headquarters / Genius Loci Architettura

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ABC Building / Wise Architecture

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  • Architects: Wise Architecture
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  163
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2012

Gilmosery / Kim in-cheurl+ARCHIUM

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Doncaster Civic Office / Cartwright Pickard Architects

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Doncaster, United Kingdom

Henning Larsen Wins Competition to Design Central Bank of Libya

Henning Larsen Architects has won an invited competition to design a new headquarters for the Central Bank of Libya in Tripoli. Inspired by Libyan vernacular architecture, the structure will occupy two existing site excavations. The first, and largest, excavation will be transformed into a “shaded oasis” that serves both the bank and Gurji district by providing areas for operations, an education center, restaurant and hotel. The second will allow vehicular access to the treasuries.

Taegutec Office Building / Tago Architects

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  • Architects: Tago Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  4000
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2011

New Cemex Headquarters / Atelier Povetron

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  • Architects: Atelier Povetron
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  681
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2012

Headquarter building for the Science Park of the University of the Basque Country / ACXT

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Prisons and Human Rights Violations: What Can Architects Do?

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Originally published by the Architectural Review as "Discipline and Punish: the Architecture of Human Rights", this article by the founder of Architects Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility Raphael Sperry outlines how prison design in the US and elsewhere is violating fundamental human rights, and how some architects have come to be complicit in these designs.

We think of architectural regulations as being there to ensure that buildings are safe for the public. But what if a building’s harm is not caused by unexpected structural failure but by the building performing exactly as intended? Can a building designed to facilitate human rights violations amount to a violation in itself? And what is the responsibility of the architects involved? These are the questions at the centre of the current debate in America around the architectural profession’s involvement in prison design.

Read on for more on the ethics of prison design after the break

Maroin Office Building / Architects Group RAUM

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Lingo Construction Services / Elliott + Associates Architects

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Disseny Hub Barcelona Oficinas para el museo FAD y BCD / BAAS Arquitectura

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Barcelona, Spain
  • Architects: BAAS Arquitectura
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  2074
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2013
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Mediclinics
  • Professionals: Synergia

Wuxi Memsic Semiconductor Headquarter / UDG China

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  • Architects: UDG China
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  14057

KPN Dutch Telecom Company / de Jong Gortemaker Algra Architects

KPN Dutch Telecom Company / de Jong Gortemaker Algra Architects - Institutional Buildings, Facade, Lighting
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Pixelmator Team Office / Plazma Architecture Studio

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