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Hotel ICON / Rocco Design Architects

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Educational Architecture, University
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Hong Kong, China
  • Architects: Rocco Design Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  36000 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2011

Hanegi Shrine Gathering Place / Ishda Architects + Openvision

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Other Structures
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Setagaya, Japan

Is the Open Plan Bad for Us?

The concept of the open plan revolutionized architecture  - promising light, space, and effortless collaboration (not to mention a more cost-effective way of getting lots of people into one space). Today, it's practically become a standard of design - but at what cost? 

A new report from researchers Jungsoo Kim and Richard de Dear, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, concludes that the open plan comes with some serious collateral damage - namely a lack of "sound privacy" - which outweighs its positive qualities. What's more, according to their results, the open plan doesn't even make a measurable improvement in communication at all.

MAST Foundation / Labics

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auditorium
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Bologna, Italy
  • Architects: Labics
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  25000 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2013

Residential and Tourist Facilities in Milan / aa-ls luigi serboli architetti

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Industrial Architecture
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Milan, Italy

26 Low-energy Public Housing Units and Shops / aEa - agence Engasser + associés

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Housing
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Bondy, France

Block 13-14 / Burton Hamfelt Architectuur Stedebouw Prototypes

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Commercial Architecture
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Almere, The Netherlands

Red Hill Rise Proposal / Maxwan + MS architekti

The Maxwan, in collaboration with MS architekti, designed Red Hill Rise proposal is a mixed use building on top of a metro station, which includes offices and retail located along a major spine road connecting the airport and historical city center of Prague. They came up with the idea of ‘breaking-up’ the building volume and inserting landscape and public space in between. More images and architects’ description after the break.

Factory No. 8 / OK Plan Architects

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Factory
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Humpolec, Czechia
  • Architects: OK Plan Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  3119 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2010

Lifted-Garden House / acaa

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clinic, Houses
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Japan
  • Architects: acaa
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  618 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2012

EL RENGLE / Manuel Ruisánchez arquitecto

EL RENGLE / Manuel Ruisánchez arquitecto - Institutional Buildings, Facade
© Ferran Mateo
Institutional buildings
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Barcelona, Spain

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The University of Notre Dame Australia Werribee Clinical School / DesignInc

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Mixed Use Architecture, Research, University
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Australia

BIG Unveils ‘Telus Sky’ Tower in Calgary

In an attempt to transform Calgary’s corporate-centric downtown into a walkable, dynamic community, TELUS has commissioned BIG to design a mixed-use skyscraper in the heart of the Canadian city. Known as TELUS Sky, the 750,000 square foot tower is designed to “seamlessly accommodate the transformation from working to living as the tower takes off from the ground to reach the sky.”

Block 3 / ZZDP Architecten

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Mixed Use Architecture
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Almere, The Netherlands
  • Architects: ZZDP Architecten
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  23300 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2010

The SOM-Designed Tanjong Pagar Centre will soon be Singapore's Tallest Tower

SOM has designed what will be Singapore’s tallest tower upon its completion in 2016. Positioned as a premier quality business and lifestyle hub, the 290-meter, 1.7-million-gross-square-foot Tanjong Pagar Centre will provide a mix of uses, comprising office, residential, retail and hospitality, in the historic Tanjong Pagar central business district. The development will be a significant contribution to the evolving skyline of Singapore and will become a landmark destination, serving as a gateway to the future waterfront city.

Office+Showroom for DK / Megabudka

Office+Showroom for DK / Megabudka - Interior Photography, Offices Interiors, Beam, Bench
© Megabudka
Office buildings, Offices Interiors
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Moscow, Russia
  • Architects: Megabudka
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2013
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Belux, Erik Jørgensen, Kusch+Co, Nayada

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Mirror Ball / Y. Architectes

Mirror Ball / Y. Architectes - Houses, Facade
© Brice Robert
Houses
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Saint-Priest, France
  • Architects: Y. Architectes
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  179 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2012

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Brownie / Uchida Architect Design Office

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Mixed Use Architecture, Houses, Store
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館山市 (Tateyama), Japan