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Architects: H2a Architecte & Associés, Studio Libeskind
- Area: 12500 m²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: Vectorworks, Bitubel, Triplaco Print Acoustics
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Professionals: Venac, CIT Blaton/Galère, NEO&IDES, Ney & Partners, Putman, +2
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Mons International Congress Xperience (MICX) / Studio Libeskind + H2a Architecte & Associés
AD Classics: United States Embassy in Havana / Harrison & Abramovitz
The United States’ diplomatic presence in Cuba is housed in a severe, early-1950s office building perched on the shoreline over Havana Bay. Walled off from the city and pulled back from the street, the building has the uneasy presence of a haunted castle – shunned and maligned by its neighbors, but subjected to the unending scrutiny of suspicious eyes and intrigued gossip of the locals. With its regimented orthogonalities and the unmistakably foreign imprint of modernist efficiencies, both the embassy's architecture and the optimistic political spirit it embodies seem to belong to another era, a cooperative past no longer conceivable in the wake of a half century of underhanded diplomacy, calumnious propaganda, and failed attempts to restore relations between the embattled countries.
District Hall, Boston’s Public Innovation Center / Hacin
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Architects: Hacin
- Year: 2014
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Professionals: Nitsch Engineering, John Moriarty & Associates, McNamara/Salvia, Reed Hilderbrand
Huishan North Bund / EE&K a Perkins Eastman Company
Library in Dublin / Carr Cotter & Naessens
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Architects: Carr Cotter & Naessens
- Area: 6327 m²
- Year: 2014
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Manufacturers: Glashütte Limburg, Kundalini, Nice
Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership / Studio Gang
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Architects: Studio Gang
- Area: 10000 ft²
- Year: 2014
Social and Cultural Center in Landsberg / Heintz-Kehr architectes
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Architects: Heintz-Kehr architectes
- Area: 742 m²
- Year: 2013
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Professionals: OTE Ingénierie
CVV Zwervers / MoederscheimMoonen Architects
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Architects: MoederscheimMoonen Architects
- Area: 1100 m²
- Year: 2014
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Manufacturers: Plastica
Police Headquearters & Charleroi Danses / Ateliers Jean Nouvel + MDW Architecture
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Architects: Ateliers Jean Nouvel, MDW Architecture
- Year: 2014
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Manufacturers: Printable
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Professionals: CFE, VK Engineering, DTS & Co, Matriciel, Venac
de Trefkoele+ Community Center / MoederscheimMoonen Architects + Spring Architecten
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Architects: MoederscheimMoonen Architects, Spring Architecten
- Area: 7500 m²
- Year: 2014
Revitalizing Olmsted Center / BKSK
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Architects: BKSK
SANAA’s First US Commission Since Pritzker, “The River” Underway in Connecticut
“The River,” SANAA’s first US commission since winning the 2010 Pritzker Prize, is currently underway in Connecticut. Designed by the Japanese practice in collaboration with OLIN, the meandering and almost transparent building will be built on a 75-acre preserve as a multi-use platform for events and initiatives put on by the community of New Canaan and non-profit Grace Farms Foundation.
“We are thrilled that Grace Farms will begin welcoming the public in autumn 2015,” Sharon Prince, president of the Grace Farms Foundation stated.
The Legson Kayira Community Center & Primary School / Architecture for a Change
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Architects: Architecture for a Change
- Year: 2014
Tengbom Prepares to Break Ground on New Trail Center in Kungälv
Tengbom is preparing to break ground on their competition-winning proposal “Kotten” (The Pinecone) in the Fontin area of Kungälv municipality. Following the destruction of the old trail centre in a fire in 2013, Kungälv municipality arranged an architectural competition for a new, modern trail centre in the Fontin area.
G-Tower / HAEAHN Architecture + Designcamp Moonpark dmp + Gyung Sung Architects + TCMC Architects & Engineers
Arkitema Architects Selected to Design New Offices for Danish Government Agency
The Danish Building & Property Agency has selected Arkitema Architects to design a new office building to house four government agencies: Banedanmark, The Danish Transport Authority, The Danish Road Directorate and the Danish Energy Agency. The 43,000 square metre office building is named "Nexus," a word which "comes from Latin and means linkage, centre and connection," according to Glenn Elmbæk, partner at Arkitema Architects. "And that is exactly what we want to create for The Danish Building & Property Agency - a connection between people in their work lives, between knowledge and between the four government agencies."
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Bureau Architecture Méditerranée Designs Algerian Parliament Around a Vast Plaza
Bureau Architecture Méditerranée has unveiled the design for the new Parliament of Algeria, a complex including buildings for the People's National Assembly, the National Council (Senate), the Chamber (Congress), and a residence for legislators. The buildings are organized around a large public plaza, "a symbolic gathering place for the free people who give the republic its legitimacy and authority," on a site that connects the historic and modern parts of the city.
Front Building of Chliriethalle / Frei + Saarinen Architekten
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Architects: Frei + Saarinen Architekten
- Year: 2014