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Art Space Kassel
The new exhibition hall of the Kunsthochschule Kassel neither has a front nor back. It is completely enclosed by a facade consisting of larch wood si...
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Holiday Home in Normandy
In the southern part of Normandy, the architects of Java transformed a house built in 1970 into a modern holiday home for a family. Concealed by a ne...
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Cultural Centre in Ptuj on the Drava
Ptuj on the Drava river is Slovenia’s oldest city, its history reaching back to the Roman era. It is also home to a very lively cultural scene....
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Townhouse near Paris
Materials such as wood, loam and natural stone constitute the five storey block border construction situated in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb of Par...
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Social Housing on Ibiza
A geometrical pattern consisting of brick either in natural red or with white render finish defines the facades of the four storey multi-family resid...
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Glass Peaks for Mountaineering Gear
The Dynafit headquarters is characterised by its steeply inclined facade. For its glazing, the architects Barozzi Veiga and Stuttgart-based engineeri...
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New Work in Existing Buildings
New Work in the sense of collaborative working methods can help promote collective intelligence in companies and save time. Existing buildings in par...
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Winged Roof Rising – The Hyparschale in Magdeburg
Abandoned for 30 years, the multipurpose hall with its self-supporting shell structure now shines again, restored by gmp and reviving the vision Ulri...
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Small House on the Rhine by Marina Tabassum
The Khudi Bari is a bamboo structure designed for the river landscapes of Bangladesh. A small house of this innovative typology was recently erected ...
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Ultra-Light Glass Facades
In cooperation with several companies, a research team at the Institute of Building Construction, TU Dresden developed a secondary facade using an in...
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Compulsory Acoustics, Joyful Atmosphere
Intelligent spatial organisation and targeted use of colour: Ester Bruzkus Architekten redesigned the office of the Berlin based firm Relaxound.
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A House Inside a House for the Community
Studio Alexander Fehre designed the Herzzone project, a vivid meeting point for the staff members of the pharmaceutical corporation Roche Diagnostics...
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The Art of Grafting
Jeanne Gang and her international team have designed skyscrapers in San Francisco and are about to complete a timber structure in Paris. With h...
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Building in existing contexts
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Redevelopment of the Fermi School in Turin
To the south, the two classroom tracts of the Fermi Secondary School open via access balconies on to a park-like environment. Implemented as part of t...
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Centre for Glass Art in Meisenthal
A curved surface consisting of smooth concrete spatially unites the free-standing historic factory halls of the former glassworks in Meisenthal withi...
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Heritage Building as Passive House
The former headquarters of the tyre company Armstrong Rubber in New Haven can hardly be overlooked. In 1969 the brutalist building was completed accor...
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From Airship Hangar to Cultural Centre
In a wooded area in Meudon, 10 km southwest of Paris, the landscape architect André Le Nôtrea designed a hangar where the French military developed b...
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New Life for Ghent’s Book Tower
What happens to architectural icons as they age? How can the buildings be adapted to current uses and energy standards without compromising their arch...
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Education Centre in Vorarlberg
In the Frastanz-Hofen education centre near Feldkirch, Pedevilla Architects united existing and new within an harmonic complex. The transitions betwee...
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Blasón House and Studio in Madrid
The small workshop on Calle Blasón is one of the few industrial buildings that still survive in the centre of Madrid. Increasingly stringent requireme...
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Casa Rossa in Chemnitz
Rough and blunt – that is how the facade of the townhouse and its exposed Imperial German format bricks appears to viewers. It establishes a str...
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Extension of the College of Construction and Design in Innsbruck
The new rooftop addition of the Technical College of Construction and Design offers 1650 m2 of additional usable area for classrooms, CAD labs and re...
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Béton House in Sheffield
The four blocks that make up Park Hill social housing estate were left to decay for decades. The external envelope was slowly disintegrating under a t...
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Redhill Barn in Devonshire
A rectangular building layout bordered by 75 cm thick limestone walls, a row of masonry pillars of the same material on the inside – that was a...
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Conversion in Cuneo
In the early decades of the 20th century the Italian railway service built housing for its employees all across the country. Also southwest of Turin,...
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The Chapel in London
The function of a building isn’t always made obvious by its exterior. The surprise is particularly big when a sacred building conceals a home hi...
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Gare Maritime in Brussels
Tour & Taxis, a 37 hectare site near the financial centre of Brussels, was one of Europe’s largest transshipment stations, well into the 198...
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Town House in Linz
Generally, dilapidated buildings in inner city locations that are not under a preservation order are demolished and replaced by new buildings. With th...
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Cultural Centre on Corsica
The former monastery and its expansion clad in sheet copper constitute a new, unified building that displays an impressively poetic aura. Combined the...
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Jacoby Studios in Paderborn
In converting the the Capuchin convent of St Vincent in Paderborn into the headquarters of a medium-size firm, David Chipperfield Architects undertook...
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Mole House in London
It is quite normal for single-family houses to say something about their occupants. Rarely, however, do the residents reveal their inclinations to suc...
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Factory Conversion in Barcelona
The site of the textile works Fabra i Coats in the district of San Andreu forms part of a restructuring programme of the city of Barcelona that embrac...
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Day Nursery in Memmingen
In her will, the entrepreneur Karoline Goldhofer decreed that a day nursery should be created on the site of her villa, which was situated on the edge...
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Working environments
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Office Block in Alpnach
This new administration building of the Swiss timber construction concern Küng is situated in Alpnach in the canton of Obwalden near Lucerne. The fou...
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Work Environments - Spatial Concepts, Usage strategies, Communications
In accordance with the typological approach of the series in DETAIL, this book presents different work environments on the basis of their use.
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Jacoby Studios in Paderborn
In converting the the Capuchin convent of St Vincent in Paderborn into the headquarters of a medium-size firm, David Chipperfield Architects undertook...
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Portalen Office Building near Oslo
Reddish-brown laminated glass panels define the striking element facade of the Portalen office building in the Norwegian city of Drammen. More than h...
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Coworking at Vakwerkhuis Delft
For many decades the Ketelhuis was the most important supplier of energy for Delft Technical University. In 1976 the former boiler house was replac...
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best of DETAIL Büro
This book bundles the highlights from DETAIL on the topic of office and administrative architecture.
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Floating Office Rotterdam
Constructions with limited use life span should be built in a way that enables easy demolition and reuse of components. It is seldom the case that the...
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Office Building in Wabern
The extension of asylum interview department of the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration saw the approval of fifty new offices in 2008. These were to...
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Urban Environment House in Helsinki
The construction industry in Finland has already gained experience with BIM. In 2007 the method became obligatory for public construction projects exc...
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Visible Renewals: UP! Berlin
Jasper Architects and Gewers Pudewill transformed a former GDR department store into a contemporary space for online business. Deep incisions in the b...
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Finansparken Bjergsted in Stavanger
The Bjergsted Financial Park in Stavanger is the headquarters of a regional savings bank and Scandinavia’s largest timber office building to-dat...
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Antwerp Provincial Government Building
Glass mosaic tiles, triangular fenestration and a compact pivoted building volume with a glazed pavilion thrust through at the base make this new prov...
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Software Barn in Rural Bavaria
In the small town of Falkenberg, J. Mayer H. und Partner are building for one of the region’s largest IT companies. It all started out in 1999 i...
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Housing and Studio Block in Bregenz
The area south of Bregenz main station does not necessarily belong to the most salubrious locations in the city on Lake Constance. Housing blocks dati...
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Green: Corporate Headquarters in Seoul
South Korea’s largest cosmetics manufacturer, Amorepacific, has been based in the Yongsan district of Seoul since 1956. The area is currently un...
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Commercial Building in Thalgau
The architects achieved this aim by creating a thrilling interplay between existing and new construction. They maintained the overall impression of t...
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Technology: Modular Office Buildings of Wood and Steel Construction
In just two years for planning and construction, Scope Architekten and ADK Modulraum have completed a new office building in Walldorf that combines ba...
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Factory Hall in Vorarlberg
The open wooden facades and a peripheral canopy roof projecting out of them roughly halfway up lend what is really an industrial building the appeara...
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Coworking Space in Germany, Stuttgart
Studio Komo implanted a new and dynamically designed work environment into a former industrial structure that was originally built in the 1960s. They...
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Building envelope
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Energy-plus House in Grisons
The house designed by Zurich-based architect Nadia Vontobel for her parents in the municipality of Poschiavo south of St. Moritz is a family project ...
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University Building in Delft
Echo, the new interfaculty education building on the Delft University of Technology campus, has no closed facade surfaces whatsoever. The building env...
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Cube Berlin Office Building
In its facades, with triangular glazing elements set at different angles to each other, this office building reflects the lights and colours of the s...
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Green facades
This book provides architects with the necessary specialist knowledge to competently deal with the living architecture on the building envelope. ...
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Report: Veil of Glass Shingles
At the Lasvit headquarters in Nový Bor, OV Architekti combine Czech glass art and architecture.
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Where Form Trumps Function Le Monde Headquarters in Paris
Snøhetta’s new building for Le Monde seeks to symbolize the dichotomies of its function but fails to address all its needs. Located just behind ...
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Innovation Hub for Textile Research
The Texoversum at University of Reutlingen in Germany exhibits an exterior resembling the delicate pattern of a loosely knitted dress, its textile st...
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Facade construction manual
"Facade construction manual" offers readers technical and design planning fundamentals in a compact reference work.
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The Cooling Effect of Green Facades
Green facades can cool urban outdoor spaces and the air that enters buildings. The extent of this phenomenon is the focus of a research project condu...
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Adaptive Facade Systems
An interdisciplinary team of architects, structural engineers and mechanical engineers working on the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1244 at the...
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Single Family Home near Tokyo
The residential house in Takasaki, about 100 km northeast of Tokyo, is not only home to a family of four. It also represents a sensual interplay of co...
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Parametrically Optimised Solar Facades in Building Practice
Increasing urbanisation and the strain this places on the public power grid mean more energy will need to be produced in urban areas, close to where i...
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Ecosystem Urban Greening
Heat waves and heavy rainfall events as conse quences of climate change are having an immense impact on our quality of life. Increasing land sealing ...
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Kindergarten in Liberec
Located in Liberec in the Czech Republic and featuring a transparent facade consisting of corrugated fibre glass panels, the building is reminiscent m...
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Deichman Library in Oslo
When it comes to introducing BIM methods in Europe, Norway plays a leading role. In 2008 the public building authority, Statsbygg, published an initia...
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Building skins
Packed with information indispensable for designers and architects alike, this new edition is sure to become the reference book on building exteriors.
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City Library in Dornbirn
The 7714 ceramic elements with ivory appeal, reminiscent of books in a bookshelf, envelop the new library building in Dornbirn. Sometimes vertical and...
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House SO in Esslingen
With its facades that are closed on three sides the new home for a retired couple is more like a large garage than a small single-family house. In fac...
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Research Building in Zurich
The glazed double skin facade of the new research building for medical technology of the ETH Zurich contributes to controlling the indoor climate. In...
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Melbourne Holocaust Museum
What is architecturally adequate for a building intended to memorialise the atrocities of the Nazi regime? For the Melbourne Holocaust Museum in the ...
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Individual living
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House S near the Bavarian Alps
The single family house owned by the Schwab family is a monolithic brick building located in the village of Kottgeisering in the foothills of the Bava...
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Holiday Home, Texel
The North Sea island of Texel is located off the northern Dutch coast, in the Frisian Wadden Sea. Its rich fauna and flora make it a popular holiday d...
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Villa L near Munich
Concrete, glass and oak – this restrained material selection characterises the house that Pool Leber Architekten created on the outskirts of Grä...
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At Home - Architecture for Urban Living
By means of 26 townhouses, urban multi-storey residential buildings and residential quarters this book presents a range of current lifestyle and livin...
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House on a Meadow in Carinthia
The idea of spending weekends and holidays in the place of your childhood might not appeal to everyone, unless, perhaps, it could offer such attractiv...
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Town House in Linz
Generally, dilapidated buildings in inner city locations that are not under a preservation order are demolished and replaced by new buildings. With th...
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Blasón House and Studio in Madrid
The small workshop on Calle Blasón is one of the few industrial buildings that still survive in the centre of Madrid. Increasingly stringent requireme...
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Single Family Home near Tokyo
The residential house in Takasaki, about 100 km northeast of Tokyo, is not only home to a family of four. It also represents a sensual interplay of co...
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Leyton House in London
A subtle interplay of light and shadow enlivens the interiors of the end-of-terrace house that architects Louise and Sean McMahon designed for a filmm...
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Retirement Retreat in the Allgäu
Wood surfaces characterise the residence built by a couple from Berlin for their retirement in the small community of Oberreute in the Allgäu. On the...
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House with Shed Roof in Kanazawa
The large, steeply sloped shed roof of the residential house in Kanazawa already indicates that the city experiences significant rainfall. The house ...
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Earth House near Osaka
There is, in fact, no shortage of greenery here, but the client of Tomohiro Hata’s Earth House wanted more con- tact with nature and a building...
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House Rosa in Dornbirn
The three-storey house that Vorarlberg architect Sebastian Brandner built for himself and his four-person family is only 5 metres wide but 17.50 metre...
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House SO in Esslingen
With its facades that are closed on three sides the new home for a retired couple is more like a large garage than a small single-family house. In fac...
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Conversion in Cuneo
In the early decades of the 20th century the Italian railway service built housing for its employees all across the country. Also southwest of Turin,...
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At home - Architecture for Rural Living
In this book, 26 exemplary single-family houses are presented down to the structural detail.
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Architecture in Paris
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Clichy-Batignolles – Green Quarter in Concrete
Completed in 2020, the new Clichy-Batignolles neighbourhood in northwestern Paris is in many ways an exemplary operation, hitting all the right notes ...
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Morland Mixité Capitale in Paris
An uninviting 1960s office building was transformed into a vivid mixed urban quarter. David Chipperfield Architects Berlin (DCAB), BRS and Calq archi...
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Apartment Building in Paris
On a narrow residual site along the railway line, 245 mini apartments were made near Montparnasse train station. A number are rented to students, o...
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Jeanne d’Arc Nursery School in Paris
Straw, used as thermal insulation, is concealed by the timber facade of a nursery school in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. Within this project, the...
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Office Building RATP Habitat in Paris
In the east of Paris Atelier du Pont has built an unconventional office building for the housing association RATP Habitat. Located in a courtyard, the...
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Social Housing in Paris
The elegant building containing 15 social housing units is located in the 12th Arrondissement, a quiet residential area on the eastern urban fringe of...
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Townhouse Renovation in Paris
The Rue du Vertbois in the 3. Arrondissement used to be a typical Parisian side street. Today it belongs to the trendy Haut Marais district and its c...
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Student Housing in Paris
Commissioned by Paris Habitat, the French capital city’s largest social housing developer, NZI Architectes created 139 urgently needed student h...
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Student Housing in Paris-Saclay
On its own, a student dorm might seem a pretty banal commission – and a public parking garage even more so. But put the two together, along with...
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Courtyard Building in Paris
The four-storey residential building in the interior courtyard of a block border structure in the 12th arrondissement of Paris is based on a study on...
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Housing Complex with Offices in Paris
In architecture, the abbreviation “SoHo” stands for “Small Office Home Office” – a typology that links housing with offi...
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Social Housing Scheme in Paris
The 11th arrondissement in Paris is characterized by its narrow street grid with stone fronts to the houses. The present development by the architects...
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Fondation Lafayette Anticipations in Paris
The new Galerie Lafayette Anticipations, not far from the Centre Pompidou, reveals an innovative concept of how a listed building can be extended with...
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Housing Blocks Montmartre in Paris
These two buildings by Atelier Kempe Thill in collaboration with Fres Architects stand on what was formerly an industrial site at the foot of Montmart...
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Public Housing in Paris
In the heterogeneous developments of the Rue Castagnary close to the Gare Montparnasse, an elegant aluminium facade attracts attention to itself. The ...
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Insect Museum near Paris
Simple, interlocking volumes determine the design of the Insect Museum in Carrières-sous-Poissy, on the perimeter of the Paris metropolitan region. As...
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Report: Offices of an IT Agency in Paris
Paris’ 13th arrondissement in the southeast of the city is a place of contrasts: relics of the industrial age rub shoulders with modern office f...
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Construction for climate protection
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Manual of Recycling - Buildings as sources of materials
The Manual of Recycling provides the necessary expertise for the associated paradigm shift in construction.
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Floating Office Rotterdam
Constructions with limited use life span should be built in a way that enables easy demolition and reuse of components. It is seldom the case that the...
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Plankstetten Abbey in Bavaria
Preserving creation is everyday living practice to the Benedictine monks of Plankstetten Abbey. Their monastery, located on a site between the cities ...
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Demountable Office Building in Delft
The office building created by the planners of cepezed in Delft follows the Cradle to Cradle principle. According to this principle, the required...
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Straw Bale Social Housing
Discussions that increasingly deal with resource conservation in the field of building and the carbon footprint of construction materials generate new...
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School Building in Geneva
Shorter transport routes seem hardly possible: The material used for the loam bricks the load bearing walls of David Reffo’s school building in ...
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Urban Mining Design in Practice
For Korbach’s town hall, the planning team implemented an Urban Mining concept that spans from reusing the concrete from the existing building t...
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Office for Environment and Energy in Basel
Energy guzzler or passive house? Buildings don’t always tell which is which simply by looking at them. The Office for Environment and Energy in ...
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Elys Cultural and Commercial Building in Basel
In order to transform the former Coop distribution centre in the Lysbüchel area of Basel into the Elys cultural and commercial building, the planners ...
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City Hall Renovation near Brussels
With their new central administration facility, the municipality of Uccle, located south of Brussels and home to 80 000 residents, sets a signal for ...
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CO2 Neutral Hotel in Ludwigsburg
In 2014 the city of Ludwigsburg received the National German Sustainability Award for their “integrated, systematic and dedicated sustainab...
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Energy-Plus Housing Block in Paris
In Paris, Avenier Cornejo Architects have created the first social-housing structure to be certified with the label Bepos Effinergie 2013. “Bepo...
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St Gallen Agricultural Centre
Important for a high degree of sustainability and energy efficiency are the use of local, renewable materials, the exploition of natural resource...
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Recycling House in Hanover
The single family home in a new development in Hanover is a striking sight: Between the uniformly rendered neighbouring houses, the compact ...
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Gare Maritime in Brussels
Tour & Taxis, a 37 hectare site near the financial centre of Brussels, was one of Europe’s largest transshipment stations, well into the 198...
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Deichman Library in Oslo
When it comes to introducing BIM methods in Europe, Norway plays a leading role. In 2008 the public building authority, Statsbygg, published an initia...
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Ilse Wallentin House in Vienna
Clients from the public realm have high hopes for BIM, also in Austria. For the Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft, a quasi-governmental company that manage...
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The Plus Factory Building in Norway
About 100 km east of Oslo, halfway between the headquarters of the outdoor furniture manufacturer Vestre and the company’s steelworks in Torsby,...
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Student dormitory in Paris
The Quartier La Chapelle is located in the north-east of Paris. It offers a diverse and dynamic context for this student dormitory along the Rue Pajo...
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Simple and inexpensive building
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Cultural Centre in Móstoles
The cultural centre »El Soto« is located near a park under the same name in a suburban area of Madrid. The centre was originally supposed to be demoli...
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Holiday Home on Fanø
By adopting the aesthetics of raw, unfinished materials the young, Copenhagen-based architects reinterpret the traditional long houses of Fanø. ...
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Robust Architecture - Low Tech Design
The book gives detailed information on the concepts behind Robust Architecture and Low-Tech Design.
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Patio Houses in Badajoz
At first glance, the two white housing structures in Cabeza del Buey look like a modern interpretation of the simple, traditional houses of the region...
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Housing and Commercial Development in Zurich
The temporary Fogo development on Vulcan Square in Zurich combines housing for refugees, trainees and students, with studios and spaces for courses an...
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Wohnen 500 Residential Complex in Mäder
A charitable housing society from Vorarlberg has succeeded in combining cost-effective and ecologically high-quality as well as well-designed housing....
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Housing Rack in Berlin
The underlying concept of the architect Marc Frohn in the present scheme was the creation of economical housing with a precast-concrete structure. On ...
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Building Affordably? Building Simply! – Interview Florian Nagler
Many of Florian Nagler’s buildings seem austere and rooted within the region, based on their traditional appeal. However, they possess global r...
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Temporary Apartments in Barcelona
Millions of shipping containers arrive in Barcelona’s harbour every year. After a relatively short period of use spanning roughly ten years the ...
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Commercial Building in Thalgau
The architects achieved this aim by creating a thrilling interplay between existing and new construction. They maintained the overall impression of t...
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Technology: Houses without Heating
A concept is catching momentum. It calls for buildings to provide a pleasant room climate without the help of conventional heating, cooling and venti...
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Technology: Saving Costs, Maintaining Quality - Strategies for Housing
The topic affordable building is in the news, because in Germany housing costs have gotten too high. In metropolitan areas the general population can’...
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Social housing apartments White Clouds in Saintes
The architects describe their three apartment buildings in Saintes, one and a half hours north of Bordeaux, as “white clouds”. And indeed ...
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Social Housing Scheme in Paris
The 11th arrondissement in Paris is characterized by its narrow street grid with stone fronts to the houses. The present development by the architects...
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Housing Development in Rive de Gier
The design projects of the French Tectoniques Architectes are based on a sustainable approach to building. The present housing complex south-west...
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Housing Blocks Montmartre in Paris
These two buildings by Atelier Kempe Thill in collaboration with Fres Architects stand on what was formerly an industrial site at the foot of Montmart...
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Zwicky-South Housing District in Dübendorf
In Dübendorf, on the eastern edge of Zurich, the site of the former Zwicky spinning works is being transformed into a new urban district. Situate...
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Report: Building is Fairly Simple
The french architects Lacaton & Vassal want to create good architecture for everyone. A talk with Anne Lacaton on the occasion of their exhibition...
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Journal: Sports Hall in Haiming
American engineer John Calvin Jureit obtained his first patent for the galvanised nail plate in 1956. Today, the connector plate, which is pressed int...
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Student Residence in Mbombela
The University of Mpumalanga is one of the two new universities founded in South Africa since the ending of apartheid. It is located on the ...
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Social housing in Luxembourg
There are few places in Europe where one can find as high a concentration of major banks and public administration bodies as Kirchberg district of Lux...
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Agricultural School in Cochabamba
The integration of teaching and practice is a common principle in architectural education. To build a real building, however, by far exceeds the scope...
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Housing for the Homeless in Ingolstadt
A charitable housing association in Ingolstadt has dedicated itself to the creation of affordable housing for socially vulnerable individuals and thos...
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Residence and Workshop in London
Lordship Lane is a historic link road that once ran through a rural surrounding and connects London with East Dulwich. Behind the row of houses border...
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