This triangular house located in Viksberg Sweden, designed by Stockholm based architecture firm Tham & Videgård Architects. The Garden House integrated vertical addition to the garden, where indoor and outdoor spaces gradually blend and interact. This house using all wood material both structure and finishes combine with glass. The triangular foot print is the result of a steep slope that diagonally crosses the site. With one of the long facades facing south we also managed to eliminate a pure northern façade. This further helped the idea of plants climbing high …

Built at 1,493 sqm project area on the Universuity Campus of Toulouse-labège – Tolouse France, this new gymnasium is part of a developing programme for the campus with a view to the building of The ENSIACET on this new site.The project of implanting a new gymnasium on the INP grounds considers the whole site as a university campus at the heart of a quality environment. The implantation of the INP gymnasium allows one take architecture further than mere building.
The architectural composition generates a an axis directly going from …

Located in Delft – Netherlands, DHV Architects have designed Van Leeuwenhoek Laboratory, a new research facility for nanotechnology. It’s building being the only laboratory where a national research organization and a leading technology university join forces to create the extraordinary. This state-of-the-art facility is the result of decades of pioneering research by TNO and TU Delft. Whether it is science, education, R&D or business opportunities: Delft is at the heart of nanotechnology innovations worldwide. The building is occupied around the clock, at night it acts as a beacon for its …

The National Laboratory of Genomics Building is an extension of the Institute of Agricultural Studies complex, located in Irapuato, Guanajuato Mexico. This building created by TEN Arquitectos for National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity, sited in empty field with a fault line deep below—gave rise to the metaphor that defines the form of the building. This constructed fault line forms an intimate civic space that connects the different programs.
Nestled into a built-up artificial topography, a new terrain that manifests the nature of the work inside the institution. The laboratories are …

The Oslo School of Architecture Building located at the edge of Akerselva River in the eastern part of Oslo. Designed by Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Architects MNAL (JVA), the school is part of a larger effort to revitalize this former industrial area of education-related uses. The outside of the existing building has a conservation status. Architect block store opens on the river, and incorporate new programs with the logic of the existing building together with the environment in a spatial sequence. Court access has been cut from an existing floor slab 1, …

Located in Santiago Portugal, the Refuge Pavilion created by Francisco Portugal e Gomes collaborated with Fernando Gabriel. The project anticipates the rearrangement of an already existent construction annexed to a small house, in a refuge pavilion with 50 m². The implanting of the new building follows the limits of this existent construction in the west side, recycling small stone. The opposite side is rebuilt, realigned and, reusing the granite header from the best walls, is created an uncovered yard that serves as entrance and, at the same time, decompresses …

The Vitus Bering Innovation Park in Denmark by C. F. Møller Architects is one of the first office complexes in Denmark to be classified as low-energy class 1, which means that its energy efficiency is twice that of the minimum required by the Danish building regulations. The new Innovation building is designed to sit on a brick base, in a direct continuation of the existing complex’ architecture, but from there on it bears a distinct different and unique. The building’s dynamic character is expressed via its spiral shape. On the …

Located in farm estate in the southern part of Berlin, Tim Bauerfeind and Henning von Wedemeyer from UTArchitects in collaboration with Matthias Lötscher and Ralf Grubert convert a 18th century farmhouse into a training center for carpenters. The basement of the farm house was dried up, roof and facades have been refurbished. Along with the restoration of interior wood fixtures some ancient wall and ceiling paintings have been exposed and restored. With the demolition of garages the new workshop building creates the original u-shape of buildings around the yard. …

Located in Seongnam South Korea, this Seongnam City Hall building created with modern architectural design by SAMOO Architects & Engineers in collaboration with KMD Architects. This building is not only the centre but also the new landmark of Seongnam encompassing three urban quarters: old downtown, Bundang and Pangyo. It seeks to be an open government office, an eco-friendly government office, and a forward-looking government office. The new building also establishes wireless LAN across the region, and applies cutting edge sustainable solutions such as cool tube systems to make the governmental …

Located in the Seine Left Bank Urban Development Zone Paris 13th Arrondissement France, Badia Berger architects has design the 79 Logements PLUS Apartment. The project arranges the built-up blocks into two main entities: a “square”, that uses the lines and angles of the main streets with, as a counterpoint, on the secondary street Elsa Morante, a “tower”, that frees up the land and space, a volume whose contours are dematerialised compare with the UFR de Biologie block.

Those located in the square’s podium block have all the usual configurations. However, all …