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[4 May 2010 | No Comment | ]
Carros Parking Lot & Urban Planning in France by N+B Architectes

N+B Architectes commissioned to design parking center allows a better management of the car parks which blocked the environment of this part of the city center of Carros France. It gives viability to this project of evacuation of the traffic, especially positioning the parking lot as entity registered in the landscape. The site presents main advantages that are its slope, and a wide zone with lot of trees. This axis of development passes by scale’s control of landscape’s parking. The second axis consists in finding district’s scale, in taking up …

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[19 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
Alaska Building in Netherlands by KOW

The Alaska Building created for Visser & Smit Bouw, Modulus Projectontwikkeling by Netherlands architecture office KOW. This building have 30.000 m2 of office spaces and 11.000 m2 of underground parking. A glass volume is a logical translation of a large program within the requirements of the masterplan and historic boundaries of a relatively small plot of land. The urban planning context and the indepth plans ask for a large degree of transparency in the façades.

In combination with demanding climate control requirements, the application of insulated façades is a justified choice. …