Architecture

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Brand: Vasil Velchev Design Type: Building Category: Architecture

Quantum

Quantum is a building designed to host the forefront in Product Design as well as all important and iconic works created over the years. Simply its a Museum and Exhibition Center. The style is probably Organic-Eclectic, shape can be geometrically described as a combination of overlapping spheres, displaced relatively one to another, forming two asymmetrical corpora with different internal areas and balconies. The connection between them is accomplished by 5 corridors in the form of mini-deformed protuberances.

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Brand: Polina Nozdracheva Design Type: Equestrian sport center Category: Architecture

Equitorus

Equitorus is required to meet all stringent sanitary & technological requirements for maintenance, training & prepation of horses competing at highest level. Complex has contain entire infrastructure necessary for living & recreation needs of horse owners during their spare time. Most remarkable element of complex is its large indoor arena made of glued wooden structures & featuring an L-shaped gallery with spectator seats & cafe. Object is perceived as a contrast in relation on natural environment. It seems as if someone had spread a colourful homespun mat on ground.

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Brand: Gyula Takács Design Type: Museum of Seurasaari Category: Architecture

MuSe Helsinki

Seurasaari is one of the 315 islands in Helsinki. Over the past 100 years, 78 wooden buildings have been shipped here from various parts of Finland. All of these are standing on stone, because the wood absorbs the moisture in the soil. The new Museum building follows this analogy, on the ground floor everything made by reinforced concrete structures. The sculptured mass is a built rock. The top layer standing on this, which is made of wood in every element. MuSe is floating among the trees like a cloud, communicates with the sourrounding nature and respects the traditional skanzen buildings.

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Brand: Moriyuki Ochiai Architects Design Type: Tea Ceremony House Category: Architecture

SEI-AN Stargazing Tea Rooms

- Constellation of Stargazing Tea Rooms - Moriyuki Ochiai Architects designed a cluster of tea rooms offering a view of the surrounding scenery and the starlit sky as an "tea house connecting people to the stars and nature" located in the town of Bisei, Okayama Prefecture, known as a sanctuary for stargazing. By merging together this newly formed belt of tea rooms with the idyllic hills, mountains and starry skies of Bisei, Their design team sought to realize a tea house that reshapes the town's panorama.

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Brand: Paul Bo Peng Design Type: Public Library Category: Architecture

Heyuan

The Heyuan New Library is a library located in the center of the Heyuan Cultural Park in Guangdong Province, China. The architectural design is unique in that it is inspired by traditional architecture of the Hakka people, one of the largest cultural groups in China. This location is ideal from a Feng-Shui point of view. The library overlooks the central lake from the foot of a small mountain. The essence of the design is based on a structure of five functional blocks arranged on a sloping terrain, overlooking the lake, connecting land to water.

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Brand: Evolution Design Design Type: Residential Development Category: Architecture

K.I.S.S.

K.I.S.S. is a residential development in Zurich, Switzerland, that contains 46 maisonettes. Tenants can choose between three apartment typologies, which differ in character and atmosphere. The development responds to the wish of tenants for homes that suit their individuality and lifestyle. Market research of the area and expected changes in society guided the definition of the three types. Affordable materials such as exposed concrete, stainless steel, resin flooring and plywood paneling keep costs low. The building has eight floors above ground and two underground parking levels.

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Brand: Murat Gedik Design Type: Residential Villa Category: Architecture

BSG Residential Villa

BSG Villas is a residential villa designed as an example of contemporary architecture. The roof is fully covered with solar panels that produce the energy needed by the household. The roof shape also allows rain and snow water to be collected in storage units, which serve as the main bearings of the building. The steel structure rests on three bearing bases, so the impact on the soil is reduced. The villa stands 6 metres above the ground and reaches 23.80 metres at the apex. An ornamental pool below is visible through a partly glass floor.

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Brand: Murat Gedik Design Type: Residential villas Category: Architecture

Field of Flowers

The structure resting on the bearing bases of arch or semi-arch character has a reduced impact on the soil,so allows the soil to enjoy rain and breathe in.Its design has an integration with the nature.A block composed of four villa units has the chance to enjoy the view panoramically thanks to a mechanism capable of rotating 360° a day.The project gets part of its energy supply from wind roses.Each villa unit might get involved in organic agriculture on its own area in the amidst of various flowers,trees encircled with artificial or real ponds.

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