James Gorst

The refurbishment of an existing stone barn into an artists studio and the linking of the two by a new two storey timber building providing garaging and staff accommodation.

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Soundtrack: Malcolm Middleton - Loneliness Shines

Beath Rothen

The house rests like a monolith in the slope. Simple and powerful in its typology. The result of intensive search for the materialization is a masonry with an outer shell made of ribbed cement blocks.

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Soundtrack: Kunz - Flow

Bio Towers

Bio-towers in Lauchhammer were used to purify wastewater from the town's coking plant by way of internal trickling filters. These days the structures are used to educate people about the area’s industrial history through guided tours and exhibitions.

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Soundtrack: Sleep - Holy Mountain

LC in Bagdad

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Soundtrack: A Whisper in the Noise - As We Were

Serpentine 2012

The Serpentine Gallery is proud to announce that Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei will create the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion...

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Soundtrack: Comanechi -  Rabbit Hole

Hambacher Castle

Max Dudler’s idea was to turn the accessible castle wall into a usable space. This he achieved through his choice of building material – using the same type of stone for the facades as had been used for the existing castle walls – as well as through opening up the stone walls with large, deeply recessed windows, thereby enhancing the building’s sense of depth.

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Soundtrack: Red Fang - Prehistoric Dog

Cube House

foto: Eduard Hueber

In the year 2000 Simon Ungers completed the so-called ‘Cube House’, a vacation home for himself in Ithaca, NY. Widely published, it would never be completed as originally conceived, and was scarcely occupied.

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Soundtrack: Bohren & der Club of Gore - Prawler

wNw Bar

foto Phan Quang

The wNw bar is a structural bamboo arch system spanning 10m in height and 15m in length. Materials used for the roof covering are the sheets that are made from the leaves having the high resistance in fire.

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via archdaily

Soundtrack: A.K.A.T - Ăn Mày

Antarctic Station

Self-sufficient scientific research base is on site on a floating ice shelf 900 miles from South Pole. Hydraulically elevated ski based modules respond to annually rising snow levels and the need to relocate the base if the site calves off as an iceberg. A special central module provides a dramatic open plan social area at the heart of the station.

via hbarchitects

Soundtrack: I Like Trains - Terra Nova

Maruyama House

A private house in Sapporo designed by Takahiko Sano

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Soundtrack: Boris - Hope/ Riot Sugar

Casa Arco

foto Cristobal Palma

"Resistance is not only opposition to a force, but also tolerance, patience, being strong-willed. For things to last, for them to withstand the weight of time, they must suffer; the question was to what extent of this tension should be made visible."

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Soundtrack: Saade - Maybe I Fly

2G: PvE

This number of 2G brings together 17 of the studio’s built works and projects, single-family houses for the most part, which permit the reader to witness the evolution of the themes dealt with.

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Soundtrack: Skupina Štěstí

Chungking Mansions

A trip to Chungking Mansions reveals a far less glamorous side of globalization. A world away from the gleaming headquarters of multinational corporations, Chungking Mansions is emblematic of the way globalization actually works for most of the world's people.

via we-make-money-not-art

Soundtrack: Faye Wong - Dreamlover

Eladio Dieste

Eladio Dieste spent most of his long and productive career creating industrial and agrarian works, public infrastructure, commercial buildings, and small churches in Uruguay. His unique and innovative method of design elevated these buildings to masterworks of art.

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Soundtrack: Par - Paz

Save Chandigarh

Designboom visited the former collaborator of Le Corbusier the 90-year old Manmohan Nath Sharma. He speaks about his 'master' and the privilege of working together on a great piece of creative art. "this matter is being taken very lightly by the authorities so now we need international help"- he says.

via designboom