Archive for February, 2007
Tomorrow’s Garden City - architectural competition
Invitation:
Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation and North Hertfordshire Homes, invite submissions for an international open design competition for the design of an affordable 21st Century house.
The competition seeks a housing design updating the original concept under-pinning Letchworth Garden City and the Garden City movement, incorporating new technologies and approaches to home and environment design to […]
Future of Cities - architectural competition
Eligibility
The competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students at all levels of higher education in all countries of the world.
Levels: Bachelors, Masters, Ph.D. students
Fields of Study: Urban Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Geography, Sociology, Anthropology, Urban Studies, Environmental Studies, Engineering, Traffic Planning or related fields.
Participation shall not be anonymous; each contribution shall […]
Asbestos House in sydney
location: 65-69 York Street, Sydney
style: Inter-War Art Deco
name: asbestos house
type: Office Building
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Tecu® Architecture Award 2007.
Copper, more than any other building material, is brought to life by specific applications. It reflects the entire range of architectural issues: historical and futuristic, manual trade skills and technological progress – convention and innovation, technology and art, tradition and avantgarde.
2007 edition of Tecu® Architecture Award 2007 will prize works of particular architectural value, projects […]
Virtual Air Conditioners
As used in many mediterranean countries, the building on the corner of Ismail Qemali and 4 Shkurti in Albania is covered with a random pattern of air conditioners. How to implement them into the reconstruction of the façade was a difficult question for the architects. The solution was a composition of real and virtual air […]
SkiBox Portillo in Portillo
For the hotel Portillo, located at el. +3000m in the Andes mountain
range, expanding facilities for skiers and ski patrols were needed.
With connection of two different constructive layers (wood and stone)
a SkiBox of 110 m2 with toilets for skiers, a cafeteria and an office
for ski patrols arised.
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