Hamad International Airport Passenger Terminal Complex / HOK
As the landmark home for Qatar Airways, the country’s national airline, the terminal has 41 unrestricted contact gates.
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Hotel das Triest, Porto Bar / BEHF Architects
Vienna’s boutique design hotel DAS TRIEST, a popular accommodation choice among international artists and celebrities, has expended its offerings with the acquisition of the neighbouring property on the Margaretenstrasse which has now been renovated. BEHF Architects has been commissioned for the interior design of the bar and restaurant area.
Sparkletots Preschool By PAP Community Foundation / LAUD Architects
Sparkletots Preschool is amongst the first mega child care centres to be introduced in Singapore as part of the government’s efforts to increase and enhance education opportunities for pre-schoolers. Home to 1000 children, the development is located in Punggol, a relatively new town characterized largely by young couples just starting their families.
PNC Legacy Pavilion / GBBN
Envisioned as a meeting space and gallery for exhibits featuring Pittsburgh stories throughout history, the PNC Legacy Pavilion is a landmark in Pittsburgh’s downtown Cultural District. Using just a few materials, including zinc panel, channel glass, and LED lighting, a tiny building (just 1,300 sf) transitions to a big role as a highly detailed, glowing beacon seen throughout the city.
Rietwierde Community School / Moke Architecten
On the periphery of a nondescript residential area in Groningen, Gianni Cito designed a large building for two schools, two childcare centres and a playground. From the outset, the end users played an important role in this project, engaging in regular dialogue with the architect during workshops. One of the significant outcomes was the proposal to share out-of-school care facilities, play rooms, gym, kitchen, staff room, science classroom and the playground.
CT House / nicolasCRUZarquitectos
The terrain is characterized by being a kind of plateau between two slopes that fall towards the Ranco Lake in southeastern orientation, having there its main view towards the landscape. The site is dominated by a large Laurel and a coihue, in addition to preexisting rocks. The north orientation is located towards the upper level of this plateau, from where the winds and rain come in winter, while the south is towards the access and the neighboring site, from where the prevailing winds come in summer.
Indoor Pools: Bringing the Tranquility of Water to Interiors
Water, in architecture, evokes reflection, calm, and wellbeing. The element has influenced design through its dynamic and fluid nature. With recent technological advances, architects have created some of the most strategic, innovative, and unexpected intersections of design and H2O.
Building 83 Interior Architecture / Bora Architects
Intended as an engine for igniting creativity and sparking new ideas, Building 83 brings together 1200 users from 14 different work wings spread over 4 floors and 300,000 square feet. Working within an existing core and shell designed by ZGF, our firm reconceived the typical central atrium surrounded by hallways into an active, sensory-rich hub that that actives the brain, drives innovation, and increases human interaction.
Nth Fitzroy by Milieu / FIELDWORK Design & Architecture
Lauded for its wide, tree-lined streets and distinct character; North Fitzroy has emerged as a destination for innovative vertical living. Nth FITZROY By Milieu – a carefully considered collaboration between progressive urban developer Milieu, architecture practice Fieldwork and interior design wunderkind Flack Studio – finds respectful equilibrium amongst the storied architecture of one of Melbourne’s most historic suburbs.
Hotel Adriatic / 3LHD
Adriatic is a unique hotel with art providing an unrepeatable ambient in which fantasy and reality interact through artistic interventions and everyday objects. The existing building was constructed in 1913 as one of the first hotels in the region and is nowadays the only one situated in the urban structure of Rovinj.