WOHA: the met residential skyscraper, bangkok

the met, a bangkok residential skyscraper designed by WOHA won world's best housing development award this year at the world architecture festival. influenced by thai tiles, textiles and timber panelling, the concept behind the complex was to explore ideas of how low-rise tropical housing can be applied to create outdoor-indoor spaces in the sky. with the aim of creating a better lifestyle for metropolitan living, the met was developed less from western temperate models and more on the possibilities of low-wind, tropical climates in dense urban conditions - it is within tropic climages where you experience cooler breezes, less dust, more privacy, security, less noise and better views the higher you go.

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World Architecture Festival category winners

The nine World Architecture Festival category winners have been announced at the festival in Barcelona. (more…)

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The house-tree by Tatiana Bilbao

Mexican architectural company Tatiana Bilbao has created the design project of a university building. The author has inspired on project creation — an ordinary tree.The building has received the name “Biotechnological Park Building”. The six-storied structure will shelter researchers and experimenters in the field of the new technologies applied in agriculture.
The project will take places on 8,000 sq.m. of a campus of the largest private university in Mexico (Tecnológico de Monterrey) in the city of Culiacan.

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Warehouse and Offices Huanacu / STPP

A large warehouse in ways "choro" (as requested by the client), highlighting by contrast to the typical industrial architecture that is appreciated in the industry, but as cheaply as possible (12.5 uf mt2). And that could respond to and shape to accommodate through the internal logic of operation of the company (routines for loading and unloading, operation and display of products in showroom, office operation, etc.).

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Mellat Park Cineplex | Fluid Motion Architects

Fluid Motion Architects led by Catherine Spiridonoff and Reza Daneshmir have recently updated with us the Mellat Park Cineplex. It is located in the municipal district 3 of Tehran in an extended and indefinite piece of land with the area of 6000 sq m, has been designed and constructed in the far south-east side of Mellat Park..

With the total floor area of 15000 sq m, this project includes 4movie halls, each occupying 300 persons, and a small performance hall with the capacity of 30 persons, along with exhibition areas, restaurant, coffee shop, Book and CD store, offices and service areas.

from architecture buzz!! by Tanakorn Koomrampai
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ShowCase: Junquillos Chapel

There are oaks, wind and rain coming from the west. A dusty road is at the east. Community soccer field is south; bamboo and empty beer cans all over the north. Now there is also a wooden barn structure over a concrete platform, with corrugated metal cladding in the outside and pine boards in the inside, plus 100 chairs, lectern, altar, virgin figure and a cross. Mass is once a month, community activities every evening. Both happen in the same space. A new chapel for 100 people in the remote countryside of Southern Chile.

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Photo: Felipe Fontecilla

james turrell: the wolfsburg project at the kunstmuseum, germany

in collaboration with the kunstmuseum wolfsburg, american light artist james turrell has created his largest-ever walk-in light installation within a museum context: an 11 metre high structure 'space within a space' which covers a floor area of 700 metres and reaches up to the museum's glass roof being exhibited as part of the wolfsburg project exhibition.

photo by florian holzherr
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Casadetodos by Veronica Arcos

Chile-based architect Veronica Arcos has completed an angular house in the El Arrayán area of Santiago, Chile. (more…)

from Dezeen by Rose Etherington