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Designer: Undercurrent Architects
Location: Sydney, Australia

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Designer: Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Location: Izu-San, Japan
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Designer: Dasic Architects
Location: Tokyo, Japan
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Designer: Robert Harvey Oshatz
Location: Portland, USA
Located on a flag lot, a steep sloping grade provided the opportunity to bring the main level of the house into the tree canopy to evoke the feeling of being in a tree house. A lover of music, the client wanted a house that not only became [...]

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Designer: J. Mayer H.
Location: Ludwigsburg, Germany
The geometry of the Dupli.Casa is based on the footprint of the house that previously was located on the site, originally built in 1984 and with many extensions and modifications since then. The new building echoes the „family archeology“ by duplication and rotation. Lifted up, it creates a semi-public space [...]

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Carlo Santambrogio and Ennio Arosio pursue and achieve their design intention in which glass figures as
the unquestioned protagonist, excluding the mediation of supports that would challenge its leading role.
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Designer: Studio Gang Architects
Location: Chicago, USA
In an increasingly dense city like Chicago, views from a new tower must be negotiated between existing buildings. Aqua tower considers criteria such as views, solar shading and function to derive a vertical system of contours that gives the structure its sculptural form. Its vertical topography is defined by its [...]

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German, born 1954
The Transparent City
This is Wolf’s first body of work to address an American city. Whereas prior series have juxtaposed humanizing details within the surrounding geometry of the urban landscape, in The Transparent City, his details are fragments of life—digitally distorted and hyper-enlarged—snatched surreptitiously via telephoto lenses: Edward Hopper meets Blade Runner. The material [...]

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Designer: Zaha Hadid
Location: Rome, Italy
MAXXI is for “Museo nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo”.
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Designer: Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects
Location: Coromandel, New Zealand
The house was conceived as a container sitting lightly on the land for habitation or the dream of habitation. The intention was to reinterpret the New Zealand building tradition – the crafting of wood – the expression of structure, cladding, lining and joinery in a raw and unique [...]

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Designer: KOZ Architects
Location: Saint-Cloud, France
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