A Directory of Great Architectures
A Directory of Great Architectures
Albania, a former communist state in the Southeastern Europe is now becoming the center of attraction because of the modern architectural designs used in decorating various buildings in the metropolis. Ever since Albania became a parliamentary democracy in 1991, the…
The Waste Treatment Facility, in Vacarisses in Spain, designed by Batlle & Roig, has won the World’s Best Production Energy and Recycling Building award at the prestigious World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards 2011. The presentation of the WAF Awards are…
BIG wins an invited competition to renovate and extend an existing 1960’s concrete warehouse situated in a Basel industrial district which is being transformed into an alternative Arts District. Located in Basel’s upcoming Dreispitz neighborhood, which is envisioned as an…
Kranjska Gora is a well-known ski resort town, almost qualifying as luxury, at least in the context of Slovenia. It lies on a plain by the source of the Sava Dolinka river and is encircled, particularly in the south, by…
© Claude Tremblay Fournier, Gersovitz, Moss, Drolet et associés architectes (FGMDA) designed the new Community Science Centre at Université Laval’s Centre d’études nordiques (CEN) in Whapmagoostui-Kuujjuarapik. The centre, devoted to scientific research and exchange of traditional knowledge, is not the…
The MVRDV and COBE scheme for the transformation of a former concrete factory into a multifunctional creative hub was chosen winner of an international design competition. The masterplan proposes an informal transformation of the 45.000m2 site into a dense neighborhood,…
This amazing group of buildings was designed by Juan Pablo Serrano Orozco and Rafael Monjaraz Fuentes in collaboration with Serrano Arquitectos. The construction begun in 2009 and is located in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, México, with an area of…
Art Arquitectos designed this project for a Paul Mitchell salon, at Houston Texas. The low walls of this beauty salon bring out the depth of the space it’s housed in. The stone slab, which has been painted dark gray, is…
