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Helsinki Seafarers’ Centre / ARK-house Architects
The plot for the projected Helsinki Seafarers´ Centre is situated by the main entrance to the Vuosaari harbour, on the northern corner of the area.
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Vodafone Head Office by Barbosa Guimarães Arquitectos
The Vodafone building was designed by architects José António Barbosa and Pedro Guimarães of Barbosa Guimarães Arquitectos.
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Spiraling skyscrapers by Chimera
Design team Chimera has conceived of an incredible series of spiraling skyscrapers for London modeled after the complex ecosystems created by the mangrove tree. Dubbed Mangal City, the project is an “urban ecological system” composed of modular pod capsules that shift to adapt to environmental and contextual conditions.
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Verdura Resort by Olga Polizzi and Flavio Albanese
Interior designer Olga Polizzi and architect Flavio Albanese have designed the recently opened Verdura Resort in Sicily.
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The Otto Bock Building by Gnädinger Architects
The building was designed for the Otto Bock HealthCare company, a world leader in prosthetics and orthotics. The organic-dynamic design of the six-storey building is based on the principles of nature – as a model of harmony between technology and people. The facade bands have modeled the structure of muscle fibers that encircle the building [...]
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Green Lighthouse by Christensen & Co Arkitekter
Green Lighthouse, Denmark’s first CO2 neutral public building, demonstrates that sustainable design is not a question of stuffing the building with brazen, expensive high-tech gadgets, but that it starts with good old fashioned common sense.
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Mandarin Oriental Riviera Maya by Gilberto Borja
Mexican architect Gilberto Borja has designed the Mandarin Oriental Riviera Maya Resort.
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London’s Shard
Despite the credit crunch, despite the collapse of half of the world’s financial system, despite the latest credit crisis in Dubai, the Shard, Europe’s tallest tower continues to rise out of the ground. That was the message from Sellar, the developer at their London press briefing this week.
