ARCHITECTURE

Square of traditional crafts in Varazdin

April 13, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Croatia, Landscape and urban space|

The project proposes a new design, for an existing public square in the historical fabric of the city Varaždin; while formatting a functional and inspiring gathering point for tourists and strengthening the educational character. The newly designed solution offers a sensitive approach that would nurture and preserve the current spatial identity as important craftsman location. Still offering new possibilities, better presentation space for the local craftsmen, and public space that
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Primary school Ivanja Reka, Zagreb

April 13, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Croatia, Public and commercial architecture|

Since the site is located in the former river bed, any firm ground is at a considerable depth. Therefore, the building needed to be built on an embankment with reinforced ground that will protect it from floods and sinking. From the mentioned limitations in the zone of construction, the necessity of infrastructural nature of the intervention in space has grown. Building seeks to break the distinction between natural and artificial
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Concrete House @ Paniotis, Limassol

April 13, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Cyprus, Residential architecture|

The Concrete House is located in the suburban area of Paniotis and stands in stark contrast to its adjoining properties. The project achieves organic fluidity between inside-outside, spatial permeability and the perception of openness. Spatial strategies, materiality, landscaping and vegetation celebrate seasonality and temporality. The linear plot afforded a longitudinal placement of the project. A bold metal screen on the street façade acts as a privacy barrier and creates
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Polytechnic University of Milan, Lecco

April 12, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Italy, Public and commercial architecture|

A development of the new University Center in the city of Lecco is the winner of a tender opened by the Polytechnic University of Milan. It offers solutions with a low architectural and energy impact. The project is based on the need to create a university center that would guarantee a synergistic-osmotic relationship with the city of Lecco, while identifying and offering services currently unavailable in the city that
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StarsBOX, Various

April 12, 2021|Architecture and design as experience, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2021 – Winner, Italy, Tourism|

StarsBOX is inspired by temporary housing solutions of shepherds in the Italian Ligurian Alps. It innovates their shapes and function and strives to provide a new, lighter and more attentive way to enjoy the mountains thanks to the evocative power of a unique experience. StarsBOX is more than a nest: it is the synthesis of shelter and travel. It is something in between a tent and a hut: StarsBOX offers
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Big House and Small Building, Tuzla

April 9, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Residential architecture|

At the beginning, there was a cornfield on the edge of the city, along the fast city highway, which separated the urban part of the city from the suburban, sloping part. This empty space bordered on the east by the new Islamic Center and on the west by the building of Stari Zlokovac, whose brick architecture had already set a very nice definition of the transition. Considering the proximity
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Makedonska 44, Belgrade

April 9, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Public and commercial architecture, Serbia|

This is a reconstruction project of the 1970s building that presents a complete building makeover. The main feature of the new building front is a strong grid of vertical and horizontal lines that form large openings for glass surfaces. The grid is very strong close to the corner of the building but slowly disintegrates as we approach to the end of left and the right side. The windows become smaller
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Residential Villa Black and White, Kosice

April 9, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Residential architecture, Slovakia|

Private project of above-standard housing of one family on a slope, in a satellite of the East Slovak town of Kosice.The building is brick, two-storey with the division of the house into night and day part. The gallery in the living area opens to a view of the garden and the sun. The mass of the building copies the terrain of the slope and reacts with its fragmentation. Today\'s living
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Cavo Zoe Hotel Renovation, Protaras

April 9, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Cyprus, Public and commercial architecture|

A renovation project, inspired by nature and designed to integrate seamlessly into its environment. The hotel’s architecture along with the use of natural elements and materials come together to create a balanced environment where visitors can experience a familiar, hospitable, and relaxing atmosphere.The use of water features and swimming pools have been designed specifically in a way that the visitors can enjoy the sea view without obstructions wherever they are
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Residential complex 3K, Slovenske Konjice

April 9, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Residential architecture, Slovenia|

The basic idea of ​​Residential complex 3K is a block divided into three smaller residental units, that are separated with transparent communicational volumes. Two portal volumes are designed as light architectural elements in contrast to residental volumes. The building becomes visually smaller, diverse and it adapts architecturally to the structure of the existing surroundings. Apartments have lots of natural light from almost all sides. The atriums next to the
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KONPLAN office building, Pilsen

April 6, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Czech Republic, Public and commercial architecture|

Konplan companyˈs new Office building has become a new centerpiece of Borská pole district in Pilsen. Proven concept of solid core lined with open workplaces is completed with unique facade. It consists of perforated metal stripes rotated towards sun. This rigid metal structure is disturbed by green islands of large plants in giant flowerpots. Interior solution is influenced by those green islands as well as all the relax areas
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House in South Crete

April 6, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Greece, Residential architecture|

Southern Crete is characterized by strong northwest winds and rough Mediterranean landscape. The architect aims after interpreting the nature of the area to understand the lifestyle of a French couple who decided to settle permanently in southern Crete. Great attention was paid to texture-colour-material relationship. The walls are coarse and the colours harmonise with the Cretan landscape palette. The colouring is uniform internally and externally, with a lighter shade on
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