ARCHITECTURE

Sarajevo & East Sarajevo 2019. European Youth Olympic Winter Festival – Opening Ceremony

August 26, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Landscape and urban space|

The Grand Opening Ceremony of EYOF 2019 is a cultural and artistic event in the function of the city and the promotion of its identity. The task was to design a stage-visual spectacle held at the location the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo were held on, with the flame being lit too, which is of special emotional significance for the city and its citizens. The public space the Opening
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Eltas – a Production, Storage and Commercial Facility, Šentjernej

August 26, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Public and commercial architecture, Slovenia|

 The production, storage and commercial facility Eltas is a continuation of the existing business zone in NE part of Šentjernej, on an area of approx. 6000 m2. With its design, the facility builds a distinct streetside silhouette on the northern edge and the main handling area in the south of the area. The structure is divided into two main buildings; the south part is strictly functional and designed as
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Aqua Paradise Resort, Nessebar

August 25, 2020|Architecture and design as experience, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2020 - Winner, Bulgaria, Tourism|

Hotel complex Aqua Paradise Resort together with the eponymous aquapark are the largest in volume and investment project in Bulgaria in the field of tourism. The impressive three-lane concept of the main hotel body and the pulsating concentricity of the whole complex is a mix of symbols and messages defined by the local identity and multiculturе of a new generation of architecture. The horizontal design of the building and the
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Villa Charissa, Imerovigli, Santorini

August 25, 2020|Architecture and design as experience, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2020 - Winner, Greece, Tourism|

Influenced by the island’s traditional architecture, Villa Charissa blends into the natural landscape particularities while proposing a contemporary approach to a cave house concept. The residence, carved on the Caldera front, offers unobstructed view of the volcano and the Aegean Sea. The outdoor space is surrounded by built-in structures: a pool, two relaxing corners and the entrance to the cave house. Inside the villa, the most striking feature of the
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DasMax Boutique Hotel, Seefeld

August 25, 2020|Architecture and design as experience, Austria, BIG SEE Tourism Design Award 2020 - Winner, Tourism|

The MAX is a lovingly designed boutique hotel situated in the heart of Seefeld in Tirol. Instead of “kitschy alpine effects”, guests can expect a simple and modern ambience that convinces with small details and high quality. The rooms are compact but cozy. Thanks to the cooperation with BOCONCEPT, PROLICHT and KVADRAT, a particularly harmonious and high-quality interior design has been realized. The top floor offers the guests a
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Family House “Drezdenska”, Skopje

August 21, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, North Macedonia, Residential architecture|

This single family house is situated in a popular neighbourhood of Skopje, the neighbourhood of Taftalidze, which is close to the city centre and is currently a very attractive place to live. It has a lot of high-end houses and small modern residential buildings. The project started in 2017. Although the urban plan permits a taller house, with at least one more floor, the wish of the client was to
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Via Monviso Garden-Square, Garbagnate, Milano

August 21, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Italy, Landscape and urban space|

Garbagnate is a small town close to Milan and the project area was originally a park in a state of decay. The renovated square was designed around the existing trees planting, defining a succession of parallel bands with irregular width, punctuated by white concrete curbs. Our strategy was to work on these bands with overlapping layers, aiming to integrate into a coherent and distinctive design the trees’ irregular pattern yet
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Residenze Canonica, Milan

August 21, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Italy, Residential architecture|

In order to preserve the memory of the pre-existing building as an actor on the urban scene, the project has chosen the path of contamination of languages and the stratification of forms and materials. Specifically, the first and second floors were maintained in their original forms, while the ground floor and, of course, the additional crowning plan were completely redesigned. The preexisting complex, organized according to the most typical
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Olea House, Patras

August 21, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Greece, Residential architecture|

The project focuses on the presence of a large-shaped olive tree and a patio in the center of the floor plan, along with the linear synthesis of the building’s structural form and function, for the design of two separate houses. The overall dimensions reflect upon the architects’ view on the necessity for an open-space, continuous area that places comfort and esthetic quality in the owner’s everyday life, and unites the
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The House of the Archeologist, Varese

August 21, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Italy, Residential architecture|

The building is a single-family residence designed specifically for an archaeologist. The volume is a simple parallelepiped with a rectangular base in which other blocks of cubic form, completely covered with stone, have been inserted and fixed. From a material point of view, the building is reminiscent of the brick textures from old walls and the large cut stones that often interrupted the frame as lintels or cornerstones. In
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House in the orchard, San Miniato

August 21, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Italy, Residential architecture|

In this project we want to fix the aspiration of a client's hobby: to cultivate a vegetable garden, and we made it with a pure external form. The aim precedes the practice to put contemporary architecture in fragile territorial context in order to reactivate new potential relationships. This statement of “la casa nell'orto" project contains all the energies that the clients put into this realization, with particular regards to
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Norcia multipurpose and civil protection center, Norcia

August 21, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2020 - Winner, City and community, Italy, Public and commercial architecture, Wood|

The Multipurpose Civil Protection Centre in Norcia was designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti as part of a larger project for the economic and cultural development of the Norcia area and was created thanks to funds raised by the “Un aiuto subito. Terremoto Centro Italia 6.0” campaign, promoted by the Corriere della Sera and TG La7. Spread over an area of 450 square metres, the building houses two multipurpose halls
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