ARCHITECTURE

Villa Sončnica, Bled

August 3, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Residential architecture, Slovenia|

Villa Sunflower next to the Bled lake, renovated by Arhitektura - Office for Urbanism and Architecture. Credits Architecture Arhitektura d.o.o. - Office for Urbanism and Architecture; Peter Gabrijelčič, Boštjan Gabrijelčič Client Private Year of completion 2019 Location Bled, Slovenia Total area 1850 m2 Site area 140 m2 Photos Miran Kambič Related posts Powered by
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Remodeling of Carpentry Workshops at Plečnik’s Žale, Ljubljana

August 3, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Public and commercial architecture, Slovenia|

“Let us arrange the garden of the last renown with the deceased, and in its greenery we shall put chapels, which should be individual mortuaries. Let us name them after the patron saints, so that everyone will find the last stop in the chapel of his own fare.” Thus, the space of the last renown at Ljubljana Žale, the Garden of All Saints, was described by Jože Plečnik when
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Renovation of the castle Grad, Goričko

August 3, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Public and commercial architecture, Slovenia|

The project started ten years ago with the renovation of four rooms and continued by the renovation of two museum rooms and finally with the chapel and a small exhibition in front of it. The concept of the renovation keeps all the values of the existing and inserts some modern furniture elements as platforms for the new programs in the renovated spaces. Step by step the second floor started
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A House for Five and a World of Friends, Logatec

July 31, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Residential architecture, Slovenia|

A lawyer and an ex-basketball player turned business coach, with both working globally from their home. They have three (almost) grown-up kids, tons of relatives and a sea of friends. The family is very open-minded, life-curious and positive. Theirs many interests include cycling, carpeting, healing, traveling but, above all, there is cooking. When the family approached the design process for their new home, their expectations centered around three ‘must-haves’:
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Bled Castle park, Bled

July 31, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Grand Prix, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Landscape and urban space, Slovenia|

Design of the castle park represents a modern interpretation of its historic features. Reconstruction of grassed terraces and stone walls was carried out, along with the central park axis acting as the main connecting path along the stepped terraces dropping away from the castle wall and entrance point, towards the lake below it. The main path is shifted off its central axis in connecting to the upper plateau –
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House VU, Novi Sad

July 31, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Residential architecture, Serbia|

The house's identity is defined by an unconventional lattice of bricks situated across the first floor. The house is drawn back from the regulation boundary, so that the lattice follows this and visually fits into the row of buildings on either side of the plot. Although the idea of a brick lattice finds its origins in both the immediate environment and local vernacular architectural traditions, the use of brick
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Mia Dorćol, Belgrade

July 31, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Public and commercial architecture, Serbia|

Location, context: The building’s surrounding is dominated by the industrial architecture from early 20th century. The decision while defining the contextualization is the affirmation, through contemporary reinterpretation, of the language of industrial and commercial architecture from the times of early industrialization. Shaping, materialization: the elements reinterpreting the language of industrial and commercial architecture are pilaster, horizontal floor structure, tripartite façade division, rhythm and proportion of openings, and type of
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Pedestrian Zone Wiener Straße, Wiener Neustadt

July 31, 2020|Architecture, Austria, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Landscape and urban space|

The main project perimeter of „Wiener Straße“ Pedestrian zone links the Main Square of the city in The South with a new gallery space for the „Regional Exhibition 2019“- integrated in the old gothic church of St. Peter - in the North. The adjoining side alleys also close the gap to the recently refurbished Cathedral Square. A subtly differentiated surface pattern of differently colored, small-format concrete slabs, integrated into the
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Villa BÖHM, Graz

July 30, 2020|Architecture, Austria, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Residential architecture|

The building was modified in 1878 according to an original design by Carl Lueff by city architect Johann de Colle. It was built as a gardener's house for the villa at Schubertstrasse 45 and was extended by two window axes in 1909 through the addition of a garage in the northeast.Now the owner wanted to transform this building into a contemporary use.An independent, contemporary structure was added to the existing
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NGG “Natürlich Gemeinsam in Gänserndorf”, Gänserndorf-Süd

July 30, 2020|Architecture, Austria, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Residential architecture|

The project „NGG-Natürlich Gemeinsam in Gänserndorf“is a multiused dwelling project providing inclusive living- and daycare structures for adults with special needs. It is based in Gänserndorf, lower Austria and located within an existing infrastructure focusing on biological agriculture and inclusive work- and therapy projects. To generate more room for these institutions the location was expanded with an ensemble of three buildings. A residential building for six severely disabled and
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Origami House, Otopeni

July 30, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Residential architecture, Romania|

This project’s design theme was the consolidation and expansion of an existing house. The core of this project is the modern reinterpretation of the traditional pitched roof house, thus creating a dialogue between the two volumes, between past and present. The first step was to bring out the old house, having it’s character preserved. The extension is reinterpreted in a contemporary shape, like a concrete origami attached to the
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Office building ROAMING GROUP, Belgrade

July 30, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Public and commercial architecture, Serbia|

This office building represents the final phase in the process of reconstruction of the existing steel construction system skeleton – a twenty years old. Utilising a strategy of adaptation and rebuilding a new volume has been formed around existing structural system as a response to demands of contemporary business needs – multidisciplinary way of working. The building is designed as a string of five functionally independent floors with associated common
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