ARCHITECTURE

Addition, not Demolition – House B, Vienna

July 16, 2020|Architecture, Austria, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Residential architecture|

A family of six is desperate to preserve an old house on a plot of land in Klosterneuburg/Austria - a ruin that is too small but charming. The program is enormous and in order not to „crush“ the old house from a visual perspective, we turn one annex into three: the children’s tower, the living room and the dining area, which connects old and new and where the family comes
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Max-Mell-Allee, Graz

July 16, 2020|Architecture, Austria, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Grand Prix, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2020 - Winner, Residential architecture, Wood, Wooden houses|

The requirments of this speacial place guide to a compact form of building. As a certain attribute, the building is understood as a center/cardinal point. The geometry of the building leaves the exterior courners to move slightly to the land boundaries. This opens two areas on the site to the adjacent neighboors. It arises on the one hand the lower southbound arrival, which forms the official adress, on the other
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SiRI, Tirana

July 16, 2020|Albania, Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Residential architecture|

From industrial buildings in the east to the new infrastructure developments in the West, this area offers a very favourable development. The structure is located in one of the most important streets of Tirana, so we proposed the creation of a public space, which will create a new community centre and will serve as the passage of pedestrians who describe the area. The building has a form that divides the
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PRAGUE EYES – riverfront revitalisation, Prague

July 16, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Grand Prix, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Czech Republic, Public and commercial architecture|

The project started in 2009 when we co-initiated a program activation of the deserted Prague riverfront area. Gradually we have achieved cultural and social revival, and subsequently, architectural rehabilitation. The completed first phase is Prague\'s largest post-revolutionary investment in public space, the first with such sociocultural impact. It focused on the reconstruction of 20 vaults in the riverside wall (originally storage areas). The vaults allow maximum contact with the river.
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AVOS – the little black house, Winzendorf-Muthmannsdorf

July 16, 2020|Architecture, Austria, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2020 - Winner, Residential architecture, Wooden houses|

The single-family house AVOS - Latin for grandfather, was built in the east of Austria – in a region famous for wine culture near to Vienna. "If the plot of his first creation is a vineyard that has been family-owned for generations, if the building owners are his older brother and his wife, then the demand for a timeless building that is in harmony with nature was paramount from the
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Timona Cultural Center & Student Dorm, Bucharest

July 16, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Public and commercial architecture, Romania|

We chose to use only a few materials as finishes. The combination of mineral materials with metallic accents has given us the opportunity to fully explore the possibilities of commissioning - from the brick traverses to the metallic frames in the glazed areas.Construction elements: The perimeter closings are made of brick masonry - 25 cm thick, lined to the inner face of the structural elements, cladding with basalt mineral wool
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Empera headquarters, Gaziantep

July 16, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Public and commercial architecture, Turkey|

The headquarter building for Empera, one of the biggest companies that manufactures machine-woven carpets in the southeast of Turkey has been designed in the organized industrial zone (oiz*) in Gaziantep where the company also has its manufacturing factory. The headquarter building was planned to become a reference building in a setting with rather restricted architectural references and was to represent the strong brand identity. Moreover the design of the project
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CMMT House, Branesti Vilage

July 16, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Residential architecture, Romania|

 A bit more elaborated in shape than how kids use to draw a house with a tilted roof, 2 windows, one door and a chimney, CMMT black house is the expression of simplicity of living out of the city. T shape of the house forms three distinct wings clearly reflecting zoning of the house. Sitting on a soft slope at the outskirts of Branesti, Ilfov CMMT house is a
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House VG, Madesimo (Sondrio)

July 16, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Italy, Residential architecture|

It is a project on a rural building of the ‘20s-‘30s flanked by a building dating back to the \'70s, not at all consistent with the context. The existing volumes have a facade facing south while the rest of the building borders with other properties and is therefore completely closed. The theme of the contiguity of the volumes, also traceable in spontaneous rural architecture, becomes key in the design
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Millenáris Széllkapu park, Budapest

July 16, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Hungary, Landscape and urban space|

A 3D vertical garden, echoes of Hungarian fields, forests and lakes, a symbolic group of \'solar mushrooms\' and a two-level underground parking system: some of the highlights of Budapest\'s latest city park, Széllkapu (Gate of Winds) designed for a former industrial area by TSPC Group. The name Széllkapu Park (Gate of Winds) refers to the much needed clean winds that freshen the air of the busy capital; architects created a
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Skatepark Maribor with landscape design, Maribor

July 16, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Landscape and urban space, Slovenia|

The object of skatepark with landscape design is located along the Pekrski creek. We add a new content as a generator of new free time activities. The design is based on the relief and natural features of the existing green area. The shape of the sport facility is designed according to the existing tree-fund and therefore the whole polygone is divided into 2 units –the wider part \'the Street section
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Legacy suites and the garden all day bar, Mykonos

July 15, 2020|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2020 - Winner, Greece, Public and commercial architecture|

Just outside the town of Mykonos, having the existing old residence of the famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin as a core, a small hotel with fully equipped suites was created. This core was expanded and modified with all the internal and external surrounding spaces completely reconstructed. The plot has a large slope and oversees the beach of Magali Ammos. The variety of alternative paths and different accesses to the rooms create
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