ARCHITECTURE

Cabin Senja

April 28, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Norway, Residential – houses|

The cabin is located near a small fishing village called Hamn, Senja. On this site the client wanted a family cottage with panoramic views to Senja's stunning mountains and nature. In such a beautiful and delicate landscape, it is important to build with nature and create a project that feels like a part of landscape. By studying old Sami building traditions, they found the ancient tradition of “Heller” where
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Modulee food court Zagreb

April 28, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Public / Open space, Slovenia|

Modulee is Zagreb's first temporary modular food court, located on the north corner of Zagreb's Fair parking lot. It operates during summer months, which is an off-season period for the Fair - thus creating a new seasonal go-to place on otherwise poorly used space. The project consists of thirty-five container units in dark anthracite color, set onto two floors with openings, terraces, balconies and lounges. The courtyard hosts nine
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Fibonacci

April 28, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 – Grand Prix, Czech Republic, Landscape|

On a rocky slope above the Vltava River, the classicist château Jabloňka stretches over Prague. Under the château, terraced vineyards with picturesque views on the metropolis form the dominant feature of the northern part of the city. Prague was once called the "city of wine" when the Vltava river basin was still planted with long belts of vineyards in the golden ages of the reign of Charles IV. Černý
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Greenfield House

April 28, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Residential – houses, Romania|

The single-family house is located in the Greenfield neighbourhood, in the northern part of Bucharest, Romania and covers a total area of 265 built square meters. The project fits into the urban context through a minimalist architecture style, which relates in a harmonious way with the simplicity of the residential neighbourhood in which it is located, as well as with the natural setting of the nearby Băneasa Forest. With
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Housing For Refugees And Displaced Persons

April 28, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Residential – housing, Serbia|

Regional Housing Programme (RHP) represents common initiative by Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. The goal of the Programme is to make a comprehensive contribution to solving the problem of long-term displacement of the most vulnerable refugees and displaced persons, which arose after the conflict on the territory of the former Yugoslavia in the period from 1991. to 1995., including internally displaced persons in Montenegro since 1999., providing
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The Rock Cabins

April 28, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Hungary, Tourism buildings|

The project was realized in Csóromfölde, Hungary. Six unique cabins were built on the land with the necessary additional buildings (reception and catering pods). While maximizing the comfort of the guest, the team created a sustainable resort using mainly wood as a construction material. The team aimed to develop the accommodation in an area that is quiet and to appeal to those who wanted to spend a few days
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Lift House

April 28, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Italy, Residential – houses|

A limestone outcrops emerges from the green hills of the Marecchia Valley. The project of this private house is inspired by a careful examination of the landscape setting itself with the goal to integrate the surrounding areas with particularly natural and geomorphological features of the Valmarecchia natural scenery, attractive authentic and harmonious in its territory “contrasts“. In this land, mother of a boundless green, punctuated by the rolling hills
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Gebauer street apartment house

April 28, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Hungary, Residential – houses|

The site is north-south, slightly sloping, faces towards Pécs city centre to the south, and Mecsek with the TV-tower to the north. Based on the features of the orientation, the relatively narrow site and the surrounding densely built environment, a picture of a compact, two-storey building sitting on the parking garage like a plinth was outlining. The solid, monolithic building is complemented and enriched by the tight balconies, the
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Pavilion Z

April 28, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Cultural buildings, Czech Republic|

Pavilion Z's reconstruction and extension were designed to retain the building's original shape, while incorporating three enlarging blocks seamlessly. The architects drew inspiration from the plant motif and bonsai breeding, removing individual period deposits and random layers to expose the steel skeleton. The project's central theme was multifunctionality, crucial for the Exhibition Centre's revival. The main hall is designed as a highly variable space that can adapt to various
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Wooden house near Benesov

April 28, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Czech Republic, Residential – houses|

The wooden ground-floor house is situated at the edge of a small village on a sloping plot of land, which freely transitions on one side into a forest, and on the other side into a grassy meadow without a fence or other demarcation. All the rooms of the house have large windows or glass doors facing the forest, the house is a multi-level building copying the uneven grassy terrain.
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Victoria’s house

April 28, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Italy, Residential – houses|

Victoria’s house is located in Vals in South Tyrol at about 1.350 m above sea level. The concrete building is located in the south-facing Vals valley and is accompanied by steeply rising mountain slopes that end in meadows and forests in barren peaks. The built environment is predominantly agricultural. Most of them are simple buildings with gable roofs and reduced choice of materials. Based on these images, Andreas Gruber
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Fuchsegg Eco Lodge

April 28, 2023|Architecture, Austria, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Tourism buildings|

What dimensions should one use for a hotel in a remote landscape? Architects have already found many answers to this question. You can use the spatial programme to create a monumental object, a grand hotel with the mountains as a backdrop as was the case in many places during the Belle Époque. One could also design a subterranean building or try and make it invisible in some way. Perhaps
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