ARCHITECTURE

Casa Callas

April 6, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Residential – housing, Slovakia|

The project is a new building of terraced apartment building on Suchodolinská street in Košice, Slovakia. The building is designed for housing purposes. It is a residential building with 11 units located in two terraced cascades accessible with a common staircase between them. The individual flats are mainly L-shaped in plan, which is complemented by a large terrace. The building has four floors above ground and one underground floor.
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ÖBB Parkdeck Jenbach

April 6, 2023|Architecture, Austria, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Public infrastructure|

The structural realization of this 450 "parking space sized" building started in 2020 and already 1 year later the parking deck could be completed thanks to all involved parties. On 6 levels, 450 covered car parking spaces including e-charging stations, family and women's parking spaces, parking spaces for people with limited mobility and an additional 155 covered bicycle parking spaces are available for public transport customers. For an additional
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Renovation of terraced houses Progres – Mirje

April 5, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Residential – houses, Slovenia|

When renovating the two terraced houses for a family with two children and a single senior woman, we were looking for ways to open the relatively small and defined spaces within the precise grid of the existing house from the 1950's. The most striking feature of the original houses designed by architect Marko Šlajmer and his colleagues is their innovative spatial concept of the vertical hallway connecting the six
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Putzer

April 5, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Italy, Tourism buildings|

The former „Putzerhof” in Natz-Schabs has been renovated and refurbished. In the past, several extensions had been added to the building which didn’t follow an overall architectural concept. Therefore, the architects tried to conceptualize a coherent building design while making minimal interventions on the existing building. The aim was to bring together restaurant, brewery and hotel. The central piece of the new design is a graphic building structure of
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The Loft House

April 5, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Finland, Workplace|

The Loft House is an office building commissioned by the construction company EKE. It was designed to resemble the company itself: the architecture plays with contrasts, drawing from the past and the future – from the long history of the firm and its current role at the leading edge of technology. The concrete and brick reflect the strong structure of the company and are balanced with warm oak. From
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North 7 – White

April 5, 2023|Architecture, Austria, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Residential – housing|

The construction site of the former Nordbahnhof in Vienna is characterized by a two-line building arrangement that serves as a permeable filter layer between the city and the public park "freie Mitte" near the tracks. The volume of the streetside row of buildings is clearly structured by staggering the height of individual components and recesses. Generous passageways open the edge of the block and allow visual axes into the
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Extension and reconstruction, Tübingen

April 5, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Germany, Workplace|

Dannien Roller Architekten + Partner’s conversion of the neoclassic residential and commercial building with a single-storey extension in Tübingen’s historic centre in 2019/2020 is a successful example of architecture integrating into historical context while retaining autonomy of style. A transparent windowed façade leads into the architecture practice’s reception area with interlaced apertures through open timber frames offering glimpses of different levels in the open office landscape. Created by lowering
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Domm

April 5, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Residential – houses, Slovakia|

DOMM is a puzzle made of assembled prefabricated panels, a wooden folded floor, the so-called dowels, folded partitions, which are essentially storage spaces. They are strictly defined by the 1200mm module. DOMM defines the view of the landscape, the building itself is not essential, therefore material austerity to brutality. It is oriented to the west, the living room is illuminated by a southern window to the side garden, and
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Salzburg University Of Education

April 4, 2023|Architecture, Austria, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Educational buildings|

For the Salzburg University Of Education, two building wings from the 1960s were renewed with careful restructuring and renovation work. A centrally inserted extension with foyer, cafeteria and two-story lecture hall forms the new heart of the school building. In order to preserve the character of the ensemble, the original facades were preserved and the concrete skeleton was stripped back to the supporting structural elements. The open building structures
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Arpex Headquarters

April 4, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Industrial buildings, Poland|

The project responds to the wish for a contemporary office environment and a maximum of storage area in the warehouse. Two simple volumes arrange office and warehouse with a small shift to give access to the primary delivery area. Both volumes contrast each other in proportion as well as their materials. The warehouse, as the more significant volume in the background, has a light aluminum façade. A dark metal
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Pistohiekka Resort

April 3, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Finland, Tourism buildings|

The Pistohiekka Resort is a sauna-restaurant in southeastern Finland. The project aims to revitalise and support the local tourism in the area through highlighting the location’s unique features. The wooden built sauna-restaurant is located in a tranquil and moody cove, with views down to the lake Saimaa. Roof openings work as a cohesive element between the buildings. The large terraces descending seamlessly to the lake are partly covered, so
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Contemporary villa

April 3, 2023|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, North Macedonia, Residential – houses|

Thе ground-level building is composed of different volumes that create a special relationship both with the terrain and with each other. The horizontal layout allows the program to be sequenced, completely thought out according to the needs of the user. The main design principle is creating close connection with the outdoor space, the yard and the greenery. This was achieved by placing the building on the elevation of the
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