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The National Library of Belarus in Minsk was designed by Mihail Vinogradov and Viktor Kramarenko and opened in 2006.
The library is 72-metre (236 feet) high and has 22 floors.

The Russian Embassy in Havana, Cuba was designed by Alexander G. Rochegov, and opened in 1985. Like a sword plunged into the ground, the building dominates the skyline of the city.

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The Torre Velasca (Velasca Tower, in English) is a skyscraper built in 1950s by the BBPR architectural partnership, in Milan, Italy. The tower is approximately 100 metres tall and has a peculiar and characteristic mushroom-like shape. The building responds to its prominent location near the Milan..

The Žižkov Television Tower is a unique transmitter tower, built in Prague between 1985 and 1992. Designed by architect Václav Aulický and engineer Jiří Kozák, it stands above the city's traditional skyline. The tower is an example of high-tech architecture.

The structure consists of three..

Designed by Gartnerfuglen Arkitekter, the small shelter for ice fishing, titled ‘Noun.1 Unavailability’, is built with and by nature. The timber frame is foldable for easy relocation and storage, and is effortlessly put up anywhere by one (or two small) persons in 30 seconds.

The walls are..

FAT Koehl's first project, a housing block in the centre of Berlin became a testing field. Koehl not only designed the building but, together with artist Anne von Gwinner, bought the site, found the clients, and co-designed with them. The result is ten houses within one house. This exhibition..

On August 30, Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, inaugurated the new 1 Bligh Office Tower in the center of Sydney, designed by Ingenhoven Architects + architectus. The building received the highest score in the Australian “Green Star”-standard, a “6 Star/World Leadership”-certification.
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1-3 Willow Road is a terrace of three houses in Hampstead, London designed by architect Ernő Goldfinger and built in 1938. Goldfinger lived in the house in the middle, 2 Willow Road with his wife Ursula and their children until his death in 1987. It was one of the first modernist buildings..

Jean Nouvel, the building’s architect described the this 23-storey condominium tower on 11th Avenue in New York as “a vision machine” designed to create visual excitement for both residents inside the building and passers-by on the street.

Over ensuing years Nouvel has woven art, history,..

A robust house of cards, 1111 Lincoln Road, a complex designerd by Herzog & deMeuron whose main feature is parking is a composition of cast-in-place concrete slabs that function as floor plates, columns, and ramps winding through the compressions and expansions in heights of the six parking..

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Jean Ginsberg and Bertold Lubetkin first met as students in Warsaw and later attended the Ecole Spéciale together in Paris. Lubetkin in 1925 where he attended several different institutions. Ginsberg's father was an engineer in Paris who was interested in acquiring some property and so the two..

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Upon reviewing the techniques that Tadao Ando employed to design this house, the most striking aspect in its appearance is the configuration of the four floors that form the structure.

Once the first house was finished, a second customer asked Ando to build a similar house in the neighboring..

The 86 metre high-rise 52 Negrees in Nijmegen in the Netherlands is a joint development by Philips Semiconductors Nijmegen, the Municipality of Nijmegen
and ICE Development in partnership with Ballast Nedam. The building was designed by the Dutch practice Mecanoo which won the competition in..

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In the late 90s in Hungary, couple of years after the end of the communist era, culture has changed in every aspect. A new type of culture was born and it needed its scene. This time László Váncza's intention was to realise a professional alternative cultural center. A symbol of..

The Aalto Theatre or Aalto-Musiktheater Essen was designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. Although the theatre was already planned in 1959 when Aalto won the design competioion unanimously, the construction works only began in 1983, several years after Aalto's death. The building was..

The Museum Abteiberg is a municipal museum for contemporary art in the German city Mönchengladbach. The museum became famous for its avant-garde exhibitions curated by director Johannes Cladders and its museum architecture, designed by Austrian architect Hans Hollein, as a highpoint of postmodern..

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The complex of the Trade Union School built by the Hannes Meyer and Hans Wittwer from 1928 to 1930 is the Bauhaus' largest building project apart from the Bauhaus in Dessau and one of its most eminent buildings. Hannes Meyer received the commisssion for the project shortly after his nomination as..

Designed between 1908 and 1909 for the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG), the factory was placed strategically at the southern edge of the factory complex along Huttenstrasse and Berlichingenstrasse, facing Berlin and the world as a show front of the prosperous industrial magnate...

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The new headquarters for Al Rostamini, by Beijing architecture outfit MAD, in Dubai’s waterfront business area are conceived as a hovering slab that rather than cutting the line between the public and the water gives a clear view and entrance to it. This building will float by 9 diagonal tubes..

Designed by the spanish architect, Manuel Sánchez Arcas and the architect and structural engineer, Eduardo Torroja Algeciras Market Hall was built in Spain in 1933. This concrete structure has a 48 m diameter shell placed over eight pillars joined by a prestressed tie beam.

All-Russia Exhibition Centre (Всероссийский выставочный центр - called also: "All-Russian Exhibition Center") is a permanent general-purpose trade show in Moscow, Russia.
The "All-Russia Exhibition Centre" is a state joint-stock company, officially abbreviated as GAO "VVC", which stands for..

The America's Cup Building in Valencia, Spain was designed by architect David Chipperfield, inaugurated in 2006 and has won numerous architectural awards, including the RIBA European awards 2007. It was nominated for the Sterling Prize in 2007. It is also known locally as 'Veles e Vents'.

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With Arcam René van Zuuk has demonstrated his talent for designing free standing, object-like buildings.

The ARchitecture Centre AMsterdam (ARCAM) needed a significantly larger accommodation. Therefore a wonderful location close to the Oosterdok was allocated to this promotional institute. In..

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The Anzeiger Hochhaus (Gazette Highrise Building) in Hanover was designed by Fritz Höger. It has a height of 51 metres and was built from 1927 to 1928 as one of the first highrise buildings in Germany. Its 12 metres tall green roof dome is a city landmark. The building is a one of the few larger..

"It’s a pretty amazing building. It’s a little like a spaceship landed. It’s got this gorgeous courtyard in the middle… It’s a circle. It’s curved all the way around. If you build things, this is not the cheapest way to build something. There is not a straight piece of glass in this building...

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The AWI is located in the building also known as Institut du Monde Arabe, on Rue des Fossés Saint Bernard in Paris, France, constructed from 1981 to 1987 with a floor space of 181,850 square feet (16,894 sqm). Jean Nouvel won the 1981 competition with a project that proposed risk-taking solutions..

Arany János School for Children with Intellectual Disability was built in Csorna in the northwest part of Hungary, designed by 3h architecture.
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Csorna is a market-town with traditions of over seven centuries. In the early Middle Ages the development of the settlement was followed..

A building designed specifically for architecture education: that was one of the departure points for the architect Bernhard Hermkes. It is visible in several respects in his design for the Architecture Faculty of the Berlin Institute of Technology. Both the horizontal and vertical circulation..

Arcosanti is an experimental town that began construction in 1970 in central Arizona, 70 miles (110 km) north of Phoenix, at an elevation of 3,732 feet (1,130 meters). Architect Paolo Soleri, using a concept he calls arcology (a portmanteau of architecture and ecology), started the town to..

To select an architect for a new site of three hectares for the Argentinian National Library, a national competition was organised in 1962. Among dozens of proposals, the architects Clorindo Testa, Francisco Bullrich and Alicia Cazzaniga de Bullrich were selected to build the new library. The..

A wooden free-standing tower structure - designed by Rintala Eggertsson Architects - is placed in the staircase hall corner, lining with the existing pillars in the National Art Library of London.

The visitor is invited to choose an alternative, literature-filled promenade through the..

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The main body of the Hans Arp Museum is situated on a heavily wooded escarpment high above the Rhine River. The Museum is accessed through the former Rolandseck railway station, situated immediately below. The station is linked by an underpass with a gallery for special exhibitions linked to the..

In October of 1954, Popular Mechanics contained an article entitled "At Home, 2004 A.D.", in which Paul Laszlo's concept of Atomville and the home of the future were described in detail.

The city would be laid out with all the city streets concentric circles and major highways like the spokes..

Right after the 32nd Hungarian Filmfestival, the Atrium Cinema - which was called 1st of May Cinema for years - closed its red curtains. However during the Filmfestival the old, well-thumbed Cinema attracted the public with its graceful, retro style and spirit. The Atrium Cinema is one of the two..

The Aula of the Technical University in Delft located on the north side of the campus was built from 1959 to 1966 by the Dutch practice Van den Broek & Bakema. The building houses an auditorium with 1300 seats, four trapezoid lecture halls with 250 to 350 seats, the senate hall and the university..

Designed by two architects Todd Saunders & Tommie Wilhelmsen, the 33-metre “diving board” shooting out from the road into thin air above the Aurland Fjord in Norway. This Aurland Lookout project is part of a national program on tourist routes commissioned by the Norwegian Highway Department.
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The Austrian Cultural Forum tower is the first major United States project for Austrian-born New York architect Raimund Abraham. The competition was held in 1992, the building was completed in 2002.

Twenty-five feet wide and 81 feet deep, glazed with dramatic glass panels, the 24-story..

German office rasmussen | brunke | sauer sesigned a new administrative building for BSU in Hamburg, Germany. It was an invited competition and they won the first prize ex aequo with three other offices (Sauerbruch Hutton, Behnisch Architects and GAP).

This administrative and commercial..

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