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The Utrecht University Library is located on the Uithof campus, situated a short distance from the city center. It is comprised of the library itself and an adjacent parking garage with multiple voids–between which is a courtyard garden and a café named for ‪Johannes Gutenberg‬–and the..

The Uzbekistan History Museum, former Lenin Museum in Tashkent, built in 1970 is a good example of how multiculturalism affected Soviet architecture. The Soviet Central Asian Republics became the true laboratory of local form, materials, and ornaments.
Concrete decorative grilles used here are..

Sitting among the canopy of a jungle forest near Yelapa, Mexico, these V-Houses by Heinz Legler are quite possibly an eco-adventurer’s paradise. The treehouse-like structures are lofted 16 feet above the ground and open on all sides to offer panoramic views of the tropical surroundings. Although..

Vladimir Lenin has spent his last years in Gorki, outside of Moscow.
The Museum was constructed in 1980 by the architect Leonid Pavlov and is one of the best examples of late Soviet brutalist architecture.

The New Members’ Room for the Victoria & Albert Museum has rehabilitated one of the original top floor galleries within the Grade I 1909 Aston Webb building. The creative adaptation of the original gallery, which is both magnificent in character and vast in scale, has been envisaged as part of..

V35K18 residence - designed by pasel.künzel architects - is located on the southern corner of an urban block comprising 18 utterly different houses in Leiden. Due to its distinct design, clear materialisation and dark color the compact building forms a dominant ‘corner stone’ within the existing..

The Val Fourré is a large social housing project of 8,000 units in Mantes-la-Jolie, the west periphery of Paris, was completed in 1959 to accommodate workers of the automobile industry of the Seine valley. It followed the paradigm of cités idéales of Trente Glorieuses and the housing typology of..

The building was a beer hall in 1861 and a popular disco nightclub in the 1970s. Dorte Mandrup entered the historic house with an ambition to expose the building so that the unique spatial qualities could reveal themselves, the visual connections and the spatial flow would become evident, and the..

With its 94 meters tall and 28 floors is the fifteenth highest building of the Spanish capital. It was designed for residential purposes. Since its construction it was preceded by an intense controversy about its location next to Parque del Retiro in Street Menendez Pelayo, wracking panoramic..

The house of Vallet de Goytisolo is one of only three projects that the architect José Antonio Coderch executed in Madrid. Eclipsed by the greater media and academic repercussion of other works, such as the Girasol building, built in 1966 and considered one of the masterpieces of Spanish..

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Valmann Lounge Club opened in Zürich in september 2009. The club works as a bar during the day and as a lounge/dancing club during the night. The design concepts are the following: ECOSUSTAINABILITY: all the materials are eco-sustainable (faux leather; low-consumption led lighting system; eco..

The Van Nelle Factory, built in 1925-31 for the refining and packing processes of coffee, tea and tobacco, is the result of a thorough analysis of technical functions of this specific factory (raw products were taken to the top floor of the factory buildings to move down a floor after each stage..

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The Horizontal Skyscraper, designed by Steven Holl Architects and completed in 2009, is a mixed-use building that includes offices for the Vanke Co., a conference center, restaurant, an auditorium, a hotel, apartments and a large public park.

By raising the 1,296,459 sf building on eight cores..

Vann Molyvann's house in Phnom Penh was completed in 1966. The architect currently resides there.

Vann Molyvann's house is elegant and simple in plan and section, complex and exquisite in detail. The house is a fantastic example of an architect left to his own devices. The enthusiasm for..

Starting with first sketches in 1959, Robert Venturi - then a young architect - designed a house for his mother Mrs Vanna Venturi in the Chestnut Hill neighbourhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The structure which Venturi caracterised as "a little house with big scale, symbolizing shelter" is..

The "Vapor House" in Mamaia was built as a nautical and sports resort built by the Society for rescuing the shipwrecked people in the Romanian territorial waters called "Salvamar" (Lifeguard), on the shore of Lake Siutghiol in 1935.

The building was also a special function of providing various..

Vara Pavilion as described by the architects is “a series of exteriors within other exteriors.” Breaking down this crypticness, what emerges is a maze-like complex of circles – ten of them – formed with steel, cement, and painted plaster, which collectively creates a series of walls, but no roof,..

When Christophe Barlieb decided to participate in the international European competition for young architects 'Europan 10' in 2009, he chose the Norwegian site of the island of Vardø not only for its serenity and beauty but also because he believed it encapsulated global change on the outer..

The Varela house is a prototype of a small building, built by a system of prefabricated pre-stressed and washed concrete panels; The same technique was used at that moment in works of greater volume and of great complexity of execution, where the architect experimented with the constructive..

Unliving along the Varosha checkpoint

The building is part of the 1960s suburban modernist development of Famagusta. It follows most of Le Corbusier’s five points of Architecture; free plan with piloti, facades independent from the structural system, ribbon windows and roof gardens. It is a..

Bertalan Árkay’s Városmajor Church and its belfry form an outstanding piece of art of the era between the two wars as well as of the history of Hungarian church architecture in general. The building, with its concrete structure and separate belltower, was the city's first modern church.

The..

The Heart of Jesus Church in Városmajor (Jézus Szíve templom) is a noted piece of 20th century architecture and an outstanding example of Bauhaus that was justly added to the list of protected buildings. Considered too modern at the time of it its consecration in 1933, the congregation expressed..

Vasconcelos Library was designed by Alberto Kalach. The project integrates the public library with a botanical garden. A 250 meter steel, concrete and glass structure surrounded by greenery and water.

The design is based in 4 fundamental considerations: Mexico City is one of the largest, most..

A fire caused by an electrical fault destroyed the first complex VDL Research House I, in 1963, losing in the fire drawings and files that had gathered for decades, was a blow to the family Neutra. Neutra and his son and partner Dion rebuilt the studio-residence and gave it its current..

An access road winds down a steep forested hillside to a valley below. At the valley floor is a stream and its broad flood plain. At the narrowest point of the streambed, we placed a bridge to carry construction vehicles and maintenance machinery across this delicate wetland.

Three pairs of..

The new cattle barn in Vejlskovgård can house 600 milk-producing cows, the project is the result of Realdania Future Agriculture Construction and the need to develop new methods of farming in Denmark that complement the existing landscape. The building's transparency, shape, architecture and..

The Torre Velasca (Velasca Tower, in English) is a skyscraper built in 1950s by the BBPR architectural partnership, 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 Velyka Kishenya supermarket is located near the Geroev Dnepra subway station.

Venezia Santa Lucia is a terminal railway station serving the city of Venice, Italy. It is also the only (heavy rail) railway station in the historic city of Venice. The station is one of Venice's two most important railway stations, the other one being Venezia Mestre. Venezia Santa Lucia is..

Venturo or Venturo House is a prefabricated house designed by Matti Suuronen. It is composed of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, polyester-polyurethane, and acrylic glass. In the late 1960s Suuronen became known of his round-shaped Futuro House and now wanted to create a new ″weekend..

Isolated in the Green Mountain National Forest of Vermont, this 1,650 sf prefab home is an escape for a retired Brooklyn couple. With no electric or cell phone service, this ‘Off-the-Grid’ home functions as the common gathering space for the couple, their three grown children and grandchildren to..

V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, located in the capital of the country - Kyiv, is the main academic library and main scientific information centre in Ukraine and one of the largest national libraries.
The library was constructed by the architects V. Gopkalo, V. Grechina in between..

This factory was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe around 1931 for the silk weaving company VerSeid AG. The VerSeid AG (short for Vereinigte Seidenfabriken AG which roughly mean united silk weaving companies plc) were established in the 1920s through a merger of several factories in the region..

A highlight when living in Vertex Central is its ample podium parking spaces as well as commercial spaces that ultimately remove the need to go anywhere else.

Parking spaces will also be available on seven different floors for a total of 192 parking spaces.

In addition to that, Priland is..

On the dynamic island of Mactan, Cebu in the Philippines, no area has more prestige than Punta Engańo. Vertex Coast sits among the best projects in this growing easternmost tip of the island making this development an ideal investment.

Inspired by the successful turnout of their previously..

Vertical Forest is a pair of residential towers in the Porta Nuova district of Milan, Italy, between Via Gaetano de Castillia and Via Federico Confalonieri near Milano Porta Garibaldi railway station. They have a height of 111 m and 76 m and will host more than 900 trees (approximately 550 and..

Located in Lisbon, the VERTIGO Pavilion was born in particularly complex context due to the physical reality where it belongs, the different functional needs, but specially due to the Portuguese economical situation. This is an area that intends to host a small cafe but also a reception to a..

Through the catalog of this exhibition, Giuseppe Pagano and Giuseppe Daniel were able to express their research and interest about the rural house.

In this work G. Pagano design the exhibition as the effectiveness of collective work, anonymous, that does not create the work of the exception,..

The temporary pavilion VIATICUS, arises as a response to its placement, on the western patio of the Cordoaria Nacional building, and it’s simultaneously a reaction to its cultural context, since its condition and purpose is to host ARCO visitors, one of the world’s most relevant art fairs.

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Set in what would have been the inner garden of an old large house, a narrow entrance gives way to a linear space leading to the individual houses, which have the Andes Mountains as a backdrop. All houses share a common façade and front garden on the communal areas- playground parking, pool- but..

The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects. Named after Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, it was founded in 1852, and has since grown to cover 12.5 acres (51,000 m2) and 145..

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The Vidhan Bhavan is a huge building, covering an area of more than 32,000 sq. metres of built space. Seeing the form taken by the normal run of Government architecture, the Vidhan Bhawan could have degenerated into a lump of heavy dough perched on a hill. In point of fact..

Beside its natural beauty, Bled is also considered as the cradle of Slovenian rowing sport, with world-wide reputation as one of the most important and most beautiful natural sites for rowing competitions next to Lake Luzern. For the World Rowing Championship in September 2011, adequate space and..

When driving across the island of Senja,one of the largest islands in Norway, this is the first point where you can see the ocean. The two side cantilevering construction offers a breathtaking view towards the north atlantic in the west, as well as the canyon below (east). The construction is..

The National tourist routes are being developed and operated by the Norwegian Public Road Administration as a nationwide project. The Tungeneset-project is the first to be opened at the Senja-route. Senja is an island in the north of Norway, the project is located at the tip of an penninsula..

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The building is situated on a sloping terrain on the outskirts of Černín, taking the same slope into its internals for floors. The interior layout is based on alternating straight and sloping floor surfaces that create the overall spiralling character of the interior and define the building’s..

Brazil and Finland – ´Faraway, so close!´ – through the means of architecture.

The proposal can be said to want to appear and disappear; it locates itself frankly and resolutely in the territory. At the same time, through its materiality which always keeps in mind the aspect of aging and..