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Villa Verde
by Alejandro Aravena
Arauco Forest Company asked Elemental to develop a plan to support their employees and contractors so they could have access to home ownership, in the context of Chilean housing policies. This allowed Elemental to work for the first time with the high end of housing policy. Given the greater..
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Villa Vesna
by Nikola Dobrović
Villa Vesna on the island Lopud (Croatia) was built according to project of architect Nikola Dobrović from 1938. Through the design of series of villas in the Dubrovnik region in the late 1930s, Dobrović progressively introduced ideas of modern architecture to the Dalmatian coast. The first villa..
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Villa Wiesbaden
by Ian Shaw Architects
With its dramatic high pitched roof, this imposing villa, built in 1904, presented the practice with an interesting challenge: to deliver a contemporary extension that would provide additional space over three levels, while not being overpowered by the scale of the existing structure.
As part..

Villa With Pool and 5 Terraces
by Hanne Holsted
On top of a beautiful hill in Oslo lies a house which boasts 5 terraces and overlooks remarkable views of the capital. Hanne Holsted, the owner of the house, selected Kebony wood together with her husband because of its durability, natural colour and easy to maintain features.
Making use of..

Village Square Zweinitz
by Söhne & Partner Architects
The village square was to be redesigned in order to revitalize the centre of the municipality. In order to obtain public acceptance the residents were involved in the planning process from an early stage on and the redesign was developed cooperatively. The overall objective was to create a..
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Village Yard
by Colectivo Warehouse
Village Yard is a project that Warehouse has developed since February 2015 in collaboration with the Village Underground Lisboa team based in Museu da Carris in Alcântara. The main goal of the project is to create a friendly atmosphere around Village Underground’s exterior areas. For this purpose..
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Villanova's Cemetery
by Elastico
The area occupied by the new cemetery is also home to a small thirteenth-century church and is crossed by the river Meduna, which flows through numerous fields of crops. None of the structures stands higher than the maize which grows in the surrounding fields. This means that during the summer..
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Ville Contemporaine
by Le Corbusier
The Ville Contemporaine was an unrealised project to house three million inhabitants designed by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1922.
The centerpiece of Corbusier's utopian, urban plan was a group of sixty-story cruciform skyscrapers built on steel frames and encased in curtain..

VinziRast
by gaupenraub+/-
VinziRast-mittendrin is a result of the Vienna Audimax Occupation by students in 2009. The rebuilt and extended Biedermeier building is a pilot project in the area of community living. Since the opening in spring of 2013, students live together with formerly homeless persons in 10 living..
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VIP Pavilion
by Vann Molyvann
Vann Molyvann constructed 1963 the VIP Pavilion at the former Siem Reap domestic airport, with its jutting V-shaped glass walls, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright.
The building was demolished and only few examples of the influential Cambodian architect’s work still remain in Siem Reap domestic..

Virasat-E-Khalsa Museum
by Moshe Safdie
The Khalsa Heritage Centre is a museum of the Sikh people located in the holy town of Anandpur Sahib, near Chandigarh in the Punjab state. The museum celebrates 500 years of Sikh history and the 300th anniversary of Khalsa, the scriptures written by the 10th and last Guru, Gobind Singh, founder..
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Vireo at Park Place
by Sares-Regis Group

Architectural Design Studio, Dubai - UAE
Project 461:- Cut Section Of 3D Floor Plan Residential Apartment
Client: - 852. Kathryn
Location: - Dubai -UAE
3D Virtual Interactive Floor Plan Design Surrounding Serenic Nature Landscape make a more extravagant view with 3D Interior Rendering of..

Visitor Centre at the Prince of Wales Museum
by Rahul Mehrotra
The Visitor Centre located at the entrance of the Prince of Wales Museum, a Grade I heritage structure in Mumbai, is designed by Rahul Mehrotra. The contemporary structure expands upon the footprint of a previously existing multipurpose hall, and is a part of an expansion plan for this..
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Višnjička Banja
by Ljiljana Bakić, ...
Višnjička banja is an urban village in the east of Belgrade, located about six kilometers from the Republic square. It was built as a planned settlement in several stages. The first stage was completed in the mid- sixties years of the 20th century, when it was built the old part of the village..
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Vitra Fire Station
by Zaha Hadid
The Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rhein was Zaha Hadid's first built project. The relatively small structure serves as a showcase for the unusual shapes and angles that architectural critics had admired in her conceptual work throughout the 1980s, with un-built projects such as her winning entry..
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VitraHaus
by Herzog & de Meuron
Over the past few years Vitra has acquired a wide-ranging Home Collection. The quantity and variety of objects by many different designers led to the idea of building a showroom to present the items to the public. A shop, a cafe linked to the outside and conference rooms complete the program.

VM Houses
by Julien De Smedt, ...
If people are different then why are all apartments alike?
The VM Houses are two residential blocks formed as the letters V and M. The blocks are formed as such to allow for daylight, privacy and views. The vis-à-vis with the neighbour is eliminated by pushing the slab in its centre, ensuring..

VN Garden Pavilion
by José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira
The architect received an urgent call from a client asking him to transform a modest wooden frame shelter (covered with tile) into a renovated and bigger garden pavilion. It was a basic construction in a eclectic yard landscape serving a luxury villa. The house was surrounded by successive kitsch..
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Vocational school for women
by Romuald Gutt

Vodafone Headquarters
by Barbosa & Guimarães Arquitectos
VODAFONE LIFE, LIFE IN MOTION. This sentence reflects the attitude and philosophy of Vodafone.
Architects Barbosa & Guimarães believe that the new building should be faithful to this idea, adopting a dynamic image, conveying the sense of movement, challenging the static.
Seeking inspiration..

Volksbühne
by Oskar Kaufmann
The Volksbühne ("People's Theatre") is a theater in Berlin, Germany. Located in Berlin's city center Mitte on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Rosa Luxemburg Square) in what was the GDR's capital.
The Volksbühne was built during the years 1913 to 1914 and was designed by Oskar Kaufmann, with integrated..

Volodymyrskyi market
Volodymyrs'kyi market is a big communal market in Kyiv.
On the territory of the market, there is also a functioning church located.
In March 2010, the Kyiv municipal council cancelled privatization of the building of Zhytnyi and of Volodymyrskyi communal markets.

Vreme
by Branislav Kojic
The palace is composed of two volumes with a variety of programs located in two separate buildings and connected by walkways on the ground and second floor. In the front street building there is administration, directorate, library, office director with lounge and apartments for the staff. In the..
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Vulcania
by Hans Hollein
Situated within extinct volcanoes on an altitude of 1.000 m this complex serves to inform about, educate on and experience the primeval forces of nature and the creation of our planet. It is highly symbolically charged, with an aura of mystery, the descent into the Earth - the sketches to forward..
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Vyborg Municipial Library
by Alvar Aalto
Alvar Aalto Library in Vyborg (Viipuri Library), which was designed by Alvar Aalto and completed in 1935, is a masterpiece of International Modernism in both European and global terms. At the time of its completion, the town of Viipuri was part of Finland, but was ceded to the Soviet Union after..
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Vyborgskaia Factory Kitchen
by Iosif Alexandrovich Meerzon, ...
COMMERCIAL KITCHENS were factories for public food service and enterprises for mass production of ready-to-serve and semi-finished meals. They were built in Leningrad at the end of the 1920s - beginning of the 1930s with the purpose of providing hot meals to workers of industrial enterprises and..
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Wachovia Bank Building
by Max Abramovitz
The Wachovia Bank Building introduced two architectural features that Abramovitz would deploy in several of his later office buildings. The most striking was the precast-concrete curtain wall—according to Architectural Record, the first of its kind. Beside allowing a rich but simple rhythm of..
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Walden 7
by Ricardo Bofill
Walden 7 is inspired in vernacular architecture. This residential building built in 1974 by Ricardo Bofill consists of a fourteen-storey cluster of apartments grouped around five courtyards. With few exceptions, all apartments face both outwards and into one of the courtyards. The multi-level..
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Waldsiedlung Lichtenberg
by Peter Behrens
Waldsiedlung Lichtenberg is a housing estate designed by Peter Behrens in 1915 and built from 1919 to 1920. The estate comprises buildings in Leipnitzstraße, Hegemeisterweg, Drosselstieg, Fuchsbau, Gleyeweg and Oskarstraße.
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Walker House
by Paul Rudolph
The Walker House is one of the first works of Paul Rudolph built between 1952 and 1953, where his first evidenced in which the structure was the factor that generated design. In 1951, when Rudolph was the junior partner of the firm Twitchell & Rudolph, they designed a large house to be situated..
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Wall House 2
by John Hejduk
The Wall House was originally designed by John Hejduk in 1973, it was 28 years after it was designed and 1 year after the death of the architect before it was built. The house has ended up being constructed in a completely different location than intended.
Hejduk's original residential..

Walt Disney Concert Hall
by Frank Gehry
The Walt Disney Concert Hall is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, and 1st and 2nd Streets, it seats 2,265 people and serves (among other purposes) as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. It was..
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Walter Gropius House
by Jean Fletcher, ...
The Walter Gropius House is a residential building with nine floors and 66 apartments at the Händelallee 1-9 in Berlin Hansaviertel, bordering its central Grosser Tiergarten park. It was designed by Walter Gropius and The Architects Collaborative - TAC (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) in..
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The starting point of our Wannenraum project is Covelano marble and everything that has formed it over millions of years. After being shaped by heat, pressure and time, marble blocks are cut out of the mountain. Similar forces are now forming the flowing shapes of the Wannenraum design,..
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War Victim Memorial in Draga pri Begunjah
by Edvard Ravnikar
Castle Katzenstein in Begunje was used as a Gestapo prison during the time of Nazi occupation with members of the resistance being held and tortured there. Today, part of the castle houses a Museum of the Victims while in the park by the castle and in nearby Draga, two burial sites for 667..
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Warhaftig House - Block 2
by Myra Warhaftig
This residential building, created within IBA Berlin 1987 framework as part of IBA Block 2, brought a brick cover to Dessauer Straße. The 4-storey house has a passage in the middle, with balconies above it. The entrances are arranged to the right and left of the passage. The façade looks lively,..
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Warm Mineral Springs Motel
by Victor Lundy
Warm Mineral Springs Motel is a historic 1958 motel designed by Victor Lundy, a member of the Sarasota School of Architecture. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The motel is known for its mushroom Champagne glass style roof and glass walls, allowing guests to see the..
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Warner House
by John Johansen
Warner House, also known as Bridge House, was designed by John Johansen. Johansen was a member of the colloquially termed 'Harvard 5', along with Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson, Landis Gores and Eliot Noyes.
Warner house is a Neo-Palladian structure, designed during what the architect..

Warsaw Marketplace Halls
by Bolesław Milkowski
Twin market halls situated in Mirów district close to the strict center of Warsaw. Both halls has been constructed between 1899-1901 when Warsaw was under Russian Empire control and the Russian general was a city's president.
The halls are a perfect example of the late XIX century historicism..

Warsaw Central Railway Station
by Arseniusz Romanowicz
Central Railway Station (Warszawa Centralna) is the primary railway station in Warsaw, Poland. Designed by architect Arseniusz Romanowicz, its construction began in 1972 and was completed in 1975. The station, located on the Warsaw Cross-City Line, features four underground island platforms with..
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Warsaw confrontations in Warsaw
by Spasoje Krunić, ...

Washington Dulles Airport
by Eero Saarinen
Washington Dulles International Airport is a public airport in Dulles, Virginia, 26 miles (41.6 km) west of downtown Washington, D.C. The airport serves the Baltimore-Washington-Northern Virginia metropolitan area centered on the District of Columbia. It is named after John Foster Dulles,..
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Waste Disposal Station
by UNStudio
Ben van Berkel designed a waste-disposal station in Delft in the Netherlands betwen 1995-2000. This unit was introduced to encourage complete recycling and the breaking down of household waste. The purpose of the waste-disposal installation was approached from the point of view of the collected..
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Water Cube
by PTW Architects
In July 2003, the Water Cube design was chosen from 10 proposals in an international architectural competition for the aquatic center project.The Water Cube was specially designed and built by a consortium made up of PTW Architects, the engineering firm Arup, CSCEC (China State Construction..
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Water Temple
by Tadao Ando
Few of Tadao Ando's projects represent the architect's contribution to Japanese culture better than his Water Temple: more than a building, it is a sensorial experience representing a radical change in the age-old tradition of Japanese temple architecture
In something more than a simple..

Waterloo CITY'zen
by BFArchitecture
City'Zen is a neighborhood where all generations (families, youth, elderly) can live together and where different types of programs are combined. The site is an area with a level difference, where the university has already a campus building: Musica Mundi. The idea is to redraw the site in a star..
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Waterloo International Railway Station
by Nicholas Grimshaw
Waterloo International Railway Station was designed by Grimshaw Architects in collaboration with Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners.
It cost £120 million and was completed in time for the scheduled completion of the Channel Tunnel. Construction of the Tunnel was delayed and the station was not open..

Watershed House
by Erin Moore
The Watershed, a 70-square-foot, off the grid writer’s retreat in Wren, Oregon, USA designed by Erin Moore.
Professor and nature writer Kathleen Dean Moore wanted a studio in which to write and observe the wetland ecosystem on the banks of the Marys River. Calling on the design expertise of an..

Watertower of Living
by Zecc Architecten
The water tower, which dates from 1931, was converted into an unparalled twenty-first-century home spread over nine levels by Zecc Architecten.
Many challenges are faced in the design: letting more daylight in and strengthening the relationship with the back courtyard by inserting a..
