Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland by Farshid Moussavi

Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland by Farshid Moussavi

This six-sided building covered in mirrors is the new home for the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland in Ohio by London-based architect Farshid Moussavi (+ slideshow).The four-storey building, which opened this weekend, features faceted walls clad in mirrored black stainless steel and replaces the museum’s former address in the loft of an old playhouse complex.Visitors to the museum arrive inside...

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ASEMIC FOREST – Westbahnhof Train Station, Vienna. / Shahira Hammad, Egypt.

ASEMIC FOREST – Westbahnhof Train Station, Vienna. / Shahira Hammad, Egypt.

Our Friend "Shahira Hammad", From Alexandria, Egypt, Sent us her thesis for the “Excessive” Post-Graduate program at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, 2012. Her project was featured in other many design networks like "eVolo", "Archinect" ... etc., so that we liked to show you her beautiful work!This is Shahira's Description, Read it to understand the project:"This project represents my thesis...

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New Kyoto Town House / Alphaville Architects

New Kyoto Town House / Alphaville Architects

Faceted wooden panels divide the interior of this house in Kyoto, Japan, by architects ALPHAville. The steel structure allows for an open interior where all floors are visually linked. Photographs are by Kei Sugino and K Takeguchi. The information that follows is from the architects: New Kyoto Town House The most characteristic feature of this house is the polyhedral form of the partition walls....

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Junta Castilla León by Alberto Campo Baeza

Junta Castilla León by Alberto Campo Baeza

We raise high stone walls built of the same stone as the Zamora Cathedral, that follow the outline of the site, like a box open to the sky. We thus achieve a secret garden in which we conserve and plant leafy trees, aromatic plants and flowers. And we open openings in these stone walls that frame, from within, the cathedral, the landscape and the surrounding buildings. And in this verdant...

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