Tseshaht Tribal Multiplex and Health Centre / By Lubor Trubka Associates Architects

Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada
Lubor Trubka Associates Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Peter Powles

Completed in October of 2007, the Tseshaht Health Centre and Multiplex is an example of a cooperative community venture and the use of timber as an architectural vocabulary to express the Tseshaht’s respect for nature, cultural heritage and their historical reverence for wood utilized in their daily lives.

Housing with Verandas / By Rüdiger Lainer + Partner Architekten

Buchengasse 157, 1100 Vienna, Austria
Rüdiger Lainer + Partner Architekten
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Photo © Courtesy of Hubert Dimko

The taller part rises out of a one- to-two storey plinth zone that has incised outdoor areas and private patios, and is shifted back from the lower, differentiated block edge.

Triamant Haspengouw Velm : By Buro II & Archi+I

Halingenstraat, Sint-Truiden, Belgium
Buro II & Archi+I
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Photo © Courtesy of Filip Dujardin

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‘Care for Life’, the client, has developed an innovative vision regarding living and care in our modern society.

Retirement Home : By Atelier Zündel & Cristea

Riedisheim, France
Atelier Zündel & Cristea
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Photo © Courtesy of Atelier Zündel & Cristea

This retirement home is located on the heights of Riedisheim (a suburb of Mulhouse), in a residential neighborhood. The conjunction of geophysical and regulatory constraints rendered this plot of land difficult to build upon : its elongated form, its gradient exceeding 10%, and the very restrictive POS regulations applicable to it were a priori incompatible with the size and demands of the project.

Maggie’s Centre : By Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

London, England
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
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Photo © Courtesy of José Miguel Hernández Hernández

A new center offers cancer patients a peaceful place for care other institutions
cannot provide
In 1988, an extraordinary Scottish woman named Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was a mother, a scholar who wrote and lectured about Chinese landscape gardening, a world traveler, and the wife of designer and critic Charles Jencks, not to mention an accomplished landscape designer in her own right. After surgery, and a five-year period of remission, the cancer returned. This time an aggressive strain attacked her bones, bone marrow, and liver. Maggie was also outgoing, articulate, and an often-published writer who was willing to try an extraordinary range of treatments and strategies as she fought for her life. She won a second period of remission, but finally succumbed to her disease in 1995.