Saint Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church / By Marlon Blackwell Architect

Springdale, United States
Marlon Blackwell Architect
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Photo © Courtesy of Timothy Hursley--At night, St. Nicholas presents a glowing, balanced composition. The architects embedded blue and yellow glass windows and a red cross in the white, western elevation. To further delineate the church, they surrounded it with a skirt of black mulch.

World Architecture Festival 2011 - Category Winner: CIVIC AND COMMUNITY
Saint Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church is the result of a transformation of an existing metal shop building into a sanctuary and fellowship hall in anticipation of a larger adjacent sanctuary on the same site.

Maasberg Overloon / By UArchitects

Overloon, Netherlands
UArchitects
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Photo © Courtesy of Norbert van Onna--Floating

Client:
Unit 6 of "JJI De Hunnerberg, De Maasberg" in Overloon is converted from an prison for adults into an autonomously functioning juvenile detention institution.

Raif Dinçkök Yalova Cultural Center / By EAA - Emre Arolat Architects

Yalova, Turkey
EAA - Emre Arolat Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of EAA - Emre Arolat Architects

It is possible to say that cities are made out of different contextual layers which time by time come near each other or on top of each other, even intertwine at times and ground their specific existing states. In the Yalova example peculiar to this city, oppositions between the main layers stand out.

Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum / By Aires Mateus Arquitectos

Cascais, Portugal
Aires Mateus Arquitectos
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Photo © Courtesy of Fernando Guerra / FG+SG

Stuck between land and water, along a strip of terrain under permanent change as times went by, human intervention has grounded its most varied settlements.

Top of Tyrol, Mountain Peak Platform / By LAAC Architekten

Mount Isidor – Stubai glacier in Tyrol, Austria
LAAC Architekten
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Photo © Courtesy of LAAC Architekten

During recent years a number of observation platforms have been created attempting by different means to confront the visitor with the beauties of nature.