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.

Cultural and Services Centre / By Samyn and Partners

Izegem, Belgium
Samyn and Partners
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Photo © Courtesy of Marie-Françoise Plissart

A park on the city’s periphery houses the multipurpose hall (shows and music), as well as a community centre for the elderly.

Lille Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art / By Manuelle Gautrand

Allée du Musée, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
Manuelle Gautrand
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Photo © Courtesy of Max Lerouge – LMCU, Vincent Fillon

The programme for this job was to restructure and extend the Musée d’Art Moderne of Lille, which stands in a magnificent park at Villeneuve d’Ascq. Designed by Roland Simounet and inaugurated in 1983, the existing buildings have already acquired historic landmark status.

Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena in Águilas / By Estudio Barozzi Veiga

Águilas, Spain
Estudio Barozzi Veiga
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Photo © Courtesy of Julien Lanoo

The project is a natural response to the particular stimulus, offered by the location.

Restaurant Divinatio / By Liong Lie Architects

Veilinghavenkade, Utrecht, Netherlands
Liong Lie Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Christiaan de Bruijne--Located in Utrecht’s harbor area, the building also houses a workplace for boat restoration

Fish restaurant Divinatio is located at the historical harbour of Utrecht, The Netherlands. The objective was to realize a restaurant with a maritime feel for the upper segment of the market.

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.

Roca London Gallery / By Zaha Hadid Architects

London, England, United Kingdom

Zaha Hadid Architects

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Photo © Courtesy of Luke Hayes

THE CONCEPT:

The concept for the Roca London Gallery begins with water in its many forms and phases as both an idea to make space and to express our adaptability and openness to change and innovation.

Herold Social Housing / By Jakob + MacFarlane Architectes

Paris, France 
Jakob + MacFarlane Architectes
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Photo © Courtesy of Paul Raferty

The program is for 100 social apartments, the ground floor being designed for handicapped persons, and some shops at street level.

Tod’s Omotesando Building / By Toyo Ito + Associates

Omotesando, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Toyo Ito + Associates
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Photo © Courtesy of Toyo Ito + Associates

Located in the fashionable Omotesando area of Tokyo, this building was built especially for Tod’s, an Italian shoe and handbag brand.

Senhora da Boa Nova Church / By Roseta Vaz Monteiro Arquitectos

Estoril, Cascais, Portugal
Roseta Vaz Monteiro Arquitectos
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Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado

The site’s name was the “End of the World”. It was one of the city’s last slums. The project brief was determined through a participative process involving everyone in the local community in order to guarantee the project’s social and economical sustainability.

Ring Around a Tree / By Tezuka Architects

Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan
Tezuka Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Katsuhisa Kida / FOTOTECA

Around the Great Zelkova Tree:
It is an annex building of the Fuji Kindergarten. The functions are English language classrooms and the waiting station for the school bus.

Kuggen Office Building / By Wingårdh Arkitektkontor

Gothenburg, Sweden
Wingårdh Arkitektkontor
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Photo © Courtesy of Wingårdh Arkitektkontor--saw-tooth edge

Kuggen is nestled in among Lindholmen’s big office buildings, like a colorful blossom surrounded by gray leaves. Its form and color are not immediately revealed. The round building looks different from every direction.

Bijlmer Park Theatre / By Architectenbureau Paul de Ruiter

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Architectenbureau Paul de Ruiter
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Photo © Courtesy of Pieter Kers

This cultural building was to be a multifunctional building for four users; a circus (Circus Elleboog), a theatre (Krater Theater), the Youth Theatre School and the Theatre Workplace, all professional organisations in the field of talent development, cultural education, production and programming.

Capilla del Atardecer, SUNSET CHAPEL / By Bunker Arquitectura

Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
Bunker Arquitectura
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Photo © Courtesy of Bunker Arquitectura

SUNSET CHAPEL

Our first religious commission was a wedding chapel conceived to celebrate the first day of a couple’s new life.

Skellefteå Kraft Office Building / By General Architecture

Skellefteå, Sweden
General Architecture
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Photo © Courtesy of Åke Eson Lindman

Background:
The local power production company Skellefteå Kraft decided after an invited architectural competition to build new headquarters adjacent to their existing office building in the northern Swedish town of Skellefteå.

ARCAM - ARchitecture Centre AMsterdam / By René van Zuuk Architekten

Oosterdok, Amsterdam, Netherlands

René van Zuuk Architekten

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Photo © Courtesy of Luuk Kramer

The ARchitecture Centre AMsterdam (ARCAM) needed a significantly larger accommodation. Therefore a wonderful location close to the Oosterdok was allocated to this promotional institute.

Stealth / By Eric Owen Moss Architects

Culver City, California, United States
Eric Owen Moss Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Tom Bonner

The bold geometric form and visible transition in section from a square to a triangle, appealed to the creative advertising agency that occupies this office building.

Izola,Honeycomb Apartments / By OFIS arhitekti

Livade, Izola, Slovenia
OFIS arhitekti
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Photo © Courtesy of Tomaž Gregorič

The project is a winning entry for two housing blocks in a competition convoked by the Slovenia Housing Fund, a government-run programme that is providing low-cost apartments for young families.

Saxo Bank / By 3XN architects

Copenhagen, Denmark
3XN architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Adam Mørk 

Saxo Bank is a young, dynamic, internet bank with a strong presence in online trading of the global capital markets. The new head office in Copenhagen is designed by 3XN.

Kindergarten in El Chaparral / By Alejandro Muñoz Miranda Architect

El Chaparral, Albolote, Granada, Spain
Alejandro Muñoz Miranda Architect
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Photo © Courtesy of Javier Callejas

The project is designed as a variable section of wall and ceiling that involves compressing and decompressing the space accommodates.