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• Architects: The Beck Group
• Location: Gongju-si, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea
• Architect In Charge: Rick Del Monte
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Sunghoon Yum, Courtesy of Harim Pet Food

• Local Architect: Daesung Architects
• Local Interior Design: Doojowon

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From the architect. Harim Group has built a new pet food factory and visitor’s center totaling 171,000 SF (15,900 M² ) which includes a total automated clean factory, Happy Dance Studio, offices, conference rooms, cafeteria, display & store space, auditorium, and security building on a new property in Gongju, South Korea. It is the most anticipated clean, sustainable and automated pet food factory in South Korea in recent years. This facility will provide much-needed pet food manufacturing space and is expected to attract pet owners to see the clean facility and to experience how pet food is made for their beloved dogs or cats. 

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To attract visitors, Beck created a “where is my food” area where dogs and cats and their owners can view the food manufacturing process inside the factory. Visitors with dogs or cats can also enjoy the pet friendly park outside the cafeteria and pet store and enjoy the natural light at the pet friendly café located next to the courtyard.

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Product Description. Clean and contemporary materials like ACM panel, Polycarbonate Panel, Low-E Curtain wall, and exposed concrete blends in so well with each other and the subtly and naturally blended textures make two gigantic fiberglass pet sculptures (that are waiting for their food on top of the roof on the both sides) to stand out more and attract attention from people who drive on a highway passing by the factory.

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• Architects: Ahead Concept
• Location: Taipei City, Taiwan
• Designers: Yang Chun-Sung, Lo Yu-Chen
• Area: 180.0 m2
• Project Year: 2013
• Photographs: Courtesy of Ahead Concept

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From the architect. Deconstruction. Culture.

The traditional tea ceremony is used from concept and vision to design, structure and atmosphere, creating a beautiful and delicate presentation. The perspective along the ceiling border to the pillar structure conveys dynamic interaction. The large wooden plaque in the hall implies Eastern Heritage and thus extends the continuity of cultural connotation. 

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Prologue. Arts and crafts.

Listed in a symmetrical order, the value principal is derived from a metaphor for the spatial texture of oriental residence. A return to natural convergence is subtly weaved into the ceiling line for a sense of relaxation and release. The materials are reflected with an ecological perspective, integrating old concepts with new to generate a sense of freedom and coexistence with the urban environment. 

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Contemplation. Colorful rhythm 

Peacock blue, lake green, and mustard yellow saturation, fusion lines and staggered surface relationship, and a background with subtle oriental heritage all extend the continuity of space and connotation. The interpretation of the contemplation of environmental heritage blends old and new concepts and matches them to the pattern of ritualistic attempt. In the process of the interactions between the products and consumers, human implications are highlighted. Aesthetic implications are used to show functions, routes and displays, restoring the original entrepreneurial spirit.

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• Architects: ARO ESTUDIO
• Locationn: Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
• Architect In Charge: Alexis Rodríguez, Michel Rosado, Oliver Ortega
• Area: 183.74 m2
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Lorena Darquea

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Casa O is a residential project located in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara, designed with the objective of using the total permitted area of construction. Formally and functionally is composed of two modules differentiated by its material properties.

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The dark ground floor module houses the public areas of the house, giving access to it through a wooden hallway, which unifies the pedestrian and parking entrance and whose height receives the visitor in an intimate environment. Once this first contact with the dwelling is approached, the main door opens to a double height space, illuminated by a window to the east and in which the entrance hall focuses the visual perspective towards the olive tree in the backyard.

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This is a unique space, which openly gives way to the dining room-kitchen, arranged in such a way that it becomes a single space of coexistence and opens completely to the patio located in the back easement of the house.

Ground Floor Plan

The upper floor, materially conceived in brick, houses the private area and is composed of three rooms.

First Floor Plan

The main room, located to the south, overlooks the Club House of the planned community, is reached through a corridor that visually communicates the public and private areas through the double height entrance and through the window to the east frames the views to the Flamboyant tree located outside.

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On the opposite side, the corridor ends with a small hall covered in tzalam wood, which serves to give access to the two secondary rooms to the north. The three bedrooms have their own bathroom and take advantage of the north-south orientation of the home to give natural lighting and ventilation to them.

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“If you took the whole world and collapsed it into one little ball, you’d find it here, in this city.”

In this video from the Louisiana Channel, Daniel Libeskind talks about the chaotic beauty of and his love for New York City. Born in Poland, at the age of 13 Libeskind immigrated to New York, where he witnessed both the building and the collapse of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers. Intimate with the site, Libeskind was later tasked with designing the masterplan for the World Trade Center’s reconstruction.

Check out the video to hear the architect discuss the tolerance, complexities and fascination of his adopted home.

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• Architects: Estudio BaBO
• Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Design Team: Francisco Kocourek, Francesc Planas Penadés, Marit Haugen Stabell
• Area: 811.0 m2
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Javier Agustín Rojas

• Other Participants: Sebastian Hoepner

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This Project is located between two blank walls in Colegiales, a neighbourhood of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The request consists in 8 apartments. This particular lot presents the building code R2B1, and is located in an area characterized by a low residential density and a distinguished neighbourhood character.

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To respect the urban profile of the immediate context, we decided to give space in prediction of the growth of an existing linden tree on the sidewalk, right in front of the building. To do so, me moved the main facade two meters back from the municipal line, generating a private access atrium, extending the public space into the private acces of the building.

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The housing volumes have been lifted to leave the ground floor free for the access hall, common spaces and parking lot. Starting from the first floor the building is structured in two blocks separated by a central courtyard.

On one side of this outer space are the circulations, both the vertical (elevator and staircase) and the common horizontal walkway to access each apartment.

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Floor Plans

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The dimensions of the central patio ensure the correct illumination of the units and the necessary privacy between them as well.

It’s in this articulation of the voids that the rereading of the code allows interesting resources at the spatial level: lateral galleries are offered through the constructed volumes, avoiding the tipical façade/front balconys.

This allows to enlarge the expansions and to generate a new third interior facade that guarantees an optimal illumination and enlarges visually and environmentally the space of the living-room.

It also refers, at the typological level, to the side patios against existing and defining walls of the “casa-chorizo”, very common in the neighbourhood.

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The building consists of 8 Apartments that are distributed by typology in the two main volumes, one that gives to the front that contains a two-roomed apartment each floor, and the one in the back has three-roomed apartment instead.

All the houses are articulated in the same way: bedrooms and bathrooms on one side, on the other one, an open area with living / dining room and kitchen and finally the expansion through outer terraces, that function as the exterior half-covered expansion of the living areas.

This expansion generates a greater visual amplitude, improves the in–out relation and provides greater lighting and natural ventilation. 

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Back of the 100-krone note. Image Courtesy of Snøhetta

In 2014, Snøhetta was announced as one of two winners in a competition to design new banknotes for the Norwegian Bank. Now, after 2 years of development, the first bills have been produced and are nearly ready to begin full circulation.

To coincide with the occasion, Norges Bank has released a series of videos explaining the design and production process. Check them out below.

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The new notes follow the chosen theme of “The Sea”, with front sides featuring realistic depictions on nautical scenes conceived by graphic design studio Metric Design and Terje Tønnessen, and backsides displaying the pixelated motifs created by Snøhetta.

“Titled ‘The beauty of boundaries’, the design celebrates the country’s coast as a fundamental element of its identity, heritage, and industries. The cubical pattern constructs the coast, the horizon, and the motive; just as humans construct our societies on the coast,” explain the architects in a press release.

Front of the 100-krone note. Image © The Metric System

The new currency will rolled out in several stages, beginning with the 100- and 200-krone notes on May 30, 2017. The 50- and 500- krone notes will follow approximately one year later, with the 1000-krone note to be issued last, in autumn 2019. Given the complex production process, these dates are subject to potential delays.

Learn more about the design of the banknotes in this four part series produced by Norges Bank, featuring interviews with Snøhetta designers Henrik Haugan and Moa Nordahl (in part 3):

Part 1: Why do we need new banknotes? (3 min)

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Part 2: Why was “The Sea” chosen as the theme for the new banknotes? (6 min)

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Part 3: What’s behind the choice of motifs for the new banknotes? (8 min)

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Part 4: The long road from design proposals to actual banknotes (10 min)

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You can learn more about the new bills and the rollout schedule, here.

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• Architects: Carlos Seoane
• Location: Praza de España, 15960 Ribeira, A Coruña, España
• Architect In Charge: Carlos Seoane
• Area: 440.0 m2
• Project Year: 2015
• Photography: Héctor Santos , Juan Rodriguez

• Collaborator Architects : Oscar Fuertes, Eduardo Castrillón, Soledad Bugallo
• Structural Engineer: Marcial de la Fuente
• Quantity Surveyors: Jesús Garcia, Luis Romero

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THE LOCUS

The project of the Riveira Social Centre is situated in a plot of land in the Riveira County as part of the rural core of Oleiros District. It is an area characterized by the rural features of the buildings that surround it in a landscape where the granite element predominates. In reality, that is also a zone, where for centuries the construction was done by the know-how of many generations who found their means of subsistence in the territory and who recognized the terrain as their first identity. Thus, the first reference of the project has to do with that old aspect of a built landscape.

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THE PUBLIC SPACE

The definition of the public space is the point of departure in terms of the project’s strategy. The outside area which the building encompasses features the same relevance in the proposal as the construction itself.

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The project emphasizes on trying to achieve something more than just another built object and is concerned primarily with generating a public space which serves to host various types of social events through the articulation of its volumes. That public dimension gives especial importance to a rural environment where the public is limited almost solely to the nature of the roads around and their intersections. 

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For the sake of strategy the project fragments the plan in two buildings so to establish a certain tension and create a public space between them.

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THE VERSATILITY

The project aims to simultaneously create a building which will be able to host different events as well as be transformed during the time.

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The smaller building is to be allocated for office space for various neighborhood associations, whereas the bigger one, located on the northern edge of the land plot is to be used as a divisible multipurpose location. Sliding panels shall manage to turn the latter into smaller areas, and will be able to function as exhibition halls, an auditorium for conferences in addition to classrooms of different sizes according to the various activities.

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Within the understanding of a variable-function building whenever needed, all furniture has been designed to be easily stored in stacks. Therefore, it will be easy to adapt the social building to different uses such as conferences, classrooms, workshops and exhibitions. Therefore, the basic structure of the spaces will not have to be altered. 

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Ultimately, we have tried to achieve a respectful building towards the surroundings, versatile in its uses and capable of generating a public space where public areas for social interaction are scarce.

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Studio Libeskind and the Dutch Auschwitz Committee have revealed plans for the Holocaust Monument of Names, to be located in the heart of Amsterdam’s Jewish Cultural District. Incorporating the letters of the Hebrew word לזכר (meaning “In Memory of”), the memorial will be the first to memorialize the names of all 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust.

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“The Dutch lost the largest percentage of their Jewish population in the Holocaust. The Holocaust Monument of Names, once realized, will be the first Holocaust memorial to commemorate all of the names of the Dutch victims and the first of its kind in Amsterdam,” said architect Daniel Libeskind.

“My personal connection as a child of Holocaust survivors has made it increasingly important to be a part of this significant project. I hope it will become a place for contemplation, reflection, and hope for the people of The Netherlands and beyond.”

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The new memorial will be located along the Weesperstraat, adjacent to the Hermitage Museum and within close proximity to important Jewish cultural institutions including the Jewish Historical Museum and the Portuguese Synagogue.

Encompassing an 1,550 square meter (16,680 square foot) area, the monument will be composed of four hovering mirror-finished volumes, supported from below by two meter high brick walls carrying the message of Remembrance. The walls will be constructed of 102,000 bricks, each inscribed with the name of a victim, and an additional 1,000 blank bricks that memorialize the unknown victims.

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The contrast between the materiality of the brick (a vernacular material of Amsterdam and the Netherlands) and the reflective, geometric forms references the connection between the city’s past and present. Between the two materials, a narrow void will create the illusion that the steel letters are hovering, representing the interruption of history and culture of the Dutch people.

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Throughout the site, simple concrete blocks will provide resting places for contemplation and reflection. On the ground, light-finished concrete will indicate the path through the structure, while around the memorial, geometrical construction lines forming of the star of David will be inscribed into a stabilized crushed stone surface. After sunset, the monument will be lit to ensure for reading of the names in darkness, as well as give the structure a visible presence at all hours.

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“For the bereaved, it is of immense value to have a place where they can remember their relatives. To ensure that the names of Holocaust victims do not vanish from memory. Moreover, the memorial acts as a link between past, present, and especially future. Remembering is not just for those who can recall the war. It is also for those who did not live through it. For the children of those who experienced it, for their grandchildren, and for all the generations that follow. The memorial raises historical awareness of where wars can lead, and encourages us to reflect on and learn from the Second World War”, says Jaques Grishaver, chairman of the Dutch Auschwitz Committee.

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The Dutch Auschwitz Committee is currently underway with a fundraising campaign for the memorial, and hope to break ground on the project in early 2018.

You can learn more about the memorial, here.

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• Architects: Hamonic + Masson & Associés
• Location: Maison du projet des Bassins à flot, Quai Armand Lalande, 33300 Bordeaux, France
• Area: 4065.0 m2
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Takuji Shimmura, Atelier Positif

• General Contractor: Eiffage Construction
• Reinforced Concrete Engineer: Bernadberoy
• Technical Inspection Services: Veritas

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From the architect. The Bassins à flots are a 162 ha niche site, a high-quality port and manufacturing district for which Bordeaux City Council has development plans. Nicolas Michelin’s instructions are to create a link between the site and the horizon and to build on the metaphor of the factory, warehouses and the navy. 

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Our project is very industrial in that it is solid, compact and metal-clad. There is the occasional raised element, one 9-storey building jutting up like a periscope. That is what the project is all about: putting together a serene skyline and creating an urban form similar to a village at ground level, with footpaths to maintain a feeling of wilderness.

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Situated in the north of Bordeaux between the Garonne and the Bordeaux Lake, the Bassins à flot site is an exceptional territory, mainly because of its strong industrial history. “Urban Dock” is a major element of this site and offers its habitants a quality of life. The building synthesises the city’s different aspirations, and forms a tangible link between public space and this particular lot’s private space.

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“Urban Dock”‘s contemporary architectural style is reflected in its harmonious sobriety. Located in a port zone, the project has a monolithic element running throughout it that echoes the spirit of the docks. The new construction consequently offers numerous openings on to the neighbouring basins and bodies of water. The general volumetry, the choice of materials and colours also contribute to the creation of a maritime feeling. The different levels (3 storeys, 5 storeys and 9 storeys) play around with scales and privilege several orientations and multiple points of view.

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First Floor Plan

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The building is clad in metal, which is occasionally perforated in order to allow loggias to appear whilst also highlighting the articulation of projections and recesses, creating intriguing vertical patterns. The cladding also produces an iridescent ‘double skin’ with different transparencies and a shell-like effect, with a shimmering exterior that provides a contrast to the white loggias located at the interior of the block. 

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• Architects: Fala Atelier
• Location: Lisbon, Portugal
• Project Team: Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares, Ahmed Belkhodja, Clara Pailler, Mariana Silva, Lera Samovich
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

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From the architect. The apartment lies in an unremarkable building in Lisbon. Its obsolete fragmented typology presented a series of small rooms, some devoid of natural light, and an impractical exterior bathroom. The intervention aimed to erase these faults and to clarify the use of the available surface: a gently curved wall was extended from façade to façade, defining the limit between a vast common space and the different private rooms.

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The long main space serves as living but also as dining and kitchen area; it is a living gallery rather than a living room. Its curved wall is punctuated by hand-painted doors in different shades of blue, hanging detached from the floor like a set of monochrome paintings. There is a carefully calibrated clash between the lightness of the curve and the rigidity of its elevation.

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The materials and orientations of the floors underline the functional distinction through the apartment. A small roof area  was reclaimed behind the back façade: the new courtyard-like space provides an exterior addition to the living room, natural but unexpected for an apartment on a second storey. 

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