Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum by Zaha Hadid Architects

The location of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at the northern Edge of the Michigan State University Campus is infl uenced by a set of movements adjacent to and across it. The vital street life on the northern side of Grand River Avenue and the historic heart of the university campus at the south side generate a network of paths and visual connections.This highly frequented interface between city... 

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The Middle East Centre of St. Antony’s College by Zaha Hadid Architects

The Middle East Centre of St. Antony’s College is the University of Oxford’s centre for interdisciplinary study of the Modern Middle East. The centre was founded in 1957 and it is focused on research on humanities and social sciences with a wide reference to the Arab World and its geographic adjacencies. The Centre research core is a specialized library and substantial paper and photographic archive... 

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Santa Barbara House by GLR Arquitectos

The generosity of the site, as well as the importance of isolating the house from the unattractive surroundings, in order to control the views and focus in the mountains nearby, lead us to propose a single leves scheme, which through pure and straight forward lines, allows us to synthesize a relatively complex program into four main interconnected elements. The floor plan, made out of pure geometric... 

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Refuge Pavilion by Francisco Portugal e Gomes

The project anticipates the rearrangement of an already existent construction annexed to a small house, in a refuge pavilion with 50 m². The implanting of the new building follows the limits of this existent construction in the west side, recycling small stone. The opposite side is rebuilt, realigned and, reusing the granite header from the best walls, is created an uncovered yard that serves... 

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