*️⃣Bank of Georgia headquarters

Architect #Chakhava #GeorgiyChakava
City #Tbilisi
Country #Georgia #EU

🔤This particular project was the culmination of a fusion of several architectural influences of the Georgian past—traditional Georgian architecture roofs, metabolist utopias, and the horizontal skyscrapers of El Lissitzky. The structure has also been restored and converted—today, it serves as the Bank of Georgia's headquarters.

The design is based on a concept named Space City method. The idea is to use and cover less ground and give the space below the building back to nature. The architect's reference was a forest: the cores are like the trunk, the horizontal parts the crowns. Between the earth and crowns there is a lot of free space for other living beings, which create one harmonious world with the forest.

The concept that the landscape or nature "flows" through under the building was used by other architects, too. Le Corbusier worked theoretically on the "house on pilotis" and realized this idea for example from 1947 on in the Unité d'Habitation. Frank Lloyd Wright used a similar idea at Fallingwater in 1935.

George Chakhava was Georgia's Deputy Minister of Highway Construction in the 1970s. Therefore, he was both the client and the lead architect of this project. He could choose the site location best suited for the design himself.

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Colour #tan
Material #concrete
Function #office
Feature #cantilever #retro #adminvisited
Address: 29a Iuri Gagarini St, Tbilisi, Georgia
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pics by #SimonaRota, Architectonic Travels and Georgia About
text by Archdaily and Wikipedia

*️⃣Florida Polytechnic University

Architect #Calatrava #SantiagoCalatrava
City #PolkCity close to #Lakeland
Country #USA #NA

🔤The exterior of the building is dominated by two #white dramatic elements, the pergola and the operable roof. The pergola is a light #steel trellis that surrounds the entire building from the ground to the roof above the corridor. It provides a perceptual ceiling to the exterior arcade and terrace, while reducing the solar load on the building by over 30%.

The operable roof consists of a series of hydraulically activated brise-soleil that provide shading to the "commons" skylight. The louvers are individually controlled and can be programmed to follow the course of the sun throughout the day. #kinetic

The "commons" is a large multi-use hall illuminated by a central skylight, that can be adapted for diverse uses such as lectures, performances, ceremonies, demonstrations, fundraisers, formal dinners and school dances. It is the heart of the building and promotes interdisciplinary interaction between students and faculty.

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Function #education
Feature #onwater
Address: 4450 Polytechnic Cir, Polk City, FL 33868, United States

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pics by #Karchmer
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*️⃣Natural Ellipse

Architect #Endoh #MasakiEndoh
City #Tokyo
Country #Japan #AP

🔤In Shibuya, one of the busiest districts of the urban center both during the day and at night, the client wished to raise a building for two dwellings starting from a double premise: to design a peaceful house which is not entirely cut off from the busy atmosphere surrounding it.

Despite the compactness of the site — less than 45 m² — the design achieves a sense of openness through careful manipulation of light and geometry. The elliptical plan diffuses light and directs views toward the sky, producing an interior atmosphere that feels far larger than the footprint suggests.

The envelope was built on site and is made of fiber-reinforced #polymer sheet, there are thus no seams to speak of, which enhances the plastic quality of the skin.

Though this polymer sheet serves no structural function in regards to shear resistance in the steel columns. Instead, a lattice of steel bars are crossed reinforcing the columns laterally.

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Colour #white
Function #residential
Address: 7-1 Maruyamacho, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0044, Japan

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pics by Hiro Sakaguchi, architecture-tokyo.com and Google Maps
text by arquitecturaviva.com and architecture-tokyo.com

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*️⃣Zaishui Art Museum

Architect #Ishigami #JunyaIshigami
City #Rizhao
Country #China #AP

🔤Long piece of architecture identical in scale to the vast landscape appears like a streak of wind passing over the lake.

Key to addressing the problem of the landscape in China is to view the architecture as a "gentle giant" of an environment, and search for a totally new relationship between natural and manmade. An entity emerges in which architecture standing in isolation sits comfortably in the natural environment, the two interacting.

One discovers a natural environment inside the building, and through its characteristics as a new outside that has sprung up within the building, forges an amiable connection with the surrounding nature. Thus a new relationship between nature and humans is born. #context@simoderna

Making this happen is the object of this project.

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Colour #white
Material #concrete
Function #public #museum
Feature #onwater #interior
Address: JFQQ+F6W, Wulian County, Rizhao, Shandong, China, 262306

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pics by #ArchExist
text by Archdaily

*️⃣Norddeutsche Landesbank am Friedrichswall

Architect #Behnisch
City #Hannover
Country #Germany #EU

🔤From the exterior it resembles the traditional city block, whilst at its center, protected from the noise of the heavily frequented streets, lies the heart of the complex, a large, public courtyard. A distinctive, seventy-meter-high #skyscraper rises from the courtyard, detaching itself through a series of twists and turns from the formal order of the lower, perimeter building. The expressive form of the tower refers neither to the styles of the immediate surroundings, nor to the orthogonal grid of the post-war city; instead it is a response to the historical downtown geometries in the north.

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Function #office
Feature #cantilever
Address: Friedrichswall 10, 30159 Hannover, Germany
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pics by #RolandHalbe and architects
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