*️⃣Faena district

Architect #RemKoolhaas #Koolhaas #OMA
City #Miami
Country #USA #NA

🔤OMA has designed three buildings for the three block site along Collins Avenue - an arts center, retail bazaar and car park.

The Faena Bazaar is a #refurbishment of the historic Atlantic Beach Hotel, built in 1939 and designed by prominent Miami Beach architect Roy France, whose work includes the Saxony and Versaille opposite the site. The Bazaar preserves and restores the existing lobby and facades, while reprogramming the building for retail. #heritage

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Colour #white
Material #concrete
Function #mixeduse #public #museum #transportation #parking #retail #mall
Feature #district
Address: 3300 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33140, United States
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*️⃣CasaGrande Building

Architect #EstudioPlanta #Planta
City #LaJuanita close to #Montevideo
Country #Uruguay #SA

🔤The complex seeks to maintain the beachy and rustic character that defines the town of José Ignacio. The challenge was creating a building within an area that still maintains the scale of an "old fishing village" while generating a 6,000m² hotel. #context

Exterior spaces are designed with vegetation, built-in, protection against the wind and against the sun. The result is a building that is camouflaged with the environment, using native vegetation in order to generate a lower visual impact. #greenery

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Colour #grey
Material #stone
Function #hospitality #hotel
Address: Ruta 10, km 182,5, 20402 La Juanita, Departamento de Maldonado, Uruguay

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*️⃣FPT University Administrative Building

Architect #VTN
City #ThachThat close to #Hanoi
Country #Vietnam #AP

🔤In response to the frequent energy shortages on the site, a passive design was proposed for the building to function on minimal generated backup power during blackouts. A shallow plan allows natural light into the interior, reducing the need for artificial lighting. The façade is composed of simple modules that express the simplicity of sustainable design. The structure is based on an affordable concrete construction principle. The standardized modules allow us for faster construction and eventually save the budget for a high-quality interior finish. #budget

The increased urbanization and densification of Vietnamese cities are having a large impact on urban vegetation. Due to the current situation, the building design ensures exposure of greenery and maintaining the connection with nature for the students in work and academic environment. The green landscape is also integrated at the top of the building to form a public stepped garden. #greenery

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Material #concrete
Colour #white
Function #office
Address: 21.0122, 105.5254
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*️⃣Soumaya Museum

Architect #FernandoRomero #Romero #FREE (FR-EE)
City #MexicoCity
Country #Mexico #NA

🔤The museum’s form, a rotated rhomboid supported by curved steel columns, is clad in a skin of hexagonal mirrored-steel elements which reference the traditional colonial ceramic-tiled building facades and gives the museum a diverse appearance depending on the weather, time of day and the viewer’s vantage point.

The museum reflects the eclectic taste of the collector, as well as his desire to create a new cultural institution for the public and the city.

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Colour #metallic
Material #steel
Function #public #museum
Address: Blvd. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Granada, Miguel Hidalgo, 11529 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico
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*️⃣40 Bond Street

Architect #HerzogdeMeuron #HdM #Herzog #Meuron and #Handel
City #NewYork
Country #USA #NA

🔤 Slab and column are clad with gently curved glass covers, which wrap over the structure and can be read as a continuation of the windowpanes. On the one hand the skeleton and bones of the building are expressed, on the other they melt into the glass surface of the window bays and dissolve in a play of translucency, light and reflection. The colour of the building is the colour of glass, with its many shades of green, which depend on light, viewing angle, thickness and layering of the glass. Its design is a reinvention of the cast-iron building found through NoHo and SoHo.

The porch is separated from the street by a cast aluminum gate, which acts as a physical barrier as well as a visual screen. The gate is a collage of graffiti tags, which have been translated into the third dimension with the help of a computer.

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Colour #teal
Material #curvedglass
Function #residential
Address: 40 Bond St, New York, NY 10012, United States
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