*️⃣Busan Cinema Center

Architect #Coop #Himmelblau #CoopHimmelblau
City #Busan
Country #SouthKorea #AP

🔤The project, the firm’s first in South Korea, addresses the theme of the roof as an architectural element – a topic which Coop Himmelb(l)au has been concerned with for a long time. Already in the Renaissance and the Baroque era, the roof is transformed into a cupola, thereby achieving a particular significance. But it was Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier who define the roof not anymore as a mere element of protection, but as a frame for the most diverse concepts... ...The construction as a column-free roof covering a space comes closest to the idea of a ​“flying” roof...” – Wolf dPrix.

The building has won a Guinness World #record for the "longest cantilever roof" in the world.

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Colour #metallic
Material #steel
Function #entertainment #theatre
Feature #nightlight
Address: 120 Suyeonggangbyeon-daero, Haeundae-gu, Busan, South Korea
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*️⃣Starbucks Hualienbay Store

Architect #Kuma #KengoKuma #KKAA
City #Hualien
Country #Taiwan #AP

🔤"We designed a mobile café with recycled containers in Hualien, a spot popular for sightseeing in Taiwan.

We stack up the 40 foot containers to a height of four levels, by staggering in the angle of 90 degrees to create a transparent building like a tall tree. Since they are stacked in a rotating pattern, we were able to produce various types of terraces as well."

I believe that the porous ‘Urban Forest’ that makes good use of the containers can be a new prototype of sustainable architecture and lightweight mobility." – KKAA #sustainability

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Colour #white
Material #steel #container
Function #hospitality #cafe
Address: No. 505號, Section 1, Nanbin Rd, Ji’an Township, Hualien County, Taiwan 973
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*️⃣Lumin

Architect #Tsimailo #Lyashenko #TLP
City #Moscow
Country #Russia #EU

🔤Lumin house is located in the historical center of Moscow and is surrounded by dense urban development. The project concept had to solve two problems: to fill the apartments with the maximum amount of natural light and to create a secluded atmosphere in the very center of the city.

The stepped structure of the facade with "cells" - lightboxes allowed to increase the total surface area capable of transmitting light. The main materials used were clear and frosted glass. Blocks of frosted glass form the walls, while clear glass was used for the panoramic windows.

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Colour #white
Material #mattglass
Function #residential
Feature #nightlight #adminvisited
Address: Slavyanskaya Square, 2/5 стр. 1, Moscow, 109074

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*️⃣Kutuzovsky Avenue 12

Architect #Tsimailo #Lyashenko #TLP
City #Moscow
Country #Russia #EU

🔤The key feature of the façade are transparent #curvedglass columns that glow at night, and are decorative and not structural. Right after sunset, when there is still daylight, the columns glow at full power. As dusk settles in, the intensity gradually decreases, down to ten percent by the time of total darkness. Built-in reflectors prevent the light from shining into apartments. #nightlight

At street view, the building seems minimalist and strict... Its grandeur and symmetry seamlessly fit the building into the surrounding Stalinist environment.

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Function #residential
Feature #adminvisited
Address: Kutuzovsky Ave, 12, Moskva, 121248

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*️⃣Second Home Hollywood Office

Architect #SelgasCano
City #LosAngeles
Country #USA #NA

🔤Oval-shaped individual offices and meeting rooms are placed surrounded by a garden that will be the Second Home for almost 700 people. Four different oval shapes create the 60 bungalow offices, that are scattered around the garden built with 4 feet of soil on top of the parking slab, burying the bungalows down to the table height. The transparent curved walls allow 360º horizontal views of the plants, giving the feeling to be working among nature.

"In Second Home Hollywood, instead of bringing the garden inside the office, we have brought the office out to the garden" – Selgas Cano.

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Plants reduce the temperature and provide shade; the clear façade eliminates the necessity of artificial lighting and has 3 operable openings for natural cross-ventilation; all the water at the site is collected in two cisterns totaling 37,000 gallons of storage capacity to be used for irrigation. #sustainability

Project was selected by #Archdaily as the best building in offices category in 2020. #award

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Colour #yellow
Function #office
Feature #greenery #nightlight
Address: 1370 N St Andrews Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90028, United States
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