*️⃣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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*️⃣Hesperia Tower

Architect #Rogers #RichardRogers #RSHP and #AlonsoBalaguer #ABAA
City #Barcelona
Country #Spain #EU

🔤The position it occupies favours its role as a driving force of the urban renewal of the area and, being located perpendicular to the highway, it avoids being a visual obstacle for the homes of Bellvitge.

The externalisation of all its vertical communication elements, as well as its installation courtyards, frees up the floor plan for maximum use and converts these elements into dynamic sculptures. Highly complex technological construction solutions, such as the dome of its Evo restaurant, cable-stayed glass atrium and suspended slabs on floors 2 and 4, add to the overall quality of the complex.

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Material #aluminium
Colour #orange
Function #hospitality #hotel #bar (only for residents)
Address: Avinguda de la Granvia de l’Hospitalet, 144, 08907 Barcelona, Spain
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*️⃣Plasencia Auditorium and Congress Center

Architect #SelgasCano
City #Plasencia close to #Caceres
Country #Spain #EU

🔤"The building will be visible in the distance from an entire western perspective, from north to south. It will be seen when passing by at high speed in a car, which is why we have planned it as a snapshot or a luminous form, acting as a sign for passengers by day and by night, playing at being a correspondence between sensation and reality ".

"Forget-me-not...The form of ours is due to the building´s section; due, as we have said, to the idea of resting the smallest possible part on the ground."

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Colour #white #orange
Material #polymer
Function #entertainment #venue
Feature #nightlight
Address: C. Luis Vélez de Guevara, 3, 10600 Plasencia, Cáceres, Spain
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*️⃣Salmon eye / Iris

Architect #Kvorning Design
City #Rosendal close to #Bergen
Country #Norway #EU

🔤True to its nature, Salmon Eye curves for its ellipsoid design, bathed in 9,250 stainless steel shaped like scales to imitate the appearance and color of fish.

The exterior design of Salmon Eye mimics the shiny, silvery skin of salmon and the shape takes after the fish’s eye – hence the name.

It glistens brightly in the Hardangerfjord, one of Norway’s most stunning fjords, and can be seen from miles away – even from an airplane landing at the nearby airport.

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Colour #metallic
Material #steel
Function #hospitality #restaurant
Feature #onwater
Address: Hardangerfjorden, 5470 Rosendal, Norway

*️⃣Unite d' Habitation

Architect #LeCorbusier #Corbusier
City #Marseille
Country #France #EU

🔤Also, it is apparent that Le Corbusier’s mechanized influences from other industries have not been lost in design. As massive as the Unite d’Habitation is, it begins to resemble the steamship that Corbusier is so intrigued with.

The massive volume appears to be floating, the ribbon windows resemble the cabin windows running along the hull, while the roof garden/terrace and sculptural ventilation stacks appear as the top deck and the smoke stacks.

After World War II, the need for housing was at an unprecedented high. The Unite d’Habitation in Marseille, France was the first large scale project for the famed architect, Le Corbusier. In 1947, Europe was still feeling the effects of the Second World War, when Le Corbusier was commissioned to design a multi-family residential housing project for the people of Marseille that were dislocated after the bombings on France.

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Colour #mixed
Material #rawconcrete
Function #residential #hospitality #hotel
Feature #retro #adminvisited
Address: 280 Bd Michelet, 13008 Marseille, France
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