*️⃣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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*️⃣Castelar Building Renovation

Architect #RafaelDeLaHoz #LaHoz #Hoz
City #Madrid
Country #Spain #EU

🔤Highly original were the two matte glass walls covering the main volume. The result is threefold: a reverse-greenhouse effect that provides a solution to problems caused by direct sunlight on the curtain walls, an accentuation of the slight transparency of the tower, and an augmented perception of a weightless mass.

Also unusually in this type of buildings, the vertical communications nucleus is not located in its normal position. Rather it is placed outside the building where it forms a davit for the suspension of the main volume. The floors are therefore freed of pillars and services, and the main volume takes on the appearance of a prism of glass floating in space over its base. #cantilever

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Material #glass
Function #office
Feature #heritage #renovation #adminvisited
Address: P.º de la Castellana, 50, Salamanca, 28046 Madrid, Spain
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