Colorful

DETAIL Practice: Colour 

DETAIL Practice "Colour" provides the expertise that every architect working with colour needs, covering colour theory and the laws of colour harmony through the basics of colour perception and colour's effects, and up to strategies for developing consistent colour concepts in the design process. -- ArchDaily

Source: Pedro Mutis Johnson archdaily.com

Los Heroes Building, Santiago, Chile designed by Murtinho y Asociados Arquitectos

To create and transform the old and grey `70s building into a new one expressing character, we use the relationship of leisure – nature as the main architectural concept. The ludic and light expression was the way to conjugate and symbolize this concept-relationship (leisure-nature). The façade skin builds this ludic and light expression, and celebrates the relationship between the institution and its urban context, or in other words, between the building and its “urban nature”. -- ArchDaily

 Source: Scagliola en Brakkee

380 Student Units and Public Space Design, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2008 designed by Architectenbureau Marlies Rohmer

The facade consists of a grid of multicoloured aluminium panels in which the windows are omitted. Seen from a distance, the colours blend into a grey, scaly skin. The closer you come, the more it appears as a colourful honeycomb for the bright young students – our ‘smarties’ – from all over the world.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Marcel van Kerckhoven archdaily.com

Department of Education Hogeschool Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2008 designed by Ector Hoogstad Architecten

The colourful west facade gives the HU a face towards the city, makes the building scale-less and abstract, while also alluding to the speed of the traffic racing past. The facade is an expression of the occupants and their diverse activities, a metaphor for the HU’s multifaceted community. -- ArchDaily

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24 Social Housing,PAU Carabanchel, Madrid, Spain designed by Rafael Cañizares Torquemada & Eduardo Valdillo Ruiz

Source: Stephan Lucas archdaily.com

Sports and Leisure Center, Saint-Cloud, France, 2009 designed by KOZ Architectes

The building uses colour very openly and assertively, with a wide palette ranging from red to green, by way of yellow, pink and orange. These colours cover the façade in wide stripes. Inside, the same colours are systematically repeated, like stepping in an oversized graffti. A colour coding that helps you locate from the outside the areas created on the inside. A means of spatial orientation for young children. An echo to street culture codes for those who crawl on what is dubbed the coolest indoor climbing wall in France,or practice on the pop fencing rows below! -- ArchDaily

Source: Miguel de Guzmán archdaily.com

Housing Building, Carabanchel, Madrid, Spain, 2009 designed by Amann-Canovas-Maruri

The clustering of dwellings is obtained from mechanical necessities. The interior is made with integrated furniture; versatile space with openings available in the wall. The exterior body is constructed of metal, therefore acts as a ventilated façade. The building is an ordered set of car bodies whose metallic colours are the choice for users. -- ArchDaily

Source: Republica DM archdaily.com

Bollullos, Seville, Andalusia, Spain, 2009 designed by Republica DM

The buildings that make up this center are designed based on criteria of passive, solar architecture, intended to achieve maximum energy efficiency both in their form (open but protected to the south and closed to the north, to allow natural ventilation and light ingress), and in their materials (prefabrication to minimize waste), and with the same attention to the building process as to the subsequent maintenance. -- ArchDaily

Source: RE-ACT Now Studio archdaily.com

Spectrum Residential Ensemble, Constanta, Romania, 2009 designed by Re-Act Now

The «spectral crystallization» of the facades looking onto the sea ends the story about the things above, make everything appear unreal, hallucinating, filtered, illusive… It is a mental-visual trance that you welcome and which remains in your mind, in your senses, in the conscious and subconscious. -- ArchDaily

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Upper Secondary School, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007 designed by 3xn Arkitekter

The operable exterior shading devices--colored glass fins with graphic lettering--create this building's signature facade and provide dynamic shading to balance daylighting with solar heat gain. Behind the glass fins, operable windows provide natural ventilation. -- betterbricks.com

Source: Yoshihisa Araki archdaily.com

Harvest Medical College, Hyogo, Japan designed by Shogo Iwata

Its design theme is “reflection of various color ”. The building uses six primary colors in interior, exterior, furniture and signs. The composition of these colors reflects embracing diversity that we regard as the primal concept of medical and welfare. The frontal facade consists of the composition of primal colors. The checker board patterned steel porous folded plates layered in front of it make the facade rich and ephemeral. -- ArchDaily

Source: Tord-Rikard Soderstrom archdaily.com

Kuggen, Lindholmsplatsen, Göteborg, Sweden, 2011 designed by Wingårdh Arkitektkontor

Finally, its brocade of glazed terracotta panels takes on different appearances depending on our viewing angle and the changing daylight conditions. The red colors refer to the industrial paint that was closely associated to the wharfs and the harbor. Here and there they meet a contrasting green patch, as in an autumn leaf. These details change the building’s character from one side to another, and over the course of the day. -- ArchDaily

Source: Elenberg Fraser archdaily.com

A’Beckett Tower, Melbourne, Australia, 2011 designed by Elenberg Fraser

With 347 louvres in 16 different colors, you could be forgiven for thinking Elenberg Fraser was engaging with the local architectural context with their new building for Pan Urban, A’Beckett Tower. Au contraire, they are exploring the sensory effects of color, rather than symbolic representation, by testing Goethe’s Theory of Colors. -- ArchDaily

Source: Studio Olafur Eliasson archdaily.com

Your Rainbow Panorama, Aros Allé 2, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark, 2011 designed by Studio Olafur Eliasson

The circle of Your rainbow panorama complements the museum’s square plan exactly. These basic geometric forms challenge each other in a friendly dialogue about spatial dimensions, movement, and the passing of time. The continuous curve limits your view to about twenty meters ahead, revealing one colour shade after the other. The intimacy created by this short distance is reflected back on the moving bodies.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Ronan Lacroix archdaily.com

Rebière 21 housing, Paris, France, 2012 designed by Hondelatte Laporte Architectes

Detached from the building, three elegant columns of covered flower-shaped terraces spiral upwards. Each housing unit has its own remarkable terrace, designed as an “extra room” with specific qualities: it is an independent, hybrid space somewhere between the exterior and the interior, and its specific colour gives each flat its own atmosphere. -- ArchDaily

Source: Roger Frei archdaily.com

Affoltern Housing Development, Wehntalerstrasse, CH-8046 Zurich, Switzerland, 2012 designed by EM2N

The positions of the large projecting balconies (which also have recessed areas) are staggered from floor to floor and thus sculpture the volume of the building. Together with the coloured parapets and metallic bands of windows they help structure the buildings and shape the character of the development. -- ArchDaily

Source: Burton Hamfelt Architectuur archdaily.com

MBO College North, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2012 designed by Burton Hamfelt Architectuur

Designed as a series of five interchangeable separate buildings, the colorful and parceled facade is primarily related by the functional distribution of the building and at the same time intended as an eye-catcher for the whole area. -- ArchDaily

Source: Toshihisa Iishi archdaily.com

Enviromental Building, Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, 2012 designed by Henri Gueydan

Close to Nagoya, this environmental building for rental and shops, complements an older type of housing, now fully renovated and colorful. In this rather dreary suburb, the idea is to break with the existing view as if the start making of a new urbanity.   -- ArchDaily

Source: Alberto Ruiz López & María Giménez Molina archdaily.com

Renovation of the Saint Exupéry School, Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain, 2013 designed by Argola Arquitectos + Flint Archicture

Architectural integration is achieved through the use of brick facades, present both in the existing building and in the common services new construction.

This structure, supports a lighter construction made of colored glass walls, which aligns with the geometry of the existing building. -- ArchDaily

Source: RCR Arquitectes archdaily.com

“Els Colors” Nursery, Manlleu, Barcelona, Spain designed by RCR Arquitectes

Ease in composition comes from the equal size of the parts, and the identification of each of them in the entire assembly comes from their color. Glazed facade with laminated glass and opaque aluminum doors to patios. Lattice elements with metal plate structure and colored glass (red, orange and yellow) 2/3 acid-tinged and 1/3 transparent. -- ArchDaily

Source: Pieter Lozie archdaily.com

A Colorful Demolition: The Abandoned Interiors of Ghent’s Rabot Towers Revealed, Ghent, Belgium

With the removal of the facade panels we get to see behind the building’s public face, revealing the many living room interiors, where the bright walls are framed by the tight rhythm of the window frames, almost like an abstract artwork. -- ArchDaily

Source: Cecilie Bannow archdaily.com

Grønneviksøren Student Apartments, Bergen, Norway, 2013 designed by 3RW Arkitekter

By using different window sizes and different façade panels and colors, it breaks up the monotony of a modular building system and gives it a lively layer. The result is far from what one might expect from a modular project of this size. Working both with and against the module principal has been crucial to eliminate the risk of creating monotone and characterless architecture. -- ArchDaily

Source: KSR Architects archdaily.com

Colorful Pop-Up Pavilion Forms the Centerpiece for Camden Create Festival, London borough of Camden designed by KSR Architects

As part of a new three-day festival in the London borough of Camden, KSR Architects have designed a brightly colored pop-up pavilion for the famous Britannia Junction. The festival’s centerpiece is made up of 640 fluorescent tubes hanging from a stage truss system to make a colossal wind chime, animating the area with movement, color and sound. -- ArchDaily

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OMA to Research the Link Between Color and Economic Development

Paint company AkzoNobel has announced plans to fund a global research project by OMA which will investigate the link between color and economic development. The project is part of AkzoNobel’s wider ‘Human Cities’ initiative, which they say “highlights our commitment to improving, energizing and regenerating urban communities across the world.” -- ArchDaily

Source: a21 studio archdaily.com

The Chapel, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2014 designed by a21 studio

The multi-layer colorful curtains are orderly arranged and placed in the opens to add more colors to the entire space as well as soften the coldness of the metal frames. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jesús Granada archdaily.com

12 dwellings in Jaen, Calle Llana de San Juan, 41, 23004 Jaén, Jaén, Spain, 2014 designed by bRijUNi Architects

....the colorful facade, challenging the monotonous and constructive regulations, and the existing rich chromatic diversity in the surroundings, to become the protagonist of such a unified but not individualized project.... -- ArchDaily

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Source: VMX Architects archdaily.com

House SODAE, Amstelveen, The Netherlands, 2009 designed by VMX Architects

The simple form of the house originates from the creative interpretation of the building regulations. The obligatory use of sloping roofs on two sides, intent with making houses conform to a traditional style, is to make innovative designs almost impossible. However, by applying these rules in a different manner, a new and contemporary form was conceived.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Archipicture archdaily.com

House N, Gramastetten, Austria, 2010 designed by Archinauten Dworschak + Mühlbachler ZT Gmbh

The residential family home is located on a hillside that slopes towards the east on the outskirts of the city of linz. The topography of the building site, building regulations, and the location of the plot were defining parameters for the design and conception of the house. The result is a clear structure, which appears monolithic from the outside, but has a complex interior spatial structure. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jeremy San archdaily.com

Hansha Reflection House, Nagoya, Japan, 2010 designed by Studio SKLIM

....the house was conceived to be an object with the environment. The programmatic zones of Public, Service and Private spatially organized the house into 3 distinct zones with further punctuation of the main massing with the Landscape element; providing spaces for the courtyard and roof deck. This base form was further chiseled with structure, daylight/ventilation and viewpoint concerns. -- ArchDaily

Source: Filip Dujardin archdaily.com

Canopy House, Pajottenland, Belgium designed by MDMA

The sloping roofs and facades make the house appears like a piece of moveable furniture that is detached from the agricultural land it stands on. Inside, the house is divided in two through the use of long sloping ramps. A staircase provides a shortcut between the living quarters to the entrance, but there are no shortcuts to the private spaces. This keeps the maximum distance between the private and communal spaces. -- ArchDaily

Source: Eibe Sönnecken archdaily.com

Energiehaus Farschweiler, Farschweiler, Germany, 2011 designed by Architekten Stein Hemmes Wirtz

The +Energy House lies down as a flat structure on the sloping site and forms at the upper floor a platform that connects inside and outside together and offers a magnificent view of the countryside. The formal language acts independently and confidently. Simultaneously, the two-storey construction comunicates with the surroundings of the street (building line, roof shape, eaves height). -- ArchDaily

Source: Paul Raftery archdaily.com

L’arbrisseau Neighborhood Centre, Lille, France, 2011 designed by Colboc Franzen & Associes

Its helical shape, the staircase that winds itself up around the sides of the building and its aluminium cladding, like a space vessel’s, all make it stand out. -- ArchDaily

Source: Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre archdaily.com

Bilbao City Hall, Bilbao, Spain, 2011 designed by IMB Arquitectos

The treatment applied to the residual public spaces has the objective to fluff the urban fabric and increase the available area to generate a little plaza becoming an urban antechamber or lobby to access the Town Hall Headquarters. The fragmentation of the whole in two volumes has the will to integrate the building into the city plot, adapt the scale and the heights to the place and enhance the traditional pedestrian way across the parcel. -- ArchDaily

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Pacific Design Center, Center Blue, West Hollywood, California, USA, 1975 designed by Cesar Pelli

The Pacific Design Center, or PDC, is a 1,200,000 square feet (110,000 m² ) multi-use facility for the design community located in West Hollywood, California. One of the buildings is often described as the Blue Whale because of its outsize nature relative to surrounding buildings and its brilliant blue glass cladding. -- wikipedia

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Antiquities Museum, Arles, France, 1995 designed by Henri Griani

The Musée départemental de l'Arles antiques, opposite the remains of the Cirque Romain, was inaugurated in 1995. Henri Ciriani's architectural project, decidedly modern, is adapted to the basic functions of an archaeological museum:

1. The transmission and presentation of collections to the public;
2. Conservation and restoration, with a mosaics conservation and restoration workshop and an archaeology laboratory;
3. The reception of different kinds of publics (visits, workshops, internships).

The building's triangular layout symbolically incarnates these three functions. -- official web site

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Forum 2004 Building and Plaza, Barcelona, Spain, 2004 designed by Herzog & de Meuron 

the elevated flat triangular body emerged almost spontaneously, because it maximizes the possible footprint by forming an extensive cover for the plaza and perfectly expresses the specific situation of the land it occupies between the branches of the right-angled Cerda Grid and the Avenida Diagonal.  -- architect's web site

Museu Blau, Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2011 designed by Herzog & de Meuron 

Relocating the Museum of Natural Sciences into the Forum Barcelona building signals the beginning of a new life cycle for both institutions: one where each mutually benefits from the space, program and potential of the other. And the Museum of Natural Science promises to energetically revitalise the existing building, replacing vacant space with intense new public activities.   -- architect's web site

Source: Koichi Torimura archdaily.com

On the Corner, Shiga, Japan, 2011 designed by Eastern Design Office

The site is a wedge-shaped flatiron lot which resides at a corner where two streets merge at an acute angel. It was left behind neither used for residential nor for industrial development. Since no one wanted to buy it, and the public sector would not invest to change it into a park, the lot remained.

It is a triangular building configured by the square elements. The cross confines the power of the mixed materials into one. -- ArchDaily

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Copenhagen Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009 designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel

From the outside in bright light, it looks like nothing more than a large rectangular box that for some reason is swathed in electric-blue scaffolding net and plopped down in an industrial landscape. When the sun goes down, it is transformed into an ethereal, dematerialized object with images of musicians eerily flitting across the screens of glass fiber with a PVC coating.

Seating 1,809 and raised above the lobby, it looks in section like some giant clam caught among pilings within a huge (190 by 315 feet) blue cage, 148 feet high.  -- Architectural Record

Source; Rob 't Hart archdaily.com

Melanchthon College Schiebroek, Rotterdam, The Netherlands designed by OIII Architecten

The broad daylight limits the use of artificial light and provides a pleasant learning atmosphere. The contemporary look that is achieved partly by the bright violet-blue glass facade and slender “golden” frames gives the school a distinctive and welcoming place. -- ArchDaily

Source: openbuildings.com

Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2006 designed by Jean de Gastines

Situated next to the old Washburn-Crosby A Mill, in the heart of what was once the greatest flour-milling complex, the new Guthrie Theater Center pays homage to its industrial neighbors while capturing the magic of the theater.

The exterior is a composition of metal and glass that evokes industrial forms, rendered in a modern way. The large circular form of the thrust theater echoes the area’s adjacent grain silos, while the towering rectangular structure of the proscenium theater is in harmony with nearby flour mills. At dusk, the exterior walls flicker with the ghosts of great dramatic moments played out on the Guthrie stage. Barely discernible, these urban memories inhabit the facade. They stir in the dark shadows of twilight, when evening descends and the theater comes to life. -- Open Buildings

Source: Nelson Kon archdaily.com

OZ House, São Roque – São Paulo, Brasil, 2013 designed by Andrade Morettin Arquitetos Associados

The house is built with exposed concrete and a modular wooden structure. The roof and facade cladding is made of metal tiles and a polystyrene filling for thermal protection. -- ArchDaily

Source: popupcity.net

Smurbanism Works!

What was supposed to be a temporary transformation looks to be a permanent change. The South Spanish town Juzcar was turned entirely blue for the latest Smurfs movie by Sony Pictures. After 141 days blueness, the inhabitants of the small town have voted to keep the façades of the buildings blue forever. -- The Pop-Up City

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Source: Åke E:son Lindman archdaily.com

Moderna Museet Malmö, Gasverksgatan 22, Malmö, Sweden, 2009 designed by Tham & Videgård Arkitekter

Seen from the exterior a new extension marks the arrival of the new museum. The extension provides a new entrance and reception space, as well as a cafeteria and a new upper gallery. Its perforated orange façade both connects to the existing brick architecture and introduces a contemporary element to the neighbourhood. The perforated surface gives the façade a visual depth, and is animated through the dynamic shadow patterns which it creates. The ground floor is fully glazed so that sunlight is screened through the perforated façade. -- ArchDaily

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The Orange Cube, Lyon, France, 2010 designed  by Jakob + MacFarlane

the architects to create a box pierced by three large voids oriented toward the water. “The most obvious solution, from our point of view, was to take the negative space and treat it as a cutout from the whole,” says MacFarlane. “It seemed like a good of way of making something interesting out of the project.” -- Architectural Record

Source: 11H45 archdaily.com

Morangis Retirement Home, Paris, France, 2013 designed  by VOUS ETES ICI Architectes

A warm orange to yellow coating has been applied on the outer walls exaggerating the warmth of the light. The ambiance is friendly and warm and the yellow resonates nicely with the natural warmth of wood. As a result the dynamic spaces we offer are worth the effort needed to reach by elderly people. This bright and lively color, stimulating without being aggressive, is also the one used for the window and door frames of the facades found under the awnings and in the bedrooms. -- ArchDaily

Source: Paul Raftery archdaily.com

L’Orange de Ris, Chemin de Montlhéry, Ris-Orangis, France, 2013 designed by Edouard Francois

....we needed to recreate an entry. It is from this idea that the “Orange of Ris” was born. It is not simply a building but a positive sign at the entry to the city, voluntarily colorful and full of endearing materiality. -- ArchDaily

Source: Gerard Van Beek Fotografie archdaily.com

Veilige Veste, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands designed by KAW Architecten

Covering the whole building with especially designed square composite elements; that is how architect Beatrice Montesano translated the work of the previous mentioned artists in the transformation of the old police station.  The strict 12 by 12 feet grid constituting the building inspired Montesano to design the diagonally angled squares, that are positioned alternately to create the diamond shape pattern that covers the building. -- ArchDaily

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Hot Dog House, Harvard, Illinois, USA, 1975 designed by Stanley Tigerman

Tigerman on 'Chicago Tonight,' plus thoughts from the owners of his 'Hot Dog House' -- cityscape

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Cœur Défense, Paris, France, 2001 designed by  Jean-Paul Viguier

Cœur Défense is a large complex made of two main bodies connected to one another by a smaller body and seating on a wide basis made of several smaller bodies. The edges of all bodies are rounded. The cladding is white, with large windows. An electronic system monitors white blinds which can be drawn or opened all together at the same time. -- wikipedia

Source: Jens Willebrand archdaily.com

LTD_1, Hamburg, Germany, 2008 designed by Peter Ruge Architekten

The office building’s configuration, composed of four boomerang-shaped elements laid over each other, creates a representative entrance situation, an interior courtyard, and a transitional space to the residential courtyard in the rear. As a result of this building form, every office has direct sunlight and an unobstructed view. -- ArchDaily

Source: Burg + Schuh archdaily.com

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Parking Garage ‘de Cope’, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2008 designed by JHK Architecten

The façade consists of inward curved, perforated ‘Platibond composite panels’ with a golden coating, which give the aluminum surface coat its golden metallic look. The panels were specially developed for this project in collaboration with the façade supplier. The gradual changes in the perforations and the jumping panels create the impression of a woven structure.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Daici Ano archdaily.com

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Repository, Asahikawa, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, 2012 designed by Jun Igarashi Architects

Plan surrounds the two halls (living dining/master bedroom) and washing room by small rooms , which form a buffer zone. Washing room has top light and it introduce the light to the entire of house. -- ArchDaily

Source: Toshihisa Iishi archdaily.com

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Enviromental Building, Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, 2012 designed by Henri Gueydan

Close to Nagoya, this environmental building for rental and shops, complements an older type of housing, now fully renovated and colorful. In this rather dreary suburb, the idea is to break with the existing view as if the start making of a new urbanity.   -- ArchDaily

Source: AEC Krymow & Partners archdaily.com

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Pomeranian, Gdynia, Poland, 2013 designed by AEC Krymow & Partners

During the design process of the buildings, the architects were inspired by polish modernist architecture of Gdynia of the 1920s and 30s. The rounded parts of the facade are especially associated with the historic architecture of Gdynia. -- ArchDaily

Source: Murat Germen archdaily.com

Esas Aeropark, Yenişehir Mh., Osmanlı Bulvarı No:7, 34912 İstanbul/Istanbul, Turkey, 2013 designed by Tabanlıoğlu Architects

Soft curves of each two building, location of spaces and their connection arcs create an elegant flow; the major reason of the form comes from the idea of breaking the strong north-east wind. Positioning of the two building is relative to the movement of the sun, and grant optimum daylight for both masses. -- ArchDaily

Source: James Steinkamp Photography archdaily.com

New Hospital Tower Rush University Medical Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2013 designed by Perkins + Will

The geometry of the bed tower maximizes views and natural light for patient rooms while also creating an environment for efficient and safe health care. -- ArchDaily

Source: Tom Ferguson archdaily.com

Southern Highlands House, New South Wales, Australia, 2013 designed by Benn & Penna Architects

The new building is part of a set of three free standing pavilions that each contain the functions of sleeping, living and working a configuration reflecting a harmonious life-cycle balance that is interwoven into its natural environment. -- ArchDaily

Source: Luuk Kramer archdaily.com

de Trefkoele+ Community Center, Dalfsen, The Netherlands, 2014 designed by MoederscheimMoonen Architects + Spring Architects

The oval-shaped monumental library remained and underwent a thorough restoration. Underneath the striking construction the different childcare-facilities and the Historic society find their home. As a result the library has moved closer towards the heart of the complex. In becoming this transit-space it joins the different functions in a natural manner. -- ArchDaily

Source: Shinkenchiku sha archdaily.com

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House in Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan designed by Tato Architects

It resulted in the white oval cylinder with forty-two windows, in which wooden boxes and a floor were inserted to create a living space. It was placed diagonally in the site, remaining space between adjoining houses. Many windows segment the view and make the façade work as a filter. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jannes Linders archdaily.com

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Bus Drivers Building, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2015 designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects

In addition, because of the roundness and the linear character, the shape of the bus drivers building connects to the previously realized tubular supervisor building on the other side of the bus platform. The positioning of the facility areas ensures that on the ground floor the façade can be closed and can be made graffiti resistant. -- ArchDaily