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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
Article source: Francis Kere Architecture
This school project in one of the world’s poorest countries aims to provide further education to the inhabitants of a rural area. Gando, with a population of 3000, has no secondary education facilities and lies on the southern plains of Burkina Faso, some 200km from the capital Ouagadougou. Diverse design aspects of the project consider the challenging weather conditions where summer temperatures peak at 40°C.
 Entrance
- Architect: Francis Kere Architecture
- Name of Project: Secondary school in Gando with passive ventilation system
- Location: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Software used: Autocad and Rhino
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Saturday, April 7th, 2012
Article source: sebastianquinn
70 South Franklin Street in Nyack, New York is the studio and gallery space for furniture designer Blake Tovin. Conceived as an intervention, the structure of Tovin Studios is a former warehouse. The project investigates economy of means, materiality, natural lighting and sustainable construction techniques. The facade is clad in weathering steel. Four major “light scoop” sky lights deliver day light and are a passive solar heating system. The project is currently awaiting consulting with energy modeling from NYSERDA.
 Exterior View - Photo by Francois Dischinger
- Architect: sebastianquinn
- Name of Project: Tovin Studios
- Location: New York
- Software used: Rhino for mac (beta), and PowerCadd
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Thursday, April 5th, 2012
Article source: Bild Architecture
California Dreamingis one of a continuing series of projects exploring adaptations of Australian suburban typologies to contemporary housing requirements. Located in an area of inner-urban Launceston originally developed with inter-war ‘California Bungalow’ type housing, the project adapts and co-ops this typology to contemporary living styles and expectations for a pair of duplex residential units.Unfashionable for many years this area of the city lay dormantafter its initial wave of development, preserving an enclave of inter-war speculative housing. However in recent years, with sudden gentrification, the area has seen a new wave of housing occupying the abundant infill opportunities. These new occupants, reflective of contemporary ways of living and ways of building sit in stark contrast with the area’s original houses.
 Street Frontage
- Architects: Bild Architecture
- Project: California Dreaming
- Location: 8a&b Leslie Place, South Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
- Project Team: Ben Milbourne, Haslet Grounds, Alison Stout
- Photography: Tanja Milbourne (TM Photo)
- Area: 235m²
- Completed: 2011
- Software used: Rhino 3D
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Sunday, April 1st, 2012
Article source: CEBRA architecture
Danish architects CEBRA’s proposal for a new church in Våler, Norway creates a symbolic landmark in the shape of a tilting cross using light and wood as key design elements for the interior.
The village of Våler, in the south eastern part of Norway, is in need of a new church in order to replace the village’s old wooden church, which burned down to the ground in 2009. The church is of great importance for the local community – both as a social gathering point and as characterizing landscape element. Therefore, the design of the new church has to combine a particular sensitivity and attention to the site’s culture-historical context with a modern architectural expression so as to succeed in creating flexible and contemporary church facilities.
 Exterior View in day
- Architect: CEBRA architecture
- Name of Project: New Church of Våler
- Location: Hovedveien, Våler, Norway
- Commission: Private
- Type: Open plan and design competition
- Client: Våler Parish Council
- Year: 2011
- Purpose: Curch
- Surface area: 11.840 sq. ft.
- Software used: AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, VRay for Rhinoceros, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
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Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Article source: Benjamin Hall
This projection came to life when Mr. Lavance and Benjamin Hall drank a few brew’s at a local pub. Lavance expressed his desire to shad his outdoor BBQ / kitchen. A few napkin sketches later and a real enthusiasm for raw materials that weather and age over time due to the brutal desert sun bearing upon. The high arcing paroblolic steel arcs crest to allow seating behind the counter on the east, while converging to the west to screen the Arizona summer sun.
 LaVance Shade Screen
- Architect/Designer: Benjamin Hall
- Name of Project: LaVance Shade Screen
- Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
- Client: Michael Lavance
- Construction: Benjamin Hall + Michael Lavance
- Software used: Rhino
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Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Article source: IwamotoScott Architecture
Lightfold is a lobby design for the new One Kearny commercial development in the heart of downtown San Francisco’s Gallery District, adjacent to the museums of the Yerba Buena Arts District. The project is conceived and funded as architecture as public art. The lobby constitutes the ‘percent for art’ requirement for the building as an integral piece of the architecture. It was subsequently approved by the SF Arts Commission.
 Interior View (Images Courtesy Craig Scott - IwamotoScott Architecture)
- Architect: IwamotoScott Architecture
- Name of Project: One Kearny Lobby: Lightfold
- Location: Downtown San Francisco, California
- Lead Designers: Craig Scott, Lisa Iwamoto
- Project Team: Blake Altshuler, Ryan Golenberg, Christina Kaneva, Alan Lu and David Swain
- Photography: Craig Scott – IwamotoScott Architecture
- Software used: Rhino
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Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Article source: Visiondivision
Spröjs Mansion is a house for someone with a go for gold attitude. The house includes all good-life functions a person with assets and taste could beg for. The cellar contains a double garage connected to a wine cellar with an under water pool view. The first floor contains a spatial kitchen, living room and the main hall with double ceiling height if wanted. Two smaller outcrops on this floor contains on the kitchen side an orangery so the household always have fresh vegetables and fruits, and a relax room with sauna on the living room side.
 Spröjs Mansion front facade
- Architect: Visiondivision
- Name of Project: Spröjs Mansion
- Software used: A mix of Rhino, Autocad, Photoshop and some Maya
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
Article source: Visiondivision
The Spröjs Villa is a modern style summer house for people with high architectonical taste. The building is based on the Spröjs modular system and can grow in length to any size requested. The house could be just 30 m2, being a small pavilion, to being a slick 200 m2 villa. The house modular system is on every façade as well as the roof. In its original design the spröjs serves as beds, kitchen tables, sofas as well as bath tubs or pretty much any use that can be fitted into the Spröjs grid. The house slim floor plan does so that you will never be more than two meters from the outside and its open facades creates a house that always are in close contact with the outside just as a summer villa should be.
 The Spröjs Villa in a LA-setting
- Architect: Visiondivision
- Name of Project: Spröjs Villa
- Software used: A mix of Rhino, Autocad, Photoshop and some Maya
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Article source: Visiondivision
Spröjs Castle is the residence of choice for an opulent lifestyle where you can combine different modular towers into your very own magnum opus or chose from a premade composition that comes with the promise of excellence.
 Towers with built-in fountains for unrivaled extravaganza
- Architect: Visiondivision
- Name of Project: Spröjs Castle
- Software used: A mix of Rhino, Autocad, Photoshop and some Maya
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Article source: Visiondivision
The church in the small town of Våler in Norway burned down and a competition was held to build a new one. We joined the competition with the following entry. It is in the rural church that the people in a village is experiencing its most emotional moments; this is where the kids run out on the last day of school, it is here you get married and it is here you bid farewell to your loved ones.
 Mountain
- Architects: Visiondivision
- Project: Spire
- Location: Våler, Norway
- Software used: A mix of Rhino, Autocad, Photoshop and some Maya
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