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Project: Montes House
Author: 57 Studio
        Maurizio Angelini, Sebastián Espinoza, Benjamín Oportot
Collaborator: Sergio Pizarro
Project: 2005
Construction: 2006
Location: Coelemu, Bío-Bío Region, Chile
Structural Engineer: Leopoldo Dominichetti
Construction: Jorge Carrasco
Materials: Masonry, Wood, Stone

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Project: Thiang Residence
Author: Bojan Simic
Location: Melbourne, Australia

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Architects: 70F Architecture
Location: Almere, the Netherlands
Commissioner: Municipality of Almere
Budget: 150.000 EURO
Constructed Area: 126 sqm
Project start: 2005
Project finished: 2008
Photographs: Luuk Kramer

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Project: ROMANTICISM2
Author: SAKO ARchitects
        Keiichiro Sako
Place: Hangzhou, China
Period: 2006.8-2007.8
Floor Area: 1,142m2
Type: Shop
Photography: Koji Fujii / Nacasa & Partners Inc.

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Project: Frexport Headquarters
Author: CC Arquitectos
        Manuel Cervantes C
Collaborators: Carlos Lozornio, Carlos Rodríguez, Omar Rojas
Location: Zamora Michoacán, México
Landscape: Hugo Sánchez, Tonatiuh Martínez
Construction: CC Arquitectos
Construction year: 2006-2007
Site Area: 6,300 sqm
Constructed Area: 3,200 sqm

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Eight teams were recognized as finalists of the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom. Finalists submitted designs ranging from an outdoor classroom for children in inner-city Chicago, learning spaces for the children of salt pan workers in India, safe spaces for youth in Bogota, Colombia, a bamboo classroom in the Himalayan mountains.

The 2009 Open Architecture Challenge was hosted by Architecture for Humanity and principal partner Orient Global in collaboration with a consortium of other partners around the world. This truly global initiative invited the architecture, design and engineering community to collaborate directly with students and teachers to rethink the classroom of the future. Designers entering the competition were given a simple mandate: collaborate with real students in real schools in their community to develop real solutions.

More than 1,000 design teams from 65 countries registered for the competition. Over a four-month submission period hundreds of ideas were generated around the world.

Each submission was rated on feasibility, sustainability, innovation in learning and overall design quality by a team of interdisciplinary online jurors. After three rounds of reviews, more than 400 designs were narrowed to a shortlist of 52. On July 2nd, 2009, an international panel of jurors reviewed the designs at the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival and selected eight entries as finalists for the competition. In September, one of these teams will be awarded US$ 5,000 and the selected partner school will receive up to US$50,000 to realize their design.
Project descriptions and images of the eight finalists after the break.

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Project: Dance Palace
UNStudio: Ben van Berkel with Christian Veddeler, Wouter de Jonge and Jan Schellhoff and Kyle Miller, Maud van Hees, Hans-Peter Nuenning, Arnd Willert, Nanang Santoso, Imola Berczi, Tade Godbersen, Patrik Noome
Theatre consultant: theateradvies bv, Amsterdam Engineering: ARUP
Client:  “Petersburg City”
Location: St. Petersburg, Russia
Building surface: 21,000 m2
Building height: 28 m
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Designed by Mark Francis Tynan & William Hailiang Chen, ResoNet visualises the resonant frequencies inherent in the natural environment, via the interaction of the public and surrounding elements detected by a LED net. By using Low-Fi techniques ResoNet creates a cascade of light triggered by the vibrations detected across the structure. 

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Project: Hong Luo Club
Author: MAD
Director in Charge: Yansong Ma, Yosuke Hayano
Project Architect: Florian Pucher
Competition Team: Shen Jun,Christian Taubert, Marco Zuttioni,Yu Kui
Location: Beijing, China
Building Area: 487.5 sqm
Completed: 2006
Client: Beijing Earth Real Estate Develops Company
Photography: Shu He

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Project: Wilton Pool House
Architects: Hariri & Hariri Architects
Location: Wilton, CT, USA
Total Lot Area: 3.5 acres
Total Poolhouse area: 1,200 sf plus 3,630 sq ft poool and stone terrace
Program: Spa, pool, indoor/outdoor living space, bath & kitchen
Status: Completed 2007
Image Credit: Paul Warchol

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Project: Raffles City Hangzhou
UNStudio – Concept Design and Schematic Design: Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos, Astrid Piber with Hannes Pfau, Markus van Aalderen
Team: Juliane Maier, Marc Salemink, Shu Yan Chan and Andreas Bogenschuetz, Marina Bozukova, Brendon Carlin, Miklos Deri, Gary Freedman, Juergen Heinzel, Alexander Hugo, Abhijit Kapade, Marcin Koltunski, Fernie Lai, James Leng, Peter Moerland, Rudi Nieveen, Hans-Peter Nuenning, Hyunil Oh, Yi Cheng Pan, Steffen Riegas, Rikjan Scholten, Ioana Sulea, Christian Veddeler, Luming Wang, Zhenfei Wang, Rein Werkhoven, Georg Willheim
Advisors – LDI: China United Engineering Corporation, Hangzhou SMEP, Fire, LEED: Arup
Facade: Meinhardt Façade Technology, Hong Kong Transport: MVA, Hong Kong
Client: CapitaLand
Location: Hangzhou, China
Building surface: 389,489 m2
Building site: 40,355m2
Programme: Mixed-use, incorporating commercial buildings: Class A office buildings, five-star hotels and high end residential buildings.
Status: Planned realisation 2012

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Project: Black House
Architects: bgp arquitectura
            Bernardo Gomez Pimienta, Hugo Sanchez
Project Team: JN Morones Esquivel, Ximena Diaz
Location: Valle de Bravo, México
Lot area: 500 sq mt
Surface area constructed: 300 sq mt
Design Year: 2005-2006
Structural engineer: Jaime Fragoso
Mechanical engineer: Arturo Guerra
Glazing: Val y Val
3D model: Hugo Sanchez
Model: at. 103
Photography: Rafael Gamo

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Project: Jimbocho Theatre
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Location: Tokyo Metropolis, Japan
Owner: Shogakukan Inc.
Land area: 319.28 sq mt
Site area: 252.53 sq mt
Total floor area: 1,427.59 sq mt
Structure: RC(steel plate anti-shock panel)
Floors: 2 floors underground, 6 floors above ground
Max height: GL+28.05m
Construction period: From March 2006 to June 2007
Photos by: Tor

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Dubai based X-Architects recently unveiled the Urban Oasis, their latest sustainable master plan for Al Ain.  The 12-hectare urban development was conceived as a “micro-specific, compact, and passive sustainable urban oasis.”  Inspired by the existing natural environment and the traditional dense urban fabric of Islamic cities, the master plan develops an “environmental synergy between landscape and urbanity.”

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Project: Edificio Corporativo DARCONS
Author: Arquitectura en Proceso
        Jorge Cajiga, Roberto Villarreal, Raul Rodriguez, Reyes Baeza
Project Team: Raul Rodriguez, Roberto Villarreal, Jorge Cajiga, Reyez Baeza
Location: Chihuahua, Mexico
Project Date: 2004-2005
Site Area: 3,529.5 sq m
Constructed Area: 1,406 sq m
Project Management: Urbanismo y Edificacion Mexicana S.A.
Structural Engineering: EASA Construcciones S.A. de C.V.
Photography: Francisco Lubbert and Jorge Cajiga

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