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Project: Santo Domingo House
Author: A-Cero arquitectos
Joaquin Torres
Rafael Llamazares
Location: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Built area: 7,000 sq mt
Year: 2006
Photography: © A-cero 2009

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Project: Ross Street House
Author: Robert Mills Architects
Robert Mills
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Photography: Robert Mills Architects

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Project: Cité du Design
Author: LIN
Finn Geipel + Giulia Andi
Architects Urbanists
Project status: International competition, 1st prize, realisation
Location: Saint-Etienne, Loire, France
Client: Saint-Etienne Metropole
Surface net: 17 250 m²
Dates: competition 2004
Realisation: 2006 to 2009
Costs: 41,5 m €

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Walking around the streets of Bangkok, it is possible to find inspiration in the way building owners modify their shop houses. These buildings usually begin as concrete constructions, but owners would later add layers over existing surfaces in order to block out heat and sun.  Low cost and lightweight metal materials are cut into panels or pieces to create a pattern over the existing shop house. In the way these ad-hoc facades are conceived, they are the opposite of typical facades designed by architects and professionals.  But despite their humble origins, these shop house facades can sometimes provide intriguing and surprising results.
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Founded in 1999, The AR Awards for Emerging Architecture have now grown in to the most popular and prestigious awards programme for young architects in the world, giving emerging practices an invaluable impetus on their trajectory to wider stardom and a chance to put their work on a global stage. The awards are run in association with the esteemed Architectural Review.

Awards are given for excellence across a very broad spectrum of design. Buildings, landscape, urbanism, product design and furniture are all eligible. All projects must be built and the cut-off limit for age is 45. Entries were judged by a distinguished international jury chaired by Kieran Long, AR Editor-in-Chief.  The judging panel are: Elizabeth Diller (Diller Scofidio + Renfro, New York), Yvonne Farrell (Grafton Architects, Dublin), Tony Fretton (Tony Fretton Architects, London), and Thomas Heatherwick (Heatherwick Studio, London).

Winners and highly commended entries will be published in the December 2009 issue of The Architectural Review and on the awards and magazine websites www.architecturalreviewawards.com and www.arplus.com, and will also receive a share of the £6,000 prize money.  The AR Awards ceremony will be held in London at the Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA).  All winners will be invited to the event.

These year, 4 projects were awarded:

• Bridge School, Xiashi, China by Li Xiaodong Atelier
• Knocktopher Friary, Knocktopher, Ireland by ODOS Architects
• Curtain Door, Surat, India by Matharoo Associates
• Sports Research Centre, Guijo de Granadilla, Spain by Jose Maria Sanchez Garcia (Full project in arquiTOUR)

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Project: Teran/TBWA
The Idea Factory
Author: Garduño Arquitectos
Juan Garduño
Team: Ernesto Flores, Ricardo Guzmán, Daniel Banda, Isaac Romero, Athos Sajid
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Client: Teran / TBWA Mexico
Contractor: Alen Constructions
Building Type: Office
Size: 2,778 sq. mt.
Design: 2005
Construction: 2006
Photography: Laura Cohen

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(Rotterdam, 18 November 2009) The mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb and city councilor Hamit Karakus have officially started the construction of the new Rotterdam Market Hall. The arched building located in the centre of Rotterdam, developed by Provast and designed by MVRDV is a hybrid of public market and apartment building. Completion is set for 2014. Total investment is 175 million Euro with a total surface of 100.000 m2. More images after the break.
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Wolf D. Prix, Design Principal and CEO of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU presented the design for ‘Pavilion 21 MINI Opera Space’ for the Bavarian State Opera during a press conference in Munich in attendance of Bavarian State Minister for Sciences, Research and the Arts, Dr. Wolfgang Heubisch, Director of the Bavarian State Opera, Nikolaus Bachler as well as the Senior Vice President Brand Management of MINI, Dr. Wolfgang Armbrecht. More info and images after the break.

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Architects: Camenzind Evolution
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
Project Team: Stefan Camenzind, Marco Noch, Susanne Zenker
Client: Swiss Life
Project Area: 1,900 sqm
Budget: US $8,800,000
Project year: 2006-2007
Photographs: Camenzind Evolution

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Sheffield Hallam University has announced plans to develop a new £25m building that will become a city center landmark thanks to its innovative design.

The new 9,500 sqm building on Charles Street in Sheffield, England will enable the University’s Faculty of Development and Society – currently split between the City and Collegiate campuses – to move to one campus.

Sheffield architects Bond Bryan have been appointed by the University to design the building, which will sit within the city’s Cultural Industries Quarter (CIQ).
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Architecture myninjaplease featured a short video shot from the top of the Burj Dubai, designed by SOM, the tallest building in the world.

An interesting aerial view of Dubai, where you can see how long the shadow of this tower can get, image gallery after the break.

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Project: Contex Headquarters
Author: 57Studio
Maurizio Angelini, Sebastián Espinoza, Benjamín Oportot
Project: 2003
Construction: 2003
Location: Santiago, Chile
Structural Engineer: Cavalla, Raby, López
Construction: Trancura Ltda.
Materials: Steel, Concrete, Wood, Glass

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Project: Riverhouse Niagara
Author: Zerafa Studio llc.
Architect of Record: Chapman Murray Associates Architects Inc.
Location: Ontario, Canada
Structural Engineer: ACA Engineering
MEP: Hallex Engineering LTD.
Client: Withheld at Owner’s Request.
Facility: Private Residence.
Size: 5000 gsf.
Status: Completed April 2009
Photography: by Tom Arban

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Zaha Hadid Architects has designed the Jesolo Magica shopping mall and office complex located in town of Jesolo, Italy. The project was divided into two zones that situated half way between Jesolo town center and waterfront.
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Danish firm 3XN Architects has won an architectural competition to transform the former freight train halls in Aarhus, Denmark into a new and dynamic cultural center. The winning design was part of an collaboration effort with Nord Arkitekter, Hans Ulrik Jensen A/S, Exner Studio, and Søren Jensen Engineers.
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