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Clovelly House / Rolf Ockert Design

© Sharrin Rees
Architects: Rolf Ockert Design
Location: NSW 2031, Australia
Area: 450.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Sharrin Rees

Thibaudeau Architecte & Agence d’Architecture Guiraud-Manenc Design Sculptural Tourism Office in France

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French firm Thibaudeau Architecte & Agence d’Architecture Guiraud-Manenc has earned second place for a competition to design the new tourism office for “Les Pays de Fontenay le Compte France.” Designed to encourage tourism in South Vendée, the design merges a contemporary style with a consideration for the historic and artistic identity of the area.

LAVA Reinvents the Youth Hostel With Sport Oriented Design in Bayreuth

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Stuttgart-based Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) has designed a 180-room hostel for the Bavarian Youth Hostel Association in Bayreuth, Germany. Designed for the sociable Generation Y traveler, the hostel offers an abundance of flexible public spaces featuring bright colours and soaring windows overlooking the Bavarian landscape. Touted by the firm as a “yardstick for the sports hostel of the future,” the futuristic building includes modular furniture and universal step-free access throughout all facilities, grounds, and sports fields. Circulation for the design centres on a Y-shaped plan designed to maximize natural light light while providing ample opportunities for athletic engagement.
Find out more about ’s futuristic Youth Hostel after the break 

Lottersberger House / Estudio Irigoyen, Navarro Arquitectos

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Architects: , Navarro Arquitectos
Location: San José del Rincón, Santa Fe Province,
Project Area: 195.0 m2
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Federico Cairoli

Detail in Contemporary Staircase Design

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If a building could be thought of as the architect’s manifesto to construction, then the staircase can be seen as the designer’s autograph – a signature flourish that can embody the entire statement of design for a building in a singular structure. Staircases can be flamboyant or understated in design, from refined to rustic in their construction and traditional to unconventional in the materials from which they are built. Whatever their direction, all of the staircases in this collection make an announcement about the building, whether they are intended to subtly blend in with their surroundings or to attract attention and inspire.
This book is a collection of 39 of the most exceptional staircase designs produced across the world over the last ten years. Detail in Contemporary Staircase Design features photographs of the finished staircases alongside technical drawings, illustrating the design and construction of outstanding projects ranging from intricate domestic creations to imaginative public and commercial features and dramatic artistic statements. Each building in this book is conceived by an architect whose all-encompassing vision drives and informs the configuration of each structure, provides a concept that gives direction to the building’s appearance and solutions to each design problem. Every featured staircase should therefore be seen as the distillation of each designer’s approach, encapsulating the motivation and direction of the entire building design. The staircase can be considered as a microcosm of the building.

The 9 Most Controversial Buildings of All Time

It is now just over a year since the unveiling of Zaha Hadid’s Al-Wakrah Stadium in Doha, Qatar, and in the intervening twelve months, it seems like the building has never been out of the news. Most recently, remarks made by Hadid concerning the deaths of construction workers under Qatar’s questionable working conditions created a media firestorm of legal proportions. Hadid’s stadium has been widely mocked for its ‘biological’ appearance, not to mention the fact that the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, for which the stadium will be built, has encountered a storm of controversy all of its own.
The criticism surrounding Al Wakrah has prompted us to look far and wide for the world’s most debated buildings. Could Al Wakrah be the most controversial building of all time? Check out ArchDaily’s roundup of nine contenders after the break.
Find out which buildings top our controversial list after the break

House in Hampstead / Cullinan Studio

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Architects: Cullinan Studio
Location: Hampstead, NW3, UK
Project Architect: Kevin Goh
Project Director: Carol Costello
Area: 100.0 sqm
Photographs: Paul Raftery
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Farshid Moussavi on Style, Function, and Physical Space

In an era in which architectural style is constantly recycled and reinterpreted, how do we know which ideas are original and which characteristics reveal deeper functions? In a recent article by Rowan Moore from The Guardian, architect Farshid Moussavi discusses fashion, function, and physical space as they relate to the concepts of her latest book The Functions of Style, which examines style in architecture beyond external appearance with a belief that style is rooted in a building’s organizational ideas. Consequently, says Moore, each of Moussavi’s works are unique and do not rely on repeating trademark artistic moves. To learn more about how Moussavi’s philosophy is embodied in her most recent works, along with her belief in the power of physical space in a virtual world, read the full article on The Observer here.

Meet Archibald, a Cartoon Architect Who Never Gets His Way

“Hey dad, when can I become an architect?” says Archie, son of eternally-frustrated architect Archibald, an animated architect  who rarely wins an argument. “Architecture is not a final destination in time, it’s a journey through life,” Archibald says. His son’s response: “Great! I love traveling! When can I buy the tickets?”
“arch.” is a weekly online cartoon series by Mike Hermans, an Antwerp-based architect-cartoonist, that follows Archibald through the struggles architects know all-too-well: uncooperative models, angry clients, and periodic encounters with Tarzan, the jungle king. Archibald is a self-professed “visionary and romantic dreamer,” while his business partner Gerald is the anti-creative in a constant struggle to ground Archibald’s ideas in reality (hint: it doesn’t go well). In “arch.” study models have lives of their own, resisting modifications by the architect in favour of their own changes while meddlesome interns and junior architects attempt their own project modifications. Frank Gehry even makes a cameo appearance.
Watch the mini-series in full after the break

Dar Mim / Septembre Architecture

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Architects: Septembre Architecture
Location: Hammamet,
Project Manager: Memila Belkaid
Assistant Architects: Emilia Jansson, Sami Aloulou, Dounia Hamdouch, Lina lagerstrom,
Year: 2014
Photographs: Sophia Baraket

Loft B / Tomas Ghisellini Architects

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Architects: Tomas Ghisellini Architects
Location: , ,
Area: 270.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Tomas Ghisellini Architects

ZAC del Lilas Multi-Purpose Building / SCAPE

© Francesco Mattuzzi
Architects: SCAPE
Location: Porte des Lilas, 75019 , France
Area: 3800.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Francesco Mattuzzi

Dogok Office Remodeling / DIA Architecture

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Architects:
Location: 425 Dogok-dong, Gangnam-gu, , South Korea
Architect In Charge: Chung Hyuna
Design Team: Oh Seunghyun
Area: 941.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Kyungsub Shin, Courtesy of DIA Architecture

Macquarie University Social Learning Space / Bennett and Trimble

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Architects: Bennett and Trimble
Location: Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
Architects In Charge: Marcus Trimble, Matthew Bennett
Collaborator: Cameron Burbidge
Year: 2013
Photographs: Peter Bennetts

Building a Campus Integration of Embedded Systems / Christophe Bidaud Architecture

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Architects: Christophe Bidaud Architecture
Location: ,
Area: 3880.0 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Christophe Bidaud Architecture

“Insectarium Metamorphosis” Takes First Place in Montréal’s Space for Life Competition

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Kuehn Malvezzi, Pelletier De Fontenay, Jodoin Lamarre Pratte, Dupras Ledoux, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (NCK) have won one of three first place positions in Montréal’s Space for Life International Architectural Competition, which seeks to reinvent mankind’s relationship with the natural world for the city’s 375th birthday, with their proposal for the redesign of the Montréal Insectarium. Titled Insectarium Metamorphosis, the project provides new spaces for visitors to get up close and personal with the multitude of insects housed in the museum.

Timber Frame House / A-ZERO architects

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Architects: A-ZERO architects
Location: , , Central Bedfordshire LU7, UK
Year: 2014
Photographs: James Whitaker

1024’s “Vortex” Installation Unites Environmental Analysis and Art

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Paris-based firm 1024 architecture has created Vortex, a generative light sculpture located within the Darwin Ecosystem Project’s green building in Bordeaux, . The “architectural fragment” consists of scaffolding, raw wood, and twelve lines of LED light. With colored LED lights appearing to shoot across the structure, a new spatial experience is created, which also informs viewers about energy consumption within the building.
Learn more about the structure and 1024 architecture after the break.
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