Tonkin Liu reveals tapering tower complex for Zhengzhou
London-based architecture firm Tonkin Liu has revealed its plans for a family of fritted-glass skyscrapers, which will be arranged around a central plaza in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou. More
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Vancouver university building by KPMB and HCMA features fritted glass and rough-sawn cedar
Canadian studios KPMB Architects and HCMA Architecture + Design have completed an alumni centre for the University of British Columbia with angled, fritted-glass facades that "change dramatically from day to night" (+ slideshow). More
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WHY expands Louisville's Speed Art Museum with a corrugated metal facade
Los Angeles architecture firm wHY has completed an expansion of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, featuring facades of fritted glass and corrugated metal panels. More
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Fritted glass creates patterned facade for Ryerson University student centre by Snøhetta
Snøhetta has completed a student centre for Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, featuring chamfered edges and a patterned glass facade (+ slideshow). More
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White Block Gallery by SsD features fritted glass designed to evoke morning fog
The windows of this art gallery in South Korea's Paju district are fritted with a pattern that regulates views of the interior, and creates the illusion of fog around the edges of the building (+ slideshow). More
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Krueck + Sexton surrounds the FBI's South Florida headquarters with a natural moat
Krueck + Sexton Architects has designed a glazed office building in the Florida everglades for the FBI, using restored wetlands to create "a beautiful moat" for security (+ slideshow). More
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Gianni Botsford sinks "invisible" extension into the garden of a London house
Gianni Botsford Architects has added a subtle extension to a London townhouse, which is partly submerged in the garden and has transparent walls to help camouflage it from sight (+ slideshow). More
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Rounded glass facades improve views from Wiel Arets' water-traffic control centre
Dutch firm Wiel Arets Architects has completed a water-traffic control centre in the town of Maasbracht with a curved glass upper storey that offers panoramic views over the surrounding waterways (+ slideshow). More
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Allianz Headquarters by Wiel Arets features glass fritted to reference Mies' Barcelona Pavilion
Dutch firm Wiel Arets Architects applied an intricate fritting technique to the glazed facade of this office complex in Zurich to give it the appearance of onyx marble (+ slideshow). More
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Wiel Arets completes college campus in Rotterdam's Hoogvliet district
Dutch firm Wiel Arets Architects has completed an academic campus in Rotterdam's Hoogvliet district comprising six concrete and glass buildings with subtle surface patterns designed to resemble ivy (+ slideshow). More
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Wiel Arets completes a glazed house for a vintage car collector
A collection of vintage Aston Martins can be glimpsed through the fritted glass facade of this house in Maastricht, the Netherlands, by Dutch studio Wiel Arets Architects. More
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Far Rockaway Branch Library by Snøhetta
Architecture studio Snøhetta of Oslo and New York has revealed designs for a community library in Queens, New York, with a shimmering golden exterior and a triangular entrance at one corner. More
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James B. Hunt Jr. Library by Snøhetta
Architecture firm Snøhetta has completed a library at North Carolina State University that features a robotic book retrieval system and a 3D printing workshop (+ slideshow). More
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Glass Farm by MVRDV
This shop and office complex by Dutch architects MVRDV is disguised as an old farmhouse, but its walls and roof are actually made from glass. More
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Talleres de Diseño by Shine Architecture and TA Arquitectura
Mexican firms Shine Architecture and TA Arquitectura have converted an unused building at the Monterrey Institute of Technology's León campus into a 24-hour studio for art and design students (+ slideshow). More
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Astrup Fearnley Museet by Renzo Piano Building Workshop
This art museum by architect Renzo Piano straddles a canal in Oslo's harbour (+ slideshow). More
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Photographer's Studio over a boat house on Stoney Lake by GH3
Slideshow: this glass pavilion on the edge of a lake in Ontario, Canada, houses a studio, apartment and boathouse for a photographer and was designed by Toronto Studio GH3. More
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Mitikah Office Tower by Richard Meier & Partners
American architects Richard Meier & Partners have unveiled designs for a 34-storey tower in Mexico City. More
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Yotel New York by Softroom and Rockwell Group
Hotel brand Yotel have opened a flagship branch in New York's Times Square, where visitors check in at computerised kiosks while their luggage is stored or retrieved by a giant robotic arm. More
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Icelandic Institute of Natural History by ArkÃs
Architects Bjorn Gudbrandsson and Egill Guðmundsson of Reykjavik firm Arkís have completed the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. More
