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Library Gabriel García Márquez in Barcelona, Spain.
This is a unique district library, located in a dense urban node of the city of Barcelona, which is presented as a sculptural volume inspired by stacked blocks of books and seated on a square slightly elevated above the street and whose large gaps and voids dialogue with the environment. The access arcade extends the…
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Wellness Retreat in Habarana, Sri Lanka.
Located in Habarana, a hot, dry region of Sri Lanka, near the beauty of the majestic Sigiriya landscape citadel with its boulder and water gardens and on the edge of the bio-diverse Habarana Lake. Set on a 4.6 acre site surrounded by a rangeland forest and edged by a steam, this property is an eight-room…
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Disentis monastery girls’ boarding school , Disentis-Mustér,Switzerland
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Gasthaus am Brunnen in Valendas, Switzerland.
The brief for this guesthouse project consisted of the renovation of an old building in the central square of Valendas and the construction of a new annex over the ruins of an adjacent stable, now derelict and unusable. The project basically includes a community functions room, a gourmet restaurant and eight guest rooms. The new wing not only…
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Dwellings in Valendas, Switzerland.
The free-standing house is the focus of growing criticism in the context of a planet threatened by climate change and other ecological imbalances. The problem is that free-standing homes consume too many resources, and Valendas, a small village on the right bank of the Rhine Gorge, thinks that is no longer acceptable. The village wanted an alternative form…
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