Roomah: Takuya Hiromasa Mori and Hasokai House Kuro "in Fukui, Japan

Kuro is a strange house in Fukui, Japan, architects Takuya Hosokai and Hiromasa Mori.
It is a house with a wooden frame and leather finished in dark wood, hence its name, "Kuro," which means "black" in Japanese. The house is about 162 square meters on a fully landscaped plot in the style of traditional Japanese garden, 457 square meters.
Its construction ended last year, although the original design in 1980.

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Roomah: Schemata Architecture Office "63.02 ° House" in Tokyo

The name of this house of Schemata Architecture Office is the provision with respect to the street, whose main facade forms an angle of 63.02 ° with respect to this.

This built in Nakano, Tokyo, completed in December 2007, with an area of about 71.4 m 2

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Roomah: Ofis arhitekti "Jarovlaska Square" in Moscow

Ofis arhitekti, office of Slovenian architects have designed a complex, called Jarovlaska Square in Moscow, combining offices, homes, shopping areas, a hotel and a sports compleo.

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Roomah: Enertia Houses: Casas Geo-Solar

In Time magazine has described geo-solar homes as one of the best inventions of the past 2007 years.
These homes are heated with a system that respects the environment, geothermal energy use in summer and winter using solar energy. The heat of the walls is also used for radiant conditioning systems.

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Roomah: Emergency Care Center South / + Architects

The Emergency Care Center South - CAE SUR Concesionaria of the Central Motorway (urban motorway that crosses the city, from north to south at 60 km in length) contains the Offices of Personnel Security and Maintenance, Operation Center Traffic, parking Emergency Vehicle and Maintenance, and the wineries of the general program areas.

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Roomah: Juan de Dios Aldea School / García, eagle, and Arteaga Pedraza

The school is in a sector which still preserves agricultural land and in immediate connection with one of the most deprived populations in the metropolitan area. Is in the order of a confusing transition fabric, porous and formed by smaller units. Coping patterns of suburbanization of poverty is approached as unique and distinguished piece in the fabric, capable of giving meaning to the place.

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Roomah: Museo Soumaya / Fernando Romero - Laboratory of Architecture

At Platform we have published works of the new generation of Latin American architects who are giving that talk. Among these is a group of Mexican architects, who at one time worked together. Architects such as Fernando Romero, Tatiana Bilbao, Michel Rojkind Dellekamp and Derek have managed to position the world Mexican architecture, with a high level of experimentation, but with a strong influence on the local.

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Roomah: Bipolaire Architects "40 Housing for Youth" in Torrevieja

From the outset, the project of 40 houses for rent in Torrevieja couple was considered by the developer, the IVVSA as its pilot project sustainable. Wanted to understand the possibilities of housing VPO "sustainable" and added costs. Prior to the presentation of the first drawings of writing a report which explained the possible improvements to a standard dwelling, together with an estimate of costs. In this way, the developer had a document to decide where to invest in improving the quality and avoid unnecessary discussions and subsequent changes, as was going to be a learning process for both the developer for the construction and technical equipment.

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Roomah: A-Cero "Casa Santander"

Santander House is a shelter located in a sloping rectangular plot of about 2200 m2, overlooking the River Miera.

The design idea was to emphasize the views of the River Miera, oriented to the south. The slope of the terrain helped the provision of housing, resulting in a set of 3 volumes around a central core that is spread on the ground.

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Roomah: Oscar Niemeyer "The architect centennial"

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho is 100 years old on December 15. Better known in the world as Oscar Niemeyer, this genius of architecture celebrate its centenary in his home in Rio de Janeiro, with the family, which includes five grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren. But the main cities and some European, accompanied him in the celebrations, with tributes, including competitions in Portugal, exhibits of the island of Madeira to Switzerland, television programs and books of remembrance in Germany.

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Roomah: LOQ Kit prefabricated modular housing

LOQ Kit is a modular system for building houses, designed by architect Patrick FreeTar. It is a system of building houses that allows a variety of different combinations, and in turn gives the possibility to adjust the housing and expand, including adding or subtracting plants. Its mounting system means that we can disassemble and move it to another place they mounted again in the new location.

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Roomah: Construction: House in calle Colina Vista Hermosa / Smiljan Radic

In the commune of Las Condes in Santiago, Chile, a new building designed by architect Smiljan Radic. These are two houses out of concrete platforms, above the level of the ground, which has a slope that rises from the street. These trays, build a plane for home, patio and terrace with access to each house, containing a glass box that houses the public spaces on the first floor and bedrooms on the second. A second volume, clad in wood, leaves and perpendicular to the main volume contains the stairs and a veranda on the second floor. Under concrete trays are stored cars to street level.

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Roomah: Bicentennial Tower, Mexico City / OMA: The highest in Latin America

A few days of the Millennium Tower will probably be the highest tower Santiago, showing the Costanera Center, announcing that it would be the highest, but in South America. Not much to step out again relieved by a tower in Panama City or the announcement of the towers and BAF May in Buenos Aires. And so the race for height was installed in South America.

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Roomah: Steven Holl "Masterplan Hudson Yards in New York

Steven Holl has been submitted, on November 18, a city in Hudson Yards plan, ordering the former railway facilities in the Hudson River in Midtown New York. This plan was created as a result of the order made by Extell Development Company, presenting this proposal as one of five companies that were sponsoring the bidding of the project management.

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Roomah: Erick van Egeraat building the new Russia

Erick van Egeraat won the international competition for the National Library of Kasan, capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. The new National Library will have an area of 81,000 m2 and is located in the Plaza tukay in the south-east edge of downtown.

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Roomah: Under Construction: Building Thomas / Gonzalo Mardones V.

In the commune of Vitacura This site is under construction apartment building, designed by Gonzalo Mardones. It is a building of three stories high over a withdrawal, with a total of 7 departments. As noted in the memory of the building:

"The volume of the building acknowledges the limits of each department to the outside. Is shown as a composite made from the sum of distinct, full and empty windows, balconies, openings, beams, etc.. "

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Roomah: Nader Khalili "Adobe Houses Super Adobe" in California

Nader Khalili, Iranian by birth and Californian by adoption, not an architect of the pile. In the late seventies, at Cal-Earth, the organization he works for, he developed the 'super-adobe' ( 'superblock' in English), a construction technique based on sandbags and barbed wire, tested earthquake and tested by the authorities in California challenging.

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Roomah: Vacation house in the Rigi / AFGH

The building is located on the edge of the site, to maximize the distance to the neighbors and leave room for other construction. The basement of the concrete anchor block on the slope of the land and houses and access services. On this volume is a wooden house, which appears as a boat. This apartment faces east, protecting access.

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Roomah: Construction: Extension Faculty of Law University of Chile / Eliash, Moreno Marsino

In construction phase is the expansion of the Faculty of Law, University of Chile, by Humberto Eliash and Moreno Marsino Architects. The new building concludes a series of interventions performed on the original 1938 building, the architect Juan Martínez, such as the refurbishment of the library and made the Hall a few years ago.

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Roomah: Jean Prouvé's house auctioned

Jean Prouvé was considered by many as the pioneer in the prefabrication of houses. In 1951 (20 years before the tower Nagakin of Kurokawua) made this model, the Maison Tropicale, a prototype of the ideal home for the French colonies in Africa.

The auction house Christie's will make the sale at a price which is estimated between $ 4 and $ 6 million.

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