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*️⃣Rolex learning center Architect #SANAA City #Lausanne close to #Geneva Country #Switzerland #EU 🔤The spirit of the EPFL is based on the collaboration among universities, so eliminating the boundaries between them was one of the principles in this multipurpose space at the service of the whole university. In this way, the center favors impromptu gatherings in a context without designated itineraries. One of the most unique aspects of the building is the absence of physical boundaries. It is an unobstructed space, defined by its artificial geography. The separation between the different functions is based on the manipulation of the horizontal plane, lifting it or subtly reducing its height with undulations that delimit the different areas, emphasizing the sensation of openness and transparency. In this way, the silence zones are grouped together and separated from the rest by changes in height. 🔤 Material #rawconcrete Function #public #library Feature #interior Address: École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Rte Cantonale, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland ©️ pics by #IwanBaan text by arquitecturaviva.com ❤️Boost *simoderna for free

*️⃣AZULIK City of arts Architect #Roth City #FranciscoUhMay close to #Tulum Country #Mexico #NA 🔤The centerpiece of The City of Arts's set, within a 10-acre creative complex, offers a space to explore the relationship between nature, art, and ancestry. An example of biomorphic architecture, the museum integrates its surroundings, serving as a shared habitat for flora, fauna, and contemporary design. #context@simoderna Developed organically without plans to foster creativity, it uses native bejuco vines treated manually by local bejuqueros to achieve organic shapes. Throughout the process, Mayan workers contributed their ancestral knowledge about materials and types of construction. Thanks to that, it was possible to avoid the use of heavy machinery. #sustainability@simoderna 🔤 Material #wood and #rawconcrete Function #mixeduse #public #museum #hospitality #restaurant Feature #interior Address: Grulla 23, 77796 Francisco Uh May, Q.R., Mexico ©️ pics by enchantingtransformation.org and azulik.com text by Enchanting Transformation, sferik.art and azulik.com 🌐Find any building fast and easy with *simoderna google map

*️⃣Kioi Seido Architect #Naito #HiroshiNaito City #Tokyo Country #Japan #AP 🔤Designed by Hiroshi Naito for the Japanese RINRI Institute of Ethics, and completed in 2021, Kioi Seido was designed with 'no particular purpose'. The brief from the client was that “The functions will be considered according to what has been done, so please design as you like." According to a statement by Naito, “My client’s only order was that I think about the Jomon — a prehistoric era of Japanese history, known for its mysterious clay figurines, knotted-rope pottery and an aesthetic that feels both ancient and strangely abstract. “Neither the purpose nor the function of the Pantheon is well understood,” reads Naito’s statement. “If the question was to be purposeless, I wanted to build a modern Pantheon.” 🔤 Material #rawconcrete and #wood Function #public #museum (but often closed) Feature #interior Address: 3-3 Kioicho, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-0094, Japan ©️ pics by Fuminari Yoshitsugu, @top_locations_world and #LukeDavid text by architectureprize.com, tokyoweekender.com and 🕯Thanks to this list you can see which countries are richer in architects.

*️⃣Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Architect #Neutelings #Riedijk #NeutelingsRiedijk #NRA City #Hilversum Country #Netherlands #EU 🔤The colorful façade is a screen of glass panels designed by Jaap Drupsteen that depict historical stills of Dutch television in relief. Together they form a single, new image in which the colors intermingle like a watercolor solidified in glass, a monumental portrayal of Dutch collective memory. A silver-colored exhibition volume floats like an inverted ziggurat above the canyon. The empty space between the ziggurat and the canyon forms a large public atrium for media events and award presentations. The Dutch national radio and television archives are stored underground in naturally climate-controlled depots grouped around a canyon, much like a large, five-level subterranean necropolis. 🔤 Colour #mixed and #metallic Material #glass and #aluminium Function #public #museum Feature #interior Address: Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum, Netherlands ©️ pics by #Scagliola text by architects 🌐Dou you travel? Find the best cities to visit on *simoderna google map

*️⃣Shenzhen Bay Cultural Plaza Architect #MAD City #Shenzhen Country #China #AP 🔤"Situated between the CBD of a modern, international metropolis and nature, our primary consideration was to create a public civic space where everyone can enjoy the city's precious bay resources." "Architecture should be integrated into nature and become a landscape that can be experienced." – Ma Yansong. #quote@simoderna Shenzhen Bay Cultural Plaza is located at the heart of this international bird corridor. Therefore, ecological conservation was prioritized from the outset of the design, with extensive planting of native vegetation to recreate intertidal feeding areas and habitats for passing birds. #sustainability@simoderna Furthermore, a pedestrian- and vehicle-separated slow-moving network will allow people to traverse the cultural precinct freely and safely, avoiding traffic interference and enjoying public experience. 🔤 Colour #white Material #stone Function #mixeduse #public #park #entertainment #venue Feature #greenery Address: GW8R+23X Nanshan, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China ©️ pics by #YumengZhu and #ZhangChao text by architects hashtag of the day #mixeduse@simoderna

*️⃣ZILart museum Architect #SPEECH City #Moscow Country #Russia #EU part 🔤The architecture of the building deliberately draws on the industrial aesthetic historically associated with the former ZIL factory. The museum’s exterior takes the form of a cubic volume wrapped in a continuous trapezoidal lattice structure, clad with copper cassettes. #context@simoderna Particular attention is given to the large-scale entrance hall. With a height of 30 meters, #copper panel finishes, and artworks by contemporary street artists, the atrium becomes a visually striking space. All levels of the museum are oriented toward this central volume, allowing visitors to intuitively understand the building’s layout and navigate it with ease. 🔤 Colour #bronzen Function #public #museum Feature #interior #nightlight Address: 55.6970331, 37.6393070 ©️ pics by #DanielAnnenkov text by architects hashtag of the day #bronzen@simoderna

*️⃣Naturalis Biodiversity Center Architect #Neutelings #Riedijk #NeutelingsRiedijk City #Leiden Country #Netherlands #EU 🔤The design of the atrium consists of a three-dimensional concrete structure in the form of interlocking molecules as a lace of ovals, triangles and hexagons. The filtered light that enters through the circular windows as a ‘glass crown’ where scientists, staff, students and families meet, reinforcing the monumentality of the space. The layers of stones are interrupted by friezes of white, concrete elements designed by Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen. Invited by Neutelings Riedijk Architects, she designed a total of 263 panels, inspired by the natural shapes of the collection which seem to be smooth as silk, thanks to a special technique developed for Naturalis. 🔤 Colour #white Material #concrete Function #public #museum Feature #interior Address: Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, Netherlands Google street Upper level GS Terrace GS ©️ pics by #Scagliola text by architects 🔍Filters of the archive to use the channel at its full potential

*️⃣Bourse de Commerce Architect #Ando #TadaoAndo City #Paris Country #France #EU 🔤Tadao Ando was tasked with giving the building a new lease of life as an art museum without altering the existing structure. #renovation@simoderna Ando decided to work with the existing shape of the building to create an internal gallery without disturbing the historic fabric of the building. #heritage@simoderna "I sought to set up a vibrant space appropriate for a venue for contemporary art by inserting, in a respectful manner, a new space within the old walls etched with the memories of the city". Ando’s boldest architectural gesture is the #rawconcrete cylinder that he has inserted within the rotunda. The concrete structure forms a round exhibition space whose minimalist aesthetic initiates a dialogue with the grandiose glass dome and monumental 360-degree mural hovering above. 🔤 Function #public #museum Feature #interior #adminvisited Address: 2 Rue de Viarmes, 75001 Paris, France ©️ pics by #CyrilleWeiner text by Dezeen and yatzer.com put 📍 reaction if you have visited the place

*️⃣Luce Memorial Chapel Architect #Pei #IMPei and #ChenChiKwan #ChiKwan (Chi-Kwan) City #Taichung Country #Taiwan #AP 🔤The chapel was first conceived as a multi-planar, wooden structure, but the architects soon abandoned the idea of using wood due both to the humid environment and to seismic concerns. The chapel's planes are composed of lattice beams that gradually grow thicker as they descend. The exterior of the chapel is covered with yellow, glazed, diamond-shaped tiles echoing the diamond-shaped coffer beams on the building's interior. The walls seem to stand independently of each other, but are actually connected by glazed slots and by small structural bow ties that are cast into the high ridge beams at the top near the ceiling. 🔤 Material #rawconcrete Function #religious Feature #interior #retro Address: 407, Taiwan, Taichung City, Xitun District, 台灣大道四段1727號 Google street Night time outside GS Outside GS Google earth ©️ pics by #GunnerGu and #TrevorPatt text by Wikipedia and Archdaily hashtag of the day #religious@simoderna

*️⃣Ascensor Halo Architect #AM2 and #NOARQ City #Vigo Country #Spain #EU 🔤Human beings have always been fascinated by observing the horizon. “Halo” is an answer to the right questions, an icon and a sculpture. More important than an answer, it is a right question, and the questions were clear: can we intervene without blinding the views of the central atrium of the new intermodal station? Having asked the relevant questions, the answer is simply unavoidable, yes. The northern route along the entire outer face is enclosed. The translucency of the outer surface ensures privacy for those living in the buildings on García Barbón. As for the material makeup of this urban piece, the slabs and profiles of the structure are clad in #white plates of lacquered #steel, concealing the steel and concrete structures. 🔤 Function #transportation #bridge #public #observation Address: Rúa Serafín Avendaño, Santiago de Vigo, 36201 Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain ©️ pics by #JoaoMorgado and architects text by architects and ArquitecturaViva put ✅ reaction on your favorite projects

*️⃣La Muralla Roja Architect #RicardoBofill #Bofill #RBTA City #Calp close to #Benidorm Country #Spain #EU 🔤The building makes clear references to the popular architecture of the Arab Mediterranean Area, a result of the architects' inspiration by the Mediterranean tradition of the casbah. The striking colors that cover the outer and inner facades are selected to either contrast with nature or complement its purity. Formed like a fortress, the project appears as if it is emerging from the rocky cliffs it sits on. Its organization challenges the increasing division between public and private space through its reinterpretation of the casbah, which is the walled citadel typical of traditional architecture in North African countries. Characterized by a series of interlocking stairs, platforms, and bridges, this organization is a modern illustration of the circulation in a typical casbah, providing access to the 50 apartments that form La Muralla Roja. In the words of Taller de Arquitectura , "the geometric basis of the layout is also an approximation of the theories of constructivism, and makes La Muralla Roja a very clear evocation of these." 🔤 Colour #mixed #blue #pink Material #concrete Function #residential Feature #retro Address: Partida Manzanera, 3, 03710 Calp, Alicante, Spain Aerial google street Pool google street Entrance google street Google earth ©️ pics by #Karanikolov and Pinterest text by Archdaily 🎬#bonus@simoderna (Squid Game show scenes were inspired by this project)

*️⃣Shebara Resort Architect #KillaDesign City #RedSeaProject Country #SaudiArabia #ME 🔤Inspired by the natural formation of pearls in the sea, Shebara’s masterplan mirrors a delicate string of pearls, where each villa is positioned like a floating orb, suspended over the pristine waters of the Red Sea. #context@simoderna The villas, crafted from polished stainless #steel, reflect and refract the sky and sea, appearing to dissolve into the horizon. These orbs, delicately cantilevered over the water, give the impression of floating weightlessly, minimising their environmental footprint while maximising views and guest privacy. #cantilever@simoderna To preserve the fragile island ecosystem, all villas were entirely constructed, fitted out, and commissioned offshore allowing for a minimally invasive installation. #sustainability@simoderna 🔤 Colour #reflective Function #hospitality #hotel Feature #onwater Address: 7GQRCV69+J5 The Red Sea Destination, Res sea Saudi Arabia ©️ pics by #EmaPeter and Red Sea Project developer text by architects hashtag of the day #onwater@simoderna

*️⃣Teatro Regio (Turin) Architect #CarloMollino #Mollino City #Turin Country #Italy #EU 🔤In 1936, the Teatro Regio burned down. The fire destroyed everything except the facade. In 1965 the city administration proposed a new solution by entrusting the work to architect Carlo Mollino and engineer Marcello Zavelani Rossi. The work began in early September 1967 and was completed in the very first months of 1973. Mollino himself described his creation in this way: "Its shape froze somewhere halfway between the egg and the half-open oyster shell." The Teatro Regio was completed in the year of Carlo Mollino's death. But the architect managed to visit the new building at the 1st performance. 🔤 Colour #red Material #wood Function #entertainment #theatre Feature #retro #interior Address: Plaza Castello, 215, 10124 Torino TO, Italy Google street #BestGS@simoderna🔥 Google Earth ©️ pics by #DeimelWittmar and Pinterest text by teatroregio.torino.it 🌐Find any building fast and easy with *simoderna google map

*️⃣Teatro Regio (Turin) Architect #CarloMollino #Mollino City #Turin Country #Italy #EU 🔤In 1936, the Teatro Regio burned down. The fire destroyed everything except the facade. In 1965 the city administration proposed a new solution by entrusting the work to architect Carlo Mollino and engineer Marcello Zavelani Rossi. The work began in early September 1967 and was completed in the very first months of 1973. Mollino himself described his creation in this way: "Its shape froze somewhere halfway between the egg and the half-open oyster shell." The Teatro Regio was completed in the year of Carlo Mollino's death. But the architect managed to visit the new building at the 1st performance. 🔤 Colour #red Material #wood Function #entertainment #theatre Feature #retro #interior Address: Plaza Castello, 215, 10124 Torino TO, Italy Google street #BestGS@simoderna🔥 Google Earth ©️ pics by #DeimelWittmar and Pinterest text by teatroregio.torino.it 🌐Find any building fast and easy with *simoderna google map

*️⃣Nanoco Head Office Architect #VTN Architects #VTNA City #HoChiMinh #HCMC Country #Vietnam #AP 🔤The façade functions as a filter, optimizing the microclimate and light conditions. During daytime, it diffuses direct sunlight, maintaining an ideal luminous environment for the interior. On the contrary, at night, the exterior resembles a lantern with illuminating quality. #nightlight@simoderna The thick-glazed glass blocks reduce thermal transmission, which reduce more energy consumption comparing to a typical glazed facade. #sustainability@simoderna In the center of Ho Chi Minh City, the green coverage ratio is only 0.25%, which is remarkably low in comparison to other Asian metropolitans. This lack of greenery is affecting people’s everyday life. So the building was formed by alternately stacking glass boxes, creating terraces through shifted edges of the box to accommodate trees which will provide a tranquil ambiance. #greenery@simoderna 🔤 Material #glassbrick Function #office Address: 677 Đ. Điện Biên Phủ, Phường 25, Bình Thạnh, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam Google street ©️ pics by #HiroyukiOki text by architects

*️⃣Akita international university library Architect #Senda #MitsuruSenda City #Akita Country #Japan #AP 🔤Treating books as the collective knowledge of the past, the design is based on a coliseum, with an amphitheatre built from local cedar wood creating an incredible stage for students and their chosen texts. Like an unfurled summer parasol, the roof is left uncovered, with each wooden beam exposed to form an intricate pattern above. While the option of working 24-hours a day throughout the year may seem stress-inducing, the calm and natural atmosphere of the library, created by the cedar and natural shape, avoids this entirely 🔤 Material #wood Function #public #library Feature #interior Address: Okutsubakidai-193-2 Yuwatsubakigawa, Akita, 010-1211, Japan ©️ pics by #umestagram and Akita international university text by rethinktokyo.com 🌐Try *simoderna google map absolutely for free. And get a full access just for 2$

*️⃣Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption Architect #Nervi #PierLuigiNervi and #Belluschi #PietroBelluschi City #SanFrancisco Country #USA #NA 🔤The cathedral is organized on a square plan. From this geometric clarity, the building rises dramatically into a hyperbolic paraboloid roof form that soars 60m above the ground. The geometry conveys a sense of both stability and transcendence: the square anchors the structure to the earth, while the sweeping roof gestures toward the heavens. At the roof’s apex, a cross-shaped skylight draws daylight into the interior, illuminating the altar at the center of the liturgical space. This compositional move encapsulates the post–Vatican II emphasis on collective worship. The light is not decorative but structural to the experience of space, shaping the perception of volume and material with an almost liturgical rhythm. 🔤 Material #rawconcrete Function #religious Feature #retro #interior Address: 1111 Gough St, San Francisco, CA 94109, United States ©️ pics by #they_lost_i_found text by Archeyes hashtag of the day #retro@simoderna

*️⃣Coffee & Tree + Canopy Architect #SelgasCano City #Rizhao Country #China #AP 🔤Wiggling through a phalanx of mid-rise housing blocks, a covered walkway and attached café serve as a colorful antidote to the regimented architecture all around it. The project goal was to enliven the housing blocks and create visual connections. The contrast to the red-brick, residential monoliths could not be starker. A high-energy jolt of architectural exuberance, the walkway and café projects entice residents to come and relax. Bisecting the property, they serve as common ground for kids, parents, and seniors. They’re both a line and a hub. And they do all this by balancing the needs for both standing out and fitting in, especially with nature. “The most important part of the project is the landscape,” says Selgas. Whether you’re on the walkway or in the café, you’re always surrounded by trees and plantings. “On most projects, landscaping is the last thing considered and the first to get cut. Not here.” #greenery@simoderna 🔤 Colour #yellow Material #steel Function #public #community Feature #nighlight Address: 35.6474968, 119.4763690 ©️ pics by #ArchExist text by architecturalrecord.com hashtag of the day #community@simoderna

*️⃣CaixaForum Architect #HerzogdeMeuron #HdM #Herzog #Meuron City #Madrid Country #Spain #EU 🔤 CaixaForum is conceived as an urban magnet attracting not only art-lovers but all people of Madrid and from outside. The attraction will not only be CaixaForum’s cultural program, but also the building itself, insofar that its heavy mass, is detached from the ground in apparent defiance of the laws of gravity and, in a real sense, draws the visitors inside. The classified brick walls of the former power station are reminiscences of the early industrial age in Madrid. The only material of the old power station that we wanted to save was the classified brick shell. This opened a completely novel and spectacular perspective. The removal of the base of the building left a covered plaza under the brick shell, which now appears to float above the street level. This sheltered space under the CaixaForum offers shade to visitors. #heritage@simoderna 🔤 Material #steel #corten Function #public #museum Feature #greenery Address: P.º del Prado, 36, Centro, 28014 Madrid, Spain ©️ pics by #IwanBaan, Iñigo Aguirre text by architects put 📍 reaction if you have visited the place

*️⃣Sanctuary of Our Lady of Tears Architect #ANPAR or #Andrault #MichelAndrault and #Parat #PierreParat City #Syracuse Country #Italy #EU 🔤In the architects' intention, the shape is meant to symbolize the elevation of humanity towards God. Nonetheless, in time, the morphology of the building was infused with additional religious meaning, being read as a lighthouse guiding devotees towards divinity, or a teardrop, in connection to the sacred event that led to the erection of the church. Pierre Parat would say many years later:

"I like the architecture that reveals itself, that is honest, I don't like gimmicks and ornament".

#quote@simoderna The concrete structure reaches a height of 94,3m and a statue reproducing the image of the crying effigy sits at the top of the Sanctuary. The dome's structure is made of an array of 22 #rawconcrete ribs horizontally connected through eight pre-tensed rings. Vertical window strips alternate the structure's rhythm, giving the impression of light beams coming down towards the sitting area of the Sanctuary. 🔤 Function #religious Feature #retro Address: Via del Santuario, 33, 96100 Siracusa SR, Italy ©️ pics by #WeAreContents text by Archdaily hashtag of the day #quote@simoderna