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New School University Center, New York, USA
Quickly rising on the corner of 14th Street and 5th Avenue in Manhattan, this new, multipurpose facility will soon become the “heart” of The New School – an avant-garde university in New York City. The University Center, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), combines all aspects of a traditional campus into a single, 16-story building, offering 200,000 square feet of academic space on the first seven floors and 150,000 square feet for a 600-bed dormitory on the levels above. >>>
Posted by: 3D-Archive | 14/01/2013 04:51 Comment this (0)
Can Bisa House, Barcelona, Spain
Situated on the Riera de Cabrils watercourse, it occupies part of a street block that used to include a factory, now demolished. Its historic and heritage value and the strategic position it occupies in the town as a whole led the Council to consider it the ideal venue for a cultural facility, completing the complex with a social housing block.
The aim of the project was to unify the volumes by means of a single sloping roof, construct a continuous facade onto the streets, leading to the dwellings, and lay out the interior volume to encourage interrelation with the mansion. >>>
Posted by: 3D-Archive | 11/01/2013 18:15 Comment this (0)