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Solntsevo Metro Station / Nefa Architects

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Metro Station
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Moscow, Russia
  • Architects: Nefa Architects
    : Margarita Kornienko, Maria Tarasova
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  3935 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018

Wuzhou Urban Multi-fiction Center / XAA

Wuzhou Urban Multi-fiction Center / XAA - Cultural Center, Facade
Entrance Perspective View. Image © Changheng Zhan

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Exhibition center, Cultural Center
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Wutong, China

The Shadow House / Nic Owen Architects

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Houses, Extension
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Australia
  • Architects: Nic Owen Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  127 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Fisher & Paykel, Miele, Roca, Acor, Capral, +5

Second Stage of Hangzhou Cloud Town Exhibition Center / Approach Design (ZUP)

Second Stage of Hangzhou Cloud Town Exhibition Center / Approach Design (ZUP) - Sports Field, Cityscape
Aerial view of second-stage. Image © Lianping Mao

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Sports Architecture, gymnasium, sports field
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Hangzhou , China
  • Architects: Approach Design (ZUP)
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  66680 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018

The Renovation of Dondon / FATTSTUDIO

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Restaurant
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Thailand
  • Architects: FATTSTUDIO
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  210 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Anaheim materials, Trueconnection, Truelight

Casa Piedra Blanca / Pablo Lobos Pedrals, Angelo Petrucelli

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Houses
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Penalolen, Chile
  • Architects: Pablo Lobos Pedrals, Angelo Petrucelli
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  110 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Arauco, Cintac®, Quimica Universal, Volcan

Rehabilitation in Manoteras / Estudio Bher Arquitectos

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Renovation, Residential
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Spain
  • Architects: Estudio Bher Arquitectos
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Baumit, ITALFIM, Mármoles Ruiz, Perfial + Termiglass, Persianas Asensi, +1

Miraie Lext House Nagoya / Kengo Kuma & Associates

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Hospitality Architecture
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Japan

Paul Street / Stiff + Trevillion

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Mixed Use Architecture, Renovation
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London, United Kingdom
  • Architects: Stiff + Trevillion
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  4028 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2017

Diósgyőr Stadium / KÖZTI Architects

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Soccer stadium
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Miskolc, Hungary
  • Architects: KÖZTI Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  7360 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  FERROBETON, FRATELLI MARIANI S. p. A., Gerflor, KÉSZ Goup International, Nowy Styl Group
  • Professionals: MARKET Építő Zrt.

House Behind The Roof / Superhelix Pracownia Projektowa

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Houses, Sustainability & Green Design
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Poland
  • Architects: Superhelix Pracownia Projektowa
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  189 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Wienerberger, Brimat, Fermacell, PREFA, Zinco

The House with Two Lives / nabil gholam architects

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Houses
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Ghābat Būlūnyā, Lebanon

Jenkins Street / C.Kairouz Architects

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Huntingtower / Workroom

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House TP / dmvA

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Houses
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Mechelen, Belgium
  • Architects: dmvA
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  90 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2017

The Conservatory / Nadine Engelbrecht

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Houses, House Interiors
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Zwavelpoort, South Africa

Return Café / Atelier FANZHENG

Return Café / Atelier FANZHENG - Coffee Shop, Deck, Facade, Lighting
Night View. Image Courtesy of Atelier FANZHENG

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Coffee Shop
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Xiamen, China
  • Architects: Atelier FANZHENG
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  120 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018

AD Classics: Montreal Biosphere / Buckminster Fuller

This article was originally published on November 25, 2014. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.

Architects have never enjoyed a position of such supreme prominence as they did in the worldview of Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller. To him, architects alone were capable of understanding and navigating the complex interrelationships of society, technology, and environment as viewed through the comprehensive paradigm of systems theory. Architecture, in this model, was intended to exist in close contact with both mankind and nature, playing civilization’s most critical role in elevating the state of humanity and promoting its responsible stewardship of the environment. Emerging from the ethical positivity of postwar modernism, this melioristic perspective marks perhaps the zenith of optimism’s ascent in mid-twentieth century thought, and gave Fuller a uniquely moral blueprint for his revolutionary designs.

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