The Neven DuMont building in Cologne - functional creativity along classic lines
Behind a free-standing 150 m long and 25 m high glass acoustic barrier extends the shell of the press and publishing centre: two 5-storey office wings of classic "U" arrangement connected by a green-planted atrium.
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Basking in the highest of grand luxury, with DORMA wherever you look
New landmark: The Fairmont DubaiA new 36-storey building - a hotel, residential and office complex - spectacularly dominates the skyline of Dubai.
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Multi-sensual oasis in the centre of Hamburg
The ideas of three creative minds have been harmoniously combined in a new designer hotel of the five-star category - the Hamburg SIDE.
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26,000m2 of botanical gardens under giant biomorphic bubbles
The Eden Project enables visitors to experience at first hand both the biological variety that exists in global terms, and the significance of the plant world for human existence.
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The request of the client for the provision of maximum flexibility in the conference and meeting rooms of the LVA's (State Social Insurance Agency) newly constructed administration building in the town of Halle (Germany) was duly satisfied by DORMA Hüppe.
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Heidelberg architects Rolf Schütte and Gerhard Beiler had an unusual and interesting brief. The new community centre of the "Lutherkirche" (Lutheran church) was to be directly linked to the church building while at the same time allowing flexible utilisation of the spaces provided.
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Good thinking Hall 3 at the Frankfurt Exhibition Centre sets new standardsTrade fair visitors often find themselves in the same position as battery hens too much noise, too little space and artificial light in cramped conditions.
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Olympia got the metropolis movingAthens pluspoints as the Olympic venue owe little to its urban disadvantages: smog, noise and traffic in the Greek capital are notorious, in August especially.
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Does the new library bring the Bilbao effect to Alexandrina? It s another modern wonder of the world! remarks Ismail Serageldin. Like Frank O. Gehry s Guggenheim Museum in Spain, the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina, designed by Oslo s Snøhetta A.
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Crême de la crême: Swissôtel on the Kurfürstendamm, BerlinThe premier thoroughfare of Berlin s City West is able to offer visitors and revellers alike a number of new architectural masterpieces: the stylish sweep of the newKu damm-Eck by Meinhard von Gerkan (gmp) recreates something of the cosmopolitan sparkle of the Roaring Twenties.
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