Year: 1968

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La Pyramide

As a counter concept to buildings in the International Style of the day also found on the Ivory Coast, which were not really best suited to the local climate with their sealed glass façades, Olivieri conceived the market-like shopping mall with an open…

Civic Center Garath / St. Matthäus

For this project which consists of a church, chapel and retirement home, Böhm combined concrete and brick into a sculptural composition, playfully citing archetypal elements of medieval castle architecture: The retirement home, which surrounds the chur…

Norrköpings Stadsbibliotek (City Library)

The building was drawn by Swedish architect Sten Samuelson who was personaly aquinted with Louis Kahn. Some design choices that proved to be inflexible were met with initial criticism from the staff of librarians. The library is among the bigger in Swed…

Westrand Cultural Center

Alphonse Hoppenbrouwers was a postmodern architect in the eighties and nineties in Belgium. Influenced by the architects De Sijn and Le Corbusier, he paid strong attention to the real needs of people, building public buildings such as schools, cultural …

Center of Home Design (D?m bytové kultury – DBK)

Quite unusually for a project built in a communist country, this house’s design was implemented without a preceding competition and was appointed directly to the Machonins by the owner of the biggest furniture company. Here the Machonins first used…

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