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Architects: JVR Arhitektuuribüroo
Location: Pärnu, Estonia
Architect in charge: Kalle Vellevoog
Collaborator: Margus Tamm
Construction Year: 2005-2007
Constructed area: 4,565 sqm
Architect Homepage: www.jvr.ee
This guest house apartment building is located at the edge of the Waterfront Park, in a transitional zone between a health-spa complex and a block of single-family houses (designed by Kalle Vellevoog in 2000-2003).
The 47 APARTMENTS are primarily [...]

Project: 14 Apartments for Elderly People
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
Client: Housing Corporation ‘Stichting Volshuisvesting’
Project scale:M
Site area: 1′200 m2
Total floor space: 980 m2
Partner in charge: Rianne Makkink, Rients Dijkstra
Team leader: Rene Sangers
Team: Peter Hersbach, Jo Taillieu, Harm te Velde
Architect Homepage: www.maxwan.com
The surrounding neighbourhood consists of conventional housing blocks with total separation between the formal, public architectural side (street) [...]

Architect: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
Location: Silkeborg, Denmark
Engeneering: The DAI Group
Contractor: SKANSKA Danmark A/S
Project Year: 2005
Construction Year: 2006-2007
Constructed Area: 3,700 sqm
Architect Homepage:www.shl.dk
Performers’ House is a modern version of a Danish folk high school. With its exceptional scope and a unique cross cultural international environment, the school offers the best opportunities to develop young creative talent. Spacious [...]

This urban villa domus malles is residential project designed by architects Andrea Boscietti Alberto Francini and Enzo Fontana from Metrogramma. The urban villa domus malles is 14 Apartments residential block located in Bolzano, Italy and designed for Immobiliare Case and Dimore S.r.l.

This is not a simple residential building but a complex which aims to add [...]

Project: Student Residence of the future. 107 hostel residences with common functions. Total consulting services. Best project in international closed architecture competition.
Client: Bikubens Kollegiefond
Architect: aart a/s
Landscape architect: aart a/s
Engineer: Rambøll
Address: Njalsgade, Ørestad North, Copenhagen
Year: 2003-06
Total Area: Approx. 7,000m2
Status: Built
Loneliness and lack of social relations are major problems for many students. Bikuben student residence provides the [...]