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Casa Kike is a private house constructed in Costa Rica from locally sourced timber by local builders. Its simple form belies the complexity of the geometry and the exposed timber skeleton provides the structural stabilty.
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The House at Clonakilty is a private residence near Cork in Ireland on the site of an old lifeboat keeper's cottage and boat house. The new house retained and refurbished both of these existing buildings and added a new wing. The roof of the new wing folds out of the ground at the rear and cantilevers dramatically over the beach.
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The Sitooterie is an unusual gazebo (sitooterie being a Scots word for somewhere to "sit oot in") consisting of a 2.4m aluminium cube from which over 4000 aluminium tubes protrude. The whole structure is supported on 324 tubes that hit the ground. An unusual feature of its construction is that there is no welding or bolts in the entire structure; the cube and all rods are entirely glued together.
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The Casa da Musica is a concert hall in Porto, Portugal built to commemorate Porto's status as European City of Culture in 2001. The irregular facetted form is constructed from white concrete which is left exposed and the main auditorium pierces the building completely with glazed walls at each end.
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Situated on a carpet of blue tiles made from recycled glass, the benches peel back from the surface to reveal a void of fluorescent lights underneath the carpet. The benches were engineered to maintain the very slender profile common to other parts of the Blue Carpet project but still resist all manner of demanding loads.
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The headquarters of the Saga company near Folkestone consist of a 6 storey steel and glass office building and a fabric roofed amenity building with restaurant and creche facilities. Toby Maclean was the Resident Engineer on site during the construction.
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This pair of roundabouts was commissioned by Barking and Dagenham council as part of the A13 Artscape project, an international public art project. Designed to resemble the road surface pulled up into two peaks, they are constructed from sprayed concrete on a mesh supported on draped steel bars and stand 14m high.
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The refurbishment of Barking Town Hall included this barrel-vaulted glass floor in the entrance hall. Comprising sheets of glass packed vertically and spanning between steel beams that are profiled to follow the line of the vaults. Lights shone from the side illuminate the floor.
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Admiral Lord Nelson School in Hampshire is a 900 pupil secondary school designed with a central "street" and constructed from reinforced concrete.
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