On 1931 or in the pre-war period, Rockefeller Center began its operation to be the largest complex of amusement and privately owned business in America. With total 12 acre sites, there are 10 units that were constructed. The last unit was completed in 1940 and used for the National Cash Register Company offices. The Rockefeller Center was built on a busy block in New York, which is between 5^th - 6^th Avenues and 48^th - 51^st Streets.

The building process and development showed the popularity of skyscraper design during the pre-war period. It is fact that Rockefeller Center gives big contribution to the urban life because it can give access to both private and public activities; they all together are brought in the same scheme. The first building that was completed is the theatre of RKO motion pictures. It was designed by main architects Harrison Corbett, Hood McMurray and Fouilhoux. It was opened for the first time in 1932. It is a huge building with 3.500 seats and a big stage.

Up to today, the name of Rockefeller is still famous. However, not all businesses can survive because some of them also faced failure, including Sunken Plaza. But it could survive by giving new excitement to visitors with skating rink.

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Today we are going to show you the French Riviera for renovation and expansion project carried out an old detached house with a sixteenth-century fortress and its own pier on the shore of the Mediterranean.

This is a residence of approximately 4.960 m2 built on a large plot of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, a small French village of 1,895 inhabitants situated on the Riviera between Nice and Monaco.

Although the plot consists of several buildings (housing for the service, guest house and pier), the involvement of A-zero is limited to the main residence and the rehabilitation of some areas of the garden.

PLANT PLOT

The building sits on land with a steep slope that is used for the development of five levels above sea level, three below ground, under the first and second floor.

SECTION

-3 Basement has a total area of 781.84 m2. This was located at an old chapel that was rehabilitated to house a large banquet area. It also builds a new area dedicated to spa area with indoor pool and several relaxation rooms and massage.

LEVEL -3

-2 Basement extends over an area of 1430.99 m2 and includes a storage area and facilities, an area for musicians on the banquet hall (level -3) and the right wing, which is the fortress, is a series of bedrooms with bathrooms, locker rooms and lounges.

LEVEL -2

In the center are several cupboards and a large kitchen with a capacity to satisfy the guests for big parties and events.

Level -1 includes a winter living room, garage and service area with separate access from the outside.

LEVEL -1

Downstairs takes place on the main access to housing that communicates with a spacious lobby and lounge. This level is divided from the center on two sides reserved for the two sons of the owners. Each wing has one bedroom (with bathroom, dressing room, study and living room), laundry, one bedroom suite for guests of the children and direct access to the service.

GROUND FLOOR

Finally, the first floor is reserved for the master bedroom that includes hall, lounge, two bathrooms, a spacious dressing room and direct access to the service.

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Today we travel to Andalusia to show you the class of 25 homes designed to “zero in the municipality of San Enrique de Cadiz Guadiaro, a small town next to the exclusive development of Sotogrande.

This is a set of 16 townhouses and 9 detached houses, characterized by vertical set of cubic volumes that make up their structures. A design with clean lines and dynamic forms according to the style of A-zero.

The townhouses consist of distributed 300m2 basement level of access, first floor and roof. The verticality of the building structure can be accessed from outside by two levels: the garage (semi-covered with a pergola), which leads to the service area, the laundry and pantry storage, and the ground floor through to the external stairs.

In the access level is located the living room with access to the porch, toilet, kitchen and two bedrooms with bathrooms. The upper floor includes three bedrooms plus en suite and a porch. Finally, the cabinet has been installed a semi-covered terrace and a solarium.

In both types of structure have sought to maximize the space to convert a housing of dimensions not too large spacious, light, mainly through large glass windows and connecting with the outside.

The decor is clean and unobtrusive choice. We opted for items with neutral tones such as the upholstery, carpets and finishes in shades of beige, white and brown soft broken, combined with a touch of color like red chairs “mimes” the dining room.

A residential option design and quality to enjoy throughout the year of the atmosphere and the unique light of Cadiz.

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Perhaps many of you already may know this house that A-cero designed a few years ago on the shores of the Caribbean. It is a residential project of A-cero most liked and has been published. Precisely why we have decided to share with you a second time on this blog to show you this paradise unpublished images of an exclusive residential development located in the Dominican Republic.

This is a house of a Spanish family. The owner of the land fell in love (7.000m2) for its spectacular location and instructed him to “scratch the design of this building designed as a home for rest and holiday.

Here you can see the construction process of the same well as sketches and digital images from which the residence was built as it is today.

The trust property in the study A-cero was complete. They wanted a quality product and functional to convey a feeling like a sailing boat in question. We therefore designed a house of soft, wavy lines that rise and descend below sea as it sits in front of the building.

Raises two distinct blocks of which emerges a curved volume set looking the vertical from the deck. The covers are of continuous surface without horizontal structural elements that interrupt. On the one hand capture light and breezes, on the other flight climate protection and defines a long gallery.

The property consists of 1424.52 m2 and was projected on a single plant according to customer needs.

The whole house covered with Coral, a native limestone and high quality tones that are well adapted to the abundant sunlight of the place and the marine environment.

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The Villa is set designer houses, a draft GmbH and the studio of Daniel Libeskind. The Villa is a German prefabricated house is built with the finest raw materials, a sculptural home that meets the highest standards of design, development and sustainability. The Villa Series are unique in where they are seen, providing maximum insulation and durability, innovative technology and meeting the highest standards for energy savings worldwide. La Villa, which can be shipped and assembled anywhere, including a solar thermal system and a sauna in the basement.

According to the sellers of La Villa, is available as a limited edition of 30 homes around the world and comes with regional exclusivity. It’s the future owner who strongly on the location, but whether an urban setting, a beautiful coast or a mountain landscape, the Villa will become one with their environment and ultimately, a focal point in itself.

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The Glasshouse: Conference Center, Arts and Entertainment, including a theater arts for 600 spectators, a regional art gallery of 600 m2, a studio theater, conference facilities and community workshops. Located in the heart of Port Macquarie, a fast-growing coastal town north of Sydney, the commissioning of the project was to establish the Cultural Centre as a prominent facility for the development and exhibition of the arts in the region.

The design takes advantage of the views of the Pacific Ocean and based on the “openness” and accessibility. The gallery is located to share the foyer of the theater space, enabling the proper display of public spaces of the building and in a few days of visits, the center can operate with minimal staff.

Wrapped around the sculptural shape of the auditorium, the foyers are open and glassy, besides being naturally ventilated. The expression of the building and the foyer generated by contrasting the order of the grid of the city and voluminous forms the lining of the theater, with its three levels, the glass wall is located on Clarence Street. Gaps trained and shading overhangs generated for the street, airflow and an exciting journey from the street architectural audience.

The auditorium is a horseshoe-shaped proscenium, with a completely equipped. Operable sound screens allow the space used for concerts of classical music. The orchestra pit rises and falls hydraulically to increase the flexibility of space. All visual angles were modeled computationally and sound performance was applied in the design to meet the highest standards.

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The Broadcasting Place is a mixed-use development near the center of the city of Leeds. Conceived as a partnership between public and private, for the group Downing and Leeds Metropolitan University, which delivers approximately 10,200 m2 of new offices and teaching spaces along with 240 student residences in an iconic building of 23 floors. A new Baptist Church completes the package at its northern end.

The buildings are designed as solid forms of a landscape that is drawn on the rich heritage of the Yorkshire Geological and sculpture. The lower buildings reach a height of three contiguous block of flats, adjacent to the buildings of five floors. Tallest buildings ranging from 8 floors to six floors before reaching the highest point in complex with 23 floors. The strong roof surface was reflected in the mass of buildings that have a triangular shaped corners and projections sculptures. Through these solid forms, the windows were designed as the flow of water cascading over a rock formation. This design seeks to be reinforced by the choice of cor-ten steel as a solid material, sculptural and temporal, built as a front generated by a display of rain.

The development overcomes the challenges of a complicated field with a master plan that considers a highway in the city throughout the land while allowing for future growth. This location is key in Leeds and a major new public space linking urban areas to form a significant landscape element.

A key success of the complex is the innovative approach for the design of each lift. We develop our own software to generate a rigorous computational analysis of each section of the building facades. The result is a varied appearance for all, optimizing daylight and reduces solar penetration.

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The North Side Copse House is a country house in West Sussex, near London and was designed by the Ecologic firm. Since its inception, the project has been driven by the idea that a design of exceptional value may become a significant asset to the area where you are. The project therefore, has developed its entirety, from concept to manufacturing and technology systems and development of design solutions.

The symbiotic relationship with the site has been explored in the plane of the facade and structural design of the house. Passive design strategies have been applied to give the house a good potential for natural ventilation and lighting, solar access, and use of thermal mass and insulation. As a result, each lift has acquired a different setting, where the qualities of the façade varies in response to specific local stimuli.

The architectural beauty design of the results thus becomes a direct reflection of their ecological value.

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The initial idea of this project is to integrate housing in the natural environment in the residential area that is, directing the superb views of lakes and tree extensions that extend the areas of urbanization.

The project evolves linked to these conditions with a resounding two-volume set, rectangular, forming a very simple scheme. In this way, solve the building with clean finishes, select materials and unique qualities.

The porches and pergolas, volumetric elements such as housing give personality to the facade. The roof disappears as such became a flat roof as an expression of the evolution of the creative process. The purity of form moves to the construction schedule, materials and environment by promoting the connection between the building and the context in which it is located.

The house, of 800m2 of surface, developed in height. The main access to adapting to an average gradient field.

Inside rooms are located as follows: entrance hall, lounge, dining room, kitchen, office, pantry, a guest cloakroom, and seven bedrooms (with their own bathrooms, two dressing rooms and a terrace.

We opted for a decoration in copper and brown tones that bring elegance and sobriety to stay more social, like the living room or dining room. In addition, original designed white lines running through the living room by providing a modern and sophisticated air to the area.

In the rear, through large windows, is living that opens onto the garden, swimming pool and the natural landscape that urbanization offers.

It‘s surrounded by an attractive landscape interventions carried composed lakes, birds and a very large tree.

The Outside of footpaths and the central garden area are incorporating indigenous vegetation in nature, resistant to the climate of the area. The fencing of the plot and planted trees and shrubs along the same, define perfectly the transition from private ownership and community.

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For its playful form and character, the Zenith music room contributes a large variety theater that created since the building built Zenith in Paris in 1984. The new Zenith building is an important project for the exhibition area in Strasbourg. This will be the new attraction that will give new impetus to the further development of city infrastructure.

The design concept based on a modular and well-balanced organization of the different elements: good views for all spectators, the best acoustics and an optimized cost management and addressed during the design phase of the design. The Zenith hall offers the ideal setting for guests and artists, performers. The building is to be understood as a unique sculpture, unified and independent. The amount of layers and the rotation of the ellipsoid metal structure of the facade, the design receive a very dynamic character. This confirmed by the translucent textile membrane, which covers the steel frame and creates magnificent light effects. These orange membranes also cover the volume of the music hall itself. This is the heart of the building: a totally enclosed and protected, creating a special atmosphere of the theater.

Projections on the outer skin create playful effects and convert the facade into a huge billboard in communicating with passers-by for upcoming events. The inner experience transmitted to the outside through the transparent skin: the building becomes a “light sculpture.”

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