The Rectorate and some Faculties of the University of Seville are housed, since the mid-twentieth century, in the (former) Royal Tobacco Factory, an industrial architecture building from the eighteenth century.

Main entrance to the Rectorate - Seville, Spain.

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A curious note is that the heroine of Carmen (Prosper Mérimée, Georges Bizet) «worked» in the Royal Tobacco Factory of Seville.

[Portuguese post on April 19th, 2008]

Category: THE ARCHITECTURE

DEN SORTE DIAMANT or THE BLACK DIAMOND is a recent building (1995-99) on the riverfront of «Castle Island» (Slotsholmen) - Copenhagen, Denmark.

This building had several architecture awards and is an extension / expansion to the Royal Library of Copenhagen (the original brick building can be seen on the pictures and dates back to 1906).
Its shape, the leaning façade on the water and the polished black granite cladding (from Zimbabwe), make this building one of the most striking elements on this area of the city.
However, it has a general gray (and not black) tone under certain light and atmosphere conditions, due to the reflective properties of the polished stone.

[Portuguese post on April 11th, 2008]

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Comment by Pilia Emmanuele - 2008-08-13 - 02:11:39
Ehi, this is like a Fuksas's project... I don't find any image, but it is in France, and was build in 1987... :)

Comment by AM.MA - 2008-08-13 - 19:25:56
Unfortunately I don't know very well the work of Massimiliano Fuksas. I went through a quick search on Google images and couldn't find anything similar by Fuksas.
If you find something on the internet I appreciate if you let me know!

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Traditional Portuguese Architecture: granite fitted masonry walls and timber balcony, a typical house of Pitões das Júnias village, Montalegre.

NOTE: There's also the post A TYPICAL IMAGE, about traditional architecture in the Algarve.

[Portuguese post on Mar 11th, 2008]

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Balance - Lightness - Sobriety.
Good architects often reveal themselves better in simple works.

Almograve - Odemira, Portugal.

[Portuguese post on Mar 4th, 2008]

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- new challenges in Architecture.

Canopy over the central atrium of the Sony Centre (eight buildings complex), Potsdamer Platz in Berlin - Germany.

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Glass canopy over the main entry to the DG Bank building (a project by Frank O. Gehry), Pariser Platz in Berlin - Germany.

[Portuguese post on Feb 18th, 2008]

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From cobbles, one can also built houses.

Cobbles' cladding (quite unusual!) on a private house façade at Estoril - Cascais, Portugal.

[Portuguese post on Jan 26th, 2008]

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I SAY HOUSES CONSIST OF WINDOWS.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Window Dictatorship and Window Rights, 1990.

The Hundertwasser Haus - Vienna, Austria: an apartments building conceived by Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000), an Austrian painter and multifaceted artist, known for his very own and controversial philosophy, specially because of his Mould Manifesto (1958, with 1959 and 1964 addenda), against the rationalism in Architecture.

Traditionally known as the Hundertwasser Haus, this building is nowadays sometimes referred to as the Hundertwasser-Krawina Haus, therefore including the name of the Austrian architect Joseph Krawina, who worked with Hundertwasser during the building construction (1983-1986).

[Portuguese post on Jan 24th, 2008]

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The steeple of the church Christians Kirke and the recent riverfront buildings at Christiansbro - Copenhagen, Denmark.

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On the left, the Deutsches Historisches Museum. On the right, Friedrichswerdersch Kirche's reflection on a glass façade - Berlin, Germany.

[Portuguese post on Jan 15th, 2008]

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Hotel façade with Araucaria shadow on, Estoril - Cascais, Portugal.

[Portuguese post on Jan 7th, 2008]

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