For the new educational buildings projects architects are using a modern design, involving glass and steel to create spaces with a lot of light and of course resistant and durable. I might say that the students that are learning or will learn in these buildings are pretty lucky fellows cause a new and modern building is not only about the facade, it also has a lot more facilities than the ones that have been built a few decades ago.

Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Australia – FJMT

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Working in an interesting environment inspires you to like what you are doing and in this way you become more efficient. A great looking office surely makes you come at work with pleasure, however let’s not minimize the importance of the building’s architecture. I’m sure you wouldn’t be happy to work in a building that looks like a bee hive so I’m leaving these impressive architectural pieces here to have something to dream about and maybe inspire some of the fresh architects. Let’s hope we’ll see more buildings like these in the financial and office districts from our cities.

Red Building in West Hollywood, California, USA – Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

Sontatel Headquarters in S̩n̩gal, Dakar, Keur Gorgui РEXP Architects, Archi-art and ANMA

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Hotel architecture tends to look like office building architecture in some cases, and not that interesting office architecture, but the dull type. Fortunately, there are also cases of unique and well thought architectural plans for hotels, showcased in this article through a few examples. A small number of these are just projects or in construction, but the rest are just architectural marvels.

Enzo Hotel in Paris, France – Manuelle Gautrand Architects

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Architects understood that it’s time to forget about those old cardboard box looking residential buildings and create something that has a personality, impressive pieces of art, if I may. Thus, using different shapes, colors and materials, they managed to build architectural pieces that could also serve as landmarks, not just for residential purposes.

Veer Towers in Las Vegas, Nevada – Murphy Jahn

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The Saadiyat Cultural District will be home to four major institutions designed by internationally renowned architects, including the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi,
designed by Frank Gehry; the Louvre Abu Dhabi designed by Jean Nouvel; the Performing Arts Center designed by Zaha Hadid; and the Zayed National Museum
designed by Norman Foster; as well as and a park with pavilions designed to host international art, architecture, and other cultural fairs and events. It will also
boast city-facing quayside hotels, exclusive villas, and shops.

The guiding principles for the Saadiyat Cultural District are to make it, by definition, a destination that everyone in the world of art and culture would visit
regularly. By building this set of permanent institutions, the Saadiyat Cultural District is poised to have the world’s greatest concentration of cultural experiences.

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