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West Vancouver Aquatic Centre features access for people with disabilities and is described by Hughes Condon Marler as:

“The West Vancouver Aquatic Centre provides the community with a striking facility that speaks of wellness, accessibility and health.”

“The facility features a hot pool, sauna and steam room, sun deck, family changing rooms, multipurpose room, fitness facilities and public viewing areas.”

“A custom glulam glazing system accommodates glazed overhead doors and a series of electrically operative solar shading devises feature a bold public art piece.”

“Along with natural lighting, the use of glazed overhead doors and operable vents allow fresh air to naturally ventilate through the building.”

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Architect Daniel Fuster describes Casa Delpin in San Juan, Puerto Rico as:

“Casa Delpin is the product of the renovation and addition to an existing single-family structure located on a small lot on the Miramar sector in San Juan, Puerto Rico.”

“The design objective was to create a spatially rich living experience and provide a great capacity for passive lighting and cooling, while also allowing mechanical cooling when needed.”

“The perforated glass reinforced concrete (GRC) panels help to redefine and reorient exterior public patios and interstitial spaces towards the interior.”

“This strategy of absorbing the remnant exterior areas of the lot, allows the house to open-up, while also providing greater privacy.”

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Architect Daniel Bonilla describes Edificio Julio Mario Santodomingo building in Bogota, Colombia as:

“The building is conceived as a new element that interconnects the campus of the University, concentrating various programs and integration pedestrian flow spaces like the access plaza and the first-floor gallery.”

“The mixed program that includes parking and post graduate programs is represented in pure and forceful geometry which clearly expresses the duality through the materials used on the façade.”

“This lowers the building’s impact on the area as an intersection of university housing and mixed use.”

"The terrace garden of the upper floors of the building creates welcoming contemplation areas.”

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LAR/Fernando Romero’s Soumaya Museum is described as:

“The challenge of this visionary project is in becoming the first Art Museum in Mexico City with such an avant garde form, breaking all the paradigms in the country, while creating a state-of-the-art facility to house and display artwork that meet the standards of International Art Institutions.”

“Features include an auditorium, library, offices, restaurant and gathering lounge, in which intermediate levels are open to each other in a continuous volume, but partially separated by enclosed areas.”

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Arquiteconica’s The Bronx Museum of the Arts Expansion, North Wing, is described as:

“The three-story, 16,700 square-foot museum addition emerges from the sidewalk as an irregular folded screen made of fritted glass and metallic panels.”

“The diagonal components emphasize the depth of crevices, where the resulting vertical zones of metal and glass, angle and twist like and architectural origami.”

“Pedestrians can sneak a peek into the ground floor gallery through the slivers of semitransparent glass that face them as they approach from either direction.”

“The design dramatizes the vertical dimension of the otherwise modest structure, turning it into an unexpectedly monumental surface.”

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Sections cover Canada, USA, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Hondorus, Mexico, Panama, Barbados, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinadad  Tobago, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Educador, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Virtually all of architecture's modern stars are represented in the 12-plus-pound volume.

Acclaimed firms such as Arquitectonica, Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, BIG -- Bajarke Ingels Group, Foster + Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, Herzog & De Meuron, Daniel Libeskind, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Frank O. Gehry, Perkins + Will and David Chipperfield Architects show off their recent European buildings in this edition.

Book review of 1000 x Architecture of the Americas

continues tomorrow, November 17

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If you are browsing these holidays for stunning compendium of recent (2004-2008) architectural design in Northern, Central, South and Caribbean America, this is it.

1000 x Architecture of the Americas is edited by Michelle Galindo and published by Germany-based Braun Publishing AG.

It is a dazzling collection of houses, museums, office buildings, residential towers, civic structures and more.

One thousand projects are detailed on 1000 11x14-inch pages.

The lavish publication features daytime views, nighttime views, site layouts, neighborhood context and sometimes delicious original sketches or exploded views of multiple floors.

Book review of 1000 x Architecture of the Americas

continues tomorrow, November 16

The book sells for $125.

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