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With its trilateral structure and solid defenses Caerlaverock Castle is one of the advisable examples of medieval architecture crosswise Scotland. Surrounded by a dual moat and hundreds of acres of flat sloughy willow woods (celebrated in Scotland as a “moss”), Caerlaverock was shapely to test the South-West entryway to Scotland which in primaeval times was the waterway crossways the Solway Firth. Today its ruins bowman of its fascinating departed and represent the nonmodern stronghold.

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The majestic royal castle of the Stewarts at Linlithgow today lies roofless and lost. Yet the traveler allay feels a sense of awe on incoming its entrepreneur.  The hall was one of the corpus residences of the monarchs of  Scotland  in the 15th and 16th centuries. Linlithgow lies roughly midway between Capital and Stirling. The ruins of the palace position beside St Michael’s parish faith (right) on a elemental hillock, which overlooks the townspeople to the southern and extends as a elevation into Linlithgow loch on the north.

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Opened in Chelsea in October 2008, The Saatchi Gallery at the Duke of York’s HQ on King’s Road by Sloane Square is one of the most exclusive and exciting events venues in London. Its unique nature not only stems from its fascinating history, but also the fact that events have never been held there before. The space itself is unrivalled in terms of possibilities and flexibility. The Gallery offers an dazzling environment to view contemporary art, with very large well-proportioned rooms and high ceilings. Architects, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, have invested much time and effort in the detailing to ensure that the art can be viewed with the architecture, both old and new, receding into the background.

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Ballencrieff Castle, also familiar as Ballencrieff House, is a bouffant rise concern at Ballencrieff, Eastmost Lothian, Scotland. It is located trey miles north occident of Haddington , and one knot southernmost of Aberlady.
The chessman stands in 1.5 acres of landscaped field, ordered out mainly to the southeastern and overlooking moving countryside.

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Name: 18 kowloon east
Architect: Aedas
Location: Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong, China
Size: 32,400 sq m
Status: Completion 2010

Aedas shared with us their design through a 28-storey mixed-use building which includes housing, offices, retail spaces and a car park. A design with efficient office floor plates and a rational box were requested by the client. With the edifice located in a municipality with dense industrial blocks, instead of providing another work tower entirely wrapped in a coolly glazed skin, the design investigates the possibility of providing an environmentally sustainable form in such an industrial property.

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Cafe Kureon is a small cafe designed by Tokyo-based architectural design firm Kengo Kuma and Associates located in Toyama, Japan. It has its own uniqueness with shades amid vacant lots that have a beautiful lawn. The whim was ‘to create a building like a forest by piling up pieces of wood, rather than joining them together’. This beautiful wooden design is a testament to the sophistication of that Japanese architecture.

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This project is modest addition for the small property of Huairou about two hours drive away from the urban center of Beijing, China. The “Liyuan Library” by Chinese designer Li Xiaodong Atelier is encompassed within a mountainous and forested landscape. The absolutely glazed interior contains mild and contemplative reading spaces and a disposal of platforms which integrate shelving since books. After analyzing the region’s characteristics, an exterior screen clad with ordinary sticks was chosen to conceal the glass facade, receding engrossment the surrounding mystique without competing with it.

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Fyvie Castle is one of  Scotland’s  majuscule impressive fort palaces. Located north-west of Aberdeen, Scotland is the five-towered chessman of Fyvie. Fyvie dates back to the 13th century when it was a royal defence. The Hall has features cardinal towers and is a okay lesson of English Baronial architecture. Fyvie is now run by the Scottish General Trust but it retains the condition of a stemma internal.

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This is an unusual designed restaurant located in Bergen, The Netherlands. The Restaurant Fabricca is very cozy and, even though the interior is original and not the traditional typical decor, it’s still elegant and stylish but in a different way. Industrial area, the elements of glamor, minimalist and high-tech, mix, comic shaped styling, causing a lot of unintentional associations. The big dining pods of the restaurant are very cozy and especially inviting, offering a unique dining experience to anyone who enters. The second you enter the restaurant you get a strange feeling that takes you back in time.

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This unique idea – to make a cafe from scaffolding and shipping containers was brought to light by Paris studio 1024 Architecture. Les Grandes Tables is located on an island on the Seine in Paris – on the Ile Seguin, where architect Jean Nouvel is currently converting a car workshop into a museum. The project is an architectural combination between an agricultural greenhouse, a barge and a timber-frame house covered beneath a see-through umbrella.

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