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Lying along Taal Ridge on the northern edge of the Taal Caldera overlooking Taal Lake, Tagaytay derives its name from the Tagalog word for mountain ridges and is a popular tourist destination known for its cooler climate and forested slopes. The city's identity has always been shaped by Geography, Forests, and Tourism.  Caption Caption Caption Geography gives Tagaytay its much sought-after location with its cooler climate and a culture that celebrates edges and boundaries. The cooler climate also allows for one of the few places near Manila that is dominated by pine forests. These forests create unique vertical silhouettes and serve as sanctuaries for revolutionaries during the Philippine Revolution of 1896. Modern Taga... More

Høje-Taastrup City Hall is a striking architectural landmark that blends innovation, sustainability, and community focus. Located in the new city park, it connects the City2 shopping center with the emerging Høje-Taastrup C urban development. Featuring flexible workspaces for employees and a welcoming environment for citizens, the City Hall strengthens collaboration and local connections. The "Citizens' House" stands as a forward-thinking design, offering sustainable solutions and creating lasting value for the entire community. Kontraframe Kontraframe Høje-Taastrup Municipality envisioned a modern and sustainable city hall that would serve as a vibrant civic hub. The goal was to create a welcoming space for... More

Stroopwafel Gouda's new town hall was part of the development of the Spoorzone, where the city centre is expanding into the area north of the railway line. The Town Hall refers with a nod to traditional Gouda while fitting in with the twenty-first-century city. Raoul Suermondt On the outside, traditional themes such as brick, red brick and white window frames are used, while the shape of the building matches the large rectangular volumes in the immediate vicinity. The bricks in the facades have deliberately not been bricked in a traditional manner, but laid in prefabricated diagonal strips across the entire building. The diagonal motif thus refers to both the old and the new city and is also a reference to a typical Gouda symbol, whi... More

JDAP [www.jdap.in] proposes a new Congress Centre in Bosnia and Herzegovina as an extension to the City Park   The site for the new Culture and Congress Centre at Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina lies at the edge of the town today, as an anchor for the developing city to the East. As part of the city’s strategic goals of developing as a South East European centre for culture, tourism and services, the design brief emphasised a facility that would have the flexibility to accommodate multiple activities, events and functions within it. It also laid emphasis on the Centre being a symbolic entity of the renewed city. JDAP’s approach focused around transforming the site into an inviting and enriching part of the city, whe... More