How the Map of New York Has Changed in 500 Years

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Evolution is the biggest truth of the universe. Whether it be materialistic or not, everything has to conform with time. It affects the living beings as well as their habitats and the towns and cities which house them. This article is a compilation of maps and views of New York City in last 500 years showing the evolution […]

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5 Well Planned Cities from the 20th Century

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“A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.” ― Leon Krier, The Architecture of Community Planning the spread of a city and the way it would respond to its inhabitants’ needs and ease is not a novel idea. Since ancient times mankind has striven to look for ways to […]

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20+ Landscape Architecture Free Books and Presentation Tutorials

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20+ Landscape Architecture Free Books and Presentation Tutorials Landscape Architecture is one of the major specializations in the architectural field. It is concerned with the design of outdoor space and public areas. Whether an architecture student selects Landscape architecture as their major field of study or not, it does not change the fact that they […]

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Xi Gallery | SKM Architects

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Xi Gallery The “Xi Gallery Project” is a temporary facility for developers to sell apartments that they have developed. These facilities are commonly called ‘Model Houses’ or ‘Sample Houses’ and are made out of reusable steel structures and economical modular panels and normally destroyed after 3~5 years of use. Also, the facility has temporary building […]

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Kloof Road House | Nico van der Meulen Architects

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Kloof Road House Located at the foot of a nature reserve in Bedfordview, Johannesburg, Kloof Road House is the latest project by Nico van der Meulen Architects. The client’s brief called for a family orientated home suitable for indoor/outdoor entertainment that maximizes the views to the north. The result is a 1100 m² sculptural piece […]

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Gongbei Port Inspection Office Building | 10 Design

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Gongbei Port Inspection Office Building The building is designed as a beacon, an iconic landmark that marks the whole area with its powerful presence. Inspired by a traditional Chinese Lantern, the design emphasizes the contrast the building will make against the gray and hard surroundings with its cheerful and lively glow. This contrasting effect will […]

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E8 Building | Coll-Barreu Arquitectos

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E8 Building The E8 building is the result of a design competition called with the intention of highlight an ambitious expansion of Alava Technology Park, an institutional commitment to research whose validity and future should be represented by the building. The Park will rent or sell the full building by plants or by modules. The […]

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Getty Institute Receives Frank Gehry’s Archives Spanning 30 Years

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Getty Institute Receives Frank Gehry’s Archives Spanning 30 Years Los Angeles-based Getty Research Institute has recently received “The Frank Gehry Papers”, a vast archive collection of sketches, drawings, models, slides, and ephemera by architect Frank Gehry. The archive reviews the architect’s earliest works since his graduation, the Romm House, in 1958 up till the Walt […]

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The Cube | Make Architects

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The Cube The Cube is the final phase of Birmingham’s Mailbox development and one of Make’s largest buildings to date. Comprising offices, an automated car park, apartments, retail units, a hotel, spa, restaurant and ‘sky bar’, The Cube was conceived as a building which would never close; crafted to open up routes and views to […]

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Alstom Tests World’s First Zero-Emission Train Running on Hydrogen in Germany and Czech

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Alstom Tests World’s First Zero-Emission Train Running on Hydrogen in Germany and Czech French multinational transport company Alstom has successfully tested its first hydrogen-powered train in Germany and Czech. The CO2-emission-free train, Coradia iLint, will be operating on Hydrogen fuel cells, instead of diesel, and it will emit steam and condensed water, instead of CO2. […]

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Media Library in Bourg-la-Reine | Pascale Guédot Architecte

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Media Library in Bourg-la-Reine The township chose a strategic location for the media library : in the city center, a few meters away from the city-hall and the church, across the street form the music conservatory built in the 1990s. A landmark building, the new media library is deliberately visible and identifiable, yet it blends […]

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Villa Amanzi | Original Vision

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Villa Amanzi Nestled in a cascading, west facing ravine with a dramatic slab of rock defining the northern edge and a stunning outlook over the azure blue of the Andaman Sea to the south, our commission; to do this demanding but ultimately spectacular site justice, was both daunting and exciting. The defining elements are the […]

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Transbay Transit Center | Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

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Transbay Transit Center Transbay Transit Center will be a state- of- the- art multimodal transit station in downtown San Francisco, linking 11 transit systems and connecting the city to the region, the state, and the nation. The innovative, highly sustainable design includes a 2.2-hectare (5.4-acre) rooftop park that will anchor the growth of a new […]

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Ball Pits and Floating Trampoline in DROR’s Masterplan of Parkorman Forest in Istanbul

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Ball Pits and Floating Trampoline in DROR’s Masterplan of Parkorman Forest in Istanbul New York-based studio DROR is working on quite unconventional plans for a park in the Parkorman forest of Istanbul, Turkey. The plans were triggered by the need to attract visitors to the park which will be located on a site, 6 miles […]

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Zorlu Center | Emre Arolat Architects + Tabanlıoğlu Architects

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Zorlu Center The Zorlu Center is at the junction of the Bosphorus Bridge European connection and the Büyükdere axis that connects the city center with the business district Maslak. With its easy access from important centers of Istanbul, it is also one of the few sites that face south, with the old city view making […]

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12 Things You Need to Know about Capsule Hotels

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12 Things You Need to Know about Capsule Hotels You have most certainly heard of capsule hotels and especially if you have ever planned on visiting Japan. The country which is known for all sorts of ‘futuristic’ innovations, offers this kind of accommodation to its visitors and citizens alike. You may find some of the […]

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Snøhetta Produces Conceptual Renderings of a Full-Scale Ship Tunnel in Norway

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Snøhetta Produces Conceptual Renderings of a Full-Scale Ship Tunnel in Norway Oslo-based Architecture and Design Office Snøhetta has produced a conceptual design for the world’s first full-scale ship tunnel. The tunnel is supposed to link two fjords on both sides of the Stad Peninsula in Norway, keeping the ships safe while passing through the “most […]

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Poly International Plaza | SOMS

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Poly International Plaza “Poly International Plaza is a true collaborative effort between SOM’s Structural Engineering and Architecture groups. The two disciplines worked closely to provide a design and interior environment that would be impossible with a conventional moment-frame system. An elliptical form typically requires the greatest overturning resistance at the narrow ends. The diagrid redirects […]

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New York-Based Designer Karim Rashid Held at JFK Airport by US Border Entry

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New York-Based Designer Karim Rashid Held at JFK Airport by US Border Entry New York-based industrial designer Karim Rashid has revealed in a Facebook post that he was held at the JFK airport by US Border Entry. He was rejected by Global Entry, after an 18-hour flight from Tbilisi, Georgia, because of his ‘Muslim’ name, […]

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Tsinghua Ocean Center | OPEN Architecture

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Tsinghua Ocean Center Tsinghua Ocean Center, a laboratory and office building for the newly established ocean deep-ocean research base of Tsinghua University, is located at the eastern end of the Tsinghua graduate school campus in Shenzhen Xili University Town, and right next to the main campus entrance. Instant university towns are recent Chinese urbanization in […]

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Unipol Group new headquarters | Mario Cucinella Architects

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Unipol Group new headquarters The Architectural Competition for the new Unipol Group Headquarters represents a very important occasion within the architectural development of the city of Milan due to the great ambition of the objectives expressed by the clients and also for the exceptional prestige of the location. The project area is, in fact, the […]

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Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall and Samueli Theater | Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

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Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall and Samueli Theater The Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall and the Samueli Theater expand the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, one of Southern California’s premier cultural destinations. Defining a large plaza, the building is an elegant and vibrant urban gesture and sculptural form. The main entrance to the […]

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Polish Architect Releases Time-lapse Videos for Her Brilliant Watercolor Sketches of Famous Landmarks

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Polish Architect Releases Time-lapse Videos for Her Brilliant Watercolor Sketches of Famous Landmarks Nothing beats a well-executed architecture sketch painted by the artistic hands of a talented architect. So, here we introduce you to Polish architect and illustrator Maja Wronska. The Warsaw-based architect paints the most exquisite sketches of famous landmarks and cityscapes using water […]

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Aatrial House | KWK PROMES

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Aatrial House The house is situated in Poland, close to Opole. The majority of low-density settlement in the surroundings is formed of “cube – houses”, buildings typical for the 1970’s. One hectare site near the forest, where the building is designed has only one weak point: south-western access. An obvious conflict develops between the driveway […]

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The World’s Fourth Tallest Building in China by KPF Is Now Complete

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The World’s Fourth Tallest Building in China by KPF Is Now Complete The Ping An Finance Center in Shenzhen, China is finally complete, and it has been ranked by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) as the world’s fourth tallest building. It comes in place after Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, China’s own Shanghai […]

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China World Trade Center Phase 3C Development | Aedas

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China World Trade Center Phase 3C Development Anchoring the new central business district in the capital city is the China World Trade Center development which has grown organically over the past 30 years. Phase 3C is the fifth and final phase of the entire development, and it is set to become a catalyst as a […]

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The Beautiful Wonders of Persian Architecture from 5 Cities in Iran

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Medieval Iran has witnessed the emergence of some of the most beautiful wonders of Islamic art and architecture. These wonders mostly emerged during the Safavid dynasty, when Isfahan was the capital city of Persia. The Persian architecture from the 1500s to the 1800s, known as the early modern period, featured quite distinct architecture elements like […]

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BIG Designs New Panda House for Copenhagen Zoo Shaped as Yin-Yang

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BIG Designs New Panda House for Copenhagen Zoo Shaped as Yin-Yang Copenhagen-based Architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), in collaboration with Schønherr and AOE, designs a new Panda House for the Copenhagen Zoo. The yin-yang shaped design of the Panda House addresses the issues of extinction threats, habitat loss, and fragmentation, which the species is […]

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Eight Tenths Garden | Wutopia Lab

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Eight Tenths Garden Eight tenths Garden is an art museum dedicated to arts and crafts, which can also be used as a venue for the conference in the idle hours. It has a coffee shop, a library, offices, bed, and breakfasts, as well as a restaurant, study rooms and chess rooms. It is a micro-cultural […]

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The Orange Cube | Jakob + Macfarlane Architects

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The Orange Cube The ambition of the urban planning project for the old harbor zone, developed by VNF (Voies Navigable de France) in partnership with Caisse des Dépôts and Sem Lyon Confluence, was to reinvest the docks of Lyon on the river side and its industrial patrimony, bringing together architecture and a cultural and commercial […]

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JTI Headquarters | SOM

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JTI Headquarters Surrounded by parkland and built on a former industrial site, the new JTI Headquarters is located in a Geneva district that is home to prestigious international organizations. The design, which ranks among the most sustainable buildings in Europe, consolidates four existing JTI premises within a single landmark building and demonstrates SOM’s commitment to […]

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New Renderings of BIG and Silvio D’ascia Architecture’s Loop-Shaped Metro Station in Paris

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New Renderings of BIG and Silvio D’ascia Architecture’s Loop-Shaped Metro Station in Paris Copenhagen-based architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and French studio Silvio D’ascia Architecture revealed new renderings of their loop-shaped Pont de Bondy metro station in Paris. The station located on ‘Line 15’ is one of 68 new stations for the Grand Paris […]

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Cantilever House | Design Unit Sdn Bhd

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Cantilever House The steeply sloping site for this 7000sf house, orientated approximately east-west, falls by 11.5m from the road to the rear with rainforest views to the east of this 7000sf house. The house is designed to ‘float’ over the site – touching it lightly, and allowing the natural slope to remain, heightening our awareness […]

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Times Eureka Pavilion | Nex Architecture

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Times Eureka Pavilion NEX was delighted to contribute to creating a benchmark in integrated design at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, working with Buro Happold and Chelsea Gold Medallist Marcus Barnett on the creation of a pavilion for The Times Eureka Garden, in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The Times commissioned Marcus […]

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The 7 Principles of Architectural Criticism

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“Good critics really know their territory. Many media sites now just assemble images and news items without lending a point of view. That’s not criticism; it’s pimpery,” says Blair Kamin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune. Critiquing architecture is really a tough task as there are many aspects which cannot be distinguished […]

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Shenyang Taoxian International Airport Terminal 3 | CNADRI

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Shenyang Taoxian International Airport Terminal 3 The year of completion for Terminal 3 was 2013. On the basis of T1 and T2 with existing 7.5 MAP, T3 was supposed to meet the 17.5million passenger demand in 2020 with 6,430 passengers in peak hour (5,130 domestic passengers and 1,300 international passengers). Combined together, T1, T2 and […]

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Malmö Live | schmidt hammer lassen architects

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Malmö Live-schmidt hammer lassen architects Malmö Live is an open, expressive, dynamic building offering numerous activities within its architecture. The point of departure for the building’s design is the modern Scandinavian architectural tradition, which focuses on clear, functional organization and an accessible, open ground floor layout. The building will become a focal point and landmark […]

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Ashjar at Al Barari | 10 DESIGN

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Ashjar at Al Barari Masterplan Ashjar is located 10 minutes from the Burj Khalifa. The development comprises 300 high end 1,2 and 3-bedroom apartments set within 21 individual low-rise buildings each carefully woven into a lush forest landscape. Small clusters of these low rise buildings create intimate and private communities at one with nature. Dense […]

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Shakin’ Stevens Residence | Matt Gibson Architecture + Design

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Shakin’ Stevens Residence This compact double fronted Victorian workers cottage in set within a gritty one way street in Richmond – a stone’s throw from the MCG and just down from the corner of the infamous Royal Hotel. Unlike other boom style Victorian double front dwellings in Australian cities this cottage is compact and quaint. […]

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Austrian Artist Turns Ordinary Architectural Spaces into Optical Illusions

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Austrian Artist Turns Ordinary Architectural Spaces into Optical Illusions Vienna-based artist Peter Kogler is a master of the computer-generated art. He has been in the field for 30 years, and his optical illusion rooms are among his most extraordinary works. The artist combines architecture and new media art to create some astonishingly deceptive installation artworks. […]

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The Temple House | Make Architects

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The Temple House Located in the heart of Chengdu – one of China’s key centers of finance and commerce – is The Temple House, a historically-rich hotel that opened in July 2015. Designed by Make Architects for Swire Hotels, The Temple House is the third hotel in Swire’s flourishing House Collective portfolio, following The Upper […]

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Artist Creates Astounding Landscape Paintings from Wine

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Artist Creates Astounding Landscape Paintings from Wine Watercolor artist and illustrator Richard Marsh celebrated the National Drink Wine day in a quite unique manner. In cooperation with Celebrity Cruises, the artist painted 5 amazing landscape art pieces from wine. The 5 locations depicted in Marsh’s paintings happen to be 2017’s most exciting wine region, as […]

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Das Tirol Panorama – Museum am Bergisel | stoll.wagner architekten

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Das Tirol Panorama – Museum am Bergisel A key element in the design for the exterior appearance of the new building housing the exhibition was therefore the creation of a low-key, low-rise structure in the park-like natural setting on the access side of the Bergisel, while at the same time providing a strong sculptural impact […]

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Marseille’s Vieux | Foster and Partners

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Marseille’s Vieux Marseille’s Vieux Port is one of the grand Mediterranean ports, but over time the World Heritage-listed site has become inaccessible to pedestrians and has been cut off from the life of the city. The masterplan for its regeneration will reclaim the quaysides as a civic space, creating new informal venues for performances and […]

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Museum of Immortality II, installed at Mexico City’s largest public park.

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Museum of Immortality II, installed at Mexico City’s largest public park. Design Week Mexico, (the nonprofit organization for promoting design events in Mexico), in collaboration with Museo Tamayo, have unveiled a design for the major public architectural pavilion called “Museum of Immortality II”. This spectacular pavilion was designed by the German architects Nikolaus Hirsch and […]

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New York’s First Net Zero Energy School Building | SOM

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New York’s First Net Zero Energy School Building A few days before the wrath of Sandy, Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill (SOM) broke ground on what will be the first net-zero energy school in New York City and the Northeast U.S. Located on a 3.5-acre site on Staten Island, at the intersection of Crabtree Avenue and Bloomingdale Road. […]

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Top Architecture Universities in UK (2017)

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If you are planning to study architecture in the UK, and you are not sure which university you should be applying to, then this article can be quite helpful. Here we will review the rankings of the UK Architecture Schools in 2017 as proposed by the Guardian and the Complete University Guide. Both rankings show […]

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British Photographer Remodels World Famous Architecture Using Paper Cutouts and Forced Perspective

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London-based artist Rich McCor, known as Paperboyo on Instagram, travels the world and remodels its iconic landmarks using paper cutouts. He combines forced perspective photography with his paper art skills to produce some extraordinary images of these landmarks. Once you have seen them, they will never look the same way again. McCor’s trip started in […]

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The Moving Libraries of the 20th Century : 15 Vintage Photos of Bookmobiles

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The Moving Libraries of the 20th Century: Check Out These Vintage Photos of Bookmobiles Back in the time when TV was a luxury, not purchasable by everyone, and the internet did not even exist, books were one of the widely popular means of entertainment. However, libraries and bookstores were not as much available back then […]

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360 Villa | 123DV

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360 Villa The family consists of a couple and their beautiful Alaskan malamute dogs. This time, our slogan ‘Living in a tailored suit’ got a special dynamic: the tailoring of our design to the requirements of an ultimate personal experience of living also concerned the arctic dogs that are important in their lives. It is […]

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Architecture Student Revives the Magic of Architectural Hand Sketching Through These Marvelous Sketches

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Architecture Student Revives the Magic of Architectural Hand Sketching Through These Marvelous Sketches Is it over for the age of free hand sketching and manual drawing? Many people might argue it is. In this age of rapidly advancing digital technologies, new drafting and modeling software with a whole load of handy capabilities keep showing up […]

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Richard Meier Releases a Light Collection Featuring His Famous Minimalistic Architectural Style

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Richard Meier Releases a Light Collection Featuring His Famous Minimalistic Architectural Style American architect and former Pritzker Prize winner Richard Meier releases a 12-piece collection of lamps, carrying his signature style. The minimalistic lamps feature pure white geometric forms resembling the architect’s own famous architecture of the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the Getty […]

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What Happened to Public Space? A Quick Guide Through Europe’s History

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Public spaces make cities. They are the spaces of visibility and sociability, the areas where the invisible boundaries that separate us socio-economically are temporarily contested. The availability of quality public space is one of the varied characteristics that define the city. Citizens recognize themselves as members of a community only when they can equally access […]

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Clouds Architecture Office Unveils Plans for the World’s Tallest Skyscraper Hanging from Space Asteroid

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Clouds Architecture Office Unveils Plans for the World’s Tallest Skyscraper Hanging from Space Asteroid Renzo Piano once said: “Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.” However, the “unreasonable” idea might turn out to be reasonable after all. After Oiio Architecture Studio has proposed its 1.2km long bending […]

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9 Architects Who Masterfully Tackled Industrial Design

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Product design extends an architect’s ability to use their creative skills and eye for planning & artistic interpretation to respond to an environmental necessity. Many of the same principles explored and addressed through architecture can be applied to design of products. Fundamental to architect’s toolkit is a broad-based, multidisciplinary approach which lends itself perfectly to […]

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32 Things You Probably Have Done as an Architecture Student

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Here are 32 Things You Probably Have Done as an Architecture School Student Architecture school students have it hard, and the worst part of it is that no one admits it. Luckily a recent study in the US has revealed that architecture students, actually, work the longest hours between all academic majors. However, do you […]

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An Introduction to Landscape Architecture

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What is Landscape Architecture? Landscape architecture is the design of almost anything around you and under the sky. Just try to think of iconic places like New York City’s Central Park and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also, consider your downtown square, your local park, or even your own backyard. Green roofs, urban […]

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Vanke Sales Office | FCHA

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Vanke Sales Office The city of Dongguan, located in Shenzhen and Guangzhou (Canton), is the scene of the breakneck development of late. FCHA was asked to develop plans for a 600 square-meter sales office in a mixed-use development in Dongguan for leading Chinese property developer Vanke. Located in an up-and-coming area of the city, the […]

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Ropemaker | Clive Wilkinson Architects

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Ropemaker Macquarie’s Ropemaker Place was designed as a model for a new transparency in banking services revolving around an open atrium and connecting staircase. By virtue of their size, large corporations face a spatial problem of creating a unified community and leveraging their considerable knowledge sharing potential. Macquarie, an Australian financial services company, took a […]

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New Exhibition Documents Seven Built Projects Designed by Architect John Hejduk

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As part of exhibition, The Cooper Union will install the Jan Palach Memorial adjacent to Cooper Square Park  The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art will present an exhibition highlighting seven built works designed by architect John Hejduk (1929-2000), founding dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture and one of […]

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Alliander HQ | RAU architects

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Alliander HQ The new head office for the energy grid company Alliander in Duiven (The Netherlands) was recently inaugurated. RAU architects are responsible for the renovation of the existing buildings and the extension, which will house 1550 workers. This is the first renovation project in The Netherlands to obtain the BREEAM-NL outstanding sustainability certificate. Interconnectivity […]

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Japanese Painter Travels the World by Painting its Marvelous Architecture

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Japanese Painter Travels the World by Painting its Marvelous Architecture A Japanese painter shares on Instagram some marvelous watercolor paintings of architecture from all over the world. horiaki2 is an “amateur painter” who dreams to “travel all over the world and sketch.” The artist posts sketches of world famous buildings and streets before and after […]

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UWA Business School | Woods Bagot

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UWA Business School University of Western Australia’s 10,000m2Business School, designed by Woods Bagot, makes a significant contribution to the southern entrance of the Crawley Campus. A centralised hub of activity, creating a diversity of transparent settings, is planned spatially around a central three-storey atrium space. The building’s architecture reflects contemporary trends and innovations in the […]

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How Humans Have Changed the Landscape of Planet Earth – Check Up to 100-Year-Old Images by NASA

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How Humans Have Changed the Landscape of Planet Earth – Check Up to 100-Year-Old Images by NASA The 20the century has witnessed some of the most dramatic changes in human history. It held within its ties some of the most significant events, which were mostly manipulated by the rapid advancements in technology. This technology brought […]

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INTERVIEW WITH S/HE, BY WAY OF FRANÇOIS ROCHE

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S/he. New-Territories is fronted by the androgynous avatar, trans-gender avatar, ‘S/he’, 1993. New-Territories (R&Sie(n) / [eIf/bʌt/c]) has exhibited its work at, among other places, the Centre Pompidou, SF MOMA, the Tate Modern, Barbican London, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) Montreal, has been selected 8 times for participation in the Venice Biennial, in national and […]

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H3 | 314 Architecture Studio

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H3 The house was designed to give a sense of balance of the water element and the owners love for yachts, which after all was the inspiration for this project.
The contact of the house and the artificial ponds that surround it, create a cooling sensation. The water for the lakes and the pool comes from […]

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Zaha Hadid Architects Unveils Design for a Supertall Skyscraper in New York

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Zaha Hadid Architects Unveils Design for a Supertall Skyscraper in New York Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled the design for a 1,400ft (426m) tall skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York. It will be exactly located at 666 Fifth Avenue, which currently carries a 41-storey office building co-owned by Vornado Realty Trust Inc. and Kushner Properties, […]

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14 Architecture Games to Unleash Your Creative Mind

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Who doesn’t love video games? You might think you have outgrown them but you will find yourself easily hooked given the chance and the right game. For architects, playing video games can be an educational experience as much as an entertainment. They can find inspiration in the architectural setting and playful circulation, or they can […]

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Geology Museum | LeeMundwiler Architects

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Geology Museum The Dapeng Peninsula is on the southeastern coast of China and is designated as national park to preserve its pristine nature and surrounding environment. The peninsula was created by ancient volcano eruptions dated back 135 million years. This historic land formation is still apparent in the nature around the peninsular and coastal lines […]

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ToHA | Ron Arad Architects

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ToHA The large-scale office development, a joint venture between two large investment and development companies, involves the conversion of a rarely available 1.8 hectare city-center site, into 2 office towers with an area in excess of 160,000m², extensive commercial facilities and a generous landscaped public space, across 3 levels. The office towers (28, and 63 […]

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Multifunctional Building “Fondo” | Pich-Aguilera Architects

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Multifunctional Building “Fondo” The building is situated in a dense urban area, with a poor road network and practically non-existent open space. As to obtain the solar, the old market was demolished, this being an obsolete structure, with the aim of re-using the place in a more intensive way. The new building “Fondo” is a […]

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‘Long’ is the New ‘Tall’? Oiio Reveals Proposal for the World’s “Longest Building” in New York

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Long is the New Tall Oiio Reveals Proposal for the Worlds Longest Buildingin New York Tall Skyscrapers with soaring heights of more than 200m high are no longer a wonder. Burj Khalifa, the world’s current tallest skyscraper is more than 800m high, and the under construction Jeddah Tower is expected to hit the 1km benchmark in […]

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Hotel Agglomération | Gardera-D Architecture

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Hotel Agglomeration The « Agglomeration Côte Basque Adour: ACBA» building is an administrative building housing facilities for political and economical local territory developing in the south west of France. The existing facility built in the 80’s and already extended in the 90’s was lacking office’s spaces and a proper auditorium for boardroom venues. The competition […]

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Elegant Birdhouses Inspired by the Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Bauhaus

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Elegant Birdhouses Inspired by the Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Bauhaus A creative designer will make a masterpiece out of anything, even a little birdhouse, and that is the case with Douglas Barnhard, founder of home décor firm “Sourgrassbuilt”. Barnard creates wooden furniture, breadboxes, accessories, and some quite elegant birdhouses. His birdhouse designs […]

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Salburua Civic Center | ACXT

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Salburua Civic Center The Civic Center is a building that combines sporting, cultural and administrative uses to service the neighborhood Salburua in Vitoria. The project conceives the civic center as a gathering of people to carry out various social, cultural, recreational or sports activities. The program of the building is divided into three levels: – The […]

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Spanish Street Artist Creates Indoor Series of Perspective Illusion Art on Pressed Wood

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Spanish Street Artist Creates Indoor Series of Perspective Illusion Art on Pressed Wood Spanish artist Pejac, famous for his playful perspective street art, has created an indoor optical illusion art series, called “Redemption”. The series was entirely produced using pressed wood boards, pencil, and ink. Pejac uses the pressed wood as a canvas and plays […]

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The Closest Church | Heesoo Kwak and IDMM Architects

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The Closest Church Buildings of the Gimpo new town, where everything looks as new, clean and as fresh as fishes caught in a milk bottle. Well-structured roads and districts look like a checkerboard that has never been used. Through local communities, this place is where ordinary lives and sentiments have just started to settle down […]

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Vibrant Office Space inside a Victorian Castle Could Be Your New Favorite Workplace

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Vibrant Office Space inside a Victorian Castle Could Be Your New Favorite Workplace See this colorful interior with the striking pop art, playful chandeliers, and vibrant pipes? Well, that is a Victorian castle, but interior designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen did his magic and turned it into a wonderland for workers. Yes, this place was not renovated […]

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Living in a Box: How the Concept of Tiny Houses Has Changed Over the Years

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The idea of living spaces has been a pertinent characteristic in defining the struggles and comfort of any species. Particularly for humans, it has evolved beyond the natural boundaries. It hasn’t been long since we broke the organic coherence and mutated with inorganic settlements. From spaces like rock caves to form spaces from carved rocks, […]

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Three Ancestors Cultural Museum | Architectural Design Research Institute of SCUT

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Three Ancestors Cultural Museum The Three Ancestors (sanzu) Cultural Museum is located in the Zhuolu county, Hebei Province, in the northern part of China.With a total construction area of 9174 square-meters, the Architectural Scheme contains areas for experimental exhibition and combination spaces for office use. The fine construction has been the future landmark for the […]

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Sandcrawler | Aedas

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Sandcrawler Sandcrawler, the new regional headquarters for Lucasfilm Singapore owned by Lucas Real Estate Singapore and designed by Andrew Bromberg of Aedas, has an innovative horseshoe form. Upon completion of the design, it inspired the naming of the building, rooting it with success of the renowned animation company. Located on plot CX2-1, this sleek, elevated […]

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Esas Aeropark | Tabanlıoğlu Architects

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Esas Aeropark The site is located at the Asian side of Istanbul, between two parallel roads, one being the highway to Istanbul’s second international airport Sabiha Gökçen. The main construction consists of 2 separate blocks with 7 and 9 floors, respective to the site topography. Besides the office and residential floors, the anchor of the […]

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River Hull Footbridge | McDowell + Benedetti

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River Hull Footbridge The structure consists of a steel spine cantilevering around from a 3-dimensional braced ring structure approximately 16m in diameter. The spine is a hybrid structure with the ‘root’ section conceived as a diagrid/shell structure and the tip as a shell structure. Steel plates clad the surface of the walkways whilst horizontal bracing […]

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The Post-Modern ‘Utopia’ in Paris Suburb as Photographed by Laurent Kronental

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If you are a keen follower of science fiction movies set in the future, then you might be familiar with the grand architecture featured in the following photographs from Saint-Denis in the northern suburbs of Paris. This location was the setting for movies like Brazil (1985) and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part II (2015). Both […]

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Parking Garage Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc | de Jong Gortemaker Algra + Modulo architects

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Parking Garage Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc De Jong Gortemaker Algra, together with architecture firm Modulo, based in Brussels, and engineering firm Ellyps, designed a staff parking garage with a capacity of 985 cars for Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc in Brussels. This resulted in a fluent structure integrated with the site. Parking garages are often labeled as mere […]

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Canadian Photographer Captures the Fancy Architecture of Moscow’s “Socialist” Metro Stations

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Canadian Photographer Captures the Fancy Architecture of Moscow’s “Socialist” Metro Stations If you are an architecture student or an architect, then you have probably studied about Russian Constructivism and Tatlin’s Tower, and how that inspired Deconstructivism at some point later, but what about Stalinist Architecture? We all know Stalin for the brutal dictator he was, […]

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Auditorium Center in WU Campus | BUSarchitektur

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Auditorium Center in WU Campus The lecture theater center of the Teaching Center is not a building but rather the hub of teaching in spontaneous and regulated forms of communication. This search for the randomness of the exchange has different levels, options, and standards, which have a common denominator: the way is the goal. For […]

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Coventry University, Faculty of Engineering and Computing | Arup Associates

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Coventry University, Faculty of Engineering and Computing Arup Associates’ architecture and engineering design for Coventry University’s new Faculty of Engineering and Computing embraces the university’s progressive, experiential approach to teaching these subjects. The environmentally led design encourages an open and free exchange of ideas across disciplines. This creates new synergies within an activity-led, project-based learning approach. […]

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Masdar Headquarters | Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

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Masdar Headquarters The seven-story, 134,662 square-meter structure (which includes landscaped areas) will accommodate commercial, retail and cultural uses. The building’s form, sculpted in response to the extensive environmental analysis, adapts the ancient science and aesthetics of Arabic wind towers, screens, and other vernacular architecture, which emphasize natural ventilation, sun shading, high thermal mass, courtyards and […]

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Amazingly Realistic Urban Architectural Model by Australian Miniaturist Artist from Basic Materials

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Amazingly Realistic Urban Architectural Model by Australian Miniaturist Artist from Basic Materials Australian artist Joshua Smith is a former stencil artist and a current miniaturist whose work focuses on the urban environment. The self-taught artist’s works tend to capture the little overlooked details, giving them a realistic and quite intriguing character. His 1:20 model of […]

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Qatar Science and Technology Park | Woods Bagot

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Qatar Science and Technology Park Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP) is a key initiative of the Qatar Foundation in its drive to diversify the economy, create highly skilled jobs and to establish Qatar as a knowledge economy in the Middle East. Qatar is championing industry-based research and development and is investing deeply in education […]

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South Korean Artist Reveals the Hidden Beauty of Local Convenience Stores in Acrylic Ink Illustrations

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South Korean Artist Reveals the Hidden Beauty of Local Convenience Stores in Acrylic Ink Illustrations To many people, the architecture of South Korea is represented in the grand ancient Shaman and Buddhist temples. To others, it is represented in the modern soaring skyscrapers that shape the skylines of its metropolises like Seoul and Busan. However, […]

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10 Tips for Designing Successful Public Spaces

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“Streets and their sidewalks, and main public spaces of a city are its most vital organs”, said Jane Jacobs in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Public spaces are complex, organic things and design is only a small fraction of what goes into making a great public space. You cannot expect […]

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Bosjes Chapel | Steyn Studio

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Bosjes Chapel The site is surrounded by majestic mountains with a grand scale which adorned the area with the nickname of ‘Little Switzerland’. Typically Cape Dutch Manor houses set up dialogue with these types of environments, as found in Stellebosch and Cape Town. With the immediate context of the site, the valley is ‘held’ either […]

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Te Oro | Archimedia

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Te Oro Te Oro is a public music and arts facility exclusively for young people, long sought by the ethnically diverse and creatively rich predominantly Pacifica communities of Glen Innes and Panmure. Te Oro is named for the sound created by wind blowing across the open crater of Maungarei / Mt Wellington, a volcanic cone […]

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Business School and Teaching Complex | FJMT + Archimedia

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Business School and Teaching Complex Our inspiration for this project was drawn directly from the fusion of natural landscape, urban form, and heritage of cultural exchange and flow that characterize this beautiful site at the edge of the campus, overlooking Auckland Harbour and the Auckland Domain. Prior to modern development, this landscaped valley used to […]

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NAB Docklands | Woods Bagot

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NAB Docklands Located in Melbourne’s Docklands, 700 Bourke Street is a pivotal new workplace for National Australia Bank (NAB) with architecture, interior design and workplace consulting by Woods Bagot. The site location, between Southern Cross Station and Etihad Stadium, generates incredible footfall, while its position beside sunken train lines allows the entire west façade of […]

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Faculty of Law, University of Sydney | FJMT

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Faculty of Law, University of Sydney We interpreted this project as an opportunity to redefine and reinterpret the architectural dialectic between city and campus: to extend the public domain and create a new opening of the University to the community, parkland and city beyond, with the study of law balanced carefully at this edge; to […]

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Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center | Renzo Piano Building Workshop

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Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center An understanding of the development of Kanak culture was a vital part of this project – becoming familiar with Kanak history, environment and beliefs made it possible to design a building that would fit within this context. Close working relationships with local people, Marie-Claude Tjibaou (Jean-Marie Tjibaou’s widow), and anthropologist Alban […]

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Why Architects Should Learn to Code ?

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“I want to own the automation of my own profession…” – Mario Guttman, Architect, Programmer. One may soon come to realize that the roles played out by an architect and a programmer are actually quite similar in nature. Both are creative individuals, equipped with surplus amounts of brain juice at their disposal. One designs the […]

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10 Colorful Installation Artworks That Turn the City into A Playground

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As the population moving to live in cities increases annually, whether the right environment to improve the quality of life is provided, remains uncertain. We are all used to gray, concrete buildings surrounding our streets and squares and we gradually have lost the inner child in us wanting to feel the vibe of the city […]

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Do Ho Suh Embodies “Migration and Identity” through Full-Size Colorful Models

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Korean artist Do Ho Suh tries to capture the concepts of migration and identity by the means of a colorful installation artwork, which was on display at the Victoria Miro Gallery in London. Suh’s artwork, titled “The Passage/s”, recreates hallways from his past homes in the form of a series that is meant to represent […]

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Siemens HQ in Masdar City | Sheppard Robson

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Siemens HQ in Masdar City Sheppard Robson’s Siemens Middle East Headquarters at Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, officially opened this week, establishing a new benchmark for sustainable office buildings in the Middle East. The 22,800 m2 structure, which floats above a new public plaza, is the result of a stringent brief. This was proposed by Siemens […]

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18 Furniture Designs Inspired by Nature

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As a child have you ever dreamed of living in the woods? Have you been watching The Jungle Book or Tarzan and thinking what if? When you grew up, maybe it still felt like it would be a great experience to live surrounded by nature, but then there will not be Wi-Fi; on the other […]

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Music Conservatory in Paris’ 17th Arrondissement | Basalt Architects

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Music Conservatory in Paris’ 17th Arrondissement Located on a plot of land between two high-rise buildings, the conservatory stands at the interface of architectural scripts linked to the city’s building heritage. On the edge of the 17th arrondissement to the south Haussmann-style buildings look across at social housing of a more recent period. So the […]

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Casa Clara | 1:1 Arquitetura Design

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Casa Clara This house; Casa Clara, is mainly a small house, strong personality and clear solution (clear means Clara in Portuguese). The entire house is delicately supported on the downhill terrain. The landscape has a free view of the interior, even the layout is clear, simple solution with elegant design, in some ways this house […]

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North Mediterranean Health Center | Ferrer Arquitectos

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North Mediterranean Health Center The building is made up of a ground and first floor and a basement intended for a garage and storerooms. The flat roof may only be accessed for maintenance. The center is structured around a series of internal courtyards, which provide ventilation and lighting to the various rooms. Its exterior has […]

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