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Jean Nouvel (Ateliers Jean Nouvel) and Beijing Institute of Architecture Design (BIAD) have been officially declared winners by the jury of the international competition for the construciton of the National Art Museum of China [NAMOC] in Beijing,…

‘Portrait’ is a series of portraits representing an identity of a movie. A custom software detects faces from every 24 frames of a movie, and creates an average face of all found faces. The composite image reflects the centric figure(s) and the…

Who are you? Where are you going? How long do you sleep? What are you drinking? How many pictures do in a year? Nicholas Felton does all these questions, and he represents them in striking graphics. Now that information is fashionable,with this…

A dialogue between landscape and building, nature and artifice. The house and the mountain interact, both looking at the sea and the sea looks at them. Architecture studio by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos completed this house in Alicante, facing to…

Refreshing images for these sunny days! Young designers, as we always say in METALOCUS, are an endless source of fresh ideas, with an extraodinary quality in spite of their short experience. Carrie Dickens is an example of that: an artist that, in…

We show you the Hassell + Herzog & de Meuron design submission, however, there are six proposals. The six shortlisted proposals for the restoration of Flinders Street Station in Melbourne have been submitted to public vote yesterday. On Thursday…

Today we'd like to share with you this interesting reflection on the Wittgenstein House written by architect Juan D. López-Arquillo. This building is not only architecture, it is a philosophical project realized with the techniques of an…

She has found her way, after being a little adrift, she says as honestly as possible. Despite the difficulty of these bad times, she is no longer concerned about not knowing where to go. What makes her think that way is the acknowledgment of the…

2013 RIBA Lubetkin Prize Shortlists Three International Buildings. In our previous article (link below), we just published the six projects shortlisted for the 2013 RIBA Stirling Prize which were announced by the Royal Institute of British…

Richard Rogers celebrates 80th birthday today and last friday openined the major retrospective at Royal Academy of Art, London. The exhibition shows the most representative projects of the well-known architect, exploring his social, political and…