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This excellent work by Manuel Álvarez Diestro, about the wooden towers devoted to pigeon farming in Cairo, is a statement of how this a non-intentional towers can become the identity of this…

As part of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, the Collateral Event “Time Space Existence” at Palazzo Bembo and Palazzo Mora presents architects from 6 continents, brought together in an extraordinary…

Masks exhibition features a series of 18 photographic portraits taken in the 1980s by Alberto Schommer, a recent recipient of the National Photography Prize, together with a selection of 13 portraits from the Museum’s own collection painted by…

Perfection is in the details. The decoration in this 'House for Installation' is a perfect example of Japanese minimalism. Dominant white color, clean forms and an almost poetic symmetry characterize this residence. Yet, as the architect says, the…

AstraZeneca last friday revealed the proposed designs for its new Global R&D Centre and Corporate Headquarters in Cambridge in the UK. The plans for the new facility, which will be located on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC), include…

Architecture, is it a vehicle for displaying excess and decadence? Is it modern architecture and its grammatical styles, a wasteful blip in history? "Fiction", is it a good adjective? or an odd and nonsensical word to use to describe something that…

A two-minute animated voyage through some of the most iconic masterpices of modern architecture. @_matteomuci_ , full_html

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The portuguese architect Alvaro Siza has renovated ‘the Boa Nova Casa de Chá / Boa Nova Tea House’, a project completed in 1963. The building, which has been fully renovated, now serves as a Restaurant leaded by Chef Rui Paula.

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The top three winners of the Solar Decathlon Europe 2014 were recently announced during the awards ceremony this past weekend in Versailles, France. For two years, the 20 student teams worked to build a full-scale, fully functioning solar-powered…