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Rem Koolhaas recently took a walking tour of Hafencity, in Der Speigel's hometown, Hamburg. A man in a dark-green coat flapping in the wind strides through Hamburg's HafenCity district. He is almost two meters (6' 6") tall, wiry, bald and with the…
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"The Persistence of Geometry". The exhibition explores the discursive lines of ”la Caixa” Foundation and MACBA collections around the use of geometry in sculpture and installation since the sixties. , full_html
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The Museum of Modern Art announced Wednesday the appointment of Pedro Gadanho Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design. The newest member to MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design will be taking on the task of “building the Museum’…
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Pedro Gadanho. Image © David Farran
Some of their structures remind us of bold visions of the future, in which plants reclaim nature for themselves. WOHA architects from Singapore – Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell – realize the permeation of buildings and landscape, of interiors and…
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Duxton Plain Public Housing, Concurso, Singapore, 2001/02. Rendering by WOHA
Although his speech is known, it is always interesting to hear again. Jaime Lerner is an architect and urban planner. With a vision of architect ruled three times his home town Curitiba, and two state of Parana. With these ideas organized the…
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Jaime Lerner
DAM AWARD FOR ARCHITECTURE IN GERMANY 2011. The 23 best buildings in/from Germany. The 2011\12 edition of the German Architecture Annual, that has now been brought out by Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) for over 30 years, offers a highly diverse…
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This proposal for a housing block tower in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo by John Szot Studio seeks to harness the intrepid spirit behind the city’s idiosyncratic character by bringing the spatial diversity and eccentricity exhibited at the urban scale…
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The twelfth issue of the quarterly design journal MAS Context, ABERRATION, is already out. Contributors to this issue include Atelier Olschinsky, Nick Axel, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Vladimir Belogolovsky, Michael Chen, formlessfinder, The Freise Brothers…
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Cover design by Luis Urculo. © Luis Urculo
Architecture informs people and people inform architecture. Ingrid von Kruse’s very personal portrait shots trace the people behind the building designs. The photographs will be complemented by statements from some of the major contemporary…
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We bring a project already known,it showed in Madrid and was posted here several months ago (link below): "THE WALLS ARE COMING DOWN. Sensorial activation spaces", their authors send us all documentation, it is a good oportunity to publication. ,…
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The Walls by TAKK. Photography © Takk