On Monday the first round of the Mars One Astronaut Selection Program closed their first call for volunteer astronauts and more than 200,000 people from 140 countries have applied for a one-way ticket to join a human settlement on the red planet,…
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Overview. Mars One, human settlement. Image by Bryan Versteeg, Mars One
Throughout history, follies have been used widely in architecture, visual arts, and literature as a provocation, a frivolous diversion or strategic places of madness and satire freed from the constraints of societal norms. Follies have been employed…
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In collaboration with the local firm Ricky Liu & Associates, SANNA has just been announced as the winner of the international contest for the Taichung City Cultural Center design. , full_html
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First prize. SANAA proposal. Image of the project. Taichung City Cultural Center
Within the Danish traditional agriculture appears this stable for cows designed by LUMO Arkitekter which attempts to redefine the agriculture through new and innovative architectural spaces., full_html
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Vista exterior. Imagen © Jesper Balleby
Inspired by the Las Vegas aestetic, the jazz-clubs night in Chicago and how not, the famous strip-club of one of the most well-know series of HBO, The Sopranos, the Bada Bing strip-club, Bureau A brings us the revision of the boardwalk of Montreux,…
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Vision of one desk. Bada Bing boardwalk for Montreux Jazz Festival 2013 by Bureau A. Photograph © Dylan Perrenoud
A careful and respectful rehabilitation turns a disused old building in a farm, into a new cultural center of a small french village of the Bourgogne, through the local materials and the understanding of the constructive tradition of the area.,…
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Outside vision. Photograph © Pol Viladoms
Five different projects have been awarded with the Aga Kahn Award for Architecture 2013, within which we can find works in Sudan, Palestine, Morocco, Iran or Austria., full_html
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Entrance elevation. Islamic Cemetery. Location: Altach, Austria (Europe). Architect: Bernado Bader Architects, Dombirn, Austria. Completed: 2011. Design: 2008-2011. Site size: Ground floor area: 4’235 m² - Total site area: 8’415 m². Photograph © AKAA / Adolf Bereuter
It’s a great time to be a storyteller. That's what Blank Space, a new online platform for architecture founded in New York City, wants to show us with the launching "Fairy Tales," an uncommon competition that challenges creatives from all…
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The MAI is news one more time, for different reasons. The recently known relationship between Marina Abramović and Lady Gaga has turned into a perfect tandem for the Institute's purposes, which is still closer to become real., full_html
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Video screenshot. Marina Abramović Institute. Image © OMA
When facing the renovation of a 200 year old Quebec stone house and the design of a significant addition, the architects, Henri Cleinge and his team, was challenged to define a clear conceptual approach which would reconcile a contemporary…
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