Groupe Auchan chooses danish architecture BIG to design EuropaCity an urban landscape hybrid of culture leisure and retail carved into the landscape of the Triangle de Gonesse., full_html
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Europa City Development in Paris, competition. By BIG. Courtesy of Europa City
An unexpected housing proposal is posed by Edouard François in his residential project, located in one of the neighborhoods near the city-town of Champigny-sur-Marne in Les Mordacs France, is able to integrate a housing program with a commercial use…
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Contrast of material on facades. Urban Collage project by Edouard François
We received this interesting proposal, the “Sunshade Competition”, organized by IFAC2013-Festival Internacional de Arte y Construcción. The object of the competition consist on designing a itinerant textil sunshade device in order to build it in a…
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Sunshade Competition
This Thursday April 11 died at 89 years the architect Clorindo Testa. When I first visited Buenos Aires in 1994, after being invited in Montevideo, my friends advised me not to…
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Clorindo Testa 1923-2013
The golden images in the latest series of IN TREATMENT [> 2] METALOCUS by Melissa Schumacher help us to say goodbye to our 2nd season of IN TREATMENT. This new series has been fantastic. The goodbyes always must be short, so soon until next…
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Full view of the cultural center. Photography © Melissa Schumacher
"When a new home for the American Folk Art Museum opened on West 53d Street in Manhattan in 2001 it was hailed as a harbinger of hope for the city after the Sept. 11 attacks and praised for its bold architecture." Thus begins his article in The New…
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Night view, American Folk Art Museum in New York City before being demolished in 2014
We want to share with you more information of the project Dwellings in Paris by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal, published in METALOCUS a year ago. We emphasize the importance of the performance, in it they notably improve an apartment building…
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Transformation of Housing Block, The Bois le Prêtre by Druot and Lacaton & Vassal. Floor 16, balcony, south facade. Photography © Frédéric Druot Architecture
We discover the creative process of a competition presented internationally, involving architects of different nationalities. Francisco Peláez is the responsible of telling it us, as a part of an architecture office in Amsterdam, for a new episode…
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Rendering. Courtesy of Francisco Peláez Marín
MAD Architects have recently finished their China Wood Sculpture Museum located in Harbin, north China. Completely clad in metal, the 200-meter long building, sits nestled in a densely residential area, adding a cultural and surreal essence to the…
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China Wood Sculpture Museum by MAD Architects. Photography © Xiazhi
The work of this young Japanese architect Aoki Kimitaka, set aside our doubts about strength with which new japanese generations come. A clinic emerged from the own environment where it is placed and a job resolved with simplicity, naturalness and…
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Y-clinic by Kimitaka Aoki + ARCO architects. Photography © Ippei Shinzawa