The City of Helsinki is arranging an open two-stage international architectural competition for the design of a Central Library. The competition looks for a contemporary library design. Heart of the Metropolis, the architectural competition for the…
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Entry no. 149, pseudonym ”Käännös”
Since 2004, the French artist JR has traveled the world flyposting colossal black-and-white portraits of ordinary citizens on the walls of city buildings. His most recent project, The Wrinkles of the City, began in Cartagena, Spain, where he…
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JR & Jose Parla, Wrinkles of the City, Havana, Cuba
The winners of the 1st edition are as follows (in addition there are 10 Special Mentions and 30 Finalists). You know our interest in supporting such initiatives. METALOCUS has been one of the initial partners, reason we congratulate the organizers…
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This concrete house, in Kitaōji - Kyoto, by Torafu Architects (Japanese architects), was designed for a client in a wheelchair and with special…
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Night view. House in Kitaōji by Torafu Architects. Photography © Daici Ano. Courtesy of Torafu Architects
Are we really aware of the new talent that could take over the future of our architecture? Today we want to talk about those people who try, with effort and enthusiasm, to make this complicated future that awaits the new Spanish architects not so…
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Young architecture in Spain does not defraud
We want to present the presentation by the study KATOxVictoria taking place in Copenhagen until the end of November. Thanks to the models, we approach different projects, all with a direct spatial relationship and dialogue with nature through a main…
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EXHIBITION TABLE (model 1:1). Image courtesy of © KATOxVictoria
This Glass Tea House is thir winning entry for a competition organized by AAF and AGC Studio in Japan in November 2011.The tea house was later constructed as a 1:1 Mock-up in the AGC Studio in Kyobashi, Tokyo where it stood until May 2012. Great!…
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Glass Tea House. Image courtesy of © KATOxVictoria
Today is the public opening of "Contemporary Cartographies. Drawing Thought", a major exhibition featuring cartographies drawn up by twentieth- and twenty-first century artists who explore and question the systems of representation that humans have…
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Lecture series 2012-2013. Engagement: Hubert Klumpner “Gran Horizonte: The City Was Not Prepared for the People and the People Have Not Been Prepared for the City”, full_html
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Alfredo Hubert Klumpner in “Engagement”
This new house by Yo Shimada of Tato Architects is located in a residential area in Hyogo Prefecture, the house was designed for a family with two children. Tato architects have sent us images of a…
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Yamasaki house by Tato Architects. Photography © Ken'ichi Suzuki