America is adapting to the environmental challenges of tomorrow by renovating even its most iconic building — the Empire State Building. The historic landmark is undergoing a range of energy-saving technology upgrades to make it 40 percent more…
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Empire State Building Goes Green: Planet Forward. Video screenshot
Already available the list of 343 nominees for the "Mies Van der Rohe" Architecture European awards. Including the list of 36 nominees Spanish, good luck to all!, are: , full_html
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Today (Tuesday), Juan Herreros give a lecture at IaaC, 19h30 about subject: “recycling the city”. , full_html
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Reform of the Satellite Control Center Hispasat, Madrid, 2009. Images by Herreros Arquitectos
The 2 new Metro stations of Line 9 in Barcelona, La Salut and Llefià, are located in strategic places in the city of Badalona, 34 m and 54 m depth respectively. The proposals were developed from two main aspects: reducing the effect of…
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Wednesday, March 2, the "Preservation Chicago" unveiled the "Chicago Seven," its list of Chicago's seven most threatened buildings and historic places of 2011. It is a little far but if you click on their website you can see the complete list of…
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On Friday the news was burning on the network. Norman Foster (Foster + Partners) won the competition to design the Hong Kong Cultural District. The battle, as some have referred to this contest, had as protagonists some people of the Star System…
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© Image courtesy of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority / Foster + Partners
A short video about LE DAUPHIN (131 Avenue Parmentier, Paris 11e) the new restaurant Iñaki Aizpitarte team, chef at Le Chateaubriand., full_html
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Le Dauphin por OMA
Studio Banana TV shared with us their interview with Swiss architect Christian Kerez. Amongst his most well known projects are the Chapel in Oberrealta, the Liechtenstein Art Museum (in collaboration with Morger and Degelo), the apartment building…
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 Leutschenbach School by Christian Kerez. Courtesy of Christian Kerez
The project is a four-story multi-functional building with commercial programs and rooftop housing, a common building prototype in Seoul. The program includes a bar in the basement, a café on the first, second, and third floors, and rooftop housing…
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This video illustrates the construction process of the Reader's House, Antón García-Abril and Ensamble Studio's project, which occupies two of the warehouses of Matadero-Madrid, the Old Slaughter House in Madrid. , full_html
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Image courtesy of © Emsamble Studio