This investigation of natural lightweight structures was conducted in an interdisciplinary cooperation of architects and engineers from Stuttgart University and biologists from Tubingen University within the Module: Bionics of Animal Constructions…
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ICD ITKE Pabellón de investigación 2013-14. Fotografías por ICD/ITKE Universidad de Stuttgart

ICD ITKE. Carbon-fibre pavilion based on beetle shells

Building Pictures is a Portuguese website specialized in architecture videos, and to celebrate the Year of Portuguese architecture, launched the Call for Entries: "What's your Favorite Space? ", inviting architects, students of architecture,…
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What’s Your Favorite Space?

When a couple of architects have children, a big garden and a too much creativity a lot of things can happen. In this case the construction of a small playhouse during 15 days, with a bit more than 10 m² and a budget smaller than 1.000€. A small…
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Project drawing. Playhouse by A&EB. Image © courtesy of A&EB

Playhouse by A&EB

They became known worldwide for one of his first works, "Koolhaas. Houselife". Now, Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine have been commissioned by Rem Koolhaas, the curator of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of Venice, to work on a very…
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La Maddalena. By Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine

Enter a world populated by private eyes, gangsters, psychopaths, and femmes fatales, where deception, lust, and betrayal run rampant. The first film-by-film photography book on film noir and neo-noir, this essential collection begins with the early…
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Into the shadows. Film Noir. 100 All-Time Favorites.

Jacques Herzog, a founding partner of studio Herzog & de Meuron and Juan Ignacio Apoita, director of Human Resources and Services BBVA. , full_html
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Jacques Herzog at BBVA city

Jacques Herzog at BBVA city [VIDEO]

This Monday, May 26, this portrait of the Italian marriage, two of the most influential designers in the world in the last half century, will be released., full_html
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Design is One: Lella and Massimo Vignelli

"Design is one" will show the work of the Vignelli

Press conference of the Architecture Biennale 2014, attended by Paolo Baratta and Rem Koolhaas. [2 videos] , full_html
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Architecture Biennale 2014 - An overview

This weekend showed you on Twitter (@METALOCUS) and Facebook METALOCUS, this video. The BBC channel always is a surprise and this rare footage shows us Le Corbusier as a “young man of 71-years-old” surrounded by sculptures, paintings and talking…
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Rare film of Le Corbusier in his Paris home and studio

Rare film of Le Corbusier in his Paris home and studio

Shibaura House by Kazuyo Sejima is the fourth video about Japan serie by Vincent Hecht. The building was finished by Kasuyo Sejima in Shibaura, Shinagawa, Japan, and you can check more links on METALOCUS about it, below, , full_html
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[Japan Collection #4] Shibaura House by Kazuyo Sejima

[Japan Collection #4] Shibaura House by Kazuyo Sejima