Staab Architekten won the competition to extend the Walter Gropius-designed site they were very aware that they couldn’t – and didn’t want – to do anything that would overshadow the existing structures, or, as practice founder Volker Staab puts it, ‘turn it into a secondary building’. The architects’ answer to this specific constraint is a […]
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Ce bunker convertie en maison contemporaine exclusive a été conçue par Kavakava Architectsen Estonie. Localisée à proximité d’une villa militaire en ex-Union soviétique, la maison abritait une base de formation sous marine nucléaire. Le point de départ lors de la construction était une ancienne caserne de l’armée faite de briques de silicate de calcium. La cliente a voulu réinterpréter […]
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The Maldives’ reputation as a luxury resort destination continues to strengthen with all eyes peeled on the newly opened Joali on the sugary white beaches of Muravandhoo island in the northern Raa Atoll. Architect Cüneyt Bükülmez of Istanbul-based firm Atölye4n, has laid out the resort to include a show-stopping arrival jetty – its undulating thatched […]
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“We value your ideas and work with you to create inspiring and functional living and working environments. We strive to create timeless architecture with embodied spirit, responsive to budget and the environment.” — Hugh Maguire We want to collaborate with you and build you a joyful place. Architecture is for living, after all. Our projects […]
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Kunz Architektur
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An olive tree grows up from a patch of gravel towards a circular skylight in this Los Angeles fashion store, which was designed by local studio Dan Brunn Architecture. Dan Brunn Architecture – the studio that also recently renovated a Frank Gehry-designed house – created the flagship store for Los Angeles fashion brand Road to Awe. It occupies an overhauled […]
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Andrew G. Fisher is an artist who opens a constant relationship between two media, photography and illustration. Time is frozen in black and white snapshots, squared frames of a reality in which the human presence is absent at present time, but survives through its traces. The same scenes are reduced to a simpler geometry, traced […]
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Owen D. Pomery has an educational and professional background in architecture and nowadays he works in pen and ink as a professional illustrator for architectural projects. Paralelly, he also makes editorial illustrations and narrative works. Some interesting sketches synthesize built forms through simple textures created with parallel lines and different spacing, others are inspired by the graphic […]
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Mike Lee was born in Placentia, California and is currently based in New York City. He majored in Digital Media at Otis College of Art and Design and graduated in 2006. Fortunate enough to find a job in his field right out of school, Mike has been working in the feature film and commercial illustration industry for […]
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Today, the target for hunger reduction is on a global scale. In Asia Pacific, 12% of the population is in bad health because of a lack of food, and just in Vietnam from 2014 to 2016, this number is 11%, which means that 10.3 million people are underfed. Global climate change has been influencing […]
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Russian avant-garde artist El Lissitzky, made a career of utilizing art for social and political change. Although often highly abstract and theoretical, Lissitzky’s work was able speak to the prevailing political discourse of his native Russia, and then the nascent Soviet Union. Following Kazimir Malevich in the Suprematist idiom, Lissitzky used color and basic shapes […]
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California Academy of Sciences ( San Francisco, U.S.A) – Renzo Piano
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We took part in a competition to design a doll’s house to highlight issues affecting disabled children and to suggest solutions that would improve their life if translated to real houses. We were aware of how the many changes to the benefit system and rising rents have made it more difficult for disabled children and their […]
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