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Big Ideas, Small Buildings: Some of Architecture’s Best, Tiny Projects
This post was originally published in The Architectural Review as “Size Doesn’t Matter: Big Ideas for Small Buildings.“ Taschen’s latest volume draws together the architectural underdogs that, despite...
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Competing Utopias: An Experimental Installation of Cold War Modern Design...
Competing Utopias is a design collision that should never happen. But somehow, in Los Angeles, in 2014, twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it will. This installation is a ‘mash-up’...
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ABC Building / Wise Architecture
Architects: Wise Architecture Location: 695-39 Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea Project Manager: Lee Jeong Hoon Area: 163.0 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Chin HyoSook From the architect. The...
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National September 11 Memorial Museum Celebrates Opening
Today marked the ceremonially opening of the National September 11 Memorial Museum. Set to officially open to the public next Wednesday (May 21), the subterranean museum has already made headlines for...
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Villa CP / Zest Architecture
Architects: Zest Architecture Location: Girona, Spain Area: 440 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Jesús Granada Building Company: Construccions Edinou, sl Geothermical Installation: Geotics Innova, sl...
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What Makes a City a City?
You probably use the word ‘city’ on a daily basis, but if put on the spot – could you give it a concise definition? Under the rule of Henry VIII, the title of city was given to virtually any...
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Kouhsar Villa / Next Office–Alireza Taghaboni
Architects: Alireza Taghaboni Location: Kordan, Iran Area: 1,118 sqft Year: 2013 Photographs: Parham Taghiof Design Development: Roohollah Rasooli Design Associates: Masoud Saghi, Farideh...
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Arckit: Freeform Model Making System Hits the Market
Physical model making can be time intensive and expensive. However, thanks to the makers of Arckit, that will soon change. Based on a panel by panel modular system and a standard 1.2m grid, the newly...
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Zen House / Estudio Gómez de la Torre & Guerrero Arquitectos
Architects: Estudio Gómez de la Torre & Guerrero Arquitectos Location: Asia District, Peru Architect In Charge: Enrique Gómez de la Torre Salas, María del Carmen Guerrero Yábar Area: 245.0 sqm...
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Venice Biennale 2014: NRJA to Establish First-Ever Database of Latvian...
The architects of NRJA have been chosen to curate Latvia’s participation at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. Based on the assertion that “there is (no) modernism in Latvia,” the pavilion’s...
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Norman Foster Receives Inaugural Isamu Noguchi Award
Click here to view the embedded video. Norman Foster has been selected alongside artist Hiroshi Sugimoto to receive the inaugural Isamu Noguchi Award. Presented by Motohide Yoshikawa, the ambassador...
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Loft Apartment / Ruetemple
Architects: Ruetemple Location: Moscow, Russia Architect In Charge: Alexander Kudimov, Daria Butahina, Natalia Gubareva Area: 150 sqm Year: 2014 Photographs: Courtesy of Ruetemple From the architect....
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The Screened House / Brewin Design Office
Architects: Brewin Design Office Location: Singapore Area: 3,500 sqft Photographs: Darren Soh From the architect. The addition and alteration to this existing semi-detached house converts the 3,500 Sq...
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Exhibition: TALL DC / New Monumentalism
Since it was enacted by Congress, the Height of Buildings Act of 1910 has restricted how tall buildings can be designed in the District of Columbia. TALL DC: New Monumentalism features student work...
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E House / Hannat Architects
Architects: Hannat Architects Location: Miyagi, Japan Project Team: Yosuke Hoshina, Risa Tsutsumi Area: 113 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Koichi Torimura From the architect. This single family residence...
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Antony-Multisports Complex / Archi5 + Tecnova architecture
Architects: Archi5 + Tecnova architecture Location: Rue de l’Annapurna, Antony, France Area: 3,989 sqm Year: 2011 Photographs: Courtesy of Archi5 associated with Tecnova architecture Main Contractor:...
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Sports Hall at C.P. Pablo Iglesias / Planta 33 Arquitectura
Architects: Planta 33 Arquitectura Location: Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Spain Architect In Charge: Rodrigo Muñoz García Area: 830 sqm Year: 2011 Photographs: Miguel de Guzmán, Palíndromo Mészáros...
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Work On Walkie Talkie Fix Will Start This Month
Work to alter Rafael Viñoly Architects‘ 20 Fenchurch Street – dubbed the Walkie Talkie due to its unusual shape and then the “Walkie Scorchie” after it created a heat-focusing ray strong enough to...
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Critical Round-Up: The September 11 Memorial Museum
Set to open to the public on Wednesday after a highly controversial and contested journey from idea to reality, the September 11 Memorial Museum has inevitably been a talking point among critics this...
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House in Sakura / Yamazaki Kentaro Design
Architects: Yamazaki Kentaro Design Location: Sakura, Chiba, Japan Area: 95.0 sqm Photographs: Naomi Kurozumi Architectural Photographic Office Structural Design : ASD /Ryuji Tabata,Takayuki Tabata...
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