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Protruding Glass Windows Add Interest To This New Building In London

June 3, 2019 Erin 0

Photography by Freya Najade   Da Costa Mahindroo Architects (DROO) have completed the Castle Lane Apartments in London, England, and as part of the building design they included protruding glass windows.   Photography by Freya Najade The floor-to-ceiling curved windows were designed to enlarge the interior living space, while also adding interest to the exterior […]

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3,564 Parts Have Been Used To Create This Cloud-Like Sculpture In North Carolina

June 3, 2019 Erin 0

Photography by NAARO   MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY has created a modern sculpture named ‘Pillars of Dreams’, that’s located in the plaza of the Valerie C. Woodard Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.   Photography by NAARO The cloud-like formation has a lightweight structure, and its open volumes appear to be filled with air, but they […]

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Tehran Skyscraper Combines Cryptocurrency Mining with Vertical Water Park

June 3, 2019 Eric Baldwin 0

As an entry to the 2019 Evolo Skyscraper Competition, JCPOA Tower was designed to combine cryptocurrency mining with a water park. Created by Ilia Attarpour, Dadbeh Mohebbi Gilani, and Ramtin Taherian, the project considered the US economic sanctions on Iran and the geopolitical crisis around the country’s currency devaluation and near economic collapse. The designers proposed a cryptocurrency mining tower under the cover of its secondary water park function. The skyscraper explores how sanctions can be manipulated as a way out of crisis.

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House in Correas / Rodrigo Simão Arquitetura

June 3, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

Interview with architect Rodrigo Simão
I was developing for the same couple a different project in Itaipava, another place in the same city. Already in the detailing phase. It was a very horizontal and full of aediculae house, containing independent suites for the 23 and 30 years old son and daughter. The project resembled very much Frank Lloyd Wright prairie houses, belonging to a place, with the mixed structure of Stone walls, steel, and wood. The owners ended up suddenly with the opportunity to acquire another beautiful condo lot in a forest area in Correas and we changed the address of the project adapting the program of construction.