Teaching an Appreciation for Architecture Through Film
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Month: February 2020
NBBJ expresses sustainable hangzhou stadiums with lotus-petal elements
in the design of an olympic sports center for the chinese city of hangzhou, architecture firm NBBJ prioritizes environmental sustainability and public accessibility. comprising two sculptural stadiums, the world-class sporting venue is sited within one of the most prosperous cities in china that has tripled in size over the past decade. the team generates a […]
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Leo Marmol on Perils of Technology and Modernist Thinking
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NBBJ expresses sustainable hangzhou stadiums with organic lotus-petal elements
the radial plans of the two stadiums are formalized as an array of botanical elements, suggesting an organic movement.
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How Cities, and Architecture, Respond to the Wuhan Coronavirus
Does the Wuhan Coronavirus concern us? Yes, it does. Beyond the rush for health cures, cities are seen to react by using both architecture and urban strategic planning as tools for the virus’ containment, shattering our notions of city and resilience planning.
Renderforest Offices / Storaket Architectural Studio
This building was designed for Renderforest, an IT company among the top 100 software companies worldwide that offers products that make successful branding affordable and available to everyone. The initial building was a 2-story abandoned semi-finished construction, which needed to be completely redesigned and refurbished.
House 141 in Valme Street / Estudio Curtidores
The project its about the rehabilitation of 141 doors: the opportunity to recycle 141 wooden doors which where recycle by the owner from an old warehouse. As result of this, the opportunity arises to generate an inner skin, which is capable of drawing spaces of different dimensions, expandable and reducible, as the leaves opens or closes from the heart of the house, putting light in and appropiating the patio in very different ways depending of the users desire. The house (the patio and its extensions), is a toy to be modified at any time and it adapts to the needs of privacy or continuity of its inhabitants, or to the needs of light, depending on the external climate, or the internal mood of the inhabitants. A continuous skin that allows the house to be constituted of multiple small spaces of the same nature, thanks to the continuity of this internal nature that the doors build (and their large and small openings that allow the passage of people and light), or to transform into a one single space that gives the occasion to party with friends, dinner for guests or evenings between the patio and terraces.
‘windowology’ exhibition at japan house london explores windows as cultural objects
the exhibition explores the significance of windows beyond their primary architectural function.
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