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Instagram account dank.lloyd.wright aims to “amplify narratives that are excluded from architecture’s official consensus”

August 30, 2022 James Brillon 0
dank lloyd wright meme instagram

Meme culture can be an important form of critical discourse in architecture and design, according to the anonymous satirical Instagram account @dank.lloyd.wright. “The problem is that traditional power relations and patterns of extraction carry on as usual under a veneer of progressive language,” the anonymous administrators of the Instagram account told Dezeen “We want to

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Dezeen Agenda newsletter features an elevated circular metropolis proposed for Dubai

August 30, 2022 Rupert Bickersteth 0
A circular structure around a skyscraper

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features an elevated circular metropolis proposed to encircle the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now! This week, architecture studio ZN Era envisioned a skyscraper called Downtown Circle, which would be built around the world’s tallest building in downtown Dubai. Set to be 550-metres tall and 3,000

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Plup! Studio completes pair of low-cost dwellings in Costa Rican jungle

August 30, 2022 James Brillon 0
Low cost Costa Rica house

Costa Rica studio Plup! has completed a pair of structures topped with dramatic skylights on the slopes of the Barva Volcano using inexpensive materials. The series of structures were completed in 2021 in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica. The area’s climate is extremely damp, which led the studio to favour a design that

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TA Rehabilitation / OMCM arquitectos

August 30, 2022 Andreas Luco 0

Reforma TA consists of the rehabilitation of a humble and deteriorated family home of more than 30 years. Its constructive and spatial qualities were compromised by the passage of time and opposed to the contemporary requirements of functionality and comfort requested by the client. The project presented various budgetary, technical and connotative challenges from the start, since in addition to solving leaks, humidity, subsidence of floors, cracks and poorly arranged enclosures within a reasonable cost, we had to consider that the users of the house would be a blind person with their elderly mother. This framed our criteria of accessibility, luminosity, spatial fluidity, appropriate handling of colors, textures, etc.