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IronSource / RUST architects

December 31, 2017 Cristobal Rojas 0

RUST Architects in collaboration with Greentectura designed the Iron Source new head office in Sarona Tower in central Tel Aviv. The four floors, with a total area of ​​10,000 square meters, accommodate hundreds of employees in various departments.

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Venice Isn’t Sinking, It’s Flooding – And It Needs to Learn How to Swim

December 31, 2017 James Taylor-Foster 0

“Will you look at that? St. Mark’s Square is flooded!” An Australian day tripper is astonished. “This place is actually sinking,” her friend casually exclaims. They, like so many I’ve overheard on the vaporetti, are convinced that the Venetian islands exist on a precipice between the fragility of their current condition and nothing short of imminent submersion. With catastrophe always around the corner a short break in Venice is more of an extreme adventure trip than a European city-break. If it were true, that is.

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The Lichen House / Schwartz and Architecture

December 31, 2017 Rayen Sagredo 0

The precise relationship between lichen and its host provides inspiration for an architecture specifically tailored to its site ‐‐ both as a response to it and as an augmentation of its best attributes. The Lichen House works in concert with nature’s mechanisms, not to mimic them blindly, but to expand our understanding and experience of them through architecture.

Nilsson Pflugfelder’s prefabricated wooden house is designed to maintain owners’ privacy

December 31, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

This windows of this house in Cambridge, by architects office Nilsson Pflugfelder, are carefully positioned and sized to prevent overlooking by neighbouring properties. House R is a two-storey property in the centre of the English city, surrounded by Victorian terraces and their gardens. Nilsson Pflugfelder designed the house as a compact volume with striated timber facades. The

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Nilsson Pflugfelder’s prefabricated wooden house is designed to maintain owners’ privacy

December 31, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

This windows of this house in Cambridge, by architects office Nilsson Pflugfelder, are carefully positioned and sized to prevent overlooking by neighbouring properties. House R is a two-storey property in the centre of the English city, surrounded by Victorian terraces and their gardens. Nilsson Pflugfelder designed the house as a compact volume with striated timber facades. The

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10 Stylish Images of Cars and Architecture: The Best Photos of the Week

December 31, 2017 María Francisca González 0

The inclusion of cars in photographs of architecture is an interesting tool that can  help the viewer to understand the scale of a building. The addition of an automobile to a scene can not only help to transmit a notion of the size of the photographed elements, it can also be used to generate interesting compositional relationships to benefit the photograph as a whole. Below, we’ve highlighted a selection of 10 images from prominent photographers such as Rafael GamoMichael Sinclair and Bruno Candiotto which make effective use of this technique.

14 Shanghai architecture studios photographed by Marc Goodwin

December 31, 2017 Gunseli Yalcinkaya 0

The latest series of images by photographer Marc Goodwin offers a look inside 14 Shanghai-based architecture studios, belonging to firms including Neri & Hu, Archi-Union Architects and David Chipperfield Architects. Marc Goodwin has visited studios in numerous countries, as part of his ongoing project to reveal the workplaces of all of the world’s big-name architects. Following series in Paris, London, Beijing and

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Booom City / Vilaplana&Vilaplana estudio

December 31, 2017 Daniel Tapia 0

Booom City is a playful technological installation combining the Mediterranean popular stakes [Hogueras](ephemeral urban monument burned in the summer equinox night) built with traditional construction techniques with the use of new technologies to offer an expanded experience of the city through the use of an Augmented Reality App and the Smartphone. The installation reconstructs fragments of disappeared cinemas, spas, and ballrooms to be enjoyed again by the citizens, who can rediscover and interact with those places in a virtual way.