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JOHANNESBURG - Centre Méridional de l'Architecture et de la Ville

JOHANNESBURG - Centre Méridional de l'Architecture et de la Ville | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it

Johannesburg, Afrique du Sud. Pour une architecture de la vie quotidienne Exposition produite et présentée par l’ENSA de Toulouse du 25 mai au 28 juillet


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The Edge Summer Houses / React Architects, Paros Cyclades, Greece

The Edge Summer Houses / React Architects, Paros Cyclades, Greece | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it

Purpose of the study is to design two summer homes with guest houses, overlooking the sea and neighboring island of Antiparos. The residences located on the highest point of the lot. The courtyards constitute the conjunctive element of residences. Wide stairs lead to landings in the large viewing “plateaus”, traversing indoors and outdoors spaces. Planting is enhanced on roofs and intermediate yards.

 

Architects: React Architects - Yiorgos Spiridonos, Natasha Deliyianni Location: Paros Cyclades, Greece Project Manager: Yiorgos Spiridonos,...

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Skyscrapers in Seoul: Dancing Dragons by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

Skyscrapers in Seoul: Dancing Dragons by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it

Skyscrapers in Seoul: a pair of 450 metre-high towers with glass scales by Chicago firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture are the latest of fifteen skyscrapers commissioned for the Yongsan International Business District in Seoul, South Korea, following recently released designs by BIG and MVRDV.

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Dezeen » Dynamic Architecture in Dubai

Dezeen » Dynamic Architecture in Dubai | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it

Italian experimental architecture company Dynamic Architecture has proposed a revolving sustainable skyscraper for Dubai powered by wind turbines placed between each floor.

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La Région veut encourager les formes innovantes d’habitat solidaire pour les jeunes ! - Région Bretagne

La Région veut encourager les formes innovantes d’habitat solidaire pour les jeunes ! - Région Bretagne | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it
Vous avez des idées ou des projets ? Répondez à l’appel à manifestation d’intérêt lancé pour imaginer de nouvelles solutions au logement des jeunes.
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The street is a theatre - Architecture - Domus

The street is a theatre - Architecture - Domus | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it
At the Lina Bo Bardi-designed Teatro Oficina, we met with the company's animator-in-chief — a Tropicalist convinced that all architecture could become a space for performance, if it allowed itself to be cannibalised by theatre.

 

via Ethel Baraona Pohl ‏@ethel_baraona

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Constructions en paille : l’application des règles professionnelles

Constructions en paille : l’application des règles professionnelles | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it

L’AQC, Agence Qualité Construction, a entériné courant janvier 2012, les obligations professionnelles instaurées par le Réseau français de la construction en paille (règles CP 2012). Celles-ci imposent notamment aux « compaillons » de se former à la construction paille ou d’obtenir un VAE, à accompagner d’un suivi d'expérience sur deux années.

 

La construction paille, désormais encadrée

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Dans la ville haute

Dans la ville haute | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it

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Anthony Gormley’s ‘Event Horizon’, Sao Paulo

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  The 31 life-size body cast sculptures have appeared on rooftops in the city as part of the artist’s first show in the South American country, being held at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil.

 

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Le Courrier de l'Architecte | Ville 3.0 - Vers une nouvelle citoyenneté

Le Courrier de l'Architecte | Ville 3.0 - Vers une nouvelle citoyenneté | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it

Une nouvelle citoyenneté est en train de naitre, celle de la révolution numérique, de l’économie cognitive, de l’hyperUrbain... J'ai choisit d'illustrer ce que pourrait être la ville si les hommes décidaient, dans un futur indéfini, d'aller vivre ailleurs, pour fonder une ville s'appuyant sur ces nouvelles relations que propose internet.

 

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La VIII BIAU premia 26 obras como las mejores de la arquitectura y el urbanismo iberoamericanos

La VIII BIAU premia 26 obras como las mejores de la arquitectura y el urbanismo iberoamericanos | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it

  Incluye proyectos construidos en España (5), Portugal (6),  México (3), Argentina (2), Colombia (2), Paraguay (2), Chile (1), Ecuador (1) y Venezuela (1).

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“Beam Drop”, an Anti-architecture Performance by Chris Burden (1985-2008) : socks-studio

“Beam Drop”, an Anti-architecture Performance by Chris Burden (1985-2008) : socks-studio | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it
“Beam Drop Inhotim” is the recreation of an original work that artist Chris Burden displayed at Art Park (New York) in 1985 and that was destroyed three years later.

 

For twelve hours a crane dropped 71 junkyard beams from an height of 45 meters onto a fresh cement pit. The random fall of the beams echoes abstract expressionism gestural acts as Jackson Pollocks’ paintings and is equally the result of both the control of the artist and the chance.

 

The violence inherent in the beam’s falling recalls past extreme works of the seminal artist, namely: “Shoot”, a 1971 performance in which he asked a friend to shoot him in the arm inside a gallery, or the “anti-architecture” work Samson (1985), (read “Art against architecture: Chris Burden 1985′s Samson“, on Socks), a sculpture meant to millimetrically destroy the gallery it was installed in, each time a visitor entered. In the case of “Beam Drop”, the beams are like the artist’s body falling and crashing against Earth.

 

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From line to hyperreality - Architecture - Domus

From line to hyperreality - Architecture - Domus | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it
From Perry Kulper to Aristide Antonas, from Xavier Claramunt to François Roche, a group of architects in a timeless dialogue examine the methods and aims of representation in architectural research today.

 

An architecture report from Barcelona by Ethel Baraona Pohl, AR interaction by dpr-barcelona powered by Aurasma

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DIY Digital Design: 10 Tools to Model Dream Homes & Rooms | WebUrbanist

DIY Digital Design: 10 Tools to Model Dream Homes & Rooms | WebUrbanist | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it
Daydreaming about changing your living room layout, or just want to design a fantasy home a la 'The Sims'? Check out these 10 (mostly free) online design tools.

 

via Architects Twibe ‏@architwibe

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#Barcelona - Poblenou : MIZIEN Architects

#Barcelona - Poblenou : MIZIEN Architects | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it

Poblenou, a former industrial district of Barcelona, has been transformed in the 22 @ technology district during the last decade: a new model of compact city, where innovative companies co-exist with research, training and tech transfer centers, as well as housing, facilities, green areas and industrial heritage. Gaes, a hearing aid company in the 22 @, represents the case of an old Catalan industry in Poblenou that has become during the same period a multinational corporation with an industrial integrated model of research, clean production and marketing.

 

Architects: MIZIEN Location: Barcelona, Spain Client: Gaes S.A.

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(91) y si de andar se trata… | VIDEOURBANA

(91) y si de andar se trata… | VIDEOURBANA | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it

 

Rio de Janeiro no es solo el Pão de Açucar….

Después de lo andado, ni guetos urbanos, ni
periféricos urbanos, ni urbanismos de la desesperación. Ni urbanismo formal, ni urbanismo informal.

Partimos de la eliminación conceptual de los “ellos” y los “nosotros” y de cualquier tipo de confrontación ideológica para pensar y hacer desde el “todos”.

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Masterplan for the Honghe Project / AECOM

Masterplan for the Honghe Project / AECOM | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it

Commissioned by the Golden Harbor Group, the design for the masterplan for the Honghe project by AECOM is aimed to help Longgang, an emerging area of Shenzhen, to function positively on the city’s renovation and upgrading. Located in a new rising area, the project covers the south area of the main venue for last year’s University Games. Their design will not only become the complex of services in east Shenzhen, but will lead the development of sports and mice industries, which will also be important for Shenzhen to become the base radiation to the development of east Guangdong Province. More images and architects’ description after the break.

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Farshid Moussavi Architecture wins French Residential Complex

Farshid Moussavi Architecture wins French Residential Complex | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it
Farshid Moussavi Architecture has just shared their winning residential proposal for the La Défense financial district to the west of Paris with us.
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Tour autoportée la plus haute du monde : TOKYO SKYTREE

Tour autoportée la plus haute du monde : TOKYO SKYTREE | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it

Tour autoportée la plus haute du monde.


La ville de Tokyo procédera demain à l'inauguration de la tour autoportée la plus haute du monde. Avec ses 634 mètres, le Tokyo Sky Tree devient également la deuxième plus haute construction du monde derrière la Burj Khalifa de Dubai, qui mesure près de 830 mètres.

 

TOKYO SKYTREE Official Website...

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Visualización en Arquitectura: MEGALOMANIA / Jonathan Gales

Visualización en Arquitectura: MEGALOMANIA / Jonathan Gales | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it

Esta semana en nuestra serie de Visualización en Arquitectura les queremos mostrar el trabajo de Jonathan Gales, ganador del  2011 CGarchitect Architectural 3D Awards en categoría de Imagen. La imagen galardonada pertenece a una serie de vistas del autor llamada Megalomania, y la animación que se muestra en el video, es una compilación de ellas.

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Archigram | Analogic Hyperlinks

Archigram | Analogic Hyperlinks | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it
A visual composition combining captions from different printed sources. An attempt to reverse time linearity and blog and hyperlink “from five decades ago”. —– Sources: -AD ‘D...

dpr-barcelona 

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Vis[LE] : architecture, urbanisme, paysage, patrimoine...: VIS[LE] VOYAGE | LA PISCINE JOSEPHINE BAKER

Vis[LE] : architecture, urbanisme, paysage, patrimoine...: VIS[LE] VOYAGE | LA PISCINE JOSEPHINE BAKER | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it

Depuis les quais de la Seine, cette péniche de 90 m de long ne nous échappe pas des yeux. Au niveau de la bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterrand, vous pouvez découvrir cette drôle de péniche qui abrite une piscine ! Suite à la création de Paris Plage, cette piscine est imaginée, mais elle a connu quelques malchances : un incendie fin 2006 et une mauvaise manœuvre technique qui a failli la faire couler... Cependant, elle offre un cadre exceptionnel pour nager. Et l'été, sa toiture se rétracte pour laisser apparaître le soleil.

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Le Corbusier, un retour aux sources - Métropolitiques

Le Corbusier, un retour aux sources - Métropolitiques | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it

Un siècle après sa rédaction, le récit du périple accompli par Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (futur Le Corbusier) en Europe centrale et le long de la Méditerranée septentrionale reparaît dans une édition critique. Toute l’œuvre de l’architecte peut se comprendre à travers les émotions qu’il ressentit lors de ce voyage véritablement initiatique.

 

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BLDGBLOG: Secret Soviet Cities

BLDGBLOG: Secret Soviet Cities | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it

[T]he cities themselves were never shown on official maps produced by the Soviet regime. Implicated in the Cold War posture of producing weapons for the Soviet military-industrial complex, these cities were some of the most deeply secret and omitted places in Soviet geography. Those who worked in these places had special passes to live and leave, and were themselves occluded from public view. Most of the scientists and engineers who worked in the ZATOs were not allowed to reveal their place or purpose of employment.

 

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Brute Force Architecture and its Discontents - etc

Brute Force Architecture and its Discontents - etc | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it

“Globalization destabilizes and redefines both the way architecture is produced and that which architecture produces. Architecture is no longer a patient transaction between known quantities that share cultures, no longer the manipulation of established possibilities, no longer a possible judgement in rational terms of investment and return”

—Rem Koolhaas, Globalization, S,M,L,XL

 

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