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Jim Kazanjian has been making insanely realistic-looking but obviously fake photo-collages for a while.We first checked in with Kazanjian's monsters when they were dystopian Victorian mash-ups set to post-apocalyptic landscapes. Now, the Portland, Ore.-based artist — he works in commercial CGI by day — has moved onto something a bit more sinister. 
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![Competition launched for youth centre in Preston [Brutalist] Bus Station | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/EPbJy-BtYyiM8wvXKHoY_Tl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
An international design competition has been launched to create a facility for young people inside Preston Bus Station, an iconic Brutalist building.
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![[Kiruna, Sweden] Kjellander + Sjöberg’s Swedish Urban Block to Increase “Civic Dialogue” | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/PYxUxOQVXffzoZXxnEA89Tl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Architects: Kjellander + Sjöberg Architects
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ROOM ROOM est présenté dans le cadre de l’événement MOBILE HOMES, du 14 février au 29 mars 2015 sur les Berges de Seine, à Paris. Un ensemble d’architectures éphémères s’implantent au niveau du port de Solférino, dans le cadre de la programmation autour de Paris Climat 2015/COP21. Ces prototypes de logements modulables questionnent la notion de l’habitat en ville et permettent d’expérimenter d’autres manières d’habiter en mêlant l’humour, l’art et l’architecture. ENCORE HEUREUX recherche merci d’écrire à job@encoreheureux.org pour plus de détails https://www.facebook.com/pages/Encore-heureux-Architectes-et-collectif-depuis-2001/47949976774?ref=nf
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![[Paris, Francia] 65 habitaciones de alojamiento para estudiantes / Jacques Ripault Architecture | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/pPpRZ77AIil817oL1MFM4Tl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
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El sitio web de arquitectura más leído en habla hispana. Tuits de nuestros editores David Basulto, Pola Mora y Nicolás Valencia. Chile
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URBAN TALES will showcase three distinct architectural artwork series exploring visions of narrative based city redevelopments. Featuring RIBA Presidents Medal-winning work, these original and engaging threads of imagery from UCL architecture graduates Ned Scott, Nick Elias and Anja Kempa objectify fiction and challenge political reality. The exhibitors question the role of architecture in a changing world and use fictional narratives to design fantastical, but possible, cities. URBAN TALES will kick off with an opening party on Friday, March 6 and remain on view through April 10, 2015 at Carousel London Title: URBAN TALES
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In celebration of the 100th Bauhaus anniversary, the Foundation Bauhaus Dessau has announced plans to construct a new Bauhaus Museum in Dessau. As part of a competition “preannouncement” published on the museum’s site, an open two-phased international competition will challenge architects to design a museum for the foundation’s “outstanding collection” under the “best possible conservation conditions.” Co-promoter of the competition, the City of Dessau-Roßlau is currently searching for possible sites that will allow the Bauhaus Museum Dessau to be integrated into the city’s central City Park. It is hoped that the museum and park will “strengthen and complement each other and enrich the location as a cultural centre.
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The City of Paris gave Dutch firm MVRDV the green light for its plan to restructure an aging mixed-use block which has failed to adapt to the needs of a modern urban society.
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Over the past 25 years, Photoshop has helped make photorealistic images of near-impossible projects an everyday fact of architecture. Image Courtesy of Urban
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![[IGH-ERP... ?] Fire DEVASTATES Dubai's 336-metre Torch skyscraper | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/gi4KBnfFGIUou3BBgDNLzzl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
One of the tallest residential skyscrapers in the world has been ravaged by a fire that caused more than a thousand people to be evacuated from their homes
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Les IGH sont soumis, selon leur type, à un règlement de sécurité particulier édicté initialement par l'arrêté du 30 décembre 2011 (remplaçant l'arrêté du 18 octobre 1977). Ce texte a subi depuis de nombreuses modifications successives destinées à la mise en œuvre des principes de sécurité définis à l'article R 122-9 du Code de la construction et de l'habitation :
Les propriétaires sont tenus de maintenir et d’entretenir les installations en conformité avec la réglementation IGH, sous le contrôle de la Commission consultative départementale de sécurité et d'accessibilité territorialement compétente. -------- La notion d’établissements recevant du public : Le terme établissement recevant du public (ERP), défini à l'article R.123-2 du code de la construction et de l’habitation (CCH), désigne tous bâtiments, locaux et enceintes dans lesquels des personnes sont admises, soit librement, soit moyennant une rétribution ou une participation quelconque, ou dans lesquels sont tenues des réunions ouvertes à tout venant ou sur invitation, payantes ou non. Sont considérées comme faisant partie du public toutes les personnes admises dans l’établissement à quelque titre que ce soit en plus du personnel. La définition d’ERP regroupe un très grand nombre d'établissements comme les cinémas, théâtres, magasins, bibliothèques, écoles, universités, hôtels, restaurants, hôpitaux, les établissements flottants (péniches à quai), etc., que ce soient des structures fixes ou provisoires (chapiteaux, ou structures gonflables). Les mesures qui doivent être respectées par les constructeurs, propriétaires et exploitants des ERP, sont déterminées compte tenu de la nature de l’exploitation, des dimensions des locaux, du mode de construction et du nombre de personnes pouvant être admises dans l’établissement. C’est pourquoi les ERP sont classés par types en fonction de la nature de leur exploitation et par catégories en fonction du nombre de personnes accueillies à l’intérieur des établissements.
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Entre New York, Hawaï et Chicago, le président des Etats-Unis a tranché récemment en choisissant l'endroit où sera bâtie la future Bibliothèque Barack Obama. C'est dans la dernière des trois villes, où il a notamment passé une bonne partie de sa vie dans les années 80 et 90.
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La ministre de la culture met en place trois groupes de réflexion thématiques dont les travaux seront rendus publics au mois de juin.
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![[AD Classics] JFK Presidential Library / I.M. Pei | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/PCMziQ-ej87RGxD0sSBjUTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Architect: I.M. Pei
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The Architects’ Journal recently published an enigmatic set of renderings, displaying what architect Richard Weston describes as a new genre of high-rise building: the "contextual tower." The angular skyscraper — officially named after its address, 1 Undershaft — is intended to correlate closely with its surroundings, its form dictated by a careful analysis of adjacent masses to create a structure that combines maximum leasable floor space with the lowest possible visual impact. As low an impact as you can achieve with a 250-meter high building, at least…
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Despite his status, Le Corbusier never had the opportunity to build in New York – in fact he only had one chance to build in the United States at all, completing Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts in Cambridge in 1963. But this doesn’t mean his influence isn’t visible all over the Big Apple. Originally published on 6sqft as “Towers in the Park: Le Corbusier’s Influence in NYC,” this article takes a look at three examples where Le Corbusier’s “Radiant City” ideals were transplanted to New York. Even before taking his first trip to New York in 1935, Le Corbusier described the city as “utterly devoid of harmony.” After seeing it in person, his feelings didn’t soften. He wasn’t impressed by the tall towers, rather stating that they were the product of an inferiority complex, and he thought the city’s leaders were too timid to hire him. He wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times saying that “American skyscrapers have not attained the rank of architecture; rather, they are merely small objects such as statuettes or knick-knacks, magnified to titanic proportions.” He thought the city would benefit from buildings that “don’t try to outdo each other but are all identical.”
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In 2011, Foster + Partner’s Spaceport America opened in the New Mexican desert with some wild fanfare: Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson propelled down the side of the building, champagne in hand, rockets soaring in the air, to christen the $220-million launchpad of the world’s first civilian spaceflight. Four years down the line and nary a space launch to speak of, the New Mexican local government is starting to question the facility’s worth. Last Thursday, lawmakers voted to advance a bill to sell it off completely, the Associated Press reports.
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Une exposition à la Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine à Paris revient sur cinquante ans de recyclages architecturaux. Transformer, c'est créer. Forte de ce précepte, l'exposition « Un bâtiment, combien de vies ? », que présente la Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, à Paris, jusqu'au 28 septembre, nous apprend à jeter un regard différent sur les mutations à l'œuvre dans notre environnement construit. Partir d'une parcelle blanche, comme l'on dit d'une page, n'a jamais été la seule démarche qui fasse sens en architecture. La réappropriation d'édifices existants, promis pour la plupart à une inévitable disparition, est devenue l'un des principes de notre devenir urbain.
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Veíamos ayer la frialdad con la que era acogida la ampliación de Google en Mountain View, en cuyos diseños se encuentran trabajando los arquitectos Thomas Heatherwick y Bjarke Ingels.
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Neufert es el manual de arquitectura más reconocido del mundo, usado tanto por Arquitectos como por Estudiantes de Arquitectura. Ahora en su 16ª edición se puede considerar como una nueva edición. Por un lado, se ha conservado el magnífico planteamiento del original y, por otro, se ha actualizado su contenido con el fin de dar respuesta a las nuevas expectativas que han surgido en el mundo de la construcción, especialmente las exigencias medioambientales.
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COSAS de ARQUITECTOS es una revista digital de arquitectura que tratará todas esas cosas que nos interesan a los arquitectos y a los amantes de la arquitectura Madrid, España
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Zaha Hadid RA, The Peak Blue Slabs, 1982-83" Image © Zaha Hadid / Royal Academy of Arts In an article for London’s Royal Academy of Arts Magazine entitled Plane Sailing, Zaha Hadid discusses the influence of Russian Suprematist painter Kazimir Malevich on her own design work. In Hadid’s early work, such as The Peak Blue Slabs (1982/83), the visual connections to Malevich’s strict, regular shapes and lines are evident.
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Given the physical nature of the built environment, it would be easy to assume that the visual qualities of spaces dominate our our perception of a building. However, many artists and architects have experimented with specific sensory devices over the years, proving that every sense can be significant in transforming the experiential qualities of architecture. Here are five spaces designed to heighten your awareness in very unexpected ways: step inside and leave your preconceptions at the door…
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After being freshly appointed with the Golden Lion award at last year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, South Korea has become one of the architecture scenes to keep an eye on. The politically ambitious project Crow’s Eye View, presented at the Korean Pavilion in Venice, aimed to ”demonstrate the potential of an unified Korea by bringing together and interrogating the architecture of both cultures.”
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Empowering architecture through sharing and transparency. New York, NY // Global
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If you are a fan of architecture, digital design, typography, and GIFs — the undisputed darlings of online artistry — then you are in for a real treat. Creative firm Deepblue Networks recently collaborated with illustrator Florian Schommer on a marketing campaign for their website, transforming their logo into gigantic letter-shaped buildings — crisp axons worthy of, say, Chris Ware — inhabited by the company’s employees getting up to all kinds of merry mischief.
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Japanese firm Kengo Kuma + Associates has unveiled plans to replace an aging Tokyo medical centre with a louvre-clad hospital built around a landscaped garden. The building will be organised around various green spaces and terraces. Proposal images show waiting rooms fronted by floor-to-ceiling glazing, allowing them to open out to a central courtyard featuring several trees. Via Lauren Moss, massimo facchinetti
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Taking place at the Yale School of Architecture gallery from November 14th-January 27th is the Gwathmey Siegel: Inspiration and Transformation Exhibition which is the first museum exhibition devoted to the work of Gwathmey Siegel and Associates Architects, one of the most influential architecture firms of the modern period. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
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