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Comprised of Undulating Bricks, A Facade Allows Light to Stream in Without Sacrificing Privacy | Colossal
NOVEMBER 23, 2021. GRACE EBERT All images courtesy of A.P.P. Architects & Associates The innovative project of Farhad Mirzaie and the firm A.P.P. Architects & Associates, “Revolving Bricks Serai” is a dynamic office building in Arak, a city largely known as … Continue reading
Peeking Into a Chrysalis, Incredible Videos Capture Butterfly Wings Forming During Metamorphosis | Sci Tech Daily
By JENNIFER CHU, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NOVEMBER 22, 2021 Larger, overlapping scales in red and green begin to form their structural details midway through development (right). Each image is 75 μm wide. Credit: Anthony McDougal and Sungsam Kang … Continue reading
A £300 monsoon-busting home: the Bangladeshi architect fighting extreme weather | The Guardian
Oliver Wainwright @ollywainwright Tue 16 Nov 2021 13.47 GMT From a mosque that breathes to innovative bamboo houses, Marina Tabassum has won the prestigious Soane medal for her humanitarian buildings Offering some relief … Marina Tabassum’s Khudi Bari, a … Continue reading
Sacred City of Caral in Peru | Archeo – Histories
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r/evilbuildings – Igloo game – on point
Every_form OP· 2y Casapueblo is a building constructed by the Uruguayan artist Carlos Páez Vilaro. It is located on Tattooine Punta Ballena, 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) from Punta del Este, Uruguay. It was originally a summer house and workshop of the artist. It now houses … Continue reading
Circular Vaults Embedded within a Prague Embankment Contain Shops, Cafes, and Public Spaces | Colossal
OCTOBER 18, 2021. GRACE EBERT All images courtesy of Brainkworks New cafes, galleries, and studios are popping up along the Vltava River in Prague, although they’re not immediately visible from atop the embankment. Tucked inside former storage units embedded within the … Continue reading
Step Inside a Secret Library Apartment | Atlas Obscura
This is one of the New York Public Library’s last secret apartments. When these libraries were built, about a century ago, they needed people to take care of them. Andrew Carnegie had given New York $5.2 million, worth well over … Continue reading
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On the art and science of making buildings sound natural | Aeon Essays
Our movies and offices are engineered to sound natural based on what rang false in the theatres of 18th-century Paris Joseph L Clarkeis assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto in Canada, and a … Continue reading
Striking Observation Tower Inspired by a Strand of DNA
Bjarke Ingels Group has designed a spiraling double helix structure that acts as a stunning observation tower. Standing in marshland at Denmark’s Wadden Sea National Park is the striking Marsk Tower. Designed by the renowned architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group … Continue reading
Building Bound to the Ground: A 1,400-Page Book Surveys Centuries of Global Architecture Embedded in the Earth | Colossal
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021. GRACE EBERT Friendship Centre, Gaibandha, Bangladesh, RBANA, 2011, © Iwan Baan. All images courtesy of Taschen Despite being physically secured to the ground, much of the architecture common throughout the Western world is defined, in part, by … Continue reading
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