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Aerial Photographs Explore the Unique Geometric Patterns of Coastal Barcelona

Márton Mogyorósy explores the coastal city of Barcelona from above, creating geometric images of the Spanish city’s buildings, shore, and sea. Mogyorósy browses the city via Google Earth to get an idea of the natural and manmade shapes he would … Continue reading →

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Planar House by Studio MK27 – Faith is Torment

A minimalist residence with an imposing concrete roof covered in grass by Studio MK27. Located in Porto Feliz, Brazil the architects describe the house as “a radical exercise in horizontality”– an aspect often explored by the architectural studio in their projects. The … Continue reading →

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Special Ghibli Exhibition in Kobe — Project Kobe

Japanese Architecture in Animation: From the Films of Studio Ghibli exhibition The Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum located near Shin Kobe Station is holding a special exhibition showcasing the traditional Japanese architecture in the classic Studio Ghibli films. It will feature … Continue reading →

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Sambinha Architecture and the Latent World

They say that architecture brings out attributes of the world that may have gone unexpressed or unnoticed in its absence. Sometimes intentionally sometimes unintentionally, and sometimes subconsciously, http://favelissues.com/2015/12/05/sambinha-architecture-and-the-latent-world/

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Looking Up In Manchester

http://livemancunia.com/2015/11/28/looking-up-in-manchester/

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Looking Up…Art Deco On King Street

http://livemancunia.com/2015/11/28/looking-up-art-deco-on-king-street/

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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

The John Rylands Library is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England. The library, which opened to the public in 1900, was founded by Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her husband, John Rylands. The John Rylands Library … Continue reading →

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Manchester : the Central Library

Coup de cœur (ENORME) pour la Central Library de Manchester, en Angleterre. Ouverte pour la première fois au public en 1934, la bibliothèque centrale a connu une toute récente rénovation qui lui confère aujourd’hui un charme exceptionnel. Comparée au Panthéon, … Continue reading →

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Manchester’s skyline of the future

A flythrough video of the centre of Manchester after the £800m development by the Co-op is completed in the next 10-15 years

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Probably the best housing in Europe…

Originally posted on Habitats for Humans:
… can be found very close to UK shores. Here, our family housing is about as different as possible from the wonderful housing I discovered so nearby.  In the UK, volume house-builders have been…

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* Architecture: Cornell Reveals the Architects Competing to Design the First NYC Tech Campus Building

Originally posted on Designalog:
Architecture: Cornell Reveals the Architects Competing to Design the First NYC Tech Campus Building: “..Selected from over more than 40 firms from the U.S. and abroad, the finalists include Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the Office…

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