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After a weekend in which so many people were getting hot and bothered with roses, champagne and nume rous shades of gray, perhaps it isn’t such a surprise to find that certain projects conceived at this time of year might invite a little architectural innuendo. With that in mind, we present to you Eduardo Camarena’s master…
National libraries are amongst the most symbolic icons of modern-day countries
Love ’em or hate ’em, there is no denying that Apple is a true technological Goliath, th e likes of which the world has never seen before. According to Forbes, Apple is currently the 15th largest company on earth, and comfortably the most valuable, with an estimated worth of $483 billion. It comes as no surprise,…
The value of public open space versus that of cultural institutions was thrust into the spotlight in the Windy City last week when the Chicago Park District board voted to transfer some 20 acres of parkland to the city if the University of Chicago is successful in its bid to host Barack Obama’s Presidential Library.…
Like architecture, street art is embedded in its context. But in too many instances, entire walls ha ve been removed and exhibited in a gallery setting, effectively obliterating the artwork’s relationship with place. Londoner Rafael Schacter, creative director of the two-year-old collaborative arts organization Approved by Pablo, wanted to investigate how graffiti and street art’s site-specificity…
In his chef d’oeuvre The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard explores the innate psychological connection between our childhood home and the house of our dreams: “Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to…
Architects — particularly those who advocated the omnipotent potential of modernism — are often accu sed of possessing some kind of God Complex, believing in their ability to shape whole landscapes in accordance with their unshakeable utopian beliefs. If that is the case, then the new Earth Primer App should have us all salivating: The self-described…
Billionaire’s row, a stretch of midtown Manhattan now dotted with exorbitantly priced, starchitect-d esigned residential highrises, has officially arrived with a sky-high record: a condo in Christian de Portzamparc’s One57 recently sold for $100 million, the highest sum in the city’s history. Indeed, international billionaires are currently pricing out the mere millionaires who formerly called the…
Investigating ice as a building material, a team of Eindhoven University of Technology students has built a 1:5 scale ice replica of Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia in Juuka, Finland. The structure is made of “pykrete,” a mix of regular frozen water and wood fiber reinforcement that makes the material three times stronger than, say, the…