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When Italian-Spanish illustrator Federico Babina<\/a> draws architecture, he does not simply draw<\/i> architecture. His illustrations radically reimagine his subjects, leaving us with new visions of what the architecture means. Drawing can be productive as a method to arrive at a design, but it can also help us re-interpret built work after it is completed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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All Images \u00a9 Federico Babina.<\/i><\/p>\n

Babina has produced several series of illustrations, from the playful ARCHIQUOTE<\/a> to the surreal ARCHIWINDOW<\/a> to the reductively analytical ARCHISHAPE<\/a>. These works all draw upon iconic works of architecture to invent new worlds and ways of seeing familiar designs.<\/p>\n

His latest work, ARCHIZOO<\/a> is a zoo of architectures, each drawn as the animal Babina imagines it to look like. There are some obvious ones, like the Corbusier’s Ronchamp Cathedral as a duck, or the Eiffel Tower as a giraffe.<\/p>\n

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But there are some unexpected remixes, too. Zaha Hadid Architects’<\/a> A+Award-winning Heydar Aliyev Center<\/a> in Baku, Azerbaijan, is likened to a walrus, while Shigeru Ban’s Centre Pompidou-Metz is drawn as a stingray. Foster+Partners’<\/a> infamous “gherkin<\/a>, ever open to interpretation, becomes a seal. The prints are available for purchase on Babina’s e-shop.<\/a><\/p>\n

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