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One approaches this new visual arts centre in the East End of London by going through a neighbourhood in the middle of transformation. The City pushes towards the west and old industrial warehouses are being renovated as offices, art galleries, bars and restaurants.
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A school for students in the final years of secondary education, where classrooms and meeting areas are developed around a central space. The spatial organisation reflects the freedom in the academic programme, where more importance is placed on internships and group work than teaching in the classroom.
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At the end of Amager Beach is the Kastrup Sea Bath, a wooden dock that serves as a solarium, trampoline, sitting area, that coils facing the coast to create an area protected from the afternoon sun. The wood is azobe.
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With her first work in Spain, the Iraqi diva has managed to materialise those drawings that fascinated me as a student. The volume of the different pods placed over the river, cladded in plastic and glass scales, is reminiscent of the trunk of an anaconda, looking over the river Ebro's turbulent waters.
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DVD dirigido por Nathaniel Kahn.

arquia/documental 3

Any comparison between Loos and Le Corbusier is fascinating. In the work of both architects there is creative tension between two specific attitudes. On the one hand, their work is concerned with the autonomy of architectural means. On the other, each architect tries, in his own way, to place his work in a context. These contexts frequently overlap. To Loos, the starting departure is traditional craftsmanship, the task being socially determined.
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But there are a few things we are certain of: architecture cannot exist without the city and its citizens.
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The Expo 2008 site is located on the meander of Ranillas, on a surface of 25 hectares, next to a new 120 hectare park.
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With the appearance of agricultural cultivation, the church and its dependencies occupy a parcel of the public service buildings in a suburb of Copenhagen. As Utzon himself has said, the two pastors of the town came to him saying that the residents of Bagsvaerd had been saving money to build their church for 25 years. The architect didn't doubt that that was a job he couldn't decline.
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Bjarke Ingels says that he makes mountains because Copenhagen is too flat. In this sense his perserverance goes beyond that of Mohammed; he doesn't just go to the mountain. If there is no mountain, he makes one.
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A project that makes good use of a former industrial building in a neighbourhood where the industrial fabric and residential fabric are becoming more and more combined. Adequate materials for the programme: asphalt fabric and wood for the terrace deck, a transport container that is placed on the original buildings, polycarbonate garage doors, graffiti on the patios.
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In this project published in Density projects, it seems impossible to build a high-rise car park with 480 spaces and a block of 80 homes that share the same block, guaranteeing that all homes have terraces and attic-like views, that parking be well-lit, on surface and well-ventilated, and not block the residents views, that the outer image look like Mount Everest and that the developer as well as the investor makes money.
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The initial purposes of the project, to satisfy the needs of the rowing club and create a space for play and interaction among the neighbourhood's youth, clash and it seems the rowing club is the winning party, taking up more space than would be ideal.
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The Paseo del Prado in Madrid is in luck on two parts: to the trio of recently enlarged existing museums (Prado, Thyssen-Bornemisza and Reina Sofía), the Caixaforum centre can be added after the renovation of the former power station Central Eléctrica del Mediodía.
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The three pavilions that make up the Bernie Grant Arts Centre complex are located among other existing buildings, some from the Victorian period, in the ward of Tottenham Green in the north of London, a neighbourhood with a predominantly black population, who the centre is specifically dedicated to, founded by the widow of the political activist Bernie Grant.
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I took a few pictures of the Chicago Aqua Tower building (see Density projects), a skyscraper that includes a hotel, apartments, luxury homes, offices and public parking. This hybrid programme was developed on the 82 floors of the tower, the large base of two storeys above ground level, and five basement levels.
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