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Reincarnating Gotham City: The Ever-Changing Architecture of Batman

Architizer

Across these various representations, the architectural influence of Gotham is most commonly a mix and match of Art Deco, Art Nouveau and Gothic architecture, honing in on the elaborate spires, pointed arches, and ornate decoration often featured throughout the city and piercing the skyline. Batman Begins by Christopher Nolan (2005).

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The Designers Using the "The Sims" as Architectural Software

Dwell

Launched in 2000 by Maxis and Electronic Arts, the sandbox game was an instant hit, in part because there was no way to win. When Leo, a 30-year-old architect also known as YouTuber XFreezerBunnyX , first encountered the game at a mall in the Philippines in 2005, he says, "it changed my life."

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Two Louis Kahn Books

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

The monograph on Kahn was first published by Phaidon in 2005, but with the subsequent completion of the FDR Four Freedoms State Park on Roosevelt Island, the eponymous book has been expanded, enlarged, and updated. The above paragraph was sketched with the assistance of the helpful timeline on the website of the the Louis I.

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What to Get an Architect for Christmas (2013) | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

x 10) - $15 I’m a big advocate of sketching, despite the fact that I am not particularly adept in my own sketching “style” I get a lot of Moleskine journals as gifts but the one I’ve listed above is my favorite. Since half of my sketches are total clunkers, the cahier journals seem just a bit more forgiving.

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Play Architecture

ArchiDiaries

During a study tour to Auroville, India, Senthil had an eventful encounter with a sketch which eventually led him to his Mentor, Architect Dominic Dube. An ardent on-site, hands-on Architect with a passion for martial arts. Doshi’s office based in Ahmedabad. Practice Ideology.

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Glenn Murcutt: Touch the Earth Lightly

Habitus Living

Initial Sketch. Initial Sketch. Initial Sketch. Initial Sketch. 3 (2011) Glenn Murcutt: Thinking Drawing/Working/Writing Gusheh, Heneghan, Lassan, Seyama (2008). These houses and their features are unified by a commitment to the Australian climate through their unique architectural features. Kempsey House. Magney House.

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Developer holds Baltimore City hostage - can he be forced to develop?

Community Architect Daily

CHAP lost its resolve to create a local historic landmark that couldn't be demolished because the building would be preserved anyway by a artful design that showed old and new nicely coexisting. But they didn't know Howard Brown who has little tolerance for such niceties as historic preservation.