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10 Facts About Barcelona’s Soon-To-Be-Completed Sagrada Família

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In 2005, UNESCO designated the Nativity faade and the Crypt, parts completed by Gaud before he died in 1926, as World Heritage sites. Despite these challenges, advancements in modern technology have accelerated construction in recent decades, making the 2026 completion goal attainable. Aerial view of the Sagrada Famlia.

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Reincarnating Gotham City: The Ever-Changing Architecture of Batman

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With the help of the talented sketch artist and production designer Anton Furst, Burton’s film would go on to establish Gotham as a grotesque and rotting site of urban decay. Batman Begins by Christopher Nolan (2005). Inevitably, after the film’s success, Furst won an Oscar for his interpretations of Gotham.

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Play Architecture

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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. Play Architecture is an all-inclusive, research-based design firm emerging from the strong roots of modernism and constantly testing various architectural ‘iisms’ since 2005.

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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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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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How Lesley Lokko’s impact on architecture goes beyond the built

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’ Photography: Festus Jackson Davis Her first architectural sketch was for a friend in LA who wanted to open a chicken restaurant. Photography via Lesley Lokko Completed in 2005, Lokko designed and built her own house in Accra, the city where she grew up. This never struck me as strange. It was just my thing.’

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Glenn Murcutt: Touch the Earth Lightly

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Philip Drew authored Leaves of Iron: Glenn Murcutt: Pioneer of an Australian Architectural Form in 1994, drawing attention to Murcutt’s vast influence over modern Australian architectural practices. Initial Sketch. Initial Sketch. Initial Sketch. Initial Sketch. Murcutt’s unique philosophy has inspired many books.