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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. In 2024, the Sagrada Famlia achieved a record 4,833,658 visitors, the highest number to date. Although the basilica is unfinished, it has been recognized for its architectural and cultural significance.

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BIG designs necklace for the Queen of Denmark to "be part of history for years to come"

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The piece was made by Georg Jensen using sketches initially created by the architecture studio. Founded in 2005 by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, BIG is one of the world's best-known architecture studios. The necklace was made from 50 blocks of sterling silver of various sizes that each represent one of the pedestals.

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Agathom equips "cottage in the city" with angular ceilings and a greenhouse

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The intent of the design from the first sketches was to re-introduce place to the land," the studio added. was established in 2005 by Adam Thom and Katja Aga Sachse Thom and is based in Toronto. "The site, a post-war suburb north of Toronto, while generous in proportion is perfectly flat," said architecture studio Agathom. Agathom Co.

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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).

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The Designers Using the "The Sims" as Architectural Software

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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." Leo thinks The Sims helped him become "the guy that did all the plans" at work; becoming the go-to person for layout after an initial sketch of a project was done.

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Serpentine Pavilion 2023, London, UK

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A new soundscape for the Pavilion Dawn chorus has been created by artist and composer Tarek Atoui, based on Lina Ghotmeh’s sketches, architectural materials and Atoui’s ongoing research on classical and rural Arab music. Photo: Iwan Baan, Courtesy: Serpentine.

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

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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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