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Reinventing cultural architecture: inside OPEN’s revolutionary buildings

The Spaces

OPEN was founded during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games by architects Li Hu and Huang Wenjing. Rooftop/aerial view of the UCCA Dune Art Museum by OPEN. UCCA Dune Art Museum by OPEN. This cache of buildings has helped reshape China’s cultural landscape – and re-contextualise its reputation as an ‘architectural playground’.

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Daniel Arsham creates Divided Layers gateway at Milan design week

Deezen

Divided Layers draws on the "stacking and marrying" construction process that was used to make the original sink, and was also informed by a drawing Arsham sketched over 10 years ago, according to the designer. Arsham is a New York City-based artist and designer who co-founded architecture studio Snarkitecture with Alex Mustonen in 2008.

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Ando and Le Corbusier

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Ando and Le Corbusier, Volume 1: Tadao Ando provides a historical overview of Ando’s work for major art institutions in the United States after 2000. REVIEW : Japanese architect Tadao Ando's first project in the United States was completed in 1992, the year after he received a monographic exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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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.

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The Architect's Questionnaire: Daniel Toole

Portland Architecture

Toole received his bachelor’s of architecture degree from the University of Oregon in 2008, and his master’s in urban design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2016, with a year-long research grant at the Technical University of Berlin in between. I love the art and design of Isamu Noguchi.

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Glenn Murcutt: Touch the Earth Lightly

Habitus Living

3 (2011) Glenn Murcutt: Thinking Drawing/Working/Writing Gusheh, Heneghan, Lassan, Seyama (2008). Initial Sketch. Initial Sketch. Initial Sketch. Initial Sketch. A 2016 documentary by Australian filmmaker Catherine Hunter takes an in-depth look at Murcutt’s career and famous commissions. Kempsey House. Floor Plan.

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30 Best Architecture and Design Firms in Sweden

Architizer

Mikael Bergquist Arkitektkontor © Åke E:son Lindman Mikael Bergquist is an architect SAR/MSA with a degree from KTH, Stockholm and the Art Academy, Copenhagen. It’s the natural attitude of arts and crafts, whether it’s about knitting a sweater or building a house. Beauty occurs as a consequence of the work.

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