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“Juxtaposition” Challenges Designers to Envision Hip Hop-Inspired Building Forms

What happens at the intersection of urban culture and architecture? How can the four elements of hip hop (DJing, MCing, Breaking and Graffiti) inspire the built environment? Participants of JUX.TA.PO.SI.TION are encouraged to create a sketch using mediums of their choice to depict new building forms, urban design concepts, and/or architectural products inspired by the four foundational elements of hip hop. This international competition is open to all individuals including students, graffiti artists, architects, urban planners, landscape architects, graphic designers, muralists, etc. You can complete the free registration form and find more information, here

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Liget Budapest Awards Third Place to LEAD’s Blue Tiled Museums

Taking home third place in the Liget Budapest competition, the Laboratory for Explorative Architecture and Design… (LEAD) has proposed a colorful design for Budapest’s new photography and architecture museums. A stunning shade of blue, the undulating buildings will mark the Sigue leyendo

Pinar House / MO+G taller de arquitectura

Architects: MO+G taller de arquitectura
Location: Zapopan, JAL, Mexico
Project Area: 535.0 m2
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Miguel Valverde Hernández / Fabrica de Arquitectura, Helmer Murayama Caro / Fabrica de Arquitectura Project Team: Andrés Mayorga García Rulfo, Diego González Díaz … Sigue leyendo

Social Maps Could Potentially Shape Future City Planning

What is a city? To technologist Dave Troy, a “city is the sum of the relationships of the people that live there.” By mapping the interests of dwellers in some of the world’s most populated cities by looking at what… Sigue leyendo

How a Le Corbusier Design Helped Define the Architecture of Southern California

We all know that in architecture, few things are truly original. Architects take inspiration from all around them, often taking ideas from the designs of others to reinterpret them in their own work. However, it’s more rare that a single architectural element … Sigue leyendo

Goycolea Building / FG arquitectos

Architects: FG arquitectos
Location: Vitacura, Región Metropolitana, Chile
Architect In Charge: Alfredo Fernández Recart, Enrique Colin Altuzarra, Matías González Rast
Area: 15562.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Renato Sepúlveda, Enrique Colin (FG arquitectos) Builder: Novatec.
Structural Engineering: VPA…
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Showcase: Óbidos Technological Park Main Building by Jorge Mealha

How does one create a main piazza in the absence of a surrounding urban fabric that typically encloses a Piazza? The design team around architect Jorge Mealha drew from its traditional Portuguese typologies and conceived the Óbidos Technological... Sigue leyendo

Videos: The Best Architectural Firework Displays of New Year 2015

As any self-respecting world city now knows, when the time comes to change the calenders, you’d better also have an iconic building from which to hang some fireworks. With people all over the world looking out for the most impressive New Year’s celebrations,… Sigue leyendo

A Day at Stanford With Rem Koolhaas

Delving deeper into his recent engagement with smart cities, earlier this year Rem Koolhaas took a trip to California to visit the technology companies of Silicon Valley. While he was there, he managed to find time for a brief visit to Stanford University's School of Architecture, leading to this engaging profile by Pooja Bhatia for OZY; replete with snappy one-liners such as “So, what are you disrupting?” from the man who is notoriously difficult to get along with, the article offers an interesting insight into Koolhaas' ideas, both past and present. Read the article in full here.

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Rodeio Restaurant / Isay Weinfeld

Architects: Isay Weinfeld
Location: São Paulo – State of São Paulo, Brazil
Design Team: Fausto Natsui , Gabriel Bicudo , Marina Capocchi , Sophia Lin , Daniela Kurc
Area: 1050.0 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Romulo Fialdini Collaborator: Marcelo Alvarenga…
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