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The Victorian haunted house from Psycho to Stranger Things

Archipanic explores the history of the Victorian haunted house, an iconic architecture celebrated in comics, movies, and tv series.

#Halloween #architecture - The Victorian haunted house from Psycho (1960) to Stranger Things (2022). Why is this iconic architectural style so popular in movies, comics, and tv series?

It all began in the late XIX century as a symbol of wealth to become a synonym for decay, dread, and death at the beginning of the new century. As Edward Hopper captured in the 'House by the railroad' painting in1925.

Since then, hundreds of movies feature that iconic lonely and neglected wooden building with towers and turrets, a front porch, Gothic elements, intricate woodwork, and steep French-style roofs.

From The Addams Family (1939) to Haunting on Hill House (1965), from Beetlejuice (1988) to Ghostbusters (various movies), The Others (2001), Crimson Peak (2015), IT (2017), and so many more.

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(via Germany Pavilion at Dubai Expo is an open campus for innovation) Expo 2020 Dubai: The German Pavilion by LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture) was designed as an open campus for innovation and connectedness. The sustainable architecture features suspended cubes and a forest of steel poles, covered by a floating roof. “Rather than placing the buildings horizontally across a site, three suspended cubes are assembled vertically." Explained at LAVA. "This loose, porous stacking of volumes, an ensemble rather than a single form, suggests interconnectedness.” “We incorporated the principle of sustainability right from the start by using the minimum amount of material to create maximum volume.” 95% of the building will be repurposed after the Expo.

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NU architectuuratelier’s narrow House on Bagattenstraat in Ghent

Squeezed between two buildings on a very narrow plot, the House on Bagattenstraat provides a generous and spacious family home.

Squeezed between two buildings on a very narrow plot, the split-level ‘House on Bagattenstraat’ by NU architectuuratelier provides a generous and spacious family home.Stainless steel corrugated sheets and a concrete plinth with a similar wavy surface blend in with the surrounding urbanscape. Here, a humble door leads to a spacious family home with lots of light and great views of the Belgian city.On the ground floor, facing the street, is a multi-purpose reception room connected to an inner courtyard. Behind this courtyard is an office/studio space situated across two levels.This ground-level configuration ensures that the connection to the street is kept alive even though the house is organised upside down. Indeed, the house’s layout was completely reversed by placing the living areas upstairs and the sleeping areas below.The various residential functions are stacked in split levels around a central staircase. “This strengthens the relationship between the various compact residential functions and creates a unique spatiality, turning the house into a collection of linked spaces.” Explain Armand Eeckels and Halewijn Lievens, founders of NU architectuuratelier.Read more: https://www.archipanic.com/house-bagattenstraat/

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September 2021: Architecture & Design calendar from Milan to Seoul

September 2021: from Milan to Chicago, from Seoul to London, Beijing and Paris. We round up the 15 most influential events.

September 2021: from Milan to Chicago, from Seoul to London, Beijing and Paris. We round up 15 international fairs, festivals and biennials in this super creative month.

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Inside Alpha District: Milan’s brand-new and larger design destination

Archipanic talks with FORO Studio, the architecture firm behind Alpha District, Milan’s ultimate and larger design neighbourhood.

How is a Milanese design neighbourhood born? We talked with FORO STUDIO, the architecture firm behind Alpha District, the brand-new design district to debut this September at Milan Design Week new among architectures by Cino Zucchi Architetti Piero Bottoni, Fabio Novembre, Charles Jenks and more.

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Gomez Pandero is building the World Memorial to the Pandemic in Uruguay to remind us that mankind is not the center of the ecosystem.

#EarthDay - Gómez Platero designed the World Memorial to the Pandemic in Uruguay to build a collective consciousness reminding us that humankind is not the center of the ecosystem.

“By creating a memorial capable of activating senses and memories, we can remind our visitors — as pandemics do — that we as human beings are subordinate to nature and not the other way around.” Says the studio director and lead architect Martín Gómez Platero.

Located on the coastline of Montevideo, the project consists of a massive floating circular structure that will serve as an affecting sensory experience bridging the gap between the urban and natural worlds, thus creating an ideal environment for introspection.

Read more: https://www.archipanic.com/world-memorial-to-the-pandemic-gomez-platero/.

Images by © Gomez Platero.

#environment #sustainability #environment #climatechange #architecture #covid19 #memorial #uruguay

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‘Flowing Fragments’’ furniture collection by Richard Yasmine raises awareness on antiques trafficking - ArchiPanic

Classic geometries and minimal contemporary aesthetics blend in Richard Yasmine’s ‘Flowing Fragments’ design collection made from upcycled sedimentary and basaltic stones.

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Tom Dixon virtually launches the HYDRO and BURST collections in Milan

Tom Dixon visited Milan as a hologram to launch the BURST and HYDRO collections across two iconic architectures in town.

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Covid-19 re-shaped iconic carnival capitals from Rio to Venice

Carnival 2021: Rio's Sambadrome turned into a Covid-drome, empty Venice makes reflect on overtourism, houses became floats in New Orleans.

#architecture - The pandemic has re-shaped Carnival capitals. Oscar Niemeyer’s Sambadrome in #RiodeJaneiro has been transformed into a Covid-Drome and works as a vaccine drive-through. # Venice empty streets offer locals a chance to reflect on ‘overtourism’ while #NewOrleans residents, orphan of the traditional Mardi Gras parade, have transformed their houses into floats. More: https://lnkd.in/dhfZBKW #covid19 #carnival

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(via Truly Magical Moment: Virtual Saint Valentine's Day)

#stvalentineday - This year, many lovers have been apart from each other due to Covid-19 restrictions. Adam Basanta's 'A TRULY MAGIC MOMENT' kinetic installation brings together video call technology and the dizziness of spinning together hand in hand:

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The Line: Saudi Arabia unveils the masterplan for a 170km long smart city

THE LINE is a a 170km urban belt of hyper-connected future communities, without cars and roads and built around nature.

Located in north-western Saudi Arabia, THE LINE is a 170km urban belt of hyper-connected future communities, without cars and roads and built around nature. The visionary smart city will break ground in the first half of 2021 and responds to some of the most pressing challenges such as legacy infrastructure, pollution, traffic, and human congestion. More: https://www.archipanic.com/the-line-saudi-arabia/

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The 48°Nord sustainable village-hotel combines Scandinavian countryside cottages architecture with local traditions.

Architecture, Hotel – Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has completed the 48°Nord landscape hotel comprising 14 hillside cabins in Breitenbach, in Alsace. Conceived a village framed by a picturesque natural landscape, then eco-hotel is inspired by Scandinavian practices and builds on the northeastern French region’s culinary, wellness and nature opportunities.

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The pandemic has turned our life upside-down. These 7 innovations tackle Covid-19 spread while we adjust to the ‘new normal’.

Smart face-masks with neon-lit transparent designs, sanitizing autonomous robots and AI brain mapping to overcome mental pandemic… At @CES COVID-19 took the central stage. We rounded-up 7 innovations on show.

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Cheers 2021! 5 eclectic designs celebrate the new year with ‘spirit’

A whisky set taking drinkers to Mount Everest, a Greek vodka bottled like oil and an eclipse-and-star-studded gin and more… Cheers 2021!

2021 should be celebrated exceptionally! That is why we have selected 5 unexpected designs for premium spirits. Cheer with a whiskey-set taking drinkers to Mount Everest, a Greek vodka bottled like olive oil, or an eclipse-and-star-studded gin.

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(via 2020 round up: best 10 COVID-19 related architecture and design stories)

Throwback Thursday - From shipping containers turned into ICUs to to 'silent' architectural photo-essays, functional & safe furnitures and iconic techno clubs reopening as art spaces. We rounded up 10 Covid-19 related architecture and design stories of 2020.

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(via 2020 best interior design: from Los Angeles to Kyiv and Hangzhou)

Throwback Thursday - Splashes of colour in Amsterdam palazzos, queer culture aesthetics and brutalist gyms feature in our ‘2020 best interior design’ round-up.

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(via 2020 Best Architecture: 12 great stories from Dubai to the Arctic)

THROWBACK THURSDAY - 2020 Best Architecture: an Arctic whale watching facility, a pitched-roof garden house in Beverly Hills and a sustainable micro-library in Indonesia are among our favourite architectures of the year. More: https://www.archipanic.com/2020-best-architecture/