"L´essentiel est invisible pour les youx"

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Franz of Prague

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Kanno Museum / Atelier Hitoshi Abe

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The Building on the Water Álvaro Siza & Carlos Castanheira

Images by Fernando Guerra

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The Building on the Water Álvaro Siza & Carlos Castanheira

Images by Fernando Guerra

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Possible Futures

Singapore, city-state, is one of the most prosperous cities in the world. Prosperity that is reflected especially by urban and futuristic architecture captured in this series by Francoise Gaujour.

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The Undergrowth in the Forest of Saint Germain by Claude Monet

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Hello Archy! Just wondering which are your favorite architecture schools around the world, talking about infrastructure. I need to draw one for uni and I can't decide which one. Hope you can help me :)

Here are some examples, by all means not a thorough list but the ones that first came to mind including my alma mater (top) and a couple of classic (ITT and Yale):

Pratt Institute Higgins Hall

IIT College of Architecture

School of Architecture at The Ohio State University

Cooper Union

Yale School of Architecture  

School of Design at The University of Melbourne

Add yours in the comments!

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El mundo después de Zaha Hadid

Tan mediática como creativa, tan eficaz como efectista, la arquitecta angloiraquí posee una biografía que es una sucesión de hitos como pionera y diseñadora. La primera mujer en ganar el Pritzker (y otros tantos galardones como la medalla de oro de la RIBA, el Stirling o el Mies van de Rohe) ha sido capaz de hacer equilibrios entre la arquitectura espectáculo y la revolucionaria, logrando hitos nada desdeñables como llevar las curvas en el Deconstructivismo hasta los límites de la imaginación o hacer que los edificios tenga textura líquida. Su prolífica, extravagante y heterogénea carrera en las últimas décadas la ha hecho formar parte de la generación de los Galácticos que han cambiado el destino y el skyline de muchas ciudades, de ahí que el mejor obituario sea recordar su legado viajando por los lugares tocados por su varita creativa.

Mira su talento aquí: http://www.traveler.es/viajes/rankings/galerias/zaha-hadid/1372/image/67106

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Architecture of the VII Day Kuba Snopek, Iza Cichońska and Karolina Popera

Surprising as it might be, in the wake of World War II and under Soviet control, Poland built more churches than any other country in Europe. The majority were built in the 1980s, at a time when church construction was neither authorized nor forbidden, and as a result played a pronounced role in Cold War politics. The construction of these churches was a calculated affront to the proletariat-minded Modernism of the Soviets. In their project Architecture of the VII Day, Kuba Snopek, Iza Cichońska and Karolina Popera have sought to comprehensively document these Polish churches and the circumstances of their construction. Unique not only in how they defied the prefabrication and regularity of the Eastern Bloc, the churches were community-led endeavors that relied on local funding and input, long before these practices became buzzwords in 21st century architectural circles.

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Reblogging because I just found out they have a tumblr where they continue the project and publish “one Polish modern church a day, hundreds to come” ARCHITECTURE VII.

Check out this tumblr!

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Zaha Hadid Zaha Hadid Architects

Heydar Aliyev Center (images 01-02)

Galaxy SOHO (images 03-04)

Jockey Club Innovation Tower (images 05-06)

Vitra Fire Station (image 07)

London Aquatics Centre (image 08)

MAXXI Museum (images 09-10)

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Vertical Gardens Patrick Blanc

Nobody is more familiar than Blanc with the secrets of the plants, from all over the world, that live on almost nothing, in the most unlikely situations, carpeting the forest understory in semi-darkness or clinging to rocky cliff faces. From Paris to Bangkok, from New York to Singapore, Blanc invites nature to flourish on the walls of museums, shopping malls, private homes, big hotels, and skyscrapers. His works have brought a breath of fresh air to urban environments, changing our view of the cityscape, orchestrating and bringing art into the heart of the city, transforming concrete walls into refuges for biodiversity.

L'Oasis d'Aboukir, Hymne à la Biodiversité

OCP Johnson-Pilton-Walker & Peddle-Thorp-Walker

Perez Art Museum Miami Herzog & de Meuron

Maître d’ Ouvrage : Compagnie de Phalsbourg

Düssmann KulturKaufhaus Alain Guigonis 

Sofitel Palm Jumeirah MIRK

CapitaLand Rainforest Rhapsody

The Rainforest Chandelier Leeser and J+H Boiffils     

Alaia Boutique Pierre Granger 

the athenaeum Living Wall

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The Cocoon by AA Design & Make

Envisioned as a quiet woodland retreat where an inhabitant can sit and watch the sun set beneath the surrounding tree canopy.

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Sky Habitat Safdie Architects

Over the last four decades, Safdie Architects has created from the experimental project Habitat ’67 in Montreal a series of projects incorporating fractal-geometry surface patterns, a dramatic stepping of the structure that results in a network of gardens open to the sky, and streets that interconnect and bridge community gardens in the air. In Singapore, the 38-story Sky Habitat complex is representative of high-density, high-rise upper-middle-income urban housing, a typology that is in great demand in Singapore and other Asian cities. The prevailing designs for such housing have been towers that share common amenities on the ground level. 

For the Sky Habitat project, we have incorporated many design features to greatly expand family and community space amenities, in part by providing generous community gardens and outdoor spaces on the ground and in the air, as well as individual roof terraces and gardens for more than half of the individual residences. Instead of independent towers, the design for Sky Habitat  proposes a singular, interconnected (at three levels) clustering of terraced apartments with lush garden spaces. The overall mass is porous and open for air and light, with the air to breeze through and the light to penetrate.

Images via text via Safdie Architects

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Atelier Olschinsky

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these gave me a boner

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El Grito by Oswaldo Guayasamin

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At one magical instant the page of a book – that string of confused, alien ciphers – shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; At that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. ~ Alberto Manguel

All images by Steve McCurry