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Tokyo Storefronts, Illustrations by Mateusz Urbanowicz

Watercolor project spawned by the admiration of Japanese architecture, and their profound resilience throughout the years against earthquakes.

PNIA, Royal Albert Hall illustration

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Hong Kong’s Invisible Horizons

In the words of the artist Andreas Mass:

This work is about Hong Kong and essentially an introspective examination of a phenomenon that I experienced during my stay in the vertical alpha city. By capturing urban and suburban places, I tried to explore the intriguing shifts in my spatial perception.

The limited edition photo book can be purchsed here: http://www.buchhaltung-verlag.de/invisible-horizons-andreas-mass/

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no studio’s microinstallations aim to restore neglected locations in poland

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Tiffany Chung

Her drawings investigate how political and environmental traumas alter landscapes, and her subjects include Iraqi state railways in 1930, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II, the demilitarized zones of the Korean and Vietnam wars, and even the flooding projections for 2050 of Ms. Chung’s adopted hometown. (She was born in the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang and attended college and graduate school in California before relocating — with a long stop in Japan — to Ho Chi Minh City.)

Each artwork is typically inspired by weeks of meticulous research, and Ms. Chung’s captions can be intensely specific. For example, one that accompanies a drawing of San Francisco before the devastating earthquake of 1906 quotes an 1895 blurb on a map from the United States Geological Survey: “distribution of apparent intensity based on Rossi-Forel scale, the known faults, and the routes examined.”

However, the drawings usually venture beyond the literal and into pseudo-abstract territory. And despite their weighty subject matter, they are dazzlingly beautiful.

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Real Scale Vardehaugen

The ability to visualize the unbuilt is an important part of the architectural profession: Both in order to evaluate – and communicate concepts and solutions. However, the bodily sensation of scale or the notion of simply walking through a room cannot be experienced through traditional 3D visualizations or scaled models.

Architecture is not an abstract geometrical size, but something concrete that relates to our bodily existence and the world around us.

We therefore conduct real scale drawings in our backyard to ensure a greater understanding of size and proportions in our projects. This enable us to simply take a stroll through our projects and get a sense of dimensions and spatial sequences, – even before they are built.

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AGGRAVURE Artist BAPTISTE DEBOMBOURG

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Peter Strain

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"Following this tradition determined the design of small compact stony house corresponding to the needs of the young family and current technological principles. Redefinition of traditional stony Karst house led to the concept of proto-house as compact, stony, pitched roof volume for contemporary countryside living in this region. The house is conceived as monolithic volume with two inserted wooden volumes connected with interim landing."