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Probably the single most important principle of body-concious design is to use design to keep posture varied and the body moving. We need to consider not just different ways to sit, but also ways to incorporate a variety of postures - including lying and standing - into our lives. This means that one of the most important aspects of a designer's role is to help change social perception. People will generally use what is made available to them. Designers can help legitimize people's need to change positions simply by providing furniture for a variety of postures. If we provide places for people to lie down, stand up, squat, or crawl, then we acknowledge those postures as a part of normal living.

The Chair - Galen Cranz

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the new rail line for the high velocity train features an almost 500 meter long station by santiago calatrava made of undulating white steel frames.

NADAAA's winning design for university of melbourne is a six level living structure that is at once a pedagogical tool and example of sustainable design.

herzog & de meuron's jade signature for miami is a 55 storey parallelogram-shaped tower complete with curved columns and enormous, pristine balconies.

the small residence by keiko maita architect office integrates a semi-translucent facade, allowing the sun to softly penetrate inside the house.

designer tokujin yoshioka, and artists taro shinoda and takashi kuribayashi use the mori art museum's six-meter high ceilings and expansive galleries, showcasing large-scale installations of natural phenomena.

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Senior Sylvester Black, who built this model, employed the construction method that resembled the way Candela built his structures, meticulously laying narrow strips of wood across a wooden scaffold and then using epoxy to bind the wood strips together. When the epoxy dried he removed the scaffolding, just as Candela used to dismantle his full-size scaffolds to leave behind freestanding concrete vaults.

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Panorama House by Moon Hoon

Photography by Huh Juneul

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The Hotel Bubble in France.

Bubble Rooms – ideas, used by two hotels in France. Small bubbles are designed by designer Pierre-Stephane Dumas, they allow you to stay in the room, but at the same time as though and in the open air.

First, I thought I would call her Kenzo Tange; but then I realised I couldn't kick Kenzo Tange around. So I called her Le Corbusier instead.

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3d illustration by Tomasz Laczny

Marika Shioiri-Clark is an architect, who uses design to empower social change. She discusses her work in Rwanda, designing a hospital in collaboration with Partners in Health.

why is anything built in the first place? I think that is a question that is underestimated. Most people expect solutions from architecture but questions from everything else. Questions in philosophy. Questions in literature. Questions in art. … But when it comes to architecture it seems to be immune to questions. And yet it is a highly questionable field. [And yet] every building in every city is a question mark. Will it survive? Is it good? Is life worth living in that way?

Daniel Libeskind - Cooper Union Public Lecture, "The Art of Memory"

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