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Valentinerhof noa* (network of architecture)

From the architect:

The hotel is located in the village of Kastelruth next to the well-known Seiser Alm at approx. 1200 meters above sea level. The family establishment was enhanced and enlarged with a new wellness area and a new lobby with attached bar and restaurant. 14 spacious suites were added to make the new hotel increased by 1100 square meters.

The aim of the architectural concept was to underline and reinforce the impressive surrounding alpine scenery by inserting thoroughly conceived built volumes into the natural landscape. In doing so the intermediation with the local tradition and the accordance with the omnipresent nature was always crucial to the conceptual approach. The new hotel extension is divided into two smaller volumes that form an arena oriented to the Southern Valley and opens up to the close rock massif of the nearby Schlern Mountain.

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It’s a Small World Takahiro Yamamoto

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Atlas Italiae Silvia Camporesi

Atlas Italiae, photographs of an Italy that is fading away. A year-and-a-half-long trip across the peninsula, in search of memories of abandoned places. The result is an ideal map of an Italy that is fading away, made from 112 suspended and silent images that are capable of re-evoking the daily life that once enlivened the uninhabited villages, the seaside resorts, and the many examples of industrial architecture and archaeology that today are in danger of being forgotten.

You can order the book Atlas Italiae by sending an email to: [email protected]

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livelymorgue

Jan. 16, 1976: A seesaw ride, set against a backdrop of rockets at the Alabama Space and Rocket Center near Huntsville, threatened to launch children into the stratosphere. As The Times reported, the space center was just one of many manifestations of the Sun Belt’s becoming a “powerful and cohesive region”: “For three decades, the Sun Belt has been first in line at the pork barrel, amassing vast sums for defense installations, space exploration and technological development,” reported The Times. A few years later, a reporter offered his observations of the attraction’s simulations of space flight: “There arose a hissing blast all around the back of the thing; then convincing flames began shooting along the top and sides of the capsule, the size of a compartment in a modest commercial plane. I began to feel an insistent pressure on my back, and my head pressed into the headrest. The roaring increased and the fires all around us blazed to a rushing climax; it seemed to get very hot for a moment,” reported Roy Bongartz. Meanwhile, in unrelated front-page news that day, President Jimmy Carter was unable to finish a six-mile road running race. Photo: Teresa Zabala/The New York Times

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Zen House Kts Vương Hữu Trung

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Super Heroes Sandra Chevrier

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Wooden Russia. A Glance Back From 21st Century

Strelka Magazine has dug deep into the archives of the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture and learned the stories of Moscow’s most fascinating wooden buildings.

A total of 150 listed 18th- and 19th-century wooden buildings remain under protection in Moscow today. Modern city dwellers see mere remnants of pre-revolution Moscow, which stayed almost entirely wooden until the early 17th century. This is one of the reasons why the Museum of Architecture and Kuchkovo Pole publishing house joined forces to release a two-volume set named Wooden Russia. A Glance Back From 21st Century.

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