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House in Melgaço by Brandao Costa Arquitectos

An extension to a small rural stone building, with additions of a lounge and three bedrooms, constructed of local materials.

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The Palestinian Museum by Heneghan Peng

Designed to highlight the hilly topography of the area, sited on a terraced landscape that tells the Palestinian story of intervention, production, culture, environment and commerce.

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Walking on Water

Christo’s ‘Floating Piers’ installation finally opens to the public June 18th. The highly-anticipated reveal sees 100,000 square meters of shimmering yellow fabric wrap a floating dock that connects various points on Italy’s Lake Iseo. Undulating with the movement of the waves, visitors can now experience the ‘Floating Piers’ as they walk from Sulzano to Monte Isola and to the island of San Paolo, which it completely encircles. The 3 kilometer-long walkway extends clear across the water, with surrounding mountains offering a bird’s-eye view of a golden network of passageways that lead in and around the town. The fabric continues along 1.5 kilometers of pedestrian streets in Sulzano and Peschiera Maraglio.

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Stacked Malte Brandenburg

From the artist:

”Stacked” is an approach to the large post-war housing estates in Berlin, often built in form of tower blocks in a fairly identical fashion, however when looking closer you find a lot of variation. These buildings initially provided modern and affordable housing for many middle class families. With an easing housing market and other affordable alternatives, often a demographic change occurred: The middle class left to build their own house in the suburbs or for the increasingly popular “Berliner Altbau” in the city centres, while they were gradually replaced by families with economic and social burdens. Initially a vast improvement of life for many people after the war, some of these housing estates became social hot spots while others became more popular. In recent years various initiatives tried to counter the negative effects, e.g. by painting the rather grey buildings. Still, people stacked on top of each other as urban life form, remains an experiment.

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