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• Why Landscape Designers Will Be Key to the Future of Our Cities

  29-07-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For most people, spending time outdoors in well-designed public spaces is one of the highlights to city life. Why, then, do we spend comparatively little time and money on designing them? In this article, originally posted on Metropolis magazine as "Designing Outdoor Public Spaces is Vital to the Future of our Cities" Kirt Martin, the vice-president of design and marketing at outdoor furniture designer Landscape Forms, makes the case that landscape architects and industrial designers working i
  
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• 9 ¾ Bookstore + Café / PLASMA NODO

  29-07-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  9 ¾ is a bookstore cafe specialized in children, but where adults can also have some fun.
  
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• Street Artists and Local Government Team Up to Create Colorful Mexican Mural

  29-07-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  About an hour outside Mexico City lies the small town of Palmitas in the Pachuca district, an area that, a few months ago, began a massive street art project to unite the community. Beginning as an idea from local government leaders, the project was executed by self-taught street artists Germen Crew.
  
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• Call for ArchDaily Interns: Fall 2015

  29-07-2015 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ArchDaily is looking for motivated architecture geeks to join our team of interns for Fall 2015 (September - December)! An ArchDaily internship is a great opportunity to learn about our site and get exposed to some of the latest and most interesting ideas shaping architecture today.  Read on to find out what it takes to work for the world’s most visited architecture website!
  
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• 22 Bishopsgate Set to be London's Tallest Skyscraper

  29-07-2015 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PLP Architecture has released their new design for a skyscraper at 22 Bishopsgate. Set to be 278m tall, it will be the tallest building in the City of London, second only to the Shard in the UK. The site was originally home to the Pinnacle, a slightly taller proposal that stopped work in 2012 due to economic restraints. Located in the midst of the city’s cluster of tall buildings, the new design will pick up where the Pinnacle left off, reusing the already built foundations and basements.
  
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• Tornhuset / Terroir

  29-07-2015 11:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The United Nations affiliated World Maritime University (WMU) in Malmo, Sweden has been completed.  In collaboration with Kim Utzon Arkitekter  we won the project in 2011 after a 3-stage international competition.  This collaboration continued throughout all stages of the project to completion.   
  
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• Gallery: Palladio in Vicenza

  29-07-2015 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Philip Bond, an architectural photographer based in the US, recently made a trip back to the city of his birth: Vicenza. While there he took the opportunity to photograph a series of Andrea Palladio's most famous works, from the Palazzo Chiericati and the Basilica Palladiana, to the Palazzo del Capitaniato. The vast majority of Palladio's built works exist in the Veneto region of Italy in cities such as Padua, Verona, and Venice with the highest concentration in Vicenza, which was designa
  
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• Diagonal House / Simon Whibley Architecture & Antarctica

  29-07-2015 09:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This was a lucky site. An access lane along one boundary, the treed grounds of a school along another, ensured that the rear northern outlook, which lay diagonally across the site, would be preserved from any future redevelopment. In an inner urban setting, it is not always wise to rely on aspect when conceiving of a design. In this case it made sense to embrace it.
  
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• National Graphene Institute / Jestico + Whiles

  29-07-2015 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jestico + Whiles was appointed lead architect for the new National Graphene Institute at The University of Manchester in 2012, working closely with Sir Kostya Novoselov – who, along with Sir Andre Geim, first isolated graphene at The University of Manchester in 2004. The two were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010.
  
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• Mystery box challenge: Middle Park Studio

  29-07-2015 05:18 via architectureau.com
  
  Jean-Paul Rollo Architects "didn't wasted an inch" creating this new studio that appears as a glowing mystery box.
  
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• Trika Villa / Chiangmai Life Construction

  29-07-2015 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chiangmai Life Construction, based in northern Thailand, designs and builds modern, organic architecture using mainly earth and bamboo as construction materials. The company’s philosophy is to bring these natural materials into the 21st century, with light and clean organic designs and up-to-date engineering knowledge. CLC strives for a balance of beauty, quality and affordability.
  
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• Minsheng Contemporary Art Museum / Studio Pei-Zhu

  29-07-2015 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Minsheng Contemporary Art Museum is a renovation of an old factory from the 1980s.
  
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• Revit Architecture 101 - Online Course

  29-07-2015 01:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ThinkParametric launches its Revit Architecture 101 course taught by HÃ¥vard Vasshaug Design Technologist and BIM Specialist at DARK Architects.
  
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• House of Kodaira / KASA Architects

  29-07-2015 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Located in the suburbs housing development area of ​​Tokyo Kodaira, it is a renovation plan of wooden detached Built in '23.
  
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