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Christmas trees of the architects
Kahn’s Exeter Short Film by Alex Roman
CG Shortfilm about Louis Kahn’s Phillips Exeter Academy Library. Footage from “The Third & The Seventh” project for illustrating Mundos Digitales 2009 conference. Done with 3dsmax, Vray, AE and Premiere. Main theme soundtrack it’s The Divine Comedy’s “Laika’s Theme” from “Absent Friends” album.thedivinecomedy.com
Zebra Imaging 3D Prints (holography)
On the top of Burj Dubai’s spire
Bloomframe - window & balcony
Bloomframe, the innovative window that morphs magically into a balcony at the touch of a button, is no longer a prototype. The Bloomframe® balcony is now available on the market in The Netherlands. The manufacturer Hurks geveltechniek obtained all the necessary certifications to transform the prototype into a safe and affordable building component. Its dimensions, […]
Tower by Jean Nouvel in Beirut
Architect Jean Nouvel has restarted work on large mixed-use development in central Beirut, Lebanon. The project will consist 3 buildings,where the heighest tower will have 27 floors. Part of the buildings will be horizontal commercial and leisure street, hotels and apartments. Nouvel won the project in 2004 but it was put on hold. Nouvel has […]
The National Grand Theatre in Beijing (photos)
Not fare ago the National Grand Theatre was opened. It has simple organic shape, which is terminate by water jump. The project was created by french architect Paul Andreu.
Social housing in Paris
French architect,Eduard Francois, designed a project of a hundred apartements in 3 storey buildings. The concept based on solution of exterior, not the buildings themselves. It connect surroundings with organic garden. Houses are bristle by trees and create lanes full of greenery.
Xi gallery by Mass Studies
In korean town Pusan, a building for company Xi was built. The object is a new typological kind that could be called a gallery for comerce. Company Xi is a designer and seller of apartements, so they let build this building as a presentation of their work. The object are lifted up and naked, […]
Cspace pavilon in a front of the AA
Architects Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang have won a competition to build a temporary pavilion that will be build in a front of the Architectural Association school in London. One of the architects says: “We are now developing the design with Hanif Kara of Adams Kara Taylor and will be constructing it with the […]
