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The Palast der Republik
Designer: Heinz Graffunder and Karl-Ernst Swora
Location: Berlin, Germany
The Palast der Republik was a showpiece building in East Berlin, a congress hall as well as a center for public entertainment. By 1993 it had been sealed off to the public. Thorsten Klapsch was the last photographer to capture its interiors before a long period of demolition began.
→ archinect.com
Posted: 09/23/2010
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Slow Up-rising
Designer: Ja Studio
Location: Calabria, Italy
A highway is about to be decommissioned as a new highway would create an even faster connection in its place. Our proposal is a gentle ramping platform that connects the top of the by-passing highway to the bottom of the valley. This connecting platform through time would allow a new form of life to appear.
→ bustler.net
Posted: 09/23/2010
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Library information desk
Designer: TU Delft architecture bibliotheek
Location: Delft, The Netherlands
This desk is made of recycled books. These pictures don’t do justice to how lovely it looks : very tactile and appealing.
→ www.recyclart.org
Posted: 09/16/2010
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Inverted Spaces
Designer: Jens Reinert
Location: Berlin, Germany
Architectural models are fascinating enough. Nevertheless the work of the German educated graphic designer Jens Reinert offers some new perspectives on our architectural surroundings. Instead of complete buildings Reinert models their fragments or visualises the volumes of subterranean spaces – it seems he builds “negatives” of architecture we ususally only perceive from the inside.
→ www.dailytonic.com
Posted: 09/10/2010
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Chillout Sessions XII
Designer: Andrew van der Westhuyzen
Location: n/a
A homage to Frank Lloyd Wright and Neutra and the lifestyles their buildings accommodated, Chillout Sessions XII takes us to a fusion of time periods somewhere between the 50s and the 80s in the filtered light of California.
→ collider.com.au
Posted: 09/07/2010
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