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Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Designer: Belzberg Architects
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Image Credits: Iwan Baan The building is submerged into the ground allowing the park’s landscape to continue over the roof of the structure. This eco-structural element is one of the largest intensive green roofs in Southern California, which instantly creates sensitivity and an understanding to its surroundings. → www.yatzer.com Posted: 03/15/2011 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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Untitled (Mylar), 2011 Designer: Tara Donovan
Location: New York, NY
 On display until April 9th at the Pace Gallery, the one at 545 West 22nd Street, is the installation Untitled (Mylar), 2011 by Tara Donovan. For those not familiar with the 2008 MacArthur Fellow's work, which uses everyday objects (plastic straws, paper plates, scotch tape, toothpicks, safety pins, plastic cups) in the thousands to create stunning effects that transcend their building blocks, check out some slideshows at ICA Boston, Time Magazine, and Ace Gallery. → archidose.blogspot.com Posted: 03/14/2011 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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Placebo Pharmacy Designer: KLab Architecture
Location: Athens, Greece
 The design process for this large (600m2) supra-local pharmacy forced us to shift our viewpoint and come up with a virtual building—a placebo pharmacy. The octagonal shape of the existing structure was re-formed into a cylinder in order to create a spiral which seeks to converse with the rapid motion on Vouliagmenis Avenue, the urban artery on which the building stands. → www.chictip.com Posted: 03/11/2011 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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Naoshima Ferry Designer: SANAA
Location: Naoshima, Japan
Image Credits: Iwan Baan i'm utterly perplexed as to how columns that delicate and a roof that thin could be pulled off in a seismic zone. → www.archinect.com Posted: 03/11/2011 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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Word Paintings Designer: Wayne White
Location: n/a
 Wayne White | Word Paintings 4tweetsretweet Terribly cool mix between old school paintings and modern typography. Artist Wayne White paints on 60s and 70s thrift-store lithographic reproductions of 19th century Romantic landscape paintings. → bumbumbum.me Posted: 03/11/2011 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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