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Nature Factory
Designer: Suppose design office / Makoto Tanijiri
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Image Credits: Toshiyuki Yano Nacasa & Partners
The complex plumbing, trailing by the wall in all directions, covers all over the space. It is like a tree grown over a long time. An atmosphere like a natural arbor is created in the space covered with artificial plumbing.
→ archinect.com
Posted: 10/06/2009
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Admin Building of the Open-Air Museum of Rural Architecture
Designer: db2 Architekci
Location: Wroclaw, Poland
Image Credits: Wojciech Kryński and Małgorzata Tenczyńska
Located at Opole Rural Museum, the building’s shape is inspired by local rural architecture.
Wooden batons shade windows from the sun and increase security, with certain sections folding open during the day.
→ www.dezeen.com
Posted: 10/06/2009
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Dalian Shide FC Stadium
Designer: UNStudio / Ben van Berkel
Location: Dalian, China
Amsterdam-based UNStudio has won the limited competition for a 40,000 spectator football stadium for the most successful club in the Chinese Super League: Dalian Shide FC. The stadium will be built in the club’s hometown of the city of Dalian, on the southern tip of Liaodong peninsula in Northeast China.
The design for the 38,500 m2 stadium has been inspired by the colorful layering and overlapping of the ancient Chinese cuju football.
→ www.bustler.net
Posted: 10/05/2009
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Archaeology Museum of Vitoria
Designer: Mangado y Asociados
Location: Vitoria, Spain
Extensive use of cast bronze elements creates contrasting elevational treatments. From the street it seems tough and hermetic with a real air of mystery enticing the visitor in. Then, it reveals more of its nature and grows increasingly open with the changing architectural rhythm on entering the courtyard. The judges were particularly impressed with the building’s stunning effect of a timeless fortress in its urban setting.
→ bustler.net
Posted: 10/05/2009
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Performa: UK/COD
Designer: UK/COD
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Image Credits: Mike McKay
Installation built for Mike McKay's "Performa" graduate elective Spring 2009 at the University of Kentucky College of Design.
The class explored and tested materials and aggregate organizations to develop a system which is adaptable, self structural, aesthetically pleasing, and which can withstand the elements.
Credits:
Mike McKay (professor)
Chris Harris
Eric Lahm
Spencer Dohrman
Martin Franks
Special thanks to the freshmen class for fabrication help.
→ archinect.com
Posted: 10/05/2009
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