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Loop.pH: ‘Weather Patterns’

“Weather Patterns“, a permanent light installation designed by loop.pH, combines traditional decorated surface and new technologies into an architectural structure, to let the building on which it’s mounted communicate weather changes during the night. How the installation works (video) >>>...

Conference by Joshua Prince-Ramus

Conference held in Monterey (feb 2006) by Joshua Prince-Ramus of R.E.X.- Ramus-Ella Architects (ex OMA New York). He’s the architect of the Seattle Public Library, already inaugurated, and the designer of Dallas Wyly Theater and Museum Plaza (Louisville, Kentucky). Video > TED Blogsource > Archinect...

Vitacura (Santiago, Chile): Carver’s studio by Cristian Larrain Bonta

Chile > Carver’s studio by Cristian Larrain Bonta in Vitacura (Santiago). “Carver’s work, involving both small and big sculptures, poses a main problem concerning scale change in architecture. Through height changes, variety of light sources and a wide range of views, the building was created to contain different dimensions, qualifying the space to give room […]...

‘Casa Milhundos’ (Portugal): Francisco Portugal e Gomes

Portugal > ‘Casa Milhundos’, designed by Francisco Portugal e Gomes, is an isolated single family house situated in the city of Penafiel (Cavalum River Valley). The house comprises two well separated volumes, conceived as autonomous functional cores, but complementary in dialectic: light/dark, public/private, low/high. The two bodies are related by the hall, that at the […]...

Steven Holl wins competition in Helsinki

Steven Holl Architects won the first prize in the international competition organised by the city of Helsinki for the Taivallahti residential area [Archiportale.com]....