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Discussion: Innovation and Aesthetics – Lightweight Construction Pioneer Vladimir Grigor’evič Šuchov
The great russian engineer and inventor Vladimir Grigor’evič Šuchov (1853-1939) is one of the most important pioneers of lightweight constructio...
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Report: Canton Tower in Guangzhou
The 610 m tall antenna tip of the Canton Tower is even taller than the Toronto TV tower and is thus the world‘s tallest TV and observation tower. An e...
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Report: Feeling space – the 12th Architecture Biennale Venice
Blocks of granite for relaxing, delicate and gleamingly backlit ramps that lead through humid, drifting fog, concrete columns dangerously suspended ab...
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Suspension bridge, Trift glacier
The Trift glacier in proximity to the Swiss Susten pass is one of the most quickly melting glaciers in the Alps. Ladders as well as a path along the g...
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Sleeping huts for orphans in Noh Bo, Thailand
The village of Noh Bo in Thailand’s northwest and in proximity to the Burmese border is inhabited by many Karen refugees, members of an ethnicity subj...
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Bar in Vila Nova de Gaia
„Ar de Rio“ is the newest of a number of bar pavilions situated along the banks of the Douro with a view towards the historic city center of Porto. Al...
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