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Social housing in Saint-Denis
Rue Dézobry is a quiet side street in central Saint-Denis, north of Paris, which is mainly lined by four to five-storey, 19th century residential buil...
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Pumping Station in Bochum
This small pumping station at the centre of the West Park in Bochum – formerly the location of a steelworks – is situated immediately behind the Cente...
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Discussion: Fragments of a Lover‘s Discourse – Brazilian Architecture and Reinforced Concrete
The title of a Brazilian textbook on structural engineering for undergraduate students, »Concreto armado: eu te amo« (Reinforced concrete: I love you)...
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Discussion: From Tradition to Tourist Attraction – Prefabrication in the Timber Construction of the Dong People
Prefabrication and serial construction are not modern inventions, as classical Chinese timber architecture demonstrates. Perhaps the most splendid exa...
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Social Housing in London
In the area surrounding Heygate, a residential housing estate from the 1970s located in the Elephant and Castle quarter in London, revitalisation was ...
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University Library in Tokyo
In his buildings, Toyo Ito likes to experiment with unusual structures, examples being the Sendai Mediatheque, where he used irregular steel “trees”, ...
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