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Discussion: Architecture and Nature – the Roof as a Design Element in the Landscape
Architecture mediates between man and nature, the philosopher and physicist Norman Sieroka wrote. In Presocratic times, man was understood as part of ...
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Report: Temporary Spatial Modules: Research Building in Dübendorf
The latest building by the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) bears the title “Next Evolution in Sustainable Buil...
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Museum and Conference Centre, Xiangshan Central Campus
Roughly ten years ago, Wang Shu, the Chinese winner of the Pritzker Prize, designed the campus of the China Academy of Art, which is situated sou...
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Grace Farms Foundation Centre in New Canaan
Set on slender steel columns 13 cm in diameter, the gleaming 400-metre-long aluminium-covered roof of the Grace Farms centre is a wafer-thin strip tha...
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Holiday Cottages in Brekkuskógur
Situated only 90 minutes from Reykjavik, these two identical cottages are a modern interpretation of traditional Icelandic turf houses. The folded roo...
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House in Dresden
The village-like character of Niedersedlitz, which is today a district of Dresden, was an important source of inspiration for the architects in the de...
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