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05/05/2018

Architect Bjarke Ingels at WIRED by Design, 2014. In partnership with Skywalker Sound, Marin County, CA. To learn more visit: live.wired.com Still haven’t su...

23/02/2018

Phillips Exeter Academy Library and Dining Hall,
Exeter, New Hampshire -LOUIS KAHN
1965-72

Phillips Exeter Academy, a private high school founded in the eighteenth century, commissioned Kahn in the mid-1960s to design a new school library as the intellectual centre of the school community. The project was based on a simple concept: library users were invited to select a book and then go to the windows to read in the natural light. Based on this idea, the building is divided into three layers: at the centre is a large entrance hall, as a site of encounter and exchange, from which the surrounding holdings of 250,000 books can be seen. They are housed within what Kahn used to call a "concrete donut" to protect them from the sunlight. A 'brick donut' finally surrounds that core, containing more than 200 naturally lit library carrels. Besides the library, Kahn also planned the school dining hall.

02/02/2017

PROJECT NAME:MASDAR ENERGY EFFICIENT CITY
LOCATION: ABU DHABI
PRINCIPAL ARCHITECTS: LORD N .FOSTER AND PARTNERS

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Masdar is a sustainable mixed-use development designed to be very friendly to pedestrians and cyclists. Masdar City has terracotta walls decorated with arabesque patterns. From a distance, the city looks like a cube. The temperature in the streets is generally 15 to 20 °C (27 to 36 °F) cooler than the surrounding desert. The temperature difference is due to Masdar's unique construction. A 45-meter-high (148 ft) wind tower modeled on traditional Arab designs sucks air from above and pushes a cooling breeze through Masdar's streets. The site is raised above the surrounding land to create a slight cooling effect. Buildings are clustered close together to create streets and walkways shielded from the sun. Masdar City was designed by Foster and Partners. Foster's design team started its work by touring ancient cities such as Cairo and Muscat to see how they kept cool. Foster found that these cities coped with hot desert temperatures through shorter, narrower streets usually no longer than 70 meters (230 ft). The buildings at the end of these streets create just enough wind turbulence to push air upwards, creating a flushing effect that cools the street

06/10/2016

this is what you get when you ask an engineer to design your house.

06/09/2016

The reinforced-concrete structure, crowned by a glass and steel dome, has a multi-colored facade of aluminum panels, behind glass louvers, in 25 different colors.There are 4,400 windows and 56,619 transparent and translucent glass plates. The louvres are tilted at different angles calculated to deflect the direct sun light.Elliptical in plan the 31 floors are without internal columns, the perimetric structure and the central concrete core, containing the services and emergency stairswells, are the important elements of the building. Six lift shafts rise up inside the outer walls. in JEAN NOUVEL'S word describing the design he said 'This is not a tower. It is not a skyscraper in the American sense of the expression: it is a unique growth in the middle of this rather calm city. But it is not the slender, nervous verticality of the spires and bell towers that often punctuate horizontal cities. Instead, it is a fluid mass that has perforated the ground - a geyser under a permanent calculated pressure.

The surface of this construction evokes the water: smooth and continuous, but also vibrating and transparent because it manifests itself in coloured depths - uncertain, luminous and nuanced. This architecture comes from the earth but does not have the weight of stone. It could even be the faraway echo of old formal Catalan obsessions, carried by a mysterious wind from the coast of Montserrat.

The uncertainties of matter and light make the campanile of Agbar vibrate in the skyline of Barcelona: a faraway mirage day and night; a precise marker to the entry of the new diagonale that starts at Plaça de las Glorias. This singular object becomes a new symbol for an international city."

05/04/2016

Modern architecture is the new, revived form of architecture that marks the on setting of the current epoch of modernization in the field of construction that gives birth to the existence of big skyscrapers reaching onto the skyline, magnificent buildings, architectural wonders of the present scenario.From an architecture’s point of view, the designs of the buildings be it an educational institute, a multi storeyed building, an office, or a home of size varying from a few square feet’s to a giant bungalow, should imbibe in them the following characteristics in order to attain the most close resemblance to the modern architecture.

01/04/2016

27/03/2016

Fallingwater or Kaufmann Residence is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 43 miles (69 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. The home was built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains. The house was designed as a weekend home for the family of Edgar J. Kaufmann, owner of Kaufmann's department store.Time cited it after its completion as Wright's "most beautiful job";it is listed among Smithsonian's Life List of 28 places "to visit before you die." It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. In 1991, members of the American Institute of Architects named the house the "best all-time work of American architecture" and in 2007, it was ranked 29th on the list of America's Favorite Architecture according to the AIA.