Monument to the Heroes of Vietnam

View from the entrance to the memorial
Monument to the Heroes of Vietnam
Maya Lin
Jardines de la Constitucion. Washington D.C., U.S.. 1982

It is a national memorial that honors members of the Armed Forces of the United States who served in the Vietnam War. Formed by a 77m long wall of black granite from Bangalore, India (chosen for its reflective properties) which is sunk into the ground, by its center is 3m high and at the ends, 20cm. It is located in Constitution Gardens, a sheet del National Mall, on the northeast side of the Lincoln Memorial. The National Park Service of the United States maintains the Veterans Memorial Vietnam, which receives about 3 million visitors a year.
Photography: Jorge Mosquera
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Dock Square Louis XVIII

View of the building of the Stock Exchange from the facility.

PLAZA WATER MIRROR
Claire Michel there Corajoud
Quai Louis XVIII. Bordeaux. France. 2009

This magnificent landscape work is one of the most significant pieces of converting the Garonne river bank along the Quai de la Douane (Bordeaux), by the French landscape Michel Corajoud. It is a giant rectangle covered with black granite 5 cm of water, an area large enough to reflect the whole imposing edifice of the Exchange (eighteenth century) colindante al rio. An ingenious computerized water system as sprays and delicate sources turn creates fog effect two meters high, very attractive for pedestrians, interacting with the installation significantly.

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Video introduction to the installation

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Eames House

Interior of the house at the time it was used by the Eames marriage

HOME STUDY 8
Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen
Chatauqua Blvd, Pacific Palisades. Los Angeles, California. USA. 1949

The Eames house is one of the main icons of the Californian architecture from the second half of the twentieth century. It would be part of the group famous Case Study Houses (n.8) would sponsor Magazine Arts and Architecture.
The architects propose a model of very open and spacious home built with standardized light industrial elements. It would generate a fluid space that would occupy the mythical marriage Eames and would be the place from which arise its many initiatives and designs.

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Casa Olnick Spanu

The relationship between inside and outside of the "glass box"

Olnick Spanu House

Alberto Campo Baeza
Garrison. NY. USA. 2007


This is a piece of architecture which retrieves radically contemporary classicism idea would generate Mies van der Rohe.
It is based on the generation of a base inhabited places the building on the ground and building a superior glass pavilion that establishes a relationship ntegration and transparency with the surrounding landscape. While in the basement public functions develop, the glass box is used to generate public relations home users.

Photography: Miguel Quismondo

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Red Apple Building

View of the complex from the old port of Rotterdam

BUILDING RED APPLE

Kees Christiansen, KCAP
Wijnhaveneiland.
Rotterdam, Holland. 2009


This building is the end result of complete planning of a part of the city through Wijnhaven Masterplan, that lasted more than 10 years old.
Es una estructura mixta que cont Alpine oficinas, viviendas y un hotel destaca y sobre el resto de edificios de la zona por su espectacular definición volumetrica y la aplicación del color rojo en la conformación de los remates de los muros cortina de sus fachadas.


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Video explicativo del desarrollo de la obra

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Eden Project

View from the entrance to the complex botanical

EDEN PROJECT
Nicholas Grimshaw of Tim Smit

St. Blazey. Cornwall, Britain. 2001

This monumental ecological project set in an old quarry, meets one of the dreams of the inventor of the geodesic dome, Buckminster Fuller: encompass the maximum volume in minimum possible surface.
Architecture, inspired by the organic, is imaginative, appropriate and original. Grimshaw & Partners were chosen to design this project because of its experience in spherical shapes.

Habitat 67

View housing complex from the street level

habitat 67


Moshe Safdie

2600 By. Pierre-Dupuy. Muelle de Marc Drouin
Montreal, Canada.1967

Habitat 67 is a residential complex that materialized as part of World Expo held in the city in 1967.
Large scale housing was one of the main themes of the Universal Exhibition, held in 1967. This complex would be designed as a test of integration into a building housing various types individually to improve the economy and residential density.
It was an attempt to illustrate in a practical alternative to the way people live in cities.
Photography: Rezendi

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House of Music

Vision of the inner lobby access to the main hall

HOUSE MUSIC
Rem Koolhaas, OMA
Boavista neighborhood. Oporto.Portugal. 2001

La Casa da Música (House of Music) is a concert hall that accommodates the institution of the same name and its three orchestras.
The place where the building sits was formerly a storage place off duty trams, where the building process originated new engineering challenges regarding the construction of this curious way. Noted for the innovative relationship between indoor and outdoor poses.


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Casa Shaw

Liquid printing this house gives the casual visitor
CASA SHAW
John y Patricia Patkin
English Bay. Vancouver, Canada. 2000

A house is like building a personal dream that the architect has to give way.
Living on the coast facing the Bay to perceive untrammeled scenery is one of the reasons most commonly used in contemporary architecture. This raises also take advantage of the cover to enter the sunlight filtering through the water of a swimming pool creating a surreal interior.

Photos: Paul Warchol

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Süleyman Mosque

View of the central dome of the mosque

SÜLEYMAN MOSQUE
Mimar Sinan

Sami Onar Caddesi, Golden Horn.
Istanbul, Turkey. 1558

One of the masterpieces of Ottoman architecture built by the architect more meaning.
Its central system of domes on pendentives and tall minarets perimeter arrangement would become the reference rate for the mosques in the Muslim world. This construction would be inspired by the precedent Hagya upcoming Sophia to try a show structural and architectural glory of the customer, Suleiman the Magnificent.

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Video on a visual tour of the mosque

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