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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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