Featured Blog Posts – August 2010 Archive (63)

This project is a competition submission by Studio Shift for the Miyi County Cultural Tower. While the architecture itself is quite impressive, the broader intent in the scheme is the urban design elements embedded in it. The two main towers are connected by a promenade and ample green open space enclosed by the tapering exoskeleton of the complex. The project also implemented systems to…

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Le Galilée, located near Toulouse in France, is a design for two separate office buildings by Studio Bellecour Architecture. Often the most difficult part of projects with separate and distinct buildings is to accomplish visual continuity in the design. In this project, the architects were able to utilize a magnificent concrete ribbon wall that unifies the design as well as provide…

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Designer: Andrea Sciolari, Simon Bear, Massimo Mondello



Location: Porta San Paolo, Rome



Client: City of Rome



Size: about 250ml (excluding the area of relevance of the monument to Scanderbeg)



Year: 2005



Photo: Francesco Tonini



What we think: trying to re linear difficult to understand



Not long ago we dealt with the Resistance Park by Raffaele de Vico on the other side of that… Continue