Gizem büyüktürkoğlu's Blog (16)

 

 

Project: Paris Parc

Type: Competition

Client: Upmc University

Size: 15.000 M2

Location: Paris, France

Status: 1. Prize



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Partners-in-Charge: Bjarke Ingels, Andreas Klok…

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Yes, I know, they always publish cool buildings or interiors. I am not sure if that is cool enough but I am taking you a hotel in Bosphorus where i enjoy having brunch on Sundays. Unfortunately The 3D pictures don't give the taste!

The design approach of the hotel belongs the…

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Harmonious Unity Between Nature And Man…

 

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In the cities, the car’s insatiable appetite for space crowds out bikes and pedestrians. Today’s cities where every corner is invaded by cars,  can you imagine any road sides not full of parked car rows leaving no gateways to padestrians?

 

You could not, could you!

 

I was very amazed to discover the American activist art and design group…

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I must confess that, when I was a student in architecture, the project models that we had to include in the term projects would be my nightmare for me. Nowadays, 3D animations replace modelling. But still, a model feels more attaractive and effective, doesn’t it? Although it troubled me much back in the days…

 

As the construction industry…

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For sure, I love talking about sustainable projects ascending day by day. I also loved the dome interprating todays  interior conception at the BMCE building and the islamic patterns creating amazing light scenes in the interiors...

 

The Branche for Moroccan bank BMCE is an amazing sustainable building and it is also special for being the first…

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MIPIM, the largest and most prestigious real estate show was organized in France, Cannes last week at the Palais des Festivals. The 22nd edition of the international property market has also announced the  “MIPIM Awards” in 7 different categories.

21 projects qualified for the finals out of a total of 100 projects from 27 countries. The three nominees…

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In the article “On Sustainable Architecture”, i mentioned that it has begun to be emphasized that a construction now called as sustainable since 1990’s  an organism contributing cultural and economical background of the area beside with its morphological properties. It is…

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Established in 2005, Marmol Radziner Prefab is an extension of the award-winning Los Angeles-based architecture and construction firm Marmol Radziner + Associates.

Prefabrication is quite important for building green, sustainable houses.…

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I visited the Dali Museum years ago in Figuereste, a small town near Barcelona. It’s a completely crazy place with its architecture and the pieces inside! I noticed that another Dali Museum was opened last week in Florida on 11th January. Salvador Dali Museum building is just what expresses Dali and his surrealist art. It is inspired both by Dalí’s surrealist…

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Architects, designers, engineers feed on anything. Sometimes it is nature that inspires them, sometimes a sense (a smell, a texture, or a sound). A surrealistic art-work can trigger the creative power inside. Not all of them, but i love some of the surrealistic buildings. The village house designed by…

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Today, I would like to share with you a renovation project which i have found very succesfull. The before and after of Bursa Mercantile Exchange, rebuilt within the restoration project of Bursa’s Old Business District, Turkey.

A general view of the historical business district…

Yes, in my country, embedded in…

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Hi everyone, i think every designer, architect has heard about the "cradle-to-cradle" manifest and William McDonough.



One of the writers of the book, Professor Michael Braungart talked about the Cradle-to-Cradle manifesto, the approach which revolutionized industrial design process, in Istanbul.



I was so exited to learn more about cradle-to-cradle from the writers. Do we really have any idea about being sustainable? what is regeneration?



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What an amazing idea! Water falling off the sky…

Solar City Tower, which will be located on the coast of Rio, is designed by Zurich-based RAFAA Architecture & Design for the 2016 Rio Olympics. The Solar City Tower features a large solar system to generate power during the day and a pumped water…

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Finally, some cluster of buildings, planned by Foster + Partners in Masdar that is the first zero-carbon city are open to public use.

The city which will only use solar energy will provide energy savings that is equal to 2 billion cost petrol in 25 years.

The 82 % of the city’s energy will be provided by solar energy, 17 % of…

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Many of us have heard the name: Nanotechnology… What is this Nano? Nanometer is a unit of measure that is one billionth of the meter. So this technology works with the very very small pieces of material. The concept of nanotechnology was first pronounced as a theory by Nobel winner physicist Richard Feyman. In his speech titled “There Is More Space Down At The Bottom” in 1959, he said…

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