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Frank Gehry creates architecture-informed handbags for Louis Vuitton

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The Capucines MM Fish bag was informed by a fish-shaped lighting feature that Gehry created for the Foundation Louis Vuitton in 2014. Alongside this, the white crocodile leather Capucines Mini Drawn Fish bag has a sketch of a fish by Gehry embroidered on it.

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Life of an Architect – Best of 2014

Life of an Architect

While 2014 isn’t technically over yet, it isn’t going to stop me [ cause I do what I want] from looking back at all the articles I wrote over the year to see which ones represented the very best that 2014 and I had to offer. On the residential part of our practice, we do a lot of pier and beam foundations.

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Five highlights from Zaha's Moonsoon: An Interior in Japan

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The Zaha Hadid Foundation has opened an exhibition about Zaha Hadid's Moonsoon restaurant in Sapporo, Japan. Our latest exhibition showcases the creative processes behind one of Zaha Hadid's earliest and less well-known projects," said Zaha Hadid Foundation director Paul Greenhalgh. Various team members contributed to the paintings.

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Pier and Beam Foundations - KHouse Progress | Life of an Architect

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Home / Construction / Pier and Beam Foundations – KHouse Progress Pier and Beam Foundations – KHouse Progress Bob Borson — June 12, 2014 — 73 Comments On the residential part of our practice, we do a lot of pier and beam foundations. Add water, through rain and irrigation, and the soil expands.

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"Undiscovered legacy" of Lucia Eames showcased at Milan design week

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They found around 150,000 photographs, charting Lucia Eames' inspirations across time, along with large-scale drawings and steno pads filled with over 70,000 pages of sketches and writings. Lucia Eames passed away in 2014, 26 years after Ray Eames appointed her owner of the Eames Office. Lucia Eames passed away in 2014.

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Frank Gehry brought global attention to deconstructivism

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At a press conference in 2014, he infamously responded to this criticism by raising his middle finger, saying how 98 percent of what gets built today is "pure s**t" with "no sense of design". Recent buildings include the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. Photo by Iwan Baan. He recently completed the Luma Arles art centre.

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THE WRIGHT WAY

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Bayer, ASLA, visited the site in 2014, though, that landscape had been reduced to little more than the lawn that the Martins had so desperately wanted to avoid. A letter and early sketch plan from Frank Lloyd Wright explaining his thinking on the orientation of the Martin House. By the time Mark H.

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