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The Sponge Evangelist

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Photo © Turenscape, courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation. In awarding the second biennial Oberlander Prize to the Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu, FASLA, the Cultural Landscape Foundation and its 2023 jury sent an unmistakable signal about the future of the field. Elizabeth K.

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Event: Coral Courts Lecture: Fuensanta Nieto

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and books, the firm’s work has been exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia in 2000, 2002, 2006, and 2012; at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New. Foundation in Bologna in 2014. Congress Centre, the Martin Chirino Foundation in Las Palmas, the. Joanneum Museum extension in Graz, the Contemporary Art Centre in.

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The 50 most powerful women in architecture and design

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Galilee does this primarily through The World Around , a non-profit platform she launched at the end of 2019 to host discussions about the most pressing issues facing contemporary architecture including climate change, social equity and ecology. Moreover, it has a very negative social impact. For us, it is an act of violence."

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Crystal Orange Hotel, Lujiazui Shanghai

e-architect

Vermilion Zhou Design Group was founded in Shanghai in 2002 by Kuang Ming (Ray)Chou (Founder / Creative Director) and Vera Chu (Founder / Lighting Design Director). Their designs are built upon aspirations of the modern oriental lifestyle, which is also the foundation of the firm’s unique identity in the field.

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Green Means Go: 6 of the World’s Highest Rated LEED Certified Buildings

Architizer

Achieving both LEED v3 Platinum and LEED v4 Gold certifications, the contemporary skyscraper has a host of green features. The Frick Environmental Centre was designed as a joint venture between the City of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy after the park it now sits in place of was destroyed by a fire in 2002.

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Zaha Hadid embraced the potential of deconstructivism

Deezen

Hadid's childhood laid the foundations for this experimental spirit. She demonstrated this in a thesis project, for which she adapted the form of a Malevich sculpture to create a design for a 14-storey hotel spanning the River Thames. Faith in the power of progress. Photo is by Hélène Binet.

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Gerkan Marg & Partners – gmp architects

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Contemporary German Architects Practice, Europe: Design Office. As a professor at Braunschweig Technical University, where he held the Chair at the Institute for Building Design from 1974 to 2002, he was influential in shaping a whole generation of architects. gmp – von Gerkan, Marg & Partners. photo © J Ackermann.