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The Designers Using the "The Sims" as Architectural Software

Dwell

Launched in 2000 by Maxis and Electronic Arts, the sandbox game was an instant hit, in part because there was no way to win. When Leo, a 30-year-old architect also known as YouTuber XFreezerBunnyX , first encountered the game at a mall in the Philippines in 2005, he says, "it changed my life."

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Play Architecture

ArchiDiaries

During a study tour to Auroville, India, Senthil had an eventful encounter with a sketch which eventually led him to his Mentor, Architect Dominic Dube. An ardent on-site, hands-on Architect with a passion for martial arts. Doshi’s office based in Ahmedabad. Practice Ideology.

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Reincarnating Gotham City: The Ever-Changing Architecture of Batman

Architizer

Across these various representations, the architectural influence of Gotham is most commonly a mix and match of Art Deco, Art Nouveau and Gothic architecture, honing in on the elaborate spires, pointed arches, and ornate decoration often featured throughout the city and piercing the skyline. Batman Begins by Christopher Nolan (2005).

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Two Louis Kahn Books

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

The monograph on Kahn was first published by Phaidon in 2005, but with the subsequent completion of the FDR Four Freedoms State Park on Roosevelt Island, the eponymous book has been expanded, enlarged, and updated. The above paragraph was sketched with the assistance of the helpful timeline on the website of the the Louis I.

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Developer holds Baltimore City hostage - can he be forced to develop?

Community Architect Daily

CHAP lost its resolve to create a local historic landmark that couldn't be demolished because the building would be preserved anyway by a artful design that showed old and new nicely coexisting. But they didn't know Howard Brown who has little tolerance for such niceties as historic preservation.

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Frank Gehry brought global attention to deconstructivism

Deezen

In 2005, he even made a guest appearance in an episode of The Simpsons, where, scrunching up a letter inviting him to design a new concert hall for Springfield, he is suddenly struck with inspiration to create one of his characteristically "crumpled" forms. He recently completed the Luma Arles art centre. Photo by Mmenorris.

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Qatar 2023 Venice Biennale Exhibition

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The new developments all will be operated by Qatar Museums which is responsible for preserving and enlarging Qatar’s cultural endowment by overseeing the country’s growing network of museums, heritage sites, festivals, public art program, and more. They include: Museum of Islamic Art, architect: I.

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