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Fireballs, fireworks and flames: The spectacle of Cai Guo-Qiang’s art

Habitus Living

Internationally renowned contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s large-scale solo exhibition, Ramble in the Cosmos – From Primeval Fireball Onward , at the National Art Center, Tokyo (NACT) will be proceeded by a daytime fireworks event, ‘When the Sky Blooms with Sakura’. Installation view at P3 Art And Environment, Tokyo, 1991.

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Five architecture and design events from China in March

Deezen

The travelling exhibition, which launched on 9 March at Arbre Art Centre in Shenzhen , is also on display at the OK Center in Guangzhou and the Urban Cross Gallery in Shanghai. It highlights the fashion house's choice of materials and techniques, featuring artefacts and artworks that span the fields of fashion, art and culture.

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World’s Best Design Details: Bendheim’s Bespoke Glass Façades

Architizer

Now, architects are working with manufacturers to rethink conventional building envelopes and construction techniques. The curtain wall is composed of state-of-the-art continuous floor-to-ceiling glazing and a highly articulated mullion system. Bendheim is one of the world’s foremost resources for specialty architectural glass.

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Casa Olivar is a Madrid apartment designed as a "sensorial refuge"

Deezen

The apartment's interior was in poor condition when Ferrari and Gallo purchased the property, and decided to convert it into a contemporary home. Other works of art and craft bring personality to the apartment, such as the washbasin made by designer María Lázaro and a hammock woven in Colombia using traditional techniques.

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9 Extra Small Architectural Firms Making Major Waves in the Design Industry

Architizer

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. This considerate outlook utilizes the wisdom of the past to help address the region’s contemporary needs. Order your copy today.

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The Sponge Evangelist

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Turenscape has since realized more than 300 ecological cities and more than 1,000 projects, bringing a combination of sensitivity to the lifeways of local communities, human-scale contemporary design, and an understanding of the ecological services that natural environments can provide to civic developments and urban infrastructure.

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Biking Among Treetops by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati

aasarchitecture

The sensor-augmented pathway leads to Sabbioneta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Italy, and was developed in close collaboration with OLA, the leading experts in a construction technique that employs trees as architectural and structural elements. Source by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati. Image © CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati.