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Sketch Design Studio reinterprets south Indian traditions for Rajasthan house

Deezen

The vernacular building techniques of north and south India combine in Hybrid House, a house with rammed-earth walls designed by Sketch Design Studio. Architecture office Sketch Design Studio designed and built the three-bedroom house in Alwar, a city located beside the Aravalli mountains in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Sketching the Housing Crisis

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Daniel Winterbottom, FASLA, sketching outdoors. He calls urban sketching a public act, one of vulnerability and frustration balanced with unique opportunities for dialogue, discovery, and fulfillment. Observation and contemplation of the phenomena and nuances of a scene are critical skills honed specifically through field sketching.

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Art and Architecture: Takashi Murakami

Stephen B Chambers Architects

Takashi Murakami "Bacon: Scream" (detail), 2019, by Takashi Murakami in acrylic, gold, and platinum leaf on canvas on aluminum frame by Asian Art Museum, San Francisco When we were in San Francisco recently, Chambers Architects visited the Takashi Murakami (Japanese, b. 1962) exhibition at the Asian Art Museum.

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Tales of the City: artist Ed Gray’s paintings of London celebrate everyday encounters

The Spaces

Ed Gray is a painter of city life in all its grime and glory. Gray only works from sketches and refers to his collection of provisional pencil and charcoal drawings to produce the final work in the studio. ’ Art College Gray is influenced heavily by the Renaissance masters and their allegorical storytelling.

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Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Building: Foster + Partners

e-architect

Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Architecture, Basque Building Design, Spanish Construction News. Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. Bilbao Fine Arts Museum breaks ground. Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Building. The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum held a ceremony to celebrate the start of construction on Thursday, 17 November. 18 November 2022.

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Norman Foster says he still hasn't lost that old, familiar feeling

Archinect

Of course, at any point with any of us, there’s always the other side of the coin […] I get the same buzz from designing buildings, working with people, educational workshops, working with the UN heading their Forum of Mayors, engaging with civic leaders, writing, drawing, sketching. Autos, Art, Architecture.

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Bilbao Fine Arts Museum by Foster + Patners breaks ground

aasarchitecture

The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum held a ceremony to celebrate the start of construction on Thursday, 17 November. The expansion and remodelling project will restore the existing 20th century building, while creating a new public atrium space and contemporary art galleries in a floating pavilion. Sketch of the original competition scheme.

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