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Miniview: Mondrian Singapore Duxton deconstructs the shophouse

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“Mondrian Singapore Duxton’s overall façade is an attempt to imbue a minimalist and modern design adaptation that is true to its time, yet still responding and reflecting the traditional shophouse typology.” Carter was taken with the big idea of the deconstructed shophouse. In the hotel rooms, inspiration abounds.

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Parc de la Villette is the "largest deconstructed building in the world"

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French-Swiss architect Tschumi designed the park as a deconstructed building. "It I call it the largest deconstructed building in the world as it's one building, but broken down in many fragments.". The post Parc de la Villette is the "largest deconstructed building in the world" appeared first on Dezeen.

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“The World’s First Horror Film Was All About Modern Architecture. Change My Mind.”

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At some point in the school year, a student in my AP Literature class will ask the dreaded question: what is “Modernism?” Often, this meant disrupting verisimilitude and drawing attention to the constructed-ness of the art object. Modern artists rejected representational conventions in pursuit of honest expression.

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Flow Bar & Lab?Reappearance of Commercial Landscape by Jingle Design

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Jingle Design always build the commercial space from the perspective of director, revitalizing the space by breaking the limitation of creative art and visual art. Entering from the entrance, grand modern artwork on the ceiling will grasp your attention.

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Wexner Center for the Arts is "a building that is waiting to be a building"

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As we continue our deconstructivist series , we look at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio by architect and theorist Peter Eisenman , which he claims "has nothing to do with deconstruction or deconstructivism.". The Wexner Center for the Arts was designed by Peter Eisenman. "I I had never read Derrida any of that stuff.

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Jianli Art Center by GOA

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GOA undertook the masterplan and design of the whole project, where Jianli Art Center acts as the gateway of the old main street, the core of the whole project. Paved with grey stone slabs, it extends more than 300 meters from east to west, and the art center sits at the east end. The art center features an steel structure system.

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Albert Frey's all-metal 1930s Aluminaire House reassembled in Palm Springs

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The Palm Springs Art Museum has unveiled the reconstructed Aluminaire House in California, a modernist house originally designed in the 1930s by architect Albert Frey and editor A Lawrence Kocher. The photography is by Guillaume Goureau, courtesy of Palm Springs Art Museum.

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