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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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One Drawing Winner Visualizes Three Different Outcomes For Hiroshima Sites

Architizer

One would be forgiven for assuming that the University of Michigan student set out to explore the aesthetic possibilities of digital sketching, 3D modeling and the various uses of other graphic software. Yet, while Victoria demonstrates mastery of these techniques, they only tell one part of the story behind the drawing.

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10 Design wins competition for Qianjiang New City Future School

aasarchitecture

International architecture practice 10 Design (part of Egis Group) has won the competition to design a major 74,000 sq m school project within Qianjiang New City of Hangzhou, China. Qianjiang school is established as a future facing urban centre through its high-standard, low-density education space.

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Agathom equips "cottage in the city" with angular ceilings and a greenhouse

Deezen

was designed to replicate the feeling of a "cottage in the city", offering a variety of spaces for family life that include a greenhouse. The clients sought a design that would provide them with a sense of place — a year-round 'cottage in the city' was the brief," said the studio. Agathom designed a "cottage in the city" in Toronto.

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Fondation Louis Vuitton: Frank Gehry Reflects on the Making of an Architectural Icon in Paris

Architizer

Completed in 2014, Gehry’s landmark building is undoubtedly an architectural icon, but manages to retain a reference for both its site in the heart of Paris’s beloved park and for the city as a whole. When I walked the site for the first time, I cried imagining the history of the Jardin de Climitation.

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Reincarnating Gotham City: The Ever-Changing Architecture of Batman

Architizer

Since his comic debut in 1939, Batman has remained bound to the begrimed and lawless streets of shadowy Gotham City — the place where Bruce Wayne was orphaned and where Batman’s origin story began. Miller’s vast, imaginary city was the true beginning of the exploration into Gotham City as a fantasy architectural landscape.

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Rendering the Future City: Designing for Extended Reality (XR)

Architizer

They created hand-sketched storyboards and a cinematic trailer rendered in real-time in Unreal Engine. Today, firms are exploring ways they can use AR to solve design problems and make an impact on construction sites. While a relatively new term, extended reality will transform the development of our cities.

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