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BIG's ‘Mindfulness City’ concept seeks to deliver new forms of prosperity to southern Bhutan

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‘Mindfulness City’ is a multifaceted economic hub designed by the firm’s Landscape and Urban Design Team to coincide with sustainability principles and the pioneering Gross National Happiness Index (GNH) concept that has been championed by King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and the Bhutanese government since 2008.

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One Drawing Winner Visualizes Three Different Outcomes For Hiroshima Sites

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In this way, she approaches her subject matter, the site of Hiroshima, through a kaleidoscopic lens that incorporates Japanese aesthetic theory, contemporary music, and photographing imperfections in daily life. ” The final production was relatively short once I decided what to highlight and how to narrate my thesis.

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Estudio MMX steps Mexico City home down steep site

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Architecture firm Estudio MMX has spread CAB House in Mexico City over four levels by using a series of towering volumes to integrate the building into a steep site. The project was designed for a site with a natural ravine at the bottom, which Estudio MMX wanted to integrate into the planning. The photography is by Rafael Gamo.

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Visualizing the World, Visualizing Change

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Neurath was director of the International Foundation of Visual Information and used the Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education) system to "teach through the eye." In 1939, Otto Neurath's Modern Man in the Making was released by Alfred A. No wonder one review calls it "the ultimate simplification of reality."

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Liminal City by People's Architecture Office

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Liminal City presents an in-between place to be occupied and explored. Liminal City is a site specific installation and is designed to stimulate interplay within the gallery spaces of the Hyundai Motor Studio Busan. Various limbs of Liminal City are fitted with mirrors.

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Joe Doucet's Airiva wind turbines are made for city streets and buildings

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Designer Joe Doucet has revealed his Airiva turbine – a modular wind power system that was conceived to have the necessary visual appeal to fit into urban settings. The post Joe Doucet's Airiva wind turbines are made for city streets and buildings appeared first on Dezeen.

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SOM plans city to accommodate Muscat's growing population

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Nineteen neighbourhoods constructed with local materials will define Sultan Haitham City, a metropolis for 100,000 residents that London studio Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is designing in Oman. Read: SOM breaks ground on Alárò City in Nigeria The masterplan involves transforming a 7.5-kilometre-long

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