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Ten Zaha Hadid Design products that go "beyond a simple translation from sketch to object"

Deezen

To mark 10 years of the sculptural space at Roca, the site itself has now become an exhibition space for objects from the ZHD portfolio, featuring furniture and other home accessories as well as fashion, jewellery, carpets and lighting.

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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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26.3.2024 Tuesday - finishing an idea

Lines on Paper

Last week, we presented a housing scheme to our client. Both were quite received, although that the client slightly preferred mine, for its simplicity in planning (and perhaps the symmetry as well). Today I arrive at work early, looking forward to draw up the site layout. when I cycle to the club, and he sends it to the client.

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Architectural Sketching [or How to Sketch like Bob] | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Graphics / Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Bob Borson — April 7, 2014 — 70 Comments Architectural sketching is becoming a thing of the past – at least that’s how it seems to me most days.

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21st December 2023 Thursday - Metabolist

Lines on Paper

PH flies back tonight, so I invite a client for lunch with us. This client was a former intern at DNA, he trained with me briefly (he recalls that we worked on a house design but neither of us can remember the details, so it must have been unremarkable). I quickly put together some sketches and pass to PH 'I draw, you talk later'.

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Architecture is Awesome: #35 Problem Solving

SW Oregon Architect

With each project, they must understand their client’s needs, contextualize the project within its environment, and identify constraints before embarking on a journey of creative exploration. For example, architects will exhaustively study the subject site, investigating its history, topography, regulatory framework, and cultural context.

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Sketch Paper | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Heard around the architectural studio / heard around the architectural studio #010 I can’t find any sketch paper. It is a sketching paper but most importantly, it’s a tracing or better term, refining paper that allows you to work something out by layering tracing paper over it. What do you need it for?