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Ten architecture projects by students at Carleton University

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Dirt: Making with Contaminated Lands by Ju Huang "My thesis explores dirt in the contemporary world and its place in architecture through a series of ceramic-making exercises. Its design celebrates the steel structure that elevates the theatre seating above the plaza."

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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.". I never had heard the term deconstruction when I did the Wexner centre," Eisenman told Dezeen. "I It's just not.

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Old world charm

Habitus Living

The Japanese are known for replacing the more recent past with contemporary buildings -not surprisingly, given land is scarce even in areas such as Shimada, a village on Japan’s central south coast. Most locals were expecting this simple and modest building to be demolished when architects Roovice put up their shingle.

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This week on Dezeen the first images of Heatherwick's Platinum Jubilee sculpture were revealed

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Dezeen revealed the first images of the 21-metre-high structure , which was erected to draw attention to a tree-planting campaign created to mark the Queen's 70 years on the throne. When you asked me what was deconstructivism's impact on contemporary architecture – that's where I want to retreat at the back of the room," he told Dezeen. "So

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Jianli Art Center by GOA

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The art center features an steel structure system. Lightweight Roof The decentralization and deconstruction strategy endows the architecture with a contemporary spirit, thus creates an iconic cultural image. The deconstructed roof correspond to different functional zones: lobby, preface hall, exhibition hall, and service zone.

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PURE NFTEA Tea House, Shenzhen, China

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” To that end, EK Design creatively reinterpreted the space by renovating the spatial layout and combining new ideas with old structures. In this way, an asymmetrical yet balanced frame was constructed on the horizontal plane, defining a new space in a deconstructive manner.

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HCMA embeds "Indigenous design principals" in British Columbia student housing

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The structure, which consists of modular student housing units oriented around a central atrium, was designed with the large number of Indigenous students in mind. The structure has modular housing units connected to a central atrium. Cedar cladding was used for much of the interior of the main structure.

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