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MCA – Mario Cucinella Architects designs the installation “Città Miniera: Design, Dismantle, Disseminate” for Milan Design Week 2024

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Design, Dismantle, Disseminate” [“The City as a Resource to be Mined. The installation tackles the theme of the city of the future from a regeneration perspective in which the space, inhabited by humans, is no longer seen as something that takes away from nature but, on the contrary, draws inspiration from it and regenerates itself.

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Largest earthquake test for mass-timber tower successful in California

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Part of the Natural Hazard Engineering Research Infrastructure ( NHERI ) Tall Wood Project, it brought together a group of researchers and architects such as Portland and Los Angeles-based studio Lever Architecture. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, Colorado School of Mines Foundation, WoodWorks.

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OUMEI Ceramics Headquarters by FOSHAN TOPWAY DESIGN

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A gift from the wonderful nature, rocks are quarried from mines and transformed into various construction materials and ornamental components through cutting and polishing. As time passes, these unique stone cliffs become a unique landscape, like masterpieces co-created by men and nature.

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Deconstructivism "killed off postmodernism" says Peter Eisenman

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Eisenman was a follower of ideals of deconstruction that were developed by philosopher Jacques Derrida and considers himself a deconstructionist architect rather than a deconstructivist one. He explained that of the others in the exhibition, only Bernard Tschumi "had any interest in deconstruction". In mine as well.

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Prix de Rome Architecture 2022 winner: Lesia Topolnyk

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Lesia Topolnyk chose the mining village of Hrabove in her native Ukraine, which became world news in 2014 when passenger flight MH17 was shot down, killing all 298 people on board. Lesia Topolnyk uses narrative and construction techniques to deconstruct this relationship in her dark, oppressive design. photograph : Aad Hoogendoorn.

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Banyan Tree Nanjing Garden Expo by CCD

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Scars left by time With sun rising, mists clearing, mountains growing and water dropping, every interaction between man and nature would leave marks, some of which have become the evidence of great civilization while others may become “scars” on the land that cannot be ignored. Life originates from nature.

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Reel House Colorado, Victorian home

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By slowly deconstructing and understanding the ‘magic’ behind the camera, we designed a project that curates a cohesive and evolving dialogue between the interior of the house and the beautiful back garden. This approach can be read in the way each cinematic element has been decoded and translated into a living function.

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