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Only two weeks left to enter Dezeen and Samsung's Re:Create Design Challenge

Deezen

There are just two weeks left to enter our Re:Create Design Challenge , which invites readers to repurpose old Samsung devices or materials into new products or services. Entrants are free to imagine ideas that repurpose entire devices or those that recycle specific components or materials. Enter before 19 July.

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How to Layout a Pediment: 350 years of instructions

Jane Griswold Radocchia

In 1540 Sebastiano Serlio drew this sketch in Book IV of his On Architecture.* The diagram shows the actual twine held tight at Points A and B. A complete English translation of Serlio's 5 Books on Architecture , including the sketch of the pediment's layout, was available in the UK about 1720. He wrote, ". He wrote, ".

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Last chance to enter Dezeen and Samsung's Re:Create Design Challenge

Deezen

The competition, which is free to enter for anyone over the age of 18 in any country around the world, invites readers to repurpose old Samsung devices or materials into new products or services. Judges will be looking for creative ideas that improve people's lives in meaningful ways and have a positive impact on the planet.

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

Architizer

Taking place at the Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton and hosted in partnership with Material Bank , the event will form a vibrant celebration of innovation, with A+Award Winners from around the globe coming together to recognize the power of good design and its positive impact on society. My sketches don’t come out of thin air.

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Don’t Let the Internet Design Your Project

Life of an Architect

Despite knowing it was coming for me, I decided to post one of my recent sketches to Instagram and Facebook … and I was murdered. Here was the sketch that got me murdered. Since I tend to sketch when I talk, drawings and diagrams are created in real-time, right in front of the client, that reflect our conversation.

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The Reel House by MCA under costruction

aasarchitecture

Image © MCA This vision and diagram extends into the design of the rest of the house: on the second floor, through a new spiral wooden staircase and a new circular bathroom, while in the basement through an oval, fully equipped projection room. Source by MCA.

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HarborPlace Design Review - Round 2: More Questions

Community Architect Daily

On the first day of February the team returned with the exact same design but with a lot more material to explain why the design looks the way it does. These framework sketches are illustrative of a mental construct that guides the later design. UDAAP usually wants to see and participate in how a project evolves.