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Unlocking Urban Potential: Street Vending Integration Strategies in Informal Settings

ArchDaily

Mostly categorized under the informal economy due to lack of regulations and authorization, street markets in the global south have often been seen as a threat to urban development. However, these erratic and adaptive urban spaces serve core functions in any developing city, acting as pillars of community in many different facets of society.

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How Architecture Space Can Thrive by Pulling Information Patterns

MLL Atelier

Buildings today continue to move from static to fluid design, and this fluidity is expressed by integrating not only new materials with amazing behavioral properties, but also by pulling information patterns from a building’s context.

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The Design of Learning Spaces: Architecture as a Teaching Tool

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Image © Niels Nygaard With spaces for children, “ you have the opportunity to create architecture that in many ways is unformulated architecture. Children react to spaces completely spontaneously. Erlev School by Arkitema. It is almost an enhanced architecture ”, says Dorte Mandrup.

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Lee Broom unveils lighting informed by "mythology" in New York penthouse

Deezen

The Alchemist collection , which encompasses pendants lights, chandeliers and wall sconces, was informed by the designer's reading of Brazilian author Paulo Coelho's book The Alchemist and references themes of "astrology, mythology and folklore". Tables were also placed around the space to hold books, candles and an antique globe.

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Space tourism informs design of Ichi Station sushi restaurant in Milan

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Masquespacio has designed Ichi Station's Brera outpost But Masquespacio wanted to take this idea to the next level for the new restaurant by drawing on the visual language of sci-fi and space tourism. "We The post Space tourism informs design of Ichi Station sushi restaurant in Milan appeared first on Dezeen.

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Vestiges of industry inform hotel complex on former factory site in Bordeaux

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Moving through these siloes leads into the Silo Garden, a newly-created green space with a glazed pavilion at its centre, a "crystalline counterpart to the silos" that contains a cafe and a covered route connecting to the hotel rooms. The photography is by Ivan Mathie.

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Hewitt creates residential tower in Seattle informed by stack of magazines

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Local architecture studio Hewitt has unveiled the 33-storey-high Skyglass residential block in downtown Seattle , which was informed by an offset stack of magazines. It's not enough to simply make space," continued Nagele. "We We have to add poetry to the spaces that we make and we have to make spaces where people truly want to be.