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Sweden’s Timber Dream: The World’s Largest Wooden City Awaits

The Architecture Designs

The land of meatballs and IKEA is about to add another feather to its cap with the construction of the world’s largest wooden city. Architecture: source: pinterest.com The city will be a testament to Scandinavian design, blending urban functionality with the serenity of a forest. billion or Rs 11,486 crore.

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CAFA Qingdao Campus by CAA architects

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Meanwhile, it forms the whole West Coast Art Bay area with architectural groups such as the TAG Art Museum designed by Jean Nouvel. This is a land art evolved from natural landscape. This complex with the characteristics of life grows from the land and hills, just like a free wave pursuing a larger world. Image © CAA architects.

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Agency of the Subsurface

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Modeled after NASA or the ESA , this new institute would spend its time, in his words, “ looking downward instead of up.” Archaeologist Stefano Campana , at the University of Siena, has launched a comparable project called Sotto Siena , or “Under Siena”—abbreviated as SOS—intended to survey all accessible land in the city of Siena.

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Seattle Aquarium Ocean Pavilion, Washington

e-architect

The new constructions includes 50,000 SFT of immersive living exhibits, back-of-house elements, theatrical spaces, and views of the surrounding natural landscape and the urban waterfront. The building is organized with an urban edge, highlighting the back-of-house support systems for the Ocean Pavilion.

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20 Best Architecture Firms in Hong Kong

Architizer

Named the World City of Asia, Hong Kong is home to a diverse population that resides within a densely populated land mass. Meanwhile, traces of Hong Kong’s British colonial period are still significant in today’s urban fabric. Their services include urban planning, architecture and interior design. Some of via.’s

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Can the scars of the "Highway to Nowhere" be healed?

Community Architect Daily

They were built kind of with the mandate of going through the cheapest land possible,i t really bisected—it separated—a neighborhood, a very vibrant neighborhood at the time. ” This would be a gigantic effort with a staggering price tag, were it not for one other gigantic project, also with a giant price tag, being imagined nearby.

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In Their Elements

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Even in the less mountainous southern and eastern parts of the region, valleys and fields are often rippled with drumlins, elongated hills of sediment left behind by glaciers, and while there’s not much dramatic topography, there’s not much truly flat land either. And how does it inspire Haystack toward a land acknowledgment process?”

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