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California Calls You! - Kalifornisches Design

California Calls You! - Kalifornisches Design

Kalifornien und insbesondere Los Angeles war seit den 30-er Jahren Heimat vieler Hollywood Stars und anderer schillernder Figuren des aufkeimenden Jet Sets. Die Stadt der Engel war für viele Architekten ein ideales Pflaster, um ihre Ideen zu verwirklichen. Die spektakuläre Landschaft, die mondäne Bauherrschaft, das Klima, der Reichtum der Filmbranche und vor allem der Freigeist jenseits aller Konventionen bot den Architekten damals wie heute die Möglichkeit, visionäre Projekte umzusetzen. Lesen
Moderne Parkhaus Architektur

Moderne Parkhaus Architektur

Parkhäuser und Parkplätze - egal ob sie von Joni Mitchell besungen wurden oder Schauplatz eines Film-Mordes sind - sie bedienen meist negative Assoziationen mit Betonburgen oder Asphaltwüsten.
Architonic lädt sie auf einen Ausflug zu den neuesten Parkhaus-Projekten, die mit den alten Vorurteilen aufräumen...
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Viaducts: new urban encounters

Viaducts: new urban encounters

An intelligent approach to repurposing disused viaducts is providing a number of cities with new public spaces that delight users with fresh and intriguing perspectives of familiar urban landscapes. Architonic examines how such projects, in turning us into contemporary flaneurs, make us rethink our relationship with the city.
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'It's hard, hard, hard work': One Year On at New Designers 2010

'It's hard, hard, hard work': One Year On at New Designers 2010

Left brain. Right brain. If we're to believe all that pop-neurology, you're either a creative type or someone who just loves solving maths problems. Design manufacturer and retailer Thorsten van Elten, curator of One Year On, the show for entrepreneurial designers, explains how it's all about firing on both cerebral cylinders...
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The Presence of Absence: Detroit's haunting architectural relics

The Presence of Absence: Detroit's haunting architectural relics

There's faded grandeur. And then there's Detroit. Once the fourth-largest city in the US, its spectacular economic and social decline is writ large in the disintegration of its architectural fabric. With its former manufacturing industries decimated and parts of downtown Detroit becoming a depopulated wasteland, leading American photographer Sean Hemmerle has created 'Rust Belt' a series of compelling images – at times poetic, at others unnverving – of the city's former urban glory, both industrial and residential. His striking work serves as both architectural record and effective social commentary.
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