December 2010
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Museum of Modern Art - Qatar
What a money shot:
On December 30th 2010, Qatar will open the Muthaf Arab Museum of Modern Art in the states capital, Doha. The building is an existing 5,500 sqm venue that has been dramatically redesigned by Jean-Francois Bodin, especially at the facade where modern architectural features have been added. The museum will feature over 6,000 pieces of Arab artwork dating from the 1840′s to the...
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I’m always a fan of projection mapping. This time it’s on to mannequins.
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NL Architects' Pearl River
NL Architects have designed a conceptual bridge for the Hong Kong border, featuring roads that would loop over each other to allow for the fact that traffic must drive on the left in Hong Kong but on the right in China.
The Flipper is a device that is designed to ‘celebrate’ the traffic switch. The Flipper aspires to make tangible the change of the road system. It hopes to elegantly...
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Virtual Realities by NL Architects
Some of these are quite interesting, others quite lazily shopped. I’ve posted the interesting ones.
Google Forest – the sea levels rise. Less land is available. How can we increase the capacity of our cities?
Phantom Pain – in the capitals of Europe 18 square kms of office space is left unused. This equals more than half of Manhattan. Or a ghost town of 50 twin towers.
Now this...
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