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Parallel Teeth creates playground of bouncing eyeballs for Ladi6 music video
Architecture
Watch Almost 6,000 Years of Human Urbanization Unfold Before Your Eyes in This Video
From the Cradle of Civilization in ancient Mesopotamia to the modern urban explosion in China, cities are among the most obvious and dramatic evidence of human existence. In a recent paper published in Scientific Data, a team led by Yale University researcher Meredith Reba mapped the emergence of cities between 3,700 BC and 2,000 AD based on when they were first mentioned in historical records.
Taking the data from this study, Max Galka of Metrocosm has produced this fascinating animation showing the history of cities worldwide. “Most datasets available go back only a few years or decades at most. This is the first one I’ve seen that covers 6 millennia,” Galka told CityLab. “I’m a big fan of history, so after reading the study, I thought it would be interesting to visualize the data and see if it offers some perspective.” The steady flow of time may seem a little slow at first, but stick with it through the early BC years and the shifts in urban development start to get intriguing. And—spoiler alert—buckle up as you approach the 20th century.
Live Biz / Studio R
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- Architects: Studio R
- Location: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
- Team: Flavia Ranieri, Fernanda Rosa
- Area: 60.0 m2
- Project Year: 2014
- Photographs: Pedro Napolitano Prata
- Construction: VOS Construções
- Installations: Modelo Telecom
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The refurbished building, located in Alto de Pinheiros – São Paulo, had its project developed to the Live Events Production Live Biz, using the existing building language in its conception: metal structures, apparent facilities, large wall frames, natural light, connection with the pleasant surrounding.
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The ground floor is destined to the entrance and common environment of the building. There is the reception, workstations, restrooms and pantry. To this floor the specifications are cement coated floor, dark gray walls, pendant industrial luminaries, functional furniture and a street art wall panel. The big wall frames compose the ambient with the skyline view, reinforcing the connection with the city through the nice visual permeability that is beautiful in the sunset and protected by blinds from unwanted natural light during the day.
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The meeting room in the mezzanine, which project was guided by the industrial and urban references just like the other rooms, has the floor made by gray painted wood boards, dark gray walls, pendant luminaries and a personalized wall painting in red.
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The collection of their products and productions applied to a wall, combined with the forms, textures and exposed materials, are the synthesis of the contemporary trend intended from the beginning of the project
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Andrew Simpson Architects Design a Contemporary Home in Carlton North, Australia
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KODA / Kodasema
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- Architects: Kodasema
- Location: Tallinn, Estonia
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Paul Kuimet
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From the architect. KODA by Kodasema – a movable pre-fab mini house prototype from Estonia has been shortlisted for the Small Project Prize at the World Architecture Festival 2016. KODA is one out of nine projects listed in that category. The mini house was first presented in autumn 2015 at the Tallinn Architecture Biennale.
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KODA is a sustainable and movable mini house with built-in IT that enables the house to learn from and adjust to the surroundings. The house is being developed near Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, by a small company Kodasema. Kodasema functions as an open platform for professionals from various fields in Estonia and abroad. More than 100 experts helped to create the prototype.
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The World Architecture Festival is an annual festival and awards ceremony for the architecture industry, taking place since 2008. This year the festival is held in Berlin, Germany on November 16-18. For this year’s competition, there are 343 shortlisted projects from 58 countries that compete for awards in 32 categories. One of these projects will be awarded the World Building of the Year title.
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Next to KODA Walking Concrete in Small Project Prize category there is listed a ferry terminal resilient to flood in Australia, residential houses to protect from infectious diseases in Tanzania, a museum built of clay and straw in Russia, pop-up public library network in the urban space in the Philippines and four others.
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In previous years, altogether five projects from Estonia have been shortlisted in different categories for the World Architecture Festival Award.
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FAS(t) Architects Architects Design a Guest Home in Moscow, Russia
Villa Z – Guest House is a private home located in Moscow, Russia. Completed in 2016, it was designed by FAS(t) Architects. Photos courtesy of FAS(t) Architects
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Lofts aan de Amstel / Studioninedots
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- Architects: Studioninedots
- Location: The Netherlands, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Design Team: Albert Herder, Vincent van der Klei, Arie van der Neut, Metin van Zijl
- Area: 1150.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Courtesy of Studioninedots
- Project Team: Jurjen van der Horst, Coen Smit, Giovanni Lavanna
- Developer: OntwerpJeWoning
- Contractor: Vink Bouw
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From the architect. Amstelkwartier is a new mixed-use residential/commercial district in Amsterdam Oost. This 12-hectare site is currently being developed with 1,100 dwellings and 30,000 m2 commercial space. Amstelkwartier released four plots of land to accommodate the increasing popularity for people to design their own homes in an urban context. On plot C2, a collective of private owner-clients, with their own individual apartments, simultaneously developed the Lofts by the Amstel apartment block.
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Lofts by the Amstel’s unique, prefabricated concrete structure enables a building width of 12.5 metres, which is twice that of traditional Amsterdam apartments. In addition the building features a glass facade that extends the entire building width – both conscious decisions considering the site’s phenomenal water views. The dwellings each occupy an entire floor of 160 m2 and have a different character from a family home to a completely open loft. Studioninedots also designed the interior of the top floor apartment.
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The facades and balconies are constructed from white prefab concrete. The white volume rests on a dark grey basalt plinth that recalls the cladding of dike and canal walls in Amsterdam. On the front and rear facades the balconies’ organic forms echo the meandering lines of the canal-side park and represent the movement of water of the river Amstel.
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The balcony dimensions are exceptional: 2.5 metres deep and 12.5 metres wide, the same as the building width. Folds recede on the balconies at certain sections, cleverly creating double-height spaces. This ensures that sun and daylight reach deep into the apartments. The fluid lines of the balconies are accentuated by integrated LED strips that illuminate by night and through the optical play of open and closed sections in the curved balustrades. Integrated in the floors of the front balconies, in line with the curves, are elongated concrete planters, which emphasise the sustainable character of the building.
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