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venice’s historic caffè florian — the oldest one in italy and in the world — just celebrated its 300th birthday in a bitter way.
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the design draws influence from the sculptures of artist luo xu, and integrates a series of art deco elements to form its own unique identity.
a coconut leaf roof covers the entire ceiling.
the architects planted trees in the corner of both houses, allowing them to protrude outside the envelopes of the two dwellings.
Is the best way of opening doors and interacting with the local community best achieved by building what is intended to be the tallest skyscraper in western Europe in rural Denmark? Having studied architecture myself, I view this as more of an ego trip. Why vertical? Why does it have to be 320m? There are even subterranean and much greener opportunities that could be embraced – I’ve not seen the spec (only this article) but, sticking a green roof on the lower level structures does very little. Sure, this is rural – convenient when there is no context with which to fit into (similar to some of Le Corbusier’s designs) – but, how will this tall structure impact on its location? What are the benefits to building this huge beacon when it is in a rural location? Don’t get me wrong, I love innovative and interesting designs but, I will need a bit more convincing that this is the ‘right thing’ to do.
The less said about the lack of diversity amongst the people pictured the better. The way the images of the building are scaled in the different photos shown don’t match when you zoom into the larger scale… (…this reminds me of the kind of feedback I would get from my tutors in crits…) in principle, a nice idea but design decisions taken don’t make sense to me.
‘Better get it done before you-know-who gets back to Moscow. Nice of the company to spend their money at home.
Jimmy