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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.
Absolutely wonderful images and concept, but I want to make one point clear: This stadium is a disaster for the context and society in which it will be built. Look at the picture, this stadium clearly does not belong there. Not only because of the size and design but also because of the way it will be used in the future. Think about it: this stadium supports almost 70000 seats, in Europe where soccer is probably at its most powerful in society most clubs are unable to build and fill such a large stadium with people. Only the absolutely best clubs might be able to sustain a 70,000 seat stadium effectively… And now imagine the situation in cape town: the matches that are played during the world championships of course are awesome and will fill this stadium easily, but after that, what will happen to this stadium?
The local clubs have a hard time to attract 10,000 people to their matches and then we talk about the biggest matches they play. In 20 years from now the local authorities have probably failed to sustain the stadium in a good condition and because it is no longer in use everything will deteriorate. Imagine a 70,000 seat stadium in the middle of a city which is not used. It will be a symbol of failure of design.
I think as designers and in this case architectures we have to take into consideration what the effect our design has on a society in both short term (during use) but also in long term (what happens afterwards?) Therefore I like the images we can see right now on our screen, but I really think the design has failed miserably. Im sorry to be so negative, but the design here completely misses the point!
very elegant design.
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now I become to enjoy the beuty of design and from now on wards I embrance architecture. wonderfull!!!!!!!!
Looks great! Very ethereal.
WOW!!!!! absolutely beautiful,,,,, how nice playing near the beach….. and the structure doesn’t destroy the city view…. great job.