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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.
This very earthy ethereal expression of a mixed use tower for the Sahara is beautiful, but I would like to know more about how the designers are using intrinsic sustainable features, and how they envision solutions to the fenestration and structure, which are not really expressed in the renderings, but are important driving factors in the design of towers this tall. Also the solar elements floating above the top of the tower would not last long in a Saharan dust storm.