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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.
If it wasn’t for a friend I know that works for Plasma, I’d say this project looks very half baked or not baked at all. I’m glad for Plasma, as a business entity who needs to generate an income, and drives to motivate the rest of the architecture community to be proactive during this recession, but the sensibilities here are not original to say the least. They should have just dropped a bunch of chopsticks on a site model and called it a design. In all hope, the practice ought to restructure their design process.
HEY PLASMA!
Finally the chance to build in a big scale came home!
Congratulations!
NICE! this will be really big for them. for us! the recession is over!
it literally took my breath away ,.
very niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee