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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.
用帆布帳篷比較實在,或者用防曬網,好看不中用不會長久的。
It’s an installation. Not permanent. I’m sure the designers understood issues of sunlight.
Interesting to see an office that calls its work “people´s architecture” is clearing out illegal structures while providing no real solution for the people that live in these places. There is no position on the issue that spawned those illegal structures in the first place. Illegal structures spring up from the need of functional space, clearing them out seems negating the fact that the people that built them actually “need” the space. I find this a very banal attempt to beautify a hutong from the top. This project assumes that it is more desirable to provide shade in a courtyard than providing a functional bedroom, living room etc. I would love to see what the people that live there think of these canopies hanging over their courtyards. I would venture a guess that the canopies will give way to new illegal structures once the design week is over and the spotlight moves somewhere else.
The installation from the photos looks cool, but in real has some problems.That screen was stopping too much the sunlight, the result was an almost dark courtyard, where nobody would like to live inside…..
for better or worse “anything goes”
What the flip? Seriously, just plant another tree…