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Nebuta-no-ie Warasse, Nebuta Festival, Aomori, Japan – design by molo + d/dt Arch + Frank la Rivière Architects inc – In August, Nebuta Festival (origin 8th century) fever descends upon Aomori: paper lantern like floats showing warriors from Japanese and Chinese history and myth in dramatic poses often showing battle scenes.
This intervention is located on the banks of the Beiro River north of the city of Granada. The presence of a white wall delimits the former military property of Los Mondragones and its watchtowers determine the place’s characteristic image.
Musical impresario Pharrell Williams and architectural visionary Chad Oppenheim present contemporary treehouse concept to inspire future generations through architecture.
The landsbyhuset in Gyrstinge is an attractor in a small community – a magnet for sports and social activity. Since it is a facility for the whole village, it is intended as a visual symbol that can be a part of a common consciousness
When the Haiti earthquake mangled Port-au-Prince’s Iron Market, it destroyed a symbol of the nation. Built in France and bound for Cairo to serve as a railway station, the vagaries of history, tides or captains led it to end up here, where it served as a perfectly good market hall until ravaged first by fire in 2008 and then by earthquake.
The realized building consists of the simple stacking of two – diametrically opposed – concepts of space. The ground floor level is designed as a flat sandwich-space, which opens up completely to the surroundings thanks to the glazing on all sides.
Meiso no Mori Municipal Funeral Hall, Japan: Japanese waterfront building design by Toyo Ito architect
The Center of Arts and Education of Pimentas is located in Guarulhos, in Pimentas neighborhood, a place with few community equipment directed to education, leisure and sports.
The community gardens and urban farms of Taipei are astonishing. They pop up like mushrooms on the degenerated, neglected or sleeping areas of the city, which could be referred to as urban composts.
Raasay Community Hall Isle of Skye Project, north west Scotland – by Dualchas Building Design Architects. The hall is rendered civic through this heightened awareness of scale and through minimal detailing. Externally all detail is removed – no rainwater goods.
Man’s obsession with marking out his land is not new. Even the World Bank currently has a program dedicated to assigning land tenures to vulnerable populations.
The programme of requirements for this parochial centre was solved in a raised floor, distinguishing two functional building units that are arranged on both sides of the principal entry.
It was designed by Architektur 109 in Stuttgart. The building complements directly with the School Campus created by architect Günter Behnisch in 1973 – 2003.
The township of Churchill was developed as a man-made heterotopia to house the influx of workers to the local power plant of Hazelwood in the 1950’s.
Gloucester Language Immersion Centre building design by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios Architects – Gloucestershire architecture, western England, UK
The Gola Rainforest in Sierra Leone is home to 100,000 people who still live in extreme poverty 8 years after the brutal civil war ended, but change is beginning to happen.
The first centre, located outside of Cape Town, South Africa, was completed in December 2009. Centres in Nairobi, Namibia and Mali are currently under construction and aim to be completed around the time of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.