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We thought that the best way to introduce CoolBoom to their readers is by sharing our Architectural Picks of the Year. The picks are based on: the one that I really like, the one that’s most popular at the moment, and the one that made me go crazy.
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Visual Acoustics is a documentary film narrated by Dustin Hoffman that celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream.
Shulman, who passed away this year, captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry. His images epitomized the singular beauty of…
Can Sayinli & Jørgen Evil Evkoll are artists who make silk rugs that are really art and commentary pieces.
You really have to look at all the pics because it’s only in the detailed pics that you can truly see the humor and imagery.
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The wooden house designed by Archivi Architects & Associates, is built around two small courtyard gardens.
The Japan cedar from Kumano and the Japanese cypress are used for the main structure material, the floor material, the siding, and the lattice material.
In addition, it is promoted that nature is naturally taken into all the life scenes by two residence spaces’ tying in the corridor of the open-hearted glass.
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El prolífico estudio de arquitectura OMA ha diseñado para CapitaLand Residential Singapore un conjunto residencial de grandes dimensiones que introduce un nuevo concepto de interrelación de los diferentes bloques, formando un cluster horizontal apilado en vez del habitual conjunto vertical de torres. El proyecto está dirigido por Ole Scheeren.
Con esta tipología de construción se consigue una alta densidad, conservando sin embargo la distancia suficiente entre los bloques para…
Dutch Profiles is a series of short documentaries about architecture, graphic, product and fashion designers in the Netherlands. Dutch Profiles focuses on the conceptual, context-oriented and research-based practices of Dutch designers and includes interviews with among others: MVRDV, 2012 Architects, Jurgen Bey, Claudy Jongstra, Gerard Unger, Paul Mijksenaar, Marlies Dekkers, Alexander van Slobbe and G-Star.
La Asociación Japonesa del Arte concede cada año desde 1989 los premios Praemium Imperiale en honor al Príncipe Takamatsu.
Los premios cubren 5 áreas: pintura, escultura, arquitectura, música y cine/teatro.
Este año el premio en la categoría de arquitectura ha sido para la arquitecta iraquí Zaha Hadid, que ha agradecido el premio asegurando que su trabajo en Japón ha sido primordial en su desarrollo como profesional global, además de destacar la buena disposición de sus clientes…
Livraria ad Vila is this unique bookstore designed by Isay Weinfeild located in a refurbished house in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The hermetic volume with a pivoting bookshelf facade, contains an interesting space distributed over three levels. The inclusion of the basement allowed for an entire floor exclusive for children, in addition to a small auditorium, to hold courses and lectures. Voids connecting one floor to the next invite customers to enter and explore the store.
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