The Great Metal Tube in the Sky
Composite Bird My window seat next to the wing of the Boeing 777 that would carry me across the Arctic Sea to China was anything but desired. As soon as […]
Tag Archives: concrete
MAT_MACRO_SCALESERIES 2 of 2 [FUKOKU=expressive]
MAT_MACROSCALESERIES: [2 OF 2] EWHA/FUKOKU – Building: as an urban EXPRESSIVE surface Project: Fukoku Life Osaka Tower Building Architect/Designer: Dominique Perrault Sources: http://www.perraultarchitecte.com Features: Concrete structural system – Metal Glass […]
MAT_MACRO_SCALESERIES 1 of 2 [EWHA=functional]
MAT_MACRO_SCALESERIES: [1 OF 2] EWHA/FUKOKU – Building: as an urban FUNCTIONAL surface Project: Ewha Women’s University Architect/Designer: Dominique Perrault Sources: http://www.perraultarchitecte.com Features: Landscape(Park/Garden) – Metal Glass Facade (printed glass facade) […]
Concrete, Deterioration, and Aesthetic
Now, many decades after the midcentury boom in concrete construction, we are beginning to understand just how this material ages – when it does so well, and when mismanagement and […]
RTP/RPD Studios [concrete_dematerialized=glass]
RTP/RPD Studios [concrete_dematerialized=glass] Project: R.T.P. / R.P.D. Studios, Lisbon Architect/Designer: Frederico Valsassina Arquitectos Sources: http://www.fvarq.com/ Featured material: Glass (printed glass facade) The RTP/RDP Studios offers a remarkable example of concrete […]
Ornament and C(oncrete)
In 1913 Adolph Loos published his essay Ornament and Crime. In it he argued that ornament had no place in the modern age as it no was “no longer the […]
Visual Layers and Visual Structures
The German Chinese Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo Shanghai (by Markus Heinsdorff in collaboration with MUDI) brings together a wide spectrum of materials which evoke age old traditions mixed […]
Translucent Concrete
Walking through dynamic concrete spaces at varying times of the day will tell you a lot about the chameleon-like attributes of the material. Concrete is an incredible light absorbing/reflecting material. […]
Material Strategies 
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