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Images taken 4/8/06 View to the west from the Chicago River View from the river of rising columns View to the northeast from the river

My almost completed Burj Dubai Version 4.0 (version 1 is below, 2-3 were scaled wrongly and had to be started over from scratch. Emerging information suggests this model is with in 2% of the real thing in all dimensions. Interior of the office skylobby. A portion of it is double height. Exterior Comparison to ESB

Some interesting pictures of Canary Wharf. Sometimes incorrectly stated as being a bit of an American CBD, its something seen more like a modern Venice with docks and skyscrapers. What is even more amazing is to think that less than 20 years ago, this area (and most of the other Docklands area) was used as the primary production site for the second half of the movie Full Metal Jacket - ie the ...

I was recently visiting family in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (arguably ;-)). Being the kind of saddo that spends inordinate amounts of time around this great site despite being neither a professional planner nor architect, I obviously took loads of picture of the urban space there. :-D 1st instalment Barcelona is a reasonably large city (about 3.1 mn - urban area). Seen from ...

Calatrava at home: past, present and future CAC of Valencia city. The object of this thread that I open is always to analyze the work of Santiago Calatrava in the ground that saw him being born, cozy and hospitable Valencia. I go away to centre on exhibiting his participation in the famous architectural and cultural complex named City of the Sciences and of the Arts (CAC), which ...

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RICHARD MEIER Samples of Richard Meier's life work: (© ActiveRain Corporation) Richard Meier at 49 (© Pritzker Architecture Award, the Hyatt Corporation) Richard Alan Meier was born in 1934 in Newark New Jersey. Twenty-five years later - after graduating from Cornell University’s Architecture School, and after Cornell, working briefly for SOM -...

Toward a New Architecture for Homeless in Chicago: Helmut Jahn and Stanley Tigerman T he very thing that defines one as homeless - the lack of immediate shelter, however temporary or transitional - is at the centre of the problem. This shelter can mean many things, but a cardboard box is not one of them. Two recent attempts by Architects, from totally different directions, ...

The design has been in charge of the team ARQUITECTONICA INTERNATIONAL ( http://www.arquitectonica.com/ ), with head office in New York and Miami. A signature that is led by the prestigious architect Bernardo Fort-Brescia. Business Center Metropolis Empire will have 2 towers of 36 and 32 floors of between 400 and 500 square meters of surface and a whole of 180 and 165 meters high ...

Beijing Capital's new Terminal 3, the worlds largest airport and worlds largest building by floor area: It was built in 4 years and jumped passengers from 21 million in 2000 to 54 million in 2008, ranking from 47th to 8th in that time. It has capacity for over 100 million but may need more. There are already plans for a new airport to be built in 2010, to be opened in 2015 as demand ...

Some interesting pictures of Canary Wharf. Sometimes incorrectly stated as being a bit of an American CBD, its something seen more like a modern Venice with docks and skyscrapers. What is even more amazing is to think that less than 20 years ago, this area (and most of the other Docklands area) was used as the primary production site for the second half of the movie Full Metal Jacket - ie the ...

My almost completed Burj Dubai Version 4.0 (version 1 is below, 2-3 were scaled wrongly and had to be started over from scratch. Emerging information suggests this model is with in 2% of the real thing in all dimensions. Interior of the office skylobby. A portion of it is double height. Exterior Comparison to ESB

I was recently visiting family in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (arguably ;-)). Being the kind of saddo that spends inordinate amounts of time around this great site despite being neither a professional planner nor architect, I obviously took loads of picture of the urban space there. :-D 1st instalment Barcelona is a reasonably large city (about 3.1 mn - urban area). Seen from ...

Calatrava at home: past, present and future CAC of Valencia city. The object of this thread that I open is always to analyze the work of Santiago Calatrava in the ground that saw him being born, cozy and hospitable Valencia. I go away to centre on exhibiting his participation in the famous architectural and cultural complex named City of the Sciences and of the Arts (CAC), which ...

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Beijing Capital's new Terminal 3, the worlds largest airport and worlds largest building by floor area: It was built in 4 years and jumped passengers from 21 million in 2000 to 54 million in 2008, ranking from 47th to 8th in that time. It has capacity for over 100 million but may need more. There are already plans for a new airport to be built in 2010, to be opened in 2015 as demand ...

Images taken 4/8/06 View to the west from the Chicago River View from the river of rising columns View to the northeast from the river

The design has been in charge of the team ARQUITECTONICA INTERNATIONAL ( http://www.arquitectonica.com/ ), with head office in New York and Miami. A signature that is led by the prestigious architect Bernardo Fort-Brescia. Business Center Metropolis Empire will have 2 towers of 36 and 32 floors of between 400 and 500 square meters of surface and a whole of 180 and 165 meters high ...

RICHARD MEIER Samples of Richard Meier's life work: (© ActiveRain Corporation) Richard Meier at 49 (© Pritzker Architecture Award, the Hyatt Corporation) Richard Alan Meier was born in 1934 in Newark New Jersey. Twenty-five years later - after graduating from Cornell University’s Architecture School, and after Cornell, working briefly for SOM -...

Toward a New Architecture for Homeless in Chicago: Helmut Jahn and Stanley Tigerman T he very thing that defines one as homeless - the lack of immediate shelter, however temporary or transitional - is at the centre of the problem. This shelter can mean many things, but a cardboard box is not one of them. Two recent attempts by Architects, from totally different directions, ...