The city deconstructed

Deconstruction of New York

French artist Armelle Caron makes a curious interpretation of the most important cities of the planet through what he calls “Taxonomy of city plans”. It consists of a series of drawings based on random sectors of various cities (Paris, Berlin, NY, etc.) which represents

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The development plans of municipalities canaries

Degree of adaptation of the General Municipal Plans to territorial legislation in late 2010. In red, municipalities adapted to the Guidelines; orange, adapted municipalities Territory Law; gray, other municipalities. Territorial legislation assigns archipelago General Land Use Plans, responsible for organizing

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“Wind-it”. New ideas in energy generation.

This year the design and architecture magazine dedicated Metrópolisha the latest edition of his award "Next Generation" the challenge for the new generation of clean energy production. The young French architects Nicola Delon, Julien Choppin and Raphaël Ménard have won the first prize with his interesting project "Wind-it", which

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Park[ing] Day

Surfing the net I found this curious initiative. PARK[ing] DAY is the name of an event during which individuals or groups of people transform parking spots, other parking spaces and parking spaces for motor vehicles, in public areas or micro gardens to the congregation and enjoyment after haberselo

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Another controversy with Calatrava

Lately it seems that the architect Santiago Calatrava can not avoid controversy. Since the complaint he made to the city of Bilbao to build a walkway designed by Arata Isozaki, following its Zubi-Zuri bridge, to the criticism in his newly opened bridge Jerusalén.Esta time the focus of the controversy is centered

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10.000 Views

Shortly after completing one year of age has exceeded our blog 10.000 views. So take this opportunity to thank you for your interest and participation in the issues raised here. We want this blog to remain a space to share all the concerns related to our profession where your comments

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Urban Agriculture

As Federico told us a few months ago on his blog Islands and Territory, one of the measures to combat the crisis is to grow our own food garden básicos.A part of the current economic situation makes us reflect on aspects such, there are other interesting data on the other hand worrying

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A Mallorca with Utzon. 2First part

Here I leave the invitation to the International Meeting Utzon Mallorca, with the participation of William J. R. Curtis, Alberto Campo Baeza, Richard Weston, Lene Tranberg, Elisabeth Tostrup, Peter Davey, Joana Roca Cladera, Adrian Carter, Michael Asgaard AndersE and Jaime J. Ferrer Fores. The program is limited to a conference Richard Weston, and

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Cheap books and architects

A few months ago we created a platform called EXPLOITED ARCHITECTS, that seeks to end precarious work practices based supported, scholarships, false self-employed full time etc..

N addition to organizing actions like the one announced in the poster, have a blog through which are organized

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Car Free Cities?? Worlds out of oil??

whater border city (The Country)Rem Koolhaas just designed, an island within a newly built city in which there will be no car and will accommodate 90.000 people. Ironies of life to do so in a desert area, gaining on the sea, and in a country living oil. Looking for him

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