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Can a building clean the air? Welcome to the age of smog-eating architecture. Slated to make its debut at the 2015 Milan Expo, a 13,000-square-meter building will become an air purifier for the city, with a concrete facade that absorbs airborne pollutants and converts them into harmless salts that are then washed away by the rain. Architecture helps us breathe easy. ━━━━━⊱💡⊰━━━━━ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ 📱 Follow the FUTURE 📲

Can architecture drip? An international airport is an opportunity for a city to showcase its identity to visitors. That’s why the architects of Terminal 2 in Mumbai’s airport chose to reference the patterns of local jali window screens along its 17-acre roof. (Jali is the term for a perforated stone or latticed screen, usually with an ornamental pattern, often found in Indian architecture.) The coffered ceiling’s pattern that drips into columns lets in light from above with skylights, creating a strong visual gateway to the nation’s capital. Architecture lets you know you’ve arrived. ━━━━━⊱💡⊰━━━━━ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ 📱 Follow the FUTURE 📲

Can architecture drip? An international airport is an opportunity for a city to showcase its identity to visitors. That’s why the architects of Terminal 2 in Mumbai’s airport chose to reference the patterns of local jali window screens along its 17-acre roof. (Jali is the term for a perforated stone or latticed screen, usually with an ornamental pattern, often found in Indian architecture.) The coffered ceiling’s pattern that drips into columns lets in light from above with skylights, creating a strong visual gateway to the nation’s capital. Architecture lets you know you’ve arrived. ━━━━━⊱💡⊰━━━━━ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ 📱 Follow the FUTURE 📲

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Why can’t walls be invisible? This is a museum for a glass collection, and the architects decided that a building for glass should be made of glass. The building is composed of a solid floor and a solid ceiling that appear to magically float on glass walls. The boldest architecture is sometimes hard to see. Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, Ohio, United States SANAA ━━━━━⊱💡⊰━━━━━ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ 📱 Follow the FUTURE 📲

#Powerful #tips for effective #logo #design ━━━━━⊱💡⊰━━━━━ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ 📱 Follow the FUTURE 📲

Can stone flow like a river? Inspired by the geomorphology of the Louisiana region’s ancient riverbed, this museum’s sculptural foyer uses 1,100 cast stone panels to form a pathway to the museum’s interior galleries. The panels were designed and assembled using a custom automation process. Technology is the new alchemy, turning rocks into water. Louisiana State Museum and Sports Hall of Fame. Natchitoches, Louisiana, United States TRAHAN ARCHITECTS ━━━━━⊱💡⊰━━━━━ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ 📱 Follow the FUTURE

Can architecture be pixelated? A building that’s a simple cube is complicated by a facade of square panels in ten colors—just like a pixelated image. The playful design breaks down the form of the office, but it also performs the serious task of concealing the proprietary research and development conducted by the technology company within. Architecture can keep secrets. Frog Queen. Graz, Austria SPLITTERWERK ━━━━━⊱💡⊰━━━━━ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ 📱 Follow the FUTURE

Can architecture be an Olympic sport? Ski jumping is a death-defying sport; athletes risk life and limb to launch themselves impossibly high into the air. The village of Holmenkollen, in Norway, has been home to the most legendary jumps of the last century, and a recent international competition aimed to raise its reputation even higher with a new sports campus and jumping hill. Clad in stainless steel mesh and cantilevered 226 feet, the ski jump is the longest of its kind, making sure it is always the center of attention. Architecture gives you wings. Holmenkollen Ski Jump. Oslo, Norway JDS ARCHITECTS ━━━━━⊱💡⊰━━━━━ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ 📱 Follow the FUTURE

Is pretty a public amenity? In case you were wondering, this shape is called a rotated rhomboid. Clad in sixteen thousand hexagonal tiles, this Rodin sculpture museum’s muscular structure is wrapped in a shimmering mirrored skin. The pattern references Mexico City’s traditional colonial ceramic-tiled building facades and, like those buildings, changes in appearance with weather and the viewer’s vantage point, becoming a sculpture itself. A museum can be as important as the art within. Museo Soumaya. Mexico City, Mexico FR-EE / FERNANDO ROMERO ENTERPRISE ━━━━━⊱💡⊰━━━━━ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ 📱 Follow the FUTURE

Can architecture swoop? The Soviet Union was well known for its imposing and rigidly monumental architecture. When Azerbaijanis looked to create a new cultural center in their capital, they made an extreme departure from precedent. The building rises out of the landscape in a series of undulating curves to enclose over 57,000 square meters of space. The design represents the fluid relationship between the city and what happens inside the cultural center. Architecture can create new landscapes. Heydar Aliyev Center. Baku, Azerbaijan ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS ━━━━━⊱💡⊰━━━━━ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ 📱 Follow the FUTURE

Can architecture be from outer space? The quickly growing city of Dalian asked architects to create a functioning conference and opera center, but also a visual landmark for the city—something that could become an icon for the local community and excite an international audience. The result is almost entirely self-referential, as if an alien ship landed on the banks of Dalian’s port. The building doesn’t look to context for its reference, it looks to the future. It’s a hopeful symbol of what the city will become: a place activated by visitors, commerce, and culture. Architecture doesn’t predict the future, it creates the future. Dalian International Conference Center. Dalian, China COOP HIMMELB(L)AU ━━━━━⊱💡⊰━━━━━ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ 📱 Follow the FUTURE

Can architecture swirl? An inflatable and mobile concert hall made of a stretchy plastic membrane brings both art and hope to earthquake-devastated Japan. The five-hundred seat venue can inflate in under two hours and, when deflated, can move to a new location on the back of a truck. The line between art and architecture can be a curvy one. Ark Nova. Matsushima, Japan ARATA ISOZAKI, ANISH KAPOOR ━━━━━⊱💡⊰━━━━━ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ 📱 Follow the FUTURE

Can a building zig? A border crossing is the first thing you encounter in a country, and the last thing you see as you leave. Georgia has built what must be the most interesting border crossing in the world, which is no surprise—since it was reborn as an independent democratic country in 1991, Georgia has been using architecture to rebrand its image to the world. Cantilevered platforms allow for viewing of the rugged landscape, and a cafeteria, conference room, and staff facilities are arranged to create a composition that promises wonderful discoveries in the country beyond. The gateway to a country should entice and inspire visitors. Border checkpoint.  Sarpi, Georgia J. MAYER H. ARCHITECTS ━━━━━⊱💡⊰━━━━━ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ 📱 Follow the FUTURE

HEALTHCARE, STORE, INTERIOR DESIGN •SEATTLE, UNITED STATES Architects: Best Practice Architecture Area: 1000 ft²/ 93m² Year: 2015 Photographs: Rafael Soldi Contractor: Bellan Construction Design Team: Ian Butcher, Kailin Gregga, Harry Murzyn Collaborators: Hum Creative, Pillow Studios City: Seattle Country: United States The concept evolved to incorporate a series of powder-coated steel “house” frames which march rhythmically through the space. Clad with a mixture of custom acrylic & wood eyeglass display boxes and mirrored surfaces, the frames have integral lighting which allow the viewer to try on eyewear and see themselves from many angles concurrently in their own private viewing gallery. ━━━━━⊱💡⊰━━━━━ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ 📱 Follow the FUTURE

HEALTHCARE, STORE, INTERIOR DESIGN •SEATTLE, UNITED STATES Architects: Best Practice Architecture Area: 1000 ft²/ 93m² Year: 2015 Photographs: Rafael Soldi Contractor: Bellan Construction Design Team: Ian Butcher, Kailin Gregga, Harry Murzyn Collaborators: Hum Creative, Pillow Studios City: Seattle Country: United States The concept evolved to incorporate a series of powder-coated steel “house” frames which march rhythmically through the space. Clad with a mixture of custom acrylic & wood eyeglass display boxes and mirrored surfaces, the frames have integral lighting which allow the viewer to try on eyewear and see themselves from many angles concurrently in their own private viewing gallery. ━━━━━⊱💡⊰━━━━━ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ 📱 Follow the FUTUR

A complex design and an inflexible completion date made the Sydney Coliseum, a performance center in South Wales, Australia, a challenging construction project. Groat: We had to go back and redesign some of our own work to fit in with the building. That does have an impact on time, but we were able to minimize it because it was done in the BIM 360 models. The challenge with construction is that construction needs to take a digital idea and make it into something physical. And what you do in between is really the magic. ━━━━━⊱💡⊰━━━━━ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ ♻️ @techtimee ♻️ 📱 Follow the FUTURE