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- metaphor: industrial architecture
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- metaphor: mosque
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- metaphor: shaggy bear
- metaphor: ruin
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- metaphor: factory
- metaphor: journey
- metaphor: violin
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- metaphor: penis
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The winners, with full quotes from the jury-report: see also discussion about the results and the judgement (for now only in Dutch, translation will follow soon)First prize (ex aequo, each 15,000 euro)AMALGAM - Laura Alvarez, laura alvarez architect…
In this article, I try to take seriously Jencks’s remark that culture should find an iconographic language to connect us to the universe. Jencks’s lectures, answers and gardens seem to resemble the cosmos when it comes to beginnings, centres and ends…
Divided into three chapters – product, process and architecture – the book includes contributions from eight writers in circles around Cepezed that explore the special position of the office in the field. Each article is followed by a case study of a…
My drive to Utrecht last Saturday took me along the A12 motorway. Strewn thoughtlessly along both sides of the roadway were miserable-looking boxes decorated with signage that clamoured for attention, interrupted occasionally by stretches of acoustic…
Alex van de Beld (Onix)Thursday evening, October 21 After arrival in Rotterdam and checking into the schooners (boats) where we would spend the next three days, the young European architects got talking to one another straight away. The beer and wine…
'The Library That Puts on Fishnets and Hits the Disco', Herbert Muschkamp, New York Times 16-5-04At a dark hour, Seattle's new Central Library is a blazing chandelier to swing your dreams upon. If an American city can erect a civic project as b…