The Electrical Management (Elektroprivreda) Building in Sarajevo, Bosnia. It was destroyed during the war in the early 1990s. Lebbeus Woods made a proposal for a reconstruction in 1994.

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The Silent City: Digitally Assembled Futuristic Megalopolises | Yang Yongliang

Born in Shanghai in 1980, Yongliang is known for his sprawling photographic collages that depict the devastating effects of uncontrolled urbanisation and industrialisation. At a distance the works look like traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy but when viewed up close, the peaceful mountains and seascapes are found to be choked with buildings, factories, and machinery. 

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Madam Studio - Cluster on Me

“We wanted to incorporate the capital benefits of both monolithic skyscraper projects, like one Canada Square, as well as the kind of groundscraper they are planning to build on the site, with the qualities of architectural and programmatic diversity that we like so much in Soho. To do this we felt that spaces needed to be found in which there was freedom for a variety of architectures, and programmes, as well as ownerships to evolve on their own course, with these “voids”, or lacunae-of-design being anchored by a certain quantity of large, defined elements that would insure an economy of scale sufficient to initiate the development.”

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Egypt: Blooming Landscape, Deep Surface | Smout Allen

The competition for the Grand Egyptian Museum provided an extensive and exposed sand dune landscape as the site for the relocated Museum of Egyptian Culture

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ÉVA LE ROI’S “CONDITIONNEMENT” via Socks Studio

“Architecture is a history of borders. It materializes existing power relations through a clear delimitation of space. The surrounding structures impose onto us in an intrusive way in order to reassure, control, contain, seduce.

They reflect our lifestyle, conditioning it directly.

The city is both territory and population, physical environment and gravity of social relations. It is the interaction between the delimiting built environment and the conditioned social flow that should be studied to approach its reality. Open the envelope to look inside.”

(Translation from French by Socks)

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Scaffolding II | Atelier Olschinsky

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Dessislava Lyutakova | Outlaws and Valley Bandits 

“The architecture of overlapping spaces, materials and locations. The project is based on a North Wales Lake sited on a previous monastic order of St. Clem¬ents and the Rollers. The remaking of the monastery as a recycling and medi¬tation space for bikers. The shift in the space between religion and technology as a method of manufacturing the overlap between time and institution is the main purpose of the project. It can be seen as a micro-regional architecture between the fixed and the nomadic, in this sense the shiny helmets and bald¬head brigade. A site that crosses existing identity, cultures and rituals for the relocation of Outlaws and Valley Bandits. ”

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EXODUS, OR THE VOLUNTARY PRISONERS OF ARCHITECTURE by Rem Koolhaas via Socks Studio

Once, a city was divided in two parts. One part became the Good Half, the other part the Bad Half.

The inhabitants of the Bad Half began to flock to the good part of the divided city, rapidly swelling into an urban exodus.If this situation had been allowed to continue forever, the population of the Good Half would have doubled, while the Bad Half would have turned into a ghost town.After all attempts to interrupt this undesirable migration had failed, the authorities of the bad part made desperate and savage use of architecture: they built a wall around the good part of the city, making it completely inaccessible to their subjects.

The Wall was a masterpiece.

Originally no more than some pathetic strings of barbed wire abruptly dropped on the imaginary line of the border, its psychological and symbolic effects were infinitely more powerful than its physical appearance.The Good Half, now glimpsed only over the forbidding obstacle from an agonizing distance, became even more irresistible.Those trapped, left behind in the gloomy Bad Half, became obsessed with vain plans for escape. Hopelessness reigned supreme on the wrong side of the Wall.As so often before in this history of mankind, architecture was the guilty instrument of despair.

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Neil Denari

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La Ciudad Incontenible (Uncontainable City) Diego Gutierrez Valladares

The city that Diego Gutiérrez has imagined does not adjust to plans and mental structures, it is not contained; but does on the contrary overflow in each detail. Between omen and vestige the artist finds testimonies that barely take shape, just to vanish in their ink.

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A Simple Heart | Dogma

Dogma was founded in 2002 by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara. From the beginning of its activities, Dogma has worked on the relationship between architecture and the city by focusing mostly on urban design and large-scale projects. Parallel to the design projects, the members of Dogma have intensely engaged with teaching, writing, and research, activities that have been an integral part of the office’s engagement with architecture

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Retrofitting The American Dream | Artur Nesterenko Alexandrovich

The 2007 market crash forced a relocation of suburban housing into a high-density, pedestrian-friendly neighborhood of the center city and inner suburbs. This created a profound structural shift – a reversal of what took place in the 1950s, when drivable suburbs boomed and flourished as center cities emptied and withered. The fact that the land under the house has no value and the houses are worth less than they would cost to be replaced, creates a big possibility that many fringe suburbs will turn into waste lands, with abandoned houses and a rising crime rate.

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Flakturm Archives or the Panopticon in Reverse (via Dpr-barcelona)

This project undertakes to design archives within one of the Flakturm, former Second World War anti-aircraft towers in the center of Vienna. The idea of constructing an archive within a bunker is not a neutral one. The defensiveness of this building allows, both symbolically and literally, to host and protect goods against the alteration of the externality —whether it is time or a more direct antagonism. Many civilizations of the past have been annihilated, not only physically, but absolutely as any form of their production has been also destroyed with them. The recent history would have still seen several tragic examples of ethnical cleansing directly linked to processes of cultural destructions.

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Machining Ecologies | Richard Andersen

The constant fight between the Vegetative and the Urban has lead to an Urban ruin. Romatacised but ultimately resulting in dead space, the Independant Studies looks at controlling this gradient through the use of an aggressive pollination strategy.

To do this, we look at cultivating machined hives to cultivate bees and propagate greenery to order. This new thin strip surrounding Hong Kong could be more user friendly, maintaining the Romantacist ideas of entropy proposed by Piranesi but maintaining a functional edge.

The devices are designed to occupy and hug existing structures and trees on the peripheries of either the vegetative green of the Hong Kong mountain side or the Cities’ urban extremities. Within the context of this project a site on Robinson Road on the southern side of Victoria peak is proposed. And edge bordering heavy residential density and dense uninhaitable vegetation.

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