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• Architects

  BBM Sustainable Architects Ltd

• Location

  Hadlow Down, Uckfield, East Sussex TN22, UK

• Area

  459.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Leigh Simpson

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• Architects

  Atelier Du Pont

• Location

  Batignolles, 75017 Paris, France

• Architects project managers

  Luc Pinsard, Ariane Rouveyrol

• Interior design project manager

  Aline Defert

• Area

  6177.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Takuji Shimmura

• Architects

  Dan Gayfer Design

• Location

  Fitzroy North VIC 3068, Australia

• Area

  178.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Dean Bradley

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• Architects

  Studio Lauria

• Location

  Manifattura Tabacchi, 50144 Firenze, Italy

• Client

  PIN and Logis Lab

• Project by

  Daniele Lauria / Studio Lauria

• Area

  500.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Studio Lauria

Selfie Automaton, an exhibition for the Romanian Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, utilizes an automated puppet show to raise the question: “can we—architects—mock ourselves? Can we imagine a less idyllic selfie?”

The exhibit contains seven “mechanical automata” with forty-six built in characters assembled in decided locations for the show. Unlike typical puppets, these wooden marionettes have been removed from their strings, which typically give them the "freedom of movement," and are nailed to various mechanisms that only allow for one repetitive gesture.

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• Architects

  NatureHumaine

• Location

  Montreal, QC, Canada

• Area

  7200.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Adrien Williams

+18

• Architects

  Corinna Menn Architekten

• Location

  Samedan, 7504 Samedan, Switzerland

• Architect in Charge

  Corinna Menn

• Area

  147.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Franz Rindlisbacher

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• Architects

  Pedro Domingos arquitectos

• Location

  R. Santo António 36B, 2780-164 Oeiras, Portugal

• Architect in Charge

  Pedro Domingos

• Area

  220.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  João Carmo Simões

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• Architects

  RAW architecture

• Location

  Jakarta, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia

• Architect in Charge

  Realrich Sjarief

• Area

  150.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Mario Wibowo

Following a competition that received 286 entries from 26 of the 32 states of Mexico, 31 proposals have been selected to be presented at the Mexican Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale. Narrating the “deep history of social participation in Mexico,” the exhibit, “Unfoldings and Assemblages,” will feature “architectures assembled from fragments, modules, relations, stories, tactics, technologies and construction strategies.” The exhibit will focus on work and experiences that can change, propagate and adapt, rather than closed systems or final products.

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• Architects

  Felipe Hess

• Location

  São Paulo, São Paulo - State of São Paulo, Brazil

• Team

  Lucas Millher

• Contractor

  Dencati Engenharia

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Ricardo Bassetti

In early 2016, we introduced Vardehaugen, a Norwegian office that created a series of life sized drawings of their projects in their own backyard. After publishing this exercise on our site, Spanish architect and academic Alberto T. Estévez reached out to tell us that this same exercise has been carried out at ESARQ (UIC Barcelona) for the past 10 years with second and third year architecture students. According to Estévez, the exercise "represents something irreplaceable: it brings you closer to experiencing life-sized spaces of classic works of architecture" from the Farnsworth house to José Antonio Coderch's Casa de la Marina.

About 10 years ago I had an idea for a special teaching exercise, one that I thought would be interesting and instructive at the same time. So I started doing the practice class we’ve been talking about with architecture students in their second and third year of study at ESARQ (UIC Barcelona): the School of Architecture, which I founded 20 years ago as the first Director at the International University of Catalonia.

Now, we do the lesson every year in the Architectural Composition class that I teach, which discusses the theory and history of architecture.

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This article was originally published on Metropolis Magazine as "Citizen Bridge, NYC's First Floating Bridge, Reaches Kickstarter Goal."

Governors Island is a small, pedestrian-only island to the south of Manhattan and to the west of Brooklyn. It’s just across from Red Hook, the Brooklyn neighborhood known to many a Manhattanite as the home of New York’s only Ikea. To get there, you have to take the East River Ferry—that’s the only option. No subway, no bus, no rail. But it wasn’t always that way.

Nancy Nowacek is a Red Hook-based artist whose vision, since 2012, has been to create an alternative way to reach this backyard of New York City. She has always had a close relationship with the waterfront, but many, she suggests, do not.  “It’s really hard to get to the water’s edge from most points inland,” she says. “It’s not a part of the New York that the kids in my building...live in, nor many others who live a few miles away geographically, but experientially are a world away.”

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• Architects

  SILO AR + D

• Location

  Fayetteville, AR, United States

• Design Team

  Marc Manack and Frank Jacobus, Principals; Joseph Weishaar, Project Designer; Esteban Ayala; Thomas Geeslin; Ethan Werkmeister

• Area

  1920.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2014

The Greek Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale will be hosting an exhibition titled #ThisIsACo-op, which underscores the role of collaboration in architecture. Through a series of displayed research and discussions, the exhibition aims to understand how architects may need to unite on different “fronts” of world crises, including the refugee crisis, the housing crisis, and the crisis of the architectural profession, among others.