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Landscape Urbanism is the new black in architecture and this magazine, part of a+t strategy series, has heads turning. There are a dozen projects and hundreds of ideas in this edition. A recurring them is the manipulation of time throughout a project’s life. “In public space, time becomes the first tool to work with. Meaning that the process is a timeline in which the objectives are implemented at different times intervals. Dealing with this long timeline requires a great deal of forward planning.” It is interesting to see how each project deals with aspect in similar but different ways.

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Courtesy of ROMA Design Group

This past Fall, ROMA Design Group proudly announced the completion of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington D.C. In 2000, ROMA won the international design competition among nearly 1,000 entries. ROMA Design Group worked for several years to develop the design. The memorial has now been built and was officially dedicated by President Obama on October 16, 2011.

Architect: ROMA Design Group
Location: Washington D.C., USA
Illustrations: Christopher Grubbs
Photographs: Courtesy of ROMA Design Group

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As you well know already we love MARK Magazine, and this issue fails to disappoint. It has projects from many of the architects we have featured here on ArchDaily such as, StudioGreenBlue, Heri&Salli, Clavel Arquitectos, Kengo Kuma, Colboc Franzen, Studio Velocity, Takeshi Hosaka, Fuhrimann Hachler, Toyo Ito, Nieto Sobejano, L3P Architekten, and more.  The notice board gives a shout out to the Keret House by Centrala, which was one of our most viewed projects this year. read more »

From the Kengo Kuma Lab in the University of Tokyo, we received this video showing an architecture related exhibition on intermediate space and experimental architecture inspired by Japanese traditional patterns that we recently exhibited in Tokyo, curated by Kengo Kuma, Matteo Belfiore, and Salvator-John A. Liotta, which is part of two exhibitions and a series of symposia organized by The Italian Cultural Center of Tokyo in concomitance with the UIA International Congress of Architecture.

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© Philipp Schaerer, Bildbau No 19, 2009

Joao Pereira de Sousa, Architect & founder of BRAVDESIGN, recently shared with us an interview he did with Architect/Illustrator Philipp Schaerer.

As an ETH-trained Architect, Philipp Schaerer (1972) currently works as a freelance image designer. He is specialised in digital montage techniques and CGI (Computer Generated Imagery). After graduating from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) as an architect in 2000, Philipp Schaerer worked as an Architect, knowledge manager and image creator in the field of digital image editing for Herzog & de Meuron in Basel during six years (2000-2006). He created many well known architectural visualisations for this office and has substantially influenced the visual language of today’s established architectural visualizations. During his four years working as a research assistant at the chair of Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) at the Faculty of Architecture (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) under Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt, he was able to continuously develop his knowledge in the area of digital image techniques. He gives lectures and conducts workshops at several universities in Switzerland.

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This post is presented by S. Pellegrino, Fine Dining Lovers.

Restauranteurs are having a tougher time to please their customers, now turning into food aficionados. For the foodies, dining is more than just a gourmet, refined preparation. It’s all about the science of the food, where it comes from, how it is prepared, and dining becomes a full experience. In this aspect, the environment where the food is served has turned into a very important part of this experience.

In this post we are going to present to you restaurant projects that offer unique dining experiences, through innovative architecture.

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Courtesy of Michel Grasso + Paul Le Quernec

Architects: Michel Grasso & Paul Le Quernec
Location: Sarreguemines, France
Client: Communauté d’Agglomération Sarreguemines Confluences
Project Area: 1,350 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Michel Grasso + Paul Le Quernec

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© Fran Parente

Architect: Estudio Guto Requena + i|o Design
Location: Sao Paulo, Brasil
Project Team: Estudio Guto Requena: Guto Requena (concept), Lucas Siciliato, Paulo de Camargo; i|o Design: Gabriela Carneiro (concept), Diego Spinola, Olavo Spinola
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Fran Parente

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© FG + SG - Fernando Guerra, Sérgio Guerra

Architects: Belém Lima Arquitectos
Location: Vila Real, Portugal
Client: Imobiliária Região Basto
Project Team: Filipe Silva, Francisca Guardiano, Márcia Oliveira, Ana Coutinho
Engineering: Norvia | coord MJ Borges
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 3,461 sqm
Photographs: FG + SG - Fernando Guerra, Sérgio Guerra

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© Roland Halbe

Architect: Cerrejon Arquitectos + Magén Arquitectos
Location: La Camisera, Oliver Neighborhood of Zaragoza, Spain
Lead Architect: Sebastián Cerrejón Hidalgo and Jaime Magén Pardo
Industrial Engineer: Rafael González Barrida
Technical Architect: Gabriel Faj y Juan José Escobar
Sponsor: Municipal Management of Urbanism Town Hall of Zaragoza
Construction: U. T. E. Obearagón Obenasa
Project Area: 25,225.26 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Roland Halbe

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© Andrej Strehovec

Architect: Ravnikar Potokar Arhitekturni
Location: Idrija, Slovenia
Competition Team: Robert Potokar, Sabina Colnar, Ajdin Bajrović, Mateja Šetina, Carlos Graca
Project Team: Robert Potokar, Andrej Strehovec, Marjan Starič
Interior Design Project: Andrej Strehovec, Maja Slapernik, Robert Potokar
Project Area: 7,740 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Andrej Strehovec

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Courtesy of Struhk Architekten

Architect: Struhk Architekten
Location: Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Project Manager: Dipl.-Ing. Jochen Goede
Project Team: Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Kröll, Dipl.-Ing. Henry Meyer, Dipl.-Ing. Ewa Behnke, Dipl.-Ing. Sigrid Benitis, Dipl.-Ing. Andrea Stroemer
Photographs: Courtesy of Struhk Architekten
Products used in this project: FSB, Door & windows hardware.

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© Julien Fernandez

Architect: Nicolas Reymond
Location: Rue du Faubourg du Temple, Paris 10, France
Engineer: 3C
Text: Nicolas Reymond
Project Area: 92 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Julien Fernandez

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© FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

Architect: Atelier Nuno Lacerda Lopes (CNLL)
Location: Mouriz, Paredes, Portugal
Client: Paredes City Council
Project Team: CNLL I Márcia Areal I Vanessa Tavares I Hélder Lopes I Augusto Rachão I Natália Rocha
Architecture Coordination: CNLL
Specialties: AC + Cogen, Central Projecto, IPC
Constructor: MRG
Model: CNLL
Project Area: 3,220 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

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© Spaceshift Studio

Architect: Vin Varavarn Architects Ltd.
Location: Thanarat Road, Pakchong , Nakorn Ratchasima, Thailand
Project Team: M.L.Varudh Varavarn, Kanoksak Yodmongkon, Santiparp Ruttacomnuan, Meechai Jareonporn
Owner: Scenical Developments Co,. Ltd
Landscape Designer: Vin Varavarn Architects Ltd.
Structural Engineers: Vin Varavarn Architects Ltd.
Interior Designer: Define Studio Co,.Ltd
Construction Management: Qbic Engineer & Architects Co,. Ltd
Main Contractor: Water Thai Construction Co,. Ltd.
Project Area: 358 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Spaceshift Studio

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© Taeoh Kim

The ChonGae Canal Restoration Project is an ambitious redevelopment initiative that transformed the urban fabric of Seoul, Korea. This design was the winning project in an international competition and celebrates the source point of cleansed surficial and sub grade runoff from the city at the start of this seven mile green corridor. The main competition requirement was to highlight the future reunification of North and South Korea. The project symbolizes this political effort through the use of donated local stone from each of the eight provinces of North and South Korea. The individual stones act to frame the urban plaza and the eight source points where runoff is daylighted and represents the unified effort in the transformation of this urban center.

Landscape Architect: Mikyoung Kim Design
Location: Central Seoul, Korea
Owner/Client: Seoul Metropolitan Government
Project Area: 91,000 sqm [2.25 acres]
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Taeoh Kim, Robert Such

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Courtesy of ZGF Architects

Architect: ZGF Architects LLP
Location: Miami, Florida, USA
Developer: Wexford Equities
Landscape Architect: Arquitectonicageo
M/E/P Engineer: Ballinger
Structural Engineer: DDA Engineers
Civil Engineer: PBSJ
Construction Manager: The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of ZGF Architects

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© Sergio Gomez

Architect: Plan B Arquitectos
Location: Medellín, El Poblado Quarter, Colombia
Project Manager: Felipe Mesa + Federico Mesa
Project Team: Daniel Tobón, Carlos Blanco, Sebastián Serna, Ivanovha Benedetto
Text: Plan B Arquitectos
Project Year: 2011
Area: 360 sqm
Photographs: Sergio Gomez

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© Ed White Photographics

Architect: CEI Architecture Planning Interiors
Location: Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
Landscape Architect: Site 360 Consulting Ltd.
Text: CEI Architecture Planning Interiors
Project Cost: $27,600,000
Project Area: 6,780 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photography: Ed White Photographics

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