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Architects: 3DReid Architects
- Year: 2010
Oscar Lopez
TAG Farnborough Airport / 3DReid Architects
Bernhard Leitner: Sound Spaces
“I can hear with my knee better than with my calves.” This statement made by Bernhard Leitner, which initially seems absurd, can be explained in light of an interest that he still pursues today with unbroken passion and meticulousness: the study of the relationship between sound, space, and body. Since the late 1960s, Bernhard Leitner has been working in the realm between architecture, sculpture, and music, conceiving of sounds as constructive material, as architectural elements that allow a space to emerge. Sounds move with various speeds through a space, they rise and fall, resonate back and forth, and bridge dynamic, constantly changing spatial bodies within the static limits of the architectural framework. Idiosyncratic spaces emerge that cannot be fixed visually and are impossible to survey from the outside, audible spaces that can be felt with the entire body. Leitner speaks of “corporeal” hearing, whereby acoustic perception not only takes place by way of the ears, but through the entire body, and each part of the body can hear differently.
- George Kargl, Fine Arts Vienna
Yuma Heritage Library / Studio Ma
Batman's rumored new home for The Dark Knight Rises : Welcome to the Batcave (maybe)!
Batman’s rumored new home in the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises is none other than the long awaited arrival of the batcave. Located in Turda Romania, the abandoned Turda Salt Mine is flooding the internet with buzz that this will be the location where filming will take place for the batcave. Leaving fanboy’s everywhere lusting for more information that this is in fact where batman will store his batsuit, batmobile, and all of his other gadgets. While filming for The Dark Knight Rises has already begun, it is with high hopes that the Turda Salt Mine will be added to the filming locations and serve as batmans’s new home.
AD Classics: Rothko Chapel / Philip Johnson, Howard Barnstone, Eugene Aubry
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Architects: Philip Johnson, Howard Barnstone, Eugene Aubry
- Year: 1971
AD Classics: Le Cylindre Sonore / Bernhard Leitner
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Architects: Bernhard Leitner
- Year: 1987
Paolo Soleri's Bridge Design Collection: Connecting Metaphor
“Of all things that are man-made, bridges are, with dams, the most “structural,” single-minded, and imposing. As connectors at a breaking point, they have a heroic force that is aided by a challenging structuralism. As a strand of continuity in a non-continuum, the bridge is full of implied meanings. It is the opposite of devisiveness, separation, isolation, irretrievability, loss, segregation, abandonment. To bridge is as cogent in the psychic realm as it is in the physical world. The bridge is a symbol of confidence and trust. It is a communications medium as much as a connector.”
-Paolo Soleri, 1970, from “The Sketchbooks of Paolo Soleri”, published by MIT Press, 1971
Emigration Canyon Residence / Sparano + Mooney Architecture
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Architects: Sparano + Mooney Architecture
- Area: 2700 ft²
- Year: 2009
Lake Residence / Architekton
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Architects: Architekton
- Year: 2008
Essence of the Desert House / AU Design Studio
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Architects: AU Design Studio
- Area: 6000 ft²
- Year: 2008
Paolo Soleri's Arcosanti : The City in the Image of Man
[OVER]fill / Architekton
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art Flip a Strip competition challenged designers around the country to re-imagine the suburban strip mall as an urban typology, proposing an alternative to the ubiquitous developments which have emerged as an economic response to a rapidly outward expanding residential market and the availability of inexpensive land.
Utah Valley University Noorda Theater / Axis Architects
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Architects: Axis Architects
- Year: 2009
Red Rock Canyon Visitor Center / Line and Space
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Architects: Line and Space
- Area: 52700 ft²
- Year: 2011
H-House / Axis Architects
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Architects: Axis Architects
- Area: 4100 ft²
- Year: 2009