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Colombia: the graffiti Mecca | archithoughts
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Colombia: the graffiti Mecca. A man tours a graffiti exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, in Bogotá, Colombia. The city-run museum recently held an exhibition highlighting the work of Bogota street artists who go by aliases such as Joems and the MonsTruacioN collective. (Photo by Fernando Vergara/AP Photo). A man rides past a wall painted by street artists, in Bogotá, Colombia. (Photo by Fernando Vergara/AP Photo). A mural blankets a church wall in Bogotá, Colombia. Street art has subsequently exp...
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15 artists collaborate to make London Children’s Hospital cosier for kids. 209 House Mural in Las Palmitas, Mexico. Quo Container Centre: The new Box-park in Buenos Aires. Rebuilding the divided city of Caracas. The City Museum: a former Shoe Factory transformed into the ultimate Urban Playground. China, timeless transubstantiation. Colombia: the graffiti Mecca. Low-Income Kids Deserve The Arts Too. Heavy trash: Design Activism. Centro Ciudades de la Gente. Vibrant sails above the piazza Faber in Sardinia.
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Exhibition Kibera 09 | archithoughts
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Back in 2009, a project to remember. Kibera, Kenya is one of the Africa’s largest slums and street artist JR. By using waterproof vinyl material, JR ensured the art intervention might have a practical purpose too. As he states: ‘They don’t understand art just for the love of art. it has to make sense. by helping their roofs to become rainproof, we did made sense and they loved it.’. Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). November 19, 2014. You are comme...
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Huellas de Arte | archithoughts
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Huellas de arte, as part of 100architects. Series called urban footprints , is an initiative that interprets the human footprint as an artistic trail in Santiago city. It is a cultural engine fuelled by the passing flow of residents and visitors from around the Bellas Artes, a highly cultural area of down town. The urban footprint is a non-built configuration that creates and defines an environment without restrain or enclosing it. As members of 100architects studio say, the project is. May 11, 2015.
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Jellyfish barge for sustainable crop cultivation | archithoughts
https://archithoughts.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/jellyfish-barge-for-sustainable-crop-cultivation
Jellyfish barge for sustainable crop cultivation. Responding to predictions that the world’s population will grow to almost 10 billion within the next 40 years, Italian design office Studiomobile. Has developed a module for crop cultivation that does not reply on either soil, fresh water or chemical energy consumption. Dubbed the ‘jellyfish barge’, the project is envisioned as a floating agricultural greenhouse, able to purify salt, brackish or polluted water using solar energy. Photo by matteo de mayda.
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The little coop | archithoughts
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Designed this really nice and well executed structure/coop for a historical plot in Santa Barbara. California , United States. The couple who raises chickens are both teachers and maintain a large organic garden and fruit plantations on their property. They charge the space to accommodate 10 to 30 hens. In the landscape of Southern California , water is a very important element to care about. Through the collection of rainwater , this henhouse delivers water to irrigate the organic orchard and garden.
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Low-Income Kids Deserve The Arts Too | archithoughts
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Low-Income Kids Deserve The Arts Too. I have to share this fantastic article “73 Graffiti Artists Tagged A ‘Prison-Like’ School To Show That Low-Income Kids Deserve The Arts Too” on here. Khiara Limunoz, 14, is a top student. She’s the kind of kid whom teachers brag about and believe in. But no amount of positive reinforcement could relieve the dread Khiara felt every day when she walked into her Miami middle school. Barcelona-based graffiti artist Chanoir paints a wall in Wynwood, Miami. And though the ...
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Airport running tracks | archithoughts
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Originality and cleverness is the result of the design of the new Terminal 3 Narita International Airport, which has been completed well in advance of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Did Tokyo officials have passengers’ mad sprints to the boarding gates in mind when they laid these running tracks? An attempt to help passengers catch their flights on time, perhaps? N arita international airport. The project was completed by Japanese creative lab PARTY. Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window). Fill in...
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Lima, you are almost 500! | archithoughts
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Lima, you are almost 500! It might not live up to the splendour of the past, but Lima. Is much more than a stopping point on the way to the Inca Trail and the Amazon. Formerly one of the most important cities in the Spanish empire, today it’s a jumble of modern architecture and urban sprawl beneath near-perpetual grey skies. But with nearly 10 million inhabitants, around a third of the whole country, this nearly 500-year-old city is the undisputed heart of Peru. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window).
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