Tag: landscape
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Bjarke Ingels’ Hot to Cold
Review: Bjarke Ingels Group’s Hot to Cold at the National Building Museum Architectural Record, Jan. 28, 2015 How to account for the unstoppable rise of Bjarke Ingels? The Danish architect touched down at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., last week to launch Hot to Cold, a new exhibition of his firm’s work. Tousle-haired…
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Review: Designing for Disaster
Architectural Record, May 13, 2014 In the weeks before the exhibition Designing for Disaster opened on May 11 at Washington, D.C.’s National Building Museum, a wildfire in Oklahoma forced 1,000 people to evacuate and tornadoes ripped through the South and Midwest, killing 34 people. In the U.S., the threat of natural disaster is always with…
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Material Guys
Cao | Perrot Studio blends common and high-end objects to create arresting landscapes. Architect, August 2013 For a recipient of both the prestigious Rome Prize and a Harvard Loeb Fellowship, landscape designer Andy Cao isn’t very academically minded. Cao (pronounced “Gow”) describes himself as a “bad student” at Cal Poly Pomona, where he got a…
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Washington Canal Park
Block Party: An urban park adds a bustling social center to a newly redeveloped Washington, D.C., neighborhood. Architectural Record, August 2013 On a hot June day in Washington Canal Park, swimsuited kids kicked a ball as they splashed around a shallow fountain. Close by, a mother hung a piñata from one of the park’s looping…
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