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YACademy Students’ Collaboration with Carlo Ratti in Design of “The Mile” Skyscraper

June 1, 2020 Rene Submissions 0

The launch of the 2020 educational offer of YACademy is the right moment to narrate some of the experiences the students had before starting their collaborations with the main characters of the contemporary architectural world. Namely, some designers attending the course in Architecture for Exhibition in 2018 had the opportunity to support the design team of Carlo Ratti Associati to refine the project for “The Mile”, an innovative project for a mile-tall skyscraper.

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Tracks Architectes creates colonnaded cinema in former French convent

June 1, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Cinema de Riot by architecture studio Tracks

French studio Tracks Architectes has built a cinema fronted by an irregular arched colonnade in the grounds of a former convent in the town of Riom, central France. Arcadia Cinema at Riom forms part of the conversion of the Redemptoristine convent into the Jardin de la Culture cultural centre near the historic centre of the

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OCT · Vanke Waterfront City, the Floating Pier / Nordic Office of Architecture

June 1, 2020 Collin Chen 0

The project is located next to the Elephant Lake Wetland Park, which is representative of the natural landscape of Nanchang. The Elephant Lake Wetland Park provides a quality natural site base for the project and the overall design was inspired by these natural qualities. The design concept of the architecture is not only to see the wetland as a “view” of the surrounding area, but also to bring its natural qualities into the project, creating a spatial experience where the building and the landscape blending together. The design consists of three natural elements, water, earth and sky, corresponding to three functional areas: the front square, the commercial facilities and the observation tower.