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24/08/2025

Zaha Hadid in Miami

16/05/2025

29/01/2024

O Museu é uma impressionante obra de arquitetura encontrada na capital federal. O projeto de arquitetura do edifício é do arquiteto Oscar Niemeyer, constando entre as obras das décadas finais de vida deste profissional. O edifício revela um caráter minimalista, expondo uma semi esfera perfeita e uma proeminente rampa de acesso.
Designed by Oscar Niemeyer and built in 2006 as part of the Cultural Complex of the Republic. Famous for the white dome and the sculptural exterior ramp.

28/01/2024

designed by spanish architect santiago calatrava, the museu do amanhã (the museum of tomorrow), is set to open its doors in rio de janeiro‘s burgeoning puerto maravilha neighborhood. conceived as an innovative cultural space addressing the future of the planet, the design of the museum is influenced by local culture and, through its architecture, explores the relationship between the city and the natural environment.

santiago calatrava has designed the museu do amanhã with 5,000 square meters of temporary and permanent exhibition space, as well as a 7,600 square meter plaza that wraps around the structure and extends along the dock. the building boasts large overhangs 75 meters in length on the side facing the square, and 45 meters in length on the side facing the sea. these features highlight the extension of the museum from the dock into the bay. the permanent exhibition is housed upstairs, and features a roof 10 meters high with panoramic views of guanabara bay. the total height of the building is limited to 18 meters, which protects the view of the bay from sao bento monastery, a UNESCO world heritage site.

22/01/2024

Niterói Contemporary Art Museum designed by Oscar Niemeyer.
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With 16 meters high, the MAC rises from the ground in a single cylindrical base 9 meters in diameter that supports the entire building. A reflecting pool with 817 m² surface and 60 cm deep, gives lightness to the building.

The circular shape covers 50 meters in diameter and area of nearly two thousand square meters, and received heat treatment and waterproofing. The large outdoor ramp red concrete leads the visitor through 98 meters of free curves in space, to the inputs of the upper floors.

The glasses of MAC were manufactured exclusively for the project. Triplex are 70 blades, 18 mm thick, in bronze color. Each strip measuring 4.80 m high by 1.85 m wide.The frames are 40 steel profiles and are inclined relative to the horizontal plane. Super-resistant glass supports weight equivalent to 20 people. The top floor is also designed for exhibitions. The floors were covered with 3,000 m² of blue carpet.

The structure of the MAC is complex due to the type of work, loose in the air, with a single central support and circular shape. It was designed to support a weight equivalent to 400 kg / m² and wind speeds of up to 200km / h.

31/12/2023

Washington National Cathedral is the sixth-largest Cathedral in the world, the second-largest church building in the United States,and the third-tallest building in Washington, D.C. and was built in a 14th Century English Gothic design. The first Episcopal bishop of Washington, the Right Rev. Henry Yates Satterlee, decreed that Gothic was God’s preferred architectural stye.

Gothic architecture revolutionized church design by allowing churches to be larger, taller and filled with rainbows of light from large stained glass windows.
Most Gothic churches are built facing West, in the shape of a cross. The central part of the Cathedral is called the nave; the two arms of the cross are called transepts and the head of the cross is called the apse.

20/10/2023

The Parthenon in Centennial Park, in Nashville, Tennessee, is a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens. It was designed by Confederate veteran William Crawford Smith and built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.

In 1990, a replica of the statue of Athena Partenos was built inside the Parthenon. The original sculpture of Athena Partenos, now lost in history, was huge, in gold and ivory, made by Phidias and his assistants and housed in the Parthenon of Athens. The modern Nashville copy is made of cement, plaster and fiberglass.

Despite the many replicas of Athena Partenos around the world, the Nashville version stands out among all the others, due to its scale and elaborate details. The statue is 12.8 meters high, making it the largest indoor sculpture in the western world. .

06/03/2023

Zaha Hadid 👷🏻
The "queen of the architecture" ☑️☑️☑️

06/03/2023

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05/03/2023

Fisher House, by Louis Kahn.
The idea of ​​Kanh in the house Fisher focuses on the separation of public and private space through two volumes, relying on basic geometry. Adapting these volumes to the space in which it was going to be built, a natural space endowed with a small forest and a nearby stream. To this is added as a condition that the budget was limited, so Kanh opts for the use of stone as a base and for the use of wood to erect the volumes.

The height of the house is in tune with the height of the trees, thus using a natural order.
The house blends in with the surroundings, not only with its volume but also by the use of natural materials, such as stone (in the basement) and wood (in carpentry and exterior cladding).

24/02/2023

HL23 condominium was designed by Neil M. Denari Architects and is situated on 23rd Street in New York’s Chelsea Arts District, directly adjacent to the High Line (a defunct elevated rail line that has been converted into a 20 block long linear park), HL23 was constructed on a very compact 12x30 m (40x100 ft) site. The volume of the condominium building increases as it rises up. This expanding profile was a direct response to the client demand for more sellable square footage, but it was driven by the particular conditions of the site, not least of which was the High Line itself.
With a captive audience in mind, the building is designed as a complex prism whose proportions, angles, and profiles continue to shift as one walks past on the elevated park. In this sense, although HL23 is a private program, the building participates in the public experience of the park. HL23 thus oscillates between urban infill and object building, mediating the context of near and far views, which reaffirms its optically-complex characteristics. Materially and structurally, the building strives to reflect its prismatic geometry though exposed steel pipe columns and diagonals, and an undulating east façade clad in stamped stainless steel panels.

Except for the cast concrete substructure and some interior finishes and surfaces, all components of HL23 were fabricated off site. With more work done off site, tolerances in most areas were reduced to a minimum, challenging each fabricator to work as close as possible to physical limits. Although prefabrication is a long standing ambition of the industry, here the efforts to raise the level of precision of the building’s components allowed otherwise complex conditions to be resolved more simply. .

24/02/2023

In 2009, Santiago Calatrava was selected to create the master plan for the new Florida Polytechnic campus, and to design the first building to be constructed on the new campus. During the initial stages of master planning, the following principles were established:
Reflect the important role that the landscape, vegetation and water play in central Florida;
Create a strong formal order at a scale addressing the campus as a whole;
Create an iconic structure marking the campus within the larger local and regional context;
Recognize and conserve the natural landscape, open space and vegetation areas;
Locate vehicular traffic at the perimeter of the campus;
Create a variety of building types and public spaces;
Create a "pedestrian-friendly" campus environment.

This 18,500-square-metre structure is wrapped by a lightweight aluminium "trellis" made up of a series of curving columns and surfaces, designed to reduce the building's solar gain by around 30 per cent.
Inside the facility, Calatrava has added a large first-floor meeting area known as "the Commons", which sits directly beneath a vaulted skylight. .