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Sainsbury Centre For The Visual Arts, Norwich

Sainsbury Centre For The Visual Arts, Norwich

The Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia is a dashing combination of simplicity and complexity.
Uncompromisingly High-Tech and machine¬like, the building is nevertheless extremely, elegant in its detailing. Norman Foster’s design, a low-lying, rectangular slab, is constructed from trussed, tubular steel support frames which house the services, thus allowing the central hallway area to [...]

Eiffel Tower, Paris

Eiffel Tower, Paris

The modern world’s most celebrated architectural monument, the Eiffel Tower is neither a building nor a utilitarian object.
Its purpose was symbolic: it was designed to advertise and to be the central feature of the Paris World Exposition of 1889 on the Champs de Mars. It remained, at 300 m (1000 ft), the world’s tallest structure [...]

Metro Station In Paris

Metro Station In Paris

Metro Station, Paris - So powerful were Guimard’s designs for the Paris metro stations between 1898-1904, that they have since become one of the city’s instantly recognizable symbols. The fluid, curvilinear shapes employed for balustrades, rails and entrance-ways were achieved in cast iron, but appear to have bubbled to the surface from some mysterious underworld.
The [...]

Palacio De Deportes De Santander

Palacio De Deportes De Santander

All the elements of the Palacio de Deportes de Santander harmoniously complement each other, respecting the overall scale of the setting, uniting form and function into a dissoluble entity.
The process and the spaces resulting from the process are in organic dialogue along every scale present in the structure: from occupants’ clothes to single training rooms, [...]