Pierre Puget sculptor, illustrator, painter and architect of French seventeenth century, was born in Marseilles in 1620 and died there in 1694. At fourteen, he learned his trade from the wood sculptor Jean Roman. It creates in the workshop many decorative pieces for ships. Later he worked with Pietro da Cortona to Florence (1638-1643), with Bernini in Rome (1661-1662) and then in Genoa until 1668.
He returned to Marseilles in 1643 and received several commissions, including the cathedral of Marseilles. After his stay Genoese, he became director of construction of the arsenal of Toulon. Read the rest of this entry »
In the future we will be increasingly often obliged to deal with building fabric from the 1960s and 1970s that no longer meets present-day functional and technical requirements. This specific case is a theater building in Zürich Nord in need of refurbishment that required a further 700 seats and a larger foyer area to operate on a cost-effective basis. This specific case is a theater building in Zurich North in need of refurbishment that required a further 700 seats and a larger home area to operate on a cost-effective basis. Read the rest of this entry »
This may not be your idea of a house, but it is bold and fun, and it has certainly attracted the attention of the media. The 8500 square meters Casa Son Vida is cooperation between three power houses: Luxury Estates Cosmopolitan residential developer, designer and founder eclectic Dutch and Nice, Marcel Wanders, and award-winning Los Angeles based architecture Switzerland and Hong Kong.
Casa Son Vida is located in the Balearic Islands off Spain, on the island of Majorca, where humans have lived since 6000-4000 BC and, more recently, the where clause, the range of tourism assets in overcrowded each time, but Casa Son Vida Avoid Tourist kitsch and goals much higher. That is exclusive community in Son Vida, just 15 minutes from the capital Palma. Read the rest of this entry »
PUBLIC SPACE is the place where the drama of urban life spread out.
Leon Krier’s opinion in his book entitled Architecture and Urban Design; 1979-1992, judging that the public space can only be formed from the street and square.
Stephen Carr guides the design of public space in his book entitled Public Space that public spaces should be; responsive, democratic and meaningful. Read the rest of this entry »
Atkin’s Architecture Group recently won the first prize in an international design competition for this wonderful building. Located in a spectacular water filled quarry Song Jiang, China, the 400-bed hotel Resort is built in the unique natural features of the quarry. Room’s underwater areas of the public and invited add to the singularity, but the resort also boasts cafes, restaurants and sports facilities.
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