urban life
The tallest building in Paris?
After 120 years, the Eiffel Tower is threatened to lose its title as the tallest structure in Paris. The Californian architect Thom Mayne (winner of the 2005 Pritzker prize) envisioned a new office block in La Defense district, that will be 300m high, only 20 cm smaller than the famous tower. This sky-scraper project, along […]
Stair illusion
Just another example of tricky urban art. This looks almost impossible. Still it’s not a real 3D stair it’s just one of Panya Clark Espinal’s illusions painted in one of Toronto’s subway stations. And if you find this hard to believe have a look at that man standing just in front of you. There’s no […]
Corner building
Interesting way of designing a corner building. The corner itself isn’t here a downfall for the project but actually becomes the central point of this strange design: a steel bar that seems to hold the two facades in there place. All looks like a sail blown by the wind because the narrow space […]
Copan Building
This is considered to be the largest condominium in the world. 40 floors of apartments that vary from 26 to 300 square meters make a total of 1160 living units. They are completed by a series of commercial spaces accessible to any inhabitant. This 140m high building was built in Sao Paolo by Oscar Niemeyer […]
New Angel of Islington
Art and commercial spaces can actually go along very well? Wolfgang and Heron designed in Islington, London a sculpture which guards the main entrance of the N1 retail plaza. Delicate steel wings spread above a flat cylinder which seems to close in its own shell, leaving only a faint crack for light to come in. […]
Double Ascension fountain
This fountain is one of Herbert Bayer’s famous sculptures and it stands in the plaza between the two ARCO Towers in Los Angeles. It brings not only color to this urban space but in the same time merges perfectly with the surrounding gray landscape generated by the building facades (designed by A.C. Martin & Associates). […]
