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Vector Architects transforms sugar mill into hotel complex in southern China 

Vector Architects has transformed a 1960s sugar mill into a hotel complex in southern China’s Guangxi region.surrounded by the dramatic karst mountain landscape, the project seeks to preserve the site’s industrial heritage by blending the old and new architectural styles. named ‘Alila Yangshuo’, the hotel’s existing structures — the sugar mill and industrial truss — are flanked by larger buildings primarily used for guest accommodation. Meanwhile, a sunken plaza and reflecting pool have been re-designed to complement the historic architecture.

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Complex Meshes Miguel Chevalier

For the “Lumiere” Festival, Miguel Chevalier presents the premiere of his new artwork “Complex Meshes” in Durham Cathedral, a building constructed at the end of the 11th Century and which represents the most accomplished example of Norman architecture in England. 

“Complex Meshes” is a monumental projection at dusk on the exceptionally designed ‘ribbed vault’ ceiling of the central nave; a daring architectural feature which was way ahead of its time and which announced the beginning of the Gothic art style in architecture.A mesh is a three-dimensional object consisting of vertices, edges and faces which form polygons, used in modeling or architecture. For this piece, the use of numerous wireframe meshes becomes an aesthetic in itself. Different colored weaving patterns composed of triangles, quadrilaterals and other polygons overlap, evolve and transform slowly in real time. This huge virtual light curtain twists, moves and resizes to create diverse and complex shapes. The surface is deformed to generate the abstract landscapes of a living universe which is constantly evolving.

Check out other projects by Miguel Chevalier featured on archatlas: 

• King’s College Chapel
  
• Le Traversee des Pixels
  

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Piercy&Company Architecture Models

The idea of reducing a design to its purest, most rational form has never really appealed to Piercy&Company. Material imperfections, happy accidents of the design process or traces of the maker can become the real beauty of the project. As a studio they have adopted digital production and custom fabrication as a way to be more experimental and expressive with the design process that is apparent on this collection of architecture models.

You can see our feature post of the completed project Kew House, top image model, here.

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CNA - Inspiration By Hand by Katt Phatt / Nic Kostouros

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Brodsky & Utkin

From 1978 to 1993, the renowned Soviet “paper architects” Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin created an incredible collection of elaborate etchings depicting outlandish, often impossible, buildings and cityscapes. Funny, cerebral, and deeply human, their obsessively detailed work layers elements borrowed from Egyptian tombs, Ledoux’s visionary architecture, Le Corbusier’s urban master plans, and other historical precedents in etchings of breathtaking complexity and beauty.

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sketch - fabricio mora

“No dibujas edificios, dibujas intenciones, intuiciones y alguna vez ideas, que van dando forma a los proyectos. Dibujar no es solo dibujar, es cortar, buscar, pegar, mezclar, amontonar, gritar, mirar"… Joan Callis/Pía Worthan

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Cities Jazzberry Blue

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