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  • Modest Modernism: Concrete Block House in Brazil Wins Award

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    An understated but award-winning Modernist dwelling design in São Paulo, Brazil, has turned a narrow lot into a lovely and low-cost habitat suited to the needs of its poor and elderly inhabitant. Terra e Tuma Arquitetos (images by Pedro Kok) used low-budget materials and simple design techniques to avoid depleting the owner’s funds.

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    Structural concrete block was used to create both retaining and interior walls of the Vila Matilde, forming a kitchen, bedroom, living room and courtyard garden space on the main floor. The gaps between blocks are left exposed, adding a layer of smaller detail on the otherwise-monolithic surfaces.

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    A guest room was intentionally situated above, given the age of the occupant and her increased difficulty in getting up stairs. Metal and glass windows, doors and balcony railings are kept slim and functional on both levels.

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    maids home first floor courtyard

    In many ways, this home is quite aligned with regional vernacular, situated on the thin site and those elongated and with reduced hallway space (since corridors can dovetail with other uses), as well a deck above.

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    The project had to contend with demolishing the old and structurally-unsound home previously on the 15-foot-wide lot. During the reconstruction, the owner went to live with a relative.

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    Indeed, part of her reasoning behind staying in the house was the abundance of family in the area. Rebuilding let her stay close to loved ones in a home of her own. All in all, this project is a great example of how architecture can help those of limited means live in something individualized and well-designed to their needs.

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    Concrete House on Stilts in Austria Has a Surprising Interior

    The exterior is a rectangular box made of heavy concrete balanced on stilts, but step inside and you’ll see an unexpectedly amorphous all-white interior.
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    Building Eraser: Smart Robot Scans & Deconstructs Concrete

    Whether the building is a bare-bones warehouse or five-star hotel, demolition is an equally messy business – but perhaps it does not have to be. What if …
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    Divisible Design: Modular House Anticipates Partial Demolition

    While nothing is set in stone as yet, the city of Tokyo has plans to build a road through this residential plot, forcing architects working on the site to …
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  • David Stewart’s ‘Five Girls’ wins £12,000 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

    A photographer who has charted the growing up of his daughter and four of her friends has won the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Award with a re-staged picture he entered into the 2008 competition. Five Girls 2014 shows the group six years on from an original image that was taken right before their GCSE school exams (11th grade). Read more

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  • Russian gay rights story wins World Press Photo contest for Danish photographer

    A photograph that highlights the difficulties facing sexual minorities in Russia has won the World Press Photo contest’s top prize. ‘Jon and Alex’, from a project called ‘Homophobia in Russia’, shows an ‘intimate moment’ between a gay couple from St. Petersburg and won Danish photographer Mads Nissen the Contempory Issues category of the competition, as well as the first prize for a single image, netting him 11,500 Euro and Canon DSLR equipment. See winners

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  • Project from war-torn Ukraine wins Terry O’Neil Award for Italian photographer

    The winners of the 2014 Terry O’Neil Award have been announced, with Italian photographer Giorgio Bianchi collecting the first prize with a documentary series covering the crisis in Ukraine. Behind Kiev’s Barricades won Giorgio £3000 and a commission for the UK’s Guardian newspaper. Take a look at some of the winning images. See gallery

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  • ’5 Bridges’ Wins Competition to Stitch Portland Back Together

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    In many cities, freeways cut through the heart of urban centers like fresh wounds faded to old scars, but what if there were a way to reintegrate the disparate sides across the divide?

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    The Portland chapter of the American Institute of Architects awarded first place to a particularly daring solution to this problem, one that proposes inhabitable fitness infrastructure to close the gap.

    stitch portland climbing walls

    Designed by Chadbourne & Doss, the scheme calls for cycling and running tracks, climbing walls, swimming pools and skate parks, all set to hover over the roadways below.

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    Each section allows for existing traffic flows, working in and around them while mixing new programmatic layers into their midst.

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    The idea is to use these activities to join both sides but also simultaneously provide a series of iconic structures visible to (hopefully just the passengers of) fast-passing cars on the freeway as well.

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    The shape of each, being uniquely suited to its purpose, creates a sequence of distinctly different architectural forms experienced in succession.

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    Human Body Museum: Undulating Design Wins Competition

    Its organic form fits its function as a Cité du Corps Humain (Museum of the Human Body) like a metaphorical glove – interlocked fingers were, in fact, …
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    Modern Trolls: 10 Bridges Turned to Homes & Mini-Cities

    Inhabited bridges were once very common all across Europe and other parts of the world. Today, not many remain, but will they make a resurgence in the future?
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    Live Between Buildings: Narrow Micro-Homes Fill City Gaps

    Playful yet thought-provoking, this project asks: what do we do with small leftover spaces in cities … particularly in urban areas where even a few …
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  • John Stanmeyer wins World Press Photo of the Year

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    American photographer John Stanmeyer’s image of migrants on the shore of Djibouti city raising their cell phones attempting to capture a signal from neighboring Somalia was named World Press Photo of the Year. The picture also won first prize in the Contemporary Issues category. Stanmeyer of the VII Photo Agency was on assignment for National Geographic when he shot the photograph. Learn more

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  • Carnivorous plant image wins Olympus BioScapes competition

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    The open ‘mouth’ of a floating humped bladderwort plant (Utricularia gibba) took first prize in Olympus’ microscope image competition. Igor Siwanowicz, a researcher from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, took the winning image of the carnivorous plant, beating more than 2,000 entries from 71 countries. See gallery

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  • Human Body Museum: Undulating Design Wins Competition

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    Its organic form fits its function as a Cité du Corps Humain (Museum of the Human Body) like a metaphorical glove – interlocked fingers were, in fact, part of the conceptual inspiration for this new museum in France.

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    With a medical school more than a millennium old, Montpellier is a fitting location for a nearly 10,000 square-meter place for people to “explore the human body from an artistic, scientific and societal approach through cultural activities, interactive exhibitions, performances and workshops.”

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    Working with local firm A+ Architecture, BIG was first shortlisted then selected to complete the project. Their ability to format compelling modes of visual communication no doubt helped improve their prospects with the jury.

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    museum city park connection

    Weaving together nature and the city, a series of indoor and outdoor spaces interlock to shape programmatic and public areas. “The museum’s roof functions as an ergonomic garden – a dynamic landscape of vegetal and mineral surfaces that allow the park’s visitors to explore and express their bodies in various ways – from contemplation to the performance – from relaxing to exercising – from the soothing to the challenging.”

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    Human Canvas: Camouflage Body Painting Meets Fine Art

    The human body has been featured in paintings since the dawn of time, but never has it been used so effectively as a canvas as in Emma Hack’s body paintings.
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    Body Paint Illusions Transform Human Models into Animals

    Carefully posed in graceful contortions, human models are transformed into dolphins, swans, iguanas and more in body paintings by Gesine Marwedel.
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    Camouflaged Human Canvas: Faux Body Art by Kim Joon

    Seemingly perfect, paint-covered human bodies are intertwined and arrayed in ways that you suddenly realize are physically impossible – with good reason.
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  • Physical Filters Versus Digital Filters! Which One Wins the Battle?

    The age old battle between physical and digital filter stirs once more. It’s difficult to pick a   winner because both are integral to the entire photographic process, and, individually, each has its advantages for different effects that you’re trying to achieve. Some view the physical filter as an unnecessary piece of baggage, needlessly weighing down your kit, as you Continue Reading

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  • Sony RX1 wins Camera Grand Prix 2013, Sigma 35mm F1.4 lens of the year

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    Sony’s RX1 fixed 35mm full frame compact has received the prestigious Camera Grand Prix 2013 title, while Sigma’s 35mm F1.4 DG HSM was named lens of the year. The awards, organized by the Japanese Camera Journal Press Club have a history of recognizing what prove to be historically significant cameras. Meanwhile, the Editors Awards were given to the Canon EOS 6D and Sigma’s DP Merrill series of compacts.

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