Atypical public space
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Project • By R&R Studios • Sculptures
I Love You, A Travelling Square
I LOVE YOU is a social sculpture and place of encounters to celebrate friendship and camaraderie at the Alexandria Waterfront. The project is conceived as an emotional monument and portable square composed of two elements, a rose-hued neon and metal sign standing 15 feet high above a pink ground mural emulating a giant carpet 36’ x 76’ rendered with blossoming flowers.
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I LOVE YOU performs as an instant landmark bringing people together with a simultaneously universal and personal message. The installation stimulates positive action and an avalanche of personal memories, and desires. And, not unlike traveling circuses, troubadours, or The Travelling Wilburys, it travels spreading the thought.
Laura Hatcher
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Project • By Atelier ARBO • Parks/Gardens
A park for children in the suburbs of Mumbai
A park with no play equipment, but freedom to explore the open space More
Project • By Sergey Estrin Architectural Studio • Offices
Eurasia Tower Business Center
The field of activity for architects were public spaces of the 70-floor tower, as well as several halls and lobbies, located on the first floor. That is a kind of a complex of the connected entrance areas with the reception desks. Also Architects made the underground parking lobby with a total area about 4000 m2. The influential eco theme was chosen as a basis for the interior solutions: it is manifested in the selection of materials and in the way the space is shaped. Architects came up with the idea to make the interior look like the real forest filled with light. It came out gentle and emotional: as if the light is streaming through crowns of threes. Surrounded by rigid cold urban shapes the space is alive and sensationally pl... More
Project • By Federico Giacomarra • Shopping Centres
Military barracks reuse in Rome
Piazzas defined as urban voids surrounded by buildings can be simplified as the empty stage for community life to take place. Urban voids in Rome are generally design in a network of node linking important connection axes. They are close to worship or institutional places and they are spaces with a high symbolic value. They ultimately concur to define a very strong urban identity.
So much has been written on the traditional public space, many have questioned its deep meaning, especially now that large flows of people and information pass through our cities at a rate that would make obsolete in a short time any planning strategy.
Besides this, because of the use of "new" technologies it is no longer possible to identify precisely the... More