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United Nations Installation Designer: Miquel Barceló
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
 In November of 2008 Spanish artist Miquel Barceló completed an installation for the UN for the newly created Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Chamber in Geneva. Oh, and it’s wicked sick. Just look at this thing - it’s ridiculous. → architecture.myninjaplease.com Posted: 02/03/2009 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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Barcelona Biomedical Research Park Designer: Manel Brullet & Albert de Pineda
Location: Barcelona, Spain
 FPRBB building has a total surface of more than 55.000 m2 and is located at a 9000 m2 site at Barcelona\'s seafront by the Barceloneta beach, between Hospital del Mar and Arts hotel in the Olympic Village. It is a 117x74 meters building of 9 floors above and 3 floors under ground with elliptical shape and a high level of functional polyvalence. The building project has been carried out by a team of two prestigious architects: Manel Brullet and Albert de Pineda, to create a building that adopts the specific objectives of PRBB. Façade covered in red cedar controlling the incidence of light and sun, as well as lightening the structure. Despite only 18% of the façade being covered in wood, the feeling is one of it being totally covered. → www.skyscrapercity.com Posted: 02/03/2009 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition (MoCAPE) & Designer: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Location: Shenzhen, China
Image Credits: Coop Himmelb(l)au & MoCAPE © SILKROAD Digital Technology Co. LTD The Second project, a multi-use Conference Center, breaks ground in Dalian, near the south east tip of China, and echoes MoCAPE’s scale at 1million m³. → worldarchitecturenews.com Posted: 02/03/2009 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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Travelers Designer: Walter Martin & Paloma Munuz
Location: n/a
 Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz are geniuses at creating beautiful but tragic stories. What you once thought was playful and innocent is actually a world of chaos; lone wanderers survey the frigid landscape, people and creatures exhibit unnatural tendencies and ill-defined crimes are committed. These imaginary worlds and events will shock you into believing that this world is more cold than we think; where every man is out for himself. → www.mymodernmet.com Posted: 02/03/2009 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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Olisur olive oil factory Designer: Guillermo Hevia Architects
Location: Santiago, Chile
Image Credits: Cristóbal Palma Santiago studio Guillermo Hevia Architects have completed a factory for olive oil manufacturers Olisur, located 200 km south of Santiago in Chile. → www.dezeen.com Posted: 02/03/2009 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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