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Architect:

Project Title:

oFL Architecture
envisioned Project Location:

Silk Road Route The near future

envisioned Completion Date:

BASIC ConDITIonS Silk Road Map Evolution is a project conceived from the desire to re-establish and rebuild the current Silk Road link through a social, economic, political, and architectural rehabilitation of the old Silk Road route. The new Silk Road becomes a driving force for the creation of small urban projects. It is a new way of conceiving urban sprawl (linear), where larger cities help smaller cities.Silk Road is a project that strongly links architecture and infrastructure

keY PRInCIPLeS Silk Road Map Evolution is a kind of global metropolis for the future based on the idea of designing a set of highly differentiated, sustainable, and habitable towers. These small living worlds are organized into rounded skyscrapers according to program, habitants and the proximity to the railway line and the countryside. The proposal consists of two urban, ecologically integrated systems which will be developed vertically and horizontally respectively. The

wHeRe AnD wHen Silk Road Map Evolution is the winning proposal for the Silk Road Map International Competition organized by new Italian Blood and open to Italian and Chinese professionals and students. The Silk Road is an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting Asia with the Mediterranean, north and northeast Africa, and europe. The Silk Road has been given its name from the lucrative Chinese silk trade, a major reason for the connection of trade routes to an extensive transcontinental network. As such, the Silk Road was also historically important as a route for cultural, commercial, and technological exchange between myriads of different people: traders, merchants, pilgrims, missionaries, soldiers, nomads, and urban dwellers.

through a new main railway line, which will follow the current Silk Road route that will run from Venice to Xian in China through several countries en route, extending its arms across an infrastructure network, commercial services, and new housing. The route will bring new impetus to ailing and luckless economic regions in its vicinity. The 15,000-kilometer-long Silk Road will be interspersed with several bionic towers constituting the new conurbations core, while new cities, configured like routes, will run from the main branch (the main Silk Road line) linking smaller disadvantaged and unconnected towns and cities. The system is conceived as a kind of a pump, which will feed the small disadvantaged cities along the new Silk Road with economic lifeblood, which will revive them economically and socially.

first element, the complex of towers, will be composed of three different types of skyscrapers that will have an average height of 400 m. The second element, the Silk Road railway system, will form the main line of the Silk Road and will serve as a line of commercial transport with trains travelling on new railways lines based on gravitational, polarized fields, thereby merging the east with the west.The outer membrane of the complex, towers and tunnel, will consist of a unique and innovative system constructed with a high standard ecological concrete based on titanium dioxide that will help to significantly reduce air pollution and, via synthetic chlorophyll, generate a photo-catalytic reaction producing 500 million liters of oxygen (clean air) per day.

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Anthony Lau
Project Title: UK, www.cyclehoop.com / www.tonylaudesign.com

Behrang Behin
USA, bbehin22@yahoo.com Project Title:

Christian Kerrigan
Ireland, www.christiankerrigan.com Project Title:

Alicia Framis
Spain, www.aliciaframis.com Project Title:

Flooded London
Photo/Image and additional credits:

Stack City
Photo/Image and additional credits:

Moon Life Project

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Masters project at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London

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Landscape consultant for urbanscale model: Theodore Hoerr

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The Amber Clock from The 200 Year Continuum

Photo/Image and additional credits:

CTRLZ Architectures Francesco Cingolani, Massimo Lombard

France, www.ctrlzarchitectures.com Project Title:

Christian Kerrigan
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FOR ALL THE COWS

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DCA/ Design Crew for Architecture Nicolas Chausson, Gal Desveaux, Jiaoyang Huang
France, www.d-c-a.eu Project Title:

Federico Pedrini Federico Pedrini, Elia De Tomasi, Filippo Mazzaron, Alessandra Pepe, Silvia Sandor
Belgium, www.fedepedrini.info Project Title:

Greg Lynn Form Greg Lynn Form, Imaginary Forces, Alex McDowell
USA, www.glform.com Project Title:

VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010

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Freshwater Factory
Photo/Image and additional credits:

400k Pods
Photo/Image and additional credits:

New City
Photo/Image and additional credits:

DCA
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nonms
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AMID.cero9 Cristina Daz Moreno, Efrn Garca Grinda

Spain, www.cero9.com/amidmagazine Project Title:

Arup Alanna Howe, Alexander Hespe

United Kingdom, www.arup.com Project Title:

BIG/ Bjarke Ingels Group

Denmark, www.big.dk Project Title:

Christian Waldvogel
Switzerland, www.waldvogel.com Project Title:

Courtesy of Greg Lynn Form and Imaginary Forces, Richard Perry, and New York Times, Ari Marcopoulos. Gallery view of Greg Lynns New City in Other Space Odysseys: Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, Alessandro Poli (2010). Centre Canadien dArchitecture, Montral
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Hualien Beach Resort

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Globus Cassus
Photo/Image and additional credits:

Daniel Dociu
USA, www.tinfoilgames.com Project Title:

Dylan Cole
USA, www.dylancolestudio.com Project Title:

Syph. The Oceanic City

Photo/Image and additional credits:

BIG
Pages:

Christian Waldvogel/Pro Litteris, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010

Pages:

Forrest Fulton Architecture

USA, www. forrestfulton.com Project Title:

192 193

Gandara/Guild Wars Nightfall

Pages:

The Industrialist Monks

Pages:

AmesMM The Big Mech & Co

FloodSlicer
Pages:

153 155

Photo/Image and additional credits:

AMID.cero9 + Colectivo Cuarto y Mitad + Fundacin Telefnica. Exposicin Laboratorio Gran Va

Pages:

82 83

246 249

98 99

196 197

Lace Hill over Yerevan

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Project team: Jared Fulton, Andrew C. Bryant, Derrick Owens

Pages:

36 39

142 143, 174 177

Atelier Van Lieshout

Netherlands, www.ateliervanlieshout.com Project Title:

Crab Studio Peter Cook & Gavin Robotham cdmb architects | Christophe DM BARLIEB
Germany, www.barlieb.com Project Title: United Kingdom, www.crabstudio.co.uk Project Title:

David A. Garcia
Denmark, www.davidgarciastudio.com Project Title:

Hans-Jurgen Rombaut | Lunar Architecture

Netherlands, www.lunararchitecture.com Project Title:

Slave City

Soak City

Anne Holtrop
Netherlands, www.anneholtrop.nl Project Title:

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Atelier Van Lieshout

Pages:

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Floating Gardens (spa)

Photo/Image and additional credits:

54 55

Courtesy of the artist

Pages:

68 69

Green Desert Mine

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Design Team: Peter Cook, Gavin Robotham, Lorene Faure

Project Title:

Urban Sky Link Dead Websites Archive Quarantined Library Sustainable Iceberg Living Station Zoo of Infectious Species
Photo/Image and additional credits:

Lunar Hotel
Photo/Image and additional credits:

Faulders Studio Thom Faulders

USA, www.faulders-studio.com Project Title:

H-J Rombaut- Lunar architecture

Page:

245

Christophe DM BARLIEB
Project Title:

Tower of Droplets

Architect David A. Garcia

Pages:

GEOtube
Photo/Image and additional credits:

Giacomo Costa
Italy, www.giacomocosta.com Project Title:

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Vard Arks
Photo/Image and additional credits:

C. Barlieb, M. Seitz, C. Lara

Pages:

50, 70 71

Design Team: Peter Cook, Gavin Robotham, Jenna Al-Ali, Nuria Blanco, Lorene Faure, Selma Johannson, Michael Kaverne of Buro Happold
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28 29, 56, 75, 104 105, 135

Images: Faulders Studio. Design team: Thom Faulders, Jason Chang, Charles Lee, Devin Rutz, Scott Blew
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Consistenze & Persistenze

Pages:

162 163

26 27

Hctor Zamora
Brazil, www.lsd.com.mx Project Title:

124 125, 210 211

David Benqu
UK, www.davidbenque.com Project Title:

Zeppelins Swarm
Photo/Image and additional credits:

Anthi Grapsa Anthi Grapsa & Konstantinos Chalaris

UK, www.arch-memories.co.uk / www.chalaris.co.uk Project Title:

Ballistic Architecture Machine

China, www.bam-usa.com Project Title:

Acoustic Botany Fabulous Fabbers

Photography: Hector Zamora. Posters: Campo, Photomontages. Image: Antonio Zanon. Edition: Renato Ferro Diego Girondi
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Biornis Aesthetope
Photo/Image and additional credits:

Pages:

141, 189

230 231

Engineered Biotopes
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Ballistic Architecture Machine

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218 219

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Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture
USA, www.hplusf.com Project Title:

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John Wardle Architects
Australia, www.johnwardle.com

Mas Yendo
Japan, www.masyendo.org Project Title:

Casa Pulpa
Photo/Image and additional credits:

IaN+ with marco galofaro

Italy, www.ianplus.it Project Title:

Project Title:

Multiplicity
Photo/Image and additional credits:

MAD Architects
China, www.i-mad.com Project Title:

Craig Hodgetts
Pages:

170

Micro-utopie
Photo/Image and additional credits:

Design Team: John Wardle Architects and Stefano Boscutti. Image credit: FloodSlicer
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UL-9205 UL-9304 B1-9004 Hole in Water

Photo/Image and additional credits:

McGauran Giannini Soon (MGS) with Bild Architecture, Dyskors, and Material Thinking
Australia, www.mgsarchitects.com.au Project Title:

MVRDV
Project Title:

Netherlands, www.mvrdv.nl

NL Architects
Netherlands, www.nlarchitects.nl Project Title:

Galije

Cruise City, City Cruise

Pages:

Photo/Image and additional credits:

MVRDV, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010

Page:

72 73

Urban Forest

Mas Yendo
Pages:

Saturation City
Photo/Image and additional credits:

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Project for the Biennale Valencia 2004. Propriety of Frac Centre Orleans, Carmelo Baglivo-Luca Galofaro with Marco Galofaro
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HOLLWICH KUSHNER LLC (HWKN) Matthias Hollwich, Marc Kushner

USA, www.hwkn.com Project Title:

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MAD Architects. Project Manager: Ma Yansong, Dang Qun. Design Team: Yu Kui, Diego Perez, Zhao Wei, Chie Fuyuki, Fu Changrui, Jtravis B Russett, Dai Pu, Irmgard Reiter, Rasmus Palmqvist, Qin Lichao, Xie Xinyu
Project Title:

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Jrgen Mayer H. Architects

Germany, www.jmayerh.de Project Title:

Beautiful Minds

Matsys
Project Title:

USA, www. matsysdesign.com

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Skygrove MEtreePOLIS

IWAMOTOSCOTT ARCHITECTURE
USA, www.iwamotoscott.com Project Title:

A.WAY
Pages:

Project Manager: Ma Yansong Design team: Jtravis Bennett Russett

Project Title:

Sietch Nevada
Photo/Image and additional credits:

Team: McGauran Giannini Soon (MGS), Bild + Dyskors, Material Thinking. Design Team: MGS Eli Giannini, Jocelyn Chiew, Catherine Ranger; BildBen Milbourne; DyskorsEdmund Carter; Material ThinkingPaul Carter. Image credit: McGauran Giannini Soon (MGS), Bild + Dyskors, Material Thinking, FloodSlicer
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152

OFF architecture
France, www.offarchitecture.com

190 191

Superstar: A Mobile Chinatown

Pages:

91, 120

City of the Future: Hydro-Net SF2108

Photo/Image and additional credits:

IwamotoScott Architecture
Pages:

Photo/Image and additional credits:

92 93

HWELER+YOON ARCHITECTURE
USA, www.hyarchitecture.com Project Title:

Project Manager: Ma Yansong, Dang Qun, Yosuke Hayano. Design team: Chen Shuyu, Fu Changrui, Zheng Tao, Fernie Lai, David William Nightingale, Matthias Werner Helmreich, Bryan Alan Oknyansky, Zach Hines, Tom James 204 207, 221, 222 223
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Design: Andrew Kudless. Visualization: Nenad Katic, Tan Nguyen, Pia-Jacqlyn Malinis, Jafe MeltesenLee. Model: Benjamin Barragan
Pages:

94 95

NaJa & deOstos

UK, www.naja-deostos.com Project Title:

Project Title:

Rethinking the Bering Strait

Pages:

The Hanging Cemetery of Baghdad The Barbarian Spaceport

106 109

Photo/Image and additional credits:

42 43

NaJa & deOstos

Mila Studio Jakob Tigges

Germany, www.mila-berlin.com Project Title:

Page:

25, 241 242

OFL Architecure
Italy, www.francescolipari.it Project Title:

The Berg

Silk Road Map Evolution

Pages:

Kobas Laksa
Poland, www.kbx.pl Project Title:

metamorphOse
Project Title:

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Image Credit: Jakob Tigges

Project Title:

Belgium, www.metamorphose-architecture.weebly.com

Eco-Pod (Gen1)
Photo/Image and additional credits:

Design: Hweler+Yoon Architecture/ Squared Design Lab. Image credit: Hweler + Yoon Architecture/ Squared Design Lab
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Roller Coaster Warsaw

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Valdrade
Photo/Image and additional credits:

ChicagoSkyScrapesBack

NH Architecture
Australia, www.nharchitecture.net Project Title:

30 33

Photo/Image and additional credits:

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JDS Architects
Denmark, www.jdsa.eu Project Title:

182 185

Dochodo Zoological Island

Pages:

Magnus Larsson
UK/Sweden, www.magnuslarsson.com Project Title:

metamorphOse
Pages:

212 213

Design Team: Sean Pepe, Nino Tugushi, Jakob Tigges. Image Credit: Jakob Tigges
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Aquatown
Photo/Image and additional credits:

DuneArenaceous AntiDesertification Architecture

Photo/Image and additional credits:

34 35, 238

Design Team: NH Architecture & Andrew Mackenzie. Image credits: FloodSlicer

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ONOFFICE
Portugal, www.onoffice.no Project Title:

96

Turbine City
Photo/Image and additional credits:

136 137

Magnus Larsson with Alex Kaiser, Fredrik Nordbeck

Pages:

onoffice
Page:

44 45

Luc Schuiten
Belgium, vegetalcity.net Project Title:

Meta-Territory_ Studio Daekwon Park

USA, www.daekwonpark.com Project Title:

89

Nicolas Mouret
France, www.nicolasmouret.com Project Title:

Vegetal City
Pages:

Symbiotic Interlock
Photo/Image and additional credits:

Phyte
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126 129

Daekwon Park
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Protocol Architecture
Project Title: USA, www.protocolarchitecture.wordpress.com

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R&sie(n) An architecture des Humeurs Franois Roche, Stphanie Lavaux, Kiuchi Toshikatsu, associated to Stephan Henrich, Franois Jouve
France, www.new-territories.com Project Title:

remote-controlled: Anton Markus Pasing

Germany, www.remote-controlled.de Project Title:

SHIMIZU CORPORATION
Japan, www.shimz.co.jp Project Title:

Stphane Malka Architecture

France, www.stephanemalka.com Project Title:

Natwalk 2.0 Autonomous Objects

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Green Float

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Recovering Berlin
Photo/Image and additional credits:

Vladislav Delay
Pages:

Green Float Team of Shimizu; Project Manager: Mr. Masaki Takeuchi

Project Title:

Self Defense
Page:

studiomobile | favretto + girardi architetti Antonio Girardi, Cristiana Favretto

Ital, www.studiomobile.org Project Title:

The Why Factory (T?F) Winy Maas, Ulf Hackauf, Pirjo Haikola, Bas Kalmeyer, Tihamer Salij
Netherlands, www.thewhyfactory.com Project Title:

Vahan Misakyan
Armenia, www.vahan-architecture.com Project Title:

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SeaWater Vertical Farm

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Giant Water Lilies City Pig

Evolving Skyscraper
Photo/Image and additional credits:

Protocol Architecture. Under the guidance of professor Ed Keller (Columbia GSAPP)

Pages:

Dustyrelief Hypnosis Chamber Water Flux Inatable Ice

Photo/Image and additional credits:

138 139, 239

Luna Ring

Courtesy Favretto+Girard
Pages:

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Luna Ring Team of Shimizu; Project manager: Mr. Tetsuji Yoshida

Pages:

149 151

40 41

R Architects LLP Kenneth Loh, Michelle Lim

Singapore, www.rarchitects.net Project Title:

Habitat Solare
Pages:

208 209

R&Sie(n) / Le Laboratoire / 2010. Scenario, design, production: R&Sie(n). Process and Robotic Design: Stephan Henrich. Mathematical Process: Franois Jouve. Computations: Winston Hampel, Natanael Elfassy, some help from Marc Fornes Design & Process of physiological collect: Gatan Robillard, Frdric Mauclere, Jonathan Derrough. Nano-rceptors scnario: Berdaguer et Pjus. Microneedles: Mark Kendall The Lift: Delphine Chevrot, Takako Sato. Physiological Interview: Candice Poitrey. Text Natural Machine: Chris Younes. Architect: Jiang Bin, Laura Bellamy, Rosalie Laurin. Photography: Matthieu Kavyrchine
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88, 244

Strawn.Sierralta
USA, www.strawnsierralta.com Project Title:

Richard Hardy
Project Title:

Lake Eect Chicago 2106

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Copyright by The Why Factory, visualisation by Wieland & Grouwens, Rotterdam

Pages:

Vahan Misakyan
Pages:

144 145

84, 133

United Kingdom, www.rhardy.co.uk / www.weareom.com

The Transcendent City The Eco-Commune

Pages:

122 123, 130 131

Silu Yang
Project Title:

xxxx, yangsilu520@googlemail.com

The Religious City

Pages:

100 101

Strawn.Sierralta Team: Project Managers: Karla Sierralta and Brian Strawn. Team: Prince Ambooken,Tiffany Daniels, Iker Gil, Jo Hormuth, Julie Michiels, Annie Mohaupt, Siamak Mostou, Diego Sierralta, Daniel Vasini. Engineering: IBC Engineering Services
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Tomas Saraceno Taylor Medlin

USA, www.tgmedlin.com Project Title: Germany, www.t-saraceno.org Project Title:

Vincent Callebaut Architect

France, www.vincent.callebaut.org Project Title:

Cloud Cities/Air-Port-City
Photo/Image and additional credits:

Towards a New Antarchitecture

Photo/Image and additional credits:

90

Taylor Medlin
Pages:

ROOM11/Scott Lloyd, Aaron Roberts, Katrina Stoll

UK, www.room11.com Project Title:

102 103

Courtesy of the artist and Andersens Contemporary, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery and pinksummer contemporary art
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Physalia: A Positive Amphibious Energy Garden to Clean European Waterways Lilypad: A Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees Hyrdogenase Algae Farm to Recycle CO2 for Bio-Hydrogen Airship
Pages:

226

80 81, 85 87, 224 225

164 165, 178 180, 181, 243

iP2100 (Island proposition 2100)

Photo/Image and additional credits:

SPEEDISM
Project Title:

Belgium/Germany, www.speedism.net

Design Team: Scott Lloyd, Aaron Roberts (room 11) and Katrina Stoll Image credits: Scott Lloyd, Aaron Roberts (room 11) and Katrina Stoll
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STUDIO LINDFORS
USA, www.studiolindfors.com Project Title:

Happy Consensus Land Doomdough

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Rael San Fratello Architects Ronald Rael, Virginia San Fratello

USA, www.rael-sanfratello.com Project Title:

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Speedism (Julian Friedauer + Pieterjan Ginckels)

Pages:

Aqualta Cloud City Cloud Skippers

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Terreform ONE
USA, www.terreform.org Project Title:

57, 58 59

Studio Lindfors
Pages:

66 67, 232, 233 235

Future North: Ecotariums in the North Pole Urbaneering Brooklyn 2110 City of the Future Rapid Re(f)use: Waste To Resource City 2120
Photo/Image and additional credits:

Tomorrows Thoughts Today

USA, www.terreform.org Project Title:

Where The Grass Is Greener The Mobile Mountain City Zoo Specimens of Unnatural History: A Near Future Bestiary
Pages:

WORKac
USA, www.work.ac Project Title:

Migrating Floating Gardens Airscape Architecture

Photo/Image and additional credits:

Rael San Fratello Architects

Pages:

Squint/Opera SENSEable City Laboratory MIT Senseable City Lab

USA, www.senseable.mit.edu Project Title: UK, www.squintopera.com Project Title:

Mitchell Joachim, Jane Marsching, Makoto Okazaki, Maria Aiolova, Melanie Fessel, Dan OConnor
Pages:

116 119, 134, 140

Plug Out Locavore Fantasia

Pages:

214, 215

97, 121, 166 169

236 237

Coney Island
Photo/Image and additional credits:

Squint/Opera
Pages:

The Cloud
Pages:

186 188

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Visions of Architecture and Urbanism
Edited by ROBERT KLANTEN, LUKAS FEIREISS Text and Introduction by LUKAS FEIREISS Essays by MATTHIAS BTTGER, LUDWIG ENGEL, DARRYL CHEN, ULF HACKAUF, GEOFF MANAUGH, DAN WOOD, and AMALE ANDRAOS Cover by FLOYD SCHULZE for Gestalten Cover photography by BIG/BJARKE INGELS GROUP Layout by FLOYD SCHULZE for Gestalten Assistance by MATTHIAS HBNER for Gestalten Typeface: Fugue by RADIM PEKO Project management by JULIAN SORGE for Gestalten Production management by NATALIE REED and JANINE MILSTREY for Gestalten Copy-editing and proofreading by ANNA ROOS Printed by SING CHEONG PRINTING LTD, Hong Kong Made in Asia Published by Gestalten, Berlin 2011 ISBN 978-3-89955-335-2 Die Gestalten Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin 2011 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy or any storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Respect copyrights, encourage creativity! For more information, please visit www.gestalten.com Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliograe; detailed bibliographic data is available online at http://dnb.d-nb.de. None of the content in this book was published in exchange for payment by commercial parties or designers; Gestalten selected all included work based solely on its artistic merit. Gestalten is a climate-neutral company and so are our products. We collaborate with the non-prot carbon offset provider myclimate (www.myclimate.org) to neutralize the companys carbon footprint produced through our worldwide business activities by investing in projects that reduce CO2 emissions (www.gestalten. com/myclimate).

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