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Architecture IO presents first conference: ‘Rethinking how people move in cities’ at the Museum of London.

On Friday, November 14, Architecture IO will gather leading architects, engineers, researchers, and thinkers who will present at the first Architecture IO conference, focusing on the theme, ‘Rethinking How People Move in Cities’ at the Museum of London. Source: /www.worldarchitecturenews.com

Bondi 2014

Sculpture by the Sea is one of the most popular art events in Australia and an institution in the Sydney art calendar. It takes place this year from 23 October to 9 November bringing together more than 100 sculptures by artists from 16 countries. The spectacular coastal walk on the ocean ...

Source: http://blog.sculpture.org

Innate Rock Beauty

  

   Stone is a natural solid formation of one or many minerals. There are thousands of types of stone that have been quarried through the centuries.The familiar stone types that are used today are identified through four categories: SEDIMENTARY, METAMORPHIC, IGNEOUS STONE, and MAN-MADE.
SEDIMENTARY stone came from organic elements such as glaciers, rivers, wind, oceans, and plants. Tiny sedimentary pieces broke off from these elements and accumulated to form rock beds. They were bonded through millions of years of heat and pressure.

Source: www.natural-stone.com
 

Quarries...an organic architecture

The concept of the landscape as architecture has become, for me, an act of imagination. I remember looking at buildings made of stone, and thinking, there has to be an interesting landscape somewhere out there because these stones had to have been taken out of the quarry one block at a time...

Source: www.edwardburtynsky.com

One Sun /34 Moons

The first of the five “lenses” forms a bright and transparent lobby, with café, art library and bookstore, inviting the public into the Museum and encouraging movement via ramps toward the galleries as they progress downward into the garden. From the lobby a new cross-axis connects through to the original building’s grand spaces. At night the glowing glass volume of the lobby provides an inviting transparency, drawing visitors to events and activities.

Source: www.archdaily.com