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Following last week's healthy debate around a conceptual looping skyscraper in New York, a newly proposed tower that would hang from an asteroid drew a similar response from readers, which is summarised in our latest comments update. Down to earth: Clouds Architecture Office suggested suspending the Analemma Tower, which would be the world's tallest skyscraper, from an asteroid to get around terrestrial height restrictions. "What's architecture without utopia?" asked Eugenio Laponte, defending the concept. Some readers, such as Atlas, were completely dismissive of the extreme plan: "What a complete waste of time." Mies van der Float felt the office deserved praise for their originality: "I'd like to have a pint in this tower someday and toast these blokes for daring to be visionary." One reader suggested the architects may be better off going back to school: .

20 Brilliant Architectural Dissertation Ideas That Can Help You Out There are so many different directions in which you can take a dissertation in architecture that choosing just one is difficult! Every student also has their own preferences when it comes to the varying styles that architecture encompasses, and the materials that they prefer to work with. To give you a little bit of a start on the search for a topic, here are 20 brilliant ideas for architectural dissertations: Architectural guardian of the nation? The Church of England's role in maintaining architecture. The placing of 'utilities' - a comparison between Lloyd's of London and the Basil Spence university buildings. Constructing the green campus - different approaches to creating and promoting environmentalism within the education sector. The willful and wanton destruction of the rural landscape. Social housing architecture: The changing natur

2D AutoDesk AutoCAD The best software for Architects'. Though you can design 3D models too in AutoCAD but that is quite complicated compared to others. Consider making 2D Plans, Sections, Elevations using AutoCad. Download Software Here Download Apk Alternatives Revit Architecture Vector Works DraftSight BricsCAD ProgeCAD 2D Rendering Adobe Photoshop Who would have thought that one of the best software for photo editing can also be used by Architects'. Yes, you can render 2d plans using photoshop, this includes coloring, adding shadows, furntures, trees and trust me you can do much more with it. Download Here Download Apk Alternatives Adobe Photoshop Affinity Photo GIMP Sketch  Pixelmator 3D Modelling SketchUp Formerly owned by Google now owned by Trimble Navigation is one of the easiest software to build 3D model of your project. You will barely need to use your keyboard 😛 Thank me later. Download Here Download Apk Alternatives

Centre Georges Pompidou Built in Paris between 1971 and 1977, the Pompidou Center is the proud home to a public library, the largest modern art museum in Europe (the Musée National d’Art Moderne), and a top-of-the-league music and acoustics study center. Piano built the structure as an over-the-top ode to high-tech architecture in which he strives to reveal a building’s inner workings and technological marvels that typically remain hidden beneath its surface. Parco della Musica Considered one of the most-visited music facilities in the world, Rome’s Parco della Musica was designed by Piano on the same grounds of the 1960 Summer Olympic Games. The facilities comprise three massive dome-like structures that hold three separate concert halls. One unique note about the construction: in forging new ground, Piano and co found remains of the old. The construction process unearthed an ancient Italian villa that Renzo Piano decided to include in his designs. The Shar

From 1916 to 2002. Kanvinde    plays with space and forms. His designs are slender, balanced, proportionate, neat and well crafted.     The building is important but most important is the gate of the user. Example is “Isckon   Temple”.   He gave much    more importance to the natural light. He gave such a form to the building that it can solve the problem of ventilation as well as excessive heat . He believed in Vernacular Architecture. He believed    that the image should be such that can set the mood and interest for which the building stands for. Both inherent    values and historical influences contributed towards good architecture. An art can be to nourish the senses. Art is purely an aesthetic exercise. He believed    that a grid of columns    forming a matrix giving structural   and spatial aspect would turn a   design to more sophisticated and   faceted. He treated his building with   “VASTUSHASTRA”. He also used Vernacular Architecture in   foreign. WORKS

Tadao Ando's Only UK project,  the ‘Japanese Pavilion’ at  Piccadilly Gardens  in  Manchester is scheduled to be demolished as apart of € 10m redesigning of the park and plaza. Built in 2002the pavilion takes the form of a long, gray concrete wall along the park’s southwestern edge, which critics have argued divide the public space, describing the design as “bleak and depressing” and comparing it to the Berlin Wall. The plans follow several years of public calls to reinvasion the gardens. Six months ago, a 20,000-signature petition to knock down the wall was presented to the   Manchester   city council. In 2013, Ando himself admitted that the project could use some livening up,   suggesting covering the structure in greenery .

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet  ( 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) A   Spanish   Catalan   architect from   Reus   and the best known practitioner of   Catalan Modernism . Gaudí's works reflects an individualized and distinctive style. Most are located in   Barcelona , including his   magnum opus , the   Sagrada Família . Gaudi’s style is characterized by freedom of form, voluptuous colour and texture, and organic unity. He worked almost entirely in or near   Barcelona . Much of his career was occupied with the construction of the Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family (Sagrada Família), which was unfinished at his death in 1926. The architectural work of Gaudí is remarkable for its range of forms, textures, and polychromy and for the free, expressive way in which these elements of his   art   seem to be composed. The complex geometries of a Gaudí   building   so coincide with its architectural structure that the whole, including its surface, gives the appearance of being a natural o