Architectural pollution
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elarafritzenwalden:

Social housing building at Via Adolfo e Oscar Torricelli
Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland; 1965-67

Dolf Schnebli
(photographs by Alberto Flammer; Klaus Kinold)

«The fundamental choice underlying the project of social apartment houses is the typological and volumetric complexity of the building. It signifies for the refusal of the functional standardization of collective housing in favour of the individual sphere of the tenant and his identity with the place. Not the mass but the individual.»_ “Schnebli and Tami, the construction of a neighbourhood” by Paolo Fumagalli

see map

via “Archi : rivista svizzera di architettura, ingegneria e urbanistica” (2010); “(Das) Werk, 54” (1967)

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prettyarchitecture:

Sainsbury Laboratory

The Sainsbury Laboratory, an 11,000 sq.m. plant science research centre set in the University of Cambridge’s Botanic Garden, brings together world-leading scientists in a working environment of the highest quality. The design reconciles complex scientific requirements with the need for a piece of architecture that also responds to its landscape setting.


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source: stantonwilliams

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