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cityofsound The primary interface between the UK’s planning system and the people and places it serves is a piece of A4 paper tied to a lamppost in the rain. OK, not always rain. But rain often enough. The paper is a public notice describing a planning application for some kind of ‘development’ somewhere in the vicinity. Domaine de Chaumont sur Loire A moins de 200 kilomètres au sud de Paris, entre les villes de Tours et de Blois, se cache un trésor de poésie. Oasis naturel, promontoire perché à 40 mètres au dessus de la Loire sauvage, le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, propriété de la Région Centre, vous ouvre toute l’année les portes de son château, de son parc et, d’avril à fin octobre, de l’incontournable Festival International des Jardins. Le château, qui fut la propriété de Catherine de Médicis, de Diane de Poitiers et de la Princesse de Broglie vous accueille en toutes saisons avec ses intérieurs chaleureux et richement meublés.

roosterization* Quick analysis of a wardrobe that contains not only clothes. design-is-fine: Enzo Mari, Sei Simboli Sinsemantici, 1975. A Daily Dose of Architecture Super Colossal Patrick Blanc's Vertical Gardens - Musée du quai Branly in Paris Vertical Wall on Jean Nouvel’s Musée du quai Branly Plants have found a home on walls for centuries, but are sometimes incongruous with architecture, often breaking down the structural integrity of a building’s facade. Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Garden System, known as Le Mur Vegetal in French, allows both plants and buildings to live in harmony with one another. The botanist cum vertical landscape designer is probably best know for his gorgeous living wall on the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris (shown above). But Blanc’s Vertical Garden System can be implemented anywhere: indoors or out and in any climatic environment.

e n g a w a # 0 8 : e n g a w a e n g a w a # 08 In Between · Sou Fujimoto Un coup de dés · François Guynot de Boismenu 10 PAISAJES DE SOMBRA para Junihiro* · Tomás García Píriz Espacio interior: libertad y subordinación · Rubén Páez BLDGBLOG a456 Sensational Garden / Nabito Architects and Partners The neighborhood of Corso Lazio, in the city of Frosinone, Italy, can finally enjoy its first public space,that it has been expecting for 25 years now. The sensational garden represents the starting point of a big masterplan to renew and integrate the public spaces and the services to the housing neighborhood. This lack of public spaces generate an absolute degrade of the entire area, and the neighborhood has become an unsustainable dormitory. For this reason the project for the sensational garden amplifies the idea of a relational space filling the social void with an explosive, playful, sensorial and interactive intimate room, like a personal living room in a public realm.

''Even A Brick Wants To Be Something'' - Louis Kahn Louis Kahn, c. 1972© Robert C. Lautman Photography Collection, National Building Museum. When I was thirteen years old, while watching ''Indecent Proposal'' (1993) directed by Adrian Lyne, based on the novel by Jack Engelhard, Woody Harrelson held up a brick and said the phrase ''EVEN A BRICK WANTS TO BE SOMETHING'' whilst giving an architecture lecture. Today, twenty years later, the ''Louis Kahn-The Power of Architecture'' exhibition has just given me the chance to discover more about the complex and nomadic life of the real man who talked to this Brick.