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LOT-EK Shipping Container Puma City

By Mark | Published: December 19, 2008
Puma City by LOT-EK is an 11,000 square foot store consisting of 24 shipping containers.  Puma City is designed to be easily disassembled for transportation.  The store is currently on tour around the world. Us here at Sinking Cities are in awe of the huge cantilever LOT-EK  was able to pull off.  At first look you [...]
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Future Systems – 367 Oxford Street

By Mark | Published: November 22, 2008
Future Systems has completed an interested remodel at 367 Oxford Street. I am a fan of Future Systems’ simple but quirky designs. This project consisted of adding two facades and an additional floor to an existing structure.
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McDonald’s Architecturally Rebranded

By Mark | Published: November 11, 2008
McDonald’s Quarter Pounder Store Once upon a time in Tokyo, McDonald’s attempted to take on a new persona. A high class profile, with select (only two) menu options, and a stab at sleek architecture. Honestly, it looks like a sleazy Vegas strip club with an all you can eat burger buffet than anything else – [...]
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Interesting CCTV Renderings

By Mark | Published: October 19, 2008
Click to view larger. So here I am, just browsing around the internet and I stumble across these renderings of the CCTV tower in Beijing. I fell in love with them on first sight. I am sure most of us have seen our fair share of renderings of this project – but these are [...]
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Fall 2008 LA Lecture Series

By Mark | Published: October 16, 2008
Archinect has a wonderful new feature displaying lecture series posters from architecture schools around the world. Here are the posters for the architecture schools in the Los Angeles area.
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Hodgetts and Fung Installation at SCI-Arc

By Mark | Published: October 12, 2008
Hodgetts and Fung Architects installation at SCI-Arc.
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Architecture Domination has Arrived!

By admin | Published: October 12, 2008
That’s right.  You probably already know the story.  Some kid builds a blog slightly modifying some wordpress theme and he’s going to get rich and get lots of readers.  Well here’s the plan. This blog is about architecture and anything that relates to architecture.  That inclues scripting, programming, new media, fashion, graphics, etc.   You get the [...]
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