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"Total Tourism - The Alpine Village" and "Satellites"
September 15, 2011Total Tourism - The Alpine ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’Tourism is the world’s largest and fastest-growing economic sector, with more than 800 million people traveling every year, and the world’s largest employer, responsible for 230 million jobs (8% of the global workforce).The world’s fast growing middle class promises a tourist boom in the...
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Koran vs Bible
September 06, 2011Since the 100 mostly used words in the Quran and the Bible are almost identical, this comparison of the two books is not made to highlight the extreme difference between the two religions but rather shows the slightly different focus points within their extreme similarities.
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Construction started at Villa Bissau
September 06, 2011Groundwork’s started some weeks ago for a private house designed by TD close to the capital of Guinea-Bissau. Through applying as much as possible local materials and assigning solely local contractors for the construction work, the client together with us hopes to stimulate the economy of one of Africa’s poorest countries.
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Energy Landscapes 3.0 at Über Lebenskunst Festival
August 15, 2011International Summer School 2011: Energy Landscapes 3.0 Since the outset of industrialisation, the natural deposits of fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil) and the geography of their conversion, distribution, interim storage and use have influenced spatial development.
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Iron Silk Road
June 12, 2011With China on the rise and Europe standing strong, Eurasia is rapidly becoming the world’s new economic centre. Clogged seaports and a vulnerable air-transport system have shifted the focus to a network of railways – also known as the Iron Silk Road – intended to shrink today’s supercontinent in...
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New Geographies #4 Scales of the Earth - Harvard Design School
June 12, 2011Theo Deutinger contributed to the magazine New Geographies #4 Scales of the Earth - Harvard Design School by the Harvard Design School with the article Living Room Geography. Editor-in-Chief EL HADI JAZAIR. Living Room Geography - The Art of Imitation This article describes how earth imitation, the fundament of world...
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INDESEM 2011
May 15, 2011INDESEM 2011 INternational DEsign SEMinar in DELFTLOSING GROUND, a unique "cooperation between students of different nationalities and renowned archtiect and theorists" will seem to center the issues of social technologies affect on traditional social space.
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Communist World
March 29, 2011Communism is still alive. Although capitalism won a victory when the Berlin Wall went down, communism is triumphing as nation states continue to bail out banks in the wake of the recent economic crisis. Global capitalism is hugely unorganized and has no interest in a comprehensive plan for the future...
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Health Care Vacation Park
March 29, 2011TD is asked to design a vacation destination for elderly and people in need for special health care in the south of the Netherlands. The park should consist of 35 freestanding units and two apartment buildings with 15 units each. Ground works should start at the end of 2011.