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amintaha.bsky.social @amintaha.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Tirana’s football stadium, by Florentine architect Marco Casamonti, is signalled with a campanile & in the club’s red kit & yet invisible. A courtyard to an urban block. The tower a hotel, the upper parts offices & ground level a collar of shops, restaurants/bars & public space
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amintaha.bsky.social @amintaha.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit Fernand Pouillon broke out & with the help of friends fled to Algeria. Where, in exile & till pardoned by president Pompidou he drew on the tradition of low cost construction in stone to help greatly expand their affordable housing programme
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amintaha.bsky.social @amintaha.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
GROUPWORK are proud of project architect winning AJ's Retrofit + Reuse Award Doubling NIA without demolition, extending in mass timber to the side & top, super insulating with a lyrical & critical nod to nostalgia From a distance, established & traditional On inspection, flawed & melting into air
Street facade of bronzed perforated sheet appearing from a distance as classical carved brown weathered stoneClose up of bronze sheet beginning to show perforations, intrinsic light weight and ephemeral nature with its classical detail firm apparently slipping, about to fall awayInterior double height extension in cross laminated timber structure with dramatic double height mansard windowsInterior of existing 1960’s concrete frame building with columns, ceiling and walls left exposed. Plastered walls left in place where still stable, cleaned back to wall structure where not
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