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Polish photographer Pawel Paniczko has taken top honors winning the overall architectural photography prize at this year’s World Architecture Festival . His photograph of Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China by Atelier Deshaus beautifully uses light to show off the contrast between the new, concrete museum and the existing 1950s coal-hopper unloading bridge its been built around.  It was one of two photographs by Paniczko to receive recognition at today's awards ceremony. He has also won the Portfolio category with his pics of the Harbin Opera House, Harbin, China by MAD Architects . Among other selections exhibited in Amsterdam, organizers also recognized two mobile winners, with the judges’ winner being He Zhenhuan’s photo of an overpass in Chongqing, China and the public-voters’ winner being John Pinder’s Half Spiral, for his abstract photo of a spiral staircase. Mackenzie Goldberg via Archinect - News http://bit.ly/2Q7lvlu

Architects: Showcase your work and find the perfect materials for your next project through  Architizer . Manufacturers:  Sign up now  to learn how you can get seen by the world’s top architecture firms. Back in 2014, the AIA Center for Architecture put on an exhibition entitled “C onsidering the Quake: Seismic Design on the Edge”,  exploring how the specifics of earthquake engineering can be merged with contemporary architectural forms. New buildings like OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Center , Libeskind’s Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco and Singapore/Tokyo-based Studio SKLIM’s earthquake-resistant Hansha Reflection house were examined to see how different contemporary building methods and structural systems can provide new structures with protection from earthquake activity. Building destroyed during the 2010 Chilean Earthquake. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Inciting a larger dialogue about the ways in which engineering and architecture can be emplo...

The Brazilian firm Carla Juaçaba Studio has been announced as the winner of Architectural Review 's 2018 Emerging Architecture Award. Presenting a selection of projects at the World Architecture Festival , the judges praised the eponymous firm for the consistency and continuity in their work, their determination to achieve their vision, and working closely on site. Most notably, Juaçaba's chapel for the Pavilion of the Holy See at this year's Venice Biennale and her design for a single family home in Rio de Janeiro received high praises from the judges.  Mackenzie Goldberg via Archinect - News http://bit.ly/2AyWq8c

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This paper questions notions of spatiality in translating from the physical to the virtual. By discussing and recontextualizing Jean Baudrillard’s concept of the hyperreal in a digital modernity, I question the emerging technologies in contemporary music, art, and architectural practices. I argue that these translations are not lossless, that what is vanished is a sense of presence , or what Walter Benjamin defines as object aura, leading to a holistic cybernetic fantasy which blurs the line between the virtual and the real. The physical object is slowly tranquilized and replaced with less potent simulacra of itself. Furthermore, cybernetic algorithms have largely informed modern conceptions of intelligence, thus ignoring the ways in which naturally-occurring physical systems (e.g., rainforests, murmurations, fluid dynamics) also form networks encoded with complex information. Interactive artwork which is mediated by the digital screen poses a layer of abstraction between the vie...