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Clancy Moore

Wastewater Treatment Plant . Arlkow

Clancy Moore architects

Arklow Wastewater Treatment Plant is the first time an architect has been a part of the design team for such a building. Here a small architecture practice won an invited competition and worked alongside the engineers to instrumentally direct and shape the plants design. Arklow has been without wastewater treatment for its entire history, Its badly polluted river and sea act to prevent the towns ability to grow, and badly impacted ecologies and the amenity value of these water bodies. Previous attempts to build a plant had failed repeatedly as previous designs did not meet planning approval on sensitive sites. Continue reading Clancy Moore

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Lütjens Padmanabhan

THE WATER CYCLE | Unterfeld Energy Centre . Zurich

Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekt*innen . photos: © Philip Heckhausen

The theme of the design for the Unterfeld Energy Centre (a heat-pump power station) is the circulation of water. Inspiration for the idea was drawn from the Meret Oppenheim Fountain in Bern, with its unplanned, startling synthesis of geometry and natural form. Continue reading Lütjens Padmanabhan

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Leopold Banchini

Villa Montasser . Mies

Leopold Banchini @leopoldbanchini . photos: © Rory Gardiner

Ferdinand Hodler painted mountains reflected in Swiss lakes, again and again. He was obsessed with this double inverted landscape, constantly evolving with the changing sky and the movement created by the wind blowing on the water’s surface. In 1867, aged 14, he painted his first lakes and sold them to passing tourists. In 1918, fifty years later, he died in Geneva, leaving behind a few unfinished sketches of Mont-Blanc reflected in Lake Geneva, as seen from his apartment balcony. Continue reading Leopold Banchini