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Chapel of St. Ignatius Steven Holl

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House in Yamasaki Tato Architects / Yo Shimada

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Luis Fernandes

A small sampling of the works you will find in the tumblr haussmanhattan described as a Parisian Retro-Utopia. These images created by architect Luis Fernandes knit together New York and Paris to create a new metropolis.

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Ana Kapor

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Denis Andernach

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Estado de DesánimoCesar Blay

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In The Crossfire Fabiano Parisi

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Buildings Marc Yankus 

The artist considers the photographs obscure and surrealistic portraits of New York City buildings. He writes, “In my new work, I have attempted to ‘rebuild’ New York through my own, imagined vision, in which the city’s historical buildings, so often taken for granted, exist as living presences.”

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Manica Lunga Restoration Michele De Lucchi

Brought to its final configuration by Giovanni Buora at the end of the fifteenth century, the Long Wing is an extraordinary space. In the course of time it has housed monks’ cells, army accommodation, public dormitories, and classrooms. Adapted to contain part of the Cini Foundation’s History of Art library, this hanging gallery is 128 metres long and occupies the north west portion of the ex-Benedictine monastery. Both sides of its wide corridor were formerly occupied by fifty-six individual cells. The restoration project, resulting from a competition held in 2005, clads the walls of the main hall with a double row of open metal shelving capable of containing about 100,000 catalogued volumes in 1400 straight metres of shelves. 

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