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fromenglish.elpais.com
5 days ago

Cyclones, mines and a murder: The cursed story of the floating hotel that traveled the Pacific and ended up in North Korea

Metabolist architects proposed visionary floating megastructures; later an Australian diver attempted a simpler, real-world floating hotel inspired by those ideas.
fromCornell Chronicle
1 week ago

At COP30, floating plaza shifts perspective of sea-level rise | Cornell Chronicle

Aboard Italy's floating pavilion at this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, delegates may experience a "surreal," perspective-altering encounter with the water. As they descend the sloped perimeter of the 4,300-square-foot steel platform called "AquaPraça" ("water plaza" in Portuguese), visitors will find themselves eye-level with the brackish, muddy currents of the Pará River in the Amazon Delta region, a gateway to the Atlantic Ocean, and with concerns about sea-level rise.
Environment
Renovation
fromArchDaily
5 months ago

CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Howeler + Yoon Design Floating Plaza to be Transported from Venice Biennale to COP30 in Brazil

AquaPraça is a floating cultural plaza designed for climate dialogue, adapting to water levels and intended to be a permanent landmark in the Amazon.
Renovation
fromArchDaily
5 months ago

MAST Reveals Floating Neighborhood Design for Rotterdam's Disused Spoorweghaven Dock

MAST's floating community in Rotterdam addresses housing shortages with modular, sustainable designs on water.
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