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Pushing the Boundaries of Imagination
By STORIES OF ERNE
@storiesoferne
Chief Editor
Published: May 19, 2022
Skyline of Manhattan Island, New York, USA. Photo: © STORIES OF ERNE @storiesoferne
The sophisticated world of architecture and design needs creative minds! However, as much as the special breed of professionals involved in these ventures have been constantly encouraged to think outside the box, would they merely settle for the mundane? What if commissions don't require design limitations?
Welcome to the maiden issue of A+DPOST, the official magazine of the Architecture+Design Community on the Hive Blockchain. Within its colorful pages, we showcase short yet snappy architecture and design content from around the world celebrating feature stories, news articles, opinion essays, literary and journalistic publications, narrative content, plus other interesting stuff from various contributing authors of our vibrant tribe.
With a different defining theme focused for every published periodical, we are truly optimistic that avid readers from all walks of life, most importantly our industry enthusiasts, would savor our valuable and timely topics for their ultimate education, inspiration, leisure, and entertainment. Similar to our community's main categories, our magazine will highlight Architecture, Interior Design, Furniture Design, Urban Design, and Environmental Design.
With a plethora of built environments sprouting on almost every corner of the globe, we are seldom caught off-guard by absurd, ridiculous, plus strange-looking buildings. As intimidating as they are, they provoke us to scratch our heads in their presence and say "It is even possible to construct those projects"?
World-renowned Architects like Daniel Libeskind, Frank Gehry, and Zaha Hadid have challenged the limits of creativity with their out-of-this-world masterpieces. Their striking designs may not appeal to everyone, (of course they had strong critics too!), but their outstanding creations seem to have defied gravity, questioned construction technologies, and advanced creative thinking to epic proportions!
Take Hangar-7 in Salzburg for instance. Does that work's insane geometry drop your jaw and direct you to stare at its details intensely?
Hangar-7 in Salzburg, Austria. Photo: © STORIES OF ERNE @storiesoferne
Before enrolling in architecture school and venturing outside my home country for professional exposure. I was extremely critical of fabricated edifices, especially the types that I considered abnormal. Perhaps being skeptical of their possibilities was the key reason why I preferred more conventional infrastructures.
However, as the years passed, I learned to admire and appreciate newer architectural trends. Although some of these projects didn't immediately catch my attention, they made me wonder in a positive manner. Their conceptual principles invited me to "pick the brains" of their original creators and discover why they have proposed such interesting design solutions. The mantra "Nothing is impossible if you simply believe" was my guiding light.
By being genuinely open-minded, I transformed my unexpected encounters with unusual architecture into valuable learning curves, pretending to be a playful kid again by absorbing novel realities without suddenly reacting senselessly. Who doesn't want to feed their hungry curiosity, anyway?
In this magazine's inaugural edition, our Contributing Authors have shared their honest opinions, insights, and perspectives about the crazy architecture they've experienced. Read their thought processes, respect their personal views, and feel free to converse with them in the comments below.
More power to the Architecture+Design Community!
Sincerely,
ERNE
Architect | Environmentalist | Lifehacker | Adventurer
Creator of Architecture+Design Community
on the Hive Blockchain
The Peculiar Buildings of Buenos Aires in Argentina: How Daring Are They?
By DIMAS CASTILLO
@dimascastillo90
Contributing Author
Published: May 19, 2022
Strange Architecture in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo: © DIMAS CASTILLO @dimascastillo90
Architecture as a fundamental part of urbanism is present in very diverse and sometimes even very crazy or strange ways, which makes it more attractive to the view of residents and tourists.
In the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, there are these types of architecture that capture the attention of passers-by. We are going to experience three of them, mentioning in the first instance that these are peculiar and strange buildings, but with profound and interesting meanings. We could define them as shocking if you will.
Escape Monument
It is a monument that is located in the Costanera Norte of the city of Buenos Aires, situated in a park called Memory Park, a work by the American artist Dennis Allan Oppenheim.
The Escape Monument in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo: © DIMAS CASTILLO @dimascastillo90
With an interesting symmetry that symbolizes the clandestine prisons during the period of dictatorship in the country, the landmark expresses freedom instead of confinement. It was built between 1999 and 2001.
Rental Building
It is a building that plays a little with the optical illusion of having been ironed or somehow sliced very thinly, In contrast, the reality is that it is triangular in shape and looks that way from a certain angle.
The Rental Building in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo: © DIMAS CASTILLO @dimascastillo90
It is a building located in the neighborhood of Barracas, has a style related to Art Nouveau, and an appearance of Austrian Sezessionsstil. The author of this work is unknown since due to renovations his signature was erased from the building.
Women's Bridge
The famous women's bridge is well known and touristic in the city of Buenos Aires and highlights a cultural and representative meaning of the country. This bridge is located in the neighborhood of Puerto Madero, designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, and was inaugurated in 2001.
The Women's Bridge in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo: © DIMAS CASTILLO @dimascastillo90
According to its creator, it symbolizes a "couple dancing tango", where the mast
represents the man. This man holds the curvature of the bridge by means of ropes, where the curvature symbolizes the woman.
For me, it is quite a positive impression to admire these marvelous projects with such rarity but with extremely deep or interesting interpretations. Personally, I think that the presence of these types of architecture enriches the city. Ideally, there should be more initiatives for the realization of these works.
The Majestic Pillars of Growth!
By SAHIBA RANA
@sahiba-rana
Contributing Author
Published: May 19, 2022
A Welcoming Experience at Aerocity, New Delhi, India. Photo: © SAHIBA RANA @sahiba-rana
Rooted at the heart of India and symbolizing growth and development, the imposing pillars of Aerocity stand - landmarking the aesthetical bloom of Delhi.
On a weekend eve with a smooth breeze, while multiple groups of people were entering Aerocity's complex that shared its periphery wall with the airport, I was one of those who were gasping at its crazy infrastructure.
The mastermind's idea of crafting such beautiful elements near the airport and metro needs to be applauded! I always wondered how crazy they looked in photographs, thus my curiosity dragged me out to witness these artforms in person.
Curves and angles are some of the basic rules of craziness in architecture, aren't they? These stunning pillars supporting the airport's bridge were simply built from basic concrete forms. However, defining them with the interesting shapes of crazy curves, including vertical waterfalls and gardens, halted passersby - triggering them to "click-click"!
I discovered myself amidst these creative works - sitting peacefully (stress-free), listening to the waterfall's sound, and enjoying its uncrowded space. Aren't these magnificent pillars perfect examples of biophilia, providing beautiful structures to have a calming effect on your mind?
Nature-inspired Architecture of Aerocity in New Delhi, India. Photo: © SAHIBA RANA @sahiba-rana
This complex serves the poshest hotels, finest restaurants, and shopping centers with its fantastic infrastructure. The multiple levels of flooring with a unique canopy made it more appealing. This represents the beauty of the city perfectly and highlights its capacity to hold everyone under its wings.
The flavor of contemporary architecture is prevalent with beautiful landscaping as the icing on the cake. Therefore, this made everyone enjoying within the complex to yell - 'Life is good! The GMR group, responsible for developing Aerocity, outdid themselves.
After having a peaceful surrender to this marvelous infrastructure, I proceeded to enjoy the international cuisine within the adjoining food court.
While draining my mobile's memory with pictures, I found my way to the parking area overlooking my college thesis site, currently being developed by L&T. This made me proud of covering that landmark two years ago, so I started daydreaming about having a project in Aerocity in the near future. (Just Architect's things LOL!)
I felt contented and so will you!
LEGO, the Danish toy manufacturing company that popularized these interlocking plastic bricks for playful people of all ages, used to produce special architectural bricks for the construction of houses. These building products were termed Modulex and were based on perfect cubes since their conception in 1963. The business didn't take off and was later discontinued in the 1970s.
The Empire State Building in the city of New York, USA generates more financial revenue from its Observation Decks collected from tourists and visitors as opposed to the rental income gained from its 85 Floors of Office Spaces.
Architecture used to be one of the major events in the international Olympic Competition. For the first 4 decades of the modernized Olympic Games, around 151 medals were specially awarded to the fields of music, literature, painting, sculpture, and surprisingly, architecture. The qualification? Every entry must be related to sports.
The A+DPOST community magazine is open to proposals, ideas, suggestions, and submissions geared towards its content theme and production calendar. To be qualified, Hive authors are required to fulfill the following:
Subscribed to the Architecture+Design Community
Maintained an excellent track record, performance, and reputation within the Hive Blockchain
Published consistently in the community (at least) for the last 3 months
Engaged/interacted actively with other community authors by upvoting, reblogging, commenting, replying, etc. on their publications
If you are one of those who completed the above essentials, please let us know by expressing your interest of participating in this magazine project in the comments below. We look forward to your remarkable contributions! Thank you!
Wow! Finally, It's truly an honour to be a part of such creative project. Our community's official Magazine!
Thanks @storiesoferne for the opportunity and congratulations to my friends @soulsdetour and @dimascastillo90 to be part of the first edition, it's always memorable.
The topic itself is out of the box, such creative project needs more and more recognition. Kuddos to everyone involved and specially to dear friend Erne who knitted everything together beautifully.
@aplusd it's just the beginning can't wait for the next edition.
Hello, my dear Sahiba @sahiba-rana. It's likewise an incredible privilege to team up with you on this amazing initiative. Our community magazine is one of those awesome projects that set our valuable efforts in motion for the benefit of the Hive Blockchain, most especially for our beloved tribe. Thank you so much for your marvelous contributions, and I look forward to more exciting content for our upcoming editions. The best always, and have lots of fun! 😊🙏
It is an honor for me to be part of volume 1 of the Architecture+Design Community Magazine, a great initiative offered by @storiesoferne through Hive Blockchain which allows us to highlight the architectural works of the world and emphasize the details of these works. It is also an honor to be accompanied by great authors such as @soulsdetour and @sahiba-rana who have been sharing very important and interesting content in the community. Greetings to all friends and congratulations for such amazing work 😊
Hello Dimas @dimascastillo90. It's an immense honor as well to be hosting your incredible publications on our first-ever community magazine. This makes me more excited about the countless potentials our interesting initiative has sparked. What's truly amazing about this team project is the wonderful opportunity that the Hive platform has offered to all of us, unlocking the doors of featuring remarkable architecture and design content from around the world. Here's to the success of our collaboration and to the bright future it brings. Cheers! 😊👍
How wonderful to see the birth of this magazine 😎an exciting surprise.
Congratulations @aplusd and it’s community! A great addition.
It was a great read with very interesting articles 🤓 I’m sure many will follow. Well done authors.
Can’t wait for the next one to come out now.
Lots of success.
Kind and warm wishes I’m sending out 😊
Thank you so much dear @littlebee4. We are tremendously delighted with your sincere appreciation and constant support. You will definitely be invited as well to be part of our community magazine's future publications, and we will be in touch with you soon to share the details. Hope that would be okay with you. Keep up the excellent contributions. More power! 😊👍
You are so welcome dear @aplusd 😊
It would be a 🤩 honour to write an article for it. Thank you kindly.
I sure will keep contributing. Cheers 🥂 to our community 😁 it is great to see it further develop, even though I only joined hive 5 months ago. Happy to be here and found you all 🥰
That's awesome dear @littlebee4. Thank you so much for showing great interest in our community magazine. 😀👍 Do you have a Twitter or Discord account where we can contact you in private?
Yes, I have created a discord account a little while ago: littlebee4d
You are welcome 😁
Oh wow, that's great! 👍 We will send you a message there soon. Again, we are grateful for your constant support and participation! Cheers! 😀🙏
Looking forward to it @aplusd 😁
Cheers! Enjoy your Friday and weekend. 🙏🏻👍🏻
Sorry, @littlebee4. We tried searching your username on Discord but it does not exist. Does your account name have additional numbers?
That’s strange it didn’t come up.
It has a d behind my name. littlebee4d, but you are right there are also some numbers. I didn’t see before.
Hahaha still figuring out how discord works. Sorry about that 😇😁
Made a screenshot of my profile. Hope this helps:
Have a great Saturday @aplusd
The creation of the magazine is an excellent initiative bringing together amazing authors and unique architecture from around the world. Great job @storiesoferne, it's great to see that the beloved architecture and design community is evolving into new creative avenues. Keep up the good work, it's very interesting!
As always, thank you very much friend @danny.green for your tremendous support and beautiful appreciation! It's definitely crucial to evolve for the better, thus remarkable initiatives like A+DPOST, our official community magazine, would surely add to our already existing line-up of creative projects. You are always welcome to feature your fantastic contributions to this collaborative project. Let's talk about this exciting opportunity for you on Twitter. Cheers! 😊👍
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Greetings my friend Marcos @marcosmilano71. As always, thank you so much for your sincere appreciation and valuable support. Our beloved community could not have done it without the consistency of your superb contributions as well as active participation. Keep up the awesome camaraderie. More blessings! 🙏😊
This is so Amazing! I'm so glad I discovered the A+D community a couple of weeks ago. I'm enjoying all the great posts and now this magazine is she Cherry on the Cake. Can't wait for the next issue already
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This is great, I love the magazine style which has started making an appearance on Hive.
Best wishes and thank you
Hello dear @nathen007. We are truly glad that you have found our community magazine to your liking. Thank you so much for your consistent support, and we hope to feature one of your articles here in the near future - if that's fine with you. Keep up the amazing contributions. Cheers! 😊
As a newcomer to this community I am very interested and want to be a family and part of this community and will really study the rules of this community, I am happy to have found this community, I hope I find many new friends and new family here, and will share knowledge with each other.
Hi @lion-bull. Thank you for showing interest in the Architecture+Design Community. We appreciate your support! Best regards. 😀
yes my beloved friend, I am happy with the warm welcome, I have made 2 posts here, if you don't mind you can take a look and guide
Hello friend Manuel @manuelmilano. I'm simply delighted to receive your beautiful compliments! Thanks a lot for your constant admiration and important support for the long-term existence of our beloved community. Stay awesome as always! Best regards. 😊
Congratulations for this great idea to friend @storiesoferne. I've been out of action for a while and I get this amazing news about an architecture magazine. Friends @dimascastillo90, @sahiba-rana and @soulsdetour are great to have the honor to be in the first edition of this magazine. Success and more success I wish @aplusd. Architecture shapes our environment and how generous of you when it makes it livable, comfortable, fun and especially when we encounter the magic of ecological and avant-garde designs. Bravo friends! Blessings and have fun 😊
Hello, friend @sorprendente. Thank you for not missing our inaugural party! As always , we truly appreciate your consistent support for our beloved community, including the kind messages you offer that constantly delight us. If you're interested, we'd be happy to also invite you to be one of our contributing authors in future editions of our community magazine. Cheers! 😊
It would really be a great honor and I am even flattered. I believe that the good work being done from this important community deserves to be supported and I am willing to give my contribution if required. Fraternal greetings! 😊
Awesome @sorprendente! We will be contacting you as soon as our community magazine brief will be ready. As always, many thanks for supporting our valuable initiatives. All the best! 😀
Thanks to you my friends @aplusd. Also best wishes to you and have a happy weekend 😊
Wow i'm suprized 😍 Very cool magazine of Architechture and Design and full of thoughts about in it. Can't wait next edition and congrats for everyone on first edition mentioned 🤗
Greetings dear @romirspc. We are grateful for your sincere support of our community magazine. Continue publishing great content. Have fun! 😀👍
amazing architecture + design community has a really great improvement😍
Many thanks, dear @deltasteem for your valuable support as always! 😀👍
Spectacular! Now we can appreciate the different magazines of this community, congratulations for this work. Greetings!
Greetings dear @wilfredocav. We are definitely excited about the inauguration of our community magazine. Thank you very much for your valuable presence and sincere support during this significant event. All the best always! 😀👍
I’m very impressed by this and love the upside down houses, aren’t they bonkers, wonderfully nuts! Good luck with the publication.
Hello @nicklewis. Thank you for your beautiful compliment! Stay tuned for more awesome magazine editions coming soon. Cheers! 😀
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I think I am going to love this magazine, nice job @storiesoferne, I am now excited to the next issue.
Thanks @afterglow for the support!
You're always welcome (^_^) @storiesoferne
Wow great fiesta edition for this magazine congrats
Hello @soychalbed. Thank you for the beautiful compliment and support! 😀
oh!!! I love this!!! I'm trying to think on what to do for my community (motherhood) I wanted something else not a challenge or initiative and I just saw this and I so want to copy the idea!!! we have a column weekly written by one of our grandmas but this is so much bigger and better.
I would love to have your ok in copying the magazine idea tho I don't to abuse lol and just copy it without your knowledge, let me know please if is ok and we will totally understand if is not =)
Dear @victoriabsb. We are grateful for your sincere compliment! And as much as we are truly appreciative of your admiration for our community magazine, please be aware that it took a huge amount of time, effort, and thought processes, plus the willing involvement, cooperation, and contribution of the creator, mod team, and several of our community authors to realize this collective initiative.
Now, would we desire to simply waste all our hard-earned endeavors by allowing you to copy our work? Isn't copying the ideas of others literally similar to plagiarizing original content? In fact, we are completely surprised as well as disappointed about this request from a community leader and curator in the first place. Aren't we supposed to be practicing ethical behaviors and professional conduct on the Hive blockchain?
If we permitted you to do so, this would definitely trigger unwanted commotion, anger the entire Architecture+Design Community, and would be unfair to all our magazine contributors and respected members.
Hence, our straightforward response? NO, we do not allow you to copy our community magazine. Thank you for your understanding.
Ooh! well I never wanted to disrespect your hard work making this magazine, nor did I want to copy the content (cause our community is not about Architecture or design) or even the way is made (markdown), just the general idea of a magazine.
Hence why I asked before as I saw it as the ethical thing to do, but I doubt the creators of the Sport Illustrated asked Vogue if they could also make a magazine about a completely different subject, so no, I don't see anything wrong with asking, but I know now your position about it and respect it.
We appreciate your favorable feedback! Thank you for respecting our decision!
Greetings dear @soulsdetour. It's truly a tremendous honor to work with you and the other contributing authors @dimascastillo90 @sahiba-rana on this pioneering endeavor for our beloved Architecture+Design Community. It has always been my greatest dream to initiate a collaborative project like this where our distinguished community members are featured for their outstanding contributions. 👍
This is simply the beginning of something fantastic! And now that this community magazine has launched to the skies, let's continue to fully empower it with massive wings as it soars to endless possibilities. Until our future editions, thank you very much for everything! All the best! ❤️😊
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