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As building materials and technologies evolve, architects are crafting innovative urban environments. This book highlights advancements like parametric modeling, eco-friendly building skins, and HOPSCAs—a hybrid building type that integrates hotels, offices, parking, shopping, convention centers, and apartments. The visionary structures presented reflect a shifting architectural and cultural landscape, marking a new era in architectural history. Featured architects explore developments in structural and material technologies, expanding possibilities in form. In this complex urban landscape, architects must discover new textures or establish new rules. One notable approach merges nature and architecture, utilizing natural forms and sustainable materials. Bionics, applying biological principles to design, streamlines buildings while simulating natural systems. Additionally, a continuity with Modernism reveals that simple forms and traditional materials can embody conceptual elegance. Architects may choose to 'exceed' by creating striking urban spectacles or 'retreat' into tranquil projects that offer respite from city chaos. Comprehensive projects addressing urban challenges suggest a future where monumental buildings redefine cityscapes. By exploring these innovative designs, we raise essential questions about technology's role in bridging cultures, the potential resemblance of our cities to science fiction, and the evolution o
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Dream architecture, Rihan Xing
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- 2010
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