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Copy Paste
The Badass Architectural Copy Guide
Copy Paste is the tenth book in the Why Factory’s Future Cities Series. Copy Paste is an invitation to copy with finesse and skill. Copy Paste understands the past as a vast archive on which we can and must build. Copy Paste is a reader in the art of evolution. Copy Paste is a ba
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NL28 Olympic Fire
Future Games
The Olympic Games constitute a mega-event on an unimaginable scale. Sport, the economy, city marketing, urban development, and even regional and national development are fundamentally affected. Organizing the event can strengthen the identity of a country and put major spatial pl
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MVRDV + The Why Factory
Factoring the why in design practice
From the urgencies seen in contemporary societies and urban situations, it is obvious that it is time to begin thinking about our cities in completely new ways. The urban environment has become fundamentally different in many aspects, but we are still trying to physically define
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Absolute Leisure
The World of Fun
The Why Factory makes space for free time. With its flexible working hours, cheap flights to every far-off corner of the planet and the possibility of downloading all the films, TV programmes or songs ever produced, our world has become a society of leisure devotees and connoisse
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Cultivating and stirring up urgencies: wait and plan.Spotlighting the jewels of North-Holland.Formulating new tasks to speed up housingconstruction.Quicker, cheaper, nicer, and more adaptive living through changeable and modular thinking, and becoming more sustainable by lengthen
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Towers of Choices
Hong Kong Housing Beyond Uniformity
How can Hong Kong’s housing development escape its unrelenting uniformity? How might architects and developers bypass strict planning and building regulations? How might they add more value by creative design? How might they realize innovative and attractive housing towers, tower
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