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H.P.S. Corbett
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The project deals with the architecture of hospitality. More specifically, it is an investigation of how architecture is used to provide a background to civil society and induce meanings through spatial and structural constructs whose realization is based on exchange value. In th
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Healthcare has been often described as the most complex human organization ever devised.
The life of hospitals has been supplanted many times by an aseptic compliance with norms, regulations, procedures, protocols, and hyper technologies. Hence, there is no longer any trace o ...
The life of hospitals has been supplanted many times by an aseptic compliance with norms, regulations, procedures, protocols, and hyper technologies. Hence, there is no longer any trace o ...
This project looks at both the role of Gibraltar within the global ecology and the dynamics of the local ecology on the peninsula. It describes how Gibraltar’s geomorphology—a mountain surrounded by water, located between two water bodies and two continents—has resulted a unique
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The contribution explores the new agenda of architectural means in contemporary context. Today, in the era of Post-truth, when all the information we learn circulates with uncertainty and doubtful truth, all these online knowledges we perceive are like rumors. As architects, we d
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The project collects past, present, and future stories of energy in, around, and through Gibraltar: fuel economies in the age of Franco; the refueling of middle eastern tankers; the transition from diesel to LNG fuel sources; the additional load of bedroom bit-coin miners, to ind
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This project deals with the industrial heritage of Gibraltar and its future prospects in the context of the global economy and the local culture. More particularly, it is about an upgrade of a ship repair yard known as Gibdock. It is aiming to counterbalance the issue between the
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"Culinary Cultures" understands the dietary story of Gibraltar, as well as the way in which it incorporates relevant change. A new food culture is developed from production to consumption across the peninsula and over time, gradually alleviating Gibraltar’s culinary life. "Culina
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Spirituality in Gibraltar follows its own local logic. Around the base of the rock, in the dense town and port, cultures mix and intersect and negotiate in streets and buildings. Churches, mosques and synagogues, religions have found places – sometimes highly traditional senses i
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This project deals with the past, present, and future theatricality of the Bay of Gibraltar, in relation to the settlements around its edge – Gibraltar, La Linea, Algeciras – and across the strait to Morocco. These landscapes are read as both backdrop and auditorium; the ports ar
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Shop Til You Drop
Shopping Street Design in Old Town
The “Shop Til You Drop” aims to create a new experience in the old town of Gibraltar, seeking to engage visitors by luring them in with the world of shopping. By designing a unique space that combines the architectural character of the heritage city with that of the modern aspira
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Form and Uniform
The Architecture of Irish Police
This project deals with the architecture of order. It is at its core an exploration of how design is used to provide a powerful and coherent image of the state through the representation of the most fundamental and controversial of institutions: police.
The police station is ...
The police station is ...
The Farmacy
A new small scale pharmaceutical production site
This project explores the realities of production in the Irish landscape, and speculates upon certain industries that maintain both a rural economy and Ireland’s architectural identity. The essence of this project as the name suggest, is to combine two residual industries in Irel
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