Waffle urbanism

"In his 1964 book, Investigations in Collective Form,Fumihiko Maki defined the basic concept of megastructure, writing: 'The megastructure is a large frame in which all the functions of a city or part of a city are housed... In a sense, it is a humanmade feature of the landscape.' " to find out more...
Passage and Image via http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/waffle-urbanism/

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http://www.pedrokok.com.br/en

http://www.jmayerh.de/home.htm

http://www.domusweb.it/en/video/-metropol-parasol/
http://mydesignstories.net/profiles/blogs/metropol-parasol-in-seville