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10 Amphibious Architectures to Discover

<span>When water becomes a poetic element or the very reason for a design choice, stories of unique or revolutionary architectures are born: we selected 10 of them, from Carlo Scarpa and Snøhetta via the Amazon River.</span>

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TRAVEL IN A GARDEN: Carlo Scarpa and The Querini Stampalia Garden, Venice

Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) changed his mind. When in 1959, Giuseppe Mazzariol, Director of the Querini Stampalia Foundation in Venice, asked him to renovate part of the headquarter of the Foundation and its small and neglected garden, the architect created a raised lawn with rills, sculptures and few trees instead of the paved court with labyrinth and central pool that he had designed for it ten years before. The original design was, in fact, dated 1949 and was part of the project to restore…

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