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Architensions is an architectural design studio operating as an agency of research led by Alessandro Orsini and Nick Roseboro.

Brooklyn, NY
Joined March 2011
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With @alhaq_org, we continue to monitor cases of reported attacks by Israel on medical facilities in Gaza. This task is made harder by Israeli disinformation; in the thread below, we demonstrate that Israeli media statements following the al-Ahli hospital blast were misleading.
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Preliminary analysis by FA, @alhaq_org & @earshot_ngo into the #AlAhli hospital blast in Gaza casts significant doubt on IOF claims that the source of the deadly explosion was a Palestinian-fired rocket travelling west to east.
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Today marks 3 years since the Beirut port explosion that destroyed 70,000 homes and left around 300,000 homeless and 250 disabled. In pursuit of economic accountability we, alongside @FebrayerNetwork & @MadaMasr, investigated the events of 4 Aug 2020 across 3 investigations.
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Today, we’re pleased to announce the launch of ‘Chronograms of Architecture’, a collaboration with @e_flux to rethink Charles’ evolutionary diagrams in relation to the contemporary ecology of architecture. Learn more here: jencksfoundation.org/explore…
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We remember those who have died, and we celebrate and stand with those living who, despite the devastation, continue to fight, endure, and persist. #WorldAIDSDay
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Today, on World AIDS Day, we are revisiting pieces by @jacobcascio and @jacobrmoore, who both attend to the lives, memories, struggles, and necessary work left to do on HIV.
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Aging is not a problem. The problem is the range of barriers—physical, social, financial, and cultural—that make it difficult to grow older with dignity and in community. Join us Mon, 7/11, 6:30-8pm for the next talk in our Reset exhibition program series: bit.ly/3OKCWlX
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So I have a lot to say about the Juneteenth museum project but one thing that does not bode well for BIG’s engagement with the city of Fort Worth is that the skyline in the rendering is not Fort Worth’s
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Catch up on NYC architecture news: @Architensions designs The Playground at Coachella, Idlewild Environmental Science Learning Center by @handelarch and @mathewsnielsen opens to the public, and more: bit.ly/3KIDTbD
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Ayer terminó @coachella, una edición en la que el diseño también fue protagonista a través de instalaciones site-specific🎡 ¡Estas son algunas! —Mutts de Oana Stănescu —Cocoon (BKF + H300) de Martín Huberman —Buoyed de Kiki Van Eijk —The Playground de @architensions
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The popular music festival @coachella has become a place to showcase unique installations and this year was no different. Designed by @architensions 'The Playground' merges the urban piazza with the vibrancy of Southern California. @designboom ow.ly/54lw50IN81K
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Studio @architensions have created a series of colourful, towers installed at California music festival Coachella. The 'Playground' has four towers ranging from 42-56 feet that are intersected by lattices of horizontal steel. Read more via @dezeen bit.ly/3MpfpWl
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Architensions retweeted
Architensions takes over Coachella with a playful new subversion of vertical design archinect.com/news/article/1… #Coachella #Coachella2022 @architensions
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Congratulations to Francis Kéré, 2022 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize!
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Architensions retweeted
Can writers for the @nytimes PLEASE stop using the phrase "all but"
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Richard Rogers changed the face of urban Britain more than any other architect of the late 20th century – but not with his buildings theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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Architensions retweeted
New Urbanism sells faux sustainability as a luxury on Florida’s 30A scalawagmagazine.org/2021/10… via @scalawagmag
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Why have so many US art schools abandoned their responsibility to help art students develop critical thinking skills about… art? 🤷🏻‍♂️ (I think I know why)
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