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Urban Lamp: Talca Hotel Casino

Urban Lamp: Talca Hotel Casino

By Piers Fawkes on June 4, 2009

A new hotel-casino in Chile has been wrapped in this grid like skin to deliver three objectives: to create a ‘dress’ that give the buildings under it a unified look; to create shade and improve thermal performance; and also to create a large urban lamp so that the building doesn’t need to add neon-signs to it to attract attention.

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