Archi[te]nsions
Profile of Archi[te]nsions, headquartered in United States. One project submitted by Archi[te]nsions has been published on Architecture News Plus (ANP).
Principal
- Alessandro Orsini
Brief description
ARCHI[TE]NSIONS is a New York based design firm, established in 2003 by Alessandro Orsini as a vehicle of research.
ARCHI[TE]NSIONS is dedicated to exploring the relationship between architecture and the social developments of contemporary cities. The firm is a mutual combination of life experience, spatial sensibility and personal interests of multidisciplinary people.
ARCHI[TE]NSIONS, architecture+tensions, works on projects at different scales, from interior design to urban planning and theory. His research focuses on the relation between architectonic space and the social aspects of the urban fabric in the cities in rapid change.
The firm's work has been exhibited in Italy and USA.
Published projects
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![Anti-Gravity Wall by Archi[te]nsions](/cdn/images/t/n/8/i/n8i6wrs.jpg)
- Anti-Gravity Wall by Archi[te]nsions “Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became”. -- Louis Kahn An Anti-gravity Wall. A play in tectonic The idea...
Key projects
- Yeosu 2012 World Expo, Korea, 2009
- Planar Cubitus, New York, USA, 2009
- Anti-gravity, New York, USA, 2008
- Upside-down Skyscraper, New York, USA, 2006
- The High Line, New York, USA, 2003
![[L-R]
Takaharu Tezuka and
Yui Tezuka](/cdn/images/t/p/k/c/pkcqutc.jpg)
![[L-R]:
Jon Jerde,
David Rogers,
John Simones,
Tammy McKerrow,
Eduardo Lopez,
Phil Kim,
Paul Senzaki,
Janice Jerde,
Paul Martinkovic,
Jeri Oka,
Stuart Berriman and
Sergio Zeballos](/cdn/images/t/p/b/w/pbwwa59.jpg)
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René Bouman and
Andrea Möhn](/cdn/images/t/p/e/3/pe3tp2b.jpg)