Alphabetical City

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Mercedes House in New York City designed by Enrique Norten of TEN Arquitectos.

In 1980, when Steven Holl wrote "The Alphabetical City" in Pamphlet Architecture, he focused on how the shapes of nine letters -- T, I, U, O, H, E, B, L and X -- were represented in urban buildings.
If he were to update the essay in 2011, he'd have to add the letter S.-- Huffington Post, August 23, 2011

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8 House in Copenhagen, Denmark designed by Bjarke Ingels Group. 

In order to create an architectural framework for the community the designers envisioned there, they based the 8 House scheme on the typology of a perimeter block, but squeezed it in the middle to form a bowtie shape that defines two courtyards. At the central “knot,” they created a 30-foot-wide passageway that connects the east and west sides of the site. -- Architectural Record August 2011.

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Cover of Pamphlet Architecture #5.

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Alphabet Library, Montpellier, France, 2012 designed by Hoffice

The project is a reading room for the archive, comprising an entrance desk, an information desk, reading room tables and library shelves. Stephane Hof attests that "the tables bend around the back wall to form the library with each piece of the puzzle referencing a letter of the alphabet." This reference that gives the library its name is evident in a few of the photos, such as the top one, where an A and B can be deciphered in the shelves by the window; in the photo at right the letter J can be read. -- A Weekly Dose of Architecture

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Botel, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2015 designed by MMX architecten + Jord den Hollander

Five 6.5 -meter-high hotelrooms in the shape of huge toy letters make up the silhouette B O T E L on top of the ship. The white hotel boat has been given a cheerful crown, referring to the chimneys of the ocean liners that used to come off the now derelict NDSM slipways. -- ArchDaily

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Archibet: An Illustrated Alphabet of Architecture by Federico Babina

Barcelona-based architect and graphic artist Federico Babina is at it again, this time creating an imaginary “Archibet City” guided by the language of architecture. From Alvar Aalto’s Riolo Parish Church to Zaha Hadid’s Library and Learning Centre in Vienna, the collection reimagines 26 famous works of architecture into a set of letters that, as Babina describes, expresses the “heterogeneity of forms and styles” that make up our profession. -- ArchDaily