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LEFT | Flinders Street Station - This is a nice example of mass construction with illusions to be other things. The building has been rendered to create a sense of large blocks of chiseled stone. RIGHT | Doug McDonnel - Usually cantelevers for balconies are created to look like light floating planes spearing out of a building. However, these large masses of concrete do the exact opposite. The walls of this are thick and the render is left rough further enhancing the mass effect.

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LEFT | Hamer Hall - This is a really nice piece of pure mass construction. The giant mass of concrete is made more substantial through the twists, turns and cutouts throughout the piece.

RIGHT | State Library - This is obviously a more traditional version of what mass construction is. The large pieces of brick work of this building sybolises power and give this building a really strong mass.

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St Patricks Church - Obviously a much older form or mass architecture, this is interesting as for the most part it retains its texture from the stones. the spiked peaks show the limits of early mass work in that they have to be lengthed and thinned to reach the height.

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John Wardle - Vineyard House

This vineyard house cleaverly uses cut through the walls to signify the thickness of them. Unlinke most building that try to hide the thickness of walls this embraces them in keeping with the natural landscape.

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Emin Mosque - Kosovo

This is an interesting example of how something very heavy and full of mass can be made to seem lighter with the addition of of light. The thick walls are made of smooth stone it is heavy and The beames of light that fill this hall bring a certin weightlessness to the design.

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Mass Studies - Office Space

This is a really nice example of weightlessness mass. The interior collums are megalifts of concrete with huge diameters. They then slowly merge and flow into the cieling until the ceiling becomes no longer supported. This creates a sense of weightlessness to the mass concrete. The concrete is smooth and further enhances the ideas behind the building.

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Panzeri - Light Installation

This is another example of how cutting into something and revealing its depth can add mass to an object. The light flow from this crevass in the wall showing the interior. This example is interesting as it is not clear what is happening until you move towards it. The rusted metal make this texture rustick and adds a further sens of mass.

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Snohetta - Oslo Opera House

This design shows you how you can make a large mass seem smaller. Using glass and large collumns they have created an illsuion of two planes resting upon each other. The mass of the object is removed and creates a sense of the building being lightweight.

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