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- Baumhaus / Ana Coelho Arquitectura
- Berkeley Green Skills Centre / Hewitt Studios
- Lighthouse Residence / LEESLIST & Leejae Architects
- Adidas Home Of Sport / ABD architects
- BAPS Swaminarayan Girls Residence School / Kapadia Associates
- Robert Konieczny + KWK Promes' National Museum in Szczecin Named World Building of the Year 2016
- Hangzhou AN Interior's Black Cant System Named World's Best Interior of 2016
- Timeless / Waterfrom Design
- Matt Emmett Wins Arcaid Award for World's Best Building Image 2016
- The ChampiCabanes / Ateliers Bauhinia
- Meier, Viñoly + KPF Design Towers for "Waterline Square" Development in New York
- Boulder Cabin / Dynia Architects
- First Renderings Revealed of Mecanoo + Beyer Blinder Belle's New York Public Library Renovation
- Urquiza Building / Federico Marinaro
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- How Toyo Ito is Embarking on a "New Career Epoch" With Small-Scale Community Architecture
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- School in Padrão da Légua / Nuno Brandão Costa
| Baumhaus / Ana Coelho Arquitectura Posted: 18 Nov 2016 09:00 PM PST  © João Morgado
 © João Morgado The project started with a traditional bourgeois house built around 1850, in Oporto, Portugal. Although being used initially as a family house and after as a school, what implied certain transformations, the structure of the building was in perfect conditions as well as the traditional materials and techniques preserved – granite masonry, wood joinery, and traditional ornate decorative ceiling plasterwork.  © João Morgado Therefore, the raw-building presented most of its original XIXth century features, without major transformation from the original.  © João Morgado The challenge was to respect the building genesis installing nine comfortable apartments, combining the ancient building charm with a contemporary design, while keeping a restricted budget.  © João Morgado All the elements that were in good condition and fitted the new layout were carefully restored and integrated with the new architectural features. The new items, in their turn, were designed in full respect to the ancient ones, in order to get a mutual enhancement.  © João Morgado Old wooden floors were removed to allow insulation of the slabs, which provided magnificent raw wood to use in built-in furniture and architecture details.  © João Morgado  Floor Plan  © João Morgado A centenary Lebanon Cedar is the centrepiece of a lengthy garden, designed for joyful use, low maintenance, as well as to provide a pleasant landscape background to the apartments during day and night, with its carefully designed lighting.  © João Morgado Portuguese traditional materials were selected to warm up the minimal design: Portuguese white marble and colourful cement tiles match the kitchen and bathroom clean style.  © João Morgado This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Berkeley Green Skills Centre / Hewitt Studios Posted: 18 Nov 2016 06:00 PM PST  © Paul Younger
 © Martin Cleveland Hewitt Studios LLP have recently completed the first phase of the conversion and refurbishment of a former nuclear research and engineering building at Berkeley Centre on the Severn Estuary in the UK.  © Paul Younger The project provides SGS College with a renewable energy and engineering skills centre supported by both local enterprise funding and international technology partners, such as Schneider, Welink and Bosch.  © Martin Cleveland The delivery of a reinvigorated, dynamic and sustainable facility is key to this offer – the building is designed to become an exemplar of regenerative investment and an education tool in its own right.  © Paul Younger Elements of the building fabric will be used to deliver specific areas of curriculum (e.g. solar pv and timber construction), whilst the responsible re-use of an existing building sets a low-carbon precedent for future developments to follow.  Site Plan Green initiatives include an integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) facade, thermally efficient envelope, innovative heat-recovery ventilation system, LED lighting and low-impact timber structure.  © Paul Younger The Laminated Veneer Lumber solution was chosen for a variety reasons: - It allowed for a rapid on-site build and limited the associated environmental disruption. - It created a better environment than a steel-framed building; warmer / softer / quieter.  © Martin Cleveland Elsewhere, the design employs sustainable timber cladding, minimising waste through use of plywood in standard 1200mm sheets. Its distinctive pattern is based upon the dazzle camouflage of World War I warships. Rather than 'daze and confuse', it is here intended to reduce the visual mass of the lower levels of accommodation. It is also perforated and backed with acoustic material to suppress reverberation within the main hall.  Section BIPV panels will shortly be to a screen suspended from the building envelope. They will not only generate electricity, but will shade the glazing behind from the southerly sun and act as a wind-break in the exposed estuary location. They use latest generation thin-film solar cells which offer a cost-effective power output (c.100kW) and good low-light performance.  © Martin Cleveland Hewitt Studios are also developing plans for a site-wide renewables package with the ultimate aim of becoming a zero-carbon campus. This includes a government-backed solar at scale scheme (with building, car park and ground mounted pvs), tidal power, wind generation and battery storage. Impact will be minimised with significant areas of habitat creation (supported by the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust) and a comprehensive green transport strategy including a cross-campus electric minibus infrastructure. The result will be an exciting new hub for the sustainable energy industry; raising aspirations, attracting young people to stem careers and providing skilled people to fill the technology skills shortage, all within a sustainable and low-impact environment.  © Martin Cleveland Product Description. Steel would have been the obvious choice for the structural modifications, but Hewitt Studios instead chose a combination of HESS Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) beams, glued-laminated (GLULAM) columns and cross-laminated (CLT) floors and balconies. This palette of pre-fabricated, sustainable and attractive timber products was chosen for its speed of construction, ease of fixing / finishing, carbon-sequestering credentials and excellent thermal and acoustic properties. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Lighthouse Residence / LEESLIST & Leejae Architects Posted: 18 Nov 2016 02:00 PM PST .jpg?1478850357 "© Yang Woosang") © Yang Woosang
 © Yang Woosang From the architect. This house is a detached house, size of 148.76㎡, built in Ilsan, Gyeong-gi Province. General floor plan for three-member-family consists of the main living room, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, one dress room, kitchen and a workshop; a detached house of 148.76. This house, so called a Light – House, represents the characteristic of owner's occupation. The land condition for this Light-House was created by land division of about twenty-house-size. Five houses are already completed, and others are currently under construction. Light-House is aims for something higher than a physical housing where you simply eat and sleep; it pursues co-existing of nature and humanity through continuous relationship via interior and exterior of the building. Predicting this region to be crowded with houses in a near future, Light-House is designed to protect owner's private life from others' eyes. The three land sides that are touched by other residents' are equally divided so that they can be entirely surrounded by the exterior wall of the housing. For the last side, an open view of whole window is installed towards the beautiful landscape, created by the thorough design of terraced heights of the housing complexes. Moreover, in accordance with owner's lifestyle, Light-House is designed for the frequent use of outdoor space in warm seasons. We hope our residents to have a peaceful and protected space where you can enjoy your rest in an outdoor space and courtyard, separated from others' view.  © Yang Woosang The exterior wall of Light-House is finished with white cement render. It faces a clear, open courtyard which you can naturally meet entering the building along with the wall. Residents can enter the building as they walk along the courtyard. The courtyard, due to the fake wall installed for blocking the attention, is both an inside and an outside of the building, which is a traditional architectural concept of Oriental Architecture, intentionally applied to the sequence of Light-House spaces. Therefore, residents can experience a flexible relationship with inside and outside following the natural spatial flow. In the Light-House, two big courtyards and one small courtyard – three in total – are designed, and they allow you to enjoy the fresh air and sunshine totally alone in your own space. Moreover, two exterior terrace spaces are located closely with each room in outdoor, in which the identical finishing to the floor is used, which also makes it difficult to distinguish inside from outside.  © Yang Woosang  1st Floor Plan  © Yang Woosang Light-House, in order to maximize the energy efficiency of natural temperature control, has its big windows directed towards south so that whole house can be heated through sunlight in winter. Also, to use energy efficiently, radiant heating system is installed in newly constructed concrete floor. Moreover, you can almost feel the inside of house as the part of outside, due to the reflected natural light thanks to finishing the whole with white-colored interior and the ceiling installed on the roof which leads the light into the deep space of its house.  © Yang Woosang This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Adidas Home Of Sport / ABD architects Posted: 18 Nov 2016 12:00 PM PST  Courtesy of ABD architects
 Courtesy of ABD architects  Courtesy of ABD architects adidas HOME OF SPORT is currently located in a new building of Krylatsky Hills Business Park where it occupies 20,000 sq. m. Three of six floors house offices, two floors accommodate a fitness centre, and the adidas Academy is on the last floor. The architects from ABD architects were challenged to design a complex of spaces for different functions and purposes, to organize an understandable and comfortable structure and communication for various streams of visitors. In addition, such a brilliant company as adidas should have a catchy and dynamic office, and should inspire employees and guests to change everyone's life through sports. While developing the design concept, the architects were guided by the Adidas corporate style and logos of the companies within the Group. This resulted in basic colours and combinations — black and white with bright colour accents. Three office floors are made in different colours: orange, green and blue. This facilitates navigation and creates a specific mood and atmosphere on each of the floors.  Site Plan  Plan When designing the interior, the architects sought to reflect the Adidas logo. On each floor at the same place, there are white capsule meeting rooms which, when seen from the atrium, resemble three iconic stripes. At the same time, when seen while walking about the floor, they resemble a well-known trefoil. Each of the three meeting rooms is installed at an angle, is made in black and white colours, and is well noticeable.  Courtesy of ABD architects  Courtesy of ABD architects When designing the interior, the architects also sought to reflect the company's focus on active lifestyle and love for sports. For example, this led to the idea with scooters: on each floor there are tracks and parking lots — anyone can use scooters to move about the office area. Also this triggered the idea of a lighting pattern — a pattern of a traditional soccer ball. Most of the partitions on the office floors are transparent, and blank walls are decorated with adidas graphics and motivating quotes.  Detail  Courtesy of ABD architects The central part of the office floor is active in colour and in function: small and large meeting rooms, furniture for individuals to work, areas for informal socializing and networking, coffee points. Design of work stations in the areas located closer to the whole glazed walls with panoramic view on Moscow is calmer: white tables and black chairs. The tables are arranged very comfortably, there is enough space between the rows to accommodate mobile file pedestals with seat cushions on the top and to organize internal negotiations. In addition to stationary workplaces, in the office there are temporary workplaces with high tables and ergonomic bar chairs.  Courtesy of ABD architects  Courtesy of ABD architects Much attention in adidas HOME OF SPORT was given to the acoustic comfort: privacy screens and cubicle partitions; acoustical panels; additional meeting rooms are made of sound absorbing material.  Courtesy of ABD architects The central reception hall resembles a real sport stadium. The focus was made on a big media screen with a running text line and a display for videos, and two big lighting fixtures resembling lighting towers. Reception desk and turnstiles are in the depth of the hall and do not catch the eye as they usually do in traditional offices. From the main lobby people can access two shops, and, without passing through turnstiles, to the reception room of the fitness centre. The BASE, a premium class fitness centre, is made in the loft style: open communications, large industrial fans, brutal and monochrome colours.  Courtesy of ABD architects  Courtesy of ABD architects adidas Academy is a space for a company's new and unique project intended to incorporate sports to daily life and to change life for better. Adidas gathered a team of professional coaches and developed a programme which helps people to better learn themselves and their abilities, as well as to find time for sports activities. The Academy includes a reception room, a number of classrooms and lecture halls separated by transformable partitions. The Academy also has a kitchen to deliver master classes for preparing right and healthy meals.  Courtesy of ABD architects This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| BAPS Swaminarayan Girls Residence School / Kapadia Associates Posted: 18 Nov 2016 11:00 AM PST  © Piyush Rana photography
 © Piyush Rana photography BAPS is a charitable organization with holistic and spiritual education as one of its key goals. This Trust approached the architect with a brief to build a self contained Girls school campus on the outskirts of the city of Gandhinagar, very close to Ahmedabad. The school campus is conceived as low-rise network of buildings and landscape spaces that encourage encounter & communication.  Ground Floor Plan The concept is driven by the central spine or street as organizing device along which a series of linear blocks are attached. Used by students from all the blocks, this central street creates porous zones of interaction that flow into each other. Along this spine, the sequential visual journey also matches the structure of program- Administration, School, Sports hall, Residential in that order. Upstairs the corridors layer the learning spaces and allow Diffused natural light and ventilation by means of a GRC Jalli designed with a distinct graphic pattern. This custom pattern was designed to resonate with the Trusts iconography and identity.  © Piyush Rana photography The corridors are spaced with concrete walls with round geometric openings. These shaded pockets allow pause spaces and relief from the harsh sun glare during summers. The exposed concrete facades draw architectural inspiration from the institutional heritage of Ahmedabad. The Material Pallette is very restrained , neutral, in shades of grey and is meant to be a backdrop to the colorful artwork and uniforms of the school children.  © Piyush Rana photography Product Description.To match with the palette of the Concrete building façades - Matt finish Grey vitrified tiles for flooring were used manufactured by Restile  © Piyush Rana photography This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Robert Konieczny + KWK Promes' National Museum in Szczecin Named World Building of the Year 2016 Posted: 18 Nov 2016 09:25 AM PST  National Museum in Szczecin - Dialogue Centre Przełomy / Robert Konieczny + KWK Promes. Image via World Architecture Festival Robert Konieczny + KWK Promes' National Museum in Szczecin - Dialogue Centre Przełomy has been named the World Building of the Year 2016 as the World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Berlin comes to a close. The project consists of an atmospheric underground museum below an expansive, undulating public plaza, adjacent to Barozzi Veiga's Mies van der Rohe Award-winning Philharmonic Hall Szczecin. The National Museum in Szczecin - Dialogue Centre Przelomy is now the ninth project to hold the World Building of the Year title. Last year, the award was given to "The Interlace" by OMA and Buro Ole Scheeren. Winners of the year's Future Project, Landscape, and Small Project awards were also announced. Read on to see the winning projects with comments from the jury. World Building of the Year:National Museum in Szczecin - Dialogue Centre Przełomy / Robert Konieczny + KWK Promes .jpg?1479507120 "National Museum in Szczecin - Dialogue Centre Przełomy / Robert Konieczny + KWK Promes. Image via World Architecture Festival") National Museum in Szczecin - Dialogue Centre Przełomy / Robert Konieczny + KWK Promes. Image via World Architecture Festival The judges, chaired by Sir David Chipperfield, gave the following commendations:
Future Project of the Year:South Melbourne Primary School / Hayball  South Melbourne Primary School / Hayball. Image via World Architecture Festival The school is a new model of vertical school responding to the specific inner-urban context of the developing Fishermans Bend urban renewal area in the city. Accommodating 525 students, the new school will be an integral component of the Montague Precinct within Fisherman's Bend providing an education and community focus as the area is developed. WAF's Future Project super-jury, comprising Kim Nielsen, Ole Scheeren and Coren Sharples selected the project for "the way the space interprets and promotes pedagogy" commending it for the way it connects indoor and outdoor teaching areas and differentiated learning environments. The judges felt the architects overcame the challenges of designing a vertical school, using a central staircase as a point of interaction and as a gathering space. Small Project of the Year:ZCB Bamboo Pavilion / Chinese University of Hong Kong School of Architecture  ZCB Bamboo Pavilion / Chinese University of Hong Kong School of Architecture. Image via World Architecture Festival The public event space was built for the Construction Industry Council (CIC)'s Zero Carbon Building (ZCB) in the summer of 2015 in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong. It is a four-storey-high, 37 metre spanning, bamboo gridshell structure with a usable area of approximately 350m2 and a seating capacity of 200 people, placed in the ZCB Garden Area. It is built from 473 large bamboo poles that are bent onsite to shape the structure and that are hand-tied together with metal wire using techniques based on Cantonese bamboo scaffolding craftsmanship. Recognised by judges as "an excellent architectural outcome" the project was commended as a "brilliant example of cutting edge simulation and modelling combined with delightful traditional craft and skill." Landscape of the Year:Kopupaka Reserve, Auckland, New Zealand / Isthmus  Kopupaka Reserve, Auckland, New Zealand / Isthmus. Image via World Architecture Festival The project is a hybrid park, where a storm water reserve has been combined with an urban park, playground and skate park, all made possible by dovetailing the masterplanning of the streets with the green infrastructure of the 22-hectare reserve. Judges praised the project as "a successful translation of Maori traditions that succeeded in being both poetic and imaginative in its creation of a landscape that captures the soul and nature of the area." News and descriptions via WAF. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Hangzhou AN Interior's Black Cant System Named World's Best Interior of 2016 Posted: 18 Nov 2016 09:18 AM PST  Winner of 2016 World Interior of the Year: Black Cant System - HEIKE fashion brand concept store (Hangzhou, China) / Hangzhou AN Interior Design. Image via World Festival of Interiors Hangzhou AN Interior Design's design for the retail brand Heike has been named the world's best interior of 2016. Announced at the INSIDE World Festival of Interiors in Berlin, which took place alongside the World Architecture Festival, the winner of the prize was selected from among 9 category winners, which in turn were picked out of a shortlist totaling 62 projects. The Black Cant System was also the winner of the retail category. Described by the designers as a "glum interior" with a "futuristic melancholy atmosphere" for the retail brand, the centerpiece of the design is a large, dark wedge housing many of the store's functional components such as fitting rooms and staircases. Read on for more images of, and for the full list of category winners.  Winner of 2016 World Interior of the Year: Black Cant System - HEIKE fashion brand concept store (Hangzhou, China) / Hangzhou AN Interior Design. Image via World Festival of Interiors  Winner of 2016 World Interior of the Year: Black Cant System - HEIKE fashion brand concept store (Hangzhou, China) / Hangzhou AN Interior Design. Image via World Festival of Interiors  Winner of 2016 World Interior of the Year: Black Cant System - HEIKE fashion brand concept store (Hangzhou, China) / Hangzhou AN Interior Design. Image via World Festival of Interiors CATEGORY WINNERSBars & Restaurants: Rachel's Burger (Shanghai, China) / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office Rachel's Burger (Shanghai, China) / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office. Image © Dirk Weiblen Civic, Culture & Transport: York Theatre Royal (York, UK) / De Matos Ryan York Theatre Royal (York, UK) / De Matos Ryan. Image © Hufton+Crow Creative Re-Use: Baradari (City Palace Jaipur, India) / Studio Lotus Baradari (City Palace Jaipur, India) / Studio Lotus. Image via World Festival of Interiors Display: The Cut, stand design for Kvadrat (Milan, Italy) / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office The Cut, stand design for Kvadrat (Milan, Italy) / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office. Image via World Festival of Interiors Health & Education: Emardental Clinic (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) / OHLAB/ Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab Emardental Clinic (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) / OHLAB/ Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab. Image via World Festival of Interiors Hotels: Puro Hotel (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) / OHLAB/ Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab Puro Hotel (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) / OHLAB/Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab. Image via World Festival of Interiors Offices: Paramount by The Office Space (Sydney, Australia) / Woods Bagot Architects Paramount by The Office Space (Sydney, Australia) / Woods Bagot Architects. Image via World Festival of Interiors Residential: Indigo Slam (Sydney, Australia) / Smart Design Studio Indigo Slam (Sydney, Australia) / Smart Design Studio. Image via World Festival of Interiors Retail: Black Cant System - HEIKE fashion brand concept store (Hangzhou, China) / Hangzhou AN Interior Design Black Cant System - HEIKE fashion brand concept store (Hangzhou, China) / Hangzhou AN Interior Design. Image via World Festival of Interiors This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 18 Nov 2016 09:00 AM PST  © Sam Tsen
 © Sam Tsen  © Sam Tsen From the architect. Located at Tamsui City overlooking the estuary of Tamsui River under Mount Guanyin and featuring a private home spa pool in each unit, this famous luxury residential tower manifests a housing concept comprising pool views, river views and sea views. To extend into the interior magnificent scenes of colorful water ripple reflections during Tamsui sunset, a creative design approach has been adopted with Italian Memento antiqued-effect porcelain tiles paved on the floor in great areas interpreting genus loci, a pervading spirit of the place, while handmade faux stone uneven finish echoes the ruffling tiny waves on water surface. With magical power exerted by time, all activities and moods in this vacation residence seem to be slowing down. Things though sharing the same space and time, illusion of time dilation appears.  © Sam Tsen A distinctive atmosphere of frozen timelessness in the place is what we aspire to catch with the flowing river in front and the passing sun overhead left as the only moving things. Neutral colors and earth tones, such as beige in the leather main wall, beige grey in floorings, light brown green granite back wall and off-white in travertine main wall have been used to convey moods of placidity and steadiness of the space, while the shared feel and warmth of these grained materials as well as the perpetualness communicated by their being simple and unadorned respond to Piet Mondrian's usage of primary colors. Colors help set boundaries to a space rather than decorate it.  Pattern of manifestation is based on De Stijl, or Dutch neoplasticism: pure abstraction and simplicity with appearances reduced to essentials of forms but ignoring curves and natural forms while visual balance is attained via precise manipulation of planes, lines and rectangles. Inspired by works of Piet Mondrian and eliminating colorfulness, the design of back wall in living room creates rhythmicity with asymmetry bringing equalitarianism and dynamic equilibrium into the picture. Constructivism has been employed in shoe cabinet design near the entrance. Instead of building one bulky cabinet, it is deconstructed and reorganized into four separate cabinets allowing light with rhythmic feelings to come in between introducing the space layout. In contrast to the open river view, interior of the apartment is a comparatively closed space and an approach has been attempted to create outward oriented openness in all directions producing an effect of extending to infinity. Hence, all activities, including cooking and exercising, have been guided to be conducted facing the Tamsui River. Broadened passageways and free-standing furniture, including sofa, kitchen islands and exercising equipment, ensure continuous traffic flow without blocked views in any direction.  © Sam Tsen  © Sam Tsen This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Matt Emmett Wins Arcaid Award for World's Best Building Image 2016 Posted: 18 Nov 2016 07:50 AM PST .jpg?1479501638 "Photographer: Matt Emmett - Building: Covered Reservoir, Finsbury Park, London, United Kingdom / East London Water Works Company 1868. . Image via Arcaid Images") Photographer: Matt Emmett - Building: Covered Reservoir, Finsbury Park, London, United Kingdom / East London Water Works Company 1868. . Image via Arcaid Images Matt Emmett's photograph of the East London Water Works Company covered reservoir in Finsbury Park, built 1868, has been named the winner of the 2016 Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Award. Announced on the final day of the World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Berlin, the image was notable for being the first winner to feature a historic location as its subject, and drew comparisons to a Piranesi print. Each shortlisted image was judged on the merits of the photography for composition, sense of place, atmosphere and use of scale. Emmett received the most total points across each category. "The breadth of architectural photography presented to us was amazing. With their own distinctive view, the photographers opened our eyes for a second time and helped us to discover things we hadn't previously appreciated. I found this extremely enriching," commented Judge Ulrich Müller, Architect and Director at Architektur Galerie Berlin. Emmett will take home a $3,000 prize for the win. All of the shortlisted images will appear in the upcoming exhibition, 'Building Images' at Sto Werkstatt, London in February 2017. News via Arcaid. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The ChampiCabanes / Ateliers Bauhinia Posted: 18 Nov 2016 07:00 AM PST  © Alexandre Petzold
 © Claude Pasquer With the ChampiCabanes, Claude Pasquer and Corinne Julhiet Détroyat invent a new garden vocabulary that speaks to the inner child in all of us.  © Alexandre Petzold With the changes of scale, the garden get into the world of childhood: the ChampiCabane, with its small circular bench and tables, both ChampiCachecache the ChampiCachette and ChampiCoffre (toys!), Functional and aesthetic sculptures .  © Alexandre Petzold Each sculpture ironwork, woven rope, making the invisible visible and converts this work in a Nature observation temple and the surrounding biodiversity.  Courtesy of Ateliers Bauhinia For several years, Corinne and Claude Julhiet Détroyat Pasquer are united by the passion of the garden project. Today, this new set of sculptures catalyzes the balance of their work: the Nature and Artifice, aesthetics and functionality, the magic and biodiversity  © Alexandre Petzold  © Alexandre Petzold Product Description. The hexagonal mesh, the chicken wire, is a rustic material, amazing, very simple, almost old-fashioned at first glance. Coming from the world of industry, it paradoxically emphasizes sustainable development through its presence in the garden. For the hats of the mushrooms, it is reinforced with fiberglass to ensure a tight fitting cover and to retain the transparency of the material with regard to the sun.  © Alexandre Petzold This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Meier, Viñoly + KPF Design Towers for "Waterline Square" Development in New York Posted: 18 Nov 2016 06:00 AM PST  From left, Viñoly's Three Waterline Square, Richard Meier's One Waterline Square, and KPF's Two Waterline Square.. Image © Noe & Associates with The Boundary Rafael Viñoly Architects, Richard Meier & Partners Architects, and Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) have been tapped to design towers for "Waterline Square," a new luxury residential development located along the Hudson River in Manhattan's Upper West Side. The three buildings will fit into five acre masterplan between West 59th and West 61st Streets on Riverside Drive, just two blocks north of BIG's recently completed VIA 57 West.  From left, KPF's Two Waterline Square, Viñoly's Three Waterline Square, and Richard Meier's One Waterline Square.. Image © Noe & Associates with The Boundary "Waterline Square brings together three of the world's most prominent and respected architects to create a world-class destination for residential living," said James Linsley, President of GID Development Group. "Together, we are transforming one of the last remaining waterfront development sites on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, into a new, vibrant neighborhood. This design and development team has created the most innovative, comprehensive, and cohesive residential experience in New York City." The three buildings, One Waterline Square by Richard Meier and Partners Architects, Two Waterline Square by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates and Three Waterline Square by Rafael Viñoly Architects, share a common aesthetic, complementing one another with articulated facades, outdoor spaces and faceted crowns. Also on site will be more than 100,000 square feet of sports, leisure, and lifestyle amenities, as well as a 3 acre landscaped park connecting to the adjacent Hudson River Greenway, which will encompass tree groves, a great lawn, walking paths, a playground, fountains and waterfalls.  © Noe & Associates with The Boundary Developed by real estate group GID, all three buildings will be constructed simultaneously, allowing future residents to enjoy a full, completed neighborhood upon moving in. The project was spawned from previous plans for the Christian de Portzamparc designed "Riverside Center," which stalled after receiving planning approval in 2010. Construction on the project began in 2015, with closings expected to begin in late 2018. You can check out the development's teaser site, featuring a fly-through animation, here. News via GID. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Boulder Cabin / Dynia Architects Posted: 18 Nov 2016 05:00 AM PST  © Ron Johnson
 © Kimberly Gavin This 2,500 square foot residence sits atop a precipice with views to the metropolitan Denver valley to the east and the iconic Flatiron peaks to the west. The interior spaces are austere, reflecting the disciplined lifestyle of the homeowners.  © Ron Johnson The two sides of this linear scheme respond independently to the site conditions. The east has a high band of glass for morning light infiltration, with a thick zone of storage, including custom built-in shelving, below. Dividing the storage areas, intermittent windows provide views to the entry court and distant city. Upon entering the home from the east, amazing mountain peaks are revealed. Sliding glass panels extend the length of the house embracing the unencumbered mountain views on the west side of the structure.  Floor Plan For this residence, simplicity and restraint are the innovation. Led by a desire for economy and sustainability, materials are limited to wood structure and ceilings, concrete floors, and weathering steel cladding. The roof extension provides sun shading for the west facing glass and shelter for the terrace.  © Kimberly Gavin Embedded in Boulder's culture is a strong consideration for the environment. The owners hold to these principles and supported the efforts to quietly place the house within the site, minimize the need for energy, and minimize material waste. The house size is well below the allowable area on the 35-acre property and special attention was paid to the landscape during construction – it immediately re-vegetated with native wildflowers and grasses. The house's modest form and palate of materials place it unpretentiously within its surroundings, allowing the natural environment to carry the day.  © Kimberly Gavin Dynia Architects received an Award of Merit from the Wyoming Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 2009 for Boulder Cabin.  © Kimberly Gavin Product Description. At the core of Dynia Architects design philosophy is our understanding of how a structure interacts with its surroundings. At Boulder Cabin the poured in place concrete slab of the interior flooring extends to the exterior, creating an outdoor entertainment area surrounded by dense woods. The dramatic wood and steel roof overhang defines this outdoor room as a seamless extension of the residence.  © Ron Johnson This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| First Renderings Revealed of Mecanoo + Beyer Blinder Belle's New York Public Library Renovation Posted: 18 Nov 2016 04:15 AM PST  View of the "Long Room". Image © Mecanoo with Beyer Blinder Belle The New York Public Library has revealed the first renderings of Mecanoo and Beyer Blinder Belle's renovation of the NYPL's Mid-Manhattan Library at the corner of 5th Avenue and 40th Street, diagonally across from the library's main branch, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Bryant Park. The $200 million project will increase seats, expand services and add public space to the building, which receives 1.7 million annual visits and constitutes the NYPL's largest circulating branch. "New Yorkers will soon have the central circulating library that they need and deserve," said NYPL President Tony Marx. "This library will transform lives by providing books, classes, and programs for New Yorkers of all ages, and it will transform our city – as it will be a model for how libraries can strengthen communities."  Section. Image © Mecanoo with Beyer Blinder Belle Founded in the 1970s, the Mid-Manhattan Library occupies a building originally designed to house a department store, resulting in a facility that lacks the combination of open and intimate spaces common to history's most successful libraries. Mecanoo and Beyer Blinder Belle worked for over a year analyzing library usage data and conducting interviews with the staff and public to determine what changes were necessary to best meet the needs of library patrons and update the facility for the 21st century. Key to the renovation will be the significant increase in public space – the design will add 35 percent more space for the public by moving multiple floors of back-office staff to adjacent facilities, adding an additional floor on the roof, and opening up the lower level to the public through the introduction of natural light. The project's signature element will be the "Long Room," a five-story open structure of book stacks and meeting rooms that will unite the central floors of the building. To further open up the space, shelves have been pulled off the windowed walls of the building, allowing natural light to penetrate further into the space than ever before. On the building's top floor, formerly unused space will be redesigned to hold meeting space, a cafe and an outdoor area, which the library claims will be "the only rooftop terrace in midtown that will be free and open to the public." Additional facilities will include an adult learning center, a Science, Industry and Business library, a full-floor employment skills center, a new full-floor children's library, and over 11,000-square-feet of multipurpose space for events and classes, as well as hundreds of new seating options throughout the building.  The NYPL Mid-Manhattan Branch in 2007. Image © Flickr user wallyg. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 "The building that was originally designed in 1914 to house the Arnold Constable department store will now really become a library," said Francine Houben of Mecanoo, the project's lead architect. "By creating the iconic Long Room for the circulating collection, dedicated spaces for children and teens, an adult learning centre and business library, plus a rooftop destination for multipurpose use, the building will inspire serendipity and the discovery of all functions of a modern library." The Mid-Manhattan Library will close for construction in late 2017 and is expected to reopen in 2020. Mecanoo and Beyer Blinder Belle were selected for the commission last September after ambitious renovation plans of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building by Foster + Partners were scrapped in the face of public controversy. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Urquiza Building / Federico Marinaro Posted: 18 Nov 2016 03:00 AM PST  © Walter Gustavo Salcedo
 © Walter Gustavo Salcedo From the architect. At the end of 2009 comes the order to realize a multi-storey building in a lot with 8.66m width in the southern of Echesortu neighborhood in Rosario. It is located within the urban fabric of the city near the bus station and in the geographic center of the city. The assignment is done by a marketer of products derived from aluminum (profiles, lines of timber, steel-frames, sheets, etc). The premise of the commission were fully exploit the constructible area according to the Urban Code of Rosario and use aluminum products.  © Walter Gustavo Salcedo The initial intentions were:  © Walter Gustavo Salcedo  Section  © Walter Gustavo Salcedo Investigation  © Walter Gustavo Salcedo Matter + System  © Gonzalo Viramonte  © Walter Gustavo Salcedo Mounting system and attachment  © Gonzalo Viramonte  Detail  © Gonzalo Viramonte This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 10 Teams Shortlisted in Competition for New National Holocaust Memorial in London Posted: 18 Nov 2016 02:10 AM PST .jpg?1479481344 "Victoria Tower Gardens and Parliament from the Thames. Image © Malcolm Reading Consultants/Emily Whitfield-Wicks") Victoria Tower Gardens and Parliament from the Thames. Image © Malcolm Reading Consultants/Emily Whitfield-Wicks The Government of the United Kingdom and competition organizer Malcolm Reading Consultants have announced the ten architect teams selected to envision designs for the new National Memorial to the Holocaust, to be located next to the UK Parliament. Designs will encompass a "striking" new National Memorial in Victoria Gardens, as well as a possible below ground Learning Center. The 10 shortlisted teams were selected from nearly 100 entries from teams across the globe by a jury made up of notable figures in British culture, religion and architecture, including Director of Stanton Williams Architects, Paul Williams; former Serpentine Galleries Director Dame Julia Peyton-Jones; and National September 11 Memorial and Museum Director, Alice M Greenwald. .jpg?1479481234 "Aerial view of Victoria Tower Gardens. Image © Malcolm Reading Consultants/Emily Whitfield-Wicks") Aerial view of Victoria Tower Gardens. Image © Malcolm Reading Consultants/Emily Whitfield-Wicks The shortlisted teams are as follows:
.jpg?1479481251 "Victoria Tower Gardens and Parliament from the south bank of the Thames. Image © Malcolm Reading Consultants/Emily Whitfield-Wicks") Victoria Tower Gardens and Parliament from the south bank of the Thames. Image © Malcolm Reading Consultants/Emily Whitfield-Wicks An exhibition of the ten conceptual designs will be on display in central London and select locations around the UK beginning in January 2017, seeking views and comments from all communities across the UK. The winning team will be selected by the independent jury chaired by Sir Peter Bazalgette, Chair of the United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation and the ITV Board. "These teams are challenged with creating a vision for the Memorial which sensitively reflects the loss of life and humanity during the Holocaust. But it must also speak to everyone, with an unwavering commitment against all hatred and intolerance. The design will inspire people of all ages and backgrounds to commemorate and learn," said Bazalgette.  Victoria Tower Gardens. Image © Malcolm Reading Consultants/Emily Whitfield-Wicks The complete jury members include:
.jpg?1479481268 "Victoria Tower Gardens. Image © Malcolm Reading Consultants/Emily Whitfield-Wicks") Victoria Tower Gardens. Image © Malcolm Reading Consultants/Emily Whitfield-Wicks To learn more about the project, visit the competition website, here. News via Malcolm Reading Consultants. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| How Toyo Ito is Embarking on a "New Career Epoch" With Small-Scale Community Architecture Posted: 18 Nov 2016 01:30 AM PST  Steel Hut, Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture in Omishima, Japan. Image © Daici Ano This article was originally published on Autodesk's Redshift publication as "Toyo Ito's Next Architectural Feat: Revitalizing Omishima Island in Japan." Last year, as construction at his National Taichung Theater in Taiwan was winding down, Toyo Ito found himself at a crossroads. A 10-year project in the making, the gargantuan cultural beacon is made of biomorphically curved concrete walls that wind together like a knot of arteries, creating an otherworldly experience for arts patrons. It's every bit the landmark project you'd expect from 2013's Pritzker Prize Laureate, but its rapidly approaching completion triggered a vital question: Where to go from here?
Toyo Ito's Taichung Metropolitan Opera House Photographed by Lucas K Doolan "With the completion of the opera house, I feel as if the first epoch of my architectural career is also coming to an end after 40 years," Ito says. "Since we began designing residences in the early years of our firm, my colleagues and I have searched for beautiful spaces and architectural uniqueness. The opera house is the culmination of that search. I cannot imagine creating a more innovative work where the beauty of space is paramount." So rather than trying to top the formal exploration and structural innovation of the opera house (which opened last month on September 30), Ito is now focused crafting spaces that define themselves by social interaction rather than experiential delight.  National Taichung Theater in Taichung City, Taiwan. Image Courtesy of Toyo Ito & Associates Most recently, this recasting of architecture can be seen in the work of Ito's Pritzker successors and some of the biggest architecture exhibitions. As for Ito, he began this endeavor several years ago, working on disaster-relief plans in his native Japan. It has culminated in applying these lessons to rural communities with humble aims that are far from the affluent megacities—geographically and culturally—that architects of his caliber generally frequent. In 2011, after a devastating earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan killed 19,000 people, Ito began working on a series of community centers in towns still reeling from the disaster. These "Homes-for-All" are loosely defined community sites that aren't homes exactly, but are instead spaces that can feel like home when everyday patterns of life and living have been ripped away by catastrophe. They are places for events and meetings, and incubators for businesses displaced by the tsunami—a place to meet your neighbors, get your bearings, and catalog what was lost and what you still have.  Toyo Ito and fellow architects at a Home-for-All building in Rikuzentakata, Japan. Image Courtesy of Toyo Ito & Associates Ito worked on the Homes-for-All with a few other architects, including Kazuyo Sejima and Riken Yamamoto, but these buildings weren't "designed" so much as "workshopped" with extensive community input. "Many architects say that they create architecture for society," Ito says. "But the architecture created may be actually for architects themselves. Architects create architecture by seeing the society and people through architects' eyes. I would like to reconsider architecture through residents' eyes." The Home-for-All in Rikuzentakata weaves three stories of simple gabled structures through wooden stairs and catwalks, held aloft by cedar log columns and heated with a wood-burning stove. In Miyatojima, a rounded pavilion roof shelters a simple meeting and event space. Each Home-for-All (designed using Autodesk AutoCAD) looks quite different, but the form isn't what's important. What happens inside is. Fifteen have been built so far, with one more to go. The lessons in grassroots community engagement Ito learned with his Homes-for-All project made him consider whether these same principles could be applied to entire communities—to not just repair damage, but to revitalize a place culturally and economically. Fortunately, he already had strong ties to a potential candidate. In 2007, Ito first came to the island of Omishima in southern Japan to design expansions of the Tokoro Museum (the Steel Hut and Silver Hut, which were completed as part of the Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture in 2011). "I reached the island on a ferry, and Omishima looked really impressive, as if I were entering an unknown world," Ito says.  Silver Hut, Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture in Omishima, Japan. Image © Daici Ano It's a lightly populated island, with 6,400 residents living across 13 small villages—anchored by the Oyamazumi Shrine. "The hillsides are covered with mandarin orange orchards, which create a serene, beautiful landscape," Ito says. "The sunsets from the western side of the island are indescribably beautiful." But little commercial and industrial development has taken place there. Omishima has lost half of its population from its peak in the 1940s and '50s, and 50 percent of residents are 65 or older. The next phase of Ito's career, he says, will be dedicated to helping the island regain this lost vigor. Ito calls his effort, "Making Omishima the Best Island to Live on in Japan," with the cheerfulness of a man trading in his starchitect globe-trotting frequent-flier miles for pastoral purity and respite. Omishima does sound like the type of place you might retire to, but Ito is there to work. Collaborating with local residents, architecture students from Harvard, and his own school, Ito's plans are a take on the classic chamber of commerce approach: Build on existing institutions and traditions, organically extend more programmatic depth and economic activity, and, hopefully, attract new residents. Using local earthen plaster, he's renovated a vacant house along the road to the Oyamazumi Shrine into a Home-for-All. "This Home-for-All is used as a café at noon and a wine bar at night on weekends," Ito says.  Home-for-All by Kumamoto Artpolis Tohoku Support Group in Miyagino-ku, Sendai, Japan. Image © Ito Toru The plan will include an agricultural school and a vineyard. The first Omishima wine will be ready in 2019, under the brand "Winery-for-All." Additionally, Ito intends to establish a small hotel, add more lodging for part-time residents, and renovate an existing "agritourism lodge." To better connect these amenities, Ito wants to use electric or pedal-powered vehicles to carry residents and visitors through Omishima's picturesque hills. Funding for all this, Ito says, will come from the community and its institutional pillars—no corporate solicitations necessary. These plans don't add up to any dramatic revision of how a small island village in Japan looks or functions. They don't posit top-shelf aesthetics from one of Japan's greatest architects as a way to solve any problem. Instead, they form a framework for planting new seeds of economic vitality and letting these seeds grow into whatever form they might. Ito sees this as a 10-year-process, like his National Taichung Theater. It's a sort of "slow architecture," akin to "slow food"—using locally sourced materials and ingredients, assembled with local means. If Omishima is like Ito's own personal garden, it's because he's taken the time to cultivate fertile soil through his long-standing community involvement, and has just now placed the first sprouts in the ground. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Getaway Cabin No. 3 - “The Clara” / Wyatt Komarin + Addison Godine + Rachel Moranis Posted: 18 Nov 2016 01:00 AM PST  © Getaway
 © Getaway The cabin was conceived as an exploration of the potential for a productive lack of fit between program and inhabited surface. The space is comprised of a series of levels, each charged with programmatic intent, but with a degree of non-specificity such that use can be defined by the user. A sitting surface becomes a sleeping surface becomes an eating surface becomes a walking surface. The cabin's external logic was governed by the limits of vehicular transport to the site, in which a cantilevering volume pushes beyond the constraints of a vehicular transport bed.  © The Bearwalk  Plan  © The Bearwalk  Section  © The Bearwalk This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| California College of the Arts Selects Studio Gang for New San Francisco Campus Posted: 18 Nov 2016 12:00 AM PST  Courtesy of California College of the Arts The California College of the Arts (CCA) has selected Studio Gang out of three finalists to design an expanded art and design college campus for the school in San Francisco. Currently split between San Francisco and Oakland, CCA's expansion in San Francisco will allow all of the school's programs to be housed in one location. Over the next five years, Studio Gang and CCA will collaborate to create a new campus to host 2,000 students, 600 faculty members, 250 staff members, and 34 academic programs, and to be a model of sustainable construction and practice.  Courtesy of California College of the Arts  Courtesy of California College of the Arts
 Courtesy of California College of the Arts The project will be built on a 2.4-acre lot bordering the college's existing San Francisco campus buildings. News via the California College of the Arts (CCA). This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Experience the Beauty of Norwegian Architecture with This Time-Lapse Video Posted: 17 Nov 2016 10:00 PM PST As the second chapter in his series, Iconic Norway, Alejandro Villanueva has released a time-lapse of the Trollstigen Visitor Center, a project by Reiulf Ramstad Architects for the Norwegian Public Roads Administration in Oslo, Norway.  Courtesy of Reiulf Ramstad Architects Designed to "enhance the experience of the Trollstigen Plateau's location and nature," the Center utilizes water as a dynamic element and rock as a static element, in order to "create a series of prepositional relations that describe and magnify the unique spatiality of the site."  Courtesy of Reiulf Ramstad Architects Experience the beauty and nature of the Visitor Center by watching the video, above.  Courtesy of Reiulf Ramstad Architects News via Alejandro Villanueva and Reiulf Ramstad Architects. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| School in Padrão da Légua / Nuno Brandão Costa Posted: 17 Nov 2016 09:00 PM PST  © Arménio Teixeira
 © Arménio Teixeira From the architect. On the pretext of designing a pre-primary and primary school for children, the solution to an urban problem was sought: the quarter available for construction was characterised by a great void stuck between discordant scales and languages, open to integration into the urban fabric.  Sketch The brief for the school comprised three main strands: classrooms, a library, and a common space for a gymnasium and a canteen, each with different areas and volumes. This difference in size and brief enabled its division into different bodies, siting them at different points on the land so as to punctuate a triangular plot with an envelope of varying scales.  © Arménio Teixeira The classroom block occupies the largest, lowest and markedly horizontal side of the land lengthwise, relating in landscape terms to the existing void to the north and having the main classroom wing facing south.  © Arménio Teixeira The canteen block is a larger volume which relates to the collective housing buildings in this urban area.  Ground Floor Plan At the tapering end of the plot stands a triangular prism, accommodating the reading space and finishing off the quarter to the west to create a proximity with the most informal area of the urban fabric.  © Arménio Teixeira These three buildings are connected by a peripheral wall in exposed brick masonry which forms a continuous boundary for the entire complex, connecting the school's open spaces (playgrounds and courtyards) and built spaces. This brick wall is a strong feature of the urban intervention, somehow maintaining its original calling as a large space available to the city.  © Arménio Teixeira It confers an organic expression on it, connecting the construction to the ground and effecting a permanent continuity between the interior and exterior areas.  © Arménio Teixeira This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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