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- Givatayim Urban Villa / Amitzi Architects
- Broken Landscape - Gordan Lederer Memorial / NFO + Petar Barišić
- Gottesman Etching Center / Gottesman-Szmelcman Architecture
- The Paradise of Color / Atelier Alter
- Little Big House / Robert Maschke Architects
- These Intricate Illustrations Portray the Details of Fantastical Cities
- Casa de Ladrillo / Paulo Ambrosoni
- New York Plans $10 Billion Renovation of JFK Airport
- Son Ganxo House / Sio2 Arch
- HKS Designs New Ballpark for MLB's Texas Rangers
- T3 / Michael Green Architecture
- 19 Of Our Favorite User-Created Architecture LEGO Sets (Which You Can Vote Into Production!)
- Italian Architect Leonardo Benevolo Passes Away Aged 93
- Iñaki Ábalos' Walter Gropius Lecture at Harvard GSD Dives Into the History and Evolution of the Monastery
- Tallinn Creative Hub / Kavakava
| Givatayim Urban Villa / Amitzi Architects Posted: 06 Jan 2017 06:00 PM PST  © Uzi Porat
 © Uzi Porat From the architect. An existing single-story, semi-detached house from the 1950's was remodeled and added a second story to accommodate a family of five. The house, which follows the shape of the plot, is long and narrow, and apart from the entrance door the street façade is almost windowless. Toilettes on the ground floor and a deep balcony on the first floor buffer between the house and the busy road.  © Uzi Porat Relocating the main entrance from its previous position on the long façade enabled us to plant a large garden and outdoor living area, visible and accessible via large glass sliding doors, which extends the living space outside.  © Uzi Porat In order to maintain sufficient privacy, the master bedroom is located on the ground floor and the children's bedrooms on the first. The master bedroom is located behind the kitchen, and faces away from it, to a private small garden of its own.  © Uzi Porat Structural reinforcements form an architectural language through which the house's history is revealed: addition to the ground floor is in exposed concrete, and the stairway opening cut from the existing ceiling is supported by steel columns.  © Uzi Porat The steel stairway, consisting of Z-shape elements, is the dominant feature in the living room. The stair railing continues upwards and merges with the first floor balustrade.  Ground Floor Plan  First Floor Plan The ground floor is paved with gray stone, which is used also as cladding of the bathroom walls, while the children's area is dark wooden floor. All carpentry elements are painted white.  © Uzi Porat This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Broken Landscape - Gordan Lederer Memorial / NFO + Petar Barišić Posted: 06 Jan 2017 02:00 PM PST .jpg?1483489531 "© Bosnić+Dorotić") © Bosnić+Dorotić
.jpg?1483488993 "© Bosnić+Dorotić") © Bosnić+Dorotić From the architect. The public competition for Gordan Lederer Memorial was announced in 2014 by Croatian Radiotelevision - HRT as part of a plan to mark all the locations where HRT cameramans and photogaphers were killed during the war in Croatia in the 90's. Gordan Lederer was killed on 10th of August 1991. by a sniper shot while filming on Čukur hill in Bania region in Croatia. .jpg?1483488306 "© Bosnić+Dorotić") © Bosnić+Dorotić Competition was won by NFO architecture studio and sculptor Petar Barišić with a proposal called 'Broken Landscape''. The memorial was unveiled in august 2015 on the 24th anniversary of Lederer's death. .jpg?1483488870 "© Bosnić+Dorotić") © Bosnić+Dorotić Gordan Lederer Memorial emerged as a multidisciplinary process between architecture and sculpture. This duality developed a project that combines different approaches to the same subject matter, understanding the problem through a number of aspects.  Section From the very start it was clear that the base of the project was already given by Lederer himself selecting the location for his final session. The challenge of the location, Čukur hill, which offers amazing view of the Una river valley, became the starting point of all concepts, more or less successful. Discussions and sketches that have marked most of the creative process led to the concept that eventually remained clean and striped of unnecessary layers of meaning or expressiveness but still with opportunity for individual interpretations. .jpg?1483488469 "© Bosnić+Dorotić") © Bosnić+Dorotić Memorial ''Broken Landscape'' consists of access path and a broken camera lens. The path, designed as a pathway of Lederer's life, is encrypted in the concrete slabs laid on the grass. Coding is performed in such a way that the concrete slabs are ''chained'' in black steel frames, each engraved with the year of Lederer's life in negative as an interpretation of film frames. The path goes tensely through natural terrain leading to the last slab, a memorial plateu, without a number, representing the year of his death. Bench on the memorial plateu is reduced to the maximum and is really just a part of the path that gently raises from the ground indicating the end of the path and a final view in real and figurative sens. Through the text placed on the memorial plateu: '' ... now that August mornings are peaceful and at ease, a bright melancholy in Gordan Lederer's eyes beams through the dawns of Banija...'' visitor enters the contemplation and observes the Lens. .jpg?1483488511 "© Bosnić+Dorotić") © Bosnić+Dorotić The Lens alone, thrown in the grass in front of the plateau directs visitors view to the valley looking at "the last shots" that Gordan Lederer took. The glass membrane pierced with a shot from a sniper, stops visitors glance for a moment and confronts them with the reality of events on that location. In the same time perfect stainless steel circle suggests the continuity of life, framing view of the same landscape filmed 24 years ago at the same place. Viewed from the River Una Valley, Memorial is dematerialized as a sun glint reflected on the broken lens surface.  Floor Plan Project is nominated for European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2017! .jpg?1483489371 "© Bosnić+Dorotić") © Bosnić+Dorotić Product Description: The access path consists of concrete slabs, framed with black steel frames laid on the grass. Each slab is engraved with the year of Gordan Lederer life. Lense itself, placed 10 m from the memorial plato is made out of three layers of laminated safety glass, in total 4 cm thick. The middle one was pierced by a sniper shot with the outer glass layers holding it together. Lense frame is made out of stainless steel ring (74x59 cm) wiht outer diameter 4,4 m. Lense is placed on the grass with total height of 4 m. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Gottesman Etching Center / Gottesman-Szmelcman Architecture Posted: 06 Jan 2017 12:00 PM PST  © Amit Geron
 © Amit Geron From the architect. Located in the North of Israel along the Lebanese mountain range that defines the boarder, Kibbutz Cabri has always served as a haven for the Arts and for artists. Over the years it has been the home to national artists such as Ori Reisman & Yechiel Shemi, and has established a regional school dedicated to the arts, as well as, a print studio that has attracted international renown. The Gottesman Print Center is composed of a large area dedicated to print making, substantial exhibition spaces and important storage facilities. The building is typified by its minimal yet pronounced presence within the landscape. It enjoys panoramic views of the surrounding landscape.  © Amit Geron Energy neutral, the print center gains its energy from the solar panels that line the roof surface. And is laminated throughout the day by defused natural light that is indirectly dispersed thought the space.  © Amit Geron Etching, like architecture, is dependent upon a complex translation process. The quality of the steel or copper plate, the sharpness of the tools, the concentration of the acid, the aquatint, the moister and type of paper, the pigments, as well as, the press, are all a part of the creative and translation process.  © Amit Geron Many years ago, there was a conference at the Print Center that included 10 artists and 10 brain researchers. The topic of the conference was "creativity" and what noteworthy was an observation by one of the scientists that artists need to create problems in order to solve them. Beyond the specific aesthetic qualities of prints, many artists love printmaking because of the challenges in the realization process… and also because it offers the artist the gift of Time, an opportunity to escape the "immediate."  © Amit Geron The world has become a very fast place, especially when one is discussing images. Just to underline this point, in the last 2 years, more digital images have been produced than all the images created in human history.  Floor Plan The creative process has become a little too easy; to immediate. Cabri offers an alternative scale of judgement that goes beyond mega bits. There is an insistence on a form of expression that has depth. Creating prints is a slow process. It requires skill and judgement. Originality is not enough and neither is just a good concept.  © Amit Geron Originally, Kibbutz Cabri hoped to build a large museum, and we designed accordingly. In our utopia, we planned a space for Yechiel Shemi, another for Ori Reisman, a print studio and an extra space for changing exhibitions. Yet in spite of all our efforts, the project could not be realized in its full splendor.  © Amit Geron At the end of 2003, Yechiel Shemi passed away and it became clear that a more modest project should be envisioned. We opted to expand and transform the haphazard print workshop that was housed in Ori Reizman's studio into a state of the art print center with accompanying exhibition and storage facilities. Even  Section before the building was completed, artist Jim Dime came and opened a Masterclass which brought some of the best artists in Israel to Cabri and together, they all worked under a tent and produced amazing prints which became the first portfolio created in the new print centre.  © Amit Geron The print enter's exhibition space draws visitors from all over the world It enables visitors to learn a little about printmaking and occasionally catch an artist at work.  © Amit Geron Although we did not succeed to build the large museum, Shemi's studio has been transformed into a wonderful place, where in parallel with the print centre, several exhibitions are shown every year.  Site Plan Shemi's sculptures have become a part of the inter-connecting landscape and art pilgrimages walk from Shemi's studio to the Print Studio and visa versa. What is still missing is a real space for the wonderful works of Ori Reisman.  © Amit Geron Product Description.This was a pretty low tech project. it is important to note that the building was constructed while the old print center was still being used and that in transforming from the old to the new we only closed the print center for several weeks. The basic construction is concrete "in situ" casting and concrete block construction. What was slightly different was the roof construction that needed to be extremely light and straddle the existing center without creating either temporary or permanent internal supports. The entire roof structure is supported by the external walls which means that in some cases the spans can reach 20 meters. This was achieved by creating a light weight steel roof covered by Paltiv's Double layered Polycarbonate panels. Internally we constructed a plasterboard ceiling with particular detailing for the filtration of natural light and indirect lighting. As an additional layer of insulation & waterproofing we opted for Solatics solar membranes that come integrated to a flexible PVC sheeting that can be welded together to offer a continual and waterproof surface. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Paradise of Color / Atelier Alter Posted: 06 Jan 2017 11:00 AM PST  © Courtesy of Atelier Alter
 © Courtesy of Atelier Alter No.12 Middle School is one of the best schools in Beijing. There is a strong need from the neighborhood to have the School incorporate kindergarten education in their curriculum. The kindergarten of the school strives for building the best school of the neighborhood, and the architecture of it reflects its ambition. On top of that, the architecture aims for shaping a unique character for the school while enlivening the area of the city.  © Courtesy of Atelier Alter This is a rehabilitation project. The structure sites at the expending area of the city. Surrounded by residential blocks, the site is in need for human scale culture facilities. The architecture design tries to create a pure and simple paradise with memorable spaces for children. The kindergarten is composed by clean lines and shapes of primary colors. By looking through the lens of a child, the purity of childhood is well preserved in the architecture.  © Courtesy of Atelier Alter Our project begins with converting the scale from a grown-up to a child. We use building blocks as the inspiration, by incorporating the openings of the original building, we create large color blocks that pop-up from the facade as gigantic building blocks for the neighborhood. The simple color block stands out from the vernacular housing construction, and creates a dialogue with the children of the neighborhood.  Facade Isometric Diagram  Facade Analysis Our use of primary color starts with the understanding of perception in a child. As the vision of a child starts to mature gradually after six, children's understanding of color is not as completed as the grownups. So we use a variety of colors in the elevation as well as the interior and exterior environment to stimulate the senses of children and encourage them to explore in the spaces and shapes. Thus their role play in the space would be more memorable. We use blue for nursery, green for toddler and orange for preschool kids, with different emphasis on keeping them calm or making them more activated.  © Courtesy of Atelier Alter  Level 1 Plan  © Courtesy of Atelier Alter By combining the brilliant colors, we also try to bring some vividness to the city of Beijing—the city de-saturated by winter smog. In perspective, the architecture creates a surreal image of 2-D cookie cutter in the concrete forest of modern city. The two sides of the pop-up volumes are lighting panels. The lighting design makes the pure color block looks richer at night. It turns the architecture into a gigantic modern art of light and color.  © Courtesy of Atelier Alter This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Little Big House / Robert Maschke Architects Posted: 06 Jan 2017 09:00 AM PST  © Brad Feinknopf
 © Brad Feinknopf The little_BIG house is located in Cleveland, Ohio's historic Little Italy neighborhood, known for its rich culture and artisanal background. The husband and wife client, both industrial designers, commissioned the project to create a studio for their work and a home to raise a growing family. The residence is located on a dense and constrained urban street away from the idyllic neighborhood center. The site is narrow and bound by three "shot gun" homes to the North, a retaining wall to the East, and a multi story condominium to the South. A former open framed steel warehouse, now used as a covered surface parking structure, is to the west, obstructing views from the site. The imposition of these structures help to inform the design approach.  © Brad Feinknopf  Diagram  © Brad Feinknopf The architecture emerges from the reconciliation of inherent contradictions embedded within the site and program. The client desired an urban presence, while also creating private exterior space secluded from the surrounding context. The couple asked for flexibility to "split" the property into independent homes in the future. In response to these constraints, the massing of the house became parsed into two distinct volumes, pushed to the extreme boundaries of the site, connected by a covered bridge. This organization creates a communal courtyard from the residual space between the volumes. A monumental stair connects the various programmatic elements. The stairwell folds upon itself overlapping and separating, creating a visual connection between levels. The movement of the stair is evident on the metal surface of the exterior envelope, a folded logic that unites the parts into a cohesive wholeThe material palette is simple and elegant. The exterior facade is black stucco concrete in concert with a color matched metal folding wall and roof. Patterned corten panels provide privacy from the street and the adjacent properties through their use as entry gate and perimeter fencing. The interior is composed of hard troweled concrete floors with white walls, floor to ceiling book matched and sequenced statutory marble slabs in the bathrooms, and richly colored bamboo for the architectural millwork and stairs. Additionally, the monumental stairwell is veiled in white perforated steel panels. This textured strategy is implemented on select glazing units through etching. The perforation pattern was developed through a series of photo manipulations of light passing through a bamboo forest. A transposition inspired by the materiality of the millwork and stair.  © Brad Feinknopf  © Brad Feinknopf Product Description. The concrete stucco allows the form to be sculpted and the complementary metal panels wrap and defines the space within and around the building.  © Brad Feinknopf This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| These Intricate Illustrations Portray the Details of Fantastical Cities Posted: 06 Jan 2017 08:00 AM PST  © Marta Vilarinho de Freitas In the first installment of her series, "Cities and Memory - the Architecture and the City," architect Marta Vilarinho de Freitas created a set of intricately rendered architectural fantasy worlds that straddled the line between realism and abstraction. Now Vilarinho de Freitas has returned with an additional 7 illustrations, this time experimenting with planimetrics and new cityscape scenes. In her drawings, she explores the relationship between detail and perception of the city, where negative space becomes as important to an architectural element's presence and what is drawn. .jpg?1483734922 "© Marta Vilarinho de Freitas") © Marta Vilarinho de Freitas  © Marta Vilarinho de Freitas .jpg?1483734839 "© Marta Vilarinho de Freitas") © Marta Vilarinho de Freitas  © Marta Vilarinho de Freitas .jpg?1483734793 "© Marta Vilarinho de Freitas") © Marta Vilarinho de Freitas  © Marta Vilarinho de Freitas Check out Vilarinho de Freitas' first set of illustrations, here, and visit her facebook page to see more of her work. Architecture is the Protagonist in These Intricate Illustrations This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Casa de Ladrillo / Paulo Ambrosoni Posted: 06 Jan 2017 07:00 AM PST  © Paulo Ambrosoni
 © Paulo Ambrosoni From the architect. The project is an urban housing for a family with three girls in Salto, a city located on the eastern bank of the Uruguay River. The construction of 255 square meters on two levels is located on the obligatory frontal limit of 3 meters from the street, leaving free the largest patio area for the North sun. The land where the housing is implanted has a public pedestrian passage to the west, on this side the land narrows with a curve in the middle of its depth. This singularity is solved by the garage and a storage room, thus regularizing the patio.  © Paulo Ambrosoni The Constructive System The project is defined from the choice of the construction system. The city of Salto has an interesting history of works of architecture in brick seen of great quality. Since the 1970s, Eladio Dieste's buildings, among others, have masterfully used the structural and formal qualities of brick.  Scheme Structure
The provision of specialized workmanship and first quality raw material allowed using the constructive system of load bearing wall of exposed brick and concrete slabs in an effective way.  © Paulo Ambrosoni Formal Structure The brick walls in English rig are arranged orthogonally and without voids. In the open spaces are located the openings from floor to ceiling. The four bedrooms with dressing rooms upstairs are used to modulate the structure. In ground floor the living room, dining room and kitchen are articulated in a free light of 5.70 meters.  Lower Floor  Upper Floor The shape responds to the constructive system with continuous walls. The textures of the external partitions are achieved with protruding bricks and open joints to ventilate the chambers of ventilated facades.  © Paulo Ambrosoni Bioclimatic Considerations The climate in the city of Salto is very humid all year round, with very high temperatures in summer and low in winter. The mass of the brick walls provides insulation and thermal inertia to regulate the great variations of temperature during the year.  © Paulo Ambrosoni The house is closed to the south and to the street, opens to the north and the patio where eaves are used to protect against the strong summer sun and allow the entrance of solar radiation in winter.  Longitudinal Section It also regulates humidity and heat through cross ventilation in all spaces, using banners on the doors and making in summer the fresh air of the south façade in shade runs through the house.  © Paulo Ambrosoni This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| New York Plans $10 Billion Renovation of JFK Airport Posted: 06 Jan 2017 06:20 AM PST  Courtesy of State of New York New York City's busiest airport is about to receive a major overhaul. Proposed by New York governor Andrew Cuomo, the plan calls for a $10 million renovation to New York City's busiest airport, transforming the facility into a "a unified, interconnected, world-class' complex."  Courtesy of State of New York The proposals would improve circulation throughout the airport by creating a unified terminal that would connect existing newer wings with newly relocated branches. Roadways leading to the complex would also be widened and redesigned into a continuous ring road for better vehicular access, and expanded taxiways would allow for quicker passenger turnover. Additionally, parking areas would be reorganized into clearly demarcated short-term and long-term lots.  Courtesy of State of New York "Our vision plan calls for the creation of a unified, interconnected airport that changes the passenger experience and makes the airport much easier to access and navigate," said Cuomo in a statement. "We are New York, and we remember the bravado that built this State in the first place, and that is the attitude that will take JFK and turn it into the 21st century airport that we deserve."  Courtesy of State of New York Within the terminal, new fine dining venues, duty-free and retail shopping areas, and conference room facilities would improve traveller's comfortability and experience. Improvements would also be made to security technologies, including video monitoring and facial recognition software, which are designed to speed up the process for passengers.  Courtesy of State of New York If implemented, these changes would help to accommodate for a continually growing passenger base, expected to reach 75 million people per year by 2030 and 100 million by 2050. At its current growth rate, the existing airport will reach full capacity in the next 10 to 15 years. Initial estimates for the project measure in at approximately $10 billion, $7 Billion of which would come in the form of Private Sector Investment. Initial renderings were produced coinciding with the announcement, but an architect has not yet been chosen for the project. For more information on the proposal, click here. News via State of New York. Photographer Max Touhey Gives a Rare Glimpse Inside Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Center New York's LaGuardia Airport to Get 21st Century Makeover This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2017 05:00 AM PST  © José Hevia
 © José Hevia This house belongs to a set of projects developed by Sio2 that reformulates the type of the single-family house through the integration with the landscape. In these works, we experimented with roofs as organizing systems avoiding the traditional role of facades as compositional mechanisms  © José Hevia  Floor Plan  © José Hevia In this iteration, the house is articulated as a landscape extension of an existing topography. The volume is placed in such a way that the roof becomes an artificial terrain. The form of this surface responds to the negotiation between topographic relations, construction technology constraints, raining water collection, and different spatial needs of parts of the interior. The architecture projects polygonal geometry to the exterior, tensing the landscape, and smooths the interior, naturalizing the domestic.  © José Hevia This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| HKS Designs New Ballpark for MLB's Texas Rangers Posted: 06 Jan 2017 04:00 AM PST  © Texas Rangers Baseball Club / HKS HKS Architects has been selected to design a new Major League Baseball stadium for the Texas Rangers, to be built in Arlington, Texas. As part of a new multipurpose sports and entertainment venue, the stadium will feature a retractable roof for climate control and shelter during the hot Texan summers. "For us, the new Texas Rangers Ballpark development is very special. It carries its own rich identity based on a combination of tradition, heritage, character and ambition that will ultimately represent itself as the premier destination in North Texas," explained HKS' Bryan Trubey, executive vice president and principal designer on the project. "We are delighted to be part of this exciting new development that will impact not only the Texas Rangers and their fans, but the city of Arlington and the entire region for many years to come."  © Texas Rangers Baseball Club / HKS The stadium will replace the existing Globe Life Park in Arlington, which opened in 1994 and on which HKS served as architect of record. The new venue will be integrated into the surrounding Texas Live! Development, a mixed-use entertainment district containing dining, entertainment, hotel and convention center facilities.  © Texas Rangers Baseball Club / HKS Estimated costs for the project clock in at $1 billion, and will be funded via a 50-50 public-private partnership. Construction is expected to begin later this year, with an opening date set in time for the start of the 2020 Major League Baseball season. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| T3 / Michael Green Architecture Posted: 06 Jan 2017 03:00 AM PST  © Ema Peter
 © Ema Peter From the architect. When Hines approached MGA with this exciting project they envisioned T3 as a unique model of new-office building; an opportunity to offer a modern interpretation of the robust character of historic wood, brick, stone, and steel buildings with the additional benefits of state of the art amenities, environmental performance, and technical capability.  © Ema Peter The project is an investment in both the past and future of Minneapolis and in the Warehouse District's rich history. The design objective for T3 was to build on the character of the past with a modern perspective. As businesses look to new competitive models for attracting staff, the goal for T3 was to provide a warm and inviting environment that would attract and retain employers and employees.  © Ema Peter T3, which stands for 'Timber, Technology, Transit', offers 224,000 square feet of office and retail space. Over 3,600 cubic meters of exposed mass timber columns, beams, and floor slabs recall the heavy timber construction of the building's predecessors. T3's modern technological approach uses engineered wood components (chiefly glulam and nail laminated timber) for the roof, floors, columns and beams, and furniture. A significant amount of the lumber used to fabricate the NLT comes from trees killed by the mountain pine beetle. These modern materials bring the warmth and beauty of wood to the interior, and promote a healthy indoor environment for occupants.  © Ema Peter As a result of its wood structure, T3 was erected at a speed exceeding conventional steel-framed or concrete buildings. In less than 10 weeks, 180,000 square feet of timber framing went up, averaging 30,000 square feet of floor area installed per week. It is also lighter than comparable steel or concrete structures, reducing the depth and extent of excavation and foundations. Additionally, the embodied carbon in the building's wood structural system is lower than that found in conventional buildings found throughout most of downtown Minneapolis and the North Loop.  Structural Diagram The building's aesthetic success can also be attributed to the mass timber construction. Candice Nichol, MGA Associate and T3 Project Lead, says "the texture of the exposed NLT is quite beautiful. The small imperfections in the lumber and slight variation in color of the mountain pine beetle wood only add to the warmth and character of the new space." Extensive exterior glazing at every level as well as views into the ground level social workspace with wood furniture, booths, and a feature stair, allow the public to experience the building.  © Ema Peter The use of wood is celebrated throughout the building. "The entire timber structure of T3 was intentionally left exposed and illuminated with interior lighting directed up to the ceiling," Nichol says. At night, "the illuminated wood will glow through the exterior openings."  © Ema Peter T3 is currently the largest completed mass timber building in the U.S. With changing building codes throughout North America, tall wood buildings will become more common. A pioneer in this building type, T3 has broken new ground and is perhaps a prototype for future commercial mass timber buildings.  Exploded Wall Section Product Description. Nail-laminated assemblies have been used for more than a century, particularly in warehouses where solid, sturdy floors were required. It is now being recognized again as a valid alternative to concrete slab and steel in commercial and institutional buildings, and residential buildings in which it is often exposed to create a unique aesthetic. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 19 Of Our Favorite User-Created Architecture LEGO Sets (Which You Can Vote Into Production!) Posted: 06 Jan 2017 01:30 AM PST  via LEGO Ideas A lot of architects love LEGO—but few may be aware of the LEGO Ideas platform, which allows LEGO fans to submit their own ideas for future sets, and if they gather enough support, be considered for production as a real LEGO product. Here we've created a selection of our favorite architectural proposals from the platform; though some have already expired due to a lack of votes, many others included here are still open for voting to become a real set if you so desire. If on the other hand, you feel that our list is lacking a particularly LEGO-worthy building, this could be your time to shine; design your own set and gather support! One day soon, thousands of LEGO enthusiasts could be puzzling over your little architectural gem. 1. Barcelona Pavilion (expired) via LEGO Ideas Without a Mies van der Rohe building, this list would feel incomplete—and what better building to include than the Barcelona Pavilion? His simple, modern style is translated into LEGO without losing its essence. 2. Bauhaus via LEGO Ideas As an iconic part of architectural history, the Bauhaus building must be included on our list of favorites. The model, although simplified, is strikingly similar to the real building, as can be seen on the designer's images of the set "on site." 3. box N (expired) via LEGO Ideas Not modeled after an existing building, box N seeks instead to create a true "LEGO building," using the existing standard bricks to study and analyze the architectural model. Through simple "addition and subtraction," the architect behind its design creates spaces and voids, openings and skylights. 4. Donjon of Osaka Castle via LEGO Ideas Even if this design is not the most complicated set on this list, it is most certainly one of the most complete; the LEGO model proposes fully realized plans of all 8 floors of the famous Japanese castle. Because of this, the set is designed in a modular fashion, allowing LEGO fans to review each floor with ease. 5. Dynamic Architecture (expired) via LEGO Ideas This is a set that acts as a method for form finding, instead of a mere aesthetic or fun activity. Following the current trend of morphing architecture, this set is aiming to create a quicker, easier alternative to 3D modeling software. 6. Grand Central Terminal via LEGO Ideas "The Heart of New York City" is depicted in a beautifully LEGO-detailed model, including the interiors, passed through by hundreds of thousands of people each day. This model strikes a pretty much perfect balance between architecture and LEGO. 7. Holmwood House (expired) via LEGO Ideas Designed by Alexander Thomson, the original villa is now a tourist attraction in Glasgow, Scotland. The model is proposed as an architectural, white set after the style of many LEGO architecture sets, despite the sandy stone facade of the real building. 8. Hungarian Parliament Building (expired) via LEGO Ideas Despite being what the designer himself calls a "micro-scaled model" of one of Budapest's landmarks, this LEGO set contains an incredible amount of detail. It collected more supportive comments on LEGO Ideas than usual, but sadly not enough votes to realize its design. 9. Nakagin Capsule Tower (expired) via LEGO Ideas Whereas most of these sets were created for fun, this one was taken on with a greater goal in mind: to immortalize a building in danger of demolition through a simple LEGO set. Focusing mainly on capturing the building's unique form, it's a simple, relatively small set. 10. National History Museum (expired) via LEGO Ideas If this proposal had been realized, it would be the largest LEGO set in existence, with 80,000 bricks. Due to its already enormous size, this set does not delve into the interiors of the building—but after finally completing the facade, you'd probably be very thankful for that. 11. Palace of Italian Civilization via LEGO Ideas This minimalist model contains only the facade of the building, just adding a darker box behind it to serve as a background for the white bricks. By sticking to just a few existing pieces, the model keeps an authentic LEGO appearance but still manages to quite accurately replicate the Palace of Italian Civilization. 12. Pantheon (expired) via LEGO Ideas Given that it's an architectural classic, of course somebody proposed a Pantheon LEGO set. However, like many of the classics, this one hasn't made it to the review stage either. 13. Sungnyemun (expired) via LEGO Ideas Located in Seoul, Sungnyemun is one of the largest castle gates in Korea and, as seen in the incredibly complex model, also one of the most beautiful. It already exists as a smaller LEGO set, but this one is attempting to tackle all the intricate details that make the building so majestic. 14. The Cloth Hall via LEGO Ideas Seeking to perfectly emulate the original "Renaissance jewel," this model is based on the building's original architectural plans, including some interiors of the building, while still keeping it on a relatively small scale. 15. Parthenon via LEGO Ideas A well-known historical building now only seen as ruins, this LEGO set is aiming to recreate the Parthenon as it was originally designed. 16. The Shard (expired) via LEGO Ideas Representing the newest building on the list, this set is built almost entirely out of transparent LEGO plates and roof tiles, yet still manages to look incredibly sleek. Unfortunately, this wasn't enough to garner the votes needed to be reviewed by LEGO. 17. University of Tokyo (expired) via LEGO Ideas It's not easy to decipher the LEGO model's construction from the provided renderings, but in spite of this, the proposed set looks like a grand one to accomplish. 18. Viipuri Library via LEGO Ideas Though this is probably the most minimalistic set on our list, its simplicity is exactly what got it here in the first place—especially because it's an Aalto building. Despite the lack of detail, this model captures the architecture exactly the way LEGO should. 19. Villa Rotonda (expired) via LEGO Ideas Another set inspired by Italian architecture, the Villa Rotonda's geometric plan seems like a good design to test through LEGO. Due to the small size of the LEGO model, details such as windows are sacrificed, but if you don't have enough time to spare on the large, complex sets, it's an ideal model to complete in a short amount of time, using few pieces. Now that we've seen what can be done, perhaps you won't be afraid to realize your dream of creating your own, real LEGO set. Who knows? Yours could be on our next list of LEGO favorites. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Italian Architect Leonardo Benevolo Passes Away Aged 93 Posted: 06 Jan 2017 01:05 AM PST  via Laterza's Interview with Leonardo Benevolo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzto2DOcTpk) Italian media have reported that Leonardo Benevolo, one of Italy's foremost architects, critics, and historians, passed away yesterday at his home in Brescia following a long illness. Benevolo was an enormously influential figure in the field of architectural history who was continuously examining the problems and possibilities of our cities. His writings—in particular the book History of Modern Architecture—have been widely circulated, translated and taught, and contribute to his legacy as one of the profession's most distinguished architects and educators. In the overview of the now out-of-print History of Modern Architecture, Vol. 2 (1971), MIT Press wrote,
Benevolo's prolific career as an educator occurred alongside projects that he also designed and built, including the new headquarters of the Bologna Fair (realized with Thomas Jura Longo and Carlo Pomegranates), the master plan of Ascoli Piceno, the masterplan of the historic center of Bologna and the master plan of Monza (1993-97). Italian newspaper Corriere Della Serra wrote that Benevolo joined Giulio Carlo Argan, Bruno Zevi and Manfredo Tafuri in the scholarly task of defining and historicizing modern architecture in Italy and beyond. His final publication, Il tracollo della urbanistica italiana, published by Laterza, was released in 2012. News via Corriere Della Serra This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2017 10:00 PM PST As he ends his years of service at the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), Iñaki Ábalos has given a Walter Gropius Lecture, customary for departing chairs. Entitled "Architecture for the Search for Knowledge," the lecture is named for Ábalos' mantra by the same words, which is an aphorism written by Friedrich Nietzsche. Throughout the event, Ábalos delved into various mixed-use typologies, each of which is in some way related to the basic typology of the medieval monastery. Highlights of the lecture include:
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| Tallinn Creative Hub / Kavakava Posted: 05 Jan 2017 09:00 PM PST  © Tõnu Tunnel
 © Kaupo Kalda From the architect. Kultuurikatel is a former power plant, located in Tallinn between the Old Town and the sea. The project focuses on simple principles of spatial organization to meet the needs of creative users. The key of the project is openness.  Diagram Original complex was built in the 19th century with various additions in the 20th century. Buildings are listed as heritage monuments and are owned by the city of Tallinn. After renovation it has different halls for performing and rehearsal, club spaces, studios, offices, integrated with a continuous common space enabling all kinds of possibilities.  © Tõnu Tunnel Despite its alternative look, building is selected as a main venue for 2017, when Estonia holds presidency of the Council of the EU.  © Tõnu Tunnel  Floor Plan  © Kaupo Kikkas Strategy and Design Concept The project focuses on simple principles of spatial organization to meet the needs of creative users. The tight budget is a challenge – any intervention has to be precise and to the point. The key of the project is openness – it should enable later additions and unplanned developments. To integrate external impulses, workshops and users' input has been used. Communication with various parties was an essential part of the project. The design concept developed alongside the concept of the Cauldron itself. The project is built in stages, many spaces will be equipped with the barest minimum and to be finished by the user.  Diagram Construction It is renovation project and materials are used according to the initial architecture. Replacements and new additions are done in a sensitive way and surfaces are left unpolished as it was in original state (exposed concrete, steel, brick).  © Tõnu Tunnel This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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