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- Cité Internationale Paul Ricœur / Hérault Arnod Architectes
- Anston Architectural / Dan Gayfer Design
- What can Latin America Learn From WOHA's Green Skyscrapers?
- Steven Holl Architects To Complete Four Buildings This Year
- Cima House / Garza Iga Arquitectos
- Topio7’s Revitalisation of Former Cemetery Merges Urban Park and City in Athens
- A Glimpse of the Forward-Thinking, Humorous Work of Cedric Price
- CFB Borden All Ranks Kitchen and Dining Facilities / FABRIQ Architecture + Zas Architects
- Spotlight: James Stirling
- Cycling Center / Ferdinand and Ferdinand Architects
| Cité Internationale Paul Ricœur / Hérault Arnod Architectes Posted: 22 Apr 2017 07:00 PM PDT  © André Morin
 © André Morin From the architect. The plot is located at the interface between two very different urban logics: on one side, a modern district made up of wide public spaces and large-sized buildings, on the other, the historical town-centre consisting of smaller slate-roof buildings. One of the project's challenges is to articulate the traditional city and the modern city scales, using both the organisation of its volumes and the layout of its functions.  © André Morin The Cité Internationale is an hybrid building, it brings together three different owners and four independent programmes: - The Sports Center to the south on the Esplanade side (Ville de Rennes).  © André Morin - The UBL (Université de Bretagne Loire) offices with their entrances on the west façade.  © André Morin - The residence for foreign academics with its entrance hall on the north façade (CROUS).  © André Morin  © André Morin - The university cafeteria, at the equipment's gravity centre (CROUS).  Diagram The project organises the coexistence of the four programmes inside a single, simple and compact envelope. The building consists in a base, located in the alignment of the streets, which houses the programmes open to the public, and a high-rising volume housing the residence for academics, spiked with balconies.  © André Morin The imbrications of the four programmes located at the base and which function in a totally independent way is included in a façade system, vertical rhythm alternating aluminium and glass, which unifies the whole structure inside a bright transparent envelope. The project is open on all sides and the activities inside are visible, a way to bring movement and life and liven up the public space.  © André Morin The building is a passive energy project. It implements a combination of architectural and technical solutions to meet a very exacting environmental programme.  Section The façades' graphic system stems from the climatic logic. To the east and to the west, the protruding polished-aluminium vertical needles offers efficient protection from the sun. The whole generates an abstract composition with subtle texture variations. The image changes according to the view angle: almost invisible when facing them, the needles create large paintings when seen sideways.  © André Morin On the boulevard, the vertical building houses the residence for foreign academics. Its design creates a contrast with the lower part and it is partially separated from it by way of a void at the 4th level. Each room has its own large bay window with a French window opening onto the balcony. The rooms' furniture, made of multiply beech wood, is made to measure. It includes the kitchen, the bed, the desk and numerous integrated storage spaces.  © André Morin The north façade on the boulevard de la Liberté is created by the winter gardens which offer both thermal and noise insulation. The very light and simple-glazing façade alternates fixed and opening panels. Vines and tree ferns are planted in the back and the whole thus form a large green image open towards the city. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Anston Architectural / Dan Gayfer Design Posted: 22 Apr 2017 01:00 PM PDT  © Dean Bradley
 © Dean Bradley From the architect. Anston Architectural make bespoke concrete products for designers of exterior space. They leased a retail space in the eclectic, industrious and now desirable inner Melbourne suburb of Abbotsford and then approached Dan Gayfer Design to design an interior that showcased their premium product.  © Dean Bradley Conceptually, the design is strongly based upon the idea of creating a series of small yet habitable spaces that each display Anston's product in both typical and unexpected applications. These spaces, or settings, are almost theatre like in their arrangement though the customer can either be audience or actor; they can meander through the showroom viewing each setting but, if desired, can physically enter each setting to 'act out' using the product in a realistic situation thus testing its suitability.  © Dean Bradley  Plans  © Dean Bradley One such setting is the outdoor shower 'booth' - a walk in shower has been created complete with shower rose, mixer, floor waste and feature garden. All surfaces of the booth both vertical and horizontal have been finished in a 100mm x 100mm Anston cobble; one considering an outdoor shower can enter the booth to experience this product 'in-situ' as opposed to simply determining its suitability through holding a singular cobble.  © Dean Bradley As you enter the showroom the product can initially be experienced within a dining terrace, the aforementioned outdoor shower booth or entertaining lounge. Closer to the rear of the showroom an interior flavour takes hold; a wine bar, communal workstation and even bar stools all employ the product in a surprising yet logical manner. Put it simple terms, the customer can physically interact with Anston's product inside a realistic everyday setting or lifestyle - as opposed to having only a small physical sample to help visualise the product in-situ and hence determine its suitability for a project.  © Dean Bradley This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| What can Latin America Learn From WOHA's Green Skyscrapers? Posted: 22 Apr 2017 09:00 AM PDT WOHA's first exhibition in Latin America, Garden City Mega City: WOHA's Urban Ecosystems presents over two decades of WOHA's international designs. With its inauguration at the Museum of the City of Mexico during the MEXTRÓPOLI International Festival of Architecture and City, the exhibition proposes the introduction of biodiversity and lively public spaces into vertical, climate-sensitive highrises within megalopolises. The exhibition features sixteen intricate architectural models, an immersive video installation and large-scale drawings and images that show WOHA's proposals for vertical communities in the tropical megacities. PLANE-SITE documented the exhibition's opening along with the points of view of various MEXTRÓPOLI contributors and city officials. In Latin America especially, the analysis of the similarities between megacities in Singapore and megacities in the western hemisphere can show Mexican architects new ways to explore the increasingly populated cities of the American continent. José María Espinosa, Director of the Museum of Mexico City, said,
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| Steven Holl Architects To Complete Four Buildings This Year Posted: 22 Apr 2017 07:00 AM PDT  © Steven Holl Architects Steven Holl Architects has released updates on four of its latest projects slated for completion this year. The projects, located in the United States and the United Kingdom, include two university arts buildings, a community library, and a cancer support center.
Lewis Center for the Arts – Princeton University  Lewis Center for the Arts – Princeton University. Image © Steven Holl Architects Built in 21 million-year-old Lecce stone blocks set against the concrete structure, the Lewis Center for the Arts shapes an amazing new campus quadrangle with the same spatial proportions as The Campidoglio in Rome. It will present transparent connections to all the performing arts facilities, shaping the space and offer a large Forum dappled by sunlight thru water. The building will be celebrated during an arts fair among all LCA disciplines the weekend of October 5-8. Institute for Contemporary Art – Virginia Commonwealth University  Institute for Contemporary Art – Virginia Commonwealth University. Image © Steven Holl Architects The building is slated to open with its inaugural exhibition "Declarations" on October 28th. Soon Richmond and VCU will have a publicly accessible gateway through the Arts at the intersection of Broad and Belvidere. Hunters Point Community Library  Hunters Point Community Library. Image © Steven Holl Architects Set to open this Fall, the Hunters Point Community Library will have sweeping views of the city, a public rooftop cafe and serve as a new "social consensus" for the community. Maggies Centre Barts  Maggies Centre Barts. Image © Steven Holl Architects London's Historic West Smithfield will soon have a calming collective support space for cancer patients, survivors and their families and friends. The concrete frame of Maggies Centre Barts is complete and the roof slab and concrete stairs will be cast in the next few weeks. A topping out ceremony will be held on the 17th of May and the building is set for substantial completion December 5th. News and project descriptions via: Steven Holl Architects. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Cima House / Garza Iga Arquitectos Posted: 22 Apr 2017 06:00 AM PDT 
 From the architect. Sustainable and smart; this house is one of opposites; breaching the gap between last century's construction methods and next century's technology and ideology.  Built with concrete, steel I beams, and wood; it resembles the classic architecture styles of Louis Kahn and Mies Van der Rohe but at the same time it incorporates a range of technological systems not available in their time. Water collection, treatment and reuse, and solar power technology are only some of those mentioned systems.  The smart part of the equation is not only the fact that you can control your lightning to create different moods or lower the temperature of the baby's bedroom from your phone while on a business trip. But more importantly it responds to its environment complementing the sustainable systems to make them more efficient, for example: the sprinklers won't water the garden if it rained the night before.   Section  Another opposite we find in the house are the facade designs. The front responds to privacy and security, looking more like a bunker than a residence. Aside from some clues on the ground, you can't really read where the entrance is, nor figure out if there are any windows at all. The north facade on the other hand is completely transparent, since we wanted to exploit the panoramic views and make them part of the interior.  Section Upon passing the main entrance, the space quickly opens up to you as you realize the kitchen, dining and living rooms are all encased in a single open space, even the city itself seems part of the same place you are in, thanks to the huge windows mentioned before. The windows are another sustainable system the design embraces; double UV-light resistant glass layers with argon gas in between, they keep Chihuahua's harsh weather at bay.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Topio7’s Revitalisation of Former Cemetery Merges Urban Park and City in Athens Posted: 22 Apr 2017 05:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Topio7 Architects A competition for the transformation of a former cemetery in Nikea, just west of central Athens, has been won by Greek firm Topio7, with a proposal that creates a revitalized public park as a result of "a mutual osmosis between the park and the city". A number of green buffer zones – "the elastic limit" – are utilized to frame a procession-like journey from the bustle of the city to the calm of the park's landscape. Highlighting the importance of the site's previous use, the architects explain that the "main objective of the project is the creation of an open, accessible public space, a contemporary urban park with ecological-bioclimatic character, with special emphasis on the social dimension and the site's memory."  Courtesy of Topio7 Architects  Courtesy of Topio7 Architects Previously inaccessible to the public, the renewed site is based on a series of circular zones, connecting the promenade and plazas on the perimeter to the heart of the park. Here, a clearing provides rest areas and recreation spots, as well as an embedded restaurant featuring a corten steel façade, which offers views of a meadow from its accessible rooftop. Following the same linear axes as the original cemetery, the park's primary promenades are composed of cobblestone and green joints, overgrown with wildflowers. Landscaped zones are central to the project's design, and include a Church plaza, embedded amphitheater, Mediterranean gardens, fruit tree clearings and a wetland. Fauna such as cypress and water jets have been preserved, complimenting new plantings that combine to create a filter of vegetation.  Courtesy of Topio7 Architects  Courtesy of Topio7 Architects The elastic green buffer zones offer new uses for the space, as a continuous connection with the urban fabric. Sports courts, playgrounds, outdoor gyms, picnic areas, a mountain bike track and a small farm are potential programs that could be implemented, in addition to lightweight wooden kiosks for information services and outdoor bazaars. A walking, jogging and cycling track snakes its way between the green zones, allowing users to experience the diverse areas of the park at different paces. News via: Topio7 Architects.
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| A Glimpse of the Forward-Thinking, Humorous Work of Cedric Price Posted: 22 Apr 2017 02:30 AM PDT  Cedric Price's "Potteries Thinkbelt" project. Image Courtesy of Canadian Centre for Architecture Samantha Hardingham's recently-published work, A Forward-Minded Retrospective: Cedric Price Works—1953-2003, traces the architect's career through a comprehensive collection of his drawings and renders. The exhaustive two-volume work acknowledges Cedric Price not just as the entertaining novelty he is often regarded as, but as a great mind who was ahead of his time. While the vast majority of work produced during his lifetime was never built, Hardingham draws out the radical genius behind such projects as the hybrid office complex-highway "Officebar," a zoo restaurant whose column-less interior paved the way for its later conversion to a giraffe habitat, and many others—built and unbuilt. In addition to the uncanny future forecasting expressed in many of Price's works, they are also known for serving as inspiration for the functionalist designs of Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, making them necessary to a complete understanding of the modern architectural canon. In an article on Metropolis Magazine, Samuel Medina takes a whistle-stop tour of some of the most intriguing works presented in Hardingham's new book.
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| CFB Borden All Ranks Kitchen and Dining Facilities / FABRIQ Architecture + Zas Architects Posted: 22 Apr 2017 02:00 AM PDT  © Brenda Liu Photography
 © Brenda Liu Photography From the architect. The Curtiss and Vickers facilities are two new dining facilities intended to replace the dozen or so disparate ones currently being used at CFB Borden. These would integrate into the base's masterplan of a pedestrian campus and nearly all diners would reach it by foot.  © Brenda Liu Photography The program includes the dining hall, kitchen facilities and office areas, as well as washroom and first aid facilities for the adjacent soccer pitches. The facility is designed to address current food service deficiencies and to prepare for future needs, seating 750 at a time, 1,500 diners per meal (through 2 sittings).  © Brenda Liu Photography The design strategy for this new prototype kitchen and dining facility focused on providing a pleasant, efficient and enduring building with plenty of natural light and optimized interior traffic flows and to provide the Military Service Personnel and staff state of the art kitchen equipment.  © Brenda Liu Photography The exterior forms are deliberately orthogonal, streamlined and understated in order to produce an elegant, timeless building that fits in with the existing built environment at the base. As you enter the facility the aesthetic changes, the building interior takes the form of the dramatic glue laminated arboriform wood structure of the columns and beams, in reference to the pine forests that were once dominant in the area. These structural elements, along with the sweeping views of the natural context provided by floor to ceiling curtain wall, aim to provide the diner a comfortable, peaceful environment for meals – better to appreciate the respite in otherwise often grueling schedules. Graphics along the walls carry this sylvan theme into the service area.  © Brenda Liu Photography  Site Plan - Mezzanine Plan It is difficult to overstate the importance of wayfinding forward flow in such a facility. The building's plan, forms, colour and materials are all used effectively to convey an intuitive understanding of path and use – diners who have never entered the building are naturally brought through the facility in a loop, completing it with no cross-circulation. This is very important considering the volume of diners. Forward flow design is also used in the service and kitchen areas. From deliveries to the table and back to the trash, the design is carefully tailored to avoid cross- traffic.  © Brenda Liu Photography The use of form and colour to help inform clients is also utilized on the exterior. Spaces intended for the public are housed in the light coloured, taller block, while the darker block is reserved for the technical and kitchen areas.  © Brenda Liu Photography This project is targeted LEED Silver certification. Along with common ecological features, the project was particularly innovative in the use of ultra-high efficiency kitchen equipment and providing daylight and exterior views - something seldom found in large commercial kitchens.  © Brenda Liu Photography The kitchen and preparation area is equipped with the latest kitchen and cooking equipment. These allows huge savings in hot water and other energy-intensive processes. It is also one of the first in Canada to use its state of the art waste-disposal vacuum system and automated, which allows the elimination of cross circulation of food and waste.  © Brenda Liu Photography This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 22 Apr 2017 01:00 AM PDT  Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany (1977–1984), 1984. Alastair Hunter, photographer. Image Courtesy of Canadian Centre for Architecture British architect and Pritzker Laureate Sir James Stirling (22 April 1926 – 25 June 1992) grew up in Liverpool, one of the two industrial powerhouses of the British North West, and began his career subverting the compositional and theoretical ideas behind the Modern Movement. Citing a wide-range of influences—from Colin Rowe, a forefather of Contextualism, to Le Corbusier, and from architects of the Italian Renaissance to the Russian Constructivist movement—Stirling forged a unique set of architectural beliefs that manifest themselves in his works. Indeed his architecture, commonly described as "nonconformist," consistently caused annoyance in conventional circles.  Portrait of James Stirling. Ray Williams, photographer.. Image Courtesy of Canadian Centre for Architecture According to Rowan Moore, Stirling also "designed some of the most notoriously malfunctioning buildings of modern times." Yet, for all the "veiled accusations of incompetence," as Reyner Banham put it, Stirling produced a selection of the world's most interesting and groundbreaking buildings. Notably, the Royal Institute of British Architects' highest award, the Stirling Prize, was named after him in 1996.  History Faculty Building, University of Cambridge, England (1963–1967). Ezra Stoller, photographer. Image Courtesy of Canadian Centre for Architecture The Queen's College Florey building was the third and final building of The Red Trilogy, encompassing the Leicester Engineering Faculty building and the Cambridge History Faculty building. Within its design was held an architectural style imbued with a radically revised type of Modernism. This history faculty building (1968) at the University of Cambridge, which he designed alongside his partner James Gowan, often forced its inhabitants to "struggle to study in [an] alternately freezing/boiling greenhouse, with dodgy acoustics, frequent leaks and falling cladding tiles." Yet the architectural concepts of interweaving tension and elaboration and, according to Moore, "interplays of forces and illusions" were groundbreaking.  Biblioteca Pubblica, Latina, Italy (1979–1985): worm's-eye axonometric view of reference library. Image Courtesy of Canadian Centre for Architecture  Stiff Dom-ino Housing, theoretical project (1951): cut-away axonometric view with hinged windows. Image Courtesy of Canadian Centre for Architecture His 1984 Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart quickly became, according to Moore, "one of the biggest tourist attractions in the country," making it "a prototype of the Guggenheim in Bilbao." After the Staatsgalerie, Stirling's work was often described as Postmodernism, a label which he himself rejected. During this time he also received a number of significant commissions, from the Clore Gallery to London's Tate Britain and the design for the new Tate Galleries in his hometown of Liverpool.  Clore Gallery, Tate Britain, London. Image © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clore_Gallery_London_Dec07.JPG'>Wikimedia user Elekhh</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en'>CC BY-SA 3.0</a> Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany (1977–1984), 1984. Alastair Hunter, photographer. Image Courtesy of Canadian Centre for Architecture A few days after being conferred with a Knighthood, Stirling was hospitalized and died on the 25th June 1992. In recent years his work has been continually re-evaluated, leading to a number of books and exhibitions, most notably the 2012 exhibition James Stirling: Notes from the Archive in Canada. For Moore, his later work became "more likeable and less leaky". His defenders have often ascribed the technical failures of his buildings to poor construction, cost-cutting and unworkable clients.  The Florey Building at Queen's College, Oxford University. Image © James Brittain  University of Cambridge History Faculty. Image © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:History_Faculty_University_of_Cambridge.jpg'>Wikimedia user Solipsist</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en'>CC BY-SA 2.0</a> See the work of James Stirling featured on ArchDaily via the thumbnails below, and more coverage of Stirling below those: London Calling: The Man Behind the Stirling Prize London Calling: British Modernism's Watershed Moment - The Churchill College Competition This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Cycling Center / Ferdinand and Ferdinand Architects Posted: 21 Apr 2017 10:00 PM PDT  © Andrea Balazs
 © Andrea Balazs From the architect. 10- 15 years ago the topic of mobility gained momentum in the Hungarian contemporary architecture. Many young architects realised that a major task of the next generation of architects/enginiers and urban designes will be the redefinition and reshaping of the existing urban infrastructure. Architecture and mobility will have implications not only on the traffic systems (means of traffic) of the 21st century, they will have impact on social spaces, public parks, as well.  First Floor It allo meant that the an increasing percentage of the new architect-generations will be involved in the formation and design of the new urban networks, as opposed to the traditional tasks of designing commercial and public buildings, or residential properties.  © Andrea Balazs Although the town of TISZAFÜRED is conseiderd to be the capital of the Tisza-Lake Region, and also the center the North Alföld eco-touristic subregion, it has relatively few sights / buildings that are worth mentioning from clearly actitectural prospective. One of them nearby is the Hotel Tisza Balneum (designer: Ferdinand Architects 2004-2008).  Section Perhaps that is why my first encounter with the cycling center struck me as a suprise. We arrived on the main road from the direction of Debrecen. For miles and miles there is nothing to see but the breathtaking planes of Hortobágy. When we reached Tiszafüred, and crossed the railroad - quite unexpectedly we caughts the sight of the new building. The psychological efferct is very different from other buildings which have a high tower - which the visitors can see from far - here it comes totally out of the blue, after one or two bends from the town centre - you have a stand-alone snow white building in front of you - with suprising contoures.  © Andrea Balazs For the lovers of contemporary architecture it is immediately obvious the Bicycle Center designed by Ferdinand Architects may have been inspired by Dutch or Danish examples of urban bicycle facilities. The road becomes the building itselt in their stucture, too, as it spirals upwards, slowly ascending and finally connects into the building at the top - where the entrance zone to the Pavilion was located.  Second Floor This concept was further developed in Tiszafüred, the connection of the central corpus and the spirals are loosened, less calculated, less regular. The roads that take the cyclers up are coverd with green roofs at certain parts establish the functional connection between the levels of the building. The three floors have three distinctly different functions: The ground floor houses bicycle rentals and service function, wash rooms and showers are located on the seond floor, while the top floor gives room to a coffe shop and ian nformation desk. From here you can enjoy the beautiful vistas of Tisza Lake.  © Andrea Balazs And the regular one day cycling program looks like this: families or tourist groups arrive by car or by bust to the closed parking area, they change to the own or rented bikes, if they need any information, they contact the person at the information desk, than set out for the 50km (roughly 30 miles) bicycle road. When they get back at the end of the day, they can have a shower, change, have their vehicles repaired or maintained, have refreshments at the coffee shop, chill out, and continue their tour. The building may seem a little exeggerated or too modernly shaped for the first sight, since the style and the scale of the building may be considered more suitable for a more dense urban background - as in the examples cited aboe.  © Andrea Balazs On the other hand it must not be forgotten that objective of the designer could have been the creation of a symbolic venue, that provides a marketing advantage too, as its unusual form is easy to remember,, it clearly distinguishes Tiszafüred from other tourist destinations.  Third Floor This building does not merely serve the pure functional needs of bikers, it aims to the the symbol of the touristic development projects in the region, may be the symbol of the bicycle tourism in Hungary, in general.  © Andrea Balazs In summary the dinamic,, dashing (buoyant) structure that reflects the pleasure of rolling, the pleasure of movement does not become a provocation, on the contrary it is a brilliant architectural gesture, which is capable of communicatig a grand-scale touristic development to the any or all layers of society. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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