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- Hotel Amarin / STUDIO UP
- Stormvillan / Mer Architects
- Qiandao Lake Cable Car Station / Archi-Union Architects
- The Sydney Opera House Comes to Life (Literally) With Vivid Sydney Light Show
- 10th Annual North American Copper in Architecture Awards Showcase 15 Innovative Copper Designs
- S+J House / Luciano Kruk
- Federico Babina's PORTRART Illustrations Tells a Story Within a Portrait
- Read Dozens of Historical Architecture Books for Free Online Thanks to New Library Exhibition
- Pacherhof Pavilion / bergmeisterwolf architekten
- The Red Wall Behind Martin Solveig's Latest Music Video
| Posted: 28 May 2017 08:00 PM PDT  © Robert Leš
 © Robert Leš From the architect. Hotel Amarin sits in a thick pine forest, at the eastern edge of the „Monsena-Valdaliso" tourist zone. From its peninsula, it looks out and curves toward Rovinj, Venice, distant seas horizons and the tiny island of Figarola.  © Robert Leš The hotel has one movie theater, two beaches, three indoor pools, three hot tubs, four outdoor pools, four apartment suites, four saunas, five outdoor playscapes, five wellness rooms, six eateries and cafes, ten thematic indoor points for kids, and two hundred and seventy six double bedrooms. It welcomes families, wanderers and play, awakening and drawing them to belong to its large, intermingling territory on the seaside.  Public Realm How to create a large hotel in which many diverse spaces feel integral and familiar ? In which, instead of consumption, people participate in leisure, and the experience of family vacation is intense and remembered. Private and public spaces are separated into two stacked groups. Public spaces are ground-level, while the rooms hover in the air. The public sphere has a vibrant character, the private sphere is contemplative.  © Robert Leš The spaces between these two spheres are: curving tunnels, ramps in the air, a winding, levitating path, a fragmented staircase, a lobby with a reflecting garden and bar, a Mikado-like reception, and a Mediterranean blue net playscape.  © Robert Leš All of the public spaces are in direct contact with the terrain and its outdoor amenities, which are organized in informal ways and irregular forms, respecting program demands.  © Robert Leš  © Robert Leš The character of the public sphere is dynamic, full of unexpected collisions, frames, games of perception and existing suggestive structures that sprout out from the ground. Rooms grow their own landscapes. It's busy down here and curiosity is rewarded as each wing reveals itself like pages of a pop-up book. Outdoor spaces create colorful scenes with many activities happening simultaneously.  © Robert Leš  Site Plan Diagram  © Robert Leš New geometries, hypnotic landscaping and environmental graphics appear. It's about motion too – dots flicker on roads, mirrors, and in planting arrangements. Corridors escape outdoors, leading you with them, while they become paths carving out continents of flowers, hills and playgrounds.  © Robert Leš The outside appearance of the ground floor is characterized by a continuous reflective elevation, fragmenting the reflections of the forest, creating a kaleidoscopic effect and additionally widening the panorama of the large affiliated landscape.  Ground Floor Plan The private sphere, with beautiful views of the Rovinj archipelago, is shockingly white. It is neutral, simple, mysterious and shaded from the sun with a transparent outdoor „curtain".  © Robert Leš  © Robert Leš Playful elements on the wall inspire imagination and whiteness lets you think. This private, levitating object follows the shoreline with its organic shape and secures distant views towards the open sea and forest. The dynamic sequence of spatial and atmospheric excerpts activates children and parents in exploring intriguing games of perception, relationships between the whole and its parts, shapes, proportions, materials, light, shadow, scent and reflections.  Cross Section Amarin: a camper for 1000 people. Jagged underneath, airy up above. Taking you up its winding ramps, or dropping you off below in a land of caves. White meets red earth, looking out and looking in, a series of dots, lines and curves smiling at a pine forest, and intruder but also a friend. From inside, take a walk through the forest outside – see things from the perspective of a bird, or a mouse.  © Robert Leš This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 28 May 2017 07:00 PM PDT  © Marc Goodwin
 © Marc Goodwin From the architect. In the late 19th century, while Finland was still a Grand Duchy under Russia, Hanko was a popular spa resort for the Russian nobility. The endless meandering beaches are lined by leaning pine forests and grand wooden seaside villas.  © Marc Goodwin  Ground floor plan  © Marc Goodwin Stormvillan is situated right at the heart of the historic villa district. The main floor opens out to three directions: The living room to a long view out to sea, the lounge west for sunsets across the dining terrace and the master bedroom takes in the junipers and wind blown pinetrees of the cliff it stands on. This form also maintains unobstructed views to the sea from the old Casino and the neighboring national romantic Parkvillan, designed by one of the most significant architects of the time, Theodor Höijer.  © Marc Goodwin The ground floor cuts into the rock and the villa is entered on beach level. Visitors are guided through a narrow hallway with a glazed wall facing the revealed bedrock. At the very end of the ground floor is a room with two walls of bare bedrock, the wine cellar. A carpet clad staircase leads up to the main floor. Designed as a home for an elderly couple, the villa also has an elevator and fully accessible bathrooms. The main floor is about light, views and flowing space. It's angles are designed to fit the natural shape of the rock as well as the fantastic views out to the sea.  © Marc Goodwin The villa is clad in spruce panel, painted with traditional linseed oil paint as are the surrounding 19th century villas. The roof of the ground floor level serves as a wooden terrace with a section of green roof. The zink roof blends into the coastal hues of the sky.  © Marc Goodwin This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Qiandao Lake Cable Car Station / Archi-Union Architects Posted: 28 May 2017 01:00 PM PDT  © Su Shengliang, Lin Bian
 © Su Shengliang, Lin Bian From the architect. In 2013, Professor Zhang took initiative persuading several Shanghai architects to take part in the "Hualian Group Qiandao Lake Development at Jinxianwan East Resort Planning and Architecture Design Project." At that time the lottery results often turned up planning and architecture design opportunities. What floated up for us was a cable car station design and construction project, giving the project to us at that time produced quite a disturbance among the staid Shanghai architecture community.  © Su Shengliang, Lin Bian  Situation Plan  © Su Shengliang, Lin Bian Qiandao Lake is a place rich in natural beauty. The lake was the inspiration for Guo Moruo's noted poem "Three-Thousand Xizi," in the poem Moruo writes "the Hangzhou islands are numerous/ the mountains gave up their height to become these islands/ since then their valleys have rolled in waves." Our site at Qiandao faces the islands and is backed by mountains described in the poem. The water is clear like crystal; the islands nestle together in the lake before our site, the scene is heavenly. The water level here fluctuates several meters; on the water's edge there is a dock, behind the dock are indigenous reeds and birds visible in their natural repose. On the mountain side the tea paddies stack one on top of another and the surrounding array of bamboo glimmers. Arriving at the site we find the available space to be difficult and complicated, because of this, the scenery seems even more beautiful. Only with modesty and a sense of terror do we start to observe the site. We do not know how to begin.  © Su Shengliang, Lin Bian  Section  © Su Shengliang, Lin Bian Professor Bu Bing was appointed planning advisor, under his directive the waterfront planning took on the form of orthogonal clusters. Walking paths and greenery entwine these spaces together, interlocking to form an oscillating pattern revealing and concealing these spaces along the mountainside. The site we secured sat between the boat dock and the cable car station, the project was to act as a link to the cable car station and to set in motion the new development. After completion, the project will continue to serve as an important transportation component and act as crucial part in the network of buildings throughout the area. The project called for orthogonal planning on a mountain side with jagged steep terrain, with one side fronting the water and the other fronting a mountain, high elevation in the west and low elevation in the east. The site would act as something of a gate into the new center of the town so it must be responsive to the activities surrounding it. The south side of the lake with the boat dock was planned to become an impressive lake vista with this architecture at its center.  Model  Second Floor Plan  © Su Shengliang, Lin Bian This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Sydney Opera House Comes to Life (Literally) With Vivid Sydney Light Show Posted: 28 May 2017 09:00 AM PDT
Vivid LIVE, part of the annual festival of lights and music known as Vivid Sydney, is taking place this weekend. As in previous years, the event was launched with a mesmerizing video projection mapped onto the sails of Sydney's iconic Opera House. Titled "Audio Creatures," this year's projection was created by Ash Bolland sees the Opera House writhe and squirm to a soundtrack by Amon Tobin; at times the shells of the building crack open to reveal new life inside, at other moments, infestations crawl their way across from the building's edges. Read on to see more photographs from the show and the full video of the event.  © Yaya Stempler  © Daniel Boud  © Yaya Stempler  © Daniel Boud  © Yaya Stempler  © Daniel Boud To see more "Lighting the Sails" projections at the Sydney Opera House from previous years, click here. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 10th Annual North American Copper in Architecture Awards Showcase 15 Innovative Copper Designs Posted: 28 May 2017 07:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of North American Copper in Architecture Awards With a combination of resilience, sustainability, and pleasing aesthetics, the use of copper in architectural design is often indicative of a building's craft and attention to detail, as demonstrated by fifteen projects selected as recipients for the 2017 North American Copper in Architecture Awards (NACIA). The 10th edition of the annual awards celebrates a variety of projects throughout North America for their "outstanding use of architectural copper and copper alloys." Projects were selected across three categories: New Construction, Renovation/Restoration, and Ornamental Applications. Here are this year's fifteen NACIA winners: New Construction:166 Dovercourt House – Toronto, Ontario / Ja Architecture Studio  © Copper in Design Biomedical Sciences Partnership Building on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus – Phoenix, Arizona / CO Architects  © Bill Timmerman Timmerman Photography 210 Pacific Street – Brooklyn, New York / NAVA  © NAVA Companies et al Private Residence – Gurley, Alabama / Nola | VanPeursem Architects, PC  © Copperworks Corp Private Residence – Juneau, Alaska / Fine Metal Roof Tech  © Dan Hubert Staten Island Courthouse, St. George – Staten Island, New York / Ennead Architects  © Jeff Goldberg Wet Weather Pump Station – Hoboken, New Jersey / natasi architects  © nastasi architects Restoration/Renovation:31 East 74th St. – New York, New York / Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP  © B&B Sheet Metal Inc. Boston Private Residence – Alexandria, Virginia / Restoration Engineering, Inc.  © Landmarks Photography – Jay Stearns Centre Block of the Canadian Parliament – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada / Architecture EVOQ inc.  © EVOQ Historic Fayette County Courthouse – Lexington, Kentucky / K. Norman Berry Associates Architects, PLLC  © Timothy Steinrock Le Windsor-Mansard Rehabilitation Project – Montreal, Quebec / Spencer R. Higgins, Architect Incorporated  © Stéphan Poulin Vedanta Temple – San Francisco, California / Hans Liebscher Custom Copperworks  © Olga Soboleva Ornamental:The Wellington Building Renovation Project – Toronto, Ontario / NORR Limited Architects, Engineers & Planners  © doublespace photography In honor of the award program's 10th anniversary, members from the copper, architectural, and construction industries, in addition to the general public, selected the top 10 copper projects of the last decade, which can be found here. For full profiles of this year's fifteen recipients, check out the awards' website. News via: Copper Development Association Inc.
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| Posted: 28 May 2017 06:00 AM PDT  © Daniela Mac Adden
 © Daniela Mac Adden From the architect. S+J House is located in the seaside neighborhood Costa Esmeralda, a private development 13 km north of the city of Pinamar and four hours away from Buenos Aires city.  © Daniela Mac Adden Despite being almost plain, the plot of land slopes softly towards its back. As the Studio proposed to preserve the lot's dense pine grove, only the trees on the construction site were removed in order to build the house.  © Daniela Mac Adden The client, a group of two families, requested a house that could lodge both at the same time and that could be rented out.  © Daniela Mac Adden The commission consisted of a recreation house built entirely out of exposed concrete, with minimalist interior spaces and little maintenance requirements. The brief included two en suite bedrooms with their own closets and two cabin-like minimum rooms sharing a bathroom. So as to make the social area the most important place in the house, an external expansion was requested. Also, the client asked for a closed space for beach vehicles and a semi covered area parking lot. Special emphasis was laid on the need to establish a fluid relation between the inner spaces and the exterior, which would allow a closer experience of the forest.  Axonometric In order to preserve the native vegetation, the house was set longitudinally and the setback on the front and the sides was expanded beyond the minimum required by code. By so doing, the house ended up surrounded by pines.  © Daniela Mac Adden Following regulating lines, an orthogonal grid organizes the house's structure and space.  © Daniela Mac Adden The house is arranged in two staggered platforms disposed at half-height and connected through smoothly sloped ramp-like stairs and an empty space in which the pine forest becomes a part of the house. At half-height of the entrance level and set on the natural terrain, the platform at the back houses the social area, which opens into a terrace overlooking the golf court behind the plot of land. Half a level above the social area, the bedrooms' platform rises on the front, underpinned by a prism lodging service and storing areas.  Ground Floor Plan  Section B  Main Floor Plan Aiming at centering the loads to the smallest space possible, this supporting volume was set back and reduced to its minimum as an attempt at once to enhance the feeling that the upper box is floating and to take advantage of the semi covered space on the natural terrain as the parking area the clients had requested.  © Daniela Mac Adden The glazed bridges connecting both platforms traverse the void space through a pines-surrounded promenade upon which light falls from the rooftop and drips through the tree branches. In this way, the forest's vital energy is introduced into the house.  © Daniela Mac Adden While both the exterior shell and the inner partitions are made of exposed concrete, the floors are made of smooth concrete. In order to emphasize the openings without confronting this material's stony essence, dark bronze anodized aluminum was used in the framings.  © Daniela Mac Adden In an elementary architectural scheme—synthesized in two platforms connected by bridges and green patios—a continuum stripe made of concrete swathes the whole house, thus producing a single volume, composed of void and filled areas, that at once shelters the interior space from the outside view and preserves its intimacy without dissociating the house from the nature around. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Federico Babina's PORTRART Illustrations Tells a Story Within a Portrait Posted: 28 May 2017 05:00 AM PDT Federico Babina, the illustrator behind the series of popular architectural interpretations including ARCHITALE and ARCHIPLAY, has just released his latest project: PORTRART, 35 illustrations that tell 35 short stories describing and relating to the individual personalities of 35 artists. "The shapes, the sculpted and painted geometries of the artists are transformed to draw their faces," explains Babina. Each composition portrays a realistic fantasy in a series of geometric shapes around a central matrix, the portrait. Babina continues, "The project attempts to visualize the likeness, personality, and capture the essential features of the protagonist through simple lines, geometries, color, and ink. The idea is to achieve an almost abstract representation without losing the essence of figurative representation." See all the portraits after the break.  Courtesy of Federico Babina News via: Federico Babina. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Read Dozens of Historical Architecture Books for Free Online Thanks to New Library Exhibition Posted: 28 May 2017 02:30 AM PDT  © Buffalo and Erie County Public Library Buffalo and Erie County Public Library of Buffalo, New York, has recently opened a new exhibit at their Central Library titled Building Buffalo: Buildings From Books, Books From Buildings. The exhibit will feature a large selection of rare, illustrated architectural books from the Library's collection dating from the fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The bonus for those who are geographically distant from Buffalo is that, as part of the exhibit, the Library has also made dozens of historical architecture books available online, completely digitized and free to the public.  © Buffalo and Erie County Public Library The free exhibition began on May 1 and will run through March 2018 in the Rare Book Room in the Central Library in Buffalo. The books included in the exhibit were curated to showcase the cultural heritage that inspired the design of the built environment in and around Buffalo, New York. The three architectural historians who curated the exhibit were the ones who revealed the (previously unknown) depth of the collection, over 400 books on architecture and landscape design. The books were originally assembled as a resource for architects and residents in the growing city of Buffalo and served as inspiration for much of the city's design.  © Buffalo and Erie County Public Library The subject matter of the books available for viewing is wide-ranging, including some titles from Frederick Law Olmsted's reading list, books by local Buffalo authors, books that show how designers in the past envisioned the future and predicted the effects of the skyscraper, and many more. A companion catalog to the exhibit has also been released in memory of a local architect, Theodore "Ted" Lownie (1936-2017), which details the assembly of the Library's collection and also describes the illustrations in the exhibit. The catalog is available for purchase through the Library as well as online.  © Buffalo and Erie County Public Library Also online as part of the exhibit is a long list of books from the collection that have been digitized and are available to the public to read for free. The books included in the online collection span a range of years from the late 1400s to the early twentieth century, much like the physical exhibit. One of the highlights is John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice, printed in 1851, a detailed examination of Venetian art and architecture including examples of over eighty churches. Another notable inclusion is Viollet-le-Duc's Lectures on Architecture, in which he writes about his (hugely controversial at the time) approach to architecture and architectural education. Last but certainly not least, Vitruvius' 10 Books on Architecture is available as well--the English translation is not included, but the digitized version does contain original illustrations from the 1660 publication that are well worth a look.  © Buffalo and Erie County Public Library The list of online books (with links) can be found here.
The BUILDING BUFFALO exhibition and catalogue were made possible through the generous support of The Baird Foundation, Catherine Flickinger Schweitzer, Gray Schweitzer, the Donald H. Cloudsley Foundation, Julian R. & Varue Oishei Foundation, Watts Architecture & Engineering, Weissman Family Foundation, Wayne & Janet Wisbaum and the Estate of Nicholas Bodnar.
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| Pacherhof Pavilion / bergmeisterwolf architekten Posted: 28 May 2017 02:00 AM PDT  © Lukas Schaller
 © Lukas Schaller From the architect. The concept: a sheltered and yet open roof, a continuation of existing structure and terraced dry stone walls; room to dine, come together, and taste wine. A analysis of the site and space – simultaneously inclusive and exclusive.  © Lukas Schaller  Floor plan  © Lukas Schaller Continuing the exterior area into the inside and vice versa. Opening sliding glas elements on the façade disappear in the walls and alter one's perception of th pavilion and its space. The exterior is expanded, with the roof acting as sheltering element – extending the courtyard. Terrace and pavilion become th focal points between the houses. The stone wall acts as support for the monolithi roof that opens up toward the valley.  © Lukas Schaller This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Red Wall Behind Martin Solveig's Latest Music Video Posted: 28 May 2017 01:00 AM PDT
Almost one year has passed since the music video release of 'Do It Right' by French artist Martin Solveig. Although deprived of a star-studded tennis match on this occasion, over 15 million viewers have been treated to stunning vistas of The Red Wall, a vibrant fortress of color designed by Ricardo Bofill in Calp, Spain. As well as being an inspiration for hundreds of architects, who have admired its striking color palette and interlocking staircases, The Red Wall succeeded in capturing the imagination of Solveig and the team at Monsieur l'Agent, the French agency who produced the music video. Built in 1968, La Muralla Roja (The Red Wall) is Inspired by the traditional Arab Mediterranean casbah (castle). The scheme is characterized by its series of interlocking stairs, platforms and bridges giving access to 50 apartments, as well as its striking wall coloring, selected to either contrast with nature or compliment its purity. Complete with roof terraces, a swimming pool, sauna, and generous apartment sizes, The Red Wall reflects Bofill's desire to provide enhanced living amongst the Alicante cliffs.
For architects, the Solveig music video is a pleasure to watch, with its sweeping views of courtyards and rooftops, framed shots of staircases and contrasting walls, and recognition of details such as pool tiles and shadow.
The architecture of The Red Wall weighs heavily on many other aspects of the video, with the extra props and characters' clothing designed to compliment the building's vibrant colors. Towards the end of the video, a series of scenes along the rocky Calp coastline feature abstract shapes and objects, also respecting the chromatic palette of The Red Wall.
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