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- Rotebro Sports Hall / White Arkitekter
- The Marly House / L’agence KARAWITZ
- Participatory Student Building Project Spinelli Mannheim / Atelier U20
- WeWork Weihai Lu / Linehouse
- Common Ground / URBANTAINER
- Nionohama Apartment House Renovation / ALTS Design Office
- Mountainside Stellar Residences and Townhomes / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
- Free Resume Templates for Architects
- PL House / AI2 Design
- Schauman & Nordgren Architects Wins Competition for "City of Gardens" Masterplan in Finland
- Amoroso Studio / Modal Design
- New York City Unveils Plans for New Fashion and Film Hub in Brooklyn
- MAD Brussels / Vers plus de bien être + ROTOR
- The 16 Stories Behind the 2017 Building of the Year Award Winners
- Studio Bell / Allied Works Architecture
- Zaha Hadid Architects Releases Images of Tower with the World's Tallest Atrium
- LOHA’s Latest Supportive Housing Complex Curbs LA’s Increasing Homelessness
- Tirana 2030: Watch How Nature and Urbanism Will Co-Exist in the Albanian Capital
| Rotebro Sports Hall / White Arkitekter Posted: 16 Feb 2017 09:00 PM PST  © Thomas Zaar
 © Thomas Zaar White Arkitekter designed a full-scale sports hall for schools and sports clubs in Rotebro in Sollentuna municipality, Sweden. Rotebrohallen - Rotebro sports hall - is a 20x40m concept hall and a first step in the regeneration of central Rotebro.  © Thomas Zaar White Arkitekter developed a design which ensures that additional halls can be easily erected in further locations around the municipality, where schools require venues for PE and the general appetite for organised sports is on the increase. Rotebro is the first location to be built and put into use.  Diagram  Diagram  Diagram  Diagram The sports hall is centrally located in Rotebro in an area under development where large buildings with robust materials and simple details are now joined by new buildings. Rotebrohallen has been given a design that relates to the scale of the location and adapts to the existing planning, adds qualities in the small scale and contributes with something modern and playful.  © Thomas Zaar A sculptural shape and carefully crafted details have resulted in a building with character and quality. With a structural framing of wood and external walls of cement bound wood wool the building is mainly constructed of renewable material. In addition, solar panels are incorporated in the building and the roof is covered with sedum.  Floor Plan Location and design work together to create contact between the life inside and outside the hall, making it a lively place for meetings. This feeling is further enhanced by the new park and recreation spaces for play and spontaneous sports activity.  © Thomas Zaar Rotebrohallen, in spite of its size, is a natural addition to an urban environment going through development and densification.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Marly House / L’agence KARAWITZ Posted: 16 Feb 2017 07:00 PM PST  © Schnepp Renou
 © Schnepp Renou From the architect. On a tree-lined street in Marly-le-Roi a small community very close to Paris where high fences traditionally isolate each house and its garden, there is a house which reaches out to its neighbors creating a feeling of urbanity previously lacking on these parts. Because urban policy does not allow one house to open up to another to achieve the openness effect, this house is moved forward its parcel to open widely onto the street. A perforated galvanized-steel fence allows the passers-by to look in at the garden, which actually runs under the house that seems to levitate on its plot. It is also an invitation to enter: the access is made from this underground level beneath the actual house, where the firewood is stored and the car parked.  © Schnepp Renou The layout of the ground floor is characterized by the fluidity of its three spaces, which are organized around the central fireplace, which alone endures the entire heating of this passive house. The kitchen and an intimate living room are located on either side of the carved staircase of a single piece of prefabricated steel, while two steps higher a living room crossing opens onto a vast terrace with a cantilever onto the street. This house blurs the boundaries between private and public to the benefit of user-friendly rooms that also open onto the outside.  © Schnepp Renou  Sections  © Schnepp Renou The privacy of the inhabitants is maintained in the upper level rooms by high windows, which direct the view skywards. Throughout the house raw materials (steel and concrete) are left exposed creating a sense of authenticity for this 145 m2 solid wood CLT prefabricated house. Everything is a pretext to awaken the curiosity of the passers-by, the pre-grayed larch cladding that envelops the whole thing right up to the rafts, thanks to the absence of covers, to the fold of the main facade - which opens a perspective towards the garden . The house really does seem to have achieved the lofty dream it was targeting with such clarity.  © Schnepp Renou  © Schnepp Renou  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Participatory Student Building Project Spinelli Mannheim / Atelier U20 Posted: 16 Feb 2017 06:00 PM PST  © Yannick Wegner
 © Yannick Wegner From the architect. Due to bureaucratic procedures, refugees arriving in Germany are condemned to sustain a long period of passiveness. In the refugee camp on the location of the former American Spinelli Barracks in Mannheim, they are well provided with the bare essentials, but the immediate surroundings are quite desolate and lack quality of common spaces.  © Yannick Wegner In this situation, the project „Building Together – Learning Together" came into being. 18 students of the Faculty of Architecture at TU Kaiserslautern built a community centre together with 25 refugees. The refugees were given the opportunity to actively shape their environment and acquire new skills, which will be useful, even if they cannot stay in Germany on a permanent basis. The students were able to make an active and positive contribution to the refugee crisis. As future architects they contribute expertise that may appear luxurious in a refugee camp at first glance, but is even more important upon closer inspection: the creation of pleasant places and high-quality architecture.  Isometric After pinning down the outlines together with the refugees, the students developed design, permission and execution drawings as well as visualizations and cost planning in the course of a very intensive summer semester. From mid-August until the end of October they worked, ate and lived together with the refugees in the Spinelli Barracks. This resulted in an intensive working atmosphere and very positive group dynamics. The interior and exterior spaces of the building are either linked or separated in a carefully designed sequence.  © Yannick Wegner Two walls of the main building extend to the North, revealing two areas – each with its own specific character. A smaller enclosed space with covered niches may be used as an introverted garden and silent resort, whereas the larger yard accommodates a common room for events – confined by seating booths facing South and West.   All structural elements and surfaces are made of untreated timber. For protection from moisture during the construction process and in order to manufacture these parts in only six weeks, large-format components were prefabricated in a hangar of the former military facility and assembled on site with high speed and precision. The light weight of timber allowed for the transport of large elements by simple means and simultaneously reduced foundations to few singular footing foundations by incorporating the walls as trusses. In this way, both the costs for foundations and the negative ecological impact of concrete were reduced to a minimum.  © Yannick Wegner  © Yannick Wegner In order to make the best use of many helping hands and to reduce building costs, no large machinery was employed. Instead, simple and material-saving but labour-intensive constructions were used. Walls and trusses made of simple battens 3 by 5 cm are symbolic representants of this method: Screwed together to a grid of five vertically and diagonally arranged layers, they build a highly efficient supporting structure for walls and trusses. The ornamental structure results in the building's unique architectural expression. Multiplied by the interplay with light, it is recognized by the refugees as a reminder of oriental ornaments and as an inviting gesture of identification in a foreign place.  © Yannick Wegner  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 16 Feb 2017 02:00 PM PST  © Jonathan Leijonhufvud
 © Jonathan Leijonhufvud WeWork Weihai Lu is nestled in a turn of the century brick building; a former opium factory and artist residence. This building is surrounded by an old residential district in the heart of Shanghai.  © Dirk Weiblen Linehouse celebrated the grandeur of the building, encapsulating the feeling of a grand hotel, transporting guests and members on an unexpected journey of whimsy, voyeurism and festivity.  © Jonathan Leijonhufvud Upon arrival guests pass through an old laneway, framed by a traditional Chinese arch. The lane walls are painted pink and the floor pink concrete. Above, lights are festively suspended between the laneway walls.  © Jonathan Leijonhufvud The existing site is a combination of a brick historical building with further industrial additions that have been made over the years. The reception is located in this in-between zone of the old and new. Linehouse played with this narrative in the design. The reception counter is clad in heritage wood paneling, surrounded by a concrete base. A bronze metal structure hangs lighting and creates leaners. Behind the reception, guests are greeted with a neon sign ‘Ring For Service’ contained in a cabinet of curiosities, painted in a light blue.  © Jonathan Leijonhufvud The existing steel structure is painted ivy green, with a new black metal and black stained OSB handrail leaner wrapping the triple height space, allowing guests to be spectators to the activities below.  © Jonathan Leijonhufvud A green steel staircase weaves through the circulation space connecting all three levels of the front of house. This is clad in triangular pieces of oak wood, with one side painted in hues of blue. The colours alternate as you travel up the stair creating a gradient of tones, and shifting views from wood to blue.  © Jonathan Leijonhufvud The staircase leads to the two pantry areas that play on the opium factory narrative, with large scale poppy wallpapers, hand painted in gold.  © Jonathan Leijonhufvud The central atrium is surrounded by the heritage façade. A curved terrazzo tray was inserted to define the space, pastel diagonal strips in blue, green, pink and grey wrap the floor and wall, creating a hardscape carpet. A bronze structure is suspended above the terrazzo perimeter wall, hanging mirrors, artwork, shelving and lighting.  Atrium Section A bespoke lighting installation is suspended in the triple height space. Pink and grey cabling traverses the void threaded through circular bronze rings which hang custom glass shades.  © Dirk Weiblen Passing through the central atrium space to the back bar located within the heritage building, one is transported to a tropical retro oriental parlor. A gold gradient wallpaper wraps the perimeter wall, with hand painted Shanghai ladies, clothed in zebra attire and adorned in gangster bling, their era blurred between the 1920’s and the present day. A blue and pink neon in the shape of a fan frames the pantry area.  © Jonathan Leijonhufvud Custom wallpapers continue to play on this festive theme, with geometric and interweaving patterns in pastel tones, these are hand painted over in gold and green.  © Jonathan Leijonhufvud The bathroom walls are lined with custom printed tiles in pink and green interconnecting lines and shapes. The ceiling is painted a dusty pink, and a mint green lacquer box contains the cubicles, custom bronze light fixtures and mirrors create a parlor-like vanity.  © Jonathan Leijonhufvud  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 16 Feb 2017 12:00 PM PST 
 From the architect. Common Ground is the result of an experiment of revitalising unused land in the middle of the city. By applying prefab methods, e.g. producing modules in a factory, transporting them to the construction site and assembling them on-site, it was possible to reduce the construction time of the 5300 m2 building to five months.  In order to maximise the usage efficiency of the elongated rectangular shaped land, the architectural form is based on a center square connecting two buildings.    At the traffic-heavy main street side, container modules were stacked to give the building exterior more impact and draw attention from passers-by. The mass on the opposite side has been kept open to naturally connect to the visitor flow of the surrounding environment and invite people in more easily.   Site Plan  The two buildings, STREET MARKET and MARKET HALL, are both based on container architecture but are designed with different characteristics in mind.  The containers of the Street Market are arranged in a protruding configuration, highlight the individual modules and give the exterior more impact. The Market Hall is made of 12m long-span container modules which are used as separated shopping booths. Same- sized modules as roof of the hall create a usable terrace area on the third floor.   This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Nionohama Apartment House Renovation / ALTS Design Office Posted: 16 Feb 2017 11:00 AM PST  © Fuji-Shokai / Masahiko Nishida
 © Fuji-Shokai / Masahiko Nishida  © Fuji-Shokai / Masahiko Nishida From the architect. This plan is for renovating a room in a mansion with the view of the lake Biwa. The husband is keen on furniture and the wife loves plants. They live together with two cats. They have a newborn baby now. At this opportunity to have a new member in the family, they want to move to a new place. This is the reason why this project started. The plan was contemplated based on the concept "Cat, Furniture, and Plants."  © Fuji-Shokai / Masahiko Nishida We contemplated a space in which the living spaces of the cats and people are connected using furniture to allow them to live together comfortably. Considering the space from the cat's point of view, we provided the furniture against the wall, so that the traffic lines of the cats could be provided between the pieces of furniture. Then, the storage space used by the people and the houseplants were allocated in the space thud designed.  Floor Plan By this, we designed the room as a space where both the cats and humans find where to stay, with some places where the eye levels of the cats and humans are equal, so that they can feel the presences of each other.  © Fuji-Shokai / Masahiko Nishida While the people live on the floor, the cats live on the extra spaces, like the upper spaces unreachable for the people, and the spaces close to the floor surfaces. The storage furniture are designed to be arranged such that furniture and home electrical appliance on floor can be positioned without wasting the space. It was improved to be a wonderful space for humans and cats by designing it to maximize the utilization of the unused space and taking the two factors, the storage furniture and the cat walk into consideration.  © Fuji-Shokai / Masahiko Nishida  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Mountainside Stellar Residences and Townhomes / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Posted: 16 Feb 2017 09:00 AM PST  © Nic Lehoux
 © Nic Lehoux From the architect. Working with a progressive developer in the Lake Tahoe area, this collection of townhouses and single-family residences is a modern reinterpretation of the ski chalet. Conceived to be smartly efficient and compact in plan, these ski-in/ski-out homes are designed around social spaces that take advantage of breathtaking views to the ski slopes and Carson Range beyond.  © Nic Lehoux In considering the ideals of work-life balance and the needs of a modern, tech-savvy homebuyer, the client asked us to design a set of dwellings to challenge the concepts of the traditional mountain chalet. Though materials often found in conventional retreats—warm wood, glass, and natural stone—are used throughout these new mountainside homes, many elements have been modernized to provide a contemporary residence with a strong connection to nature, while also paying homage to the Lake Tahoe vernacular.  © Nic Lehoux  Site Plan  © Nic Lehoux Located in a dense forest of Jeffery pine and Douglas fir, two distinct dwelling types—residences and townhouses—embrace the edge of a shared ski slope. Celebrating outdoor-living with direct access to skiing, hiking, and biking, the six single-family units and 11 townhouses visually and materially engage their surroundings, emphasizing healthy living and environmental stewardship, as demonstrated in the project's LEED for Homes certification design standards.  © Nic Lehoux Upon entering the residences from their upper level, occupants are drawn into an elevated world, with remarkable views of Martis Valley and Carson Range beyond. Large expanses of glass offer a visual and physical connection to the outdoors, bathing communal areas in soft northern light throughout the day and framing sunlit views of the Sierra Nevadas in the evening. The master bedroom, immersed in sunlight via three exterior walls of glass, floats over the ski slope, causing one to feel as if perched in the trees.  Floor Plans  Floor Plans The townhouses are compact and efficient, stepping down the mountainside while following the curve of the ski slope. The simple, shed-roofed volumes are vertically and horizontally offset, allowing for privacy and a feeling of distance between neighboring units. Utilities and storage are organized along shared walls, while bunks are slipped into interstitial spaces to accommodate seasonal overflow. A double-height light well carved through the buildings draws sunlight into the depth of the dwellings, creating an additional connection to the outdoors.  © Nic Lehoux These mountainside residences and townhouses offer reprieve from the working world with a specific emphasis on responsible, ethical development, and the promotion of ecological, sustainable design.  © Nic Lehoux  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Free Resume Templates for Architects Posted: 16 Feb 2017 08:00 AM PST  What's a better way to follow up on one of our most popular posts (of all time) than by providing a key design tool: the mighty template. Many of you enjoyed seeing the examples of CVs and resumes submitted by ArchDaily readers, but you also asked for a simple, fast way to jump start inspiration for your own creations. Here are five hand-picked, well-organized, easy-to-use templates that have been downloaded and tested by our team of editors. 1. Minimalistic & Clean Resume by Mats-Peter Forss © Mats-Peter Forss Available formats: .psd, .ai 2. Simple Resume by Bro Luthfi © Bro Luthfi Available formats: .psd, .eps, .ai 3. Clean & Minimal Resume by Mats-Peter Forss © Mats-Peter Forss Available formats: .ai 4. The Sir David Attenborough by Amy Dozier © Amy Dozier Available formats: .docx 5. Creative Formal © Hloom Available formats: .docx Have a template to share? Send us a link to download in the form below. Please include at least one of the following formats: .psd, .indd or .ai. Don't forget to bundle the fonts, too! We'll periodically update this post with more templates. Stay tuned! The Top Architecture Résumé/CV Designs  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 16 Feb 2017 07:00 AM PST  © Fernando Barranzuela
 © Fernando Barranzuela From the architect. The idea of this project located in Piura, in the North of Peru, was specifically defined by the unique shape of the lot for this 400 mt2 residential home.  Sketch What we achieved in this courtyard house typology project was an integration with the exterior by using sliding doors to completely open the common spaces to the courtyard. When entering the house, the feeling of been outside while you are in the interior is outstanding.  © Fernando Barranzuela This first floor is completely open to this great courtyard, which has a rectangle pool in the center axis wrapped around by natural wooden deck, which allows the transition between the exterior and interior spaces.  1st Floor Plan The front façade presents intriguing high windows that contribute to the residence's privacy and generate cross ventilation of the ground floor.  © Fernando Barranzuela A floating second-floor volume which avoids the contact with any adjacent structure, was positioned based on an analytical study of the sun. This floor accommodates the main sleeping areas which can be accessed through a concrete cantilever stairs wrapped in wood. This distinctive staircase emerges from the main concrete wall of the residence. At the top of this stairs you are met by a floor to ceiling window that provides natural light and view of the courtyard.  Section We located a spacious 2-car open garage between the service area located in the north wing and the kitchen/ pantry section of the residence in order to provide an unnoticeable natural separation between these two areas.  © Fernando Barranzuela Based on the contextual environment of this Peruvian City, we selected modest palette of materials, like white stucco to emphasize the volumetric design and natural wood to give a feeling of coziness. We chose a gray concrete transitional material to tie these two finishes.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Schauman & Nordgren Architects Wins Competition for "City of Gardens" Masterplan in Finland Posted: 16 Feb 2017 06:30 AM PST  © Schauman & Nordgren Architects Schauman & Nordgren Architects has been announced as the winners of an open competition to redesign the old industrial area of Kangas in Jyväskylä, Finland. The winning proposal, titled "Kangas - City of Gardens," seeks to build off of the success of a recently completed creative campus located within former paper factory by transforming the surrounding neighborhood into a vibrant live/work district containing over 5,000 new homes, 2000 new workplaces and a new educational campus facility.  © Schauman & Nordgren Architects The vision takes it inspiration from the existing industrial heritage of the site, borrowing elements from the linear, early 20th century red brick factory buildings that line the streets. This character has been reinterpreted in the new residential buildings, as well as in the treatment of the public spaces and shared courtyards.  © Schauman & Nordgren Architects  © Schauman & Nordgren Architects These interconnected courtyards will serve as the green "backbone" of the masterplan, linking each new block via a pedestrian circulation network. Each courtyard will take on its own identity and character: the two blocks closest to the former factory, Kangas Square, will feature multi-purpose winter gardens. The garden within the university block will offer an multi-functional indoor landscape for learning and socializing, while the adjacent "hybrid" block will contain space for informal activities held by the offices on the ground floors.  © Schauman & Nordgren Architects  © Schauman & Nordgren Architects The outer perimeter of the masterplan will consist of courtyard-typology housing blocks, broken up into comfortably-sized pieces to help establish a sense of community in the area. "The idea is that the landscape of each housing courtyard will get its own character, ranging from sports, arts, reflection and production. The landscapes will be developed together with local artists and the future inhabitants. This way, we aim to establish a strong sense of community and involvement from the very beginning", explains Jonas Nordgren, co-founder and partner of Schauman & Nordgren Architects.  © Schauman & Nordgren Architects  © Schauman & Nordgren Architects The team will now work with the city of Jyväskylä to continue to develop the project for future implementation. News via Schauman & Nordgren Architects.  © Schauman & Nordgren Architects  © Schauman & Nordgren Architects  © Schauman & Nordgren Architects  © Schauman & Nordgren Architects
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| Posted: 16 Feb 2017 05:00 AM PST  © Benny Chan / Fotoworks
 © Benny Chan / Fotoworks Celebrating a Client's passion for collecting modern and video art yet supporting her needs for a functional studio and guest house, the Amoroso Studio is a truly inspired multi-functional space: part art backdrop, part guest loft, part utilitarian workroom.  Diagram  Diagram  Diagram  Diagram A replacement for a termite-ridden garage behind a Craftsman home in Venice Beach, CA, the design of the 1,060 square foot studio was driven by the Client's commitment to collecting video and film based works by emerging artists who delve into gender, identity and socio-political issues. As an executive in the entertainment industry, her support of young and evolving talent began, in part, from her time living in London near the Serpentine Gallery. When Modal Design was brought on board the Client specifically cited the Gallery and its temporary pavilions as moments of personal delight and intrigue.  © Benny Chan / Fotoworks Rather than deliver a simple box containing garage and laundry space on the ground floor and a windowless projection room/guest space on the upper level, the Architect conceived a studio and art space wrapped in zinc shingles that plays off of the rooflines of neighboring homes and offers inspired spaces for projections, entertaining and visitors.  Floor Plan 01  Floor Plan 02 The ground floor is purely utilitarian with laundry, storage and garage space. The upper floor, however, incorporates oak floors, fiberboard walls and pitched ceilings punctuated with pin lights painted entirely in white to give the space an airy feeling despite its small size. The monochromatic palette also allows the Client to project onto any surface, from floors to walls to ceiling. Only a custom console in natural wood stands in contrast, but offers needed display space for books and concealed space for projectors and other technology. Its geometry follows the shape of the windows directly behind it, unifying the piece and the space. Hidden within paneling on a wall that separates the public space from a simple bathroom is a murphy bed for guests, storage space, closets and speakers for surround sound.  © Benny Chan / Fotoworks From the alley the structure stands austere against an adjacent public parking lot and the harsh southwesterly sun. On the opposite side, oversized glazing allows views to and from the main house and soft light. Entry from a connector courtyard between the house and studio is via a staircase that subtly widens as it leads to the main room, opening the view and feeling as you enter the elevated space. The exterior is clad in colored zinc shingles patterned in an abstract "dazzle" configuration. Historically done to camouflage WWII warships, the studio's three muted colors break up the scale of the building from the alley, an adjacent parking lot and nearby Venice Boulevard.  © Benny Chan / Fotoworks Product Description. One of the design moves was to be able to project on the ceiling of the inside of the gallery space which requires steep ceiling slopes. This meant that on the exterior the roof would become a visible fifth façade. Instead of introducing another material on the exterior of the house we began looking for materials that would work on the roof and the facades. This led us to the zinc shingles and in particular VM Zinc. VM Zinc has a product line that has various colors of zinc. By placing the different colors of zinc on the roof and facades, we were able to break down the scale of the structure thus blending it with the surrounding structures.  © Benny Chan / Fotoworks  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| New York City Unveils Plans for New Fashion and Film Hub in Brooklyn Posted: 16 Feb 2017 04:20 AM PST  © WXY Architecture + Urban Design As rising rents have began to drive out historic garment companies from New York City's storied Garment District in Midtown Manhattan, mayor Bill de Blasio has announced plans for a new development that would bring together the artistic fields into one creative hub in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood. Conceived and designed by WXY architecture + urban design, the $136 million "Made in NY Campus" will provide the setting for film and television production, virtual reality tech offices, and a new home for New York's fashion and garment manufacturing industry.  © WXY Architecture + Urban Design  © WXY Architecture + Urban Design Located on the waterfront at Bush Terminal, the new campus masterplan will be centered around two renovated industrial buildings containing a total of 200,000 square feet of garment manufacturing space, and a new, 100,000-square-foot complex featuring high ceilings and VR facilities for film and tv production. The city is hoping to draw between 25 to 35 tenants working in pattern making, cutting and sewing, as well as supporting services such as photography and educational support. A 7,500-square-foot anchor location has also been planned as a food retail and manufacturing facility.  © WXY Architecture + Urban Design  © WXY Architecture + Urban Design New pedestrian-friendly plazas and landscapes along the 43rd street corridor will connect the various facilities, providing the comfortable community aimed at attracting expanding businesses to the area.  © WXY Architecture + Urban Design The new complex will be integrated into the neighborhood following guidelines outlined in the Sunset Park District Plan, which seeks to renovate aging infrastructure and increase business opportunities. The Made In New York campus will join two active industrial centers, the Bush Terminal and Brooklyn Army Terminal, as the area's industrial incubators. You can learn more about the project here. News via WXY Architecture + Urban Design, NYC Office of the Mayor. H/T Curbed.  © WXY Architecture + Urban Design  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| MAD Brussels / Vers plus de bien être + ROTOR Posted: 16 Feb 2017 03:00 AM PST  © Maxime Delvaux
 © Maxime Delvaux MAD Brussels is a fashion and design expertise platform based in Brussels. Its new building, which subtly combines grand architectural features with an elegant aesthetic, will contribute to achieve MAD Brussels' ambition to become the go-to meeting place for fashion and design professionals in Brussels.  © Maxime Delvaux The ground floor will be dedicated to the large public (exhibitions, seminars, events, etc.); the floors above will welcome multipurpose working spaces at the service of creation. The association of the architectes from Vers plus de bien-être V+ and the designers from Rotor have won the consent of the jury through a simple but strong concept: instead of demolishing the existing building, the team has chosen to enhance it.  © Maxime Delvaux  Sketch  © Maxime Delvaux The volumes have been kept and embellished, the rare demolitions have been conducted with extreme preciseness. The interior finishes, in many shades of white, combine playfully a wide variety of materials, textures and eclectic patterns. Paradoxically, the accumulation of the heterogeneous white elements creates a coherence through the different rooms.  © Maxime Delvaux  Section  © Maxime Delvaux The resulting spaces continue to play with the codes within this 'white cube' while avoiding a clinical atmosphere.  © Maxime Delvaux  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The 16 Stories Behind the 2017 Building of the Year Award Winners Posted: 16 Feb 2017 01:30 AM PST  After two weeks of nominations and voting, last week we announced the 16 winners of the 2017 Building of the Year Awards. In addition to providing inspiration, information, and tools for architecture lovers from around the world, ArchDaily seeks to offer a platform for the many diverse and global voices in the architecture community. In this year's Building of the Year Awards that range of voices was once again on display, with 75,000 voters from around the world offering their selections to ultimately select 16 winners from over 3,000 published projects. Behind each of those projects are years of research, design, and labor. In the spirit of the world's most democratic architecture award, we share the stories behind the 16 buildings that won over our global readership with their urban interventions, humanitarianism, playfulness, and grandeur. Healthcare Architecture: Maggie's Cancer Centre Manchester / Foster + Partners © Nigel Young / Foster + Partners In the 1990s, Maggie Keswick Jencks had a revelation. She had been receiving cancer treatment in Scottish hospitals and began to think the sterile, institutional setting was so psychologically oppressive that it was contributing to her illness. Jencks posited that with all of its damaging power, architecture could also have an immense ability to heal. Under this ethos, the Maggie's Centre was born.  © Nigel Young / Foster + Partners Since then, 20 Maggie's Centres for humanistic cancer treatment have been built by notable architects including OMA and Zaha Hadid. The Maggie's Centre in Norman Foster's native Manchester is within walking distance of a nearby hospital, but their appearances are worlds apart. With its many full height windows that reveal lush gardens, the Centre feels right at home in its suburban surroundings; it looks almost like a greenhouse among the red brick residential buildings. On the inside, timber and a warm color palette help establish the welcoming, home-like ambiance that begins even when viewing the project from a distance. Industrial Architecture: Tangshan Organic Farm / ARCHSTUDIO © JIN Wei-Qi In the architecture of largely industrial Tangshan, China, the psychological well-being of employees isn't often a primary concern for designers. Typically, the designs of industrial spaces are focused upon systems and are intended to maximize production and efficiency. ARCHSTUDIO wanted to challenge this narrative with their processing workshop for an organic farm.  © JIN Wei-Qi The project finds inspiration in the Chinese siheyuan, where low-rise buildings are arranged around a central courtyard. To translate the traditional housing style into a space fit for food processing, ARCHSTUDIO enlarged the courtyard so that it could be used as a workspace, and assigned each of the surrounding buildings with a function as various machinery rooms. A combination of bright timber and translucent siding create a welcoming working environment with on-budget materials. Cultural Architecture: Elbphilharmonie Hamburg / Herzog & de Meuron © Iwan Baan €700 over budget, six years late, and riddled with so much controversy that an exhibit at the 2012 Venice Biennale was dedicated in part to addressing the challenges the project had faced at that time, Herzog and de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie Hamburg has somehow still managed to win our hearts, with 220,000 people entering a contest to win tickets to its opening in January. The cultural hub and its civic program have been received with open arms by its visitors and neighbors.  © Iwan Baan The project presents the city to the people by combining quality, ticketed cultural venues with a plaza and terrace meant to be enjoyed by all. As the Building of the Year vote makes clear, Herzog and de Meuron's whimsical and democratic reappropriation of the Kaispeicher warehouse seems to have been noble enough to make up for the project's difficult past. Housing: VIΛ 57 West / BIG © Iwan Baan Arguably the most anticipated project of 2016, the 34-story "courtscraper" is the first BIG project to appear in the New York City skyline. The residential tower's steep asymmetry allows natural light to stream into the Copenhagen-inspired courtyard and interior apartments, while the apartment units maintain a density on par with that of an American skyscraper.  © Iwan Baan BIG is renowned for its mix of playfulness and utility, and Ingels' expanding presence in New York has created a buzz in a city where world-class architecture is common enough to be dull to most residents––perhaps because its courtyard concept evokes comparison to Central Park surrounded by skyscrapers. Even before its completion, the building was hailed as a new NYC icon and has been the subject of a seemingly endless amount of press. Houses: Casa Cabo de Vila / spaceworkers © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG In answering a request from the client to design a house that doesn't look like a "regular" house, spaceworkers' Casa Cabo de Vila uses the surrounding landscape as a guide for individualistic architecture, not a challenge to it. Low, layered, concrete slabs bend and stretch across the valley lot, and their fluidity is echoed on the largely wall-free interior.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG A careful balance with the surrounding environment is a specialty for spaceworkers, who also won the Housing category in the 2015 Building of the Year Award with their Sambade House. In this and other past residential projects, the firm has utilized straight, Corbusian geometry, but the organic curves that define the Casa Cabo de Vila's concrete and glass form are a departure from this tradition. They further soften the building into the flat expanse around it, in addition to supplying the distinctive look solicited by the client. Commercial Architecture: Crystal Houses / MVRDV © Daria Scagliola & Stijn Brakkee All too often, local architecture is destroyed to make room for increasingly homogenized commercial areas. Design becomes a consequence of economics, and unprotected older buildings often lose in development battles. MVRDV's Crystal Houses takes an opportunity to delay this process on Amsterdam's luxury shopping street PC Hooftstraat, preserving the style of the apartments-turned-shops that occupy the current urban space.  © Daria Scagliola & Stijn Brakkee In an effort to create more interior retail space, new zoning laws in Amsterdam allow buildings to be extended vertically. To avoid completely destroying the character of the Dutch brick apartment buildings, MVRDV devised a glass brick facade that would mimic the old style and fade back into standard terra cotta brick above street level. The glass brick is the latest outcome of MVRDV's recent experiments with glass as a transparent material, with past projects like the Digital Ceramic Painting Glass Farm and a transparent kitchen, but this development is arguably the most ambitious. Crystal Houses is an eye-catching location for a flagship store that attracts retailers and shoppers without completely disregarding the existing character of the area's traditional architecture. Religious Architecture: Capilla San Bernardo / Nicolás Campodonico Courtesy of Nicolás Campodonico The Capilla San Bernardo stands on the former grounds of a rural home in Córdoba, Argentina. The project is about as humble as they come: Campodonico pays homage to the geological roots of the site, utilizing the century-old brick of the former structure to build the new chapel after the local patron saint. The new building sits quietly in an empty field and draws little attention to the daily ritual happening inside.  Courtesy of Nicolás Campodonico With no electricity, the Capilla San Bernardo uses natural light to complete the project's Christian iconography, in a manner that calls to mind Tadao Ando's Church of the Light. Vertical and horizontal beams placed above the entrance create a projected shadow on the chapel wall. Campodonico has utilized the sun's temporality, with the shadows of these separated beams slowly intersecting as the day ends, completing the cross each day. Somewhat paradoxically, a key element of this off-grid project's story is now its online success; the tiny, modest chapel in rural Argentina seems to have touched a nerve throughout the globe, with its Project of the Month post on our Facebook page in June remarkably garnering almost 10,000 likes. Offices: BBVA Bancomer Tower / LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA + Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners © Lourdes Legorreta Mexico City's Chapultepec Park is one of the largest in the world. It is home to ten museums, manicured gardens, monuments, and now bordered by the 50-story, LEED-Gold-certified BBVA Bancomer Tower. It looks over both the park and the city, acting as a gateway between the two. From latticework inspired by Mexican cultural heritage to the tower's program, the spirit of the park is reflected in its use of both Mexican and foreign architectural tradition to construct a space that encourages communication among employees.  © Roland Hale The lobby is a dynamic area to observe members of the building's resident company, and its three stories of open space help foster a sense of busy community. In the tower above, diagonal floor layouts for offices take advantage of the sweeping views, which is further emphasized by shared outdoor space every nine floors. Best Applied Products: Refurbishment of the Pavilion Dufour Château De Versailles / Dominique Perrault Architecte © Christian Milet In 2003 the Ministry of Culture in France announced the start of a 20 year initiative for a full-scale restoration of the Palace of Versailles, the first such initiative at the Palace since the 1800s. The proposal by Dominique Perrault Architecte won in a competition to restore the Dufour Pavilion. Intended to receive visitors to the palace, the original Pavilion was built in the 17th century and partially remodeled in the early 1800s.  © Christian Milet This renewal project addresses one of the challenges in converting a landmark building into a museum. Since the program of Versailles was not intended for the millions of circulating visitors that it now receives annually, Dominique Perrault Architecte designed a new type of space to make the palace function more like a museum, with a cafe, gift shop, auditorium, and entrance and exit that loop traffic in and out through the Pavilion. The reception hall reinterprets the opulent materials from inside the palace in contemporary shapes that bounce golden light throughout the space and create a transition point that both honors and modernizes some of the palace's most famous material motifs: gold and mirrors. The resulting redevelopment offers visitors a proper introduction to one of the world's grandest architectural landmarks. Small Scale Architecture: ICD-ITKE Research Pavilion 2015-16 / ICD-ITKE University of Stuttgart Courtesy of ICD-ITKE University of Stuttgart The University of Stuggart's Institute for Computational Design and Construction has been working at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and biology for years. In 2011, ICD introduced the natural sciences into their annual research pavilion, and students have analyzed the formal structures of beetle wings, birds nests, and arthropods ever since. This year's pavilion brought the morphology of sand dollars and sea urchins into the built environment using segmented wooden shells.  Courtesy of ICD-ITKE University of Stuttgart A team of architects, engineers, biologists, and paleontologists spent a year and a half working on the 2016 pavilion, combining human design and research with robotic construction. Although computational design is no longer a novelty, ICD has been making strides in robotic design for the past several years, with this particular project employing a robotic KUKA arm to sew the bent plywood shells. Educational Architecture: Frederiksvej Kindergarten / COBE © Rasmus Hjortshoj A recent trend in North European architecture sees medium-sized institutional buildings broken down into smaller, gabled segments in order to counter the intimidating nature of these projects that can so easily turn out sterile and uninviting. Projects such as EFFEKT'S Cancer Counseling Center (the 2015 Healthcare Building of the Year winner), CEBRA's Children's Home, Polyform's Livsrum and others all play with scale and shape to create institutional buildings that reflect their occupants' approachable, humanist ethos.  © Rasmus Hjortshoj Using a similar model, COBE's Frederiksvej Kindergarten in Denmark set out with a mission to provide the most developmentally nourishing environment possible for its students with a "village for children." The final design allows for intimate, imaginative, and seasonal play due to its many rooms and floors. This is not the first time COBE has designed a kindergarten to look like small homes, but Frederiksvej also incorporates the quintessential gabled shape based on a child's drawing of a house, making the idea of "school" even less daunting. The firm has found success in catering directly to the needs of its littlest visitors, throwing out preconceptions of what a kindergarten should look like. Refurbishment: The Stealth Building / WORKac © Bruce Damonte Rooftop additions in New York are notoriously tricky. Because of the city's active Landmark Commission, buildings either in historical districts or with landmark status are not permitted to add rooftop additions that can be seen from the street. As one of New York's iconic cast iron buildings, the Stealth is one such location, and its corner-adjacent lot presents an even bigger problem because of its greater visibility.  © Bruce Damonte To make the rooftop addition a reality, WORKac got creative with geometry. By calculating a "vision cone" from the pediments of the Stealth and its neighbor to the street, the firm was able to find a blind spot in the shadow of the roof. Working in angles to match the blind spot created an edgy, sculptural form that contains a kitchen, closet, bathrooms, and even a small garden, all completely concealed from the throughway. Public Architecture: Leixões Cruise Terminal / Luís Pedro Silva Arquitecto © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG The port of Leixões is among the four largest in Portugal. It recently underwent construction to accommodate larger cruise liners, and the terminal by Luís Pedro Silva is the new jetty's cool, classy cousin. The project finds itself between three main destinations: the Atlantic Ocean, the city of Porto, and its neighborhood Matosinhos, home to Alvaro Siza's famous saltwater pools and Eduardo Souto de Mora's major coastal development project, both frequented by tourists. The terminal acknowledges that it is more of a transitory node and less of a final stopping point, hence its three "tentacles" that swirl out towards the surrounding termini.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG Leixões Cruise Terminal also houses a restaurant, event rooms, and the Science and Technology Park of the Sea at the University of Porto, providing integration with the surrounding urban fabric. From a distance, the terminal's flowing forms reflect the movement of the sea, which also create a bright openness inside the space. From up close, the building reveals its shimmery, scaley texture––a dynamic surface built by local artisans that engages with visitors' visual perception of the space. Interior Architecture: Hubba-to / Supermachine Studio © Wilson Tungthunya In the last two years Southeast Asia's growing middle class has seen an increasing number of domestic and foreign freelancers who work from home. Just like in Europe and the United States, these floating creatives have begun to fuel a demand for new coworking spaces. This Hubba-to location is the fourth from the Bangkok workspace operator, but the first to focus on "making" as the key purpose of their coworking offering.  © Wilson Tungthunya Supermachine Studio's design places centers around what Hubba calls "artisan space," with art studios, a darkroom, and kitchen. When approaching the site, the firm noticed an abundance of exposed M&E lines. While the lines are always a challenge for architects when working with a space that's already been constructed, Supermachine chose to not only keep them exposed but emphasize them in neon blue. The result is an industrial dynamism that, like "Structural Expressionist" projects such as the Centre Pompidou, isn't afraid to bare its guts to the world. Hospitality: Yellow Submarine Coffee Tank / Secondfloor Architects © Ketsiree Wongwan Another Building of the Year win for Thailand, the Yellow Submarine Coffee Tank resists the architectural language of tourism that has taken over the area. Nestled in a plantation forest of Indian mahogany, Yellow Submarine both derives meaning from, and imbues meaning to, the surrounding area using a complementary design that draws attention to natural elements like the tree canopy and gently sloped ground. The Coffee Tank makes a point of immersing itself in the forest as a means of creating ambiance for the patrons of the business.  © Ketsiree Wongwan While the structure by no means opposes its natural surroundings, it also is not stifled by them. Rich materiality in the masonry walls, inked surfaces, wood, and gravel develop a layered visual texture in the dappled light underneath the trees. The project relies on placemaking itself to generate traffic to the site, rather than allowing traffic to determine the type of place it will be. Sports Architecture: Sonora Stadium / 3Arquitectura © Alexander Potiomkin The Sonora Stadium in Mexico sits in a complex web of spatial relations. For one thing, it is located in the El Pinacate Biosphere Reserve––a UNESCO World Heritage Site––making it necessarily tied to nature. It is also the first potential tourist attraction in a new urban development area, and a fully functional baseball field that hopes to host Major League teams.  Courtesy of Gobierno del Estado de Sonora The exterior is gestural; a copper-colored covering sweeps the circumference of the building. The color is echoed in the stadium's brick walls, all maintaining the reddish tones of surrounding desert of El Pinacate.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Studio Bell / Allied Works Architecture Posted: 16 Feb 2017 01:00 AM PST  © Jeremy Bittermann
 © Jeremy Bittermann Designed by Allied Works Architecture (AWA), Studio Bell, home the National Music Centre (NMC) is the first facility of its kind in North America. At once a museum, performance hall, live music venue, recording facility, and broadcast studio, the NMC is a major state-of-the-art cultural institution that marks AWA's most ambitious project to-date. The 160,000 square-foot cultural centre takes inspiration from the curvilinear shapes of musical instruments, and from the surrounding, indigenous landscape of Calgary, Alberta.  © Jeremy Bittermann Inspired by the light, landscape and geography of the northern prairie, Studio Bell was created to amplify the rich history and future possibilities of Canadian music. The building aspires to create a sense of wonder and mystery, inspiring the visitor to explore. The building is alive with the life of music throughout its exhibition, recording, editing, performance and education spaces. The distinct vessels of music are bound together by the space between them, moments of silence filled with light and views out into the city and beyond. The interwoven structure of the building envelops the visitor, with surfaces of metallic and earthen tile crafting an architectural instrument of light, space and music.  © Jeremy Bittermann  Section  © Jeremy Bittermann This new facility is an architectural and cultural focal point for the region, incorporating and revitalizing the East Village district while serving as a powerful instrument in its own right, emanating music and light.  © Jeremy Bittermann  Floor Plan 01  © Jeremy Bittermann  Floor Plan 05 Product Description. The selection of the building's façade material was based both on it's need to negotiate the complex wall geometries in a smooth fashion and the goal that it have a visually rich quality to magnify the varied natural light conditions of Calgary. The small module and concealed clip system of the Moeding terracotta tile rainscreen successfully achieve the desired smooth surface appearance and the custom glazes developed by Tichelaar Makkum impart a varied richness that gives the building a dignified presence within its urban landscape.  © Jeremy Bittermann  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Zaha Hadid Architects Releases Images of Tower with the World's Tallest Atrium Posted: 16 Feb 2017 12:40 AM PST  © MIR Zaha Hadid Architects has released new images of Leeza SOHO, their mixed-use design in Beijing's Lize Financial Business District. The project is notable for its 190-meter tall atrium, which rises the full height of the building, uniting two twisting sections which contain 172,800 square meters of office and residential space. At the base of the tower, a new transit hub straddles a subway tunnel that is currently under construction.  © MIR The form of the design is guided by the surrounding city: at the base of the tower, the two sections are split to align with the new subway tunnel. As the tower rises, the atrium twists 45 degrees to align with Lize Road, a major road in southwest Beijing. This spectacular atrium is envisaged as a new indoor public space for the city, acting as a continuation of the plaza that will surround the building.  © MIR The building is currently under construction, with 20 of its planned 46 floors completed. When finished in 2018, the building will stand 207 meters tall--the tallest of ZHA's four collaborations with SOHO China which include Galaxy SOHO and Wangjing SOHO.  © MIR Project Team: Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects  Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects Consultants: Structure: Bollinger + Grohmann (Competition), CABR (SD), BIAD (DD) (CD)  Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| LOHA’s Latest Supportive Housing Complex Curbs LA’s Increasing Homelessness Posted: 16 Feb 2017 12:00 AM PST  © Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects With ever-increasing rates of chronic and veteran homelessness amongst low-income households, Los Angeles' pressing demand for affordable social housing is being addressed by Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects, with their design of MLK1101 Supportive Housing, which has just begun construction. Working in collaboration with non-profit Clifford Beers Housing, LOHA's intention is to focus on health and community within a comfortable environment. This is achieved through a number of strategies, including exposing the building towards the street to integrate the building into the neighborhood creating strong community ties.  © Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects An elevated community garden offers gathering space for neighbors and residents, connected to the street by a generous staircase. Along with a street-level storefront, this gesture allows for unrestricted interaction between all members of the community and eliminates societal barriers, which is often lacking in social housing projects.  © Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects The complex accommodates 26 identical units, geared towards individual tenants as well as low-income families. The units are connected by staggered walkways as a result of varying widths, which forms additional socializing spaces.  Southwest View. Image © Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects In addition to aiming for LEED Platinum Certification, MLK1101 Supportive Housing also includes support services offices, outdoor green spaces, a rooftop patio, shared laundry and kitchen facilities, among other collective amenities. News via: Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects.
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| Tirana 2030: Watch How Nature and Urbanism Will Co-Exist in the Albanian Capital Posted: 15 Feb 2017 10:00 PM PST  Bird's eye view of the regenerated city centre. Image Courtesy of Attu Studio In 1925, Italian designer Armando Brasini created a sweeping masterplan to transform the Albanian capital city of Tirana. Almost one hundred years later, the Tirana 2030 (TR030) Local Plan by Italian firm Stefano Boeri Architetti has been approved by Tirana City Council. Collaborating with UNILAB and IND, Boeri seeks to define a new era in the country's capital, incorporating controlled development, advanced infrastructure, green corridors, and an enhancement of the city's architectural heritage. TR030 will see major investment in Tirana's public infrastructure and services. New high-speed rail links from the city center will connect the airport and sea terminal. A congestion charge will aim to reduce private motor transport, with emphasis being placed on shared mobility and electric/hybrid public transport. Twenty new public schools will be built to act as neighborhood hubs, whilst a cluster of new urban squares around the historic Boulevard Dëshmorët e Kombit will play host to cultural activities and facilities.  A cluster of civic spaces, culminating in the World Park, will bring cultural events to the city. Image Courtesy of Attu Studio  The city aims to be easily accessible for the elderly and very young. Image Courtesy of Attu Studio Using the natural environment to enrich the city is an important aspect of TR030. To prevent urban sprawl, an orbital forest of two million new trees will encircle Tirana, dictating that new development takes place along historic central paths. The plan will see a tripling of green space in the city center, through two green rings suitable for walking and cycling, and a large natural oasis around Lake Farka. Rivers flowing through the city will become blue corridors of regeneration and biodiversity. Along the Elbasan-Krrabe Valley a green corridor will enable the production, storage, and distribution of renewable energy to feed the city's growth.  Two million trees will encircle the city centre, preventing urban sprawl. Image Courtesy of Attu Studio  Green and blue corridors bring biodiversity to the city centre. Image Courtesy of Attu Studio
 A layered strategy approach aims to usher in a new era for the city. Image Courtesy of Attu Studio  Aerial view of the city centre masterplan. Image Courtesy of Attu Studio Having won an international competition hosted by the Albanian government in 2015, the Local Plan will seek approval from the National Council in early 2017. Watch the full video explaining the ideas behind Tirana 2030 below.
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