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- Claudia Pasquero Announced as Head Curator of the 2017 Tallinn Architecture Biennale, Which Will Examine the Anthropocene
- Swiss House XXXIV Galbisio / Davide Macullo Architects
- One Suite Hotel / 3LHD
- House of Scenes / FORM | Kouichi Kimura Architects
- The Gatehouse / Prime Architecture
- The Mirror Window / Kosaku Matsumoto
- Tree Villa / matter
- Bauhaus Among 12 Modern Buildings to Receive Conservation Grants from the Getty Foundation
- Hastings Pier / dRMM
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| Posted: 31 Jul 2017 09:00 PM PDT The Tallinn Architecture Biennale have announced Claudia Pasquero, Director of ecoLogicStudio, as the Head Curator of the 2017 edition, "bioTallinn". According to the organizers, a programme of exhibitions and symposia will "engage various architectural offices, artists, and scientists on the topic of biotechnology in architecture," examining in particular "the relationship between nature and the city in the Anthropocene age."  Claudia Pasquero. Image © Luka Lu Boškovic In the Age of the Anthropocene, "no ecosystem is left unaffected by human action," the curatorial outline declares. "The Urbansphere," here known as "the global apparatus of contemporary urbanity, sustains our cities' increasingly demanding metabolism, wraps the Biosphere in a dense network of informational, material and energetic infrastructures." "bioTallinn" will propose "a radical revision of the contemporary Urbansphere that strides beyond accepted urban boundaries and across scales, from the microscopic to the continental." The focus of Pasquero's main project will be the peninsula of Paljassaare, in the Estonian capital. The main exhibition—Anthropocene Island—will be hosted at the Museum of Estonian Architecture and will showcase a future vision for the peninsula. While site-specific in nature, this collective project also examines the area as a prototypical case study of an Anthropocene landscape, the inevitable frontier of future urbanity.
The Biennale will run from September 13th to October 27th 2017 in Tallinn, Estonia. On September 14th and 15th, a two-day international symposium entitled Polycephalum City will take place.  Anthropocene Island. Sludge of waste material of the Wastewater Treatment Plant, 2017. Image Courtesy of ecoLogicStudio  Anthropocene Island. Waste material of the Wastewater Treatment Plant, 2017. Image Courtesy of ecoLogicStudio  Anthropocene Island. Wastewater Treatment Plant, 2017. Image Courtesy of ecoLogicStudio  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Swiss House XXXIV Galbisio / Davide Macullo Architects Posted: 31 Jul 2017 08:00 PM PDT  © Alexandre Zveiger
 © Alexandre Zveiger From the architect. Our design is an articulated construction meant for the enjoyment of the spaces for many years to come. From afar the building is a marker in the landscape, it expresses a meaning already suggested by its context. From close up, it is a collection of many things and from within, a world, that changes with the passing of the hours of the day and the days of the year.  © Alexandre Zveiger The design is like a constellation of points, each one's luminosity defining our priorities, corresponding to the ambitions of those who live within it and is an interpretation of the spaces that embrace the joys of life.  Sketch We have built a place for the present that projects back into memory and forward into the future: the memory of pristine landscapes where the buildings of local stone had to resist until eternity, protecting the inhabitants; when gestures were used sparingly in order to concentrate strength. Now, they respond to a different perception, perhaps more evolved, to adapt to the speed of life.  © Alexandre Zveiger  Level 1 Plan  © Alexandre Zveiger However, the ultimate goal of a space remains as giving comfort to its inhabitant. This for us represents the drive towards the future; working to improve the quality of life and creating a place of positive energy, where man is the protagonist in finding his way to become a better person.  © Alexandre Zveiger The cube, the primal element of this new organism in which to live, is the place of calm and the fulcrum of the hill. Its concrete blades are fragments, broken off from the medieval castle walls of Bellinzona. It is our ideal home, an enclosure that opens up to the context and breathes it in, making us part of these wonderful surroundings.  © Alexandre Zveiger The space dilates across diverse horizons, in different directions, all intended by the design, and by the nearby details, like the tree or the vines of the neighbours' gardens.  © Alexandre Zveiger Architecture takes its roots from the place in which it is born and defines the time that runs in our senses. It changes and grows with us. It outlast us and we gift it to the future. Every house built with love will never stop surprising us, helping us and growing with us and those who will follow us.  © Alexandre Zveiger  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 31 Jul 2017 07:00 PM PDT  © Marko Ercegović
 © Marko Ercegović From the architect. The One Suite Hotel is situated a couple of miles from Dubrovnik Old Town. It is a meeting place for the local residents and a new focal point of Župa Dubrovačka, in a lively business and commercial zone, available to everybody, not just hotel guests.  © Marko Ercegović Eighteen accommodation units of varying structure are placed on two floors, with commercial and catering facilities integrated into the ground floor and the reception area. There is an infinity pool surrounded with a sunbathing deck on the roof. The hotel offers a tailor made experience for guests with a green & healthy lifestyle: a gym, massage pool and a special gastronomic concept in the "Lokal" restaurant and bar, developed by Andrea Klemenčić. All meals feature locally sourced foods produced by family owned farms. The bar serves local wines and kraft beers. Electric vehicle power station and a modern conference room are located in the hotel.  © Marko Ercegović The client developed a unique "One Suite Hotel" app that, besides standard options (internet access, hotel check-in and check-out) allows unlocking of doors and guides the visitors through the entire facility. There is also a possibility to view running and walking trails for recreational use in the Župa area.  © Marko Ercegović  Ground Floor Plan  © Marko Ercegović High quality natural materials have been selected for the interior design: clean lines and lighter colors in accommodation units and darker tones in public spaces. 3LHD cooperated with Prostoria on the furnishing, a large part of the furniture bears the Croatian design signature. The author of visual identity, signage and environmental graphics design is Orsat Franković from Flomaster. Main feature of the interior design is Art in One, a concept of collaboration with prominent Dubrovnik artists. The hotel is a kind of art gallery that will affirm the art scene by exhibiting local artists and their creative energy. The authors of the exhibited artworks are Ivana Pegan Baće, Viktor Daldon, Tina Gverović, Marko Ercegović, Ivana Jelavić, Ana Opalić, Ana Požar Piplica, Luko Piplica, Ivana Dražić Selmani, Slaven Tolj and Ivona Vlašić.  © Marko Ercegović  Second Floor Plan  © Marko Ercegović The hotel facade was made of plaster with a glass granulate additive to achieve a gentle glittery/silver effect. Landscape design, conceived by Ines Hrdalo, is based on a selection of indigenous greenery and the preservation of existing old olive trees.  © Marko Ercegović The project was financed under the European Regional Development Fund. The total value of the project is 25,698,546.86kn, and the co-financed amount is 9,385,495.08kn.  © Marko Ercegović  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House of Scenes / FORM | Kouichi Kimura Architects Posted: 31 Jul 2017 03:00 PM PDT  © Yoshihiro Asada
 © Yoshihiro Asada From the architect. The site is located in a zoned residential area which is a little bit away from the bustling main street. The client wished to have a comfortable house where she could hold a private Yoga class. To meet that request, linkage between exterior and interior spaces were identified to realize a living space that expands toward outside in terms of visual and sensory aspects.  © Yoshihiro Asada When opening the entrance door of the symmetrically designed building, a courtyard surrounding the living room stretches right in front.  © Yoshihiro Asada The living room that also serves as the Yoga classroom has two openings; it can be used as one unified space together with the courtyard when the sliding doors are wide opened. The terrace continued from the living room is used for Yoga lessons. Light reflected by the basin and fresh wind stimulate the five senses, and set the mind and body free.  © Yoshihiro Asada The wall extended from the terrace incorporates a tower structure that can be regarded as the symbol of this house. The frosted glass fitted in the sculptural-shaped form makes the light thrown into the room softer. It also serves as indirect illumination for the courtyard at night.  © Yoshihiro Asada The fence surrounding the courtyard not only blocks eyes from surroundings but unites with the building to make a semi-outdoor room that can be utilized as an inner terrace. The mortar counter and bench fabricated inside extend the exterior living space and serves as an element to enhance theming effect from the living room.  © Yoshihiro Asada  Floor Plans  © Yoshihiro Asada On the second floor, each room is laid out with a dining room at the center. The space is segmented by difference in ceiling height. Natural light coming through the colored top light of the ceiling quietly brings an uplifting feeling. The dining room is provided with a large window surrounded by the walls and long eaves. The symbolic riser from the courtyard has been designed to serve as an eye-catching object in the scene. It also brings about visual continuity, and links the living scene in the lower floor with that in the upper floor. Through connection with exterior space in diverse ways, the house produces pleasant scenes of living.  © Yoshihiro Asada  Section 01  © Yoshihiro Asada  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Gatehouse / Prime Architecture Posted: 31 Jul 2017 01:00 PM PDT  © Byungchul Jeon
 © Byungchul Jeon From the architect. The Gatehouse is home to a family run Shabu Shabu restaurant in Siheung-Si, near Seoul. The form of the building is taken from an existing disused natural water well on site. The water well is also incorporated into the functionality, where it is used to provide water throughout the building, as well as irrigation for the restaurants on site micro-farm.  © Byungchul Jeon The Clients grew up near the site and recall their family using the natural well during their childhood. After spending most of their working lives in Seoul their dream was to move back and create a restaurant which provided the local community with home grown produce.  © Byungchul Jeon Historically, the natural water well was used by the locals and served as a central meeting point for the community, but became disused once running water was provided in years past.  Section A With this in mind, the design approach was to re-establish the well by using it as an aesthetic cue and also to incorporate it in a practical sense.  © Byungchul Jeon The building is formed with three masses. These are positioned carefully into the landscape and within the retaining walls which frame the sites sloping topography.  Ground Floor Plan  First Floor Plan The lower volume in closest proximity to the water well is a glass transparent lightweight box, which conveys water. The two solid concrete volumes take vessel like forms. The first one provides the 'serviced area' and is finished in timber board exposed concrete. This volume is where customers are served, with the seating, dining area and lounge. The other solid concrete form is the 'service area' which is purposely finished in traditional exposed concrete formwork to differentiate itself from the other volumes. This space is where the kitchen, plant, WC, storage areas, and services are positioned.  © Byungchul Jeon To highlight the water well, a connection was formed from the existing well, which brings the water through to a viewable chamber now located in the external terrace, under the 4.7m long cantilever. An exposed trench which is positioned at the foot of the retaining walls shows this diversion of water to the chamber. This also acts as a water store which is used to transfer the water for use back through the building.  © Byungchul Jeon  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Mirror Window / Kosaku Matsumoto Posted: 31 Jul 2017 12:00 PM PDT  © Nobutada Omote
 © Nobutada Omote From the architect. A partial renovation of the office area within a building complex that hosts a workshop space, an office and a contemporary art gallery. The project was completed after designs and constructions made during three months of the architect's on-site residency.  © Nobutada Omote The existing window with the dimensions of 2 by 2.5 meters - the first sight for visitors as they enter the space - had a barren view of an adjacent house. It was clear at the first glance that changing this window would determine the nature of the new space. The idea was to abandon the use of this window that had no view: Instead, to reflect views of the interior space. The 2-meter-long plate of mirror was prepared after the dimensions of doma (an earth floor connecting the entrance and the outside), and installed behind the window along the span of the concrete fence. The mirror reflects not only the interior space, but also adjacent walls and its neighbourhood, revealing otherwise overlooked elements of the architecture from many different angles. It also created extra scope of sight and added a sense of depth to the space. The horizontal sliding windows were reused as the sliding doors inside. When the doors are open, doma becomes integral part of the indoor space.  © Nobutada Omote As the result, the renovation created additional views and open-air space through reworking the existing windows and exploring the reflective effects of mirror which intermingles the relationship between the interior and the exterior.  © Nobutada Omote  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 31 Jul 2017 10:00 AM PDT  © Simon Devitt
 © Simon Devitt From the architect. In a cramped, steep site on one of the busiest residential streets in Ponsonby, Auckland, there was magic to be found in the form of a dilapidated 110-year old heritage villa. Over two years, the three-bedroom, one-bathroom villa was transformed into a beautiful and functional, family home. Fundamental to its success is the sense of tranquillity and respite the villa's spaces offer from the inner city lifestyle that the clients love.  © Simon Devitt A favourite place to relax, rewind, and re-invigorate is this spa-like bathroom. Carving out portions of the villa, adding masonry wall structures, and substantial retaining facilitated the addition of a new downstairs floor. Moving down the gently-lit stairwell of the main floor, the first room encountered downstairs is the bathroom. High windows maintain natural warmth, privacy, and light on entry, while further in the room becomes subterranean, generating a sense of privacy, cosiness, and sanctuary. Polished heated concrete floors provide additional warmth and a solid grounded feeling.  © Simon Devitt  Plans  © Simon Devitt For the first time in New Zealand Statuario Fleur oversized panels were used as wall lining, providing a serene quality to the bathroom's perimeter walls. Concrete walls provide the solid backing to the panels and aid noise reduction. The considerable size of the panels create the feeling that the bathroom is carved from solid marble. These soft porcelain panels ensure that the space is filled with gentle diffuse light and feels intimate, warm, and luxurious.  © Simon Devitt The hanging WC is hidden behind a mosaic marble feature wall. Alarti Marble tiles are used on the feature wall to provide a delicate contrast to other elements, and to draw attention inwards toward the free-standing stone bath. This unique egg-shaped bath provides a sculpted centerpiece to the room. On the flip side of the WC, a walk-in shower offers the reinvigorating experience of warm rainfall.  © Simon Devitt All joinery and cabinetry elements are framed in black including the mirrors. This provides a visual direction to these elements. The slipped break between mirrors highlights the shifting levels within the home and the external window. Lighting options, including recessed LEDs within the ceiling space add to the feeling of intimacy and calm.  © Simon Devitt While the room imbues a feeling of being transported from one world to another, the harmonious use of materials throughout the villa provides seamlessness and comfort to the senses. The minimalist approach to surfaces and joinery further reduces unnecessary stimulation, while maintaining a sense of luxury. Generous storage makes the space practical and self-contained.  © Simon Devitt  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Bauhaus Among 12 Modern Buildings to Receive Conservation Grants from the Getty Foundation Posted: 31 Jul 2017 09:30 AM PDT  Bauhaus Dessau © Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Photograph: Yvonne Tenschert, 2011. Image Courtesy of Getty Foundation The Getty Foundation has selected 12 significant 20th century buildings to receive 2017 grants as part of its Keeping It Modern initiative, which aims to advance the understanding and preservation of modern architecture through a focus on conservation planning and research. Since its founding in 2014, the program has supported the preservation of 45 projects from around the globe. This year $1.66 million in grants were awarded to recognizable projects including the Walter Gropius-designed Bauhaus Building in Dessau; the Melnikov House in Moscow (the first Russian project to receive a grant); and Frank Lloyd Wright's only skyscraper, Price Tower. See all 12 grantees below. Coventry Cathedral; Coventry, England / Sir Basil Spence  Coventry Cathedral interior. Photo: David Iliff. CC-BY-SA, 3.0. Image Courtesy of Getty Foundation Boston City Hall; Boston, Massachusetts / Kallmann, McKinnell, & Knowles  Boston - City Hall Plaza. Image credit: Naquib Hossain/Dotproduct Photography. Image Courtesy of Getty Foundation Sidi Harazem Thermal Bath Complex; Sidi Harazem, Morocco / Jean-François Zevaco  Station thermal, Sidi Harazem, 1960. Photo: François Lauginie. Image © Frac Centre-Val de Loire Collection. Image Courtesy of Getty Foundation Yoyogi National Gymnasium; Tokyo, Japan / Kenzo Tange  Second gymnasium of Yoyogi stadium. Photo courtesy Japan Sport Council. Image Courtesy of Getty Foundation Faculty of Architecture Building, Middle East Technical University; Ankara, Turkey / Altuğ and Behruz Çinici  Interior of the Faculty of Architecture Building with Gobektasi. Photo: D. Tuntas. Image Courtesy of Getty Foundation Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP); São Paulo, Brazil / Lina Bo Bardi  View of MASP on Avenida Paulista, 2016. Photo: Eduardo Ortega. Image Courtesy of Getty Foundation St Peter's Seminary; Glasgow, Scotland / Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia  St. Peter's College, Cardcross (exterior), 1958-1966. Image courtesy of The Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections. Image Courtesy of Getty Foundation Government Museum and Art Gallery; Chandigarh, India / Le Corbusier  Forecourt of the Government Museum and Art Gallery. Photo: SM Dhami. Image Courtesy of Getty Foundation Price Tower; Bartlesville, Oklahoma / Frank Lloyd Wright  Price Tower. Photo: Jessica Lamirand, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Image Courtesy of Getty Foundation Melnikov House; Moscow, Russia / Konstantin Melinkov  The Melnikov House. View from the courtyard. 2015. Photo © Pavel Kuznetsov. Image Courtesy of Getty Foundation Bauhaus Building; Dessau, Germany / Walter Gropius  Bauhaus Dessau © Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Photograph: Yvonne Tenschert, 2011. Image Courtesy of Getty Foundation Stadio Flaminio; Rome, Italy / Pier Luigi Nervi  External view of Stadio Flaminio, 1960. Photo: Oscar Savio. Courtesy Pier Luigi Nervi Project Association, Brussels. Image Courtesy of Getty Foundation All of projects will be evaluated based on the use of the grants to provide guidance for future projects. "Now that Keeping It Modern is in its fourth year, with earlier projects already completed, we are starting to see a positive response from the field," says Antoine Wilmering, senior program officer at the Getty Foundation. "There is a domino effect of research findings and planning methodologies developed for one context being applied to other sites, which is a valuable outcome." Learn more about the projects and about the Keeping It Modern initiative on the Getty Foundation website, here. News via Getty Foundation.
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| Posted: 31 Jul 2017 08:00 AM PDT  © Alex de Rijke
From the architect. The 2010 destruction of Hastings Pier by fire was an opportunity to redefine what a pier could be in the 21st century; transforming the shanty town of commercialism it was in the 20th century. After local stakeholder consultation it was clear the Pier would be expected to host many different populist scenarios. dRMM's re-design master-move was to create a strong, well-serviced platform that could support endless uses; from big-top circus to major music events, local fishing to international markets. In homage to conceptualist Cedric Price, users bring their own architecture to plug in and play.  © Alex de Rijke This is the first phase of regeneration. Most of the work so far has been up to and including deck level. The HLF grant enabled extensive foundation and structural repairs covering fire, sea and storm damage (£9M). Further funding (£2.5M) facilitated two buildings, the first of which, the remaining derelict Victorian Pavilion, was transformed into an open-plan, fully-glazed restaurant. dRMM were responsible for the exterior shell and cores; the interior fit-out was by tenant.  © Alex de Rijke  Elevations  Courtesy of dRMM  Elevations  © Alex de Rijke The new Visitor Centre is a cross-laminated timber structure, inventively clad in reclaimed decking. Replacing the weakest central section of the damaged pier, it offers adaptable space for events, exhibitions and education, with an elevated rooftop belvedere. Reclaimed timber deck furniture was designed by dRMM and Hastings & Bexhill Wood Recycling as part of a local employment initiative.  © Alex de Rijke The pier is an extension of the promenade from which it projects; a large public open space. The experience of free space and 'walking on water' is heightened by the optics of a louvred balustrade design and quality timber deck. The new pier is a catalyst for urban regeneration. It offers flexibility, material and functional sustainability, and an uninterrupted vista of the natural and built surroundings of the special seaside town of Hastings.  © James Robertshaw  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| MVRDV Breaks Ground on Office Building Inspired by Sri Lankan Weaving Patterns Posted: 31 Jul 2017 07:01 AM PDT  Courtesy of MVRDV MVRDV, in collaboration with local co-architects ACS Integrated and PWA Architects, has broken ground on a 12,000-square-meter mixed-use office block in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Known as the Veranda Offices, the 8-story building draws inspiration from local Sri Lankan weaving patterns, creating a system of flexible interior office spaces that open onto verandas and panoramic glass windows.  Courtesy of MVRDV Located within Sri Lanka's largest and rapidly growing city, the new building is sited within a lively neighborhood made up of businesses, bars, and galleries. Veranda Offices embraces its neighbors by leaving room for an entrance plaza and with landscaping surrounding the building. Inside on the ground floor will be a spacious lobby, space for a cafeteria or restaurant and the first of two levels of above ground parking, which will be clad in a vertically planted facade system. Office floors are designed for maximum flexibility, with options to create full-floor spaces or to subdivide into smaller work facilities. On the sixth floor, a rooftop sculpture garden will provide shaded pavilions for events and more casual gatherings.  Courtesy of MVRDV Prioritizing passive sustainable strategies, the building's glass facades have been set back to minimize solar gain, while the veranda on each floor features a folding shutter to protect from sun and heavy rain. MVRDV hopes these techniques will be seen as a model for future development in the country. "Veranda Offices is the first centralised cooled building of its kind in Sri Lanka that provides naturally ventilated breakout spaces," explain the architects. "These low tech solutions mentioned all contribute to making the building more sustainable." Completion of the building is scheduled for February 2019. News via MVRDV
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| Posted: 31 Jul 2017 06:00 AM PDT  © Joep Rutgers
 © Joep Rutgers From the architect. This narrow 18th century house in the south west of the Netherlands had been in decay since the 70's when it lost its historical exterior and had lain empty for several years. Essentially reduced to just a 3-meter wide shell by the time the owner purchased it, the property, like similar houses in the area, presented a number of challenges to overcome before it could become a modern and workable home – long dark corridors, poor privacy caused by the ground floor windows facing the street, and critically a lamentable lack of daylight throughout the house. Dutch architect Tim de Graag recently finished the transformation of this residence.  © Joep Rutgers  Floor Plan  © Joep Rutgers The dynamic concept for creating a spacious, light and calm interior in what became known as House 20×3 required a fundamental re-shaping of the property's floor plan and the introduction of a central axis to maximise the amount of natural daylight. The resulting 4 floors, connected by an elegant oak T-shaped staircase, provide modern yet relaxed studio living. The living room was moved to the first floor in order to benefit from the vista over the historical harbor and the bijou kitchen moved to the lowest floor, where a glass door provided much needed light as well as access to the small garden. The master and guest bedrooms are located above the kitchen.  © Joep Rutgers  Section  © Joep Rutgers It is the sightline at the heart of the property that is pivotal to the harmonious interaction of the various rooms of the house, and most importantly for bringing light into them. This sightline improves the relationship with the surrounding as well as the interaction of spaces within the building, without compromising on privacy. A fixed rooflight and a hinged rooflight were both precision engineered to bespoke sizes for House 20×3; these were strategically placed above the sightline. The roof lights also offered additional benefits – it minimises the impact from the heat of the summer, and provides much needed ventilation in this split-level house.  © Joep Rutgers The comprehensive renovation of this 3-metre wide house in Zierikzee won over the jury of the Dutch Daylight Award 2016 who appreciated the clever routing, the sightline all the way through the building and the position, size and proportion of the rooflights.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| These are the Top 300 Architecture Firms in the US for 2017 Posted: 31 Jul 2017 05:00 AM PDT  Background image of <a href='http://http://www.archdaily.com/796333/capitol-federal-hall-gensler'>Capitol Federal Hall by Gensler</a> © Garrett Rowland Architectural Record has released the 2017 edition of its annual list of the "Top 300 Architecture Firms" in the United States. Compiled by Record's sister publication Engineering News-Record, the list ranks firms based on architectural revenue from the previous year (2016). This year, the top 4 firms held fast to their spots, led by Gensler with a record-best $1.19 billion in revenue. Moving into the top 5 was HOK, while the designation of biggest mover in the top 25 belongs to Dallas-based Corgan, who jumped from 22nd place in 2016 to 14th this year. See the top 50 firms after the break. 1. Gensler; San Francisco, CA (Architect) 2. AECOM; Los Angeles, CA (Engineer-Architect) 3. Perkins+Will; Chicago, IL (Architect) 4. Jacobs; Pasadena, CA (Architect-Engineer-Contractor) 5. HOK; St. Louis, MO (Architect-Engineer) 6. HKS; Dallas, TX (Architect) 7. CH2M; Englewood, CO (Engineer-Contractor) 8. HDR; Dallas, TX (Engineer-Architect) 9. IBI Group; Irvine, CA (Architect-Engineer) 10. Stantec; Irvine, CA (Engineer-Architect-Landscape) 11. Callison RTKL; Highlands Ranch, CO (Architect-Engineer) 12. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; New York, NY (Architect-Engineer) 13. Perkins Eastman; New York, NY (Architect) 14. Corgan; Dallas, Texas (Architect) 15. Cannon Design; Grand Island, NY (Architect-Engineer) 16. Populous; Kansas City, MO (Architect) 17. NBBJ; Seattle, WA (Architect) 18. Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC; New York, NY (Architect) 19. Leo A Daly; Omaha, NE (Architect-Engineer) 20. Woods Bagot; San Francisco, CA (Architect) 21. SmithGroupJJR; Detroit, MI (Architect-Engineer) 22. ZGF Architects; Portland, OR (Architect) 23. DLR Group; Omaha, NE (Architect-Engineer) 24. Bechtel; San Francisco, CA (Engineer-Contractor) 25. Hammel Green and Abrahamson; Minneapolis, MN (Architect-Engineer) 26. Page Southerland ; Washington, DC (Architect-Engineer) 27. EYP; Albany, NY (Architect-Engineer) 28. NORR; Chicago, IL (Architect-Engineer) 29. Flad Architects; Madison, WI (Architect-Engineer) 30. Gresham, Smith and Partners; Nashville, TN (Architect-Engineer) 31. Elkus Manfredi Architects; Boston, MA (Architect) 32. HMC Architects; Los Angeles, CA (Architect) 33. RSP Architects; Minneapolis, MN (Architect) 34. LPA Inc.; Irvine, CA (Architect) 35. KTGY Architecture & Planning; Irvine, CA 36. Robert A.M. Stern Architects LLP (RAMSA); New York, NY (Architect) 37. PBK; Houston, TX (Architect-Engineer) 38. Cuningham Group Architecture Inc.; Minneapolis, Minnesota (Architect) 39. Arquitectonica; Miami, FL (Architect) 40. Ware Malcomb; Irvine, California (Architect) 41. Harley Ellis Devereaux; Southfield, MI (Architect-Engineer) 42. STUDIOS Architecture; Washington, DC (Architect) 43. LS3P; Charleston, SC (Architect) 44. Solomon Cordwell Buenz; Chicago, Illinois (Architect) 45. Shepley Bulfinch; Boston, MA (Architect) 46. GreenbergFarrow; Atlanta, GA (Architect-Engineer) 47. Hord Coplan Macht Inc.; Baltimore, MD (Architect) 48. Beyer Blinder Belle; New York, NY (Architect) 49. Huckabee; Fort Worth, TX (Architect-Engineer) 50. Cooper Carry; Atlanta, GA (Architect) Find Architectural Record's complete list here.
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| Posted: 31 Jul 2017 04:00 AM PDT  © Roehner + Ryan
From the architect. Initially built by native dwellers 2000 years ago and rebuilt for modern society over a century ago are 181 miles of canals that bring water to the desert city of Phoenix, Arizona. These canals often go unnoticed, as the city has largely turned their back on these assets until recently. Canal House is a new home inspired by the forms of the missions in southern Arizona on a left over, irregularly shaped vacant lot along the Arizona Canal. The Ranch Mine designed the home to be a beacon, glimmering in the sun with its rusted, corrugated metal roof, drawing focus to the life giving resource slicing through the gridded city.  © Roehner + Ryan Canal House was designed to the furthest extents of the building setbacks, using the geometry of the house to create shade and privacy in a variety of settings. Similar to the missions of southern Arizona, the design opens out from the interior spaces to courtyards that provide additional living areas at different times of day, depending on the location of the sun. The most often shaded area is the dining courtyard along the canal off of the kitchen, with two new Red Push Pistache trees that transition from green to bright red leaves to signal the coming of the cool seasons in Phoenix. The central courtyard is anchored by a rusted steel clad outdoor fireplace that separates the living wing of the house from the sleeping wing. Custom designed steel panels shade the great room doors in the summer with a pattern of the archetypal house form that features prominently on the Canal House elevations. Lastly, an entry courtyard provides a quiet, contemplative area between the house and the garage.  © Roehner + Ryan  Site Plan  © Roehner + Ryan On the interior of the house, a rusted steel clad hood draws the eye up to the vaulted, tongue and groove hemlock ceiling in the great room. The kitchen is highlighted by super durable Dekton countertops, hand-made Fireclay ceramic tile in a herringbone pattern, and a copper farmhouse sink. Aluminum clad, wood doors and exposed aggregated concrete floors add texture and warmth to the interior. The master bathroom contains an open shower with a freestanding tub and is finished with a stripe of the hand-made ceramic tile and cabinetry echoing the vaulted ceiling of the great room.  © Roehner + Ryan This reimagining of the local mission architecture deftly uses simple, durable materials and a unique courtyard focused plan to create a home well-suited for its desert environment while drawing attention back to the lifeblood of Phoenix, the canals.  © Roehner + Ryan  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 15 Clients You Will Encounter as an Architect (And How To Deal With Them) Posted: 31 Jul 2017 03:30 AM PDT  © Coplex via Digital Synopsis Ah, clients. Sadly, we can't all be paper architects, dreaming up improbable futures (and even the members of Archigram eventually settled down to found studios that actually build stuff). As a result, we're forced to work with people who often think that just because they're paying for our services, they own us like slaves. They come in many different varieties, from the client that thinks that everything is an emergency to the client that obsesses over the design budget. The following infographic produced by "startup studio and accelerator" Coplex will help you diagnose your own clients—and more importantly, offers some tips on how best to deal with them to make your life easier.  H/T Digital Synopsis via deMilked  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| "Archifutures" Represents a Vital Infusion of Oxygen Into the Arena of Architectural Discourse Posted: 31 Jul 2017 03:00 AM PDT Publishing is a cultural project, first collecting and condensing ideas and then diffusing them. In the architectural sphere, it is a pursuit which has often struggled to tackle an inherent paradox: is a book, for instance, speaking to an audience entirely "in the know" or one completely fresh to the concepts, ideas, and figures which tend to envelop the discourse – often resonating like records on repeat. Unplugging architectural publishing from its conventional realm while, at the same time, seeking to challenge existing tropes in discourse, has been made at once easier and more challenging by the dawn—and subsequent acceleration—of online publishing. Yet the book, as opposed to the magazine—printed, bound, and representing a cohesive and finite exploration of thoughts—is beginning to benefit from more innovative models of circulation, responding to the territory presently occupied by it's ubiquitous counterpart. Archifutures, an initiative of the Future Architecture Platform, has emerged as one of the more ambitious of these projects.  Volume 2: The Studio. Image © Lena Giovanazzi Positioned by the publishers and editorial team—dpr-barcelona and &beyond respectively—as a series of "field guides," Archifutures, of which three volumes are currently available, "maps new developments" by means of "conversations, essays, interviews, and images." It is an exercise in reflecting on contemporary thought—both real and imaginary—in architecture and urbanism, inviting and involving a range of bodies active in and around those territories. These include institutions, for instance; activists, curators, urban bloggers, critics, editors and, of course, architects.  Volume 3: The Site. Image © Lena Giovanazzi As the publishing project of the Future Architecture Platform, an innovative pan-European collective of architecture museums and festivals, Archifutures harnesses the talent contained therein. Part-funded by the 'Creative Europe Programme' of the European Union, the platform—which has the stated goal of "bringing ideas on the future of cities and architecture closer to the wider public"—is, in this sense, aligned with their secondary aim: to pool ideas from developing thinkers who are, and will, "help to shape our societies of the future."  Volume 1: The Museum. Image © Lena Giovanazzi The three volumes currently available—The Museum, The Studio, and The Site—represent significant contributions to a dilemma faced by print publishers now and in the past: is the affordance of real-estate on a page to "younger" voices a viable risk to take? (This is closely tied to another dilemma: whether or not they believe that a book will sell in the first place.) This risk—for it is a risk—is, however, an urgent gamble to take; and while not all voices or ideas might prove, upon publication, to be as valuable as another, the aspiration is to be admired. When all is said and done, Archifutures represents a vital infusion of oxygen into an arena of discourse that runs the very real risk of becoming ever more impenetrable.
 Archifutures (Vol. 1, 2, 3) Volume 1: The Museum Volume 1: The Museum. Image © Lena Giovanazzi The first volume of the collection maps the work of the institutions and organisations involved in communicating the new and innovative thought and practice leading architecture today, highlighting the strategies they use and programmes they run to support this. Essays and interviews from the Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, the Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel, CANactions, Kiev, Prishtina Architecture Week, Kosovo, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale and others give working examples of the roles that these organisations and institutions play in communication and education for those both within and beyond the field of architecture. Volume 2: The Studio Volume 2: The Studio. Image © Lena Giovanazzi If you want to change the world, you need to start with great ideas. This volume focus in particular is on the cutting-edge thinking and wider theoretical questions and themes that underpin the series, from reflections upon what our ideas of "future" really mean to the changing role of the architecture profession as a whole. Comprising speculative visions, essays and texts, this volume serves as a theoretical backdrop for the practical approaches seen in Volume 3: The Site. This volume comprises speculative visions, essays and texts from contributors including: Ana Jeinić, Miloš Kosec, Clément Blanchet, Amateur Cities, Liam Young, Something Fantastic, Merve Bedir, Tomaž Pipan, Davide Tommaso Ferrando, Tiago Torres-Campos and Reinier de Graaf. Volume 3: The Site Volume 3: The Site. Image © Lena Giovanazzi This volume is a call to practical action leading on from the theoretical approaches seen in Volume 2: The Studio. It presents a further selection from the Future Architecture Platform call for ideas, and focuses firmly on the nitty-gritty of practice with projects and strategies that are on-site or site ready to shake up that future. These are the inspirational solutions and ideas, which could soon be transforming the landscape of architecture and our cities, reasserting the agency of what architecture in its widest sense can offer and mean. Contributors include: Aleksandra Zarek; Andrej Strehovec; Plan Común; Esen Gökçe Özdamar and Murat Ateş; Guerilla Architects; Ignacio Gias; Jack Self; Jan Glasmeier, a.gor.a architects; Jana Čulek; Lavinia Scaletti; Léopold Lambert; Linnea Våglund and Leo Fidjeland; Manon Mollard; Urbz; Natasha Reid; Sara Neves and Felipe Estrela. &beyond is an international and transdisciplinary collective of editors, writers and graphic designers founded in Berlin in 2016. Comprising the editorial and graphics team that brought you uncube, &beyond specializes in understanding and implementing next level publishing and brings together not only experience and expertise, but a worldwide network of collaborators.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Unexpected First Jobs of Seven Famous Architects Posted: 31 Jul 2017 02:30 AM PDT  Seniority is infamously important in the field of architecture. Despite occasionally being on the butt end of wage jokes, the field can actually pay relatively well—assuming that you've been working for a couple of decades. Even Bjarke Ingels, the tech-savvy, video-producing, Netflix-documentary-starring provocateur and founder of the ultra-contemporary BIG isn't a millennial; at 42 the Dane is a full nine years older than Mark Zuckerberg. As a result of this, it's common to lead a rich and complex life before finding architectural fame, and many of the world's most successful architects started their careers off in an entirely different field. If you haven't landed your dream job yet, you may find the following list of famous architects' first gigs reassuring. Alvar Aalto Public domain image <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alvar_Aalto1.jpg'>via Wikimedia</a> The Finnish mastermind started his architecture education in 1916 at the Helsinki University of Technology. Before he could graduate, his degree was put on hold by the Finnish Civil War. Aalto joined the White Army and fought in the decisive battle of the war at Tampere. After completing his education he didn't immediately go into design; in 1922 he officially joined the military, training at the Hamina reserve officer camp. Aalto's first project out of the military was his parent's house. Tadao Ando © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/krss/3166875352/'>Flickr user krss</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en'>CC BY-SA 2.0</a> The self-taught Japanese architect slogged through his adolescence first as a truck driver and then as a professional boxer. By the age of 17, the seeds of architectural interest were planted as he and his brother traveled the world fighting internationally. Ando credits Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo with finally convincing him to stop boxing and start designing, two years after graduating high school. Daniel Libeskind © Stefan Ruiz Born in Poland to Jewish Holocaust survivors, Daniel Libeskind was a performing artist for most of his youth. An accomplished accordion player by his teens, Libeskind performed on Polish television in 1953. His family moved to New York in 1959—where he'd move into architecture. IM Pei © RIBA via The Telegraph Pei emigrating from China to the United States in 1935 to work towards a degree in architecture. However, just after receiving his BArch from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1940, Pei joined the National Defense Research Committee to help the United States develop weapons technology in the midst of the second World War. Pei spent over two years with the government organization before returning to design. Although little has been revealed about Pei's time served with the NDRC, it's rumored that one of the committee members tried to coax Pei into joining by telling him "If you know how to build you should also know how to destroy." Frank Gehry © Alexandra Cabri In 1947 Frank Gehry's family emigrated from Canada to Los Angeles, California. In order to make ends meet, a young Gehry drove a delivery truck while studying at Los Angeles City College. After earning enough money for Bachelor's degree Gehry lamented his life's direction: "I tried radio announcing, which I wasn't very good at. I tried chemical engineering, which I wasn't very good at and didn't like... and just on a hunch, I tried some architecture classes." In 1954 he graduated from the University of Southern California with a BArch. Rem Koolhaas Courtesy of OMA Koolhaas is equal parts practicing architect and theorist. And, before starting his architecture education at both the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, Koolhaas was a budding writer. After a journalistic stint at the Haagse Post, Koolhaas co-wrote a Dutch film noir The White Slave. He then went on to pen, alongside Rene Daalder, a (never made) raunchy flick titled Hollywood Tower for the infamous American pornography director Russ Meyer. By 1975, Koolhaas had founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture and had begun writing Delirious New York. Norman Foster © Nigel Young / Foster + Partners Foster spent much of his youth in Manchester. After leaving primary school at the age of 16, he worked in Manchester City Treasurer's office, then enlisted in the National Service and served in the Royal Air Force until he was discharged. He completed all of this by age 21, when Foster enrolled in the University of Manchester's School of Architecture and City Planning from 1956 to 1961. After graduation Foster won the Henry Fellowship to study at Yale, where he would go onto study alongside Richard Rogers and earn a graduate degree.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Espaço Alana / Rodrigo Ohtake Arquitetura e Design Posted: 31 Jul 2017 02:00 AM PDT  © Rafaela Netto
 © Rafaela Netto From the architect. The Alana Institute is an NGO focused on children's and youth development. The Jardim Pantanal headquarters project sought to conceive a space in which the entity could consolidate its actions in the region, which is extremely needy, and offer the community a place to socialize and develop collective activities.  © Rafaela Netto The cultural center has the program created colaboratively with the community and has a community library, music school, auditorium, cafeteria, houses the community association, administration room and a covered square of 800m².  Ground Floor Plan The project occupies the ground in order to preserve the urban characteristics familiar to the community without giving up making it a reference place. Glass plans with regular frames, curvilinear surfaces with color and translucent marquee are examples of the high quality in the use of materials in the configuration of the spaces, which is oppose to the subtle scale of the project and the implantation solutions.  © Rafaela Netto The set qualifies delicately, without modifying the local sense, but offering it innovative technical solutions and modern aesthetic attributes.  © Rafaela Netto The marquee synthesizes these qualities. In addition to delineating the space between the city and the batch, becoming it free and welcoming, its singular form is forceful and the application of the materials is carefully conceived. Its strong presence dissolves in the visitor's experience thanks to the translucent material, which shelter without confining.  © Rafaela Netto  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Loop NYC Wants to Bring Driverless Expressways and Green Corridors to Manhattan Posted: 31 Jul 2017 01:00 AM PDT Manhattan-based architecture practice Edg has created an ambitious proposal that replaces major highways into driverless ones, as well as adding green corridors spanning the length of the island. Named "Loop NYC," the scheme aims to improve Manhattanites' quality of life and reduce the city's urban pollution. Edg has released a video outlining the proposal and its uses (see above)—read on for the project breakdown.  © Edg  © Edg Loop NYC works by transforming existing major city highways into driverless expressways and 1-way streets, with major city streets (14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, 57th, 86th, and 110th) that cut across the island exclusively hosting driverless vehicles. With the exception of 110th Street, the streets mentioned are part of the original 15 designed to be wider than 30 meters by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, which was responsible for the original grid-design of Manhattan—making them some of the busiest streets in the city today. By combining the cross streets with major highways circling the perimeter of the city, driverless expressways work in a series of "loops," quickly and efficiently transporting passengers while optimizing traffic flow. Currently, a loop from Grand Central Station to Lower Manhattan and back takes 40 minutes; Loop NYC offers to get you around in just 11.  © Edg  © Edg In addition to driverless freeways, pedestrian paths and enormous green spaces are also part of Loop NYC's master plan. Pedestrian bridges are designed to span over driverless channels and a 13-mile (21-kilometer) long pedestrian park is created to span from Battery Park in the south of Manhattan forking at Union Square, converting Broadway and Park Avenue into giant green corridors solely for pedestrian and bike use.  © Edg  © Edg The benefits of the proposal are all geared towards improving the quality of life of people living and commuting within the city. Green corridors replacing busy avenues would reduce noise pollution for inhabitants, with more trees reducing air pollution overall. More interaction between neighbors would happen in communal spaces, and with the success of Manhattan's High Line and similar walkway projects appearing in major cities, the giant green avenues aren't a far cry from existing counterparts.  © Edg  © Edg However, Loop NYC remains a largely speculative project with assumptions made about the extent of people using it and the role of driverless cars in general. Would automated expressways integrate well inside the urban core of a city? How would public and private transport really balance out in an effort to reduce cars overall? Who would really be using these channels and benefitting from the 30-minute reduction in commutes?  © Edg  © Edg The driverless car, while being developed by Amazon, Google, Tesla and more recently the Audi A8 (to name a few) is still largely un-drivable for now, with questions arising about the autonomy of the car in the first place. Current driverless cars still rely on human backup—a recent article published by WIRED argues for the importance human-car interaction has despite going driverless. Alternatively, with projects such as Hyperloop One also being tested, we may have alternative solutions shaping travel in our cities to come.  © Edg Loop NYC marks one of the emerging urban exercises that incorporate driverless cars as something beyond a futuristic "utopia"—instead generating an idea that addresses problems in cities without razing the existing built environment into a clean slate to work with. With Tesla's new Autopilot update, driverless cars are being developed to drive along highways rather than being limited to slower streets. Initiatives such as Audi's Urban Future Award and NYC's "Driverless Future Challenge" demonstrate that architects and urban planners are engaging with the possibilities of self-driving vehicles as something that's not solely limited to the imagination, but could possibly be achievable in the years to come. Information via Edg.
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| See Population Data From Anywhere in The World With This Map Posted: 30 Jul 2017 11:00 PM PDT  Via Printscreen www.populationexplorer.com Need some data on the world's inhabitants? Population Explorer is an online software that can estimate population information from any region of the world based on the Landscan application and is described as a "high-precision population database produced by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory" in the United States.
It is possible to use the platform to know a variety of statistics: how many people live in a certain region, the number of women and men living in a given area, the age pyramid of a given population, and how densely populated a territory is (among other applications) - making the tool useful for both municipal and government authorities around the world. In order to have access to the applications, it is necessary to register. However even without registering, the tool can run several searches (such as the calculation of area and perimeter of a certain polygon drawn on the map by the user) including tutorials on how to use Population Explorer in all its potential. With the tools in the right menu, you can customize maps, measure distances, and select regions. Check out Population Explorer here. Via: Population Explorer.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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