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- BuzziJungle / BuzziSpace
- House Moser / Madritsch + Pfurtscheller
- House B / SODA Arhitekti
- Elephant-Parade Office / CUN Design
- The World Expo Museum / ECADI
- Fluid House / CJ Studio
- Lily Nails Salon / ARCHSTUDIO
- Bay Area Metro Center / Perkins+Will
- ODA Designs 70-Story Residential Skyscraper for Downtown Los Angeles
- Woldyia Maternity Center / Vilalta Arquitectura
- Washington D.C. Unveils Its Largest Ever Construction Project: $441 Million Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge Replacement
- Sherman Residence / Peter Tolkin Architecture
- Adjaye, OMA and ZHA Among 13 Shortlisted for 2017 "Design of the Year"
- GC House / Juan Pablo Ribadeneira Mora
- Behind India's Ambitious Plan to Create the World's Longest River
- Nike New York Headquarters / WSDIA | WeShouldDoItAll
- Restaurant ENIGMA Offers a Glimpse Into the Future of Gastronomy
- New Map Celebrates Boston’s Brutalist Architecture
| Posted: 16 Aug 2017 10:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of BuzziJungle
 Courtesy of BuzziJungle From the architect. Inspired by nature, BuzziJungle offers a solution to the conventional meeting space. The launch of the BuzziJungle will introduce the design world to young Belgian talent Jonas Van Put. This is Van Put's first project with a major international manufacturer. BuzziJungle is BuzziSpace's reflection of their vision for the social office and further pushing the traditional boundaries of the workplace.  Courtesy of BuzziJungle  Elevation  Courtesy of BuzziJungle  Elevation Various elements within the structure provide an opportunity for different interactions within the "jungle". You can climb, lounge and meet in the elevated work-lounge space made from lacquered steel. The BuzziJungle creates an urban footprint in large and small spaces.  Courtesy of BuzziJungle  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House Moser / Madritsch + Pfurtscheller Posted: 16 Aug 2017 08:00 PM PDT  © Wolfgang Retter
 © Wolfgang Retter A 150 year-old barn that was no longer in use (and was about to be demolished) was torn down at its original site and rebuilt on the building site (about 800 meters further).  Before. Image © Wolfgang Retter  © Wolfgang Retter The required rooms were woven into it, with the existing structure informing the shapes and materials of the new. On the outside, the barn remains mostly unchanged, showing its cultural history, yet not as a landmark, but filled with new life. So it is in use once again and save from decay or demolition.  © Wolfgang Retter  Floor Plan  © Wolfgang Retter  Floor Plan House Moser is continuation of and with traditions, a step forward and back at the same time that creates a link between past and future. The building is small and energy-efficient. In short: Providing meaning for many!  © Wolfgang Retter The existing structure of hand-carved thresholds, pillars, beams, crossbeams, purlins and rafters made from spruce was placed onto a new concrete foundation. Only the threshold and doubling on the lower purlins needed replacing. Structurally, the "old" is carrying the "new". This "new" structure consists of 2 outer walls (insulated wooden framework), a wooden-beamed ceiling and the roof made from sheets of plywood with on-roof insulation resting on the old roof structure. The remaining thermal insulation is provided by three-layered glass with only few windows and doors that open.  © Wolfgang Retter All surfaces (floors, ceilings, walls) are made from three-layered spruce plates, which were soaped as an only surface treatment.  Section The building is heated only by a tiled stove which also serves as a stairwell to the upper floor. Warm water is generated by an electric waterheater with a heat pump.  © Wolfgang Retter  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 16 Aug 2017 07:00 PM PDT  © Ivan Dorotić
 © Ivan Dorotić From the architect. The plot for the construction of a family house is situated on the slopes of Medvednica, in the northwestern part of the city. The terrain is an ideal south-facing slope.  © Ivan Dorotić The house is located in the longitudinal west-east direction, in order to maximize the benefits od of the south orientation and to allow a view of the city from the entire house. It is designed with a simple gesture of pulling the upper floor volume in a relation to the ground floor volume. This formed two valuable outer spaces as a functional extension of interior of the house - the entrance to the parking lots, which covers the console to the west, and a terrace with a roof garden for parents in the east.  © Ivan Dorotić  Ground Floor Plan  © Ivan Dorotić Cantelevered space can be used as a covered dining terrace. The ground floor has a living room, dining room and kitchen, the upper floor consists of sleeping spaces, and the basement is the utilitarian floor. The organization of the house is done around the centrally placed two-storey living room, which is vertically connected with the upper floor gallery, with dining area and the kitchen on the same level and with the exterior through the large glass walls.  © Ivan Dorotić  Section  © Ivan Dorotić Gallery serves as a horizontal connection between parental bedroom and children's rooms and as a playroom. Large windows oriented to the south allow the decline of winter sun rays deep into the house and make passive heating possible. Duplex living room accumulates heat and distributes it to other areas of the house. In the summer, the house is protected from the sun with a pergola and movable blinds.  © Ivan Dorotić  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Elephant-Parade Office / CUN Design Posted: 16 Aug 2017 05:00 PM PDT  © Wang Ting - Wang Jin
 © Wang Ting - Wang Jin From the architect. Beijing is a complex diversified metropolitan, where everyone attempts for a small sense of belonging and identity. Even troubled by life stress as well as the Fog days they still went ahead. While the longest time of a day people spend is in office.  © Wang Ting - Wang Jin Elephant-Parade said that the power leads new communication era comes from continuously creative spirit. As it is a communication company which specializes in digital integration, openness and diversity culture, we keep penetrating openness , humanized concepts and creative aesthetic ideas constantly into its space structure design.  Diagram In our opinion, the process of designing is not only simply doing but also beautifying life. With time goes on, people began to be weary of the "forest" of reinforced concrete and the string light mirror glass, and the more they pursuit of is materials that are close to life. Hence we used bamboo elements in Elephant-Parade's office and restored its color. Art must come from the nature, since it has already created the most unique beautiful models for people.  © Wang Ting - Wang Jin In the first layer, we cut and broke the single geometrics space, while being able to be recombined and re-displayed, it feels like that it shows and could returns to the original space form. In this way, internal communication function of Elephant-Parade 's office is maintained while being as vivid and interesting as jigsaw puzzle. Meanwhile, it solves the problems of many practical functions, such as lighting and ventilation, line organization, functional partition, etc.  © Wang Ting - Wang Jin The relation of space is about adding and subtracting. In this layer, several geometry of same or different shapes are added to a single piece, while major and minor relationship is maintained, the image and expression of space is highlighted. And subtraction is cutting and emptying the original shape to form new shapes to meet the need of space functions. This makes the blocks have a more vivid shadow and a deeper sense of sculpture .  1F Plan  2F Plan  3F Plan Floor and ceiling of each block has hidden lights, so even in the evening independent space could be formed. Simple and beautiful, clear and dazed multidimensional design language – digestion and refactoring constructs creative visual space in the structure of the multivariate composite.  © Wang Ting - Wang Jin The office space of Elephant-Parade not only reflects the characteristics of the industry, but also fully expresses its cultural and aesthetic values. While small spaces have a certain sense of privacy, they communicate with the big space. Thus group and individual spaces exist harmoniously and get their functions performed. This is also the relationship between big and small blocks. Bamboo as a building material represents the connotation of ancient Asian architecture system. Its output in China is enough to support the material consumption, and has the characteristics of high toughness and high plasticity. At the top of the stairs, while using bamboo, we made it curve. Architect Gaudy once said: "the straight line belongs to men, and the curve to god". Obviously, the curve, which conveys something beyond the building, is what really makes our heart relax and feel like walking in a distant daydream. So we make curve splicing in the stairs and the top of the first layer to extend the flowing of the space.  © Wang Ting - Wang Jin Geometric lines in the interior space is adopted in this way, where nature is better used and no more piling up of traditional elements . The interface exists for the purpose of this space, and because of this interface, there are materials, structure, construction and entity. And a flowing rhythm in the interior space is formed.  © Wang Ting - Wang Jin Due to the rapid pace of life, the behaviors of people show more clear sense of purpose and shortcuts. Their straight lines of conducting code become another design standard of flowing space. In modern space design, people's aesthetic appreciation of curve and their linear activities agree with each other better. Nowadays, people are no longer limited by fixed time and space to work, while revolutionary change has happened in their concepts of work and working forms. A more cozy and relaxing work atmosphere is demanded by people to organically integrate with life.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 16 Aug 2017 03:00 PM PDT  © Shao Feng
 © Shao Feng From the architect. The World Expo Museum opened on May 1st, 2017, after designing and constructing by five years. The World Expo Museum is the first formal international museum in China so far, and currently the only permanent official museum and document center authorized by the International Exhibition Bureau (BIE).  © Shao Feng BIE have discussed many times with Shanghai municipal government since the closing of World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. They hope to show the strength of Shanghai as a host city through the museum, and pass the innovation and openness to the subsequent host cities. In 2012, 12 top design companies including Zaha Hadid, Architecture Studio, Arata Isozaki etc. participated in the competition of world expo museum. ECADI won finally, and made detailed design and construction coordination in the whole project.  © Shao Feng  Diagram  © Shao Feng The project is located in the area of 2010 Shanghai World Expo, south of the Bund Riverside Park and north of urban secondary trunk road of Longhua East Road. The main entrance is located in the east while the logistic service west, which avoids mutual interference in space. The public service area is designed in the south and office area south based on situation of traffic around and sight priority.  © Shao Feng  Ground Floor Plan  © Shao Feng The theme for the World Expo with 150 years history is designed as "Eternal Moments".The building is taken as a container carrying all happy memories of mankind and collecting beautiful yet transient memories. The External Public Display Space,"Historical Valley", composed of stone and copper-aluminum composite panel curtain wall, embodies the "eternity" of time, while the transparent ascending glass in the center, "Jubilant Cloud" that is, Multifunctional Special Exhibition Hall, shows the moments of future. The above two combined creates rich indoor and outdoor interactive space, integrating the World Expo memory with urban life, providing a high-quality city public living room for Shanghai.  © Shao Feng The World Expo Museum is also the current public building with largest copper panels in domestic external curtain wall. The curtain wall of the "Valley" is made of customized "copper and aluminum composite plate". "Jubilant Cloud" applies rare high-altitude structural system, "suspended steel structure enclosure". A full digital technology generation, integrated layout, integrated design of mechanical and electrical equipment and pipelines, creates highly efficient and pure space .  © Shao Feng Taken BIM system as the platform in the whole project,the building has saved 20% energy than similar construction unit area by integrating mature, economy, suitable and reliable technologies. It is a three-star green building awarded by the People's Republic of China for "Green Building Evaluation Logo"  © Shao Feng As the latest city landmark in Shanghai, the World Expo Museum is the highlight in the new pattern of urban cultural space development in Shanghai, and a unique knowledge base about World Expo culture and innovation.  © Shao Feng  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 16 Aug 2017 01:00 PM PDT  © Kuo-Min Lee
 © Kuo-Min Lee From the architect. When entering the house, one could easily perceive its fluidity at the first glance. It is continuous on the ceiling level but separated by individual partitions on the floor. The ceiling is a composite of several curved surfaces, the seams of which implicitly implying the activities underneath. Two sets of partitions with different angles delineate the living space as a polygon that explicitly points to different directions. Moreover, the partition divides the house into two parts: the public and private. The former, as mentioned above, is characterized with oblique angles and the latter is defined by orthogonal lines to distinguish the spatial qualities between them. In addition, the materials adopt a quiet atmosphere, accentuating only certain key characters. The basic tone is structured by the white ceiling and pandomo floor so that crucial elements can display its precious raw texture and color, like the oak wood table and carrara marble counter, orchestrating the flow around the space.  Plan 1 The living space is equipped with a home cinema and a mini bar to enhance the entertainment facilities for social activities. The required equipment includes a projector and a wine cooler that are both integrated into the space arrangement, the previous concealed within a simple white cabinet while the later hidden inside a counter table, so as to purify the visual experience and keep the space simple. To differentiate different function behavior from each other, different heights are applied to the counter table. To achieve this, objects of different materials are stacked up to form a sculpture-like furniture. In the same sense, lights and air conditioning vents are integrated into the ceiling; shoe storage and audio equipment are blended into the partition. Thus, subordinate furniture is no longer independent but merged into the space; and the space is transformed into a compound with multiple functions.  © Kuo-Min Lee After passing an in-between turning defined by two curved partitions, one enters the private area that contains a bedroom, a bathroom and a walk-in closet. The space here still emphasizes its continuity but in an orthogonal order. The ceiling undulates up and down with the heights distributing different activities. The bathtub splits from the bathroom and is separately located in the middle, diverting the circulation around it. The walk-in closet is bordered by gray glass that allows the transparency or reflection based on the light condition. Again, the sink is separated from the bathroom, placed on a counter adjoining the wall. Similar to the previous approach, the trivial elements like the tap, the sink and the drawer are arranged to act as one piece of art by showing their geometry, texture in their composition.  © Kuo-Min Lee The house is not huge, but satisfies the owner's essential needs, creating a flexible space for multiple activities during a relatively short stay. Leisure and work are combined with living and contained inside the house without being clearly separated. The multi-purpose utilities are allocated in a seamless, fluid environment and organized according to the owner's needs. Eventually, it is not just a hotel suite but also a real home in a traveler's mind.  © Kuo-Min Lee  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 16 Aug 2017 12:00 PM PDT  © Weiqi Jin
 © Weiqi Jin From the architect. The nails salon is designed to achieve a kind of natural sense in artificial environment, and to attract customers by creating an amusing experience of being in the hill. The rectangular space of 60m2 is embedded a hill that is gradually rising from outside to inside.  © Weiqi Jin The hill is divided into 7 caves of varying sizes, emerging or hiding according to customers' behaviour and sight. The caves, separate from yet interconnected with each other, form manicure and beauty areas of different scales. Manicure area is grouped by 2 or 3 seats, while beauty area is relatively closed to ensure privacy. The space between caves is used as storage, service room, display rack, etc.  Plan The whole hill is welded together with 1.5mm thick brushed stainless steel plate, its hardness in match with soft grey carpet on the floor, thus enhancing grey-toned cave space. The hill top is painted white, being integrated with surrounding walls and shining roof as a whole. The roof is made of soft membrane, its surface printed in flower patterns of different densities, creating even and varied indoor light.  © Weiqi Jin Stop in front of the store, you get a vivid visual image directly through the transparent glass wall. Step inside the space, the abstract hill becomes a stage to unfold the beauty of nature.  © Weiqi Jin  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Bay Area Metro Center / Perkins+Will Posted: 16 Aug 2017 10:00 AM PDT  © Blake Marvin Photography
 © Blake Marvin Photography From the architect. Like a geode, the Bay Area Metro Center's most distinctive and unexpected treasure – a soaring atrium -- lies within. The monolithic building – a cavernous, 8-story concrete structure occupying an entire city block – was built as a military tank assembly plant in 1942 with low, 10' ceilings and massive football field-sized floor plates, punctuated every 25' by concrete columns. Its transformation into a welcoming, light-filled space that fosters unity across multiple floors was achieved by carving an atrium into the center of the building.  © Blake Marvin Photography The new Bay Area Metro Center is a collaborative workplace that consolidates four government agencies. The goals of the consolidation is to foster teamwork, pool resources, and gain operational efficiencies. Within the atrium, terraces for informal gathering occur near large, open coffee bars. At the lower levels, a large room for commission hearings, multiple conference rooms, breakout spaces, a bike storage area, retail provide amenities for the future.  © David Wakely Photography  East-West Section  © Blake Marvin Photography Originally designed for another era and purpose, its most remarkable feature is the reuse of the building itself. The LEED Gold-targeted rehabilitation averts the relocation of a 500,000 sf building to landfill and features recycled materials -- including much of the exposed wood used for stair treads, countertops and wall finishes -- from century-old wooden pilings uncovered during the demolition of the original Transbay Terminal nearby. It leverages its unique assets--immense floor plates capable of accommodating a breathtaking new atrium, and a fixed shell that focused bold and spectacular moves inwardly. The design team created a one-of-a-kind experience for employees and visitors.  © Blake Marvin Photography  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| ODA Designs 70-Story Residential Skyscraper for Downtown Los Angeles Posted: 16 Aug 2017 09:05 AM PDT  Courtesy of ODA. Via Curbed Downtown Los Angeles' skyscraper boom continues – this time straying south to the intersection of South Olive and 11th Street, where developer Crescent Heights has submitted plans for a new 70-story residential tower housing 794 apartment units. Designed by ODA, 1045 Olive is planned to top out at a height of 770 feet, which would make it Los Angeles' tallest residential building and 4th tallest overall. Unique to the structure (and fitting for Los Angeles) would be the massive amount of space dedicated to parking: 13.5 total floors would be dedicated to parking spots, including an above ground 8-story core that would be wrapped in apartments to visually conceal the cars within.  Courtesy of ODA. Via Curbed This approach will also allow units to receive a maximum amount of light and air for their square footage. A cutout on the upper levels would provide communal gathering space and a swimming pool, while full wraparound balconies will add additional outdoor space to each floor.  Courtesy of ODA. Via Curbed According to Architect's Newspaper, the project is being expedited through California's ELDP initiative, which offers fast-tracked approval for projects investing more than $100 million in the state economy. A timeline for construction has not yet been revealed. News via Curbed, Architect's Newspaper.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Woldyia Maternity Center / Vilalta Arquitectura Posted: 16 Aug 2017 08:00 AM PDT  © Gonzalo Guajardo
 © Gonzalo Guajardo From the architect. The project is located at the entrance of the hospital compound in the city of Woldya, in the north east of Ethiopia.  © Gonzalo Guajardo A key decision of the project was to divide it into two areas that share the same entrance space: the functional maternity unit and the mothers' waiting area, a new program born as a result of the sociological analysis of the site. This is a space where future mothers coming from rural areas can live in an environment where they can feel comfortable two weeks before they give birth.  © Gonzalo Guajardo The first one, the functional and operational medical space, is composed of three rectangular volumes that are connected by a central corridor. The three volumes compose the different areas of the maternity unit: Reception, Patient, and Operation areas.  © Gonzalo Guajardo  Floor Plan  © Gonzalo Guajardo These are separated from each other to bring light inside the main corridor. The design of the façade includes cultural references on the window grills that are shaped using a traditional Ethiopian pattern. The open air reception takes advantage of the outdoor space and climate and aims to integrate the community into the building.  © Gonzalo Guajardo The second one, the mother's waiting area, is inspired by the tukuls, the traditional Ethiopian huts and it is composed by circular volumes organized by a similar pattern. Like a big house for new mothers, it has a day area composed by an open air living room with a kitchen and a night area with five bedrooms and toilets.  © Gonzalo Guajardo  © Gonzalo Guajardo All the interior spaces of the maternity ward have natural ventilation and illumination. For the construction, we used a lightweight concrete prefab system for the hospital unit combined with pine wood on the facade and steel structure with bamboo for the mothers' homes.  © Gonzalo Guajardo  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 16 Aug 2017 07:15 AM PDT  Courtesy of DDOT Washington, D.C. has unveiled the design of the city's largest ever construction project: a $411 million bridge spanning the Anacostia River that will replace the 68-year-old Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge. The project will be carried out by the team known as "South Capitol Bridge Builders," consisting of lead designer AECOM, Archer Western Construction and Granite Construction, after their submission was selected as the winner of a competition for the bridge announced in 2014. Part of the larger South Capitol Street Corridor Project, the project will include the new six-lane bridge along with new traffic ovals on either side of the river, improved storm water management and riverfront pedestrian spaces. The bridge's design will feature three arches inspired by the city's "arch history," as well as two piers and four pedestrian overlooks. Goals for the project include increasing pedestrian and vehicular safety, while adding new multi-modal transportation lanes and improving connection to the river.  Courtesy of DDOT  Courtesy of DDOT "Today, we are taking a huge step toward improving the District's infrastructure and building a safer, stronger DC," said Mayor Bowser. "The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge and the entire South Capitol Street Corridor Project will create jobs for District residents and provide an iconic gateway between Anacostia and Downtown DC. When completed, this will be a tremendous structure and a fitting memorial for a remarkable American icon."  Courtesy of DDOT Initial work on the bridge, estimated to open in 2021, will coincide with the celebration of the bicentennial of Fredrick Douglass' birth next year. Read more about the project, here. News via DC Office of the Mayor, Washington Post.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Sherman Residence / Peter Tolkin Architecture Posted: 16 Aug 2017 06:00 AM PDT  © Grant Mudford
 © Grant Mudford From the architect. The Sherman Residence is located on a hillside lot above the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, CA. The unique history of the site provides an exceptional record of the horticultural heritage of the area. Prior to World War II the area was primarily occupied by commercial citrus groves and other agriculture. After the war, much of the valley was subdivided to create residential tracts during the housing boom, but surprisingly the Sherman Residence site remained undeveloped. Because the land had not been previously developed the site still has a large variety of trees and plants: indigenous large oaks and sycamores, "working" plants such as orange and avocado trees, and exotic palms and succulents.  © Grant Mudford  Floor Plan  © Grant Mudford  Section  © Grant Mudford Situated at the base of a hill, the house bounds a courtyard and swimming pool on three sides. The hillside encloses the fourth side. The residence juxtaposes distinctively private and public faces. A series of board-formed concrete and glass pavilions create a strong sense of enclosure along the private face while being open to the interior of the site. The horseshoe-shape configuration of the pavilions maximizes views of the extraordinary landscape. Interstitial gallery spaces provide circulation between the pavilions. Glass facades on both the pavilions and the connecting galleries frame the landscape, bringing nature into sharp relief from a variety of positions inside the home. Holding together the entire composition is a low-slung wooden beam roof with deep overhangs.  © Grant Mudford  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Adjaye, OMA and ZHA Among 13 Shortlisted for 2017 "Design of the Year" Posted: 16 Aug 2017 04:25 AM PDT  The Design Museum in London has announced the shortlist projects in the running for the 2017 edition of their prestigious Beazley Design of the Year award. Now in its tenth year, the award was established to "celebrate design that promotes or delivers change, enables access, extends design practice or captures the spirit of the year." This year, a total of 62 projects have been nominated across six categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Graphics, Product and Transport – including 13 projects from the Architecture category. A winner from each category and the overall winner will be announced on January 25, 2018. Previous winners of the architecture category include: IKEA's Better Shelter last year (also the overall winner), Alejandro Aravena's UC Innovation Center in 2015, and Zaha Hadid Architects' Heydar Aliyev Center (overall winner in 2014). See all of the architecture nominees below. Mrs Fan's Plug-In House / People's Architecture Office Mrs Fan's Plug-In House / People's Architecture Office. Image © Gao Tianxia The Plugin House is built with a proprietary building renovation system developed as a result of the challenging context of Beijing hutong areas. The price of real estate in central Beijing makes owning a house difficult for many. However, the Plugin House costs 30 times less than a typical apartment. Plugin replaces part of a previously existing dwelling and adds new functions. These prefabricated modules incorporate insulation, interior and exterior finish into one moulded part. Warka Water / Arturo Vittori Warka Water / Arturo Vittori. Image Courtesy of Design Museum Warka Water is a vertical structure designed to harvest potable water from the atmosphere (it collects rain, harvests fog and dew). It relies only on gravity, condensation and evaporation and doesn't require any electrical power. At a time when a quarter of the world's population lacks access to safe drinking water, Warka Water tower is designed to harvest drinkable water from the atmosphere. Hegnhuset Memorial and Learning Center / Blakstad Haffner Architects Hegnhuset Memorial and Learning Center / Blakstad Haffner Architects. Image © Are Carlsen Response to Norwegian terrorist attacks of 2011 that struck the island of Utøya, where 69 people – mostly teenagers – were murdered in one of two politically motivated attacks by far-right terrorist. The cafe building where 13 people tragically lost their lives during the attack has been enshrined within a new learning centre. The architect's response was to preserve one section of the cabin-like building – the rooms directly affected during the massacre – but to completely enclose it within a new pine structure. The outer layer is made up of 495 wooden slats, one for every person on the island that survived the attack, while the glazed inside layer is framed by 69 columns that pay tribute to every fatality Wind and Rain Bridge / Donn Holohan - The University of Hong Kong Wind and Rain Bridge / Donn Holohan. Image Courtesy of University of Hong Kong Wind and Rain Bridge draws on the long tradition of wooden buildings in the region. Peitian is one of a number of isolated rural villages distributed throughout the mountainous regions of southern China, which, following severe flooding in early 2014 saw much of the infrastructure linking its disparate communities destroyed. This project aims to reconnect Peitian villages to the historic network of routes that link these isolated settlements. Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture / Adjaye Associates Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture / Adjaye Associates. Image Courtesy of Design Museum The museum was inaugurated by President Obama in September 2016 and is a long-awaited symbol for the African American contribution to the nation's history and identity. The museum houses galleries, administrative spaces, theatre space and collections storage space. Sir David Adjaye's approach created a meaningful relationship to this unique site as well as a strong conceptual resonance with America's longstanding African heritage. The 313,000-square-foot building comprises a three-tiered structure covered in bronze plates. Designed to shade the glazed facades behind, the filigree cladding is patterned to reference the history of African American craftsmanship. Sala Beckett Theatre and International Drama Centre / Flores & Prats Sala Beckett Theatre and International Drama Centre / Flores & Prats. Image © Adrià Goula The project is a renovation and extension of the former worker's club "Pau i Justícia", deeply rooted in the memory of the Barcelona neighbourhood Poblenou, a space where long ago neighbours had celebrated marriages, first communions and parties, which was then abandoned for many years. The new building maintained the spatial characteristics of the original building while also expanding and adapting the space to accommodate a new programme of exhibitions and activities. The Calais Builds Project / Grainne Hassett with students from University of Limerick The Calais Builds Project / Grainne Hassett with students from University of Limerick. Image Courtesy of Design Museum The Calais Builds Project captured the needs, culture and hopes of its residents. In 2016, architect Grainne Hassett along with students from the University of Limerick and local migrants designed and built a major community infrastructure, including a Women's and Children's Centre and the Baloo's Youth Centre. These were demolished in 2016 by the French Government and its inhabitants displaced. Croft Lodge Studio / Kate Darby Architects and David Connor Design Croft Lodge Studio / Kate Darby Architects and David Connor Design. Image © James Morris The strategy was not to renovate or repair the 300 year old listed building but to preserve it perfectly. The ruin is protected from the elements within a new high performance outer envelope. The new outer shell, which retains the shape of the existing cottage is clad in black corrugated iron, reflecting the common use of this material in Herefordshire for agricultural buildings. Lycée Schorge Secondary School / Kéré Architecture Lycée Schorge Secondary School / Kéré Architecture. Image © Iwan Baan Located in the third most populated city in Burkina Faso, the Lycée Schorge Secondary School sets a new standard for educational excellence in the region. The design for the school consists of 9 modules which accommodate a series of classrooms and administration rooms in a radial layout which wrap around a central public courtyard. The architecture not only functions as a marker in the landscape, it is also a testament to how local materials, in combination with creativity and teamwork, can be transformed into something significant with lasting effects. Weltsadt - Refugees' Memories and Futures as Models Weltsadt - Refugees' Memories and Futures as Models. Image © Fred Mosley The exhibition features models of buildings made by people from Africa and the Middle East who came to Germany as refugees. The buildings are homes, schools, offices, workshops and houses of prayer which are displayed as a walk-through cityscape, a 'world city'. Made of cardboard, wood and found materials, the models reflect on the lost spaces and trusted memories but equally of new beginnings of the people who build the models. Visitors can see each of the 1:10 scale buildings up close. The Environmental Enhancement of the Five Dragons Temple / Urbanus The Environmental Enhancement of the Five Dragons Temple / Urbanus. Image © Yang Chaoying Situated in Ruicheng County, Shanxi Province, the Five Dragons Temple is listed as a class A cultural relic. Built in 831 A.D. during the Tang Dynasty, it is the oldest surviving Taoist temple. In 2015, Vanke Group initiated the "Long Plan" to raise funds to revitalise the environment of the Five Dragons Temple. This plan also helped to raise the public awareness of this historical preservation project. This initiative would then go on to become the first time where the government and private funds cooperated for the preservation of cultural relics, as well as the promotion of cultural protection through the platforms of internet and the international Expo. Antwerp Port House / Zaha Hadid Architects Port House / Zaha Hadid Architects. Image © Hélène Binet The new Port House in Antwerp repurposes, renovates and extends a derelict fire station into a new headquarters for the port – bringing together the port's 500 staff that previously worked in separate buildings around the city. The waterside site offered sustainable construction benefits, allowing materials and building components to be transported by water, an important requirement to meet the port's ecological targets. The old fire station is heritage listed so had to be integrated into the new project. ZHA's design is an elevated extension, rather than a neighbouring volume which would have concealed at least one of the existing facades. Il Fondaco Tedeschi / OMA Il Fondaco Tedeschi / OMA. Image © DSL First constructed in 1228, and located at the foot of the Rialto Bridge across from the fish market, the Fondaco dei Tedeschi is one of Venice's largest and most recognizable buildings. It was used as a trading post for German merchants, a customs house under Napoleon, and a post office under Mussolini. Depicted by Canaletto and other masters, and photographed countless times as the impressive but anonymous backdrop of the Rialto bridge, the Fondaco stands as a mute witness of the Venetian mercantile era, its role diminished with the progressive depopulation of Venice. The Fondaco dei Tedeschi can now unlock its potential as a major destination and vantage point for tourists and Venetians alike; a contemporary urban department store staging a diverse range of activities, from shopping to cultural events, social gatherings and everyday life. OMA's renovation, both subtle and ambitious, avoids nostalgic reconstructions of the past and it demystifies the 'sacred' image of a historical building. An exhibition designed by Carmody Groarke and Micha Weidmann Studio will be on display at the Design Museum in London from 18 October 2017 to 28 January 2018. See the Designs of the Year from all six categories, here. News and project descriptions via Design Museum of London.
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| GC House / Juan Pablo Ribadeneira Mora Posted: 16 Aug 2017 04:00 AM PDT  © Lorena Darquea
 © Lorena Darquea From the architect. GC house is located in the surrounding valleys of Quito, Ecuador. The site in which the house was designed is quite big, regular in size and with a slight inclination. Its perimeter is full of trees that we were able to preserve.  © Lorena Darquea Quito sits on a narrow valley between 2800 and 3000 meters above sea level making it have low temperatures despite being in Ecuador. Its surrounding valleys are much lower in altitude, around 2400 meters above sea level, which makes them have a warmer, much pleasant temperature. The house was purposely designed and oriented north-south, opening up towards the southern side, protecting it from the sun on its eastern and western sides because the sun is particularly strong as the site sits high in altitude and is located near the equator.  © Lorena Darquea The north façade is very solid as the surrounding neighborhood does not have any fences. In contrast, the south façade is very open, incorporating the house with its lawn.  © Lorena Darquea  Plan  © Lorena Darquea Because of the great extent of the lot, most of the spaces are located on the ground level. Only two bedrooms and a studio are placed on the second floor. The house is divided in two main areas. A more intimate part, where bedrooms and the family room are located, and a less private area, where living, dinning, and kitchen are set. These two are connected by the main entrance which becomes a bridge between all the living spaces. Finally, a central courtyard becomes the central point of the house.  © Lorena Darquea The materials used are mostly exposed in their natural state, such as polished concrete floors. The most important spaces of the house, such as the main living and dining areas, and the master bedroom, are built with exposed metal structures, eucalyptus wood in the ceiling, which is covered with a layer of concrete. There are three exposed adobe walls on the main spaces, walls that remind us of the traditional Andean architecture of Ecuador.  © Lorena Darquea  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Behind India's Ambitious Plan to Create the World's Longest River Posted: 16 Aug 2017 02:30 AM PDT  The town of Orchha on the banks of the Betwa River, India. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/azwegers/6309463151'>Flickr user Arian Zwegers</a> licensed under <a href=' https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'> CC BY 2.0</a> Against the backdrop of an ever-increasing number of its farmers committing suicides, and its cities crumbling under intensifying pressure on their water resources—owing to their rapidly growing populations—India has revived its incredibly ambitious Interlinking of Rivers (ILR) project which aims to create a nation-wide water-grid twice the length of the Nile. The $168 billion project, first envisioned almost four decades ago, entails the linkage of thirty-seven of the country's rivers through the construction of thirty canals and three-thousand water reservoirs. The chief objective is to address India's regional inequity in water availability: 174 billion cubic meters of water is proposed to be transported across river basins, from potentially water-surplus to water-deficit areas. The project is presented by the Indian government as the only realistic means to increase the country's irrigation potential and per-capita water storage capacity. However, it raises ecological concerns of gargantuan proportions: 104,000 hectares of forest land will be affected, leading to the desecration of natural ecosystems. Experts in hydrology also question the scientific basis of treating rivers as "mere conduits of water." Furthermore, the fear of large-scale involuntary human displacement—an estimated 1.5 million people—likely to be caused by the formation of water reservoirs is starting to materialize into a popular uprising.  Drought Conditions, India. Image © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Water-crisis.jpg'>Wikimedia user MrGauravBhosle</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en'>CC BY-SA 4.0</a> Precipitation, the primary source of water in India, is characterized by its highly uneven distribution pattern in the country;: while India's northern and eastern states receive abundant rainfall, its southern and western states don't. This is compounded by the fact that the country receives eighty-five percent of its rainfall during the short monsoon months. As a consequence, there exists a wide disparity in water availability: it is as high as 14,057 cubic meters per person per year in the north-eastern Brahmaputra-Barak basin, and as low as 307 cubic meters per person per year in the western Sabarmati basin. The United Nations considers anything below 1,000 cubic meters per person per year as water scarcity. While thirty-three percent of India's geographical area is prone to recurring droughts, twelve percent faces periodic floods. This natural but sorry state of affairs is what the project hopes to alter.  Floods in the North-eastern Indian state of Assam in 2005. Image © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Assam_flood_in_2015.jpg'>Wikimedia user Pradip Nemane</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en'>CC BY-SA 4.0</a> "If we can build storage reservoirs on these rivers [with surplus] and connect them to other parts of the country, regional imbalances could be reduced significantly and lot of benefits by way of additional irrigation, domestic and industrial water supply, hydropower generation, navigational facilities etc. would accrue," explains the manifesto of the National Water Development Agency (NWDA) which is overseeing the project.  Himalayan Component of the ILR Project. Image via National Water Development Agency The ILR project is conceptualized in two distinct components based on the geographic location of the rivers: the Himalayan and the Peninsular. The Himalayan component proposes to transfer 33 billion cubic meters of water through 14 river links and two sub-components. It envisages the construction of storage reservoirs on the principal tributaries of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra in India, Nepal, and Bhutan, along with interlinking canal systems. The Peninsular component proposes to transfer 141 billion cubic meters of water through 16 river links and four subcomponents. Most river links are interdependent themselves: for instance, the Krishna-Pennar link relies on water transfer from the Godavari to the Krishna, which in turn depends on the Mahanadi-Godavari link.  The Peninsular Component of the ILR Project. Image via National Water Development Agency However, if all thirty river links are completed, the ILR project would be the largest water infrastructure project undertaken in the world. Its canal network, stretching across fifteen-thousand kilometers—twice the length of the world's longest river, the Nile—would, in theory, increase India's utilizable water resources by twenty-five percent, thus addressing the country's dismal per-capita water storage capacity (which currently stands at a mere 200 cubic meters against China's 2486 cubic meters). The project is also expected to raise India's irrigation potential to 175 million hectares from the current 140 million hectares, thus boosting its food grain production by almost seventy percent to 450 million tons, while generating 34 gigawatts of hydroelectric power capacity.  The Ken River in Panna, India. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/85208536@N02/11291881454/in/dateposted/'>Flickr user Christopher Kray</a> licensed under <a href=' https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> At the heart of the ILR project's story right now is the Ken-Betwa river link, the $1.7 billion pilot scheme of the project, which received approval from the Investment Clearance Committee of India's Ministry of Water Resources earlier this year. The model link, a Peninsular sub-component, aims to divert surplus waters from the Ken basin to the deficient upper-Betwa basin through the construction of seven dams and barrages. The 73.8 meter-high Daudhan dam across the Ken will help channel 3,196 million cubic meters of water into a 231-kilometer-long link canal to the Betwa, in an effort to irrigate 645,000 hectares of land and generate 72 megawatts of power. But the damming of the rivers and the creation of artificial reservoirs has been challenged by environmentalists. The project is set to submerge 6,400 hectares of forest land in the fragile Panna Tiger Reserve. Also, the project's potential human impact has gone largely unnoticed: official figures—which have been heavily contested—indicate that a total of 38 villages will be affected. This translates to a population of 20,000 people who will be involuntarily displaced from their lands and local livelihoods. About a hundred of these people came together recently to form the Panna Vikas Manch (Panna Development Platform) under the leadership of the Dilhar Kumari, the titular Rajmata (Queen Mother) of the former princely-state of Panna, to petition against the project while demanding active public participation. The delegation, which plans to travel village-to-village in an effort to educate citizens while gathering support against the Ken-Betwa link project, received support from local politicians cutting across party-lines—a rare sight in India's deeply divisive political system.  Panna Tiger Reserve, India. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/85208536@N02/11291949563/in/dateposted/'>Flickr user Christopher Kray</a> licensed under <a href=' https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> While forced land acquisition by a country's government isn't necessarily an evil scheme—it is generally rooted in the larger public interest—it deserves serious questioning if the very rationale behind the project is suspect. The initiative, widely seen in scientific circles as an experiment in "reductionist hydrology," had faced opposition from Ramaswamy Iyer, former secretary of the Ministry of Water Resources, who dismissed it as "technological hubris," famously declaring that a river isn't "a bundle of pipes which can be cut, turned and welded at will."  Local fisherman at the Ken River, India. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/85208536@N02/11291932893/in/dateposted/'>Flickr user Christopher Kray</a> licensed under <a href=' https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> The subject of resettlement and rehabilitation of the displaced population needs to be addressed as well, considering India's history in this regard is dubious at best. In 1989, during the construction of the Sardar Sarovar dam over the Narmada river in India's western state of Gujarat, 3,000 displaced people alleged violation of their human rights and grave indifference on the part of local government officials. The consequential Medha Patkar-led Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA; Save The Narmada Protest) uncovered critical gaps in the government's rehabilitation policies which finally led to the World Bank's withdrawal from the project in 1993. It is important here to acknowledge that India has, in fact, made progress in this matter: the country drafted its first national-scale rehabilitation policy in 2004, which was later amended in 2007 to form the National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy. The Land Acquisition Act of 1894, a vestige of India's colonial past, was heavily reworked as well, and the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act (LARR) was enacted in 2013. These acts now provide a legal framework to ensure that rehabilitation concerns are integrated into the developmental planning and implementation processes—promoting least-displacing alternatives, ensuring adequate monetary compensation, the creation of supporting physical and social infrastructure at the place of relocation, and efforts to restore the affected populace's income; for instance, more than a seventh of the project fund for the Ken-Betwa link is proposed to be directed towards social and economic rehabilitation. But while the solidification of policies was an important first step, it remains to be seen whether the benefits they outline will trickle down to the grassroots level, where India still battles rampant corruption.  Medha Patkar (Narmada Bachao Andolan) speaks at the World Bank Annual Meetings 2014 session on Safeguards Policy Reform. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/accountabilityproject/15321198618/'>Flickr user international accountability project</a> licensed under <a href=' https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> All concerns aside, India's water woes are alarmingly real. The country currently supports sixteen percent of the world's population while it has access to a mere four percent of the world's water resources. Recurrent floods and droughts claim thousands of human and animal lives every year, not to mention billions of rupees in damages to the country's physical infrastructure and economy. With a rapidly growing population—India is set to surpass China to become the world's most populous nation by 2024—increasing urbanization, and global climate change, the country is inevitably staring at a water crisis in the very near future. In the aforementioned context, the Ken-Betwa link holds immense significance. Its success or failure will determine the fate of the larger ILR project. The pilot link, if it gets green-lighted, needs to be heavily monitored through all stages of its implementation by governmental and independent agencies while its final outputs are weighed against its objectives, in order to ascertain its on-ground impact on water availability, irrigation, agriculture, ecology, and the community. On the other hand, if the Ken-Betwa link doesn't see the light of day, it will at least have done a major service in bringing India's water issues to the forefront of the country's mainstream political discourse. The country could then begin to look at other feasible alternatives proposed by experts; the most favored is the intra-basin water management strategy whose bottom-up, participatory, and decentralized approach lays emphasis on understanding justified water needs at the local level, as it prioritizes region-specific traditional solutions. Furthermore, a review of India's current agricultural and industrial water-use policies is long-overdue and needs to be undertaken soon in an effort to improve efficiency.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Nike New York Headquarters / WSDIA | WeShouldDoItAll Posted: 16 Aug 2017 02:00 AM PDT  © Floto+Warner
 © Floto+Warner From the architect. Nike is in a New York state of mind upon completion of their new colossal office space in Midtown. WeShouldDoItAll (WSDIA) serves as creatives on environmental graphics.  © Floto+Warner New York City is raw, never finished, and constantly reinventing itself. Nike is innovation, with an unrelenting drive to exceed expectations and inspire all athletes. So what do New York City and Nike have in common? Both are bold, vibrant and constantly breaking new ground. The connection is now further entrenched with Nike's East Coast headquarters complete.  © Floto+Warner The six floor 150,000 square foot space includes a massive indoor basketball court, varied workspaces, a hand-tagged food truck, VIP and workout spaces, a Nike heritage inspired VW van, and a 90-foot long sedum planted Swoosh on the rooftop terrace.  © Floto+Warner The main directive—architecturally and graphically—was to highlight the synergy between New York City and Nike, by examining sport themed floors through the lens of NYC. The direction is manifested through materials, imagery, illustration, custom typography and space.  © Floto+Warner Nike's Workplace Design + Connectivity (WD+C) team partnered with STUDIOS Architecture to complete the architecture, while Michael Spoljaric (Senior Creative Director, Nike Global Basketball) worked closely with long-time collaborators WeShouldDoItAll (WSDIA) and a roster of talents to implement all environmental branding components in the space.  © Floto+Warner  Bleachers Details and Plans  © Floto+Warner Working closely with Spoljaric for over a year, WSDIA designed the indoor basketball court bleachers, all wayfinding and signage—featuring a custom typeface made exclusively for space—and numerous distinct branding moments.  © Floto+Warner Notable pieces include: a 30 foot tall bark wall that nods to Nike's Oregon roots; custom handmade rugs in various spaces, one of which—in the VIP Jeter Lounge—features all Yankees' championship years; floor patterns derived from court lines and NYC's bridges spill into the VIP Showrooms; custom running and basketball inspired CNC milled wall tiles; conference room ceiling tiles resembling shoe soles; a Michael Jordan mosaic tile wall; custom perforated locker patterns; and the art direction and curation of all illustration and photography for meeting booths.  © Floto+Warner  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Restaurant ENIGMA Offers a Glimpse Into the Future of Gastronomy Posted: 16 Aug 2017 01:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of RCR Arquitectes/Pau Llimona Neolith has unveiled their most ambitious project to date: the ENIGMA restaurant design in collaboration with RCR Arquitectes and P.Llimona. The conceptual restaurant space began with the vision of celebrated Catalan chef Albert Adrià, who wanted to create a "frozen and enigmatic" restaurant project reflecting his gastronomy and his career. Albert, together with his sibling Ferran Adrià have transformed the iconic El Bulli restaurant into a culinary research foundation and embarked on more projects since, including tapas bar Tickets and Bar 41 in Barcelona. ENIGMA, described as a "culinary amusement park" represents the new brainchild of the brothers' dialogue exploring the intersection of food and design. Adria's vision took shape when Pritzker Prize winners RCR Arquitectes together with P.Llimona, drew their idea of design in watercolors and decided to give it life with the help of Neolith's Sintered Stone. Through an incredibly creative and close collaboration, as well as the experience and technical know-how of Neolith, the atmospheric interior of ENIGMA was created.  Courtesy of RCR Arquitectes/Pau Llimona Having developed the design proposal for three years, Adrià wanted to ensure the perfect result. Known for experimental cuisine and surprising menus, the chef aimed to create an engaging environment to captivate his guests. Adrìa's cooking style and menu is strongly influenced by its surroundings, and Albert explained that the interior had to reflect those values:
 Courtesy of RCR Arquitectes/Pau Llimona From Paper to TableThe crucial moment in terms of design came when RCR Arquitectes + P.Llimona drew a watercolor on 3 different papers of A2 format. This drawing then had to be replicated onto the floor.  Courtesy of RCR Arquitectes/Pau Llimona ENIGMA became a project with unprecedented technical complexity for Neolith, which has marked a new turning point in the history of the company. Neolith Product Designer Carlos Garcia explains:
 Courtesy of RCR Arquitectes/Pau Llimona Through R&D, Neolith developed the technology to create the design of the boards, producing a perfect replica of the drawing. Once it had been achieved, the exact color had to be matched to the original bluish and greenish hues - unusual tones in the production of Sintered Stones.  Courtesy of RCR Arquitectes/Pau Llimona The intensity of the colors had to fit with the rest of the materials and decorations of the restaurant to achieve a unified environment that completely immersed the diners in its space. Using the NDD (Neolith Digital Design) Print Decoration Technology, the initial design by architects was matched. In addition to the color, the architects wanted all the boards to have an irregular texture. The Riverwashed finish was chosen because of its rugged texture and high relief and depth, but it also had to add a subtle sheen to the board. Neolith achieved another first by combining both effects in a single surface - a new challenge that at the same time increased the technical complexity of the final design.  Courtesy of RCR Arquitectes/Pau Llimona
 Courtesy of RCR Arquitectes/Pau Llimona ApplicationThe floor of the restaurant presented the greatest challenge due to its uneven design. Each of the tables forming the pavement are unique and were fitted together in a puzzle-like formation in order to fluidly represent the drawing of watercolor on the entire floor of the restaurant.  Courtesy of RCR Arquitectes/Pau Llimona In order to achieve this, Neolith fitted entire whole floor in its workshops and took aerial images using a drone to have a complete perspective of the drawing from above, ensuring that there were no errors or different shades in each of the pieces.  Courtesy of RCR Arquitectes/Pau Llimona RCR Arquitectes + P.Llimona designed an organic space full of curves and narrow aisles that required the boards to be cut into six smaller pieces, the smallest being only 3 centimeters wide. Absolute precision was key to ensuring the continuity of the watercolor design.  Courtesy of RCR Arquitectes/Pau Llimona Taking inspiration from a map, a gridded coordinate system was set up, labeling each of the pieces to know their exact position in the project. This method allowed the builders to install each piece on site, fitting elements together like a giant jigsaw puzzle.  Courtesy of RCR Arquitectes/Pau Llimona Final Result: ENIGMAAlbert Adrià, RCR Arquitectes, and Neolith have been recognized on numerous occasions, each recipient of important awards in their respective industries. Together they created a project that is truly spectacular in terms of design, material quality, gastronomy - and surprisingly, also in fashion. Completing the restaurant scene is the ENIGMA staff, whose uniforms have also been designed by RCR Arquitectes + P.Llimona.  Courtesy of RCR Arquitectes/Pau Llimona "ENIGMA is truly full of surprises" describes RCR Arquitectes + P.Llimona:
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| New Map Celebrates Boston’s Brutalist Architecture Posted: 15 Aug 2017 11:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo, and Mark Pasnik In their ninth architectural city guide, London-based publisher Blue Crow Media highlights the city of Boston's Brutalist buildings. The map was produced in collaboration with the principles of the firm over,under Chris Grimley and Mark Pasnik along with Michael Kubo, who together authored the book "Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston." The map highlights more than forty examples of Brutalist architecture around the greater-Boston area.  Courtesy of Blue Crow Media Acclaimed works such as the Boston City Hall by Kallmann, McKinnell and Knowles, the Government Service Center by Paul Rudolph, and Madison Park High School by Marcel Breuer are featured in the guide. It also includes the only North American building by Le Corbusier, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. The Charlestown Branch Library by Eduardo Catalano and the Josiah Quincy School by The Architects Collaborative are examples of the lesser known works.  Courtesy of Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo, and Mark Pasnik Concrete infrastructure projects built in the 1960's and 1970s such as hospitals, universities and government buildings were part of an urban renewal effort called "New Boston." The city's legacy of concrete architecture proliferated through a variety of institutional and commercial works spread across the region. The revitalization aimed to modernize, though like many urban renewal efforts, left some communities fractured.  Courtesy of Blue Crow Media
 Courtesy of Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo, and Mark Pasnik Brutalist Boston Map is part of a series, that includes cities such as Paris and Sydney, by Blue Crow Media that explores 20th century architecture. According to the publisher, the maps are designed to assert the importance of Brutalist and concrete architecture, which has often been the subject of polarizing public debate.  Courtesy of Blue Crow Media Available for $10 USD, €9, and £8 here, the guide features an introduction to architecture in the area along with photographs and details of each building. Maps for New York and Tokyo will be released later this year.  Courtesy of Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo, and Mark Pasnik News Via: Blue Crow Media.
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