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- 8 Annoying Things All Architects Do
- Brick Apartment / Arhitektura AB objekt d.o.o.
- In Ningbo, Two Vast Construction Sites Highlight the Spectacular Scale of High-End Construction in China
- Marie's Wardrobe / Tsuruta Architects
- Yumin Art Nouveau Collection / JAC Studios
- CLASS Cafe Buriram / Sake Architects
- WSS Residence / seARCHOFFICE
- Guwol Multi-Family House & Commercial Stores / Seoga Architecture
- Poke Poke / STUDIO DOHO
- Studio Gang's Innovative Fire Department Training Facility Tops Out in Brooklyn
- Access to Sugarloaf Mountain Cable Car / a+ arquitetura
- AL_A, DS+R, Selldorf Among 6 Teams Shortlisted for Renovation of 18th Century Palladian House in Surrey
- COR Cellars / goCstudio
- Hidden Studio Beneath a Busy Bridge Provides Creative Solitude for Its Designer
- Apartment Building La Juliana / ipiña+nieto architects
- Fish Creek House / Edition Office
- Patrick Vale Draws Stunning Panoramic View of San Francisco in New Mural
- This Student-Run Website Is Experimenting With Architecture Through Cubes
- BG Apartment / Francesc Rifé
| 8 Annoying Things All Architects Do Posted: 21 Aug 2017 02:30 AM PDT  © <a href='www.instagram.com/littlethingsbyridhisood'>Ridhi Sood</a> Contrary to how Hollywood movies portray the quintessential architect—creative, sensitive, and virtually flawless—architects are a diverse bunch of fallible people. This stems from the fact that the study and practice of architecture are wrought with several "perils." Architecture school is a beast, if not the profession at large, and it essentially reinvents the psyche of its students by simultaneously breaking them down and building them up—say hello to unresolved issues! While this process produces bright intellectuals with a deep understanding of architecture's place in society, it can also end up shaping architects into pretentious snobs. Young architects invariably graduate with a distinct outlook on life. Pair that with a largely thankless job and architects soon discover that they can only relate to other architects. Rare friends who bravely stand by an architect through thick and thin deserve a strong pat on the back because architects, despite their innumerable charms, exhibit several incredibly annoying traits. The following is a compilation of eight complaints that non-architect friends and partners have against their architect counterparts: 1. The Architect Thinks Everything is Architecture © <a href='www.instagram.com/littlethingsbyridhisood'>Ridhi Sood</a> Architects somehow find a way to connect everything to architecture. They truly believe that every problem our world faces today—from climate change to the refugee crisis—is a result of past architectural decisions and that architecture alone is the means to solve these problems. However, that is not the most annoying part; everyone's entitled to their opinions. The thing that ruffles feathers is that architects will debate endlessly and won't rest until everyone agrees with them. 2. The Architect Knows Everything © <a href='www.instagram.com/littlethingsbyridhisood'>Ridhi Sood</a> Five years or more of an interdisciplinary education—which involves endless juries—leads architects to think of themselves as God-like omniscient super-beings, developing unshakeable self-confidence. Hence, whether people are talking about string theory or the Kardashians, architects will make it a point to challenge their opinions with conviction. 3. What Does the Architect Mean to Say? © <a href='www.instagram.com/littlethingsbyridhisood'>Ridhi Sood</a> If there were an award for communicating the simplest of ideas in the most convoluted way possible, an architect would win hands down. Architects have, over time, mastered the skill of injecting fancy sounding words—think fenestration, pastiche, or juxtaposition—into regular conversation while employing labyrinthine sentence structures, much to the disgust of their friends and partners. Members of an architect's innermost circle also know better than to ask her what words like space, concept, or architecture mean, unless they want to bore themselves to death. 4. The Architect Likes His Coffee with a Hint of Snobbery © <a href='www.instagram.com/littlethingsbyridhisood'>Ridhi Sood</a> Architects have, through their days at architecture school, established a unique emotional relationship with coffee. They invariably have strong preferences, either about the kind of beans used, the way the drink is brewed, or the mix, and they won't shy away from declining coffee that isn't exactly how they like theirs. 5. The Architect Can Always Do Better © <a href='www.instagram.com/littlethingsbyridhisood'>Ridhi Sood</a> Architects are trained to always strive for more; their jurors told them something was missing even when their designs were extraordinary. This manifests as obsessive perfectionism in everything that they set their minds to. Simple tasks such as picking out a New Year's card for their parents or selecting a font for their résumé can take them hours. Architects are also overly critical of other people and can easily find fault in everything, from the way you use your toothbrush to something as universally acclaimed as Adele's music. 6. The Architect Fan-Girls/Fan-Boys Over Famous Architects © <a href='www.instagram.com/littlethingsbyridhisood'>Ridhi Sood</a> The advent of social media platforms such as Instagram and Twitter has resulted in a slew of architects that have a fan following in the architecture world similar to that of movie stars. Architects, especially young ones, can be spotted in Bjarke Ingels get-ups at costume-parties quoting words from his speeches and saying things like, "Isn't he the cutest!" Meanwhile, their non-architect friends who are dressed as Katniss Everdeen or Luke Skywalker are left bewildered as they speak through clenched teeth: "I know he's your laptop screensaver but I have no idea who he is. And for the twentieth time, I don't care!" 7. The Architect Loves Everything about the City © <a href='www.instagram.com/littlethingsbyridhisood'>Ridhi Sood</a> Going out with an architect in the city streets is an adventure in itself, but one sure to get on their friends' nerves. Architects will stop dead in their tracks to stare at a sidewalk stone or the typography on a billboard. They'll spend twenty minutes talking about a building and its significance in "modernist architecture" while their friends miss the last bus home. From time to time, architects will also have sudden movie-like bouts of inspiration at the local café that lead to doodling on coffee-stained paper napkins. Their friends, meanwhile, are left wondering if their only job is to order more napkins from the annoyed waitstaff. 8. The Architect Never Sleeps © <a href='www.instagram.com/littlethingsbyridhisood'>Ridhi Sood</a> Architects love to talk about how much sleep they've not gotten. A non-architect at a table of tired-of-work architects will find the conversation circling back to this topic every few minutes. It would seem that the sole yardstick for how architects measure success is by comparing how little they sleep. There are also the perpetual complaints about how little they earn for how much they work. Architects forget that their friends and partners know it all since they are the ones that have always had to pay for food and work their schedule around the architect. The friends don't mind that the architect is broke or that she has no semblance of work-play balance in her life. It's just that they would rather talk about the new Game of Thrones episode than listen to the architect whine like a baby.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Brick Apartment / Arhitektura AB objekt d.o.o. Posted: 21 Aug 2017 10:00 PM PDT  © Matej Lozar
 © Matej Lozar From the architect. The apartment in the historical core of Maribor reveals the architectural beauty of the cities built at the end of the 19th century. Sometimes it turns out that the best an architect can do in favor of living quality is the entire purification of the existing space instead of adding new elements. When the ruined plaster was peeled off in the interior of the bourgeois apartment, the poetic essence of the construction appeared. Less than a century ago, brick was considered to be of a lesser value and was covered with plaster, at that time a more decent choice.  Floor Plan  Sections But in modern architecture, the central motif of designing the ambients is to exhibit the sincere cornerstones of space, such as visible concrete and wooden construction. A well-preserved brick, which has been hidden for a century by the finishing layer of the plaster, reveals the atmosphere at least as prominent as the raw concrete. A worn-out apartment at an exceptional location was bought by a Maribor soccer player. This should not be a shelter or a family home, but a place to enjoy, was the starting point of the client. But the architect can never foresee all the actual uses of space - the most interesting are those spontaneous, unforeseen, even secret or hidden. The architects opened the space completely.  © Matej Lozar They have removed all existing partitions and doors. They kept beautiful wooden frames in the sole preserved construction wall. The floor was covered with an old oak parquet. Thus the ambiance has become a space for the game for the endless possibilities of scenarios.  © Matej Lozar  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2017 09:00 PM PDT  © Marc Goodwin Photographer Marc Goodwin—perhaps best known to our readers for his series shooting architectural offices in London, Seoul, Beijing, Paris, and the Nordic countries—recently travelled to Ningbo, China, on behalf of RSH+P (Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners) and Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects (SHL). The resulting photo essay at once captures a series of projects currently under construction—including "Ningbo Gateway", a luxury residential tower by RSH+P, and a range of accompanying buildings by SHL—while simultaneously revealing a sense of the very particular atmosphere of this industrial port city.  RSH+P (Office). Image © Marc Goodwin  SHL (Office). Image © Marc Goodwin For Goodwin, this was no ordinary job. "Severe rain tested the assumption that good architecture doesn't need good weather," he said. "Many of the buildings were still construction sites, and the surroundings were not the stuff of standard architectural photography."  RSH+P. Image © Marc Goodwin  RSH+P. Image © Marc Goodwin  RSH+P. Image © Marc Goodwin  RSH+P. Image © Marc Goodwin  SHL. Image © Marc Goodwin  SHL. Image © Marc Goodwin  SHL. Image © Marc Goodwin  SHL. Image © Marc Goodwin  SHL. Image © Marc Goodwin  SHL. Image © Marc Goodwin  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Marie's Wardrobe / Tsuruta Architects Posted: 21 Aug 2017 08:00 PM PDT  © Tim Crocker
 © Tim Crocker From the architect. An impressive large staircase in a turn of the 20th century house made the circulation generous, light and airy, but its dominance compromised the entire layout. The challenge was to replace this once favoured staircase, enhancing this previous spacious quality whilst accommodating 5 bedrooms with two separate kitchens and livings /dinings.  © Tim Crocker The perforated timber treads and risers, and balustrade of the new staircase let through light and air, but in a more compact overall configuration and an essence of the airines from the original staircase can still be experienced. At the same time it provides more evenly divided bedrooms on the first floor.  © Tim Crocker Traces of engraved e-mail dialogues between the client and architect appear on the stair stringer and handrail, and also on the internal screen wall suggesting that the contemporary time factor also supports the stair structure that serve future stories. Following the texts by eye, voices echo in one's mind as if the sounds resonate in the air passing through the perforated structure.  © Tim Crocker  © Tim Crocker We retained a stair landing sash window, and together with other original windows and new plywood framework created a screen wall for two new bathrooms and utility room. Light continues to flow into the stairwell via this screen wall and new external windows.  © Tim Crocker  Section AA  © Tim Crocker By recomposing these old objects, we aim to keep the past tense in a new form, giving it new life rather than just conserving old.  © Tim Crocker A large, cantilevered balcony anchors the kitchen and dining to the back garden but registers as no more than an ordinary steel railing detail. The new intervention lifts the age of the masonry against gravity and rebalances itself in its own weight.  © Tim Crocker  © Tim Crocker Revealing the notion of the material states and the engraved texts are the hope for association with the event and place beyond an expiry date.  © Tim Crocker  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Yumin Art Nouveau Collection / JAC Studios Posted: 21 Aug 2017 07:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of JAC Studios
 Courtesy of JAC Studios From the architect. Danish practice JAC STUDIOS has created an exhibition using glass as the principal material to transform the interior and welcome areas of the Genuis Loci building by architect Tadao Ando on Phoenix Jeju, off the coast of the South Korean Peninsula.  Courtesy of JAC Studios The Yumin Art Nouveau Collection is JAC STUDIOS first project in South Korea. Phoenix Island is dominated by the volcano Hallasan, and the Tadao Ando museum building 'Genius Loci' literally frames this ever-present view. The dialogue between this powerful landscape and the exposed concrete of the Tadao Ando building creates an elegant yet somber setting for a permanent exhibition of delicate Art Nouveau glass.  Courtesy of JAC Studios The exhibition features glass work produced in the Art Nouveau movement between 1870 and 1940 by the French artist Émile Gallé, one of the major forces in the French Art Nouveau movement as well as work by the brothers Daum. JAC STUDIOS, the studio behind the award winning exhibition for the newly opened Wadden Sea Centre by Dorte Mandrup Architects worked closely with Art Nouveau experts including Didier Laugault from the 'Chambre Nationale des Experts Specialises' to create the exhibition. The construction was completed by local architects Chang Creative Inc.  Courtesy of JAC Studios  Plan  Courtesy of JAC Studios "The architecture by Tadao Ando plays a magnificent setting for the exhibition. The architecture is in itself a piece of art and as a visitor one cannot avoid being touched by its beauty. The new museum is respectful but also challenges the context of the architecture."Johan Carlsson, founder of JAC STUDIOS  Courtesy of JAC Studios "The introduction to the exhibition begins already from the approach to the Yumin Museum. The signage on the facade reflects the horizon of the sea and with each hour the patterns and colors on the facade change with the weather, each day is unique."  Courtesy of JAC Studios  Courtesy of JAC Studios  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| CLASS Cafe Buriram / Sake Architects Posted: 21 Aug 2017 05:00 PM PDT  © Chalermwat Wongchompoo
 © Chalermwat Wongchompoo From the architect. In the past couple of years, Buriram has seen the birth of many new architectural structures. Located on the main road that leads to the city center, Class Cafe occupies the once old and unused building and is now turning into a new destination of this northeastern city's inhabitants. As the first branch outside of Nakhon Ratchasima, the neighboring province where the coffee house brand is originated, the project's owner' brief includes the wish to have the old-looking structure wrapped with the new building shell with the current architectural trends being the references. Looking through the structure's physical conditions into the actual demands of both the project's users and owner, the architect proposes the idea that is later materialized into the design of the building.  © Chalermwat Wongchompoo  Section  © Chalermwat Wongchompoo While the building's capacity is sufficient to function a café, the architect thinks that idea of using air conditioning system with all the functional spaces may have caused the program's ambience to be somewhat too homogenous. The inspiration for outdoor space comes from the 'sala' (a Thai pavilion) located on the yard of the owner's grandmother's house. The outdoor addition grants greater flexibility to the house's functional space, especially on the good-weather day. The architect's idea is to add an architectural element that serves the similar role to a 'sala'. The 4x15-meter pavilion with the height of 7.5 meters is constructed at the front of the existing building instead of spending the money on wrapping the original structure with a new shell. A semi-outdoor space offers the diverse spatial experiences and can be used to host events while concealing the preexisting structure of the old building as the owners initially intended. The construction employs the use of steel structure for shorter construction period and relocation when the lease comes to an end.  © Chalermwat Wongchompoo  © Chalermwat Wongchompoo With one of the partners owning a corrugated metal sheet factory, the material is used for the construction efficiency including the modern aesthetic that the fast-growing city such as Buriram needs. While popularly used to construct the solid form of building shells, the material is approached differently with Class Café. The architect searches for the beauty in the straightforward use of corrugated roofing sheets whose image is often associated with cheap buildings. The sheets with standard width and 1-meter length are jointed to the steel structure in horizontal configuration, with 15-centimeter gap between each piece, collectively forming the pavilion that stands 6-meter high from its base. The gaps allow the corrugated sheets to reveal the beauty rendered from their sleek thinness. The structurally solid mass when complemented by the presence of light looks visually weightless and airy. The joints are flexible enough for the sheets to slightly move when encountering a strong wind while the damaged sheets can be conveniently replaced in the future. With the copious amount of 1,036 sheets and 8,288 joints, the installation is handled with great attention to details, similar to the way a piece of furniture is crafted where intricacy and time are pivotal to the desired aesthetic appearance and functionality.  © Chalermwat Wongchompoo  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2017 01:00 PM PDT  © Weerapon Singnoi
 © Weerapon Singnoi From the architect. This Private Residential project was create by the owner's programs and involvements from the first brief to the construction. The House is in a land plot which connect to the Family compound in which has open ground lawn. The site is prestige since there are not many plots of land in the area where is still Private House. Surrounded with lowrise condominium, this project is to find its own privacy using Architectural planning.  © Weerapon Singnoi The site is quite narrow rectangular and the building efficiently occupies maximum length of the land. The House has to fit in gently with all existing houses in the master plan. Most of the openings are designed to face the courtyard while solid wall back to the high building neighbour.  © Weerapon Singnoi  Ground Floor Plan  © Weerapon Singnoi The Architecture design of this house is the play between solid "Mass" and solid "Void". Family members warmly live together in a 3 storeys building. Privately planned to have each own functional space and, at the same time , joined at the family area on the first floor.  © Weerapon Singnoi The house planning is initially plan to have pocket decks sorted in the mass. They are pool, wooden porch, small garden and sometime, just space. The owner, himself , appreciate natural ventilation rather than air conditional one. So the house is carefully design to catch the natural air as much as possible, by orienting the void in such a way that, on a nice day, there is no need for air condition.  © Weerapon Singnoi Cedar shingle, normally used for roofing, is reintroduced to perform in vertical gesture. The unique texture of the shingle volume, turns the solid cube masses into a light weight geometry volume. The mass seems to have cedar brown feathers skin.  © Weerapon Singnoi The scale of the space and the material arrangements , makes this house seamlessly links to the original family house from the 60's.  © Weerapon Singnoi Most of the old furniture could fit in effortlessly in this house.  © Weerapon Singnoi There are elements of the late modernism and tropical architecture in the ingredients. Maybe, the simple conclusion is , A Nostalgia Architecture to live in.  © Weerapon Singnoi  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Guwol Multi-Family House & Commercial Stores / Seoga Architecture Posted: 21 Aug 2017 12:00 PM PDT  © Roh Kyung
 © Roh Kyung Site  © Roh Kyung  Site Plan  © Roh Kyung Five households  © Roh Kyung Each house differs according to the relationships with the street and level differences. The second floor would hardly have a privacy so we planned a balcony for a more secure dwelling. Spacing the bricks on the façade enables light to travel but blocks the view from the outside, functioning like a curtain.  Section On the loft, we made sure the window was high enough to ensure the privacy. On the other hand, the 3rd floor is provided with large windows creating openness since it is already relatively private, away from the street. The top floor has an attic to complement the small living area due to the right to light regulations.  © Roh Kyung Deep windows  © Roh Kyung The seemingly banal arrangement of windows actually gives different atmosphere from the interior and the depth of the windowsills vary from one another. One of the deepest horizontally narrow window would draw multiple shadows over changing time and seasons. And during the night time, each glowing windows would create another form of a spectacular façade.  © Roh Kyung  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2017 10:00 AM PDT  © M2STUDIO
 © M2STUDIO From the architect. STUDIO DOHO developed an "Urban Surf" concept for new Shanghai-based restaurant POKE POKE. The 32 sqm project, situated on the ground floor of an old Shanghainese lane house in the Jing'an District of the city, makes a bold statement with its gradient blue façade and surfboard inspired countertops.  Plan The client's brief challenged the designers to create a modern eatery that reflects the Hawaiian origins of its food within the constraints of the small space. STUDIO DOHO created outdoor bar counters that transition into the ordering area, while linking the interior and exterior space. The counter-tops with a colorful surfboard tip to integrate them into the façade. The storefront was designed with a gradient tile mosaic that transitions from ocean blue to white, adding color to the streetscape.  © M2STUDIO Extensive demolition work was required on the interior, including adding steel structure to allow the existing walls to be removed and create sufficient space for the kitchen and dining area. The colorful material palette was kept simple on the cozy interior, creating a relaxing café atmosphere.  © M2STUDIO  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Studio Gang's Innovative Fire Department Training Facility Tops Out in Brooklyn Posted: 21 Aug 2017 09:00 AM PDT  © Susan De Vries. Via Brownstoner Studio Gang's innovative fire station and training facility Fire Rescue 2 has topped out in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville. A little more than year since construction on the 21,000-square-foot facility began, all of its major concrete elements are now in place, with the red glazed terracotta panels surrounding the building's opening next to be installed.  © Studio Gang Architects The station has been envisioned as a community hub, where firefighters are able to see and be seen from the street as they complete their training exercises on an emergency simulation course made up of balconies, stairs and ladders. The building will also feature state-of-the-art climate control techniques, including a green roof and a geothermal system that tunnels 500 feet into the ground.  © Studio Gang Architects  © Studio Gang Architects "The rescue company is trained to respond to various emergency scenarios, from fire and building collapses to water rescues and scuba operations. During these emergencies, rescuers must often utilize voids in buildings, whether creating them to let heat and smoke out of a structure or locating them as a means of escape," Studio Gang explain on their website. "To enhance the company's training, the new facility is organized around a large interior void, a space that extends from the ground to roof level. The void enables the team to practice rescue scenarios that mimic conditions common to the city, using its height and associated elements of balconies, bridge, doorways, ladders, and stairs. At the same time, it introduces natural light and fresh air deep into the living quarters, improving the quality of everyday life within the building."  © Studio Gang Architects  © Studio Gang Architects The $32 million project is being funded through New York's Department of Design and Construction, and is expected to be completed by summer 2018. See more images of the building's construction, here. News via Brownstoner.
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| Access to Sugarloaf Mountain Cable Car / a+ arquitetura Posted: 21 Aug 2017 08:00 AM PDT  © André Nazareth -
 © André Nazareth - From the architect. For its historical, cultural and affective importance to Rio’s inhabitants, the respect towards the natural monument that is the Sugar Loaf was key to the design. The built canopy is light, transparent and harmonically connected to the context, which is a protagonist in that scenario.  © André Nazareth -  Floor Plan - After  © André Nazareth - Before the intervention, the loading and unloading of passengers and visitors was made under ordinary plastic tents that compromised the spatial and visual quality of the landscape, and had the sense of something temporary.  © André Nazareth -  Details  © André Nazareth - The proposal aims to enhance the touristic activity and create a friendlier and interesting public space, organizing the pedestrian and vehicle flows throughout the site. The square accommodates visitors with a series of benches, bicycle racks and plenty of light at nighttime, as well as a system of electric plugs that allow events to happen in the public environment. Access to the cable car is made by the grid-shaped canopy, built with glued laminated timber, also called glulam, bringing comfort, shade and ease to tourists on highly demanded days  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2017 06:30 AM PDT  Six teams have been shortlisted in a competition to restore and renovate the historic Clandon Park mansion in the county of Surrey, England, after the National Park property received heavy damage from a fire in 2015. Organized by Malcolm Reading Consultants, the competition tasked teams with restoring and updating the interiors of the 18th-century Palladian house, as well as designing new flexible event spaces and visitor facilities within the existing building footprint.  The Clandon Park mansion as it exists today. Image © National Trust Images, James Dobson Rather than scrub away the effects of the fire, the brief recommended incorporating the remnants and salvaged materials into the new design, responding to extensive research documenting the fire as part of the structure's complex history. Historic interior spaces including the Marble Hall, Saloon, Library and Speakers' Parlour, State Bedroom and the vaulted historic kitchen, will be restored in full, while the event and visitor experience program pieces will occupy modernized spaces. "It's exciting to be at this stage in the design competition, when we can see the thought processes and ideas from the six shortlisted teams come to life," commented Paul Cook, Project Director at Clandon Park. "Whilst the concepts are not final designs for Clandon, they take us a step closer to choosing a team who will help us restore and rebuild this grand place." The full shortlist includes:
AL_A and Giles Quarme & Associates with Arup and GROSS.MAX  © AL_A and Malcolm Reading Consultants  © AL_A and Malcolm Reading Consultants  © AL_A and Malcolm Reading Consultants  © AL_A and Malcolm Reading Consultants Allies and Morrison and Feilden + Mawson with Price & Myers, Max Fordham, Tom Stuart-Smith and Nissen Richards Studio  © Allies and Morrison and Malcolm Reading Consultants  © Allies and Morrison and Malcolm Reading Consultants  © Allies and Morrison and Malcolm Reading Consultants  © Allies and Morrison and Malcolm Reading Consultants Donald Insall Associates and Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Price & Myers, Max Fordham, Tom Stuart- Smith and Barker Langham  © Donald Insall Associates and Malcolm Reading Consultants  © Donald Insall Associates and Malcolm Reading Consultants  © Donald Insall Associates and Malcolm Reading Consultants  © Donald Insall Associates and Malcolm Reading Consultants Purcell and Sam Jacob Studio with Arup, QODA, Churchman Landscape Architects and Brendan Cormier  © Purcell and Malcolm Reading Consultants  © Purcell and Malcolm Reading Consultants  © Purcell and Malcolm Reading Consultants  © Purcell and Malcolm Reading Consultants Selldorf Architects, Martin Ashley Architects and Cowie Montgomery Architects with Arup, Vogt Landscape and Jorge Otero-Pailos  © Selldorf Architects and Malcolm Reading Consultants  © Selldorf Architects and Malcolm Reading Consultants  © Selldorf Architects and Malcolm Reading Consultants  © Selldorf Architects and Malcolm Reading Consultants Sergison Bates Architects and AOC Architecture with Philip Hughes Associates, Price & Myers, Ritchie + Daffin, Tom Stuart-Smith and Graphic Thought Facility  © Sergison Bates Architects and Malcolm Reading Consultants  © Sergison Bates Architects and Malcolm Reading Consultants  © Sergison Bates Architects and Malcolm Reading Consultants  © Sergison Bates Architects and Malcolm Reading Consultants Judged by a jury of heritage, architectural and local experts, the winning team will be announced later this Fall. That team will then continue to work with the National Trust to develop final designs. A complete plan is expected to be revealed in 2018, with construction slated to begin in 2019. Learn more about the project and the public display of the shortlisted proposals, here. News via Malcolm Reading Consultants.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2017 06:00 AM PDT  © Kevin Scott
 © Kevin Scott From the architect. COR Cellars is located on Old Highway 8 just outside of Lyle, WA in the heart of the Columbia River Gorge. Within a designated National Scenic Area, the site offers stunning views to the surrounding carved mountainsides characteristic of the gorge and to the south across the river to Mount Hood. The project is a large expansion to an existing winery founded in 2004 by owner Luke Bradford.  © Kevin Scott The Columbia River Gorge pulls steady westerly winds up through the gorge which become a significant site condition to address while working outside much of the year. Responding to both the landscape and to Luke's desire to have some respite from the wind, led to the use of a courtyard (the heart at the center) as a central organizing system that protects workers and visitors alike from the sometimes harsh conditions of the natural environment. With large overhangs on the internal sides, the courtyard becomes a memorable and inviting way for visitors to arrive to the winery and be welcomed into the new tasting room. The building berms into the hillside along the north while opening up to the landscape and grand views of Mount Hood at the south. To complete the courtyard on the east end, the design retains the location of the existing metal farm shed and repurposes this space into the new COR Cellars bottling facility.  © Kevin Scott  Floor Plan  © Kevin Scott Visitors enter the courtyard between the old shed and the new structure at the same location as the previous entry, maintaining a familiar connection with the past. The walls of the barrel storage spaces that flank the courtyard are kept solid, drawing visitors into the tasting room. Large glass bi-fold doors between the tasting room and courtyard create a direct connection between interior and exterior spaces. Key views and circulation routes are set up east/west through the building giving visitors glimpses of the vineyards beyond. Skylights are located above the tasting room bar dropping light on the main hub of activity. The large masonry replace marks the center of the living room and offers an inviting space for gathering year round. A rooftop terrace offers a unique perspective over the Columbia River and views out to Mount Hood beyond.  © Kevin Scott The need for significant square footage added to the existing winery called for a clear concept with a repetitive structural module that surround the courtyard. A simple yet refined exterior palette with straightforward detailing and dark earth tones allows the building to rest comfortably in the site.  © Kevin Scott  Section  © Kevin Scott Inside, the simple palette continues with lighter tones. White-washed walls and the clear coated hemlock ceilings reflect the natural light that enters the space presenting a welcoming atmosphere. The southwest corner of the tasting room is designed to feel like a living room, encouraging visitors to relax, meet new and old friends, and enjoy the beautiful surrounding landscape.  © Kevin Scott  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Hidden Studio Beneath a Busy Bridge Provides Creative Solitude for Its Designer Posted: 21 Aug 2017 05:00 AM PDT  © Jose Manuel Pedrajas As urban environments become denser, more expensive and, on occasion, less desirable, creative minds are creating novel ways to escape the hustle, bustle, and tumult of the city. Fernando Abellanas, a designer based in Valencia, has gone to new extremes in his search for solitude. Positioned beneath a traffic bridge somewhere in the Spanish city, a hidden studio comprises a shelf, a chair, and a small desk – all anchored to the concrete undercarriage of the bridge by means of rails and rollers. Movable, the "room" becomes both impenetrable and isolated by the turn of a hand crank. According to The Spaces, Abellanas has described the project as "an ephemeral intervention," which will remain in situ "until someone finds it and decides to steal the materials, or the authorities remove it." But they'll have to find it first.  © Jose Manuel Pedrajas  © Jose Manuel Pedrajas  © Jose Manuel Pedrajas  © Jose Manuel Pedrajas  © Jose Manuel Pedrajas  © Jose Manuel Pedrajas  © Jose Manuel Pedrajas  © Jose Manuel Pedrajas  © Jose Manuel Pedrajas  © Jose Manuel Pedrajas  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Apartment Building La Juliana / ipiña+nieto architects Posted: 21 Aug 2017 04:00 AM PDT  © Pablo Casals-Aguirre
 © Pablo Casals-Aguirre From the architect. The apartment building La Juliana is located in the very heart of Bellas Artes area in central Santiago. Its frontal façade measuring 8,77m, a quite narrow front, overlooks calle Monjitas.  © Pablo Casals-Aguirre  Scheme  © Pablo Casals-Aguirre The aim of the design has been that all apartments had cross-ventilation, allowing to open to both north (living) and south (bedroom) façades. The project takes advantage of this double orientation by conceiving it as a continuous space articulated by a big wall cabinet unit in the dividing wall. This cabinet is adapted to the space it serves, from the living to the kitchen, from the kitchen to the bathroom and from the bathroom to the bedroom.  © Pablo Casals-Aguirre A big patio gives natural light to each flat. This patio allows the apartment to overlook an inner common space, aiming to create communication within the residents.  © Pablo Casals-Aguirre The main street openings of these apartments are designed to direct the look of the resident to the busy and active calle Monjitas, an important street which connects hot points of the city such as Lastarria and Plaza de Armas.  © Pablo Casals-Aguirre  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Fish Creek House / Edition Office Posted: 21 Aug 2017 02:00 AM PDT  © Ben Hosking
 © Ben Hosking From the architect. The house sits firmly along a winding ridgeline on the outskirts of the small township of Fish Creek. The home surrounds itself in a highly textured brickwork wall in response to its exposed position to strong local winds and a nearby country road. This long wall wraps the three nested, black timber pavilions of the house like a rough and coarse blanket and offers them shelter while they sit upon the lower wall edge and gaze out upon the undulating and extraordinary coastline of Wilsons Promontory. The three pavilions are pulled out from each other and from the northern edge of the rough brick wall to allow sunlight to slide deep into a series of sheltered and planted courtyards that offer immediate garden and deck relationships to the interior spaces. These interiors provide a warm and robust palette of timber-lined walls, black-pigmented concrete floors and black form-ply ceilings.  © Ben Hosking In responding to an Australian landscape condition we see it as vital that a conversation or an emotional dialogue emerge between house, landscape and the occupier. In this regard, the house has been intentionally designed to appear as both thoroughly dissonant to its site, and at once entirely and deeply sympathetic to it. This relationship of apparent friction between the house and its site allows for a gap to emerge between the known and unknown characteristics of that place. Establishing an initial contrast of high solidity with the landscape, the house appears first as monument, and as foreign to its surroundings. Upon closer inspection however the robustly solid yet soft and textured walls of the home anchor the building to the site in a manner far stronger than their mass alone; it's earthen qualities more attuned to the considered grace and deep humility of both the surrounding landscape and local community and which has become one of it's key defining characteristics.  © Ben Hosking  Plan  © Ben Hosking Sustainability  © Ben Hosking  © Ben Hosking  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Patrick Vale Draws Stunning Panoramic View of San Francisco in New Mural Posted: 21 Aug 2017 01:00 AM PDT London-based artist, illustrator, and animator Patrick Vale, known for his panoramic drawings of cities, completed another complex mural at design company IDEO's studio in San Francisco, California. Vale's time-lapse videos such as "Empire State of Pen" and his drawing of Manhattan, show the process of creating his detailed illustrations that take from several hours to months to complete. Vale spent 13 days at the downtown San Francisco office to complete the drawing.  The mural's perspective is of the city looking north, with the Bay Bridge in the foreground and the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. Between the iconic bridges, the architecture of San Francisco such as the Transamerica Pyramid Building and the under-construction Salesforce Tower are featured. To view more work by Patrick Vale, check out his Instagram, Facebook and personal website.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| This Student-Run Website Is Experimenting With Architecture Through Cubes Posted: 20 Aug 2017 11:00 PM PDT From the first moment you enter architectural education, tutors tell you repeatedly and often passionately that the learning never stops; this is how it is going to be from now on. Student platforms are an example of our efforts to share our discoveries, many emerging out of the tension between academia and independent learning. From the post-digital advocate KoozA/rch to university publications like The Bartlett's Lobby, AA files, or Yale School of Architecture's Perspecta, research and media platforms represent the creative consciousness of our generation today. Volume64 is a recent newcomer born out of this tension, and behind it is a team myself and my colleagues have founded and run. Through ArchDaily, we're sharing a little bit of our story so far. What Is Volume64?Volume64 is a design platform that emerged during a series of conversations between architecture students in the second half of 2016. We test different micro-typologies and challenge architectural norms through our drawing experiments: isometric cubes of 4x4x4 meters—coined the "CubeLab." In one season, around 50-70 drawings are produced by a constantly changing team of contributors. Our collaborators write, curate, and edit briefs which our team of contributors (regular and visiting) respond to in drawings that get released in 2-week installments, with 5-6 briefs marking a season. Investigating TypologyA lot of architecture studies revolve around typology. Precedent studies, their transformations, and subsequent reinvention can mark the life cycles of buildings. Peter Eisenman literally built his residential typology experiments in the form of his House Series. Challenging typological norms is the modus operandi of offices like OMA, with Ole Scheeren and BIG adopting similar studio philosophies. The idea of Volume64 was sparked when our co-founder Lloyd Lee attended a workshop on diagrams during his first term at the Architectural Association. "Mostly comprised of OMA/AMO projects," he believes that "the workshop also presented a good case of how the typological norms within architecture could be challenged."  "Unknown Ingredients" By Lloyd Lee. Image © Volume64
Challenging everyday spaces, and thus questioning the perception of architecture, became the motivation behind Volume64. The idea of a platform developed: to express these small exercises that could challenge existing rules without the limitations of academic or professional submissions.  "The Race" By Sabrina Syed. Image © Volume64 Who Makes Up Volume64?Volume64 is run by a group of students in their final years of architecture education. Currently, our team members are from the Architectural Association, the Bartlett School of Architecture and the Edinburgh School of Architecture (ESALA). Collaboration is at the heart of the platform. While each school is a treasure trove for research, innovation, and unique skill sets, their best parts usually thrive in isolation, passing each other like ships in the night. By working together through a shared platform, we've managed to build relationships and trade experiences between members, as well as compare how our backgrounds shape responses to the briefs.
 "Phygital Periphery" By Agostino Nickl. Image © Volume64 Why the Cube Drawings?
The cube appealed to Volume64 for both its architectural purity and its ambiguity. A symmetrical shape, it can be rotated and split in infinite ways. The 4-meter sides were also chosen carefully, as their resulting area could be just big enough for a micro-building and tall enough to host a structure that was high enough to feel spacious, yet contained. The isometric format at 1:50 scale completed the framework. Contributors didn't need to worry about what format the drawing would take and were free to focus exclusively on its contents, and to experiment with new graphic languages like collage, bolder drawing styles or animation.  "The Waiting Game" By Ness Lafoy. Image © Volume64 Animated GIFs feature prominently in Volume64's drawings: creating a drawing made up of several frames allows the author to create a larger narrative behind their idea. GIFs pair well with the playful nature of Volume64 as a platform that doesn't take itself too seriously while expressing, through the drawings, what it feels like to study architecture today.  "Flash Memorial" By Johanna Just. Image © Volume64 Through our first season, we've found that certain perspectives kept re-appearing regardless of what brief was being explored. Our ambivalence about technology taking over every aspect of our lives, mass consumption, and social media were expressed through many of the quick-fire experiments, especially in our impulsive Fake Newsroom brief, which wasn't a typology but sought to create a space in response to the overwhelming news coverage of 2017. These anxieties, paired with the playfulness of the platform create a series of revealing drawings that tell a story.  "Real News Network Protest Float" By Jonathan Wren. Image © Volume64  "A Big, Beautiful Wall" By Henry Schofield. Image © Volume64
Season 2 of Volume64 has begun, and with it continue the experiments. To learn more about Volume64, you can check out our site here. Information Courtesy of Volume64, Sabrina Syed and Lloyd Lee (Founders)  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 20 Aug 2017 10:00 PM PDT  © Fernando Alda
 © Fernando Alda From the architect. This dwelling is located at a key point of the city of Seville: next to La Maestranza bull ring and the Guadalquivir River. The owners of the flat, located on the top floor of a classic building, were aiming to achieve a more open space with more light.  © Fernando Alda The dwelling is clearly divided between daytime and night-time areas. The latter includes two small bedrooms, a bathroom and an en-suite bedroom with a dressing room. The materials to be highlighted in both bathrooms are Calacatta marble and bleached pine wood.  Floor Plan The day time area consists of an access, planned in glass and marble, a feature dividing the outside and the inside of the dwelling.  © Fernando Alda Leading on from the entrance, there is a significant open plan kitchen finished in bronze and a living room, split up into two environments: on the one hand, a reading area with chaise longues and a sofa area facing the fireplace, with a television, large windows and views of the river.  © Fernando Alda Following that there is a dining area that acts as a fulcrum between the open space and a rear office area, acting as a bridge with the enclosed night-time area. The project’s highlight material is large format bleached pine, used for the walls and floor, with the exception of the entry area, office and bathroom where Calacatta marble has been used.  © Fernando Alda  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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