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- Pontevedra Water Supply / Padilla Nicás Arquitectos
- The Farmer's House / AR Design Studio
- 64 Social Housing / Guinée et Potin Architects
- Rothschild Tower / Richard Meier & Partners
- 18 House / Khuon Studio + Phan Khac Tung
- Co-Sharing Office / Andyrahman Architect
- HWN HQ / OBBA
- Green House / Zen Architects
- MVRDV and BSK To Add Timber Framed Structure to Historic Warehouse in Gothenburg
- Be.Re / Filippo Bombace
- Vidars Gate / R21 Arkitekter
- CEMEX Announces the Finalists of the 2017 International Building Awards
- AKQA Agency / Estúdio Penha
- Wang Shu and André Aranha Corrêa do Lago Named to 2018 Pritzker Prize Jury
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| Pontevedra Water Supply / Padilla Nicás Arquitectos Posted: 06 Sep 2017 10:00 PM PDT  © Mariela Apollonio
 © Mariela Apollonio From the architect. Monteporreiro is a natural place next to the river Lérez, few kilometers from the city of Pontevedra. In this place, there is a catchment and pumping of water from the river for urban supply. The increase in population to be supplied necessitates the expansion of the capacity of the aforementioned collection and pumping station, maintaining its position along the river.  Section The increase in capacity is achieved by means of new pumps whose height in both use (lowering) and maintenance (high) must be covered by the new building, which determines the minimum height of the same. This is the first condition of the project. The second condition is the need to ensure a minimum ventilation surface to the interior to ensure the salubrity of the jobs that are developed. The third condition is that the construction has to be done with precast concrete up to 120cm high.  © Mariela Apollonio The project poses a simple solution to the three conditions: prefabricated units reach the minimum height necessary for the operation and maintenance of the pumps and are gradually separated from each other until the necessary ventilation surface is reached, as well as the "gravity" of the final volume. Two metal fronts, like gates, complete the needs of the program. It is thus formalized as a large abstract element that is only related to the light metallic bridge in the vicinity; unique elements built in the leafy and thick vegetation on the banks of the river.  © Mariela Apollonio  Mounting Diagram  © Mariela Apollonio  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Farmer's House / AR Design Studio Posted: 06 Sep 2017 08:00 PM PDT  © Martin Gardner
 © Martin Gardner From the architect. The Farmer's House acts as the UK base for AR Design Studio's clients, who return to the English countryside from their travels to tend to their farmstead. Set on a private estate in the most western part of the South Downs National Park, the house's rural location is its raison d'etre.  © Martin Gardner AR Design Studio were approached by the clients who were looking to add a completely self- contained yet joined annexe, that would be a space for their children and grandchildren to 'take over' when they were staying.  © Martin Gardner The existing house had been subject to a number of previous alterations and extensions throughout the years which had led to it feeling mismatched and sitting uncomfortably on the plot.  Existing Ground floor plan  © Martin Gardner  Ground Floor Plan The team at AR Design Studio proposed an extension and makeover that would wrap everything together in a unified and elegant form. The old and new are joined by a glazed link that sits between the existing house and the new annexe. The annex, which sits to the east, is surrounded by a large covered alfresco dining and relaxing area. The terrace and pool sat centrally in front of the house are tied in with a large sweeping canopy above. This reaches around the existing house, and continues to the west of the plot, providing an additional sheltered seating space. This canopy incorporates openings for the existing trees and partial shading elements, providing protection to the southern facing façade with delicate timber louvres.  © Martin Gardner In terms of updating the existing house, the traditional geometry has been embraced, using materiality to tie the scheme together. The wrapping gesture is continued with an element of Zinc, beginning on the north elevation of the existing house and continuing over the roof to overhang and provide shading to the south elevation, while the remaining facades of the existing house are now clad in timber to match the extension.  © Martin Gardner A palette of natural and man-made materials was carefully curated. The zinc has a strong agricultural feel that defines the context and client's heritage whilst providing a protective gesture. This is contrasted with the linear timber cladding which acts as a contemporary, yet rural material, and the fibre cement provides a cool toned solidity to compliment the warm details of timber.  © Martin Gardner Visually, the extension appears as a single mass placed on the landscape, with the snug, kitchen/living and dining space, utility room, and two of 3 bedrooms on the ground floor. Small punctuations have been made into the timber cladding to introduce natural light, yet their scale kept modest to protect the rooms from the on looking driveway. The geometry of the façade is clad with fibre cement and provides the dining area with more privacy. The hidden subterranean mass below avoids a visual bulk which could otherwise swamp the existing house's proportions, and includes a bedroom, plant room and garage space for 2 cars.  © Martin Gardner Internally, the finishes have been kept minimal with cool grey tones, similar to that of the fibre cement cladding. Warm touches are constantly visible through the furnishings and timber cladding.  © Martin Gardner East facing bedrooms catch the morning light and have extensive views over the surrounding South Downs, whilst strategically placed skylights have been used throughout the project to introduce natural light into spaces deeper in the plan.  © Martin Gardner The scheme now stands as a single architectural form that stretches out across the garden setting. Looking at the wider context, the strong geometry sits amongst a structured landscape, which gradually dissolves into the farm land beyond.  © Martin Gardner  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 64 Social Housing / Guinée et Potin Architects Posted: 06 Sep 2017 07:00 PM PDT  © Sergio Grazia
 © Sergio Grazia From the architect. This 64 dwellings project, divided into two buildings, is implemented in the heart of the residence Pierre Loti, completing an urban renewal. The master plan places the project at a crossroads of varied building types and densities. As a consequence, the process aims for a volumetric transition, possible within the context, contributing to the future identity of the new Pierre Loti Street.  General Perspective Considering the multiple features (size, parking area, orientation, relation to the nearby buildings, surrounding areas layouts...) of the two set up areas offered for each building and the ambitious goal regarding density, a differentiated answer is given for each building in order to make the most of their respective potentials:  © Sergio Grazia - On one hand, the R building, through the shape of its roof, floors' movements (R+4 on the Charles de Gaulle Avenue, R+5 in the center, and R+3 on Pierre Loti street) and volumes' gradual transition, assures a new link toward Aytré city center.  © Sergio Grazia The two constructions offer to the passerby sequenced facades: horizontally with long terraces and vertically with entrances and vertical flows inside the buildings, designed as «rifts». The project highlights ideas of appropriation and habitability, with a wish of giving to each dwelling a nearly private access. The treatment of the side spaces in connection to the Pierre Loti Street and following on from the buildings fits in with the latter outline.  Context Plan Accesses to the dwellings: housing's appropriation and privatization.  © Sergio Grazia  Floor Plan  © Sergio Grazia Outdoor corridors allow an aerial walk, offer numerous views and support neighborly relations. Besides, they enable the dwellings to be dual-aspect, to benefit from double or triple orientation, and preserve privacy. They lead to only 6 dwellings per floor.  © Sergio Grazia These «pontoons» establish a gradual distance between public and private spaces. In addition, displaced accesses to the entrances preserve the dwellings' intimacy from the traffic. The outdoor corridors give access to the dwellings thanks to private footbridges.  © Sergio Grazia Concerning the S building, the density of the construction and the efficiency of the distribution (8 dwellings per floor) implies a precise work regarding natural light input in each space, and especially in the communal areas. The path invented for the residents starts in a dual-aspect hall, north-south oriented, complete with a north-western fragment. This cutting up in the building allows the creation of clear views toward north, south, and west, in shared spaces bathed in light.  © Sergio Grazia  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Rothschild Tower / Richard Meier & Partners Posted: 06 Sep 2017 05:00 PM PDT  © Roland Halbe
 © Roland Halbe From the architect. Rothschild Tower is a simple graceful residential tower lightly resting on a retail base. The design is inspired by Bauhaus principles that were based on functionality and a certain sparseness or economy of means using modern mass produced materials, and in this case a repetitive planning module. The fundamental considerations that shape the tower design are the quality of light in the plan, views to the city and sea, an efficient assembly of "served" and "service" spaces around the core, and the building's relationship with the existing fabric and massing on Rothschild Boulevard.  © Roland Halbe Reynolds Logan, design partner-in-charge, comments: "The tower and all its contents are designed to recognize a role as a citizen to the city, with gestures to different scales at the base, shaft, and top of the building. The tower is deliberately lifted above the street on graceful piloti, with an undulating glass wall in deference to the importance of this important intersection of Rothschild and Allenby. The transparency and lofty openness of the ground floor lobby, garden, and retail spaces contribute to a vibrant streetscape."  ©
Scott Frances  Lightness and transparency of the tower and base are the primary goals, not only to reduce the apparent scale and mass in the context of the low to mid-rise neighborhood, or the scale-less reflective towers in the area, but to express the optimism, openness, and energy of the more secular modern character of Tel Aviv. The delicate louver screen is an elegant white "veil," inspired by the ventilated protective layers of more traditional Middle Eastern clothing. It both defines and obscures the distinction between the public image of the building and the private realm within. The louver elements of the screen protect the delicate clear glass skin, and have local architectural precedents in the ubiquitous "treeseem", the sliding louver blinds enclosing open air porches or negative spaces so common in the existing neighborhood Bauhaus buildings.  © Roland Halbe "Transparency and the related accessibility and connection issues merit respect for the circumstances of each project, especially in dense urban environments. We well recognize the paradoxical nature of balancing those issues, and at the Rothschild Tower the delicate louver screen is an elegant white veil inspired by the ventilated protective layers of more traditional Middle Eastern clothing. It is also a "buffer" of sorts, and obscures the distinction between the public image of the building and the private realm within," states Mr. Logan.  ©
Scott Frances The Lobby and Retail spaces are spare, lofty, and open to the surrounding streets and neighborhood. Behind the tower a former through-block retail arcade is being restored to its former glory to firmly embed the building and its residents in the pulse of the neighborhood.  © Roland Halbe At the larger scale of the city, the lightness and transparency of the tower will distinguish it dramatically among the glass and heavy neighboring towers, and perhaps inspire sustainable approaches to a more "accessible" character for large buildings in this climate in the future.  © Roland Halbe  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 18 House / Khuon Studio + Phan Khac Tung Posted: 06 Sep 2017 03:00 PM PDT  © Hiroyuki Oki
 © Hiroyuki Oki From the architect. 18 House is located in a calm dead-end alley in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, owned by a young couple with a kid. The plot is a relatively small rectangle of 18 sqm which had challenged the architect to bring out the best of this limited area to provide the clients with a qualitative living space. This was also the only design brief we had received upon starting the project. Therefore, we approached the design with a goal to strike a balance between utilizing the space to its fullest and interpreting the creative freedom that we had been given.  Sketch Within the height restriction, we aimed to achieve more than just 3 floors. As a result, we did not follow the conventional solution of having one vertical communication core throughout. We instead worked with a system of a staircase running along the periphery to take advantage of the space underneath for storage cabinets, toilets, and bathrooms. Furthermore, this staircase placement also opened up to a considerably sizeable vertical space for bunk bed or reading loft.  © Hiroyuki Oki In order to maintain the airy atmosphere, the stair balustrade was simplified as much as possible. In terms of the safety issue for the kid, rope nests can always be added in the future when she starts learning to walk. Despite almost facing a shortage of living space, we still wanted to devote several spots for greeneries to ease off the heavily cramped character of the alley context. Master bedroom and reading loft are both adorned by a shared plant bed while the rooftop is utilized as a mini veggie garden.  © Hiroyuki Oki The exterior design was developed based on the notion of porosity. The architectural envelope facing the alley is comprised of a system of slits with various heights which can be operated separately. This means the users can very well control the ventilation level of the house by selecting a specific number of windows to open. In total, they take up approximately 50% of the washed-terrazzo facade.  © Hiroyuki Oki Besides, these openings help maintain the privacy level whilst at the same time keep the interior space exposed to daylight. The thickness of the exterior wall where the bedroom might be affected by the Eastern sun from 9 am to 11 am was doubled and sculpted with a triangular profile. This diagonal detail deflects the sun's rays and keeps the room shielded from being over-heated during the hot season in Ho Chi Minh city.  © Hiroyuki Oki We also thought about boosting the adaptability quality of the house. In the long run, It is possible to install a loft above the parking area on the ground floor thanks to the double height of this entry level. By having applied various methods aiming to fully maximize the space, we do hope the house will gradually reveal more of its charm to the users through time. And on top of it all, we believe architecture serves a higher purpose of comforting people's life regardless of the size of their plot.  © Hiroyuki Oki  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Co-Sharing Office / Andyrahman Architect Posted: 06 Sep 2017 01:00 PM PDT  © Mansyur Hasan
 © Mansyur Hasan From the architect. This Co-Sharing Office stands for Consciousness of Sharing - Office. An office with shared consciousness, a real dialogue between the various elements, both internally and externally, and in different levels and different contexts. All of that is manifested in architecture.  © Mansyur Hasan  1st Floor Plan  © Mansyur Hasan Andy Rahman Architect's office located in Sidoarjo, Indonesia is designed with the awareness that all human beings in this world live on the same earth, one earth. With that awareness, humans appreciate the interconnectedness and dependence of each other. They will not be able to live alone individually. Then all that has to be done is to break down the individual-ego barriers and break through the dividing spaces.  Section Unlike modern times when humans seek to separate themselves from nature and try to dominate them, even trying to break the course of local history and traditions. In this office, precisely nature-history-tradition is used as a spatial-architectural orientation. All three are transformed into architectural formations that are aware of the interconnectedness and dependence of the entities that exist on earth.  © Mansyur Hasan  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2017 12:00 PM PDT  © Kyungsub Shin
 © Kyungsub Shin From the architect. Today's city is submerged in the products faithful to heterogeneous desires and is left in the middle of a competition between distressing urban structures. The collisions/conflicts among many different desires relentlessly happen in every corner of the city saturating the city with a pile of desires and erasing the beauty of moderation.  © Kyungsub Shin This project is a headquarters of HWN, a clothing company that sells jeans in Dongdaemun. The client wanted to improve the current stereotypical prejudice against Dongdaemun products and its working condition through the new HQ building. Furthermore, he/she wished to have a showroom for foreign buyers and studio for photographing products.  Section The site is in Sindang-dong, Jung-gu. Due to its proximity to Dongdaemun, a district famous for its apparels arcades such as Dongdaemun Market and Pyounghwa Market, Sindang-dong has been the "back of the house" for the apparels market. Signs with textile terms such as "Pattern," "Sample," and "Grading," piles of fabrics on the streets, and motorcycles hustling through them contribute to the chaotic atmosphere of today's Sindang-dong.  © Kyungsub Shin The HWN building aspires to contain its desires in minimal form and slightly distance itself from the busy and hectic streets. The basic form of the building is composed of three concrete boxes of distinct textures sitting on top of each other.  First Level Plan  Second Level Plan  Third Level Plan Just like jeans that come in diverse styles based on how the fabric is treated, three concrete volumes carry different appearances and textures based on their molds and finishing methods. Concrete cast with OSB plywood exposed concreted chipped with the water jet, and generic exposed concrete present themselves in distinctive color and shades naturally occurring due to their finishing treatment.  © Kyungsub Shin The building is vertically divided into three parts with two levels per part, based on its program. (Ground – 2nd level: Showroom, 3rd -4th level: Office, 5th level – roof top: Photo studio). In the horizontal direction, it is divided into three bands of Core, Service, and Program from East to West.  © Kyungsub Shin Unlike the minimal and reserved look from the outside, the interior of the building presents you a totally different space. The concrete staircase in the public space looks as though it is directly cut out from a large chunk of concrete. This type of staircases provides bold spatial impressions throughout the building by altering its position and form in each level.  © Kyungsub Shin The transition between the vertical bands, from the service to program space, gives you different spatial experiences as well. As you enter the first two level you will face a green courtyard, associated with the tiered showroom space, contrary to the plain façade.  © Kyungsub Shin In the middle of the frenzied city full of unrestrained results of desire, HWN headquarter seeks to blend into the cityscape by adopting refined concrete and to calm down it's surrounding. We expect HWN to thrive among countless apparels companies that come and go by abiding by its resolution and confidence.  © Kyungsub Shin  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2017 10:00 AM PDT  © Emma Cross
 © Emma Cross From the architect. Located on a narrow site in Melbourne, the Green House was inspired by our client's connection with landscape and represents the innovative use of sustainable design principles.  © Emma Cross We offset the house from the north boundary and created a courtyard with north facing windows. Deciduous planting provides shade in summer, with additional plants integrated throughout the site to improve the indoor air quality. Perched above the surrounding rooftops and nestled in the tree canopies, a roof garden acts as an oasis from the urban environment.  © Emma Cross  Floor Plans  © Emma Cross Passive heating is provided by a two storey north facing void that allows sun to penetrate deep into the house, heating the thermal mass of exposed concrete floor and ceiling. Passive cooling is provided by windows located to catch breezes cooled by the courtyard plants and pond, while a two storey void facilitates natural heat removal through stack effect. The end result is a living, breathing, sustainable space that is a pleasure to inhabit.  © Emma Cross  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| MVRDV and BSK To Add Timber Framed Structure to Historic Warehouse in Gothenburg Posted: 06 Sep 2017 08:30 AM PDT  © MVRDV MVRDV, with co-architects BSK Arkitekter, has revealed the design of Magasin 113, a mixed-use transformation and extension of a 16,500-square-meter riverfront warehouse in Gothenburg, Sweden. Located within the planned Frihamnen RiverCity district – the largest ongoing urban development project in Scandinavia – the building will inject contemporary program in the existing warehouse structure, including flexible office spaces, an arts center, a cafe, pop-up shop spaces, retail shops, a restaurant and artist studios.  © MVRDV MVRDV and BSK's design will utilize the strong bones of the existing structure. The building's concrete frame will serve as the support structure for three new timber-framed levels above containing flexible space, while the historic brick facade will be restored and protected through a new glass layer. MVRDV explain:  © MVRDV  © MVRDV "To combine the need for insulation and the desire to maintain the existing brick facade, a transparent glass protective 'raincoat' will be wrapped around the existing warehouse and the new extension on top. This will add an exciting blend of a building that is 'old' and new, raw and smooth, and solid and transparent at the same time." Between the new and existing spaces, a large public space will thread between the levels, linking them both visually and physically with each other and the public square outside. A variety of stair types will connect the space vertically, creating a "dynamic but visually unified public route through space."  © MVRDV  © MVRDV  © MVRDV Positioned alongside a nearby park and pool, Magasin 113 will serve as a new "public node" for the neighborhood, attempting to attract a diverse new community to the area. A timeline for the project has yet to be announced. News via MVRDV.  © MVRDV
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| Posted: 06 Sep 2017 08:00 AM PDT  © Serena Eller Vanicher
 © Serena Eller Vanicher From the architect. Be.Re., beverage and restoration, is a new pub that I designed near the Vatican in Rome, where beers of various cultures in barrels, falls and pumps are used, with cask placed below the counter.  Floor Plan The service area is characterized by the use of copper, ceramic coatings with wood effect and brick of original vaults, a general taste deliberately loaded, as opposed to the tones between white and gray that characterize instead the Customer zone, mainly recognizable for the recovery of the original pavements in Carrara marble .  © Serena Eller Vanicher A large cabinet in bleached wood houses the custom beer mug for the most affectionate customers; while stools with structure in iron bar and wooden tables always bleached allow the tasting.  Detail The same material-color palette, combined with the use of iron in corten for the sketch of the internal gazebos, connotes the room used instead for the gastronomic offer..  © Serena Eller Vanicher At the first floor, the two different flavors mix in a single setting where you can enjoy everything in a long social table or on more secluded tables or to follow the educational cultural events that are organized here.  © Serena Eller Vanicher The bathroom rooms coherently conclude the pub, adding old items such as full bricks recovered from the demolition works, used to portray an anomalous mirrored wall veiled from the exposed brick, with the contemporary design features of the pub.  © Serena Eller Vanicher Product Description. The ceramic covering wood effect used on the floor but above all to characterize the long back wall that pierces through the pub, want to convey all the warmth and rusticity of the wood, fused with the practicality of the ceramic product.  © Serena Eller Vanicher  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2017 06:00 AM PDT  © Studiooslo
 © Studiooslo From the architect. An old drying loft on top of a 1920´s city block is transformed into two new apartments. It's a refurbishment as well as an extension with four large new arcs both towards the street and the courtyard. The height of the arcs lets the light flow into the centre of the apartments from both sides where the kitchen connects the dining area and the living rom. Each of the apartments have a rooftop terrace on top of an arc. The project is all about exploiting the qualities that the rooftop situation represents. The minimalistic expression of the arcs are made to match the stripped down facades of the modestly built house without the ornaments and details typically found on buildings in this area.  © Bergur Briem  Floot Plan 1  © Bergur Briem  Floor Plan 2  © Bergur Briem  Section  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| CEMEX Announces the Finalists of the 2017 International Building Awards Posted: 06 Sep 2017 05:00 AM PDT  CEMEX has announced the 61 finalist projects from 17 countries in the running for the 2017 International Building Awards. The International Edition of the CEMEX Building Awards brings together the winning projects from each of the different CEMEX National Building Awards to compete head-to-head. This year, 17 countries launched a call for completed works to participate in one of five categories and four special awards. Participating countries included: Colombia, Costa Rica, United Arab Emirates, Spain, the United States, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Latvia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Poland, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. The winners will be announced in a ceremony on November 9 in Mexico City. See all the finalists, below. Residential HousingC-17 House  Cortesía de CEMEX One Remarkable Expression of Living  Cortesía de CEMEX Concretus House  Cortesía de CEMEX Barcelona Tower  Cortesía de CEMEX Floating Hill House  Cortesía de CEMEX De León Residence  Cortesía de CEMEX Gerard Lathouwers Van Hall Residence  Cortesía de CEMEX G-40 Tower  Cortesía de CEMEX Affordable HousingNorte Club  Cortesía de CEMEX Villa de la Esperanza  Cortesía de CEMEX Villas del Centro III Real Estate Trust  Cortesía de CEMEX BuildingRhoda Erdmann House, Research and Laboratory Building  Cortesía de CEMEX Preschool Building San José  Cortesía de CEMEX Jacó Walk Shopping Center  Cortesía de CEMEX JSS Academy and Sports Building  Cortesía de CEMEX Sufism Reoriented Sanctuary  Cortesía de CEMEX Vitrolles 12 Media Center  Cortesía de CEMEX World Technology Center  Cortesía de CEMEX Marriott Port au Prince Hotel  Cortesía de CEMEX Exupery International School and Kindergarten  Cortesía de CEMEX Capilla del Espíritu Santo  Cortesía de CEMEX Plaza del Este  Cortesía de CEMEX Aquapark in Chelm  Cortesía de CEMEX Therapeutic Pools for La Esperanza School  Cortesía de CEMEX Downtown Center  Cortesía de CEMEX Collective SpaceRoad Exchange Park Construction, Quebrada Seca- Carrera 15  Cortesía de CEMEX "Hogar Siembra" Integral Training Center  Cortesía de CEMEX Golden 1 Center  Cortesía de CEMEX Archeopark Pavlov  Cortesía de CEMEX National Botanical Garden Educational Path  Cortesía de CEMEX InfrastructureChucás Hydroelectric Project Dam  Cortesía de CEMEX Design and Construction of Two Sections of the Río Blanco - Mulukukú Highway Improvement Project  Cortesía de CEMEX Chungal - Nuevo México Highway  Cortesía de CEMEX Tunnel Under the Dead Vistula River  Cortesía de CEMEX Railroad Cable-Stayed Bridge Over the Ozama River  Cortesía de CEMEX Special AwardsConstruction Innovation Nianis 112 House  Cortesía de CEMEX Pharmax Pharmaceutical  Cortesía de CEMEX Marriott Port au Prince Hotel  Cortesía de CEMEX Downtown Center  Cortesía de CEMEX Social Value Music Park "Jorge Villamil Cordovez"  Cortesía de CEMEX "Hogar Siembra" Integral Training Center  Cortesía de CEMEX Sufism Reoriented Sanctuary  Cortesía de CEMEX Vitrolles 12 Media Center  Cortesía de CEMEX Barcelona Tower  Cortesía de CEMEX Rafael Ybarra Homes  Cortesía de CEMEX Archeopark Pavlov  Cortesía de CEMEX INFOTEP Administrative Building  Cortesía de CEMEX Universal Accessibility Coopsano Club  Cortesía de CEMEX Sustainable Building Rhoda Erdmann House, Research and Laboratory Building  Cortesía de CEMEX Nianis 112 House  Cortesía de CEMEX One Remarkable Expression of Living  Cortesía de CEMEX JSS Academy and Sports Building  Cortesía de CEMEX Casa Gallarda  Cortesía de CEMEX Golden 1 Center  Cortesía de CEMEX 4 Venezia Building  Cortesía de CEMEX Hotel Marriott Puerto Príncipe  Cortesía de CEMEX La Casa del Volcán  Cortesía de CEMEX Plaza del Este  Cortesía de CEMEX Gerard Lathouwers Van Hall Residence  Cortesía de CEMEX ArcheoPark Pavlov  Cortesía de CEMEX Imbert, Domínguez & Associates Offices  Cortesía de CEMEX  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2017 04:00 AM PDT  © Tuca Reinés
 © Tuca Reinés From the architect. AKQA, an international advertising agency that planned to come to Brazil, commissioned Estúdio Penha to design a home-based office with the warmth and soul characteristic of our projects. There were many challenges, a house that should adapt to a great program of needs for its complete functioning: spaces for the clients conviviality, production, creators and all the support structure. However, its adaptation to the new reality required a horizontal and vertical enlargement.  © Tuca Reinés The architecture of the 70's townhouse was created by the former owner, with arches and massive brick walls that we wanted to preserve. The starting points were: to maintain the constructive memory that should be valued, to integrate the new volumes with the existing ones, to create a garden that permeates the whole house and to think about sustainable solutions of consumption.  © Tuca Reinés It was done a project where most of the rooms of the two floors were used. In the ground floor are the main areas of coustomers and support to them, in the external environment all the setbacks were used as permeable areas, creating a large garden around the house and in the background, where the old pool existed, a bleacher for projections of films and work presentations was projected. The main access made by a rusty iron box that gives to the reception and exhibition space has a triple ceiling height that goes up to the sloping ceiling and invites the visitor to a curious look upwards.  Ground Floor Plan  First Floor Plan  Second Floor Plan The facade wall does not touch the ground, the vegetation passes underneath it creating the necessary lightness that balances with its height. The distribution hall to the meeting rooms also distributes the apparent pipes, all the infrastructure of the house and at the bottom of this, is the main meeting room - a new house volume, with dividers in glass frames that allow the contemplation of the garden from the reception.  © Tuca Reinés The new vertical circulation located where it was the old stairs of the house gained prominence to have leaked elemnts as steps and guardrails made in metallic screen, it is between window frames, one big window that has vision of the lateral garden and another one with sight for the internal patio. Still thinking about the integration between interior and exterior folding doors were used, which allow a greater opening, and consequently a visual and physical connection between the rooms and the garden.  Section D On the first floor, overlooking the back of the house, is the staff area for 40 people. Part of this room has a double foyer connected with the dining room that is on the last floor and illuminated by large frames. In front the new volume in balance, which houses the brainstorming rooms, serves as cover for the entrance and garage of the house.  © Tuca Reinés For the new floor, two mezzanines: one houses the leisure area that communicates with the reception and another houses the dining room that communicates with the staff area, all integrated by a large green slab with a medium size plants. The access to this outdoor garden works through two large wooden gates that replace the walls and open to integrate the exterior with the interior and also create extra protection for the sun on the east and west facade. On rainy od cold days, a small door on this panel allows the circulation.  © Tuca Reinés A roof with a thermo-acoustical tile inclined to the north facade was made, which helps to control the insolation. On the south facade a large glazed window frame allows the entrance of natural light throughout the mezzanines. An outside staircade like in New York in the back of the house meets the demands of safety.  © Tuca Reinés The element that brings identity for this project is a patchwork of old bars of iron which acts as a brise soleil for the new volumes of the house, they draw the floor as a lace made by the light of the morning sun.  © Tuca Reinés One of the aims of the project is to make clear and harmonious the contrast between the old house and the new interventions, thus, the old walls were peeled to make the bricks appear. For new internal walls, we used structural concrete block with linear pagination, in opposition to the tied pagination of the existing bricks. On the outside the new walls and small walls, including existing window closures, were made of precast concrete. The spans of the windows of the old building were preserved, enclosed by new windows to maintain the language of overlap between the old and the new.  © Tuca Reinés It was necessary to design a complex network of ducts and cables for electric, hydraulic, lighting, network, sound, sprinklers, air conditioning, and this was done in an apparent way, making clear the complex infrastructure that makes the house "work", an aesthetic decision that is not limited to this, facilitates the maintenance.  © Tuca Reinés The large industrial type iron frames allow the entrance of natural light during the day and constant integration with the outside gardens and view of th city on the rooftop.  © Tuca Reinés New technologies and awareness to conservation of natural resources of the planet permeate the project. This way reused or certified wood was used and materials that already made up the house like walls and tiles were utilized. In this same sense, the use of sustainable systems such as solar panels, rainwater collection for reuse and LED lighting, means that the use of the house is made in a way to minimize the consumption of electric energy and treated water.  © Tuca Reinés For thi project implantation, the old house needed a structural reinforcement. We opted for a metal structure where the pillars become an important strucutural element, an aesthetic element that makes the vertical connection of all floors, new elements and remnants.  Section B As the idea of integration permeates every project, it was also necessary to think of privacy protection and tranquility for work, so acoustic clouds were adopted in the production rooms and main meeting room as well as acoustic doors. The interior design was assembled from four sources: Designers who made iconic Brazilian pieces, such as Sergio Rodrigues and Lina Bo Bardi; Comtemporary Brazilian designers like Jader Almeida, Marcus Ferreira and Felipe Protti, whose ieces talk directly with the first ones mentioned; And even pieces of international designers mainly Scandinavian furniture such as Hee Welling chairs, Hans Wegner and luminaires of icons such as Fabien Dumas, Ingo Maurer and Tom Dixon. Completing the proposal, some pieces were designed by Estúdio Penha fulfilling specific tasks of the daily routine of the agency, with materials that maintain a direct dialogue with the other pieces.  © Tuca Reinés As de decoration is fragmented in different rooms, it was necessary to choose elements that made them part of a whole. And thit is done through the colors and materials: natural iron, wood, natural leather, stones, marbles and fabrics of neutral tones. In addition to maintaining a conceptual and visual unity, these elements do not compete with the agency's striking architecture, it assimilate and complement each other.  © Tuca Reinés All this results in ambiences that have local characteristcs, but avoiding stereotypes. The decoration unites the identity of Brazilian modernism acclaimed in the world with globally know iconic pieces, configuring discrete, elegant and at the same time personality rooms.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Wang Shu and André Aranha Corrêa do Lago Named to 2018 Pritzker Prize Jury Posted: 06 Sep 2017 03:35 AM PDT  Ningbo Historic Museum / Amateur Architecture Studio. Image © Iwan Baan Architecture's most prestigious award, the Pritzker Architecture Prize, has announced the appointment of two new jurors to their distinguished jury: architect Wang Shu and Brazilian ambassador and architectural critic André Aranha Corrêa do Lago. The 8-strong group will be tasked with selecting the upcoming 2018 laureate, who will become the 40th winner in the prize's history. "As we approach the 40th anniversary of the Pritzker Prize, the addition of André Corrêa do Lago and Wang Shu continues to embody the international range reflected by both present and past Laureates and Jury," commented Tom Pritzker, Chairman of Hyatt Foundation. "The contributions of both individuals to the field of architecture, from different vantage points, makes them ideal members of the jury." Co-founder of Amateur Architecture Studio and Dean of the School of Architecture at China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, Wang Shu was selected as the 2012 Laureate of the Pritzker Prize, lauded by the jury for his work's "strong cultural continuity and re-invigorated tradition." "It is a great responsibility to serve on the jury," commented Wang. "I also hope to share my knowledge of China and the Asian context with them." André Aranha Corrêa do Lago is the current Brazilian Ambassador to Japan, advocating for international sustainable development and energy. Corrêa do Lago has also previously worked within the field of architectural curation and criticism, serving as curator of the Brazilian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture (2014) and of several other exhibitions across the world. He has also written extensively on Brazilian architecture and Oscar Niemeyer, including Aindamoderno?: Arquitetura Brasileira Contemporânea (2005), Oscar Niemeyer: Uma Arquitetura da Sedução (2009); and ArquiteturaBrasileira Vista por Grandes Fotógrafos (2014). Wang and Corrêa do Lago replace architect and educator Yung Ho Chang and architecture curator, writer and editor Kristin Feireiss on the board, joining the remaining six jury members:
Working closely with the jury is Executive Director of the Pritzker Prize Martha Thorne, who manages the open nominations process. The winner of the 2018 Pritzker Prize will be announced in March, with the awards cermony following in the spring.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Explore Iron Man's Futuristic Malibu Mansion With This 3D Model Posted: 06 Sep 2017 02:30 AM PDT What might the futuristic home of Tony Stark (AKA Iron Man) look like in our more mundane world? In this fun exercise, Archilogic imagines a for-sale version the Malibu mansion. Explore it for yourself in the 3D model! Ever dreamed of a real superhero lifestyle? We have a rare opportunity to buy in this secluded Malibu location, thanks to a change of heart by the former owner. Dramatic views, spectacular entertaining areas, plus a huge workshop/garage and helipad – it's all here. Lovingly rebuilt after an unfortunate accident, this stark white clifftop mansion once again has all its original features. Buyers who enjoy a rich social life will appreciate the glamorous history of the house, in which the celebrity former owner enjoyed a lavish party lifestyle, as much as its spectacular design. The public areas are constructed in a series of interlinked circles, with the highlight being a huge circular living room with wrap-around glass walls, offering uninterrupted views over the Pacific. Let your guests flow between these magnificent rooms or spill out onto the terrace that flows around the house to one of two swimming pools; those who know the cardinal rule that the real party happens in the kitchen will be treated to a space just as exciting as the lounge.  Courtesy of Archilogic But there's more to life than partying, and you'll find other needs equally well catered to. Also on the main floor, a private gym (leading to the second pool, and with a convenient adjoining bathroom) will help you stay buff enough to fight off bad guys, should that be necessary. A dramatic cantilevered staircase leads to the second floor, where you'll find plenty of comfortable rooms and bathrooms to accommodate all your sidekicks. The former owner also kitted out the spacious garage under the house as a workshop space, in which any amateur engineers will be very well provided for. There's even a display case to show off your armor – or other creations. One more very special feature is the artificial intelligence system that operates the house's security and other systems. Jarvis, designed personally by the former owner, is light years ahead of any other AI butler on the smart home market and sure to become almost a friend. Please contact Ms Potts on 555-0483 with any inquiries.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Fish Creek Residences / DYNIA ARCHITECTS Posted: 06 Sep 2017 02:00 AM PDT  © Ron Johnson
 © David Agnello From the architect. The site of this single story residence is at the base of the Teton Mountain range with views of canyons and peaks. To respond to this topographical edge condition, the form of the primary living space rises to capture this view.  Floor Plan The entry sequence begins by arrival into a south facing "courtyard" defined by the main residence and an outbuilding. A linear porch accessed from the garage or the exterior leads to the entry illuminated by an east facing light monitor.  © Ron Johnson This 'tail' of the scheme wraps around itself in a saxophone configuration, culminating at the expansive glazed wall and terrace beyond.  © Ron Johnson  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2017 01:00 AM PDT  4 World Trade Center (New York, 2013). Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/15638324029'>Flickr user gigi_nyc</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/'>CC BY-NC-ND 2.0</a> Pritzker Prize laureate and 67th AIA Gold Medalist Fumihiko Maki (born September 6, 1928) is widely considered to be one of Japan's most distinguished living architects, practicing a unique style of Modernism that reflects his Japanese origin. Toshiko Mori has praised Maki's ability to create "ineffable atmospheres" using a simple palette of various types of metal, concrete, and glass. His consistent integration and adoption of new methods of construction as part of his design language contribute to his personal quest to create "unforgettable scenes."  Fumihiko Maki at MIT Media Lab, 2010. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeanbaptisteparis/4411544141/'>Flickr user jeanbaptisteparis</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/'>CC BY-SA 2.0</a> Born in Tokyo in 1928, Maki received his Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1952 from the University of Tokyo, studying under the great Japanese Modernist Kenzo Tange before spending a year at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. After completing a Master of Architecture degree at Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD), he apprenticed at the firms Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Sert Jackson & Associates. After teaching at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also received his first design commission for the Steinberg Hall (an art center) on that campus, he later joined the faculty at Harvard's GSD.  Spiral (Tokyo, 1985). Image © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spiral_house_Tokyo.jpg'>Wikimedia user Chris 73</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en'>CC BY-SA 3.0</a>  Makuhari Messe (Chiba, 1989). Image © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_Makuhari-Messe_from_Nakase_2-chome_crossing.jpg'>Wikimedia user 掬茶</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en'>CC BY-SA 3.0</a> In 1960, Maki joined Kisho Kurokawa and Kiyonori Kikutake as part of Japan's Metabolist movement, though his work in this capacity has been described as more "grounded" compared to the wild utopianism of Kurokawa and Kikutake that is usually connected with the movement. In 1965, he returned to Japan to establish his own firm, Maki and Associates in Tokyo, going on to design high profile projects including the Makuhari Messe (Tokyo), the Spiral (Tokyo), and the Galleries and Forum building at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco).  TV Asahi Headquarters (Tokyo, 2003). Image © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TV_Asahi_Headquarters_2010.jpg'>Wikimedia user Wiiii</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en'>CC BY-SA 3.0</a> In his essay accompanying Maki's 1993 Pritzker Prize, architecture historian Kenneth Frampton compares his work to that of Norman Foster, Gunter Benisch and Renzo Piano, adding:
 MIT Media Lab Extension (Cambridge, 2009). Image © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MIT_Media_Lab_new_building.jpg'>Wikimedia user Unmadindu</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en'>CC BY-SA 3.0</a> In the years since, Maki's work has largely retained this "light membraceous character" with projects such as the TV Asahi Headquarters in Tokyo, the extension to the MIT Media Lab, and of course the crystalline form of 4 World Trade Center in New York. Forthcoming projects also include China's first design museum in Shenzhen and his first project in the UK, a nine-story educational space for the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). See our previous coverage of Fumihiko Maki via the links below: AD Classics: Makuhari Messe / Fumihiko Maki Fumihiko Maki 2011 AIA Gold Medal Winner Fumihiko Maki Unveils New United Nations Tower New Photographs Unveiled as China's First Design Museum Nears Completion in Shenzhen Maki to Make UK Debut with New Building for Aga Khan Development Network  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| MOA Unveils Mobius-Inspired Amphitheatre in Tunisia Posted: 05 Sep 2017 11:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of MOA Antwerp-based office Making of Architecture (MOA) has unveiled their first project in Tunisia – an amphitheater-like event space that will be located in a future "art village" development. Named "ARENA," the site is located in Utique – an ancient, archaeologically-rich region near Tunis. Says MOA: "Placed in the heart of the future art village, the ARENA will be a place where local & renowned artists could meet and exchange with visitors; it's also a place where you could enjoy a concert and open-air events."
 Courtesy of MOA Embedded into the side of a hill, ARENA takes inspiration from a Mobius strip, which informs the buildings curving façade. The bleachers, in contrast are placed orthogonal to the level curves of the site hill.  Courtesy of MOA  Courtesy of MOA This 'Mobius' shape also informs the buildings program, reuniting both indoor and outdoor event spaces and providing audiences with the view towards the lake, which the site overlooks. Says MOA: "The building becomes a subtle yet distinctive structure that respects its surroundings. At the same time, it stands proud and visible in the landscape with a unique architectural identity, creating a new iconic landmark."  Courtesy of MOA  Courtesy of MOA The building's architectural organization follows the rugged landscape, creating two floor plans, with double height spaces facing the lake. Inside, flexible rooms provide space for meeting, workshops, exhibitions and market stands, aiming to be part of the everyday life in the village.  Courtesy of MOA  Courtesy of MOA Terraced landscaping offers informal recreational space for visitors, as well as guiding people on the outside of the building towards the main entry or the café.  Courtesy of MOA
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