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Villa Kali / BLANKPAGE Architects + Karim Nader Studio

Posted: 21 Oct 2017 07:00 PM PDT

© Marwan Harmouche © Marwan Harmouche
  • Mechanical And Electrical Engineering: Wissam Tawil and Associates
  • Structural Engineering: Elie Turk
  • Lighting Design And Custom Fabrication: Design in Beirut
  • Lighting Concept: Carole Akkar
  • Landscape Design: Some Existing Trees
  • Contractor: Rami Kassem / MAK Builders with Walid Sader
© Marwan Harmouche © Marwan Harmouche

From the architect. Villa Kali, delivered just in time for the summer of 2016, is a major 2,000 sqm, 11 bedrooms seaside mansion, designed as a full commission from the architectural scale to the interior and furniture design and selection. It is a four-year effort that involved collaborations with numerous designers and contractors that truly inspired the renewal of the possibility of architecture as a total work of art.

© Marwan Harmouche © Marwan Harmouche

Revisiting the traditional oriental home in a seaside setting - a house with several bedrooms that surround an open courtyard with a water fountain - this version of the concept is achieved through a splitting the volumes into two horizontal movements that open up towards the Mediterranean allowing for uninterrupted sea views to all spaces of the house. The external void revealed by this split of the volumes reveals a cascading spine with a terraced staircase and water pools that gently fall down from the entry level all the way to the seaside garden via the bridging reception area. The glazing system in the reception can slide away completely creating a cross-ventilated outdoor covered space that can be inhabited across seasons in the pleasantness of the shade.

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Ground Floor Plan Ground Floor Plan
© Marwan Harmouche © Marwan Harmouche
First Floor Plan First Floor Plan
© Marwan Harmouche © Marwan Harmouche

The architectural language of the house is inspired by the stratification of the nearby rock formation on the shore, at once graphic and dramatic. The language articulates a series of superposed horizontal planes, thin and extending. Every one of those planes becomes the support for a variety of programs: a lower public level at once internal and external, houses the reception areas, gym area, and outdoor pool terraces all the way to the shore. The two upper levels house a multitude of bedrooms with family living areas on both levels and a spectacular mid-space suspended terrace equally open to the back garden and the horizon on the seaside. The final layer of this horizontal composition extends the circulation all the way to the roofs in the form of suspended gardens and outdoor terraces.

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Temporary Workshop & Recreation Centre of Qianyi Farm / Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects

Posted: 21 Oct 2017 01:00 PM PDT

Courtesy of Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects Courtesy of Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects
  • Architects: Big Smallness Studio, Wuhan ADAP Architects
  • Location: Zhengjia Shan, Qingshi Town, Qichun County, Hubei, China
  • Design Team: TAN Gangyi Daniel, XIE Long, CHEN Bo
  • Main Contractor: Local villagers and studio graduate (CHEN Bo, XIE Long, Daniel)
  • Client: Qian Yi Agriculture (Hubei) Co., Ltd.
  • Area: 272.0 m2
  • Project Year: 2017
Courtesy of Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects Courtesy of Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects

Low Cost, Low Technology and Reversibility Construction

The project is located in Hubei Qichun mountain area, in the Qianyi abandoned primary school farm transformed into a hostel (Farm inn)on a high post (See UED 2016, Issue 4). There is a vegetable field between the north side of the inn and the hills. With the increasingly frequency of activities of the inn, the farm team began to imagine on this north area which is used to be a sweet potato plantation.

The foundation, structure and roof of the building. Image Courtesy of Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects The foundation, structure and roof of the building. Image Courtesy of Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects

This piece of land which has good view of the village and terraces, was formed in the period when people excavate the site of the original construction of primary school, and in between of hill and the inn. The program extends through the length of the former hotel, hosting entertainment activities for guests such as bamboo weaving, picnicking, singing, small gathering, long table banquet (or meetings), rest and sightseeing, and so on. With the construction of the farm, this "workshop" can be demolished and re-built in other places since it was decided to be a low cost non-permanent building because of the low funding of the farm.

Site Analysis Site Analysis

In response to the needs of the site, the building can be reworked and demountable, the construction must touch the earth and reversible, so the construction site used scaffolding "structure", columns and beams are steel pipe, malleable iron fasteners fixed and connected to each bar. Therefore, control of structures and spatial scales can be obtained.

Courtesy of Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects Courtesy of Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects

In order to facilitate disassembly and assembly, the basic structure space units with four columns are adopted, and arranged regularly by way of uniform modulus. The column is made of two galvanized steel tubes. The foundation is made of precast concrete square pile, and the embedded square pile can be dug at the later stage; the steel pile is connected with C steel. The column is made up of several steel tubes which are transversely connected with the beam in order to form a whole structure. At the same time, the diagonal bracing member is added to ensure the stability. "Purlin" and "rafter" galvanized steel pipe laying, nodes use steel fasteners, the roof is made of particle board (sheathing and bolts), shingle and sunshine plate laying.

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The plan of the building complies with the terrain, adopted 4.5mx4.5m oblique column, can deal with both ends and the middle entrance, but also reflects the hills and building clamping feeling. At the same time, the separation and organization of the interior space are more vivid.

The pond and the wall divide the workshop into several functional areas. Near the west entrance is the music bar area, the middle part is the landscape pond and the children activity and the reading place, on the east side is the tea room and the conference area, also has the viewing function.

Courtesy of Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects Courtesy of Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects

In fact, this derives a set of construction systems: the regular arrangement of the point-like pile foundation, unified modulus of the plane and structural sections, in order to minimize the steel pipe, malleable iron fasteners and other components of the type, can be freely assembled into any area, scale and use of buildings.

Steel pipe combination of scaffold Steel pipe combination of scaffold
Layout of the Pile Foundation Layout of the Pile Foundation

Based on the sun angles and ventilation considerations, the application of high and low staggered layer of the double pitch roof is lower than the inn to reduce the blockade of the room. Due to the rotation 45o of column grid, the roof has been divided into series of triangles, and respectively adopted sun hollow sheet and linoleum, it not only makes the the workshop full of light, but also looks like floating on the site which result from the stagger changing roof  supported by the thin and light tube columns.

Courtesy of Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects Courtesy of Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects

The main structure uses low technology that is easy to construct, as well as the wall separation adopted the most common concrete hollow block brick. The concrete block wall is rotated 90 degrees in the horizontal direction, the hollow part can form a vertical lattice wall for planting. The block of the wall of meeting room vertical flip 90 degrees, so that the wall forming orderly holes. It makes the sun shines into the chamber to form a mottled light effect, increases a lot more storage space as well.

This low cost, low technology and reversible construction experiment aims at returning to the basic problems of construction, meeting the needs of the use, integrating into the environment with low impact, and providing more possibilities for rural construction.

Courtesy of Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects Courtesy of Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects

After the local villagers, farm workers and graduate students team built, the farm began to organize some activities, decorate and secondary design. The hollow block brick is painted in white, the bonsai have been placed in the original activities space, water plants begin to grow in the pool. It gradually enriches the original design in the walk route and the scenery view, which make the inside and outside space ambiguous and some feeling of garden or courtyard. The old bamboo craftsman installed bamboo lamp-chimney, the carpentry villager polished some root carving. The Inn staff tangle the "column" with rope and move old piano from the foot of the mountain.

The original design conceptions of this scaffolding architecture include removable and other changes. In fact, the mobiles are more idealized, immobilization is real situation. It is changing in an instantaneous state rather than in a fixed form.

Mottled light effect. Image Courtesy of Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects Mottled light effect. Image Courtesy of Big Smallness Studio + Wuhan ADAP Architects

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Cardboard Pavilion "Get High Without Drugs" Wins FabFest Prize

Posted: 21 Oct 2017 09:00 AM PDT

Quirky, innovative and visceral, Get High without Drugs was awarded first place in the fabrication category at this year's International Fabrication Festival (FabFest) in London. 

Mollusk-like and mysterious from the outside, the form of the pavilion emerges from the combination of a zonohedron and a dome. Seventy-two hexagonal surfaces were formulated into fold-able nets that could then be digitally fabricated from flat-sheets and assembled into load-bearing modules. A puzzle-like routine drove the assembly of the modules into the pavilion's dome-like form.

© GET HIGH WITHOUT DRUGS © GET HIGH WITHOUT DRUGS
© GET HIGH WITHOUT DRUGS © GET HIGH WITHOUT DRUGS

Each module was constructed using corrugated cardboard and a reflective film lines the interior, turning the space into a kaleidoscope, and reflecting, warping and distorting what's going on around it. The visual illusions and disorientation generated by the interior space engaged visitors in a colorful and diverse experience, altering their perspective of the outside world. The ever-changing colors and surrounds meant each visitor had a unique and unrepeatable experience.

Modelo impreso en 3D. Image © GET HIGH WITHOUT DRUGS Modelo impreso en 3D. Image © GET HIGH WITHOUT DRUGS

Six fourth-year students, their mentors from the Department of Architecture and a volunteer, made up the team from the University of Nicosia. They had three months to develop and produce the design before installation in Ambika P3, Westminster's Central London exhibition venue.

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Elevation Elevation
Components Components

International Fabrication Festival is a week-long event featuring pavilions designed and built by over fifty teams from architecture industry and academia in the United Kingdom and globally.

This clever, fun component-based design was an experiential stand out at the festival and its innovative use of low-cost materials no doubt part of its success.

Project Name: 'GET HIGH WITHOUT DRUGS'
Type: Temporary Pavilion 
Location: Ambika P3, Westminster's Central London UK (https://goo.gl/maps/a25HurfsUZ22)
Date Finished: July 2017
Area: 4.5 m2
Weight: 60 kg
Bounding Box Dimensions: 3m x 3m x 2.7m
Cost/m²: 100€/m2  
'GET HIGH WITHOUT DRUGS' team:  Unic [ARC] Students: Nicos Agapiou, Anna Athanasiou, Valentinos Charalambides, Christina Christoforou, Konstantinos Karagiannis, Dionisis Voniatis and Katerina Tzanoudaki (Volunteer)
Unic [ARC] Mentors: Michail Georgiou and Odysseas Georgiou
Images Credits: 'GET HIGH WITHOUT DRUGS'
Project Sponsors: Signature Custom Designs, University of Nicosia

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Tel Aviv's New Skyline Brings Residential Density

Posted: 21 Oct 2017 07:00 AM PDT

Harugei Malchut by HQ Architects Harugei Malchut by HQ Architects

With the completion of the citywide light-rail expected in 2020, connecting Tel Aviv's city center to neighboring Ramat Gan, Ramat HaHayal, Bat Yam, Jaffa, and Givatayim brings a new wave of residential architecture to transform the skyline. The city of Tel Aviv boasts the highest land value in the Middle East, and with this new connectivity it is only projected to increase demand and value.

The city Tel Aviv is deemed a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its collection of over 4,000 Bauhaus and Eclectic Architecture-style builds. The original city plan was made in 1925 by Sir Patrick Geddes, and is about to witness a significant shift. To promote density, the "TAMA 38" policy gives developers the opportunity to add additional units and floors in exchange for updating the existing units and infrastructure. 

Florentin Tower by Ilan Pivko Florentin Tower by Ilan Pivko

Florentin Tower by Ilan Pivko Architecture

The residential project, Florentin Tower by Ilan Pivko Architecture is located in south Tel Aviv along the rugged and industrial Salame Street. The Tel Aviv municipality created an usual site, where the street intersect the parcel in an "X" instead of the typical rectangular block with circulation wrapping the perimeter. The project will be a catalyst for the neighborhood transformation from industrial to mixed-use with residential adding density.

Harugei Malchut by HQ Architects

Harugei Malchut is a 21-unit residential project designed by HQ Architects, led by architect Erez Ella, is projected to open in 2019. Harugei Malchut takes an unremarkable 8 unit building, and through the "Tama 38" policy, brings the building up to a standard of luxury and adds 13 units -- each with spacious balconies complemented by the open-air facades.

Bloch Residences by Gottesman-Szmelcman Bloch Residences by Gottesman-Szmelcman

Bloch Residences & Hamaapilim Tower by Gottesman-Szmelcman Architecture

In nearby Givatayim and Bat Yam, Gottesman-Szmelcman Architecture designed Bloch Residences and Hamaapilim Tower. With the rising housing prices in Tel Aviv proper, people are flocking south and east towards the adjacent cities and Gottesman-Szmelcman is introducing these units at a steady-rate to avoid the ills of gentrification. Each of these projects take existing and aging structures and converts them to luxury residential projects. The Bloch Residence, opening next year, containing 20-units and the Hamaapilim Tower boasts 60-units.

Gindi Love by Yasky Mor Sivan Gindi Love by Yasky Mor Sivan

Gindi Love by Yasky Mor Sivan Architects

The Gindi Love Tower sits along the country's main thoroughfare, the Ayalon Highway. Designed by Yasky Mor Sivan Architects, the project is comprised of eleven residential buildings, each 14-stories high, a full lifestyle and service experience, and is surrounded by 75,000 square-meters of landscaped grounds. The Gindi Love Towers are along the new light rail and Tel Aviv Hashalom train station, and will open in phases starting at the end of this year through to 2020, when the light rail opens.

W Jaffa by John Pawson W Jaffa by John Pawson

W Jaffa by John Pawson

The city of Jaffa is a 4,000-year old Mediterranean port city filled with Byzantine, Ottoman, and Moorish architecture. The city is now experiencing a significant amount of growth and developer attention. The W Jaffa, by John Pawson and architect Gilly Rom, is a converted 19th-century French hospital and has been transformed into a mixed use project consisting of private residences, a hotel, a bar in the converted Chapel, dining facilities, as well as leisure and wellness amenities.

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St. Miquel 19 Refurbishment / Carles Oliver

Posted: 21 Oct 2017 06:00 AM PDT

© José Hevia © José Hevia
© José Hevia © José Hevia

From the architect. Refurbishment project built with € 18,000 budget that aims to bring empty homes back into use for people in housing need, which is a huge problem right now at tourist areas like Mallorca island. 

© José Hevia © José Hevia

€ 12,000 have been used for energy efficieny improvement (roof insulation and biomass stove) and € 6,000 for indoor rehabilitation. 

© José Hevia © José Hevia

The project has been made with an urban sharecropping contract, paying rent for 3 years through the work, part of which has been done by self-construction. 

© José Hevia © José Hevia

In order to be able to refurbish a 100 square meters dwelling with this amount, we worked along these lines:

© José Hevia © José Hevia
Plan Plan
© José Hevia © José Hevia

1. NOT TO DO, as the best way to do.
2. DOMESTIC ARCHEOLOGY, to learn how economy of means has built our cities for centuries. 

3. BACK TO ARCH, as a way to open spaces without adding any kind of new material. To open a door is not the same than to build a door.

© José Hevia © José Hevia

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Lightweight and Compact Shelter Is The Last Base Before the Climb to the Highest Point in Europe

Posted: 21 Oct 2017 05:00 AM PDT

© Artem Oganov © Artem Oganov

At an altitude of 3,800 meters, Ice-Age architects have designed and produced a compact and lightweight shelter as the last base before climbers venture up Mount Elbrus, the highest point in Europe. Inspired by Buckminster Fuller's 2V geodesic dome, it can sleep up to 16 people as they acclimatize to the altitude and wait for the appropriate weather for the climb. 

© Artem Oganov © Artem Oganov
© Artem Oganov © Artem Oganov

The geodesic dome, defined by the shortest paths between two points on a sphere, was originally popularised by the American architect, inventor, and engineer Buckminster Fuller. His revolutionary work in the 1940s for solving the housing problem led him to develop the infamous dome structure by replicating "nature's own coordinate system" found in spheres such as molecules and planets. By breaking the linearity of traditional housing, Fuller discovered the efficiency of the sphere from a minimum surface to volume ratio, that consequently minimised heat loss through the fabric of the building.

© Artem Oganov © Artem Oganov

Shelter 3800 takes advantage of the dome's capabilities for the harsh environment it is located in. The dimensions of it are the maximum possible using standardly sized materials whilst the frame is compact and lightweight.

© Artem Oganov © Artem Oganov

In such an isolated location, the transportation of the pieces had to be heavily considered in the design process. Most of the boxes were flown in by helicopter with a strict weight restriction of 500kg per package; each individual part also had to be no more than 20kg in case of strong winds when setting up. As part of the unique packing system, the packages only needed to be opened after the previous design stage had been completed for ease of assembly.

Another issue caused by the moraine the shelter is built upon was the continuous movement of the glacier. Adjustable support legs attached to gabions allows the structure to compensate for the difference in terrain level.

Model / Inside Model / Inside
Model Model
Model / Inside Model / Inside

Architects: Ice-Age
Lead Architect: Artem Oganov
Location: Elbrus mountain, North face camp, 3800 meters above sea level, Russia
Year: 2017
Area: 23 m2 
Photography: Artem Oganov
Other participants: Ahmetshin Iliy, Ivan Ilyin, Mariya Ovsannikova, Dmitriy Tabachnik

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This Online Tool Generates High-Quality Geographic Maps of Data in Seconds

Posted: 21 Oct 2017 02:30 AM PDT

Have you ever had to create a map for your project, thinking you could get it done within 30 minutes, but then spent an entire afternoon on it? Between collecting data, creating a base map, choosing a color scheme, and finally putting together a graphic, creating a map can be a long, trying process, taking up precious time when you could be doing other work. Map-making shouldn't be this way.

Created by Darkhorse Analytics, mapinseconds.com is a free online productivity tool which generates clear, quality maps based off of your data. Here's how it works: collect and organize your data into two columns on either an Excel or Google spreadsheet, open mapinseconds.com, paste your data into the application's spreadsheet, and voila! Your custom map is finished! 

The geographic area covered by the map is automatically chosen for you and the colors adapt to either categorical or numerical data, all based on the data you provide. The legend also adapts to account for outliers, giving you the best, most readable map with no extra time investment. Examples shown on mapinseconds' demos show a graphic of the Kangaroo population across Australia and the number of Unicorns in New York City, but perhaps you need to show data on housing prices or access to green space—the possibilities are endless! 

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The result is a clean, easy-to-read map which can be downloaded as a PNG or Powerpoint Slide with the click of a button. Maps can be done within seconds, not hours.

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Aarhus Gymnasium / Cubo Arkitekter

Posted: 21 Oct 2017 02:00 AM PDT

© Martin Schubert © Martin Schubert
  • Contractor: Jakobsen & Blindkilde
  • Landscapearchitect: Møller & Grønborg
  • Engineer: Alectia
© Martin Schubert © Martin Schubert

From the architect. This building project is part of a larger whole where the old textile factory from 1931 with its distinctive and conservative facades forms the central and unifying part of the campus.

© Martin Schubert © Martin Schubert
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© Martin Schubert © Martin Schubert

The Textile Factory represents the better part of Danish industrial architecture and the architectural ideals of that period. While maintaining the existing industrial architecture, two new buildings with a modern architectural appearance and a choice of materials that reflects our present time has been added to the campus. The extension follows a clear guiding principle, where the old textile factory acts as a unifying embrace.

© Martin Schubert © Martin Schubert

The project tells the story of the use and continuous development from the 1930s Textile Factory to today - and further into the future. The new buildings contain teaching rooms, project areas and salons for the hairdressing school. Alongside the extension, parts of the existing buildings underwent a modernization.

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Cambridge To Oxford Connection: Ideas Competition Reveals Gallery of Finalists

Posted: 21 Oct 2017 01:00 AM PDT

© Shortlisted Teams and Malcom Reading Consultants © Shortlisted Teams and Malcom Reading Consultants

The National Infrastructure Commission and Malcolm Reading Consultants have revealed an online gallery of the four final design concepts for The Cambridge to Oxford Connection: Ideas Competition.

The competition, which launched in June, focuses on the 130-mile corridor connecting Cambridge, Milton Keyes, Northampton, and Oxford. It acknowledges the presence of world-leading universities, highly skilled workers and tech firms, but also the corridor's failure to function as a connected economic zone.

A total of 58 teams from the UK and abroad entered the competition, anonymously submitting proposals for how the corridor might be developed in the future.

A jury of leaders in the areas of economics, infrastructure, design, and placemaking announced the shortlist in August and the winner of the competition is expected to be announced next month.

The four finalists are:

Barton Willmore – The CaMKoX Innovation Hive Delivery Guide 

© Barton Willmore and Malcolm Reading Consultants © Barton Willmore and Malcolm Reading Consultants

Not a fixed masterplan but an approach that envisages organic growth within communities, delivering not just homes but vibrant places to support innovation and business creation. A carefully guided approach to encourage communities to acquire a rich urban form and varied sense of place. Situated within a new National Park, the proposals set a new benchmark for development that enhances the natural environment.

© Barton Willmore and Malcolm Reading Consultants © Barton Willmore and Malcolm Reading Consultants

Fletcher Priest Architects – The Mid-Vale Archipelago

© Fletcher Priest Architects and Malcolm Reading Consultants © Fletcher Priest Architects and Malcolm Reading Consultants

A constellation of linked, distinctive and compact places set within a continuous landscape. They propose 'middle sites' between the corridor's major urban centres that combine the best of village life with the critical mass of larger towns while preserving and enhancing landscape character. The desire for beneficial relationships between existing and new communities is central – along with a patient approach to delivery that prioritizes long-term capital benefits over short-term windfall returns.

© Fletcher Priest Architects and Malcolm Reading Consultants © Fletcher Priest Architects and Malcolm Reading Consultants

Mae – Urcadia  

© Mae and Malcolm Reading Consultants © Mae and Malcolm Reading Consultants

An ecologically rich urban settlement for the Just About Managing, the Yes-in-my-back-yards, the Millennials, and Generation Rent in the form of a 'New Living Campus'. Their proposal combines the intensity and density of a city with the pastoral richness of the English countryside enhanced for leisure use, health and well-being and food production. New construction technologies facilitate economic housing for a generation suffering from no realistic prospect of owning a home.

© Mae and Malcolm Reading Consultants © Mae and Malcolm Reading Consultants

Tibbalds Planning & Urban Design – VeloCity

© Tibbalds Planning & Urban Design, Mikhail Riches, Featherstone Young, Marko and Placemakers, Expedition Engineering & Khaa and Malcolm Reading Consultants © Tibbalds Planning & Urban Design, Mikhail Riches, Featherstone Young, Marko and Placemakers, Expedition Engineering & Khaa and Malcolm Reading Consultants

A unique region in the UK that is no longer reliant on the car, supported by an integrated road-and-rail transport strategy linked to a network of local, medium and long distance cycle routes. Focusing on six villages situated to the south-east of one of the new stations on the Oxford to Cambridge rail link, VeloCity reimagines the 21st-century village.

© Tibbalds Planning & Urban Design, Mikhail Riches, Featherstone Young, Marko and Placemakers, Expedition Engineering & Khaa and Malcolm Reading Consultants © Tibbalds Planning & Urban Design, Mikhail Riches, Featherstone Young, Marko and Placemakers, Expedition Engineering & Khaa and Malcolm Reading Consultants

The online gallery can be viewed here.

Comments on the finalists' work are welcome and can be submitted here.

The full details on the competition, teams, and jury can be found here.

News and Project Descriptions via Malcolm Reading Consultants.

3 Proposals Shortlisted for the Čiurlionis Concert Center in Kaunas

Proposals by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Adam Khan Architects, and UAB Paleko Archstudija with UAB Baltic Engineers have been revealed as finalists of the M.K. Čiurlionis Concert Centre in Kaunas, Lithuania. The building will form part of the regenerative project for the European Capital of Culture 2022, foregrounding the River Nemunas-the site-and revitalizing an area close to the city's Old Town.

Madrid Announces Design Competition to Remodel 11 of the City´s Public Squares

The municipality of Madrid´s Area of Sustainable Urban Development, in collaboration with the Official College of Architects of Madrid, has announced a design competition to remodel eleven public plazas in the outskirts of the Spanish capital city as an urban regeneration strategy for the city´s periphery.

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L House / g2t Arquitectos

Posted: 20 Oct 2017 10:00 PM PDT

© Javier Orive © Javier Orive
  • Architects: g2t Arquitectos
  • Location: Puente Genil, Spain
  • Architect Author: Francisco Gómez de Tejada
  • Area: 200.0 m2
  • Project Year: 2017
  • Photograph: Javier Orive
  • Construction Director: Fernando Álvarez Aguilar
© Javier Orive © Javier Orive

From the architect. It is the second residence of the "prisms" series, in which we composed with pure rectangular volumes to make up the volumetry of the building. Each prism holds different uses within the program, producing special double-legged sets in joining areas between both cores.

© Javier Orive © Javier Orive

The single-family dwelling is formed by two rectangular prisms rotated between them, one supported on the other. The lower prism, which forms the ground floor, contains the daily uses of the house. The upper prism, which rests on the first and on a large pillar that contains the services of the house, is what shelters the nocturnal uses, dormitories and bathrooms.

First Floor Plan First Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan Ground Floor Plan

There is a double ceiling height in the junction area between the prisms that contain the staircase.

© Javier Orive © Javier Orive

The entire house opens onto the pool and back garden of the grounds, leaving the main facade almost completely blind, for greater privacy and better climate behavior of the building.

© Javier Orive © Javier Orive

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ESSENTIEL Lifestore / Rémy MARCIANO architecte

Posted: 20 Oct 2017 10:00 PM PDT

© Takuji Shimmura © Takuji Shimmura
  • Architects: Rémy MARCIANO architecte
  • Location: Marseille, France
  • Design Team: Yannick Nobile, Pietro Bellucci, Sarra Bakail
  • Client: Essentiel, Claire Grolleau, Gilles Caminade
  • Area: 250.0 m2
  • Project Year: 2017
  • Photographs: Takuji Shimmura
© Takuji Shimmura © Takuji Shimmura

From the architect. The lifestore Essentiel is first a space experiment, where the vault under "la cathedrale de la major", has been preserved as it is, without masking the many lives, transformations, works, and especially the patina of time, which accumulated traces that we have enlightened with a warm light to sublimate the matter. Inside, the layout reflects the philosophy of the place; be in harmony with nature, give meaning to the pleasures of eating, of dressing, of being find!

© Takuji Shimmura © Takuji Shimmura
Plans Plans
© Takuji Shimmura © Takuji Shimmura

To create these ideal conditions, we have imagined a forest that separates the vault and creates a filter between the shop space and the restaurant. The waxed concrete floor refers to a natural material, a mineral that is also found for the treatment of the concrete bar raw and polished stainless steel. In ceiling, the lighting like a starry sky, is made up of bulbs seeming to grow from the ceiling evoking a field of light, a rain of stars, or a chic guinguette! Upstairs, cabins in the trees, muted offices welcome wellness appointments, a beach end also offers us to let go, feet in the sand to a reverie ressourcent.

© Takuji Shimmura © Takuji Shimmura

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