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• BIG's LEGO House Photographed by Laurian Ghinitoiu
• Vestre Fjord Park / ADEPT
• House Chapeau / Wirth Architekten
• Pigna / Architetto Beltrame Claudio
• HKS House / SDeG
• MAD Architects' Emotional Architecture is Shaping the Future of China's Growing Skyline
• Palm Springs Art Museum Opens Exhibit on Lina Bo Bardi and Albert Frey
• Education Center / Elizabeth Eason Architecture LLC + UT College of Architecture and Design
• 15 Houses and Their Inhabitants: The Best Photos of the Week
• The Department Store / Squire and Partners
• Welded Steel Wigwam by studio:indigenous Connects Past to Present at Exhibit Columbus
• 10 Iconic Brutalist Buildings in Latin America
• School Extension La Fontaine / LT2A

BIG's LEGO House Photographed by Laurian Ghinitoiu Posted: 08 Oct 2017 09:15 PM PDT © Laurian Ghinitoiu Bjarke Ingels Group's (BIG) LEGO House, which opened to the public earlier this month in Billund, Denmark, has already entered the canon of the iconic. By reframing the "toy scale of the classic LEGO brick" to the architectural scale, a vibrant collection of exhibition spaces and public squares "embody the culture and values at the heart of all LEGO experiences." In other words, it's playful, bright, and almost exclusively rectilinear! Photographer Laurian Ghinitoiu has turned his lens to the new LEGO House, providing insight into a building which delights and surprises in equal measure. © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu © Laurian Ghinitoiu LEGO House / BIG 34 Project Leader Project Manager Snorre Nash PROJECT ARCHITECT, FACADES: Snorre Nash COWI, Dr. Lüchinger+Meyer Bauingenieure, Jesper Kongshaug, Gade & Mortensen Akustik, E-types Andreas Klok Pedersen, Agne Tamasauskaite, Annette Birthe Jensen, Ariel Joy Norback Wallner, Ask Hvas, Birgitte Villadsen, Chris Falla, Christoffer Gotfredsen, Daruisz Duong Vu Hong, David Zahle, Esben This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Vestre Fjord Park / ADEPT Posted: 08 Oct 2017 08:00 PM PDT © Rasmus Hjortshøj Architects: ADEPT Location: Aalborg, Denmark Architect In Charge: ADEPT Area: 2000.0 m2 Project Year: 2017 Photographs: Rasmus Hjortshøj Team: ADEPT, GHB Landskab, Orbicon, Niras, COWI Client: Aalborg Municipality © Rasmus Hjortshøj From the architect. The Limfjord itself, the largest fjord landscape in Denmark, is the grand potential of Vestre Fjord Park. Here one finds 'real' nature - water, bird life, fish, fields, beach and meadows - that together with a wide variety of physical activities and outdoor facilities create the setting for new active experiences related to both nature and the city. © Rasmus Hjortshøj Site Plan The vision behind the project is to encourage direct contact to the fjord by establishing better accessibility from land to sea. At the same time, the project aims to strengthen the story of the landscape with a multi-functional building structure that frames the many potential activities on the water. The precise cut between the two water spaces is defined by the isthmus binding together landscape and built structure - exactly where the experiences of fjord, activities and park become one. © Rasmus Hjortshøj Exploded Axonometry The project was completed in collaboration with landscape architects GHB. Vestre Fjord Park is among the three nominees for the Danish Landscape Award 2017 and was recently awarded among the best new buildings in Aalborg.  © Rasmus Hjortshøj This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

House Chapeau / Wirth Architekten Posted: 08 Oct 2017 07:00 PM PDT © Christian Burmester Architects: Wirth Architekten Location: Bremen, Germany Area: 235.0 m2 Project Year: 2017 Photographs: Christian Burmester © Christian Burmester  A young family wanted to create an open living space in their traditional Bremen row house, but the existing rooms were too small to accommodate both kitchen and living room.  Solution?  Adding a new story. The original building acquired a new "hat". The extension gives a nod to the historic structure by nesting the roof angles to each other.   © Christian Burmester And as the house is located on a corner, the new windows were positioned to grant a direct view to the church just opposite.   Before Elevations © Christian Burmester Section The upper gallery also allows the family to observe the street below while providing the passers-by a new interpretation of the building – a dialogue if you will between the inside and the outside, and between the new and old. The smooth transition from the original to the addition has become a point of reference for the whole neighborhood.   © Christian Burmester This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Pigna / Architetto Beltrame Claudio Posted: 08 Oct 2017 05:00 PM PDT Courtesy of Claudio Beltrame and Luca Beltrame. Architects: Architetto Beltrame Claudio Location: Malborghetto Valbruna, Italy Architect In Charge: Claudio Beltrame Collaborators: Luca Beltrame, Gabriele Pascutti Area: 70.0 m2 Project Year: 2017 Photographs: Ulderica Da Pozzo, Massimo Crivellari, Laura Tessaro Courtesy of Claudio Beltrame and Luca Beltrame. Elevation/Section From the architect. Pigna, the treehouse In the oldest and widest forest of Italy, where the spruce trees are used to construct violins and other musical instruments thanks to the rare quality of the wood, a new addition to a mountain retreat has just opened. © Massimo Crivellari The project started from the desire to create a structure that is not only a refuge for man, but also a natural element of its environment, a mimesis of its surrounding. From the tree, for the tree. The concept phase was developed for an architectural competition in 2014, and only a couple of year later it became a concrete project in the Italian Alps nearby Tarvisio (at the border with Austria and Slovenia). 2nd Floor Plan © Laura Tessaro The treehouses are two. They are developed on three levels, raising ten meters above the ground. The first of which hoover four meter above the ground and serves as a panoramic covered terrace. The second involves the arrival of the stairs (which continue following the profile of the "pine cone", acting as a structural cage) that lead to the interior through two large windows with sliding doors. The living room face the small kitchen and the bathroom door. Next to it, the wooden stairs lead to the bedroom on the third floor. The double bed lies underneath a round skylight at the top of the structure. Courtesy of Claudio Beltrame and Luca Beltrame. The structure is completely made of out xlam wood insulated with wooden fiber, covered with larch wooden shingles, small in size to easily follow the curvature of the threehouses. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

HKS House / SDeG Posted: 08 Oct 2017 01:00 PM PDT © Shamanth Patil Architects: SDeG Location: Visakhapatnam, India Design Lead: Sujit Nair, Balaji T Project Team: Sujit, Balaji, Hari Krishna, Pratibha, Gayathri, Shoaib, Siddharth Area: 1364.0 m2 Project Year: 2017 Photographs: Shamanth Patil Structural Consultant: ISA Consultants Electrical Consultant: PK Consultants Budget: USD 600,000 © Shamanth Patil From the architect. HKS house is located uphill in a quiet residential neighborhood in Visakhapatnam. The owners wanted a home with clearly delineated private spaces for the family, and a separate block to host guests and events. The building is therefore conceived as two programmed volumes held together by a bridge-corridor, landscaped courts, and shaded terraces. © Shamanth Patil At the ground level, the owners can park, meet visitors at a home-office and organize shows at the gallery. Guests are either led up to an entry stairway to the verandah or towards the north lawns for a celebration. The northern volume also holds a formal living room, a covered deck for brunches and whirlpool bath-lounge, for the children and their guests. The eastern court and bridge together form the pivot of the home. It is both open and enclosed and offers varying degrees of interaction between the private and public areas of the building. The bridges (on the first and second floor) are capped with a large coffered floor that forms a façade recess, causing a low-pressure zone, forcing the north easterlies through the core of the house. © Shamanth Patil Ground Floor Plan © Shamanth Patil The second volume includes five large bedrooms along the southern edge, all reaching out to either capture views or winds from the Arabian Sea. On level one, the old and young meet in the family lounge and western deck. This block also includes a double-height formal dining room, kitchens, utility spaces and staff accommodation. HKS house has deep overhangs, thick edges, and wraps around greens, intended to keep a large internal volume as cool as possible. The exterior faces are rendered in smooth white and granular grey (cement plaster panels); mild textures to attenuate the effects of saline air and coal dust from the port nearby. © Shamanth Patil This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

MAD Architects' Emotional Architecture is Shaping the Future of China's Growing Skyline Posted: 08 Oct 2017 09:00 AM PDT Architecture has to be organic… we need to create a space for people to connect, to coexist - MAD Architects.  As the demographic of China's buildings changes, one architect is fighting the "artificial" straight lines and tower blocks that are plaguing the skyline. In the government's mass urbanization, skyscrapers are having to be built constantly for all the people that are flocking to the cities. Ma Yansong, the founder of MAD Architects explains "They often deal with efficiency, the function, the structure. There's no nature. People love to go closer to nature and other people, so we need to create environments that let people have these emotional connections." Many of MAD's buildings embrace the natural forms created by mountains, deserts and even the dynamics of the human body. We need to be reminded of these and by incorporating them into the structures and silhouettes, Yansong believes that by "trying to make a space with atmosphere, some emotion in the space so people can actually feel something." News Via: CNN Style. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Palm Springs Art Museum Opens Exhibit on Lina Bo Bardi and Albert Frey Posted: 08 Oct 2017 07:00 AM PDT © Lance Gerber Mid-century modern visionaries, Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi are exhibited together at the Palm Springs Art Museum for an unprecedented show of models, drawings, design objects, and photographs, opened this fall and will remain on exhibit through January 7, 2018.  The exhibit A Search for Living Architecture explores the shared belief of Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi, that architecture is a way to connect people, nature, building, and living. The mid-century show-stoppers are highlighted in the installation design by Bestor Architecture. “The parallel odysseys of Frey and Bo Bardi represent the emergence of Southern California and Sao Paulo as architectural laboratories of the mid-20th century,” said Elizabeth Armstrong, the museum’s executive director. “Although they never met, this exhibition shows how they each embraced the social and environmental contexts specific to their adoptive homes.”  © Lance Gerber The exhibition experience begins with the case studies of four homes, the glass-walled structures Albert Frey and Bo Bardi designed for themselves, Frey II House in Palm Springs, and Bo Bardi’s Casa de Vidro in Sao Paulo. Two of which, Bo Bardi’s Cirell House and Frey’s Aluminaire House are scheduled to be assembled across from the Palm Springs Art Museum in a future downtown park.  © Lance Gerber © Lance Gerber A Search for Living Architecture was co-curated by the Palm SPrings Art Museum Director of art, Daniell Cornell and esteemed Bo Bardi scholar, Zeuler R. Lima. “Both Frey and Bo Bardi were interested in re-imagining architecture via the transformation of the modern house,” states Cornell. “Presented here together for the first time, these structures convey departure points for understanding the evolving concept of Living Architecture… As Frey and Bo Bardi embraced modern technologies, they responded to the climate and terrain of their respective environments, and the people whose lives were shaped by those conditions.” © Lance Gerber © Lance Gerber Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi: A Search for Living Architecture is presented as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (PST: LA/LA), an extensive exploration of Latin American and Latino are in Los Angeles taking part in over 70 cultural institutions across Southern California, sponsored by the Getty Foundation. © Lance Gerber This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Education Center / Elizabeth Eason Architecture LLC + UT College of Architecture and Design Posted: 08 Oct 2017 06:00 AM PDT © Bruce Cole Photography Architects: Elizabeth Eason Architecture LLC, UT College of Architecture and Design Location: Knoxville, TN, United States Lead Architects: Elizabeth Eason, Jennifer Akerman Collaborators: City of Knoxville, Beardsley Community Farm, Mallia Engineering, Facility Systems Consultants, Merit Construction Area: 3070.0 ft2 Project Year: 2016 Photographs: Bruce Cole Photography © Bruce Cole Photography From the architect. Design-build teaching and learning is an innovative approach to educating architects and making architecture, with the potential to advance both the practice and the academy. Students and faculty from the University of Tennessee's College of Architecture and Design worked in partnership with Elizabeth Eason Architecture and other professionals and city officials to create an innovative public building for Beardsley Community Farm—a non-profit urban farm. By focusing on meaningful community engagement, students were able to deeply learn aspects of design, craft, and community with profound effect. Students Design Beardsley Community Farm promotes food security and sustainable agriculture through education and community outreach. They have operated out of a public park in an economically-challenged urban neighborhood for 18+ years, making do with very limited resources. The Education Center includes interior spaces for a multipurpose classroom, administrative offices, and restrooms. The design minimized the conditioned footprint to add sheltered exterior spaces serving as a welcome center, outdoor classroom, mudroom for vegetable processing, and a modest amphitheater addressing the park. © Bruce Cole Photography Floor Plan © Bruce Cole Photography The design approach is characterized by a series of overlays and contrasts, just as Beardsley Farm is itself a contrasting entity—a farm within the urban fabric. Ideas of the contemporary vernacular are situated at all scales: site, plan, and detail. The design thesis is to create architecture that facilitates the Farm's outreach mission by making a place for meaningful community engagement. Comprehensive issues of sustainability and craft were critical, as was the emphasis on design leadership and the ethical imperative of contributing to public space. The academically-driven design-build model allowed the project to be completed at a high level of design for minimal project funds on a construction schedule of only 10 months. © Bruce Cole Photography This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

15 Houses and Their Inhabitants: The Best Photos of the Week Posted: 08 Oct 2017 05:00 AM PDT Cortesía de Atelier Vens Vanbelle We are accustomed to seeing photographs in which architecture is recorded without any occupants, or perhaps captured only with models who give scale to the spaces shown. However, in recent years architectural photographers have increasingly decided to humanize the houses they document, presenting not only their architecture, but also those who inhabit these buildings. In this week's best photos, we present a selection of 15 houses captured by renowned photographers such as Luc Roymans, Adrien Williams and Fernando Schapochnik. Ikuya Sasaki Roof and Rectangular House / Jun Igarashi Architects © Ikuya Sasaki Ricardo Oliveira Alves Between Two White Walls / Corpo Atelier © Ricardo Oliveira Alves Toby Scott Naranga Avenue House / James Russell Architect © Toby Scott Myriam Héaulmé L'Architecture est dans le Pré / Claas architectes © Myriam Héaulmé Adrien Williams The \"Blanche\" Chalet / ACDF Architecture © Adrien Williams Fernando Schapochnik Canning House / Estudio Borrachia © Fernando Schapochnik Jo Smith Back Country House / LTD Architectural Design Studio © Jo Smith Fernando Guerra Red House / extrastudio © Fernando Guerra Atelier Vens Vanbelle Stephanie & Kevin / Atelier Vens Vanbelle Cortesía de Atelier Vens Vanbelle Hiroyuki Oki D House / KIENTRUC O © Hiroyuki Oki Isaac Ramírez Marín Garden House / CONNATURAL © Isaac Ramírez Marín Wang Ning, Jin Weiqi Twisting Courtyard / ARCHSTUDIO © Wang Ning, Jin Weiqi Tess Kelly Brickface House / Austin Maynard Architects © Tess Kelly Sasha Juliard Hideout / Jarmil Lhoták + Alena Fibichová © Sasha Juliard Luc Roymans Town House in Antwerp / Sculp[IT]  © Luc Roymans This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

The Department Store / Squire and Partners Posted: 08 Oct 2017 02:00 AM PDT © James Jones Architects: Squire and Partners Location: 248 Ferndale Rd, Brixton, London, United Kingdom Area: 6147.0 m2 Project Year: 2017 Photographs: James Jones Contractor: Stoneforce Cost Consultant: Colliers M&E Engineer: DSA Engineering Planning Consultant: Jon Dingle Ltd Structural Engineer: Davies Maguire Client: Squire and Partners © James Jones From the architect. London based architects Squire and Partners purchased a dilapidated Edwardian department store in Brixton and entirely reimagined the space allowing the existing fabric and layers of history to inform the new design. Collaborating with craftspeople and furniture makers, the restored building provides an exciting array of spaces for the various design disciplines within the practice. © James Jones Stripping the building back to its raw state revealed a decayed grandeur and an extraordinary commitment to craft and detail by the original artisans of the day. The practice sought to reveal and highlight these elements – in their found state – as well as exposing remnants left by more recent inhabitants, whilst adding a series of sensitive contemporary interventions in order to repurpose the building as an inspiring modern workspace. © James Jones On the exterior, designs focussed on reversing years of neglect to reactivate the street level through animation and display. Incrementally added shopfronts and layers of paint were removed to reveal original brickwork, stone, marble, and terracotta. A new rooftop level was added comprising a series of oak framed pavilions with copper shingle roofs, and a crafted glass dome to replace a dilapidated existing cupola. © James Jones At ground level, a striking reception area and active model shop animate the street, while a triple height void and central landscaped courtyard provide breathing space. Generous social and event spaces are at lower ground and the fourth floor, with workspaces on first to third floors supported by a series of meeting and breakout areas. © James Jones Ground Floor Plan © James Jones The existing fabric of the interior was assessed in the early stages of the project, ensuring that elements such as original 111-year-old mahogany and teak parquet flooring, a grand tiled central staircase, a series of cast iron radiators and a remarkable patina of colors which document the building's history could be preserved. A series of voids were cut through the building to create dramatic volumes and provide vistas between levels. © James Jones The office floors offered the opportunity to reveal the many facets of design undertaken by the practice and expose the process of craft and making. Project areas are designed to act as evolving 'concessions' - showcases to the process of design and development. Models, prototypes, and explorations document and celebrate the journey of a project from concept to realization. Multiple areas for presentation can be found throughout the office with display cases, shelving, libraries for materials and books, models and explorative studies. © James Jones Roof Plan © James Jones This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Welded Steel Wigwam by studio:indigenous Connects Past to Present at Exhibit Columbus Posted: 08 Oct 2017 01:30 AM PDT In this video, Spirit of Space visits Exhibit Columbus to see Wiikiaami, a parametrically designed structure by studio:indigenous. Beginning in 2016, Exhibit Columbus is an annual event which invites people to travel to the small, but architecturally fascinating Midwestern town of Columbus, Indiana. Free and open to the public through November 26th, Exhibit Columbus displays 18 unique, site-responsive architectural installations. via Screenshot from video For this year's event, a jury of international and local leaders chose Wiikiaami as one of five total Miller Prize winners winners to be featured at Exhibit Columbus, with the studio:indigenous structure selected to be shown on the site of the First Christian Church designed in the 1940s by Eliel Saarinen and his son Eero. via Screenshot from video Wiikiammi connects past to present. The design was derived from traditional wigwam construction, using bent rods and overlapping patches of outer cladding, but was fabricated with modern materials such as welded rebar and waterjet cut metal panels. The film, narrated by studio:indigenous founder and architect Chris Cornelius, explores the design and construction process of Wiikiaami. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

10 Iconic Brutalist Buildings in Latin America Posted: 08 Oct 2017 01:00 AM PDT via Flickr User: Renovación República CC BY 2.0 This article was originally published by KatariMag, a blog that explores the history of contemporary culture in its most sophisticated and fresh expression. Follow their Instagram and read more of their articles here.  Brutalist architecture responds to a specific moment in history. As WWII was coming to an end, a new form of State was rising from the ashes, along with a global order that would include and increase the relevance of peripheral nations. Brutalist architecture was born as a response to the ideas of the robust nations that would lead the masses. Critic Michael Lewis said, "brutalism is the vernacular expression of the welfare state." This kind of architecture was committed to ethical principles and functioned as a new form of the Modernist Movement influenced by socialist ideals. Material honesty is a defining characteristic of the style, particularly exposed concrete, in fact, the term 'brutalism' comes from the French expression "beton brut", used widely by Le Corbusier. After the war, this great architect decided to immerse himself in social architecture, resulting in his iconic Unité d' Habitation, built in Marseille in 1947. The building is a true work of art, employing a Mondrian-esque combination of colors and an idea of modern life that includes gardens, shops, and a rooftop pool. This building, which marked the beginning of brutalism, comes across as delicate in comparison to its brutalist descendants.   During this moment in history, concrete was presented as a low-cost, unpretentious, utilitarian, democratic, and modern material with a great number of technical possibilities. Modern technology of the time allowed for it to be molded into a myriad of forms that responded to all kinds of structural fantasies. With this, architects in the mid-XX century conceived giant structures of raw concrete punctured by a poetic, sculptural, brutal and primitive rhythm. Cortesía de Casiopea Though it was the English critic Reyner Bahnam who coined the term and attempted to begin the trend in England, it has been proven that it was not until after its beginning at the hands of Le Corbusier that brutalism became a truly global phenomenon. Examples of this architectural style can be found from India and Georgia to Japan and the United States, and of course in Latin America, where it experienced its peak during the 60s and 70s and was still present though more scarcely in the 80s. It is interesting to note how brutalism aesthetically connects Latin America to the "Third World," as it is not a mere copy of a European style but rather an addition to a global movement. It is an example of peripheral nations taking on a leading role and attempting to take part in "development" and modernity. The following buildings are 10 examples of iconic brutalist works in Latin America. Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno /Testa, Bullrich y Cazzaniga Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1961-90 via Flickr User: Gustavo Gomes CC BY 2.0 This building harbors Argentina's National Library. The design competition was won by vanguardist Cloringo Testa in 1961, but was left unfinished until 1991 and, to this day, has yet to be completed exactly as the initial design proposed. The building is located in an ample site between Libertador Avenue and Las Heras Avenue, where Perón's Presidential Residence was located before its demolition by the military that overturned him. Architecturally, the most interesting aspect of the sculptural and poetic building is that its reading hall was placed on the top floor, providing visitors with views of the city and river, and the archives are located on the first floor.   via Wikipedia User: Barcex bajo licencia CC BY-SA 2. Banco de Londres y Sudamérica / Clorindo Testa Buenos Aires, 1966 © E. Colombo Renowned architect Clorindo Testa also won the competition held by the now-extinct Bank of London and South America, for its venue in the financial district of Buenos Aires, between Recoleta and Bartolomé Mitra street. The structure of what is now the venue for the Banco Hipotecario S.A. has become a brutalist landmark, due to the innovative idea of mimicking the wide streets that surround it, uniting interior and exterior, as well as its exploration of concrete's artistic possibilities. via Flickr User: lusignan CC BY SA 2.0 Edificio de la Cepal / Emilio Duhart Santiago de Chile, 1966 via Flickr User: santiagonostalgico CC BY SA 2.0 This building was designed by Emilio Duhart to function as the venue for the Economic Commission of Latin America. The architect and his team were directly inspired by the ideas of Le Corbusier, creating a horizontal structure held up by concrete columns. The central tower's façade is decorated with Pre-Columbian figures. The building is located near the Mapocho river, where some construction materials were extracted from, and at the time is was located on the outskirts of the city, though today it is immersed in a residential area.  © Felipe Camus Banco de Guatemala / Jorge Montes Córdova y Raúl Minondo Ciudad de Guatemala, 1966 via Flickr User: adels CC BY 2.0 This building was designed by architects José Montes Córdova and Raúl Minondo. It was commissioned by the Bank of Guatemala and built in the civic center of Guatemala City, a National Cultural Heritage area. Its most beautiful aspects are without a doubt the East and West façades that are decorated with Mayan figures, created by Guatemalan artists Dagoberto Vásquez Castañeda and Roberto González Goyri. via Flickr User: alexanderTIEDEMANN CC BY ND 2.0 Tribunal de Contas / Aflalo y Gasperini Sao Paulo, 1971 Cortesía de Aflalo y Gasperini Arquitectos The Tribunal de Contas, located in the southern area of Sao Paulo, is an enormous building designed by the firm Aflalo y Gasperini and built between 1971 and 1976. The structure is held up by four large concrete columns, allowing free transit to the nearby Ibirapuera Park, The artistic liberty of the building contrasts with the lack of civic liberties that Brazil was going through at that moment due to the dictatorship. Cortesía de Aflalo y Gasperini Arquitectos Centro de Exposiciones / Joao Filgueiras Lima Salvador de Bahía, 1974 Cortesía de Giancarlo Latorraca, 2000 This magnificent structure looks similar to a UFO and was built by Filgueiras Lima, a strong Brazilian proponent of the Modernist Movement, in the Administrative District of Salvador de Bahía. The building offers exhibition halls and amphitheaters.   Cortesía de Giancarlo Latorraca, 2000 Palmas 555 / Juan Sordo Madaleno y cía Mexico City, 1975. Cortesía de Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, fotografía por Guillermo Zamora Palmas 555 is located in Mexico City's Lomas de Chapultepec neighborhood and was one the Juan Sordo Madaleno's last buildings. The structure's ground floor is for commercial use and the following nine floors are offices. The irregularity between levels makes it unique. It is a beautiful large-scale sculpture. Cortesía de Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, fotografía por Guillermo Zamora Edificio Jenaro Valverde Marín / Alberto Linner Díaz San José, 1976 via Tumblr User: myycp The Jenaro Valverde building was built as an annex to the Social Security's Caja Costarricense building. Designed by Alberto Linner it is17 stories, and one of the tallest buildings in Costa Rica. The structure, as many of this style, attempted to "build the city" by including a public square, a fountain, gardens and commercial spaces, in a city that at this time lacked public space. To Linner's dismay, today the space is blocked off, the fountain is not functioning and his idea of public space is dead.   via Tumblr User: your-a-tourist SESC Pompeia / Lina Bo Bardi Sao Paulo, 1982 via Flickr User: Pedro Kok CC BY SA 2.0 This building holds the Social Commerce Service's Cultural Center, which was designed on the site of an ancient oil barrel factory. Bo Bardi designed two concrete buildings united by bridges that stem from the brick factory building. It is a space that mixes sport, recreation, and culture, a landmark in the city constantly used by the residents of Pompeia.  via Flickr User: Maxine Brown Stephano CC BY SA 2.0 Embajada de Rusia en Cuba / Aleksandr Rochegov Havana, 1985 via Wikipedia User: Nick de Marco CC BY 3.0 This incredible brutalist building shows the connection between this style and the concept of a strong or even totalitarian State within a communist system (actually, one can find multiple examples of this architecture in many of the USSR's territories). This huge tower stands out in Havana's landscape and has become a symbol of the Soviet influence in Cuba. Construction began in 1978 and the building was completed in 1987, two years before the end of the USSR. Today it is the Russian embassy. It is situated in the coastal district of Miramar, where most embassies are located. via Wikipedia User: Manuel Castro CC BY-SA 2.0 This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

School Extension La Fontaine / LT2A Posted: 07 Oct 2017 10:00 PM PDT © Gilles Ribero Architects: LT2A Location: Loos, France Architect In Charge: Paul Emmanuel Lambert – Foucault Tiberghien Area: 300.0 m2 Project Year: 2017 Photographs: Gilles Ribero Mba : Ville de Loos © Gilles Ribero From the architect. Inserted in a sensitive area occupied by long 1970s social housing blocks, the existing school distinguishes itself for its peripheral green fence, as if it is turning its back to the site. Our proposal is to start from the qualities of the existing, anchoring the new to its context in a clearer way. © Gilles Ribero Elevation/Section © Gilles Ribero The existing building is based on a very simple plan: the classrooms are positioned on two sides of a well exposed nave which serves as a common space for the users. At one end of the building two new rooms are added as an extrusion of the existing system. In the continuity of the nave, a new entrance is created together with a new façade, which is meant to become the new image of the school itself. © Gilles Ribero The wall extends to the edge of the plot in order to restrict views from the outside towards the classrooms. © Gilles Ribero Therefore, the façade creates a filter between the public space and the activities happening inside the school, allowing pedestrians to get a glimpse of the inner garden through the trellis panels or the small openings, but still protecting the children's activities inside. © Gilles Ribero This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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