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- Eurojust HQ / Mecanoo
- Casa Beretzen / Christoffersen & Weiling Architects
- Brolettouno Apartment / Archiplanstudio
- Offices and Shops in Lille / Atelier TARABUSI
- SALA Zen / Volume Matrix studio
- PVC Pipes and Umbrellas Come Together in Vibrant Dandelion-esque Dome in Singapore
- Oral-Criminal Court in Pátzcuaro / Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo
- This Mesmerizing Drone Footage Showcases the Success of the New Chicago Riverwalk
- Birdhut / Studio North
- 10 Images of Architecture Reflected in Water: The Best Photos of the Week
- Spotlight: Ma Yansong
| Posted: 26 Nov 2017 09:00 PM PST  Courtesy of Mecanoo
 Courtesy of Mecanoo Text description provided by the architects. Semi-submerged in an undulating dune landscape lies the new Eurojust headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands. The team of Mecanoo architecten, RoyalHaskoningDHV and landscape architects DS designed a welcoming and secure building with offices, a conference centre.  Courtesy of Mecanoo International Zone Eurojust is the EU-judicial cooperation unit dealing with cross-border crime. The new headquarters for Eurojust in the International Zone of The Hague were developed together with the Central Government Real Estate Agency, the Ministry of Justice and Security and the municipality. The twelve-storey building has more than four hundred workplaces and accommodates the national representatives of the EU Member States and three non-EU countries, supported by an administrative department. The site on the Johan de Wittlaan creates an extension of the International Zone, placing Eurojust in close proximity to organisations such as OPCW, the World Forum Convention Center and Europol. The site is adjacent to Zorgvliet Park and a residential area. The complexity of the location and the stringent security measures required a carefully integrated design solution.  Courtesy of Mecanoo Dune landscape As a result, Eurojust is linked to the International Zone by an undulating dune landscape with grassy vegetation and wild flowers. By ingeniously incorporating the security requirements within the landscape design, the building has been given an open character. The positioning of the two-floor convention centre underground helps to keep the building at a modest scale in relation to its context. The landscape pulls away from the building along the conference lobby area to reveal a lush water wall and bring daylight into the building's lowest levels.  Site Plan Classic beauty The building is an elegant composition of two volumes: the high-rise tower facing the Johan de Wittlaan and the low-rise plinth on the park side. The rhythm of pure white composite facade elements gives the building a timeless, classic beauty. The windows are subtly tilted either horizontally or vertically, thereby reflecting both the sky and the surrounding landscape.  Courtesy of Mecanoo Interior Inside, visitors are welcomed into a spacious, double height lobby. From the lobby, there is a gradual transition from open spaces to more private areas. A wide staircase, overlooking the dune landscape, descends to the conference centre. The higher levels feature a contemporary office environment that encourages cooperation. Due to the efficient positioning of different security zones, the security features have a minimal impact on the architecture. The carefully detailed interior is characterised by an abundance of daylight, the use of a rich variety of natural materials, delicate motifs and soft colours. Graphic patterns on the glazed meeting room partitions allow daylight to pass through and create visual connections, while safeguarding privacy.  Courtesy of Mecanoo  Courtesy of Mecanoo  Courtesy of Mecanoo  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Casa Beretzen / Christoffersen & Weiling Architects Posted: 26 Nov 2017 07:00 PM PST  © Tina Stephansen
 © Tina Stephansen Text description provided by the architects. Casa Berentzen is a villa for a family of four; a father, mother and two daughters. The house is located in Jutland, more specifically South of Aarhus, Denmark's second largest city. The site is situated on the edge of the city but faces an open landscape. In addition to the house, the dwelling consists of a garage and a closed courtyard. The two-story dwelling is designed with an understanding of the sites inherent views, sun orientation, and clients desire for privacy, and the house's program is carefully considered around the family's daily life. The upper level contains the kitchen, dining room, living room, and adjacent courtyard.  © Tina Stephansen  Upper Floor Plan  © Tina Stephansen The living room is located to the north and enjoys views across the landscape, the dining area is located towards the south and is closely connected to the entrance. These three large living spaces are all located on the western side of the house and are connected, whilst at the same time allowing them to be closed off individually as required. The more private spaces such as the master bedroom, walk-in and en-suite for the parents are located along the Eastern side of the building. This section also includes the entrance hall, which is used both by the family and for formal occasions. The daily entrance, via the garage, is connected to both the entrance hall and the kitchen.  © Tina Stephansen The two daughters have their own area on the lower floor, which consists of their private rooms, a common dance studio, a workroom, bathroom and walk-in wardrobe. The interior of the house is designed based on a desire for clear lines of sight, emphasizing the pure architecture by capturing daylight and views. The materials are predominantly travertine, light oak and white walls and ceilings. The exterior of the house is predominantly comprised of a long slim format brick, which contrasts the soft interior. The robust and distinctive brick exterior of the house contrasts against the rolling Danish landscape. The brickwork is divided into three distinctive brick bands which encompass both, the garage building and accompanying patio, and define the windows as glass voids within the rustic brickwork.  © Tina Stephansen  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Brolettouno Apartment / Archiplanstudio Posted: 26 Nov 2017 06:00 PM PST  © Davide Galli
 © Davide Galli Text description provided by the architects. The project involves the restoration of a small apartment for tourist use in the historical centre of Mantova.  Plan The apartment BROLETTOUNO belongs to a long design research path, which emerges in various interventions on built heritage. Basically we try to keep together two worlds, the one of the old and the one of the new, in a balance able to guarantee the identity of both of them. Light and shadow are kept together in their ambiguity and plurality, without sacrificing the reasons of one at the expense of the other.  © Davide Galli In particular the project emphasizes the differences and the heterogeneities of single spaces, in which ambiguity and contradiction prevales on the stylistic unitarity. In this way the precision of the design element is able to emerges, besides the imperfection of the material element to which the action of time gave a singular energy.  © Davide Galli The furniture elements, all designed, define themselves as object cantankerous on one side and refined on the other, a sort of bestiary, and institute hybrid relationships with single spaces in which they are placed. The signs left by time, human work and aesthetic intention of different ages remain, while new signs overlap each other in a complexity which does not cancel the other knowledges.  © Davide Galli Beauty can be found everywhere and does not belong to the intrinsic value of the material. It emerges in fragments overall, in evocative forms and their relationships. I believe that relationships represent the most important theme of our design path.  © Davide Galli Our favorite relationships try to keep together the opposites, as force and fragility, perfect and imperfect, the gloss of a newly crafted product and the unpredictability of materials fell in abandonment. Every project represent a route and a synthesis attempt for open and evolving questions.  © Davide Galli  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Offices and Shops in Lille / Atelier TARABUSI Posted: 26 Nov 2017 04:00 PM PST  © Sergio Grazia
 © Sergio Grazia Text description provided by the architects. The Doge, a 5,100 square meter office building, intended to welcome young startups, is situated in the joint development zone of Rives de la Haute Deûle in Lille, in the heart of EuraTechnologies. The architectural competition in 2011 imposed a strict limitation, requiring the use of terracotta, historic materials from the immediate surroundings and the region. The structure designed by Atelier Tarabusi, and handed over in 2017, proposes an unexpected, inventive and pertinent architectural approach. Just across from the old Le Blan-Lafont factory, the environment is characterized by the presence of large industrial buildings, which are either rehabilitated or undergoing transformation; and by the small scale strips of workers housing.  © Sergio Grazia More recently, urban planning linked to the Haute Deûle joint development zone has introduced a rich array of intermediate-size structures to the area. With a few exceptions, only one material, terracotta, available in various forms, unifies and connects the different volumes, programs and periods, within this urban diversity. Eager to offer something other than a brick-clad concrete building, Paolo Tarabusi's unique design choice was to make use of a line of building elements from "monolithic" terracotta, sorts of one story high, giant hollow bricks, typically used for farm buildings and individual houses.  © Sergio Grazia In collaboration with the manufacturer, and through some minimal adjustments in the production chain, a 33 x 20 x 280-centimeters bricks were designed and produced for this project. 1,500 self- supporting, bricks, evenly separated by as many glass panes, give the facade its rhythm, its porous appearance, and its both massive and perforated look. An ingenious assembly system allowed to quickly install the dry bricks, with neither mortar nor supporting framework, all in keeping within the project's economic boundaries. Corresponding to the floor-to-floor height of the office area, the facade design is completed by a strip of white prefabricated concrete, at each floor slab edge, evoking the stone integrated into the brickwork in the local traditional architecture.  © Sergio Grazia  Section Details Due to their spacing, the bricks produce shadows upon the facade, which keep the buildings from overheating in the summer. The thermic inertia of the concrete floors and the wooden paneling of the inner walls also contribute to user comfort throughout the year, of these "industrial-looking" offices, which are without air conditioning, suspended ceilings, or raised floors. Construction began in January 2016. The first building was handed over in January 2017, the second in June 2017. By transforming the use of a building material, in a place where everything seems to have already been said and done, Paolo Tarabusi establishes a link between the building and the history of the site, while still affirming the building's contemporaneity.  © Sergio Grazia  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| SALA Zen / Volume Matrix studio Posted: 26 Nov 2017 12:00 PM PST  © Spaceshift Studio
 © Spaceshift Studio Text description provided by the architects. This project is designing to blend in with the existing tree. Acting as a mirror to reflect the landscape around it. Using the basic elements of form, opening window, wall. First floor is a common area. It designs to elevate the function room up and allow the space open thru the river.  © Spaceshift Studio  Elevation  © Spaceshift Studio Second floor, create the walking bridge to link the building with the rest of compound residence. The walking bridge connect to the second-floor terrace and its made of grid frame steel to create the lightness and blending with the tree. The interior is simple and allow to see the river view and garden around. Stair case that leading to the third floor is surrounded with natural light and the view of existing tree. On the third floor is a sensation space ( Tatami room ) and experiencing change space. The interior ought to be opened to the outside Sala which was essentially connected element. Through the sliding door, rooftop landscape bursts into the Tatami room.  © Spaceshift Studio This project meant to create an experiencing change. Bu using the simple material, basic elements and contiguity of inside and outside. Moreover, the building trend to link the landscape around with the rural life style.  © Spaceshift Studio  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| PVC Pipes and Umbrellas Come Together in Vibrant Dandelion-esque Dome in Singapore Posted: 26 Nov 2017 06:00 AM PST  © Oddinary Studios Dande-lier – a pavilion designed for the Marina Bay waterfront promenade in Singapore uses PVC pipes and translucent umbrellas to form a reciprocal dome – reimagining everyday items as architectural components. The result is an ethereal shelter, referential of the commonly seen umbrella in Singapore and resembling a dandelion from afar. At night the project becomes a chandelier, lit up in an array of colors. Designed by Dr. Chong Keng Hua and Kang Fong Ing of COLOURS: Collectively Ours, in collaboration with Web Structures on reciprocal structure, and Prof. Yuen on smart lighting system, Dande-lier was designed and fabricated for iLight Marina Bay 2017. iLight is an annual light festival that invites contributors and installations by artists from all over the world. The structure consists of seven layers of triangular PVC pipe modules, which are tilted and rested on each other to build up the form of the dome. The pipes, commonly used in local construction are held together by galvanized iron pipe clamps and screwed together by a customized thread. The system makes Dande-lier both adaptable and easily deployable.  © Oddinary Studios The layering of the modules results in a self-supporting envelope and resembles a nest-like façade. The layer of tied translucent umbrellas generates a diffused and surreal lighting experience within and offers an alternative perspective of the skyline and surrounding environment. During the day the dome provides shelter from the heat, with shaded seating areas around the edges and a hole in the center to allow air to circulate through. Straw mats line the edges, allowing users to experience the pavilion in different ways, either moving through it, sitting or lying back.  © Oddinary Studios  © Oddinary Studios At night the pavilion comes to life. While during the daytime the pavilion acts as a place of respite, in the dark it becomes a destination, a constantly changing lighting scheme making it a vibrant addition to the waterfront promenade. Motion sensing technology within the dome triggers the lighting effects based on the quantity of people and their locations. Colored lights and projected animations transform Dande-lier into a theatre and a performative structure and no doubt a favorite at the iLight festival.  Construction Sequence  Plan From the design team:
Architects: Colours: Collectively Ours  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Oral-Criminal Court in Pátzcuaro / Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo Posted: 26 Nov 2017 05:00 AM PST _971.jpg?1502735668 "© Rafael Gamo") © Rafael Gamo
_552.jpg?1502733985 "© Rafael Gamo") © Rafael Gamo Text description provided by the architects. In 2010, the need arose in the State of Michoacán, Mexico, to begin planning the creation of a new infrastructure for its court spaces. The traditional judgments system would begin to migrate to a system of orality that implied not only a completely renewed scheme in the implementation of justice in the country, but also the need to create new spaces that allow the correct operation of this new system. _808.jpg?1502735363 "© Rafael Gamo") © Rafael Gamo These first transitional spaces have a dual function: on the one hand, to understand the current needs, already without hierarchies and spaces of confinement, and on the other hand, the creation of flexible spaces that, with few adaptations, could adapt to the new necessities. _908.jpg?1502735567 "© Rafael Gamo") © Rafael Gamo For the design of the new courts, the first step was to understand that these operate as a system. Group the panorama of needs from the different uses: services, care, common areas, private and public spaces. _853.jpg?1502735401 "© Rafael Gamo") © Rafael Gamo These spaces would have to comply with several numbers of elements in parallel: functionality, new operation, pedestrian flows and the light, thermal and acoustic quality for the new rooms, but also transparency, equality, democracy, justice and dignity; and finally, a sense of belonging to the place, to a culture and society of which they are part. _557.jpg?1502734017 "© Rafael Gamo") © Rafael Gamo While prison architecture still needs to be revised, the new representation must be an apparent system, open to democracy and citizenship, with light and shadow, wind and silence paths. The project proposal was to create spaces open to the interior of the building, through which a curvilinear wall containing a circulation acts as a high wall, which allows a several numbers of gardens to be generated within it. The high wall, built of natural volcanic stone of the place, oscillates between 5 and 8 meters of height. _446.jpg?1502732564 "© Rafael Gamo") © Rafael Gamo _728.jpg?1502734504 "© Rafael Gamo") © Rafael Gamo The project develops in only a ground level, on a plot with unevenness which is divided into four platforms containing five pavilions. The building has 2 courtrooms, as well as the administrative offices and services required. It has two types of building: office pavilions and services with inclined slabs; columns and beams, and concrete slabs. Court rooms with metal structure formed by columns, with open armor and light foam cover. _669.jpg?1502734322 "© Rafael Gamo") © Rafael Gamo  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| This Mesmerizing Drone Footage Showcases the Success of the New Chicago Riverwalk Posted: 26 Nov 2017 01:30 AM PST One year on from the Chicago Riverwalk's completion, lead designers Sasaki Associates have released mesmerizing footage of the Riverwalk from a new perspective. Using a drone to give an overview of the project, the video captures the successful integration of the Riverwalk into the urban landscape as it changes shape and form, defining a unique experience for the public.  © Kate Joyce Studios
 © Kate Joyce Studios  © Kate Joyce Studios Ever since the river was first engineered in 1900 to reverse the river's direction and increase the river flow for the city's industrial transformation, it has been a pollution concern and often overlooked. The new Riverwalk has been a catalyst in revitalizing this part of the city, connecting the waterfront to the public as revealed in the video. The drone footage illustrates the tranquility that has been achieved, compared to the hectic city, by dropping the walkway to the water's edge and incorporating zones designed to enrich the journey along the river.  © Kate Joyce Studios Chicago Riverwalk / Chicago Department of Transportation  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 26 Nov 2017 01:00 AM PST  © Mark Erickson
 © Mark Erickson Text description provided by the architects. The birdhut is a treetop perch that sits on wooden stilts along a forested hillside. Immersed in the tree canopy, the hut accommodates two people, twelve varieties of birds, and whatever inquisitive critters come by to visit. In addition to being an inviting place for people to nest, the whimsical façade has twelve birdhouses, each designed for various local birds that live in the mountains of the Columbia Valley, British Columbia.  Elevation The materials, form, and orientation of the birdhut were designed to offer nesting opportunities for as wide a variety of local birds as possible. The pileated woodpecker for instance, is a larger bird that seeks out a nesting space 15 to 25 feet above ground, with a 4" entry hole and an 8"x8"x24" cavity. The warbler, on the other hand, is a smaller bird that typically nests 9 feet above ground with a 1 1/8" hole and a 4"x4"x6" cavity. Considering both the largest and smallest varieties of local birds, the hut sits 9 feet off the ground, with its peak at 20 feet above the ground and birdhouses scattered in between. Mimicking the process of a bird building a nest, the materials of the birdhut were scavenged from the immediate surroundings.  © Mark Erickson  Isometric  © Mark Erickson The hut is nestled in a cross braced structure built of sturdy lodgepole pines foraged from a nearby forest recently ravaged by fire. The platform and cladding for the hut is made of planks reclaimed from an old cabin deck. The front facade is clad with western red cedar shingles cut with a custom rounded profile, the radius which were determined by the size of the birdhouse opening and the width of each shingle. To give a sense of being in the canopy of the trees, the roof of the birdhut disappears with clear 8mm polycarbonate panels. As a result, the space is passively heated by the sun, acting as a kind of greenhouse that is passively ventilated by two circle windows that punctuate the facade and the entry. A bridge connects the birdhut to the hillside and a stone path leads down to a natural spring and campfire.  © Mark Erickson  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 10 Images of Architecture Reflected in Water: The Best Photos of the Week Posted: 26 Nov 2017 12:00 AM PST  © Yao Li This week we have prepared a selection of photographs in which reflections in water is used as the main compositional element. In these images, the surface qualities of the water play a fundamental role in giving the composition its final effect—either acting as a perfect mirror or giving a diffuse touch. Below is a selection of 10 images from prominent photographers such as Lu Hengzhong, Yao Li, and Nico Saieh. Maurizio MarcatoFerrari Operational Headquarters and Research Centre / Studio Fuksas © Maurizio Marcato Fernando GuerraForte Nanshan / SPARK © Fernando Guerra Karina CastroMondadori Headquarter / Oscar Niemeyer © Karina Castro Chunliu YuThe Elegance of the White, the Charm of the Cube / STI Studio © Chunliu Yu Paul WarcholLewis Arts Complex / Steven Holl Architects © Paul Warchol Edmund SumnerRIBA National Architecture Centre / Broadway Malyan © Edmund Sumner Hiroyuki HiraiNine Bridges Country Club / Shigeru Ban Architects © Hiroyuki Hirai Nico SaiehYour Reflection / Guillermo Hevia García + Nicolás Urzúa Soler © Nico Saieh Yao LiNanjing Wanjing Garden Chapel / AZL Architects © Yao Li Lu HengzhongDingli Sculpture Art Museum / ATR Atelier © Lu Hengzhong  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 25 Nov 2017 10:00 PM PST  Harbin Opera House. Image © Iwan Baan Founder of the innovative architecture firm MAD Architects, Ma Yansong (born 26 November 1975) has helped to give China a name in the international architecture scene. The first Chinese architect to receive a RIBA fellowship, Ma explores contemporary architecture in relation to traditional eastern values of nature, resulting in buildings that are complex and contextually aware, but sometimes even surreal.  © Edoardo Giancola Ma started out studying architecture at the Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture, later completing his Masters degree at Yale University, where he began to gain recognition due to his project "Floating Islands." After a period working at Zaha Hadid Architects, in 2004 Ma founded MAD Architects and in 2006 won the Architectural League of New York's Young Architects Award. That same year, MAD designed their breakthrough building, the Absolute Towers, which were eventually completed in 2006.  Absolute Towers. Image © Iwan Baan Often credited for bridging design and values between the East and West, Ma finds important inspiration for his architectural designs from traditional Chinese and Japanese methods of including "the structure, the landscape, the light, the plants, the water"; in other words, as he explained to the New York Times in 2016, "the whole setup" in the experience of a building. Despite their often-futuristic exteriors, Ma's designs have deep roots in landscape and nature, attempting to ease the interaction between buildings and people. _MAD_Architects.jpg?1479857306 "© MAD Architects") © MAD Architects In 2014, Ma was named the Young Global Leader of the year, the first in China to be awarded the title. The World Economic Forum, which runs the award, called Ma an architect who "commits himself to exploring the future of architecture by combining the city density, function, and the spirit of Shanshui, to reconnect the emotional link between human and nature." As Ma continues to imagine and design cities that allow people to "stay out of nature and return to nature," the world may begin to see more of MAD's natural cities reconnecting us with our natural world.  Harbin Opera House. Image © Hufton+Crow Check out more of Ma Yansong's completed works in the thumbnails below, as well as more coverage on the firm after those: Winners of the 2016 Building of the Year Awards AD Interviews: Ma Yansong / MAD Interview: Ma Yansong on "Silhouette Shanshui" at the Venice Biennale An Interview with MAD Architects' Ma Yansong: Constructing Icons, Identity & China's Future Cities MAD's Ma Yansong Named 2014 Young Global Leader CTBUH Names Best Tall Buildings for 2012 MAD Envisions More 'Natural' Chinese Cities in the Future #donotsettle Visits MAD's "Out-of-this-World" Harbin Opera House Iwan Baan's Photographs of the Harbin Opera House in Winter Iwan Baan on Capturing the Harbin Opera House Sneak Peek: MAD's Chaoyang Park Plaza Project is Almost Complete MAD's Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Approved by LA City Council  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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