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- Blue House / De Rosee Sa
- Cortex Park / ADEPT
- Chauveau - 26 Social Dwellings / ODILE+GUZY architectes
- H-Shaped House with Office / sam architects
- The Memory House of Shanchuan Town / The Design Institute of Landscape and Architecture China Academy of Art
- House in Chofu / SNARK
- HVB Complex / 23o5studio
- Mexican Swiss Chalet / Perversi-Brooks Architects
- New Renderings Reveal the Penthouse Interiors at Tadao Ando's NYC Residential Building
- House on Adeline Street / Yale School of Architecture
- Perkins+Will Launches New Website to Help Designers Avoid Hazardous Materials in Their Projects
- Canaletto Residential Tower / UNStudio
- Diller Scofidio + Renfro to Create Exhibition on "Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" for the Met
- Inhabit / Antony Gibbon Designs
- World Urbanism Day: A Selection of Texts About Cities and Urban Planning
- 4 Proven Artistic Principles That Can Help Make Better Architecture
- Zaryadye Park / Diller Scofidio + Renfro
- Shigeru Ban Talks Plans Following Mexico’s Devastating September Earthquakes
- Bee Breeders Announces Winners of Modern Collective Living Challenge
| Posted: 08 Nov 2017 09:00 PM PST  © Alexander James Photography
 © Alexander James Photography Text description provided by the architects. Dartmouth Park is a district of north London in the London Borough of Camden, on the slope of the hill that rises up to Highgate from Kentish Town. On its west side, it borders Parliament Hill Fields, notable for its views of the London skyline.  Section The clients owned the upper maisonette and had lived there for several years. When their downstairs neighbour decided to leave, they were able to agree the purchase of the ground floor flat and appoint architects, De Rosee Sa, to re-instate the building back to its original arrangement as a three-storey townhouse.  © Alexander James Photography There were a few challenges; primarily how to increase the proportions to give the house a sense of grandeur and generosity of space. The first priority was to tackle a low floor to ceiling height on the ground floor, made more difficult by an unsympathetic level change between the front and rear of the building. De Rosee Sa overcame this by moving the level change further towards the front, using the front as a cloakroom area, framing the bay window with tongue and groove cupboards either side and a window bench.  © Alexander James Photography The extra height gained in the middle of the ground floor facilitated the proportions to locate the kitchen in the middle, with an adjacent dining area. The living room is located towards the rear, with a Defra Approved wood burning stove and new glazing towards the garden. A long skylight brings lights deep into the plan. Joinery around the fireplace gives the living area additional detail and atmosphere.  © Alexander James Photography The extension into the rear garden was rebuilt and widened to match the depth and shape of the neighbouring roof pitch but using Blue Staffordshire brick to give it a more contemporary treatment with crisp architectural details. A glass sliding door and window seat under a large window addresses the new patio and garden. Cava limestone was used for the patio and steps up to the lawn area. De Rosee Sa also designed the western red cedar clad garden sheds.  © Alexander James Photography  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 08 Nov 2017 07:00 PM PST  © Adam Mørk
 © Adam Mørk Text description provided by the architects. Cortex Park brings together four educational and innovation programs under one roof - connecting students, researchers and staff with shared sports facilities and urban character.  Diagram The result is a building designed for the challenge of both mind and body - and to establish a close relation between the building and its surroundings. Placing the sports facilities as a 'roof', spanning between the four houses, we create a both physical and mental experience of sharing, as well as a new hybrid between knowledge and movement.  © Adam Mørk The four individual houses are separate volumes but connected in several ways: the urban space floating into the building at the entrance level, the crisscrossing stairs spanning the triple-height space atrium and the common area at the top floor. The sports facilities at the top floor hovers over the four heavy houses and endows the building with a literally enlightening identity. When darkness falls, it lit up to tell the story of an active environment for education, research and movement - around the clock.  Section A large skylight draws daylight down on the common square where a number of social and administrative functions are located as center points in the central meeting space of the building. Standing on the square looking up, the crisscrossing stairs experienced as an additional spatial layer in building.  © Adam Mørk Each of the individual houses in the building have their own facade expression in graphic concrete, contrasting the lightness of the stairs.  © Adam Mørk  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Chauveau - 26 Social Dwellings / ODILE+GUZY architectes Posted: 08 Nov 2017 06:00 PM PST  © David Foessel
 © David Foessel Text description provided by the architects. Located in Chalon-sur-Saône, the Bellevue district consists of a variety of building typologies typical to that of a city's suburbs. Situated on an enclosed site and set back from the street, this project responses to its surrounding environment and to the design brief that imposed a timber construction solution.  Implantation A set of fragmented intermediate housing (20 dwellings) and a row of terraced houses (6 dwellings) are arranged around a central planted alley leaving space for vegetation and outdoor spaces.  © David Foessel Genesis of the project  © David Foessel The project is thus built around alternating free functional spaces and built volumes depending on the qualities and constraints of the site. From the street entrance to the northern site limit, entrance, outdoor parking, intermediate housing, alley, gardens and individual houses, creates an urban sequence that matches the scale of the neighboring buildings.  © David Foessel Designing voids  Plans Intermediate dwellings create a dialogue between the street and the row of individual housing behind. The interior layout allows for a diversity of typologies with unobstructed views towards the exterior.  © David Foessel The built volumes are clad in vertical wooden. This play of vibration extends along the terraces through separation screens ensuring solar and visual protection to each dwelling.  © David Foessel The quality of the outdoor spaces, an essential component of the project, leave a large place to evergreen vegetation. The birch trees will introduce a slender silhouette creating a dialogue with the built volumes.  © David Foessel A paved central alley allows access to the row of houses. Each house has its own a private garden behind purple haze hedges. A wooden lattice awning protects the south facing living rooms from solar gain. To the back of the houses, the alternating volumes of kitchen and patio ensure the articulation with the existing urban fabric.  Courtesy of ODILE+GUZY architectes Particular attention has been paid to the fifth façade. The tiled roofs of the houses create a colorful landscape to overlooking housing. Contrasting voluntarily with the monotone facades of the surrounding dwellings, it recalls the characteristic pattern of historic buildings in Burgundy.  © David Foessel Dwell  © David Foessel Entrances are placed in order to maximize space for the living areas. The kitchen and living rooms are extended by generous gardens, patios or balconies according to each typology.  Ground Floor Plan Constructive principles  © David Foessel The projects facade is made of thermally modified wood spruce to ensure a harmonious aging of the cladding. Over the years it will achieve an charcoal grey tint and contrast with the white metal elements of the façades.  © David Foessel  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| H-Shaped House with Office / sam architects Posted: 08 Nov 2017 04:00 PM PST  Courtesy of sam architects
 Courtesy of sam architects Text description provided by the architects. An outdated long-walled farm on a plot on the edge of the center of Kerniel transformed into a contemporary H-shaped dwelling. That is how this single-family home can be best described. The house is situated in a protected landscape with the typical features of Haspengouw, an area that consists of small villages in a rural landscape with fruit trees. An old farm with a long façade was situated on the plot (90 ares). The farm itself was not protected but was considered as a landmark valuable element considered by the Agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed (an organization for the protection of architectural heritage in Flanders, Belgium).  Courtesy of sam architects A Recognizable Rebuilding  Courtesy of sam architects A Spatial Distinction  Courtesy of sam architects  Ground Floor Plan  Courtesy of sam architects Natural Stone and Steel  Courtesy of sam architects  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 08 Nov 2017 02:00 PM PST  © Aoguan Performance of Architecture
 © Aoguan Performance of Architecture Location and Status quo  © Aoguan Performance of Architecture Limitations and Creations  © Aoguan Performance of Architecture To avoid mutual interference, the sides close to the residential area are limited in the number of windows, that is, a bigger window can only be set over 1.3 meters high on the wall which approaches the road. When sitting in the house, a person will not be bothered by the noise of the road, but the scenery across the road can still be appreciated.  © Aoguan Performance of Architecture We tried to set more roof windows in a large space, which makes the most of the scenery be introduced into the house, and the interference to the houses around can be reduced as much as possible.  Section 1  Section 2 Some senior craftsmen of the village were invited by us to present their ideas. Also, we took the local material and collected the red bricks which were left by the villagers for the house building, and we made the building surface by using the local yellow-mud technique. In addition, the doors and windows were made by the carpenters at present. Because of the use of the local material, this house seems to be natural and simple with a combination with the scenery.  © Aoguan Performance of Architecture Adorning-free Design  © Aoguan Performance of Architecture The internal space is plain and natural, whose walls are the same inside and outside, and the floor has been polished with cements, while the roof remains the beauty of the original wooden frame. The decoration also takes the wood in the main, which can integrate the building and the internal space.  Plan Low-cost Design Attempt and Challenges  © Aoguan Performance of Architecture Conclusion  © Aoguan Performance of Architecture  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 08 Nov 2017 12:00 PM PST  © Ippei Shinzawa
Text description provided by the architects. The Tokyo prefecture Chofu City where this second-hand condominium is located is a lush green commuter town where close to the Tama river and the municipal park, and access to the central Tokyo well. There is good access to the Japan Alps owing to the proximity of Chofu Interchange on expressway. We designed a house for a couple who loves mountains in a corner suite on the 4th floor. From there they can view Mt.Takao on the west side on a sunny day. The couple go out to mountains and fields at the every weekend in order to climb mountains, trek river, ski, hunt mushrooms, etc… and they are work in central Tokyo on weekdays. Exaggeratedly, they are living in mountains about a quarter of a year. Of course, they have many outdoor gear, and in the apartment that originally lived, a room called "mountain room" about 9 ㎡ was the gear storage place. In the renovation this time we took the mountain room to expand, took the place to live three-quarters of the year to small, and adjusted the balance of the size of the room to make the house that will be the base camp connecting mountains and cities. The mountain room was opened as a place to allow various activities such as maintenance of gear, preparation of mountain climbing, gathering with mountain friends, not just a gear storage place by expanding to a size more than double. We chose mortar finish that can easy cleaning in the floor from the entrance to the balcony so that allow to carry dirty gear to the balcony in order to maintenance as soon as come back from the mountain. All furniture that stores the gear were made of lauan plywood with rough details that allow for tough usage and made to induce usage other than storage by keeping the volume down to the waist height The place to live was gathered compactly that living, dining, kitchen, bedroom. The efficiency of air conditioning is increased without obstructing the line of sight to the opening in three directions with the frame door that separate the place to live with the mountain room. The furniture separating the kitchen and the bedroom was made a little higher than other furniture and arranged so as to enclose the bedroom. In this way, although it is a one-room layout, we planned to adjust the relationships of neighboring places with fittings and furniture to live comfortably. We hope that the base camp connecting mountains and cities will be the start of the couple's adventure and will be the goal.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 08 Nov 2017 11:00 AM PST  © KingkienPhotography
 © KingkienPhotography Text description provided by the architects. A multi-functional facility was built on the site with a very small area of 3.95m x 15.15m and lost part of the planned area. Architecture - in this case - as a complex living body with many functions: office, shop, studio for rent, studio apartment .... A programmatic project, extracted From the perception of interaction between people and the city.  © KingkienPhotography  Elevations  © KingkienPhotography That is the presence in the midst of other appearances, the smoothness and the need not to rely on the ability to express the material. "The city - the way it is -is all we have", is all we want to attend on this project.  Section  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Mexican Swiss Chalet / Perversi-Brooks Architects Posted: 08 Nov 2017 09:00 AM PST  © Ben Hosking
 © Ben Hosking Text description provided by the architects. A Mexican-Swiss Chalet in the Aussie Bush (The owner's brief) Wow! But shit...what to do...? The client; a Swiss (French-speaking) ex-chef, ex-toy museum owner, collector of all things amazing and bizarre, turned artist, now heavily inspired by Mexican color, pattern, and imagery. The existing house was a dark, somewhat drab mud-brick owner-built number from the late 1970s, chock-a-block full of an extensive collection of objects, toys, and artworks. The house sits in an established garden just outside the township of Malmsbury. The site is zoned a 'Rural Living Zone', and is subject to a number of overlays: Environmental Significance Overlay, Erosion Management Overlay, and a Heritage Overlay. The property is also within a bushfire prone area.  © Ben Hosking  Detail Sunroom Plan  © Ben Hosking The owner and his partner found the whole place too dark, they needed more light to be happy in the space. They also wanted more wall space and display cabinets for his collection. A small (10m2) glazed sunroom extension was added to provide a space to sit and read, or eat breakfast - inside the comfort of the home - but nestled within the well-established landscaped area to the north of the existing house, providing a space for the owner to appreciate the garden in the warmth of the sun. The sunroom extension was designed to draw more light deeper into the living areas, but also to visually extend the living space of the house out into the landscape. A brick floor within the sunroom internally folds up into a seated plinth edge which slips through full-height glazing to become a strong geometric plinth in the garden.  © Ben Hosking  Floor Plan  © Ben Hosking The idea over time is to have pots and plants strewn across this geometric form, creating a 'fuzzy' edge between the building and the landscape. The interior of the house was gutted of the kitchen, bathroom, and the two stairs. The shell of the existing structure (mud brick, traditional brick, timber and other linings) were all painted white to lighten and brighten the whole volume of space. Within this volume were introduced a new Kitchen with timber veneer fronts, overhead cupboards, and stainless steel bench tops, robust enough to deal with the punishment of an ex-chef. A black steel Spiral stair replaced the two existing timber stairs which ate up valuable floor and wall space. A bridge was also introduced to link the two lofts which were left 'as-is' other than a lick of paint and new carpet.  Detail Sunroom Section 1  © Ben Hosking  Detail Sunroom Section 2 In the lounge area, a large monolithic joinery unit was placed behind the existing fireplace, where one of the stairs once stood, this doubles as a Robe into the second Bedroom, and also holds the TV, stereo, books, and wood storage to the living room side. The joinery acts as a sort of 'Cabinet of Curiosities' displaying some of the owners' most prized pieces; A 17th-century doll, a number of candelabras, a clock, an underwater diver, and a number of toy cars. An elaborate antique Murano glass chandelier was suspended over the existing large timber dining table, and another display cabinet adjoins the dining area in the space of the second original stair. A third display cabinet was inserted in the place of an old external door, visually opening out the end of the corridor, and displaying more objects from both within and outside the home.  © Ben Hosking The Bathroom was rejuvenated with crisp white tiles, a heated towel rail, and high-end fixtures and fittings. A custom-designed mosaic fills one wall, incorporating Mexican-like colors in the figure of a large pixelated octopus - a celebratory moment of the owner's previous passion as a seafood chef. The 'underwater' theme is furthered through three glass pendant lights that cluster in the corner looking vaguely 'octopussy'... "Sam didn't blink an eye when our brief was, 'We want a Mexican/Swiss Chalet in the Aussie Bush'. What's more, he achieved this outcome." Jean-Jacques Lale-Demoz & Pauline Healy - Malmsbury House.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| New Renderings Reveal the Penthouse Interiors at Tadao Ando's NYC Residential Building Posted: 08 Nov 2017 08:30 AM PST  © Noë & Associates with The Boundary New renderings have been revealed of Tadao Ando's first project in New York City, a luxury residential building known as 152 Elizabeth Street, that show the interiors of its exclusive multi-story penthouse for the first time. Recently sold with an asking price of $35 million, the 9,000-square-foot unit spans three levels, featuring 4 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, and 3,240-square-feet of outdoor space. Interiors, designed by Gabellini Sheppard Associates, consist of high-end finishes, including on a custom spiral staircase constructed from Pietra Cardosa stone, glass and satin steel. Other materials include wide plank Danish oak flooring by Dinesen, Eucalyptus wood cabinetry, several types of stone, and Ando's most well-associated material, concrete.  © Noë & Associates with The Boundary  © Noë & Associates with The Boundary  © Noë & Associates with The Boundary  © Noë & Associates with The Boundary  © Noë & Associates with The Boundary  © Noë & Associates with The Boundary Having topped out early this year, the 152 Elizabeth is now on the market. Check out the available floorplans and a teaser video on the building's official site, here. Learn more about the building via ArchDaily's coverage below:
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| House on Adeline Street / Yale School of Architecture Posted: 08 Nov 2017 07:00 AM PST  © Zelig Fok and Haylie Chan
© Zelig Fok and Haylie Chan Text description provided by the architects. Students of the Yale School of Architecture have unveiled the latest iteration of the Jim Vlock First Year Building Project: a two-family house in New Haven, Connecticut. The house, sited on a formerly vacant corner lot on Adeline Street, features two units that are separated by a walkway, but under the same roof, and adorned with large windows that balance the needs of openness and privacy. This year's Jim Vlock First Year Building Project is the first house built as part of a five-year collaboration with Columbus House, a New Haven-based homelessness services provider.  © Zelig Fok and Haylie Chan Columbus House will select two tenants for the house on Adeline Street: a single tenant for the efficiency unit and a small family for the two-bedroom unit. Much of the house — including dormers, window frames, stairs, and cabinetry — was prefabricated in eight-foot modules in a warehouse on Yale's West Campus, shortening the amount of time needed for construction on site. Prefabrication places a higher premium on planning, and students had to work down to the level of nails and fasteners to address issues that could normally be dealt within the process of building.  Ground Floor Plan  Section  Upper Floor Plan This past spring, teams of students collaborated on different designs for the house, with emphasis on the need to prefabricate at least some components of their projects. One of these teams was then selected to take its design to the next stage: figuring out the various drawings and details that would be needed for construction. This year's house marks the 50th project built by first-year students in the Yale School of Architecture's professional degree program. Since it started in 1967, the building project has produced structures for communities around New Haven, including the Bridgeport band shell, pavilions in East Rock Park and Lighthouse Point Park, and since 1989, affordable housing units for over 30 families.  © Zelig Fok and Haylie Chan  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Perkins+Will Launches New Website to Help Designers Avoid Hazardous Materials in Their Projects Posted: 08 Nov 2017 06:20 AM PST  © Flickr user <a href='http://https://www.flickr.com/photos/fontplaydotcom/8756550624/in/photolist-ekMBqL-oy7dBT-5AmVSG-ekFSp8-dMF744-csKQb3-7mwKVN-Bmz5R-29hvJw-9WWJdd-c9rpz1-aupACM-fP2Qfn-8G1sJK-63SngY-3JJNdp-SqQM54-auZEYd-qPw1gW-aqkH7-eoXye-9sNn7q-cDeDTC-97LA9W-frGXEH-qjCkxi-2Qj86B-dMLEFL-bmndNi-6rMugL-2RKoLn-BQqzu-47WwhR-e2HHaT-6gJKxJ-WvfG3-5VnBkn-4f5De8-YDcWRz-YDcWWz-ftc3Tm-bXoJ2-fzR4Cb-4rgUMd-xhsRr-fsL6uV-4f5Dr2-e9rmzN-6FmFhJ-f5rBVK'>fontplaydotcom</a>. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 Perkins+Will has launched a newly updated website tool aimed at increasing awareness of hazardous building materials and encouraging designers to select healthier products for their projects. The firm first established their Precautionary List of hazardous materials in 2008, with a full Transparency website coming in 2011. The new website features improved versions of both tools. Rather than a static list, materials are now organized within a searchable database that can be quickly organized using filters such as project type, product type, and health and environmental impacts. New information has also been added to each entry, labelled under clear subheading describing the typical material usage, its health and environmental hazards, ways in which people can be exposed, as well as governmental regulations and industry rating system. In addition, two new lists have been added: the "Watch List," which includes substances suspected of being harmful, but about which abundant scientific research has yet to be conducted; and the "Sunset List," which includes materials formerly on the Precautionary List that have been phased out of common usage. "Our goal is to spur further industry transformation so that, one day, we can have peace of mind that all materials used to build and furnish our homes, workplaces, schools, hospitals, and other places are healthy and safe," said Mary Dickinson, senior associate at Perkins+Will and co-chair of the firm's Material Performance Research Lab. "With our updated Precautionary List and Transparency website, we're helping fellow designers take note of new, emerging, and known health hazards so that they can make more informed product decisions." Read more about the news here, and explore the list for yourself, here.
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| Canaletto Residential Tower / UNStudio Posted: 08 Nov 2017 05:00 AM PST  © Hufton+Crow
 © Hufton+Crow Text description provided by the architects. The 22,000m2 Canaletto residential tower in London employs the concept of clustering several floors together to establish a group of 'vertical communities'. Offering waterside living, the 31-storey tower comprises studios, one and two-bedroom apartments, a variety of three bedrooms and one distinct penthouse with a full rooftop. Canaletto also includes shared amenities such as a swimming pool, health club, media room and resident's club lounge with a terrace on the 24th floor  Diagram UNStudio's design for the tower, which is located in the London borough of Islington, incorporates the remodeling of the facade, a streamlining of the building's mass and a contrasting of scale and detail untypical of a residential tower. The facade for the Canaletto tower was designed to emphasise its residential character and to define a distinct 'Islington' response. Ben van Berkel: "The City Road Tower distinguishes itself from buildings in the nearby financial district of the City through variation; through materials, through clusters, through a scale that is appropriate to city streets and through a facade that creates its own residential identity by means of a varied and heterogeneous elevation."  © Eva Bloem Clustering In the design near and distant townscape views are enhanced through scale, detail, and material variation. The proposed building facade creates a modeled elevation in which clusters of adjacent floors are grouped together.  © Eva Bloem Ben van Berkel: 'In a residential building, we want residents to really feel like they are part of a unique work of architecture, something that is identifiably theirs. This is why the design of Canaletto really emphasises this clustering of different floors – small communities that are visibly unique from other nearby towers."  Diagram Contrasting materials are employed within each grouping, where the 'outer' smooth metallic element is complemented by an 'inner' use of textured materials. Throughout the building the cluster concept of the facade is designed to maximise levels of transparency and frame the views towards the sky, thereby lending the tower a softer and more nuanced silhouette.  © Hufton+Crow Sustainability The elevation additionally offers sustainability benefits. The surface modelling creates opportunities for shading, balancing good internal daylight and views with reduced heat gains. The articulation of the facade will additionally reduce wind down drafts and, in combination with canopy proposals at the base of the building, provide an improved pedestrian microclimate.  © Hufton+Crow Balconies The modelling of the balconies within each grouped cluster lends variability to the facade and the living experience for the residents in the building. As outdoor spaces play a large role in the enjoyment of living environments, the creation of unique, sheltered spaces of high quality was a driver in early design development. The aspect of using both textured and smooth materials contrasts with the expected contemporariness of a typical high-rise metal construction and lends this facade a residential 'twist.'  Diagram Ben van Berkel: "The detailing and contrasting of the materialisation of the façade and the balconies plays a key role in the identity of the building and is in fact borrowed from furniture design. This is an approach which we more typically apply to designs for smaller private houses, however following extensive research into the potential for extending durability and maintenance we were able to create unexpected material variations on a larger scale."  © Hufton+Crow Shared spaces and amenities Outside of the privacy afforded by the 190 individual living units, the Canaletto tower caters for a variety of collective leisure activities by way of shared amenities where the residents can enjoy healthy leisure pursuits or relax in areas designed for gathering and socialising.  © Hufton+Crow A landscaped garden on Wharf Road provides access to the residential lobby, whilst the ground floor garden frames the entrance lobby and provides a green oasis off the busy City Road. A public restaurant will also be located at the base of the building on City Road.  © Hufton+Crow  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Diller Scofidio + Renfro to Create Exhibition on "Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" for the Met Posted: 08 Nov 2017 04:15 AM PST  Scenes from "Charles James: Beyond Fashion" designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with the Costume Institute. Image © Matthew Monteith Diller Scofidio + Renfro have been selected to collaborate with The Costume Institute on a new exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art focused on the relationship between fashion, religious art and the devotional practices and traditions of Catholicism. Titled "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," the exhibition will feature fashion and religious artworks from the Met's collection, as well as more than 50 objects and garments from the Sistine Chapel sacristy, many of which have never been seen before outside of The Vatican.  Scenes from "Charles James: Beyond Fashion" designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with the Costume Institute. Image © Matthew Monteith "The Catholic imagination is rooted in and sustained by artistic practice, and fashion's embrace of sacred images, objects, and customs continues the ever-evolving relationship between art and religion," said Daniel H. Weiss, President and CEO of The Met. "The Museum's collection of religious art, in combination with the architecture of the medieval galleries and The Cloisters, provides the perfect context for these remarkable fashions." "Fashion and religion have long been intertwined, mutually inspiring and informing one another," said Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute. "Although this relationship has been complex and sometimes contested, it has produced some of the most inventive and innovative creations in the history of fashion."  Scenes from "Charles James: Beyond Fashion" designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with the Costume Institute. Image © Matthew Monteith The exhibition will be held across several Met spaces, including the Anna Wintour Costume Center and the Medieval and Byzantine galleries in their main 5th avenue building, and their uptown Manhattan location, The Met Cloisters. The papal vestments and accessories will represent the largest collection loaned by the Vatican since 1983 for the Met's 3rd most-visited show of all time, The Vatican Collections.  Scenes from "Charles James: Beyond Fashion" designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with the Costume Institute. Image © Matthew Monteith The exhibition will be the second collaboration between DS+R and the Costume Institute, following their design for "Charles James: Beyond Fashion," the inaugural exhibition at the newly renovated Anna Wintour Costume Institute. See here for more information.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Inhabit / Antony Gibbon Designs Posted: 08 Nov 2017 03:00 AM PST  © Martin Dimitrov
 © Martin Dimitrov Text description provided by the architects. Located just outside the town of Woodstock, less than two hours drive from New York City, the Inhabit treehouse looks out over the magnificent Catskills mountain range, quietly nestled within the dense woodland forest. Space consists of an open plan lounge, wood burner, and Kitchen with a spacious loft bedroom above.  © Martin Dimitrov -2_copy.jpg?1510122472 "Floor Plan") Floor Plan  © Martin Dimitrov In the rear of the building is a separate shower room and bathroom with second bedroom at the rear which could easily become an office studio space. The structure has two balconies, either side of the kitchen/lounge area with a large terrace underneath that leads down to the Lake and hot tub.  © Martin Dimitrov  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| World Urbanism Day: A Selection of Texts About Cities and Urban Planning Posted: 08 Nov 2017 02:10 AM PST  Reprodução do manifesto original do símbolo do urbanismo. . Image via Della Paolera, C. M. (1934). El símbolo del urbanismo. Buenos Aires: Dirección del Plan de Urbanización, Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires Today, November 8, we celebrate World Urbanism Day. Created in 1949 by Carlos Maria della Paolera, a professor at the University of Buenos Aires, the day was meant to increase professional and public interest in planning, both locally and internationally. Paolera is also responsible for designing the symbol of World Urbanism Day, representing the trilogy of natural elements essential to life: the sun (in yellow), vegetation (in green) and air (in blue), referring to the balance between the natural environment and humans. Currently, the event is celebrated in thirty countries on four continents. According to Paolera: "Following the most varied directions in their research, urban planners around the world have come to the conclusion that it is necessary to recover the air, sun and vegetation in modern cities. Even the most opposing urbanistic theories and achievements agree with the ultimate goal, which is to ensure the intimate union of the city with the inhabited land, giving wide openness to nature among the inert masses of urban construction." Urban planning is an exciting field that involves not only architects, but also social scientists, geographers, and many others. Through the discipline of urban planning, we plan and execute changes to the greatest human creation, our cities. In honor of this special day, we have prepared a selection of previously published content that addresses the topics of urbanism, urban planning, and utopian cities. The Evolution of Radical Urbanism: What Does the Future Hold for Our Cities? Why Jan Gehl, the Champion of People-Oriented Cities, Doesn't Necessarily Dislike Skyscrapers Jan Gehl's 5 Rules for Designing Great Cities How the Layout of Urban "Cells" Affects The Function and Success of Neighborhoods Learn to Design an Urban Block With This Set of 50 Cards Opinion: Why Our Cities Need Less Jane Jacobs Distributing Power: Jeremy Till on the Complex Necessity of Participatory Urbanism So You Want to be an Urbanist? Towards a New Urbanism (Or Three)  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 4 Proven Artistic Principles That Can Help Make Better Architecture Posted: 08 Nov 2017 01:30 AM PST  Salk Institute / Louis Kahn. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/naq/2337744981/'>Flickr user naq</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/'>CC BY-SA 2.0</a> This article was originally published by Common Edge as "Enduring Principles of Art That Also Apply to Architecture." It is safe to say that architects, academics, critics and even the public have been arguing about the merits of architectural style for centuries. Even during the course of my own career, the more general style categories of contemporary-vs-traditional have continued in an unabated battle. For better or worse, contemporary has generally won out as the default position for most schools and publications, probably because of the sheer visual entertainment value it offers, and the lucrative merits of its two stepchildren, branding and advertising. I'd like to propose another position: that certain enduring principles of art, rather than any temporary style—and, remember, they are all temporary—should be our real architectural goal. This presumption means you must be agnostic when it comes to style and put aside any notion of an ideological stance regarding the right or wrong of your architectural preferences. There are those, of course, who say that to imagine that "my art" is better than yours, or even that I can define real art in the first place, is a fool's errand. I think otherwise.
Good art is, in fact, definable, and the best architecture is artful. This position means any style is possible and the best architecture can be defined by principles of good art rather than the correct style. Note that I'm not arguing for "beauty" here, a more ephemeral concept. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but I would argue artfulness is not. Some background: I'm an architect with 40 years of experience and an author, but I'm also a landscape painter. So I know something about both architecture and the pure art of painting. Over the years, I've developed some concepts about the relation between the two. It's important to say first that some fundamental rules apply in painting no matter what. Last time I looked, the complementary colors were still complementary, and if I mix yellow and blue on my palette, I get a green. Depending on the pureness and amount of those two primary colors, the green will change. That's why I have no green in my paint box. There are just too many greens out there to rely on just one. And if I mix red, the compliment, with that green it will dull it, or more accurately, gray it. That principle is true now and always has been. (As a matter of interest, there is no such thing as an absolutely pure primary color. That fact makes the mixing of colors even more interesting.)  Appledore Island Sunset, 2006. Image © Jeremiah Eck  Therme Vals / Peter Zumthor. Image © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG I also happen to think there are other principles that apply across both architecture and painting. Let's start first with Composition and Value. In painting, composition refers to the configuration or framework of a piece, while value means the lightness or darkness as they relate within the composition. Any great or even good painting has both, and I think the same can be said for a piece of architecture. Unlike a static painting, you move through a work of architecture so good composition and value must be dynamic and there's the added quest for good composition and value on the interior as well as exterior. Nonetheless, we can all recognize a piece of architecture that has both. Large cantilevered or multifaceted roofs may make for interesting photos but not necessarily good composition or value. Likewise, a static composition modeled after a Greek temple doesn't necessarily ensure a good composition either, even though its value may be quite dramatic.  Gurnet Point, 2010. Image © Jeremiah Eck  Museum of Islamic Art / IM Pei. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/26085795@N02/4754905352/'>Flickr user Jan Smith</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/'>CC BY-SA 2.0</a> There are a number of other principles that I have discovered over the years as well. Edges is another one. In painting, it's the thin edge between two larger areas of the painting that can have an immediate and magical impact on how those two areas relate—for instance, between the horizon and the sky. In architecture, the same principle applies. Who hasn't seen an otherwise interesting building ruined by the clunky nature of a roof edge? The edges between roof and wall, or wall and ground have a large impact on the quality of the overall visual experience.  Gurnet Cottage, 2016. Image © Jeremiah Eck  Church of the Light / Tadao Ando. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/hetgacom/22029029686'>Flickr user hetgacom</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/'>CC BY-SA 2.0</a> Perhaps the most obvious principle and—if there is any order, the highest one—is Space and Light. Without both—and the elegant interaction of the two—neither a painting nor a work of architecture can be truly meaningful. The masterful use of both by painters and architects as diverse in style and time as George Inness, Willem de Kooning, Edwin Lutyens, and Tadao Ando attests to its being perhaps one of the most important principles we can apply to merit a good work of architecture. Some painters and architects have even defined the very nature of painting and architecture using the words "space" and "light" or their interaction; I.M. Pei once said: "The essence of architecture is form and space, and light the essential element."  Green Harbor Twilight, 2014. Image © Jeremiah Eck  Salk Institute / Louis Kahn. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/tatler/689357223/'>Flickr user tatler</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/'>CC BY-SA 2.0</a> Perhaps my favorite principle is All Great Paintings Have a Moment. What I mean is that all great paintings place us in a unique place or time, or perhaps help us reflect on some iconic or eternal truth that is within all of us. The same can be said of an artful piece of architecture. Great paintings and architecture go beyond any immediate time and place and have a kind of transcendent sense about them. They deify time as much as they define it. I'm reminded here of Louis Kahn's Salk Institute. Standing in that exterior courtyard transports us to another place that is not about style but about the art of the experience. It is a moment made even more magnificent because of its clearly manifested composition and value, its edges, and the use of space and light. I'm certainly not the first to relate art to architecture or other art forms such as poetry or even to call architecture "frozen music" as Goethe did. But sometimes we need to step away from our intra-professional definitions and remind ourselves that simple enduring principles are often the best. Architecture is, after all, an exercise of the mind and requires some clear discipline. It may be that we'll all be just a bit richer with a fresh look at how we define a good piece of architecture, if we also define it in terms of the enduring principles of art. Jeremiah Eck is founding partner of the Boston-based Eck/MacNeely Architects, which specializes in houses and private schools. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, author, landscape painter, and a former lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he continues to offer seminars.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Zaryadye Park / Diller Scofidio + Renfro Posted: 08 Nov 2017 01:00 AM PST  © Iwan Baan
 © Iwan Baan Text description provided by the architects. Centrally located steps from St. Basil's Cathedral, Red Square and the Kremlin, Zaryadye Park sits on a historically charged site saturated by both Russia's collective past and evolving aspirations. As a historic palimpsest, the 35-acre site has been populated by a Jewish enclave in the 1800's, as well as the foundations of a cancelled Stalinist skyscraper, followed by the Hotel Rossiya—the largest hotel in Europe until its demolition in 2007. For five years, this central piece of Moscow real estate-encompassing a quarter of downtown Moscow— remained fenced as plans to extend its use as a commercial center by Norman Foster were underway.  © Maria Gonzalez In 2012, the City of Moscow and Chief Architect Sergey Kuznetsov organized a design competition to transform this historically privatized, commercial territory into a public park. An international design consortium led by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) with Hargreaves Associates and Citymakers was selected out of ninety submissions representing 27 different countries. The selected competition design sought to create a park borne of Russian and Muscovite heritage as well as one that draws on the latest construction technologies and sustainability strategies.  © Iwan Baan As the first new park to be built in Moscow in the last seventy years, Zaryadye provides a public space that resists easy categorization. It is at once park, urban plaza, social space, cultural amenity, and recreational armature. To achieve this simultaneity, natural landscapes are overlaid on top of constructed environments, creating a series of elemental face-offs between the natural and the artificial, urban and rural, interior and exterior. The intertwining of landscape and hardscape creates a 'Wild Urbanism," introducing a new offering to compliment Moscow's historically formal, symmetrical park spaces.  © Maria Gonzalez  Plan  © Iwan Baan Characteristic elements of the historic district of Kitay-Gorod and the cobblestone paving of Red Square are combined with the lush gardens of the Kremlin to create a new park that is both urban and green. A custom stone paving system knits hardscape and landscape together— generating a blend rather than a border—encouraging visitors to meander freely. Zaryadye Park is the missing link that completes the collection of world-famous monuments and urban districts forming central Moscow. Traversing between each corner of the park, visitors encounter terraces that recreate and celebrate four diverse, regional landscapes found in Russia: tundra, steppe, forest and wetland. These zones are organized in terraces that descend from northeast to southwest, with each layering over the next to create a set of programmed spaces integrated into the landscape: nature and architecture act as one. The sectional overlay also facilitates active and passive climate-control strategies that ensure visitors can enjoy the park through all seasons.  © Maria Gonzalez Natural zones provide places of gathering, repose and observation, in concert with performance spaces and enclosed cultural pavilions. In addition to these programmed destinations, a series of vista points provide a frame for the cityscape to rediscover it anew. Each visitor's experience is tailor made for them, by them.
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| Shigeru Ban Talks Plans Following Mexico’s Devastating September Earthquakes Posted: 08 Nov 2017 12:00 AM PST  © Vanessa Vielma Last week, Mexico received a visit from 2014 Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban, who, following September’s devastating earthquakes, reached out to the country in order to offer support through his experience with humanitarian projects. Tec de Monterrey—one of the country’s leading universities—organized a tight work schedule of four days, starting off on Friday, October 27th with a roundtable discussion between architects, academics and journalists, presided by Roberto Iñiguez, Dean of the Architecture, Art and Design school. The following day, Ban visited a number of the affected areas, such as Jojutla, Morelos one of the country’s most devastated municipalities, accompanied by architect Alberto Kalach, Carlos Zedillo, head of the Center for Research and Sustainable Development (CIDS), and Tec de Monterrey officials in order to explore the possibilities for collaborative projects that would help rehabilitate the municipality and the affected population.  © Vanessa Vielma Later, Ban gave a conference at Tec de Monterrey’s Queretaro campus, which was attended by nearly 1,000 students that were eager to learn and help. During the conference, he presented some of the humanitarian aid projects he’s developed in several countries that have been stricken by natural disasters. Get to know more about those projects here. Finally, an important meeting was arranged between Ban and several companies that are willing to help by donating resources for the replicable prototype.  © Vanessa Vielma ArchDaily was invited to take part in this visit, and we had a chance to sit down with Shigeru Ban to discuss, in an exclusive interview, what his experience was during his time in Mexico and what plans he has for the country’s relief.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Bee Breeders Announces Winners of Modern Collective Living Challenge Posted: 07 Nov 2017 10:00 PM PST  Courtesy of Bee Breeders Bee Breeders announced the winners of the Modern Collective Living Challenge, one part of their Global Housing Crisis competition series. Participants conceived new types of accessible housing for rural China's relocated farmers. China's fast-paced urbanization is causing millions of rural folk to move to cities. With no designated site, successful projects need to be versatile enough to work in a variety of sites and even be adopted as a standard for addressing relocation. Winning projects were held to a high standard in their answering of the question: how can we create modern community living situations where relocated individuals are not forced into changing their way of life? Common themes in winning projects are modularity and green space. The competition winners are listed below. First Prize + BB Green Award: Courtesy of Bee Breeders  Courtesy of Bee Breeders 21st Century Tulou / Netherlands / Misak Terzibasiyan, Athanasia Kalaitzidou & Luigi Simone Derived from a traditional Chinese communal building called a 'tulou,' the winning concept imagines private residences, made of natural materials, sitting around an open-air courtyard. Interior and exterior blend together in a village-like setting that fosters both privacy and community.
Second Prize + BB Student Award: Courtesy of Bee Breeders  Courtesy of Bee Breeders Community of Farmers "HIVE" / Russian Federation / Kazan State University Of Architecture and Engineering / Ilsiyar Gabdrakhmanova The second place winner focuses on utilizing the project not only to provide communal housing but also increase green space within cities via vertically-stacked agricultural space. The "HIVE"'s community spaces, such as the vaporarium, luyceum, and canteen, are designed to accommodate traditional Chinese culture and values.  Courtesy of Bee Breeders
Third Prize: Courtesy of Bee Breeders  Courtesy of Bee Breeders One Grid One Community / Canada / University of Waterloo / Zihao Wei Set in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, the third place winning project engaged a lifted grid structure on a specific site.
The Honorable Mentions, complete jury comments and winners' interviews can be found on the competition website, here. News via: Bee Breeders.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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