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- Nestled Hideaway Villa - Boutique Hotel / IPA Architects
- Ping An Finance Centre / KPF
- Bring Chicago's Downtown to your Home or Office with this Kickstarter Campaign
- House in Scotch Cove / FBM Architecture | Interior Design
- Venice Biennale 2018: Danish Pavilion to Focus on the Power of Collaborative Innovation
- Renzo Piano: "Creativity is Only Possible When You Share Creativity"
- Pozo Podenco / Gartnerfuglen Arkitekter + Mariana de Delás
- Astoundingly Colorful Chilean Sunset Captured In Timelapse Photo Series
| Nestled Hideaway Villa - Boutique Hotel / IPA Architects Posted: 06 Jan 2018 06:00 PM PST  © Eresh Weerasuriya
 © Eresh Weerasuriya Text description provided by the architects. The villa lies on a 10.5 perch (265 square meter) land on a hill in Kandy city, Sri Lanka overlooking the historical Kandy Lake. A narrow elongated site nestled between two 4-5 level apartment buildings. The villa is approximately 70 feet in length and 30 feet in width. The requirements of the client subjected the land to maximum utilisation.  © Eresh Weerasuriya The foremost experience of the site is the beautiful view across Kandy Lake towards the Maligawa (the temple of the tooth relic of Lord Buddha) and the undulating landscape of greenery and Hills beyond.  © Eresh Weerasuriya The villa designed as a 5 bedroom home with 5 bathrooms, pantry, kitchen, open plan living and dining, double carport, maid's accommodation and toilet, powder room also has an entertainment lounge and a 40 foot lap pool with a rooftop terrace that has now been further transformed to accommodate more rooms and used as a boutique hotel.  Section The main design intervention has been to retain the unobstructed stunning view as well as to bring natural light and ventilation through the central core of the house to the adjacent spaces by introducing a courtyard. The courtyard has been enclosed on top to prevent rain from entering the internal spaces but also to filter the monochrome white light that permeates the spaces. The courtyard not only acts as a mechanism for cooling and natural light but also creates a view corridor from the front of the house towards the rear framing views of the lake and the landscape.  © Eresh Weerasuriya  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2018 12:00 PM PST _Tim_Griffith.jpg?1514957995 "© Tim Griffith") © Tim Griffith
_PAFC.jpg?1514958053 "© Tim Griffith") © Tim Griffith Text description provided by the architects. KPF worked with Ping An Insurance Company to design a supertall headquarters that would become the physical and iconic centre of Shenzhen's burgeoning central business district, the Futian District. It connects to both neighboring commercial and residential properties and the Line 1 Gou Wu Gong Yuan metro station, situating the tower – and the city – prominently within the Pearl River Delta's high-speed rail corridor that increases access to the region's rapidly densifying cities. _Tim_Griffith.jpg?1514958007 "© Tim Griffith") © Tim Griffith _KPF.jpg?1514957317 "Typucal Floor Plans") Typucal Floor Plans _Tim_Griffith.jpg?1514958020 "© Tim Griffith") © Tim Griffith Comprising 100 office floors above the retail and conference podium, the tower will accommodate 15,500 workers and 9,000 daily passengers to an observation deck. Anchored by eight stone mega-columns with diagonal bracing, the tower conveys stability at its ground level. Its chevron-shaped columns rise six hundred meters and converge at the tower's height, mediating the tension of the earth to a single point in the sky. Sheathed in glass and stone, the podium houses a central atrium that acts as a public vestibule and sun-lit space for meeting, shopping, and dining. Five floors of retail shops terrace away from the tower, forming a large, amphitheater-like space. _PAFC.jpg?1514958043 "© Tim Griffith") © Tim Griffith Designed for local weather resistance, the tower's tapered façade reduces wind loads by forty percent and its stainless steel piers form a protective net against lightning strikes. With its completion in 2016, Ping An Finance Centre is now the tallest building in Shenzhen, the second tallest in China, and the fourth tallest in the world. It joined other KPF supertalls, including Lotte World Tower in Seoul, Shanghai World Financial Center, International Commerce Centre in Hong Kong, and CTF Finance Centre in Guangzhou among the ranks of the world's ten tallest towers. _Tim_Griffith.jpg?1514958030 "© Tim Griffith") © Tim Griffith  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Bring Chicago's Downtown to your Home or Office with this Kickstarter Campaign Posted: 06 Jan 2018 06:00 AM PST  Courtesy of Microscape Site models: they are intriguing and playful things by nature, making you feel like a giant looking down on a city. These miniature neighborhoods, however, are often large and bulky and only suited for architecture schools or offices. Imagine being able to have a site model in your home or office. Microscape has launched a Kickstarter to produce 1:5000 scale models of America's Windy City, Chicago.  Courtesy of Microscape  Courtesy of Microscape Over nine square-miles of Downtown Chicago will shrink into a 36"x36" grid, comprised of 36 smaller squares. Distinct Chicago icons such as the Bean, the Ferris Wheel on Navy Pier, the Hancock Tower, and, of course, all of Louis Sullivan's historic works are present at a miniature scale. Microscape uses precise aerial scanning and 3D printing process results to produce clean, highly detailed replicas of the city.  Courtesy of Microscape  Courtesy of Microscape This isn't Microscape's first time at the rodeo. Last year, the company used Kickstarter to produce their first miniature metropolis—New York City. It became an instant hit, being featured in London's Design Museum and showcased in commercials. Choose either a single 6"x6" square showcasing your favorite part of the city on your desk, or collect all 36 for a striking art piece to hang in your living room. No matter what you choose, a Microscape is sure to be a conversation piece, adding both pizzaz and playfulness to your home or workplace.  Courtesy of Microscape  Courtesy of Microscape Microscape is currently raising funds on Kickstarter, you can purchase your own piece of Chicago here.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House in Scotch Cove / FBM Architecture | Interior Design Posted: 06 Jan 2018 05:00 AM PST  © Julian Parkinson
 © Julian Parkinson Text description provided by the architects. Designed for an active couple in their seventies that will never retire, and their extended grown-up family, this house embraces living well while ageing in place. It subscribes to timeless ideals about making good architecture. It is responsive to sitting for placemaking while emphasizing light and views. It creates spatial richness within a modest program and budget. The structure is used as an organizer of shelter and space. The architecture combines materials that are climatically and culturally responsive. Consisting of the main house and an outbuilding containing a dwelling and a workshop, the project understands work, of many types, as an integral part of living.  Section and Situation Plan The program of the main house includes two bedrooms; a living space that is a changing gallery that celebrates family artists; space for gathering and games; a kitchen where cooking and canning are multi-generational activities; a large dining area for family celebrations; and a sewing room for elaborate crafts. Centred around evolving family activities the home supports an everyday culture that evokes what is best for daily life. Lightly sited within a meadow in Scotch Cove in East Chester, Nova Scotia at the edge of the ocean, the dwelling frames the spectacular views of Graves Island and the Tancooks. In conjunction with the out-building, a sheltered forecourt is formed for parking cars, washer toss, and croquet.  © Julian Parkinson Within the out-building, the second-story dwelling space peeks above the house's vegetated and metal roofs to ocean views. Multiple elements within the house extend dwelling out into the bucolic ocean landscape. The interior concrete floors reach outside to create an at-grade patio complete with kitchen herb garden. The roof and cedar soffit float above a clerestory with continuous views of the sky around the home, important to the sailors in the family. The stone element, housing the indoor and outdoor fireplace, slides out of the façade to create interior and exterior sitting areas. The laminated timber structure marches through the building and across the site shaping the spaces under it to form a covered barbequing area to the south of the home.  © Julian Parkinson  Floor Plans  © Julian Parkinson Sustainability is an integral part of the project as an evolving container for the living and by prioritizing local materials and trades. Environmentally, the building has overhangs to calibrate solar gain. Thermal mass within the concrete floors absorbs winter sun for passive heat. The triple glazing and increased insulation enhance the thermal envelope. While the narrow cross section and high and low operators increase ventilation from ocean breezes. The collaborative relationship among architect, client, and builder facilitated the entire process. Founded upon shared values that included: siting the building together to enhance views and minimize earth disturbance; understanding the intimacy between craft, materials, and details; and a respect for budget and schedule. Mediating between traditional materials and modernity, the home celebrates placemaking and everyday Nova Scotian culture, evoking what is best about family and daily life.  © Julian Parkinson  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Venice Biennale 2018: Danish Pavilion to Focus on the Power of Collaborative Innovation Posted: 06 Jan 2018 04:00 AM PST  © Nico Saieh The Danish pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale will demonstrate the power of collaborative innovation through large-scale installations. Architect and Head of Institute of Architecture & Technology at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Natalie Mossin was selected to be the Danish pavilion curator by several prestigious organizations including The Danish Architecture Centre, The Danish Ministry of Culture, Realdania and the Danish Arts Foundation. Innovation is not an end in itself. We face a series of challenges in the built environment, and we can't just continue doing things the way we do today. We need to develop and implement new solutions. Collaborative efforts and a generous architecture is key to a sustainable future, says Mossin. Exhibitions will focus on international reaching topics such as mobility, cultural resilience, housing and computational resource efficiency. One exhibit will be BLOX, the new OMA building in Copenhagen. BLOX is a multifunctional building that illustrates how architectural innovation and collaborative effort can lead to revolutionary ways of living. The project is not only a destination but a connector and gateway for the city. 145,000 visitors experienced the Danish pavilion in 2016. Other exhibits for the 2018 edition will be announced sometime this year. The Biennale will be held from May 26th to November 25th.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Renzo Piano: "Creativity is Only Possible When You Share Creativity" Posted: 06 Jan 2018 01:30 AM PST
In this in-depth biographical video by the Louisiana Channel, Renzo Piano talks about his earliest influences, why traveling is essential, the pleasures of drawing, what creativity really means, how "computers are a bit stupid," the way "beauty can change the world," and more.  Image via screenshot from video Piano is not one to indulge in what he calls "the trap of nostalgia" when asked about his early life, influences, and his own legacy. For him, what's important is "not what you've done, what you've been--but what you will be and what you will do." While the simplest, most obvious influence comes from his father being a builder, the architect also recognizes other factors that helped shape his ideas: the city of Genoa where he was born and raised, the sea which he likens to a "consommé of different cultures," ships in all their formal and technical grandeur, lively exchanges with friends from various creative disciplines, as well as his appreciation for the value of discussing, listening and exchanging thoughts with fellow beings.
Referring to architecture as a "pacifist idea," he discusses how building is more of a "civic gesture" because of the way it eventually affects the daily lives of users, and also acts as a container for the unfolding of history. That is why, for Piano, making public buildings is all the more meaningful. But while architecture is fascinating for him, equally important is a regular distancing from one's own work through travel. By doing so, one not only gains perspective, but also a greater sense of appreciation for diversity. He asserts: "Diversity is a value, not a problem." Most interesting of all perhaps are Piano's thoughts on team-work, how "creativity is only possible when you share creativity," and how it is only by fully embracing mistakes that one can partake in the creative process--something that he good-humoredly offers as advice for the young: "If you say something stupid, don't worry, if you say ten things and five of them are not stupid, that's really quite good." But ultimately, architecture's essence, for Piano, is contained in what he calls "beauty." Beauty not in the purely cosmetic sense, but in terms of "discovery, light, space, compression, expansion, shadow, and a sense of lightness, maybe eventually with something that is called language."
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| Pozo Podenco / Gartnerfuglen Arkitekter + Mariana de Delás Posted: 06 Jan 2018 01:00 AM PST  Courtesy of Gartnerfuglen Arkitekter & Mariana de Delás
 Courtesy of Gartnerfuglen Arkitekter & Mariana de Delás Text description provided by the architects. Traditions in Mallorca continue to drift into making the island a tourist served region. Hotels, restaurants, beach houses and clubs keep opening providing a mirage of paradise to those in search for a quick and easy sun tan. Amidst these bustling tourist areas there are still areas where locals manage to live a life in where time has stopped, and alien tourist sun consumers seem far away. Being concious of the value of the land and the pleasures it provides, one way they manage to under grow the traditions is by spending their free time carrying out classical rabbit hunting by means of Ibizan hounds, (native to the Balearic islands).  Courtesy of Gartnerfuglen Arkitekter & Mariana de Delás  Axonometric  Courtesy of Gartnerfuglen Arkitekter & Mariana de Delás Every week during hunting seasons, these hunters perform popular techniques involving long madrugada strolls looking for rabbits in where a good connection with the hounds is fundamental for success. When the morning is over the hunters come together and prepare a lunch in where preys are cooked to share in a banquet with friends and family.  All is vanity / 03 (Rabbits and partridges are promoted and looked after throughout the country estate through sustainable hunt, which includes being fed, given water and controlled by vets)  All is vanity / 02 The plot chosen to intervene is on an old well inside a lush cave-like orange tree grove made in the 1920s which was used by the hunters as a rest area to refill canteens, give water to the dogs and irrigate the fruit-bearing trees. The stones that surrounded the well had disappeared throughout the years becoming only a hole in the ground protected by a trap door.  Courtesy of Gartnerfuglen Arkitekter & Mariana de Delás The Mallorquins value (fresh) water highly. Surrounded by the salty ocean, and with almost no rivers or lakes the well, or "pozo" is their "source of gold" and it should be treasured. The well provides hydration, rest and contemplation, but also functions as a place for social gathering,  All is vanity / 04 The Pozo Podenco functions as an airy stop along the saunter, and is built to manifest the importance of water in this rural environment. The construction is composed by a 3x3 meter grid made with reused timber frames. A central retractile tower boosts from the middle of the structure, keeping the well protected when shut and accesible when in use. The tower also serves as a place marker on the fields when elevated and protects the well when closed. A winch fixed to the inner core elevates the timber tower frames through the structural guides  Courtesy of Gartnerfuglen Arkitekter & Mariana de Delás As the doors and tower are raised into the warm sun, a slight stack effect will occur creating a light breeze by the shaded well. For the thrill seeker the tower is equipped with an internal ladder leading to the small lookout with excellent views to the surrounding fields.  All is vanity / 01  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Astoundingly Colorful Chilean Sunset Captured In Timelapse Photo Series Posted: 06 Jan 2018 12:00 AM PST With over 10,000 followers, Juan Cristóbal Lara's (@eljuancri) Instagram account has become a go-to photographic essay of Chile's capital city, Santiago. His images show an urban area in which the giant Andes mountains, the city's hills, and the Mapocho River are the stars of the show. As the buildings and natural elements harness and reflect the changing light of the sun, Santiago has certified itself as one of the most photogenic cities around. To commemorate the end of 2017, Lara published his first timelapse—a video filmed over a period of days that shows the Santiago sunset from the San Critóbal and Calán hills. See more of Juan Cristóbal Lara's work on Instagram and Facebook. Technical Specs Camera: Nikon D7500  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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