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- Thanopoulos Supermarket Kifisia- Athens / Klab architecture
- Spotlight: Kisho Kurokawa
- Bora Headquarters / SAOTA
- Argyle Street Apartments / Pandolfini Architects
- Peek Into This Contemporary Office Environment Through the "Eye" of this New Business Center Facade
- New Canadian $10 Bill to Feature Antoine Predock's Canadian Museum for Human Rights
- Further Lane Pool House / Robert Young Architects
- Heinle Wischer and Partner Awarded First Place in Małopolska Science Center Competition
- Tadao Ando’s Punta Della Dogana Museum Through the Lens of Luca Girardini
- Salmen House / Office S&M
- Chisel & Mouse Recreates Miniature Architectural Icons Perfect for Your Coffee Table
| Thanopoulos Supermarket Kifisia- Athens / Klab architecture Posted: 07 Apr 2018 10:00 PM PDT  © Mariana Bisti
 © Mariana Bisti Text description provided by the architects. Thanopoulos supermarkets is at the northern suburbs of Athens. It was always a high end supermarket brand with huge variety of sophisticated imported goods which are unlikely to be found in other supermarkets in Athens.  © Mariana Bisti The supermarket building existed in 3 floors before the refurbishment and looked old. The exterior was also outdated. The quality of the products had nothing to do with the quality of the space.  © Mariana Bisti After the refurbishment the supermarket is 1600m2 in two floors, ground floor and basement. Circulation has changed due to the addition of stairs and the reorganization of the shelves. Each department got its own identity and KLab designed custom made furniture for them.  Groundfloor Plan Ceiling height was not sufficient for false ceiling so we came up with the idea of creating a simple structure by vertical Perspex lines that were illuminated in between by T5 fluorescent lamps. This allowed a gradient almost luminescent ceiling with osb as background. As a central piece a perforated aluminum false ceiling was hanged above the produce area and the seasonal sales areas.  © Mariana Bisti The supermarket is across a metro station. Customer traffic is different from other big supermarkets as the majority comes very often by feet and not by car. This led us develop a different strategy from the other 2 supermarkets we have designed for the same brand. Fresh food can be found in the ground floor and groceries and everything else at the basement.  © Mariana Bisti We had never consider our approach designing the façade as per design a supermarket façade, but we believed that we had to tell a story and design something appealing and enthusiastic. Our memory from Kifisia this northern suburb of Athens is full with plane trees and old big houses with pitched roofs. With this in mind we have created a second skin from perforated aluminum which used a typology existed in the context but also within the typology of food markets. The perforation comes from an image of plane trees in Kifisia and laser cut as different sizes of leafs. In the recessed ground floor we have incorporated wood cladding and glass. A protected portico in order to enter the store.  Elevation As the supermarket has two different facades at two streets interrupted by the volume of a neoclassical building we developed a second strategy for the façade of Andrianou street. As the store sits quite at the back of the plot and there is a limited parking in front, the store was almost not visible for the pedestrians. Our intervention a big metallic pergola was introduced in order to reintroduce the supermarket at the level of the street and to create shadow both for the pedestrians entering the store and also for the cars being parked underneath. The roof of the pergola followed a pitched shape creating a dialogue with the adjacent buildings and also with the façade of the supermarket at Dragoumi street.  © Mariana Bisti At the interior we tried to sustain the brand identity we have developed in the other stores introducing though new materials for floor and redesign the wine cellar as to fit with the new floor and the dimensions of the new store. Osb was introduced to walls up to a certain height mostly for protection. Corners within the store were used for certain sale areas as the bakery, fresh fish area, meat counter, delicatessen area etc.  © Mariana Bisti  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2018 09:00 PM PDT  Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo. Image © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nakagin.jpg'>Wikimedia user Jordy Meow</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en'>CC BY-SA 3.0</a> Kisho Kurokawa (April 8th 1934 – October 12th 2007) was one of Japan's leading architects of the 20th century, perhaps most well-known as one of the founders of the Metabolist movement of the 1960s. Throughout the course of his career, Kurokawa advocated a philosophical approach to understanding architecture that was manifest in his completed projects throughout his life.  Image via <a href='http://www.media.ritsumei.ac.jp/culture2013/exhibitions/exhibitions2.html'>ritsumei.ac.jp</a> After completing his studies at the university of Tokyo under Japanese master Kenzo Tange in 1959, Kurokawa helped to establish the Metabolist movement, a loosely-affiliated group including Kiyonori Kikutake and Fumihiko Maki, with Tange himself connected to the group as both a member and a mentor. The principles of the Metabolists revolved around ideas of impermanence and change, and as the name suggests the movement was intended to have more in common with natural processes. These ideas were developed to be an elaboration of—and also a reaction to—the principles of the architects affiliated with CIAM, which had its final meeting in 1959.  Toshiba-IHI Pavilion at the 1970 Osaka Expo. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/m-louis/1209773173'>Flickr user m-louis</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/'>CC BY-SA 2.0</a> Kurokawa commented that the ideals of the Metabolists were inspired by a Japanese conception of building. In particular, the fact that most Japanese buildings were timber meant the devastation of the Second World War completely obliterated cities in Japan—at least compared to Western cities where, at the very least, stone or brick remnants remained where buildings once stood. This observation, combined with the frequency of natural disasters in Japan, has meant that the Japanese are used to rebuilding cities from scratch, leading to what Kurokawa described as "an uncertainty about existence, a lack of faith in the visible, a suspicion of the eternal."  Nagoya City Art Museum. Image © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KurokawaNagoyaCityArtMuseum.jpg'>Wikimedia user Chris 73</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en'>CC BY-SA 3.0</a> The first opportunity to explore these ideas in depth as built forms came at the 1970 Osaka Expo, for which Kurokawa designed two pavilions, the Takara Beautillion and the Toshiba IHI pavilion. However, perhaps the most complete built example of Kurokawa's design principles—indeed of the entire Metabolist movement—was the 1972 Nakagin Capsule Tower, a building made up of pre-fabricated micro-apartment "capsules" that were designed to be added and replaced as necessary during the building's lifespan.  Van Gogh Museum Exposition Wing, Amsterdam. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/14174853@N04/4192474953/'>Flickr user kmaschke</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/'>CC BY-SA 2.0</a> That the Nakagin Capsule Tower has recently been embroiled in a preservation debate, with few serious proposals to replace the units as the original design intended, demonstrates how well the theory of the Metabolists translated to the real world of property and construction. After the original Metabolist group disbanded in the early 1970s, Metabolist ideals came to be seen as a historical product of utopian 1960s thinking.  Interior of the Nakagin Capsule Tower. Image © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nakagin_Capsule_Tower_03.jpg'>Wikimedia user Wiiii</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en'>CC BY-SA 3.0</a> In spite of this, Kurokawa never fully abandoned his commitment to Metabolist thought, adapting the ideas of natural systems and the life cycle of buildings to become a significant advocate for sustainable design in his later years. In 2007, he established the Kisho Kurokawa Green Institute at Anaheim University. Also in 2007, he ran to become governor of Tokyo, and although his bid was ultimately unsuccessful he was instrumental in establishing the Green Party in Japan. AD Classics: Nakagin Capsule Tower / Kisho Kurokawa  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2018 07:00 PM PDT  © Adam Letch
 © Adam Letch Text description provided by the architects. This relaxed resort-style home and work environment, a short flight from Germany, blends into its surrounding bucolic landscape through its use of form and locally inspired materials. Designed by SAOTA, it reflects a contemporary take on Mallorca's architecture. The client's vision for Bora Headquarters was inspired by the airy light-filled spaces of SAOTA's Cape Town projects that they had previously visited.  © Adam Letch  Ground Floor Plan  © Adam Letch The complex, steeply sloping, the site required careful placement of the building to provide comfortable pedestrian and vehicular access. Its length allowed for the creation of a linear terraced building with every important room, on both the terrace and bedroom level, having uninterrupted views with an emphasis on outdoor living.  © Adam Letch The linear arrangement is interspersed with green pause spaces on both levels. Stone walls act as holding elements at the ends of the building. The three bedroom blocks on the upper level are separated with lush courtyards all tied together by the steel holding edge beams. The building is a fusion of a contemporary approach with regional influences. The traditional curved tiled roofs in the area inspired the exterior upper eaves and internal gallery where the forms are re-interpreted as a series of stone vaults.  © Adam Letch The building is layered in the use of materials including plaster, stone, wooden pergolas and shutters, aluminum and large expanses of glass. The entry forecourt leads one into the main living level which opens onto a shaded outdoor terrace, raised half a level above the pool. Internally it is arranged as a series of individual open-plan spaces. There is a seamless flow between indoors and outdoors. The pergolas and tree canopies control the sunlight and create a gentle dappled interior feel. On the upper level, bedrooms open into a light-filled gallery with the signature barrel vaulted ceilings, echoed from the exterior.  © Adam Letch The building reflects a passive design approach with deep overhangs, sliding shutters, screens and recessed doors and windows with natural light and ventilation flooding the interior spaces. The interiors, by ARRCC and Revuelta y Stahn (RyS) Architects, are neutral and understated with accents of textured and hand-crafted pieces. The brief was to create a balance between comfort and elegance.  © Adam Letch Spaces were furnished with pieces from amongst others Minotti, Giorgetti, Poliform and Molteni & Co. The dining room features a custom Pierre Cronje French Oak dining table, complemented with Paola Lenti dining Chairs. The artwork is from the client's private collection. SAOTA collaborated with Spanish-based architects, RyS Architects. With an international footprint in 86 countries, this is SAOTA's first completed project in Mallorca, Spain.  © Adam Letch  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Argyle Street Apartments / Pandolfini Architects Posted: 07 Apr 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © Rory Gardiner
 © Rory Gardiner Text description provided by the architects. Located in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, this restoration and addition to a 150-year-old building showcases the rich history of the area and demonstrates how prioritising natural light over floor area can make the most of tight, inner-city sites. The project involves the careful restoration of a heritage listed building and a new two-storey addition to provide for two unique apartments.  © Rory Gardiner Having been unoccupied for several years following an abandoned renovation, the original Victorian era building and a more recent addition at the rear were in a dilapidated state. The building footprint covered the entire site and the rear laneway was full of rubbish and clogged with ivy. The 1860's building - having been partially demolished - displayed evidence of its former uses as a residence, hotel, coppersmith and warehouse. Rather than stripping the original building back and providing all new finishes, wherever possible the rich history imbedded into the original building fabric has been preserved and exposed.  © Rory Gardiner The weathered façade of the original building has been left untouched – retaining the rich patina accumulated over the last 150 years – with new timber windows and doors manufactured to match the original profiles. Internally, Victorian era features have been reinstated with a clear delineation created between old and new by the clean, minimal lines of the new joinery which floats in the space – allowing the cornices to continue unobstructed. On the ground floor, a floating timber floor was removed and original concrete slabs polished, exposing old nails and tools which were thrown into the concrete mix.  © Rory Gardiner A double height void was created in the middle of the site, separating the original building from the new two storey addition. The new void creates a clear delineation between old and new buildings and provides for access to natural light and ventilation. External walls exposed by the new courtyard have been left exposed, revealing the original bluestone footings, various layers of brickwork and a more recent history of graffiti.  Section A Spanish mosaic tiles clad the facade of the new addition, referencing the flaking paint and cracked render on the front façade and reflecting light into the double height void. A two-storey glass bridge spans the courtyard and provides internal access between the original and new sections of building – heightening the experience of transitioning between old and new.  © Rory Gardiner The living area of the ground floor apartment is located at the rear of the property with new windows and doors opening onto the previously neglected laneway, which has been cleaned up as part of the building works for all adjacent properties to use.  © Rory Gardiner In restoring the original building - retaining the rich patina which has accumulated over the last 150 years was valued over recreating the old surfaces. The new addition has been carefully crafted to respect the original building with access to natural light prioritised over total floor area. Together they have created a unique property which respects the past and embraces the future.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Peek Into This Contemporary Office Environment Through the "Eye" of this New Business Center Facade Posted: 07 Apr 2018 09:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Cloud Architects The contemporary work environment is evolving. This new office building from Cloud Architects captures the essence of this evolution through multiple green terraces, a large atrium, and elegant materiality. The U219 Business Center in Vilnius, Lithuania, provides 15,000 square meters of rentable area into two horizontal volumes.
 Courtesy of Cloud Architects The main facade is dominated by a horizontal oval that acts as an "eye letting those inside look out and feel the activity and movement occurring in the street." Through the same glass "eye", the interior atrium presents itself to passers-by on the street invoking intrigue into the overall environment of the building. Open-access workspaces are also available on each floor where people can choose enclosed offices, open-plan workstations or even a workspace located within the open atrium.  Courtesy of Cloud Architects The aim of the building to create "a more productive, healthy and comfortable working environment" is evident in the incorporation of greenery both on the interior and exterior. Common spaces in the building provide a connection with nature through the arrangement of greenery and seating made of various stone forms. "Green leisure areas" feature a wide variety of aromas and colors providing a "refreshing space" to everyone: employees, visitors, and guests.  Courtesy of Cloud Architects The Business Center will be built along one of the "fastest-growing areas of Vilnius", Ukmergės Street, close to the city center. There is already a breadth of commercial development near the planned site for the office building, and transportation routes to and from the city center.  Courtesy of Cloud Architects
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| New Canadian $10 Bill to Feature Antoine Predock's Canadian Museum for Human Rights Posted: 07 Apr 2018 07:00 AM PDT  © Bank of Canada The Bank of Canada has recently unveiled a new $10 banknote featuring Viola Desmond, a black Nova-Scotian businesswoman who challenged racial segregation in 1946 by refusing to vacate a "whites-only" area of a theater. To reinforce this pro-human rights message, the reverse side of the bill will feature an image of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, designed by Antoine Predock and completed in 2014.  © Bank of Canada Ms. Desmond was selected for the $10 bill by Finance Minister Bill Morneau after an open-call to Canadians to nominate an iconic Canadian woman to appear on the redesigned banknote. According to the architect, Antoine Predock, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights "makes visible the fundamental commonality of humankind. The abstract ephemeral wings of a white dove embrace a mythic stone mountain of 450 million-year-old Tyndall limestone culminating in the Tower of Hope."  © Aaron Cohen courtesy of CMHR On the reverse side of the bill, the building serves as the main image acting as a landmark for not only the museum's message but its relationship to the context in which it is situated.  © Aaron Cohen courtesy of CMHR "Our banknotes are designed not only to be a secure and durable means of payment but also to be works of art that tell the stories of Canada. This new $10 fits that bill," said Governor Poloz.  © Aaron Cohen courtesy of CMHR News via: Antoine Predock Architect.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Further Lane Pool House / Robert Young Architects Posted: 07 Apr 2018 06:00 AM PDT  © Frank Oudeman
 © Frank Oudeman Text description provided by the architects. The goal for this Hamptons pool house was to create a maximum variety of experiences within a relatively small set of indoor and outdoor spaces, all within eyeshot and earshot of each other. Moving through the space reveals a range of dedicated areas: a seating area with fireplace, trellised sections that frame the sky, enclosed areas for storage and food prep, and a changing room and bathroom. Elements of nature abound, from cedar louvers to bluestone floors to a natural zinc roof, which will patina over time. Plenty of trees and foliage surrounding the structure give it a feeling of enclosure, so that you can't tell where the architecture ends and landscape design begins. A chimney made of handmade Petersen bricks from Denmark rises above, anchoring the composition of spaces with a place to gather.  © Frank Oudeman  Floor Plan  © Frank Oudeman  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Heinle Wischer and Partner Awarded First Place in Małopolska Science Center Competition Posted: 07 Apr 2018 05:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Heinle, Wischer and Partner Heinle Wischer and Partner's design for a triangular shaped building has been awarded first place in a competition to design the Małopolska Science Center in Krakow, Poland. The competition brief, which called for a design which would be both iconic and innovative, was responded with a proposal by the team that creates a new landmark for the Malopolska region of Poland. Read about their winning design after the break.  Courtesy of Heinle, Wischer and Partner The aim of the design of the science center is to be a simple, yet expressive building. Its triangular form is partially buried in the ground with the slope descending from north to south, until it meets the ground plane. This allows the roof to become an occupiable space and serves not only as a landscaped area, which has been called the "Garden of the Senses," but also as an observation deck for flight demonstrations and other events which frequently occur on the abandoned aircraft runway near the site. The building is divided into four main sections which serve as areas for conferences, a main entrance, an exhibition space, and ancillary rooms which house laboratories and spaces for workshops. Each area has variability in its floor layouts as well as in the heights of the rooms, which allows visitors to meander through the spaces.  Section Heinle Wischer and Partner's scheme also features innovative sustainable design solutions including a heating and cooling system which uses geothermal energy and using native plant species in the roof garden to limit the occurrence of heat islands and to improve the microclimate near the building.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Tadao Ando’s Punta Della Dogana Museum Through the Lens of Luca Girardini Posted: 07 Apr 2018 02:30 AM PDT  © Luca Girardini At the meeting point of the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal in Venice is a triangular plot of land, the Punta Della Dogana. On the site sits a long, low-slung 17th-century structure punctuated at its tip by a squat tower topped with an ornamental green and gold weather vane representing fortune. This former customs house of Venice, the Dogana da Mar, was purchased in 2007 by François Pinault with the intention of converting the structure into an art museum, a task he entrusted to Tadao Ando. While the Japanese architect may not have been the obvious choice to work with a historic Italian building, Ando's solution combined a total respect for the existing building with the sharp minimalism for which he is known. Stripping back centuries of additions, the building was largely restored to its original structure. At the heart of the building's deep plan, a pure concrete volume hints at the architect of the restoration, serving to organize the spaces around it. In 2013, the building was photographed by Luca Girardini on the occasion of the exhibition "Elogio del dubbio."  © Luca Girardini  © Luca Girardini  © Luca Girardini  © Luca Girardini  © Luca Girardini  © Luca Girardini  © Luca Girardini  © Luca Girardini  © Luca Girardini  © Luca Girardini  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2018 02:00 AM PDT  © French + Tye
 © French + Tye Text description provided by the architects. Bookending a mid-century terrace in Plaistow this three bed, three bath house makes effective use of a tight corner plot. Office S&M designed Salmen House to be built and let by professional landlord My Property & Home, who had purchased an end of terrace garden suitable for a two-storey infill house.  © French + Tye The client's brief was to produce a low cost house, which was to be her first new build development after having previously focused on refurbishing flats. She started her development career after a serious skiing accident put her in a coma for 5 weeks, and she used her compensation to get on the property ladder, and into development. During the process of design, we proposed cost effective, but high quality materials and design solutions to propose something special on a budget.  © French + Tye The house is generous to the street, rather than being overly polite to its mish-mash context of late Victorian, mid-century, and post big-bang housing. The millennial pink exterior breaks away from the traditional design and biscuit-colour of rented accommodation. The complimentary external colours, salmon pink and lush green, visually push apart to create a feeling of greater volume - the pink moving forwards and the green stepping back. The seamless stippled render and textured terrazzo have a material richness to them, catching changing shadows on the long flank wall throughout the afternoon. Surrounding the windows, polished terrazzo reveals bounce additional light inside, as well as mirroring the window details found along the mid-century terrace.  © French + Tye Though rented, the house is designed as a unique home, so that tenants feel ownership of the property. The acute angle of the corner site is celebrated throughout the design, in both plan and section, to give spaces that accentuate their volume, while disguising their efficient footprint. Each space has natural light and views from two directions, and views from, into, and through these corners create multiple outlooks within each room. The horizontal circulation is one continuous view from the cranked front door through to the rear garden, while the staircase opens into a generous triple height space that pulls your gaze upwards.  © French + Tye This generosity has not come at a price. The house was built for £205,000 and to a lasting specification. While clearly opposing the New London Vernacular, the solid wall construction with a single skin of blockwork meant that the superstructure was erected rapidly, and the entire project took just over six months to complete. By working closely with the structural engineer, Structuremode, to take structure away, rather than adding it in, space was maximised to create four-meter-tall bedrooms, exposed beam ceilings, and a triple height staircase.  Bathroom and stair section Scale 1 to 50 at A3 From the front door, a ground floor bedroom and accessible shower room occupy the front of the house, with an open plan kitchen, living and dining room facing the rear garden. On the first floor are two more bedrooms, one with an en suite, and one next to the main family bathroom. This flexible layout, with an ample bathroom for each bedroom, can easily accommodate young professionals on a room by room basis, or a nuclear or intergenerational family.  © French + Tye Hugh McEwen, partner at Office S&M, and project architect for the house explained "This new build-to-rent house is a study in generosity for its inhabitants and context. With our background in social and private housing, we brought the best of both worlds to this project. By taking a bespoke approach to the site we were able to make the most of the space through careful planning of how the house could be used in the future. We don't produce quiet architecture, and this house revels in colour and materiality, which makes it a representation of the contemporary age in which it has been built".  © French + Tye  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Chisel & Mouse Recreates Miniature Architectural Icons Perfect for Your Coffee Table Posted: 07 Apr 2018 01:00 AM PDT  via Chisel & Mouse Have you ever wanted a miniature model of the Flatiron Building, Burnham and Root's famous Monadnock building, or even a 3D map of Amsterdam? Would you want to have your home transformed into a dollhouse-sized replica? UK-based Chisel & Mouse is reconstructing these architectural icons and custom pieces, and bringing them right to your shelf or mantle. Send them a picture or drawing of your custom model and the team will return a replica in around 12 weeks. Their process is actually quite simple. Once a digital model is designed, it is 3D printed into a mold. Plaster is poured into the mold, and the intricate details are done by hand. The cost for a piece from their selected collection can range from $150 to $900, and custom designs can cost upwards of $2,000. Some of their past custom models include The Shard, and of course, Fallingwater.  Amsterdam Map. Image via Chisel & Mouse Not only does Chisel & Mouse recreate structures in 3D form, but they also produce cityscapes that feature highly detailed buildings and metal etched waterways and a "poparc" collection that place some of England's most known icons into a plaster frame to be hung on your wall.  New York Map. Image via Chisel & Mouse  The Met. Image via Chisel & Mouse  Westminster Abbey. Image via Chisel & Mouse The cuteness of these miniatures makes them pretty hard to pass up. After all, who wouldn't want a miniature Bauhaus sitting on their coffee table?  Monadnock Building. Image via Chisel & Mouse News via: Curbed.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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