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- Educational Complex Kajzerica / Sangrad + AVP
- M Greenhouse / Lapo Ruffi Architetti / LRA
- The House Between a Well and a Light Tower / Harsh Vardhan Jain Architects
- Australian Pavilion at 2018 Venice Biennale to Explore Architecture's Relation to Endangered Plants
- Henning Larsen Brings a "Scandinavian Design Approach” to the City of Minneapolis
- Stradella / SAOTA
- Benoy will Transform a Power Plant Into a Green, Art Center in China's Gongshu District
- What Are the Tallest Buildings Ever Demolished?
- Vantage Point / Grid Architects
- Winning Concepts for Zoo of the 21st Century Competition Announced
- A Table (II) / ESCOLANO + STEEGMANN
| Educational Complex Kajzerica / Sangrad + AVP Posted: 19 May 2018 10:00 PM PDT  © Sandro Lendler
 © Sandro Lendler Text description provided by the architects. The concept of the Cultural – Educational Complex in Kajzerica has been deducted from a contextual inspiration: by shifting the direction of the buildings from the street of the old Kajzerica Neighbourhood, we get a public area and an extension of the urban space under a green canopy. The lifted classroom volume slabs are outdoing the access to the school yard, opening transparency, lucidity, continuity and relations within the site, metaphorically substituting crowns and shadows of the trees, freeing the public space and rendering an artificial forest merged with the authentic green surface.  © Sandro Lendler  Ground floor plan  © Sandro Lendler The Nursery-Kindergarten building is aesthetically and functionally compatible with the School building in a sense that compliments the shape of the school building with the central square binding them together.  © Sandro Lendler The school building is separated from the building of Nursery and Kindergarten for functional reasons. Both buildings are organized in such a way that can work as one system or separated systems, according to their needs. The compact character of the buildings sets free a large area of the site for other purposes: sport fields, playgrounds and horticultural areas with local and new green species.  © Sandro Lendler Both of the buildings are using renewable sources of energy due to the amount of underground water to be used for heat pumps (water-water system) and low energy consumption lightning and equipment.  © Sandro Lendler  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| M Greenhouse / Lapo Ruffi Architetti / LRA Posted: 19 May 2018 07:00 PM PDT  © Lapo Ruffi
 © Lapo Ruffi Text description provided by the architects. The project was realised as a replacement of an old greenhouse to accommodate the growing collection of citrus trees during the colder months. Cultivators for passion, the client requested a new service building, a little architecture able to contain a room for tree winter rest and a storage room for agricultural tools but also a space for silence and meditation among the plants.  © Lapo Ruffi  Axonometric Details  © Lapo Ruffi This design reveals the mechanism that simultaneously enchances architecture and nature: the contrast between the artificial character of the former and the organic traits of the latter. The main building material is natural larch wood. The façades are made of rough sawn wooden slats, which are attached to the inner wooden structure along with polycarbonate. The slope of the roof is designed to be a continuation of the façade, maintaining the integrity of the volume.  © Lapo Ruffi  Construction Details  © Lapo Ruffi Besides meeting some pragmatic functions the project developed to become a study on transparency and translucency. During the day it becomes translucent while polycarbonate panels diffuse sunlight, and at night, the pavilion become floating sculptural lantern in the hills' horizon. An architecture capable of preserving the richness and uniqueness of the place while inserting into the landscape a further fragment of landscape, in an effort to bring not only to construct an object but to create an artificial place or landscape.  © Lapo Ruffi  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The House Between a Well and a Light Tower / Harsh Vardhan Jain Architects Posted: 19 May 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © Niveditaa Gupta
 © Niveditaa Gupta Text description provided by the architects. The project entailed altering a 1970's structure to accommodate the client's current functional / programmatic requirements. The building is a generational home belonging to a single family. This led to a mixed-use development for the site which incorporates a lawyer's office, a dentist clinic and a residence for on-site staff. The terrace is conceived as a public space for the occupants as well as the city beyond.  © Niveditaa Gupta The renovation project can be described as an urban excavation, where the mass was carved to create space and bring in light. The excavation process revealed the underlying structure of the building which allowed us to insert a lighter steel frame to create the desired openings to maximize daylight. The sense of excavation was further enhanced through the sculpting of ceiling which evoke memories of historical buildings.  © Niveditaa Gupta The facade is a system of layers that creates an expanded threshold condition. An existing dried up water - well was excavated on-site to be used as a library. This was the conceptual driver for the project to express a vertical axis that culminated in a light box. This was a metaphor for connecting the earth and the sun. The axis also became the organizing principle for laying out the program. The spaces in front are public where as those towards the rear serve private functions.  Axonometric Each space has a different character even though they share a similar material palette of stone, wood, steel and glass blocks. The project involved working directly with local craftsmen and resolving details on-site which evolved through the process of construction.  © Niveditaa Gupta This project is reflective of the true nature of urban design for a developing country like India which incorporates bringing together the public and the private.  © Niveditaa Gupta  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Australian Pavilion at 2018 Venice Biennale to Explore Architecture's Relation to Endangered Plants Posted: 19 May 2018 09:00 AM PDT  © Linda Tegg As part of our 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale coverage we present the proposal for the Australian Pavilion. Below, the participants describe their contribution in their own words. The Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) will present Repair at the Australian Pavilion during the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Creative Directors Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright of Baracco+Wright Architects, in collaboration with artist Linda Tegg, have curated a multi-sensory living installation for the Pavilion, designed to disrupt the viewing conditions through which architecture is usually understood.  © Linda Tegg The curators will install ten thousand plans inside and outside of the Pavilion, including 65 species of Western Plains Grasslands. This component of the exhibition, entitled Grasslands Repair, will serve as a reminder of what is at stake when we occupy land – just one percent of these threatened species are left in their native ecosystem. The Pavilion will be transformed into a field of vegetation, allowing visitors to enter a physical dialogue between architecture and the endangered plant community. Alongside this, Linda Tegg and Baracco+Wright Architects have made an experimental video series, entitled Ground, showcasing fifteen Australian projects that unpack diverse iterations of repair, which will be projected inside the Pavilion. A third installation, Skylight, will incorporate lighting to simulate the sun's energy required to sustain the plants inside the Pavilion. Through each of these works, the curators aim to provoke a rethinking of how we value and therefore create the built environment.  © Linda Tegg Addressing the theme of Freespace set by curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara for the Biennale Architettura 2018, Repair will address the call 'to stimulate discussion on core architectural values' and validate the 'relevance of architecture on this dynamic planet'. It will focus on architecture that integrates built and natural systems to effect repair of the environment, and in so doing, mend or improve other societal, economic and cultural conditions. Through this lens, this exhibition will provoke new relevance and roles for architecture.  © Linda Tegg Australia's buildings and cityscapes have largely been constructed to separate people from the natural environment. Consequences of this disregard are now being felt, resulting in a shift in thinking amongst built environment disciplines, towards repairing the natural environment as a framework for urban form. Repair aims to advocate a role for architecture among the many players it takes to restore something. Curators Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright said: "We have often struggled with our relationship as architects when considering the use of land – it's no small act. We believe there is a role for architecture to actively engage with the repair of the places it is part of, which our exhibition will communicate. We hope the discussion we're presenting will engage the profession and initiate a legacy of the Biennale Architettura 2018."  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Henning Larsen Brings a "Scandinavian Design Approach” to the City of Minneapolis Posted: 19 May 2018 07:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Henning Larsen Architects Designed by Henning Larsen Architects and MSR Design, the New Public Service Building for the city of Minneapolis aims to consolidate several departments, currently found across multiple different sites, into one unified building. The scheme promotes the health and well-being of its 1,300 employees through maximizing daylight and green space throughout, integrating a significantly sustainable remit within the 385,000 square foot, 11 story proposal. Located diagonally across from the existing city hall, Henning Larsen brings a "knowledge-based Scandinavian design approach" to the high-performance office space, hoping to set a "new architectural agenda in North America."  Courtesy of Henning Larsen Architects  Courtesy of Henning Larsen Architects Elevating the main building and allowing for an open office on its first two levels, a transparent relationship is formed between the City and the people, punctuated in the creation of a large public space - described by the architects as 'an urban gesture.' Louis Becker, Henning Larsen's Design Principal, stated that "it is our hope that this building will foster openness – literally and figuratively – in the meeting between citizens and public servants – by exposing administrative functions and offering easy, equal access to everyone, regardless of age, gender and social background."  Courtesy of Henning Larsen Architects
With offices across six different countries, the New Public Service Building will be Henning Larsen's fifth project in design or under construction in North America. It is due to for completion in the fall of 2020 and is currently pursuing Fitwell and LEED v4 Gold certification.  Courtesy of Henning Larsen Architects  Courtesy of Henning Larsen Architects News via: Henning Larsen Architects.
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| Posted: 19 May 2018 06:00 AM PDT  © Adam Letch
 © Adam Letch Text description provided by the architects. SAOTA's first completed project in Los Angeles, Stradella, is a remodel of an existing 1970's house on a beautiful promontory in Bel Air. The original layout of site and dwelling were well planned to ensure privacy from the street and to address spectacular views over the LA basin, capturing the full panorama from Downtown to Century City, with mountains to the east and ocean to the south.  © Adam Letch On the client's instruction to expunge all traces of the original Spanish style architecture, SAOTA decided to strip the existing house back to its timber skeleton, maximize the square footage and, by reinforcing or extending where necessary, create generous openings to draw the beautiful West Coast light, the rolling vistas and the verdant setting deep into the floorplan. This concept of "inviting the outside in" encapsulates the SAOTA approach, and at Stradella these informed design decisions ranging from space planning to façade design, landscaping, lighting, window configuration and shading details.  First floor plan An attractive approach cut into deeply wooded hillside arrives at a leafy forecourt signaling the entrance of the house. The arrival façade is reimagined as a sculptural composition – a massive buttress ties the house into the hillside; blank, stone-faced walls, incised with vertical screens hover over glazing, inviting the eye in and through. From the entrance lobby, an asymmetrical passage carved through the main body of the house intentionally delays the reveal of the Downtown skyline, framed by the high ceilings of the great room. There is a deliberate transition as the weighty forms of the entrance, anchored into the hillside, give way to a lighter structure hanging vertiginously over it, aligning to the city grid and framing the views.  © Adam Letch This nod to the utopian Californian Modernism of the Case Study Houses is reflected in the porous nature of the reconfigured floorplan which aims to capture the essence of Californian Living, with internal spaces feeling light, fresh and open, connecting the various functions of the house for modern family living and grand entertaining alike. Where possible, walls were replaced by full height glazing with sliding windows pocketing or stacking to create generous openings. Key bedrooms and bathrooms were re-designed to spill out onto external terraces suspended over the sparkling night skyline.  © Adam Letch The lush wooded setting, so apparent in the approach to the house, seems to sweep through it to the front terrace which was reconfigured with a new pool and linear planters to animate views from within the house. A generous new linear canopy amplifies the width of the site, creating natural extensions of internal living spaces, improving flow between the various functions of the house, and providing comfortable spaces for outdoor dining and lounging. This iconic, 40m (131ft) long canopy – its skinny, expressed structure reminiscent of Koenig's Stahl House – floats effortlessly over the east terrace as it draws a deliberate frame around the quintessential blue sky and palm trees. It lends new coherence to the remodelled elements of the former dwelling - and to a new theatre and dining wing to the north of the site. This addition bridges the original exit driveway and defines a new motor court to the rear of the property at a lower level. A new gym and spa, a cellar and staff spaces are all accommodated at this basement level allowing the main living spaces at first floor to remain light and open.  © Adam Letch The overall palette balances warm and natural tones against the bold masses and crisp linear forms which characterize the architecture. An elegant canvas of French Limestone and white plaster walls is enlivened inside and out by bronze anodized aluminium screens, and light grey window frames. Internally, grey-washed ash millwork and doors complement both limestone floor tiles used throughout the living spaces and the oak flooring in the bedrooms.  © Adam Letch Carefully designed lighting accentuates the architecture and responds directly to furniture layouts, ensuring that a sense of intimacy is established throughout the open spaces. Concealed fixtures and discreet layouts create a comfortable night-time ambience; the twinkling LA Skyline remains the star attraction.  © Adam Letch Landscaping was designed to enhance the already luxuriant setting. It was impossible to introduce a courtyard into the heart of the plan, and so the planted spaces were critical, softening the look and feel of the contemporary forms and allowing a more intimate experience of the leafy site. Existing twin palms were retained at the pool terrace and feature in views out of the solarium bar and master bedroom suite, whilst low level planting and lawn to the terraces ensure functional outdoor spaces and uncluttered views of the horizon. To the rear of the site additional planting enhanced the tree-lined drive whilst a characterful mature tree was retained in the forecourt providing a real sense of place and a backdrop for the study and entrance lobby.  © Adam Letch Going well beyond the remit of a traditional remodel, SAOTA has utterly transformed the existing house into a home that functions at the highest level and establishes a fresh contemporary aesthetic in the tradition of Californian Modernism.  © Adam Letch  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Benoy will Transform a Power Plant Into a Green, Art Center in China's Gongshu District Posted: 19 May 2018 05:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Benoy The global architects at Benoy have announced their design for The Hangzhou Canal Art Center — a new, green hub for local cultural events and art exhibitions. Located in the revitalizing, Gongshu district in Hangzhou, China, the art center will occupy the former site of a thermoelectric power plant.  Courtesy of Benoy The 14,000 square meter art center will be built adjacent to Joy City, Benoy's expansive mixed-use urban complex, marked at each corner by three office towers and a residential building. Occupying 130,000 square meters, Joy City is expected to open this August, transforming the area into a destination before the Canal Art Center project is completed by the end of the year.  Courtesy of Benoy Opting for a simple façade of plain concrete, steel plates, wood, and metal mesh, the Hangzhou Canal Art Center is meant to respond and adapt to its use and surroundings. The building's central enclosed spaces will be lifted off the ground allowing the public to circulate freely through the structure, creating a seamless transition between the art center and the existing cityscape.
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| What Are the Tallest Buildings Ever Demolished? Posted: 19 May 2018 03:30 AM PDT  10 Tallest Demolished Buildings. Image Courtesy of Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has recently released a new research study titled "Tallest Demolished Buildings" that examines 100 of the tallest buildings ever to have been dismantled by their owners. The report confirms that, if JPMorgan Chase continues with their plans, SOM's 270 Park Avenue in New York City would become the tallest building ever conventionally demolished, as well as the first over 200 meters in height. The study showed that in most cases, the buildings were torn down to make way for newer high-rises, as was the case for the current tallest building ever to be demolished, the Singer Building in New York City. The Singer Building stood 187 meters and 41 stories tall until it was torn down in 1968 to make way for One Liberty Plaza. _Marshall_Gerometta.jpg?1526569821 "270 Park Avenue. Image © Marshall Gerometta") 270 Park Avenue. Image © Marshall Gerometta Not surprisingly, land constraints in dense urban environments along with greater financial potential are two key factors in the decision to demolish a building. CTBUH Executive Director Antony Wood said of the study, "We should be thinking of tall buildings as perpetual entities with lifecycles potentially exceeding 100 or 200 years while designing them in such a way that they can be creatively adapted for potential future uses." However, according to the study, the average lifespan of the 100 tallest demolished buildings is only 41 years.  Timeline of the 100 Tallest Demolished Buildings. Image Courtesy of Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat While economic considerations were most often the primary reasons for demolition, not all of the buildings studied were razed to clear the way for new towers. Structural concerns and even fire damage have also contributed to the ultimate demolition of buildings, such as the 116-meter Ocean Tower on South Padre Island in the US, as well as the 104-meter Edificio Windsor in Madrid respectively. (For the purposes of the study, the destruction of the World Trade Center towers in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 was not classified as a "demolition.") More than a quarter of the 100 tallest demolished buildings were built between 1890 and 1920, with the majority of buildings having been located in North American cities. You can read more about the CTBUH and Tall Buildings in Numbers study in the 2018 Issue II of the CTBUH Journal, available for purchase here.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Vantage Point / Grid Architects Posted: 19 May 2018 02:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Grid Architects
 Courtesy of Grid Architects Text description provided by the architects. Vantage Point is the comprehensive refurbishment and recladding of a former office building to one of the UK's first purpose-designed residential rental buildings ( PRS, BtR, Multi-Family living). The regeneration of the Archway area has been kick-started by the refurbishment and recladding of the former Archway Tower; a notorious 18 stories, 1970s office building.  Courtesy of Grid Architects  Courtesy of Grid Architects Located above Archway Underground Station, the tall, dark edifice dominated the area and, with the failed post-war surroundings, empty shops, and narrow pedestrian alleys, blighted development for many years. The brief called for a rental residential building (sales not being permitted in the freehold conditions of a building above an underground station) with active and accessible street frontages, entrances, and improved microclimate - the former slab had created downdrafts which made pedestrian areas uncomfortable and sometimes dangerous.  North Elevation  Section 1 Residential use was granted through Permitted Development (a way of changing the use of a building without needing Planning Permission) and the façade by a detailed planning application. The recladding was not just a wrap of new material; the cladding detail design was a direct response to local residents' complaints about the dark foreboding nature of the predecessor. So angled, light reflective, panels designed to accommodate existing concrete structure and natural ventilation openings reflect the south and east light.  Courtesy of Grid Architects Big window cills also reflect the sky while discouraging pigeons. The solid end walls, formerly in black concrete, were recladded in light stone with large windows to evidence that the building is occupied. The carefully detailed façade was erected without scaffolding and respects the original 'three slabs' massing and its architectural characteristics like solid end shear walls. The original architects, Oscar Garry, and Partners may have borrowed the technique from the aptly named Dreischeibenhaus in Dusseldorf by Helmut Hentrich and Hubert Petschnigg in the 1950s (now refurbished by HPP Architects).  Apartment Plan Residential rental sector's 24 hours, 100% occupancy with no private parking has proven a boon to local traders with noticeable visual and retail offer improvements. Projecting indoor amenity spaces illuminate and activate the streets and reduce downdraft to the street corner and bus stop. While the scheme has not had the power to intervene in the public realm and 'tube' exits – Vantage Point has acted as a catalyst for development by seeming to be new, bright and active.  Courtesy of Grid Architects Surrounding post-war blocks are also being recladded and TFL are re-paving roads, cycleways and moving bus stops as part of a major upgrade of the former Archway gyratory. The greatest change was reserved for the rooftop plant room which is a double height shared amenity space in the form of a bronze box with two roof terraces. Using the existing concrete columns a new enclosure has been formed with glazed ends and a mezzanine spanning the middle of the space. Two former plant roof areas have also been turned into amenity decks with amazing views.  Courtesy of Grid Architects  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Winning Concepts for Zoo of the 21st Century Competition Announced Posted: 19 May 2018 01:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Archstorming Archstorming have announced the winning projects of "Coexist: Rethinking Zoos," their recent competition to design a concept for the zoo of the 21st century. The call for entries asked participants to redefine the traditional zoo and transform the space from something that is not only an exhibition of animals, but also an educational tool, and a place for research and conservation. The team of international jurors selected three winners from more than 40 countries that submitted ideas. The site for the proposal was the zoo in Barcelona, which has committed itself to prioritizing the welfare of its animals. To promote the well-being of the animals and nature, the winning teams designed imaginative alternatives to the traditional zoo methods of interaction, such as non-intrusive paths and even 3D virtual animals. The winners show that there are new ways for visitors to understand animals that are both ecologically friendly and sustainable. Check out the winning submissions after the break. First Place: Worawut Oer- Areemitr, Chanakarn Assavasirisilp, Thakan Navapakpilai and Bemjama Prasertpan / Thailand  Courtesy of Archstorming From the architects: Instead of fencing a new territory for wildlife as a typical zoological park, we believe zoo should be part of the urban organ rather than being isolated. By understanding the existing context and animal's consideration, we propose the new threshold between human and animal, allows people to publicly experience so-called 'Habitat Parc' where they can rightfully use and observe Non-Sapien's friends in their natural environment. This elimination of 'urban cage' between the Human and Animal Citizen will lead to the enhancement of the animal welfare and also raise animal preservation awareness. Second Place: Elias Vogel and Estelle Filliat / France  Courtesy of Archstorming From the architects: We proposes a light footbridge overhanging the park and sheltering the different programs: veterinary school, laboratories, exhibition, conference, biogas silo... Third Place: Pinar Kesim Aktaş, Mehmet Cemil Aktaş, Ekin Şeker, Nergis Aşa / Turkey  Courtesy of Archstorming News via: Archstorming.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| A Table (II) / ESCOLANO + STEEGMANN Posted: 18 May 2018 10:00 PM PDT _02.jpg?1525952563 "© José Hevia") © José Hevia
_08.jpg?1525952841 "© José Hevia") © José Hevia Text description provided by the architects. The table is a blank page. A no-conditions surface that contains, static, as many scenarios as elements are disposed on it. A blueprint for the architecture of objects and a playing field for hands. The center of the house. We are commissioned for a 140 m2 house refurbishment located on Verdi Street in the Barcelona’s Garcia neighborhood. _DRAWING_1.jpg?1525952304 "Floor Plan") Floor Plan The structure of the house has one drawback: of the 16 pieces that make it up, only 5 are connected to the exterior, either to the street or to the interior block patio, leading, as there is no additional patio, to a dwelling especially dark in its center. The program required by the client is summarized in three different areas: the area of the bedrooms, facing the street; the area that contains the kitchen, the dining room and the main bathroom, giving the facade of the interior patio; and the central area of the house, for whose spaces no specific program is specified. _17.jpg?1525953084 "© José Hevia") © José Hevia _DRAWING_2.jpg?1525952278 "Interior Elevations") Interior Elevations _12.jpg?1525952965 "© José Hevia") © José Hevia The dimension of the house allows designing one of the bedrooms as an independent piece with an additional bathroom and kitchen. This circumstance, together with the demand for reform of the existing kitchen and bathroom, invites us to define the project based on two essential elements: tiling - a landscape - and horizontal surfaces - some tables: brilliant ceramic tiles facing the robust presence of granite. _DRAWING_3.jpg?1525952332 "Tables Diagram") Tables Diagram In the original distribution, which little is altered, the central spaces of the house revolve around a piece without any apparent value, composed of a closet and a small distributor. The bet will be to open it to light by practicing a new family of openings in existing partitions and walls, which will allow the surrounding spaces to see each other becoming a rosary of public rooms. _07.jpg?1525952820 "© José Hevia") © José Hevia If in the new apartment and in the interior patio area the tables incorporate the double function of kitchen and dining room, transforming into specific devices, the table that will occupy the central space will be, on the contrary, characterized by the same ambiguity as the pieces that surround it. Conceived as an infrastructure rather than a piece of furniture, the table becomes the protagonist of each of the three areas that make up the house. _01.jpg?1525952585 "© José Hevia") © José Hevia _DRAWING_4.jpg?1525952352 "Space Diagram") Space Diagram _03.jpg?1525952653 "© José Hevia") © José Hevia  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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