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- House in Aravaca / DL+A De Lapuerta Campo arquitectos asociados
- Horizontal Vertigo: Argentinian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2018
- Merck Innovation Center / Architect HENN
- Tochka na Karte Hotel / Rhizome
- Lin'an Sports and Culture Center / Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University
- Blue Bottle Coffee Kyoto Cafe / Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects
- Li Man • Shen Mi Ji Hotel / Yiduan Shanghai Interior Design
- Vertical Ocean / Maaps Architects
- Phoenix Rooftop / BENT Architecture
- Atxu Amann's Spanish Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale Looks to Give Space to Young Architects Who Haven't Built Yet
- SP Houses / S-AR + Marisol González
- Belatchew Arkitekter Releases Images of Proposed Discus Tower in Stockholm
- Bamboo Stalactite / VTN Architects
- Rogers Stirk Harbour, HASSELL, and Weston Williamson Design Five Metro Stations for Melbourne
- Wifaq Sport Center / Groupe3 Architectes
- When Is the Best Time to Look for an Architecture Job?
- Retina House / Arnau estudi d’arquitectura
- Winning Design Revealed for New Complex Around Seoul’s Olympic Stadium
| House in Aravaca / DL+A De Lapuerta Campo arquitectos asociados Posted: 30 May 2018 10:00 PM PDT  © Miguel de Guzmán
 © Miguel de Guzmán Text description provided by the architects. The boundary situation created by the project plot in a corner position, together with the plot orientation, makes the house to be located in its northern área, on the back of its two access streets adopting a kind of fortress structure shaped like ‘L’ pointing to that public space, but totally opened to its private garden, delimited by two glazed and really opened façades but protected with a porch and pergola from the direct solar gain where a climbing plant and deciduous tree grow.  General Plan The entire housing spaces are oriented to this sunny garden where domestic life takes place. The house has a greater height in the northwest volume, to be accommodated in this area the living room, dining room and kitchen, spaces that need a greater ceiling height and causes that first floor where bedrooms for children are located, is elevated respect the northeast wing.  © Miguel de Guzmán In this northwest area with smaller corridor main bedroom is located on the first floor, with evidence inside of the variable height of the roof that becomes the lowest area on a terrace with fantastic views over Madrid. The designed architecture tries to integrate itself with the environment and highlight the closed fortress to the exterior and opened to the garden. Exterior facades are designed in white concrete with clapboard and exterior wood carpentry. The relation between the interior spaces and the garden is defined by large panes of glass, fitted with solar control devices, while blind panes are constructed with perfect smooth white concrete almost like a stucco.  © Miguel de Guzmán  Elevation and Section  © Miguel de Guzmán Pulling apart the house in the contiguous plot, which is currently from the same owner, but parcelled for being sold in the future, a shallow pool and a sheet of water are located and can be noticed from inside through a window, which also provides a lateral shot of light in the side of the living room where the pergola becomes porch- concrete slab completely covered. The project bet decidedly for energy saving (glazed surfaces with latest technology orientated south and protected with fallen leaf, light colors, máximum isolations and few holes to north and noise).  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Horizontal Vertigo: Argentinian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2018 Posted: 30 May 2018 09:00 PM PDT .jpg?1527355326 "© Federico Cairoli") © Federico Cairoli As part of our 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale coverage, we present the completed Argentinian Pavilion. Below, the curatorial team describes the exhibition in their own words. The exhibition, curated by the architects Javier Mendiondo, Pablo Anzilutti, Francisco Garrido and Federico Cairoli, is an invitation to rethink our territory as a collective construction and discover architecture in its capacity to convey unexpected generosity in every project. .jpg?1527355304 "© Federico Cairoli") © Federico Cairoli Description from the curatorial team. Horizontality —a condition both abstract and real in the extensive Argentinean landscape— can also describe our architecture as a continuous thought-scape. Horizontal Vertigo crosses the folds of our territory by mapping its architectural production over the last decades, since Argentina’s return to democracy in 1983 to the present. Underlined by the turn of the century, this period has seen a variety of projects diverse in scale and program throughout the length and breadth of the country. Works that, perceived as a whole, compose a horizontal landscape where interventions and initiatives come circumstantially in contact, in dialogue, in resonance, finding synergic potential in immensity, where every idea and every initiative is equally prone to be projected, appropriated and reinterpreted in different contexts and new ways. The horizontal is simultaneously geography, architecture and human scale. .jpg?1527355294 "© Federico Cairoli") © Federico Cairoli Spatial AspectsHorizontal Vertigo proposes an optic scheme producing combined effects. First, the rupture of the spatial relations between container and content by confining the immensity of the landscape in a glass box, an architectonic act of defying perception in the manner of the countless tales of Borges. Second, the daring venture of building the vastness in the virtuality of reflections; the kaleidoscopic fragmentation of the skies and the geometrical repetition of grasses gives away the artificiality of the endeavor, breaking the mimesis but opening up new ways of perceiving space. In this play of reflections, at the precise place where sky and soil fade to darkness, a single, horizontal trace of light contains the drawings and reverberates in reflections thus presenting itself in a subtle, veiled manner.  © José Tomás Franco Curatorial ProposalThe selection of architectural projects reflects their commitment to principles such as the generosity of the sense of mankind, the well-being, equality and dignity of all citizens, the democratic spirit of public spaces and the conscious balance between architecture and our natural resources. Each one of the answers in its particular way to the principles addressed by the Freespace manifesto, revealing “the diversity, specificity and continuity in architecture based on people, place, time, history, to sustain the culture and relevance of architecture on this dynamic planet,” according to Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara. Unavoidably unfinished, this selection of projects from all over the country does not expect to trace a complete nor definitive picture of Argentinean architecture. Instead, it proposes a different reading in hoping to expose, from territorial and generational viewpoints, its aspects connecting landscape, architecture, and society as a whole.  © José Tomás Franco  Cortesía de Equipo Vértigo Horizontal From a temporal perspective, the selection focuses on architecture produced since Argentina’s return to democracy in 1983 to now: a prolific but not entirely chartered period. From a programmatic perspective, Horizontal Vertigo documents works and projects of democratic character: public parks, social infrastructure or short-lived collective initiatives. Showing the projects as a group of sketches, hand drafts and sensitive drawings composes a polyphonic manifestation of the diversity of productions. Sketches are chosen because of their value as primitive documents capturing the founding act of hand-engraved thought and showing only the essential, without artifices, where the richness of the idea prevails and conveys founding identity to every architectural project. Some of them are early ideograms capturing ideas that would later give form to the buildings. Others show deeper explorations on each project’s spatial, environmental or landscaping intentions. Every sketch shows the binding connections, apparent or imagined, that Horizontal Vertigo perceives between architecture and society. .jpg?1527091074 "Cortesía de Equipo Vértigo Horizontal") Cortesía de Equipo Vértigo Horizontal Curators: Javier Mendiondo, Pablo Anzilutti, Francisco Garrido, Federico Cairoli  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Merck Innovation Center / Architect HENN Posted: 30 May 2018 08:00 PM PDT  © HG Esch, Hennef
 © HG Esch, Hennef Text description provided by the architects. The site of the science and technology company Merck in Darmstadt (Germany) is progressively remodelled from a production works into a technology and science campus. The heart of this transformation is the Innovation Center with a new world of work.  © HG Esch, Hennef  © HG Esch, Hennef The building is set back facing Frankfurter Straße, thus generating the space for a public square – Emanuel Merck Platz. The orthogonal shape of the architectural volume is derived from the context of the neighbouring buildings, simultaneously acting as a contrast to the animation of the building's inner workings. The interior is characterised by the unfolding of a continuously flowing spatial structure. Bridge-like connections diagonally span the space between the oval cores, linking the individual workspaces with each other. Steps, ramps and floor areas spiral upwards. The routes between one work group and another, from one level to the next, are accomplished almost imperceptibly and effortlessly. A dynamic spatial continuum singularises the individual workplaces whilst connecting them to form a spatial network.  © HG Esch, Hennef  Scheme / Concentration Communication  © HG Esch, Hennef The inter-crossing bridges, which densify the centre point of the building and diminish the spatial height of 6 metres to 3 metres, appear to float. The strain of the loads is absorbed by supports along the facade and a mere four interior columns. Due to their highly polished stainless-steel coverings, the columns have a practically dematerialized presence.  © HG Esch, Hennef Every level has two work areas, positioned diagonally vis-à-vis one another. Each workspace is designed to provide for a project group consisting of external and internal staff, cooperating together on innovations either on a temporary or a project basis. Concentration and meeting rooms are arranged along the facade and on the mezzanines. The ground floor contains a café, a lounge and an auditorium; the first upper storey a library and open workstations; the top floor accommodates a workshop.  © HG Esch, Hennef By using a reinforced concrete composite construction with spans of up to 20 metres, the work areas can be laid out column-free. The facades are set behind open external slats that run at varying angels, in turn giving the exterior a dynamic appearance and making the double-storey character of the interior spaces legible from the outside. The all-round storey-high transparent facades and the highly sound-absorbent ceilings provide ideal working conditions in terms of daylight and acoustics. In addition, the Innovation Center features a whole series of new Merck products and technologies in the lighting, the finishings and the skylight. The latest OLED technology was applied in the Light Cloud art installation, as well as the Media Wall monitor installation.  Cross Section  Longitudinal Section The Innovation Center is connected to a staff restaurant via an open stairway, the restaurant adopting the curved and flowing architectural vocabulary of the Innovation Center. The staff canteen consists of a food court on the ground floor with the restaurant facilities on the two upper floors. Spiral staircases, oval counters, the condensed space in the centre of the building and the amplified, open space at the corners all echo the Innovation Center.  © HG Esch, Hennef  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Tochka na Karte Hotel / Rhizome Posted: 30 May 2018 07:00 PM PDT  © Dmitry Tsyrencshikov
 © Dmitry Tsyrencshikov 'Tochka na karte' country hotel (Russian for 'a point on the map') is located 120 km away from Saint-Petersburg on the shore of the Lake Ladoga, at the border of the Republic of Karelia. The hotel complex consists of prolonged 2-story blocks of double rooms, detached suites, and a reception building. The hotel is a designed in a prefabricated technology: 3.5x7m modules are assembled at the factory and then delivered to the site with the interior finish, networks, and sanitary engineering inside.  © Dmitry Tsyrencshikov These modules are almost ready to welcome guests: the rest of work is to connect them to a power supply and arrange the furniture. The hotel comprises 3 blocks: 32 standard rooms, detached suites, and reception building. One module is a standard room 18 sqm in area. A suite room is assembled from two modules. The reception building is pieced together from three modules and some prefabricated elements. An extended range of the hotel modules consists of four 2-stories blocks interconnected by stairways and terraces. Terrain forms, trees layout and our strive to provide a view of the shore from every room constitute the buildings' location on the site.  © Dmitry Tsyrencshikov  Ground Floor Plan  © Dmitry Tsyrencshikov The modules are located so that the whole bulk of buildings is 'dispersed' among the pine trees. It is the context of the northern nature of Karelia that defined our architectural design: the hotel is situated at the point where the Vuoksi river runs into the Lake Ladoga. All of the modules are located among the existing pine trees which were saved from cutting down thanks to the modular technology. The first consequence of this context was to maximize the interaction between a resident and environment. It is expressed in a floor-to-ceiling glazing with a view of the Lake Ladoga from each room.  © Dmitry Tsyrencshikov The second is selected materials and patterns. An abundance of wood and dark metal in exterior finish shifts a focal point from architecture highlighting the nature as the protagonist in this space. Nowadays this project is the only one case of the modular architecture of public facilities on Russia's territory that has a real architectural value. We believe we succeeded in achieving the essence of a place inherent to modern Nordic architecture.  © Dmitry Tsyrencshikov  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Lin'an Sports and Culture Center / Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Posted: 30 May 2018 05:00 PM PDT  © Qiang Zhao
 © Qiang Zhao Text description provided by the architects. Lin'an City is famous for its landscape. The idea of this project originated from the landscape of Lin'an. Using the freehand brushwork method, it outlines the landscape of the mountains and rivers, which is consistent with the profound cultural heritage of the city of Lin'an.  © Qiang Zhao In combination with the geomorphic features of the low hill and gentle slope in the site, we have designed the sports center as a unique form with the elevation of the contour lines, responding to the surrounding mountains on the overall urban level, like a green vein, closely liking the natural mountains in the north and the south. By combining the layers with the geomorphology, the architecture can connect with the urban nature and create a number of high level activity platforms, which greatly improves the accessibility and participation of the site.  © Qiang Zhao The project covers an area of 161 mu, and we need to arrange various functions such as gymnasium, training hall, natatorium, outdoor stadium and business support, and the land is scarce. The plan takes the sports complex as the starting point. On the one hand, the body of the gymnasium is wrapped with the tapered and perforated plate of the double surface to create a translucent and light visual effect. With the lantern, the site is made into a striking city landmark.  2F floor plan On the other hand, the height difference of the site is fully utilized and the rest of the functions are integrated together. With the stacked terrace as the design intention, the landscape processing techniques help form a continuous platform model, coordinating with the surrounding mountain environment, and at the same time it can highlight the main image of the gymnasium.  © Qiang Zhao As an important part of supporting the center by itself, the project includes a children's park, a large supermarket, a fitness center, KTV and a variety of catering spaces, and a linear commercial belt along the sides of the road and the inner street can meet the complex appeal of fitness, leisure and entertainment for citizens.  © Qiang Zhao  Stadium section The site is firstly divided into three stations with a difference of five meters, and the internal road is introduced into the functional blocks. The corresponding building volume is placed in each functional block. The height of the floor is also set at five meters, so that the roof of each layer can be seamlessly connected with the above floor.  © Qiang Zhao  Section The main plaza along the main street leads the ordinary audience to the second floor by the platform, and the bottom is designed to be the passage for VIP, athletes, instruments and media to create a three-dimensional and stratified traffic organization manner.  © Qiang Zhao Along the road around, the gentle steps and grass slope are arranged to alleviate the road elevation, docked with landscape belt to form the simple and elegant space effect.  © Qiang Zhao The whole sports center has designed several groups of landscape courtyards and transitional spaces around the courtyard to create rich spatial experience.  © Qiang Zhao The gymnasium adopts the three-dimensional truss structure. The span of the upper competition hall is 74.4 meters, and the swimming training hall adopts space grid structure, with the length of the north and the south 110 meters, and the East and West span 58.8 meters.  © Qiang Zhao In addition to the above design features, this project is a two-star energy-saving building. Its main measures include:
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| Blue Bottle Coffee Kyoto Cafe / Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects Posted: 30 May 2018 03:00 PM PDT  © Takumi Ota
 © Takumi Ota Text description provided by the architects. Upon integrating Blue Bottle Coffee –– coming from America's West Coast culture –– with the machiya (traditional townhouse) located along the approach way to Nanzenji Temple in Kyoto, we continued to focus on our design concept for all of the Blue Bottle Coffee shops we designed, which is to "create equal relationships" throughout the space.  © Takumi Ota  Plans  © Takumi Ota  Sections  © Takumi Ota The existing floor, raised 50cm above the ground conforming to a characteristic style of traditional Japanese architecture, was demolished to make a new floor level with the ground. In order to visually continue the pebbled ground into the interior, terrazzo containing the same type of pebbles as the ground was used to finish the floor. The floor inside the counter is also level with the customer area to maintain the same eye level between customers and staff following the same concept as the other shops, while integrating Japanese and American cultures at the same time. The terrazzo floor not only serves as a floor but also elevates itself in some places to form counters and benches. The continuous white floor is stripped of all unnecessary things and the structure is stripped of existing finishes to expose the original roof structure and clay walls, and one can see traces of its100-year old history throughout the large, medium and small spaces in the structure originally composed of two separate buildings. The machiya was originally composed of two buildings, which were respectively renovated into a cafe building and MD building this time. The second floor space accommodates the office, where all unnecessary walls are removed and is covered with glass to maintain visual connections between the lower and upper floors.  © Takumi Ota  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Li Man • Shen Mi Ji Hotel / Yiduan Shanghai Interior Design Posted: 30 May 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © Enlong Zhu
 © Enlong Zhu Text description provided by the architects. The old town of Lijiang in Yunnan province, where tradition and modernity, tranquility and hustles co-exist, produces an elegant and creative gathering place for homestay hotels. Among the scattering design practices, Li Man·Shen Mi Ji hotel is a special isolated existence. Its modern ink painting style brings the most poetic and innovative annotation for a renovation space. .jpg?1527091540 "1F Plan") 1F Plan The hotel is located in No.74, lower segment of 81, 71 street in Lijiang. It was a residential yard with small area and unreasonable layout, hard to realize its design value. After taking over this project, the design company Yiduan demolished and re-designed the building, quietly integrated the building and its landscape into the old town, besides, they brought new vitality to the waste materials by reuse and classification.  © Enlong Zhu The five building complex cluster between the front yard water and backyard stream, and the blue bricks and tiles reflect the shadow of guests under the lights in the courtyard. The rest area is sunken design. Round view windows frame the greenness of bamboo forest, and a waterfall taking steel plates as its background flows through. Up the steps, walk over 10 meter gallery, the winding path leads you to the reception hall. Shadows are similar to ink landscape paintings, time also slows down under such an atmosphere.  © Enlong Zhu The dozens of black steel plates in the reception hall are the spotlights. They smartly concealed the load-bearing columns of the previous building, and also divided the area. The top of the reception hall is composed of numerous bamboo sticks which is an unique installation artwork. The reception desk is a 7 meter long slab which extends to the VIP tea room, subverting the traditional reception mode by the tension and aesthetics.  © Enlong Zhu Each of the 10 rooms has its own feature. In particular, the rooms by the side of the water stream has a private balcony, allowing interaction with outdoor lights and clouds. The rooms are simple and unsophisticated, and they are mostly made of raw materials in simple colors which completely match the surroundings. The modern lifestyle is presented in detail, such as open bathroom layouts.  © Enlong Zhu  © Enlong Zhu The ink painting concept and natural quality of Li Man·Shen Mi Ji hotel makes it soothing and quiet. Yiduan established a benchmark that broke the traditional impression on homestay hotels by their innovative practice on the architecture, landscape and interior design.  © Enlong Zhu  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Vertical Ocean / Maaps Architects Posted: 30 May 2018 12:00 PM PDT  © Jongoh Kim
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| Phoenix Rooftop / BENT Architecture Posted: 30 May 2018 10:00 AM PDT  © Dianna Snape
 © Dianna Snape Text description provided by the architects. Phoenix Rooftop is a green refuge in the unlikeliest of places - 30-storeys high, on an exposed, yet spectacular site in the heart of Melbourne. This garden in the sky allows two down-sizing professionals to retain the joy of outdoor living as they transition from the suburbs to the city.  Rooftop Floor Plan Our clients wanted their rooftop garden to provide functional areas akin to a typical suburban garden, but in a uniquely exposed, overlooked (and lofty) site. To achieve this, the site is divided into three distinct, yet connected zones: one for standing (cocktail in hand, raising a toast to the sunset), another for sitting (book over your face in the sun), and one for outdoor eating (BBQing a meal for family and friends under the stars).  © Dianna Snape Raised garden beds, bedazzled with delicate mosaics and filled with fragrant and flowering plants, define each zone while acting as both balustrade and windbreak; the colored tiles, green, white, yellow and blue, an abstraction of the garden itself. A sculptural steel arbor dances overhead, supporting the canopy of an unwieldy creeper; shielding and protecting the garden and its occupants, responding to each zone's relative need for privacy, sunlight, and protection from the wind and rain.  © Dianna Snape Rooftop gardens are still an experimental science — particularly 30-stories high, in one of Melbourne's most exposed sites. To our knowledge, this is the highest rooftop garden attempted in Melbourne and is an innovative example of the ongoing and important investigation into the potential of green roofs in our cities. Visible to thousands of office-workers every day, this project is a billboard for environmental sustainability.  Section A The message reads, 'our buildings can be greener, both literally and figuratively'. To us, creating functional, beautiful and liveable rooftop gardens is an important part of social sustainability, improving the environmental outcomes green roofs alone can provide. Green roofs should be designed to be enjoyed and experienced by people.  © Dianna Snape "The lights are on at the MCG; must be a game on tonight. Rowers glide by on the Yarra; the count of the cox not audible from this height. Acres of the Botanical Garden's lush green bleed into the grey of St Kilda Road's office towers and apartments. People, the size of ants, gather at Federation Square like it's the site of a sticky spill of soft drink. At Flinders Street Station, the ant-people rush in and out of their yellow and green mound, working busily for their queen. Shimmering in the distance are the calm waters of the bay and the distant beaches of summertime holidays. Surrounded by the tangle of this surreal secret garden makes this incredible view even more breath-taking." BN  © Dianna Snape  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 30 May 2018 09:00 AM PDT During the inauguration of the Spanish Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Biennale, we spoke with Spanish architect Atxu Amann, curator of the space, to better understand the ideas and motivations that shape the exhibition called "Becoming." One of the most interesting concepts –and with the aim of avoiding unnecessary waste– is that 2018 budget was mostly applied to remodel the pavilion building itself; then Amann's team "tattooed" its walls with more than 140 projects made by students and young architects.
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| SP Houses / S-AR + Marisol González Posted: 30 May 2018 08:00 AM PDT  © Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal + Marisol González
 © Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal + Marisol González Text description provided by the architects. The project consists on a small group of three houses located in a suburban area of Monterrey, at the municipality of San Pedro Garza Garcia, built on plots of approximately 150m2 of land and with a single front view to the street. The built area of each house is of approximately 280 m2 with slight variations between them.  Floor Plans Each house is divided in three levels with a main concept of two spatial cores. The first one, which is bigger, is reflected in the principal centre of the houses by volumes which stand out supported by a steel beam and organized successively in relation to the urban façade of the project, filling most of the plot’s length with the exception of the ground floor. This spatial core contains the main spaces of the houses, as well as the services for the bedrooms, kitchen, and laundry room.  © Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal + Marisol González The second core (smaller than the first one) corresponds to the circulations of the houses (hallways and stairs), storage closets, general services, and service bedroom in the ground floor, which is independent to each house. This utilitarian part serves as a containment space between each house.  © Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal + Marisol González This way, the interior areas are divided in each house leaving the ground floor for the public and social use: kitchen, dining and living room, and a patio; which occupies two-thirds of the back area of the plot, located at the back of the parking area.  Axonometric  Model  Axonometric At the second floor, the main bedroom was placed at the front of the plot, and the living room at the back, both of them separated by services and the laundry room. This service’s core as well as the circulations is repeated in the third floor in which the secondary bedrooms are located.  © Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal + Marisol González Even though the plots are small the houses offer open spaces that are visually connected between them; and their limits with full-height openings, contributing to the natural illumination and ventilation in most of the spaces.  Sections 04 Despite the use of the same scheme in the complex, each house conserves a certain autonomy regarding space, materiality, and architectural language, generating a unique identity in the complex. Materials were selected in white, gray and black tones to be used in most of the surfaces, with details in wood, iron, and black metal.  © Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal + Marisol González This small housing complex is a sequence of abstract boxes that break down according to the material used to their construction or to construct their coating in white brick, corrugated black sheet, or white metallic louvers.  © Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal + Marisol González  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Belatchew Arkitekter Releases Images of Proposed Discus Tower in Stockholm Posted: 30 May 2018 07:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Belatchew Arkitekter Belatchew Arkitekter has released images of their proposed mixed-use residential tower in the Nacka City district of Stockholm. Named "Discus," the tower seeks to form a new landmark for Nacka, directly above the district's metro station. Comprising approximately 500 apartments and 30 residential floors, the scheme will also include commercial and public facilities to form an active street front.  Courtesy of Belatchew Arkitekter The scheme is defined by a distinctively irregular silhouette, intended to become a symbol for the rapidly-growing metropolitan area, which is set to increase its population from 100,000 to 140,000 by 2030. The Discus tower will therefore contain both residential and office functions, anchored as an attractive place to both live and work.  Courtesy of Belatchew Arkitekter
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| Bamboo Stalactite / VTN Architects Posted: 30 May 2018 05:00 AM PDT  © Inexhibit
 © Inexhibit Text description provided by the architects. Bamboo Stalactite is a Freespace, a community space, shared equally by everyone. It's open and free to all. Because of this community sense, Freespace has to be a space that is easy to realize. This is characterized by simplicity in structure and low production costs.  © Inexhibit Here in this space, we use bamboo as the only material. Bamboo, with its distinctive flexibility structurally speaking, allows us to realize this project with limited resources (8 Vietnamese workers, with the support of Vietnamese and Italian architects and students to build the pavilion within 25 days). This flexibility extends beyond structures. Bamboo helps to create a space, rich in its connection with the beauty of nature, with the sun, the wind and the sea. For that reason, this bamboo space easily becomes the city's landmark despite its small size.  © Francesco Galli The pavilion comprises 11 modules, each one is shaped by the combination of 2 hyperbolic shell structures. Structural beams for the pavilion had already been prepared in Vietnam.  Exploded View As a community space, this structure can be duplicated in Venice, but also in other urban and rural areas. It can be transported easily and can therefore be a space in a museum, a pavilion for a school or just a space free and open to all in some countryside.  © Inexhibit Its potential is limitless. And this limitless undiscriminating potential is what we want to offer at this space.  © Francesco Galli  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Rogers Stirk Harbour, HASSELL, and Weston Williamson Design Five Metro Stations for Melbourne Posted: 30 May 2018 05:00 AM PDT  Anzac Station. Image Courtesy of Metro Tunnel, via HASSELL, RSHP, Weston Williamson VA Australia's Minister for Transport has unveiled designs for five new underground metro stations in the city of Melbourne, designed by a collaborative team comprising HASSELL, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, and Weston Williamson. Scheduled to open in 2025, the new stations will "combine functionality, space and natural light with the latest in public transport infrastructure design." The new stations, named North Melbourne, Parkville, State Liberty, Town Hall and Anzac, will each draw on an individual surrounding character to inform their architectural style. The schemes will also include public amenities such as parks, bicycle facilities, and community plazas.  North Melbourne Station. Image Courtesy of Metro Tunnel, via HASSELL, RSHP, Weston Williamson  Parkville Station. Image Courtesy of Metro Tunnel, via HASSELL, RSHP, Weston Williamson North Melbourne Station will feature a large masonry arch at the entrance, referencing the area's industrial past while skylights enable natural light to reach the platforms and concourse. Meanwhile, Parkville will see a glass feature roof over a tree-lined entrance linking the station with a world-class health and educational district.  State Liberty Station. Image Courtesy of Metro Tunnel, via HASSELL, RSHP, Weston Williamson  Town Hall Station. Image Courtesy of Metro Tunnel, via HASSELL, RSHP, Weston Williamson State Liberty and Town Hall stations will feature sweeping arches at platform level, and grand entrances to the city's Central Business District, revitalizing surrounding streets with cafes and retail outlets. Meanwhile, Anzac Station will house a canopy reaching from below ground to provide natural light and weather protection.  Town Hall Station. Image Courtesy of Metro Tunnel, via HASSELL, RSHP, Weston Williamson  Town Hall Station. Image Courtesy of Metro Tunnel, via HASSELL, RSHP, Weston Williamson
 North Melbourne Station. Image Courtesy of Metro Tunnel, via HASSELL, RSHP, Weston Williamson  State Liberty Station. Image Courtesy of Metro Tunnel, via HASSELL, RSHP, Weston Williamson News via: Metro Tunnel  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Wifaq Sport Center / Groupe3 Architectes Posted: 30 May 2018 04:00 AM PDT  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
 © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG Text description provided by the architects. Located in the heart of the Souissi district in Rabat, the Wifaq club benefits from a rich landscape heritage. Upon entering, the visitor finds himself in a particular site, open and wooded, that offers depths of field that provide a sense of well-being, favorable for the practice of outdoor sports. Surrounded by dense and tall windbreak hedges, the site is introverted, protected from its immediate environment. The landscape framework of the plot, reflecting the agricultural past of the suburbs of Rabat whose traces are still present in the area, is indeed characterized by its tall trees which are typically the orchards' windbreak hedges.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG Fruit trees and jacarandas embellish the different playgrounds dedicated to various sports and fit naturally into this composition. The urban piece hence constituted creates an original universe, protected in its green setting. This coherent set, accompanied by modest in size buildings scattered across the site, was converted and densified to accommodate new features to strengthen and diversify the commercial offer of the club. To accommodate these new activities without degrading the original values of the site, we suggested a targeted and measured response, respectful of both the memory of the club and the predominantly residential surroundings.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG  Landscape Diagram  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG The main issue at stake concerning our intervention was how to sanctuarize this place and protect the landscape's relics while organizing the conditions of its development. By densifying the northern half of the site to preserve the landscape quality of the southern half and its rehabilitated tennis courts, digging into the ground to build high-rise volumes and insert the stands of the center court and by imagining a vegetated parking area right in front of the street, the architectural and landscape project helped promote club Wifaq's heritage while giving it new ambitions in terms of programming, visual identity and spatial experience.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG  Sections  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG In this garden of sports and wellbeing, the memory of the club and the district are honored and respected. Even the most structuring sports equipment are integrated in the most gentle and natural way possible, to avoid disturbing the magic and serenity of the site. The particular care is given to natural light and the obsession of horizontality expressed by white flat roofs and cantilevers of different materials (facades made of hammered stone from Khenifra and wooden blades) contribute in the creation of a new living space both contemporary and rooted in its history.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| When Is the Best Time to Look for an Architecture Job? Posted: 30 May 2018 02:30 AM PDT  Photo by <a href='https://unsplash.com/photos/Fj1aWk4LcNg'>STIL on Unsplash</a> This article was originally published by The Architect's Guide.
...when you already have a job. This is called a "passive job search." While you are not job hunting per se, you are keeping your net in the water just in case a juicy offer swims by. I covered the subject of architecture job offers in more detail in a previous post, 25 Things To Consider When Choosing An Architecture Job Offer, but here are a few techniques for a passive job search. Put Your Resume OnlineIf you haven't already, post your architecture resume online. Many architecture firms can suddenly need staff if they win a big project. While jumping ship for one project should be done with caution, it is good to have your name in the hat. Have your most up-to-date experience on a site like LinkedIn. This allows your qualifications and experience to be easily searched by recruiters or architects looking to hire. It used to mean that if you posted your resume online it told your employer that you are looking for a job. Now things have changed and creating a LinkedIn profile is seen as just another way of communication, as with any other social network. Employer Wish ListDo some research to see who is hiring in your area and keep a list of the architecture firms that you would be interested in. Note why you are interested. Is it the projects they work on, the work-life balance, or the culture? What skills and experience are they looking for? Is there something that keeps showing up that you don't have? Revit experience? LEED AP? This is a good way to make sure you're keeping up on what makes you employable. Remember, your experience and knowledge is your best source of job security. Your NetworkAs I am always saying, your network is an essential part of the job search process. Reach out to anyone in your network who may know someone that worked at one of the architecture firms on your list. Get contact information to begin the process of meeting with the decision makers in the office. Informational InterviewsThis is a rarely used technique but it is very effective. An informational interview is less of an interview and more of just a meeting you set up to discuss a topic of your choosing. For example:
If the meeting goes well you could end with, "would you mind looking at my resume?" This can be a great way to find out if you have any resume gaps or potential issues for the role you will be pursuing. You can use this time while employed to then build that project experience or acquire a new skill, such as becoming a LEED Accredited Professional. Follow UpAs with all interviews, don't forget to follow up. Whatever the immediate outcome of your search, continue to follow up with everyone in your network.
Hopefully, these tips will help you build your network and keep your skills current. Architecture is a very unpredictable profession. A passive employment search can provide you with a job security network to help you survive any recession.  Photo by <a href='https://unsplash.com/photos/PypjzKTUqLo'>Roman Bozhko on Unsplash</a> Want to find your dream architecture job? Check out The Architect's Guide Resources. To help you with your architecture job search, I've created a mega-pack of free resources that includes architecture resumes, cover letters, and an extensive collection of application documents. Click for a free download.
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| Retina House / Arnau estudi d’arquitectura Posted: 30 May 2018 02:00 AM PDT  © Marc Torra
 © Marc Torra Text description provided by the architects. An old red Massey Ferguson like Grandpa Joan's still works the land. In this fast-paced world, there are still ancient landscapes where the fumes of the neighbouring houses are important and accompany you in winter; corners of happiness where orchards outside the walls and on the banks of the river are nicely kept. This is the story of a family refuge where one can enjoy nature and simple things; of a time machine that wants to keep this precious landscape forever unchanged.  Axonometrica In this project, a meadow was constructed as an adaptation to the topography of the terrain. Elements, such as the garage, the water basin, the walkway or the sloping wall in the background that follows and cuts the steep slope, form a flat surface. And on its top, there rests an autonomous rectangular volume that houses the minimum functions of a dwelling in a single open-plan space; to the south, there is a living, dining and resting room; and within the thick wall that isolates us from the north, there are toilets and the entrance.  © Marc Torra  Planta Primer Piso  © Marc Torra This architectural object transforms its relationship with the environment as the seasons change in the riverbank vegetation filter that accompanies it, but also from the varying expression of its gaze, which enjoys the landscape protected from the sun when it raises its eyelids. And, fearful of the brevity of this sober beauty, the refuge rests unstable on a hillside ledge like an owl ready to take flight with the landscape caught on its retina.  Elevación 2
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| Winning Design Revealed for New Complex Around Seoul’s Olympic Stadium Posted: 30 May 2018 01:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of NOW Architects Built before the 1988 Summer Olympics, the Seoul Olympic Stadium in the Korean capital city's Songpa District remains an active and treasured institution. Designed by Kim Swoo-geun, the stadium represents a significant moment in Korea's modern history and remains a venue for large concerts and the home of Seoul E-Land FC. While the Olympic Stadium itself will stand visibly intact in its original form, this spring the Korea National Urban Planning Association staged a competition for a new design of the Jamsil Sports Complex, which includes several sporting venues and buildings adjacent to the stadium, as well as almost 160,000 square meters of total area. Following the deadline earlier this month, the jury has announced NOW Architects in collaboration with NBBJ and SAMOO, as the winners of the competition.  Courtesy of NOW Architects  Courtesy of NOW Architects Their design for the new sporting grounds is dominated by green space and undulating topographical moves that give the complex the feel of an urban park with gentle, rolling hills. These slopes create underground areas that hide indoor functions while also enabling circulation paths to flow seamlessly into the stadium at different levels.  Courtesy of NOW Architects  Courtesy of NOW Architects The design will pay respects to the original structure and include a 30-meter "Life Moat" that surrounds the stadium. The moat is intended for functions of everyday life without blocking views of the building's iconic form. Bridges over the "Life Moat" connect the surrounding park space to the interior concourses of the stadium, including six new garden areas inserted around the stadium's bowl that allow views into the stadium from the exterior, as well as views of the adjacent Han river from the interior. According to the scheme, the metal stadium roof will also be replaced with curved translucent polycarbonate, bringing additional light into the upper deck and garden areas. News via: NOW Architects.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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