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- Baró de Viver Sports Urban Park / SCOB
- Nike Box MSK / KOSMOS architects + Strelka KB
- Pilies Apartments / Eventus Pro
- Guest Pavilion in Villa Magnolia / El Muelle Arquitectos
- Exhibition Center of Beijing Poly Future Metropolitan / BIAD
- Goldtree House / Hartree + Associates Architects
- Never-Apart-ment / Spacefiction Studio
- Intermediate Stories / HYLA Architects
- House Under the Pines / Idee architects
- Guadalquivir House / dérive LAB
- House in Itanhangá / Desenho Brasileiro
- Facebook Set to Occupy London Offices in King's Cross by AHMM and Bennetts Associates
- Hamptons Residence / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
- Habitat for Orphan Girls Crowned 2018 House of the Year by The Architectural Review
- La Tostaduría / Taller Capitán
- 7 Shout-Outs to Architects in Rap Lyrics
- Detached House in San Sebastian / Brigati - Polak Arquitectos
- Spotlight: Richard Rogers
- Brutalism & Skateboarding: J. Byron-H's Unique Furniture Inspired by An Odd Pairing
- LAM – Lisser Art Museum / KVDK architecten
| Baró de Viver Sports Urban Park / SCOB Posted: 23 Jul 2018 08:00 PM PDT  © Adrià Goula
 © Adrià Goula Previous state  Previous Situation  © Adrià Goula Before the project for the sports urban park, the access road to the site was redeveloped with the goal of controlling the indiscriminate parking activity. The urban lighting was renovated and an adjacent space was adapted to hold a little group of urban vegetable gardens. These actions began to slowly change the marginal dynamics of the site. Despite being submitted to the noise and the dominant presence of the large interurban motorways, this site enjoys an infrequent visual relationship with the distant landscape and the Collserola mountains skyline.  © Adrià Goula Object of the intervention  © Adrià Goula These new rendezvous points, gather both skaters and passers-by, fostering proximity relationships between them. Users are no more just teenagers or adults that resume their hobby, but also children starting to learn and parents accompanying them, as well as an increasing number of tourists that come to Barcelona from all over the world, fascinated by its street style. So the intervention had two main objectives: to revitalize the place and save it from marginality and oblivion, guaranteeing everybody’s right for the use of public spaces and practice of sports, despite their physical and economic status and gender.  Site Plan  © Adrià Goula Intervention description  © Adrià Goula The presence of the motorways, crossing and surrounding the site with largely curved gestures inspired the general geometry of the park. Skaters flow recreating multiple interior circuits that go along with the curved movement of cars and infrastructures, integrating them into a somehow new world of sports and entertainment. It is a multipurpose park with street areas (walls, sloped planes, stairs, stands, platforms, benches, rails…) and other singular elements as the pump track, the sushi plate, the snake run and the iguana tail, which give the park personality and attract users from all around the city.  © Adrià Goula Final assessment  © Adrià Goula  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Nike Box MSK / KOSMOS architects + Strelka KB Posted: 23 Jul 2018 07:00 PM PDT  © Yuri Palmin
 © Yuri Palmin Nike Box MSK - new sport and cultural center designed by KOSMOS Architects and Strelka KB  © Yuri Palmin  Conceptual Model Context of the site: Moscow and Gorky Park Gorky Park, Moscow's Central Park, was initially designed as an exhibition of industrial achievements, and since then has always been a place for the most experimental and cutting-edge architecture. Most noticeable landmarks of recent years - Garage Museum by OMA and Shigeru Ban, are located right next to the site of new Nike BOX MSK. Besides art, culture and leisure, Gorky Park has always been popular for those who like sports and active lifestyle, one of the best places for morning jogging or yoga in the park. __Borsch.jpg?1532091389 "© Borsch") © Borsch  Plan Nike Box MSK is built to further enhance sport infrastructure of the park and help promote sport and active lifestyle among park visitors and Moscow residents. 4700 -square-meter site will be open all year around and provide free access to sport facilities and coaching. Box MSK includes outdoor football and streetball courts, indoor and outdoor spaces for training and yoga, it will also serve as a the base for Moscow's Nike Running Club.  © Yuri Palmin Image and inspiration: new technologies and local context From the other hand, the project is inspired by the local Russian context: rough and brutal districts of panel modernist houses, and the traditional "korobkas". "Korobka" (Box in Russian) is a courtyard playground, caged by protective fences, is a typical urban detail of any periphery of a Russian city. Introduced in the absence of other urban places to play, "Korobka" symbolizes the minimal infrastructure necessary for sports and the rough, yet romantic, street sport culture.  © Yuri Palmin Architecture  © Yuri Palmin 'Naked' framework gives the building its bold, fair aesthetics of "sports infrastructure". Transparent façade and open plan provide openness of the building and integrate it in the park's greenery. Inclined "flaps" activate the whole site, allow people to use the rooftop and differentiate the activities on the sides of the building. Vivid magenta landscape and interiors give energy and inspire for sports achievements. The façade with its 3-dimensional metal lattice functions as a membrane between interior space and the park, letting inside the air, the light and the people flows. 'Naked' structure, of BOX Msk is see-through and transparent and reveals all the processes inside: even the MEP room with all its installations and cores is completely visible from the street.  © Yuri Palmin Besides creating visual transparency, the openwork frame allows the trees to freely grow through the building, which allows integrating the structure in the park without harming nature. On sunny days the building's flaps provide sun protection and cover the landscape around the façade with intricate ornamental shadows.  © Yuri Palmin The whole site around the building is a continuous playground. It is covered with magenta red sportive rubber and it incorporates sport fields, trees, and hills of spectator seats. The rubber continues inside the building as well, creating a unified experience both inside and outside the building. Another important public space, besides the magenta playground landscape, is the rooftop of Nike BOX Msk. In order to maximize the space for public activity, and give back to the park the whole footprint of the building, it was designed as an accessible space where yoga classes, public announcements, exhibitions and parties can take place.  Render Plan and organization of the interior space Transformable partition enables to unite the entrance hall and the multi-purpose hall for specific events, while transparent walls of the facade visually unite the interior with the surrounding park.  © Yuri Palmin Competition Winning concept proposed by KOSMOS Architects was evaluated and selected by an international panel which included Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli (OMA partner), Andy Walker (VP creative direction, Nike), Varvara Melnikova (CEO, Strelka Institute; Partner, KB Strelka; CEO, Afisha), Denis Leontiev (Partner and CEO, Strelka KB), Marina Lyulchuk (Gorky park director), Anton Belov (director of Garage museum of contemporary art), Giovanna Carnevali (architects and urbanist, director of competition department at Strelka KB). __Borsch.jpg?1532091334 "© Borsch") © Borsch  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Pilies Apartments / Eventus Pro Posted: 23 Jul 2018 06:00 PM PDT  © Norbert Tukaj
 © Norbert Tukaj Text description provided by the architects. Project is located in the central area of Vilnius, by the river Neris. On the opposite side of the river, in the heart of the old town, stands the symbol of medieval history of Lithuania – Gediminas tower.  Situation  Plans Housing development consists of seven buildings connected by two storey underground parking. Due to natural inclination of the landscape three of the buildings are set onto the upper terrace and the remaining four on the lower terrace.  © Norbert Tukaj  © Norbert Tukaj The front line of the existing adjacent residential development is extended into the site and is further bent to create an inner promenade with vistas towards the other side of the river. Irregular shapes of the buildings create dynamic spaces both outside and inside.  © Norbert Tukaj All buildings are four storey high and in total contain 170 premium class apartments varying in size from 30 m² to 120 m². Commercial premises on the ground floor are located alongside pedestrian paths. Different function is distinguished by black tiling and cantilevered roof stretching along the entire commercial facade.  © Norbert Tukaj  © Norbert Tukaj Dark natural colour cladding expresses robustness and compliments historical context. Vertical lamellas in the balconies liven up the facade and provide privacy where required.  © Norbert Tukaj  © Norbert Tukaj The Interior of the common spaces is predominantly white accompanied by wood texture and a pinch of black colour. Suspended ceiling lamellas disguise lighting fixtures and create a connection between exterior and interior design.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Guest Pavilion in Villa Magnolia / El Muelle Arquitectos Posted: 23 Jul 2018 05:00 PM PDT  © Fernando Alda
 © Fernando Alda Text description provided by the architects. We like to see architecture as a living organism, capable of mutating and transforming itself, of growing and reorganizing itself in order to match the different periods of time when it functions in the service of society. Our project starts with an existing villa from the 1970s that enjoys a beautiful private garden around it and is provided on the east end with a small building used as a garage. Given the need to extend the existing home, we propose to transform the garage and adjust the garden accordingly.  © Fernando Alda  Location Plan  © Fernando Alda  Constructive Details We have designed two independent open-space pavilions for guests that are organized around a central core housing different services. Each pavilion opens to capture different parts of the delightful garden as if we had created a sort of panopticon of nature. Constructively, the extension is connected to the existing building by means of a metallic structure and the two bodies are unified with an outer thermal insulation system.  © Fernando Alda The new volume built on top of the old garage is completely covered in a continuous insulating layer called S.A.T.E. A thermo-reflective roof is built in continuity with the façade, allowing for the reflection of most of the solar radiation that it receives, (> 70%), while having a high thermal emittance (> 75%). We have also built a steel pergola in the garden that allows for a vibrant passage of light and provides a generous amount of shade for carrying out different activities.  Floor Plans  © Fernando Alda  © Fernando Alda  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Exhibition Center of Beijing Poly Future Metropolitan / BIAD Posted: 23 Jul 2018 04:00 PM PDT  Building Appearance. Image © Chaoying Yang
 Building Appearance. Image © Chaoying Yang Text description provided by the architects. Poly Future Metropolitan is ideally located in the core area of Future Science City, Changping District, Beijing. Changping Future Science City, being a new science city at the national level, bears the country's expectations for technological innovation. To carry forward the overall theme and spirit of Future Metropolitan Project - future and technology, the Exhibition Center pursues a simple, pure and agile style. The design fully employs steel structure and glass curtain wall system with dynamic overhanging and a neat shape, both exerting its iconic exhibition function and demonstrating its spiritual connotation of an integration of art and technology.  Nightscape of Secondary Entrance Courtyard. Image © Chaoying Yang Design Idea  Southern Bamboo Trail Leading to Staff Entrance. Image © Chaoying Yang  Glass Curtain Wall Mixes Up the Space Boundary between Outdoor Courtyard and Indoor Discussion Area . Image © Chaoying Yang Place Building  Master Plan  Book Bar and LED Wall. Image © Chaoying Yang Spatial Layout  Stepped Book Bar: A Multi-Purpose Space for Exhibition, Rest, Discussion and Performance Viewing. Image © Chaoying Yang The interior space serves the basic functions of display, contract signing and offices, in the meantime, it pursues a sense of mobility in the space. 1F and 2F are connected through the stepped book bar, and the two floors of the discussion area below the steps are raised to present a multi-purpose space as if in a theater.  Entrance Area: Indoor Streamlines Extend around the Central Water Atrium. Image © Chaoying Yang  2F Plan  Central Water Atrium. Image © Chaoying Yang The interior streamline is circulating. Wandering around the central water atrium, one may ascend the book bar stairs, stop by the artwork, and read under the tree. People in the building are looking far into the distant scenery, whereas people outside the building are savoring the building amid the scenery.  Echoing of Interior and Exterior Spaces . Image © Chaoying Yang Joint Detail  Columnless Corner at 2F Discussion Area to Improve Transparency of Landscape. Image © Chaoying Yang What is future? And what the future life would be? When you wander upwards along the steps, when you listen to the sound of running water, and when you view at the booming streetscape, the answer is blowing in the wind….  Main Facade and Front Court. Image © Chaoying Yang  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Goldtree House / Hartree + Associates Architects Posted: 23 Jul 2018 03:00 PM PDT  © Robert Frith
Text description provided by the architects. Alterations and additions to a 1950's dwelling in East Fremantle.  © Robert Frith The ground level is dedicated to teenagers and their friends, internally the spaces were stripped back and re-organized to meet demands of contemporary life, living spaces engage with the landscape and views, the passage of the sun and breezes. The entry gallery connects elements of the home to the street, extends through the "gatho-room" to the verandah, succulent garden and pool. Conceptual Framework:  © Robert Frith Public & Cultural Benefits: Relationship of Built Form to Context:  © Robert Frith Program Resolution: Consistent client direction was critical to the success of this project, contingent upon the integration of H+AA design professionals, specialist consultants, construction tradespeople, artisans, and artists. With a strict budget, elements of the building were revisited over time to ensure the comprehensive success of the project.  © Robert Frith At H+AA we take a holistic view of sustainability, not only concerned with physical issues, our focus is aimed at social, aesthetic and economic concerns such as:  © Robert Frith In addition to a photovoltaic solar panel array, the homes green aspects include energy and water management through orientation, the function of planning, natural ventilation, selection of appropriate fixtures and fittings and water-wise native planting. West facing glazing is protected from solar gain both internally and externally. Infrastructure has been fitted to support 2 wind turbines and power storage batteries when the technology matures. This project exceeded the expectations of our teenagers, providing a steady supply of familiar faces and entertainment.  © Robert Frith  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Never-Apart-ment / Spacefiction Studio Posted: 23 Jul 2018 02:00 PM PDT  © Monika Sathe Photography
 © Monika Sathe Photography Text description provided by the architects. Hyderabad is one of the fastest growing cities in India. The old city is space stagnant and the development is rapidly moving towards and happening around the new city, which has the space to absorb it. The soaring land prices around here are a direct result of this. The families are tightly knit in India, often staying for generations together. The clients are one such family of three generations (and a probable fourth in the near future) moving to this new part of the city. The land parcels available here would mean they would have to depart from the spacious, horizontal lifestyle they were so used to before, and move into a more vertical settlement.  © Monika Sathe Photography The site is a modest 60 feet by 75 feet, in a dense layout of apartments five stories tall. It is abutted by roads on the North and West, these being the only sides not having buildings in close proximity. The idea since inception has always been to keep the connection between the generations alive now and in future. The general notion of an apartment is to allot privacy between its units. We had to mutate this idea into a model of apartment which provides privacy, all the while keeping the family connected. This was achieved by opening up living spaces into large open courts which are of double height in nature which offer connectivity between levels preventing social isolation with the family. These reduce the scale of the building visually and open on the corners with most frontage: on north-east and north-west.  © Monika Sathe Photography  Axonometric Roof The stilt is left for parking and servant rooms. The oldest generation is allotted the lower most, first floor with the next one on the second floor. The youngest generation has the last two floors to themselves with the space left for a probable future generation used as recreation spaces for now. Every floor has access to a green court. These are covered with metal louvers and perforated walls to create privacy from adjacent properties. Through these spaces, one can walk out on to the balcony; converse with a family member reading paper, all the while taking in the aromas of food being prepared in the kitchen below. These courts also have large projections in them which act as spaces for yoga, waiting, prayer or dining; depending on the level.  © Monika Sathe Photography  © Monika Sathe Photography The lower two and upper two levels are open within themselves also, connected through large double height central spaces. These contain the internal staircases leading to the upper level in each. The walls are kept stark white to enhance the spaciousness, with a turmeric yellow or earthy orange highlighting some walls to create visual depth and contrast. The doors and windows are Indian teak deco painted white. The vast polyurethane based concrete flooring has lighter pigmentation for lower and darker pigmentation for the top two floors. The furniture is kept to the bare minimum to avoid cluttering inside. Most of the interior palette is light in nature except the bedroom on the fourth level with wooden flooring which has a sky lit court of its own.  © Monika Sathe Photography  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Intermediate Stories / HYLA Architects Posted: 23 Jul 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © Derek Swalwell
 © Derek Swalwell Text description provided by the architects. When the planning authority revised the planning guidelines for landed housing by allowing more flexibility in the internal layouts, it gaves us the opportunity to re-examine the typology for an intermediate terrace house. Typically, the main problem for houses of this type is that the living areas, being located on the ground floor would look into the car parking at the front. In this house, an extra level has been inserted making this a four storey house in a 2.5 storey zone.  © Derek Swalwell  1st & 2nd floor plan The ground floor, which is just slightly below the existing level, is where the parking and service areas are. This frees the second level to be the main living areas with its double volume space and private courtyard.  © Derek Swalwell The courtyard is screened by a custom concrete air block, which is designed to be a climbing wall for one of the owner's cats. A mezzanine level holds the 2 kid's rooms, whilst the Master and study room is placed at the attic.  © Derek Swalwell  Sections  © Derek Swalwell The house is finished in off form concrete and a grey facebrick which contrasts very nicely with the warmth of the timber used throughout for floors and furniture. The cantilevered staircase is done entirely in an insitu off form concrete, with a steel edge to hold the banisters.  © Derek Swalwell  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House Under the Pines / Idee architects Posted: 23 Jul 2018 12:00 PM PDT  © Trieu Chien
 © Trieu Chien Text description provided by the architects. Hidden, located on the pine hill; the steel and glass house designed by Idee Architects has a wide vision, seeing over around the under valley and still keeps its private and isolation. The architect and customer quickly understand each other about living view, tend towards simple lifestyle, open space and freedom, silence and near nature, with full of utilities. "Live in simplicity" is the main criteria for making the design.  Floor Plan Located on the high hill, instead of leveling to widen the area for constructing and the terrain element is respected here, the wide vision becomes an excellent advantage for the house. So the land is divided 2 areas, the lower area is used for gara, extra room and a winding road leading to the higher area where the house is located with a transparent living room coming out of the hillside creating 3 view sides over the valley and getting the sunshine through the trees. The large eaves with 3 meters in some part are the openness of the interior space, and it is also a simple and effective solution for protecting from traditional severe rain and sun in Vietnam.  © Trieu Chien All the trees around are undamaged, the house layout is designed harmoniously under the tree, a large grass courtyard is in front of living room and bed, it is the playground for children but not an obstruction of view from the inside. Every side of the house are opened to ventilate or it is able to open all windows and doors on nice weather days. Western corridor helps to insulate for bedrooms. It is easy to find static and dynamic states of the house: dynamic is the external opened space and airy rooms, static is the private, peaceful and quiet.  © Trieu Chien With the light structure solution between steel and glass to design the house helps to save construction cost, not effecting on land status, full of sunshine, natural ventilation. Energy can be self-supporting in the near future with solar energy from the large roof, fresh water and vegetables as well, it is suitable with a loving nature and elegant lifestyle of the host. Local construction materials such as stone, brick were used to create the harmony with nature and save cost.  © Trieu Chien  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Guadalquivir House / dérive LAB Posted: 23 Jul 2018 10:00 AM PDT  © Tres a Uno Estudio
 © Tres a Uno Estudio Text description provided by the architects. The project consists of the regeneration of three housing units that were built in the eighties during the first expansion of the city. The aim was to transform the typology and use of spaces to provide openness, natural light and accommodate new ways of living in the neighbourhood.  © Tres a Uno Estudio  © Tres a Uno Estudio  The units were meant originally to fit families with two children, maid room, laundry room, service patios and garage for two cars in 80 square meters approximately.  Isometry  Section The urban regeneration project aims to change the typological hegemony of the neighbourhood to introduce new uses and inhabitants. In order to do this, the laundry patios were substituted with interior gardens integrating the laundry machines in the kitchen allowing to have a continuous space between the interior garden, kitchen, dining room and living room.  © Tres a Uno Estudio Maid rooms were eliminated to give space to larger master bedrooms with natural ventilation and light as well as flexible studio spaces with sliding walls that respond to different needs of the inhabitants.  Lime finishes, textures and a natural pigment color palette from the neighbourhood was integrated in order to maintain the characteristic 80s style of the area.  © Tres a Uno Estudio The main goal of the regeneration project is to transform specific elements of the units in order to accommodate not just a ´traditional family´, but also offer possibilities to other people: young couples, students or single people.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House in Itanhangá / Desenho Brasileiro Posted: 23 Jul 2018 08:00 AM PDT  © Andre Nazareth
 © Andre Nazareth Text description provided by the architects. The house is located in Itanhangá, a residential neighborhood at the beginning of Barra da Tijuca, in Rio de Janeiro. The lot, once virgin, lies within the dense Tijuca Forest, surrounded by native vegetation and picturesque topography.  © Andre Nazareth The project's concept was to locate the house with its openings in the longitudinal direction of the lot, towards the green of the forest behind and with the view of the valley ahead, while at the same time, protecting the privacy of the neighbors to the maximum. The entire green rooftop terrace makes the connection to these woods, widening the panoramas.  © Andre Nazareth Due to the steep topography, it was necessary to make a plateau to have the ground floor of the house and the outdoor area on the same level, allowing maximum integration. The private quarters are all located on the second floor.  Floor Plan The chosen materials result from a mixture between apparent concrete for the structures, wood for the facade, combined with white painted walls and metallic dark frames for the windows and doors. The main goal was to emphasize the nature. It was not desirable that architecture should overshadow the surroundings. From the outside to the inside, the object blends into the textures of the natural environment, and from the inside out, the large continuous doors and windows maximize exposure to the unique landscape.  Section  © Andre Nazareth  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Facebook Set to Occupy London Offices in King's Cross by AHMM and Bennetts Associates Posted: 23 Jul 2018 07:00 AM PDT  "P2" is currently undergoing planning persmission. Image © Bennetts Associates via Kings' Cross Facebook is moving into new offices in London's King's Cross. The announcement from King's Cross details the social media giant's commitment to take over 600,000 square feet (55,000 square meters) of office space across three buildings, namely 11 and 21 Canal Reach by Bennetts Associates, and P2 by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. The July 23rd deal between Facebook and King's Cross Central Limited Partnership (KCCLP) represents one of the most significant such commitments in London in the last decade, encompassing around 15% of King's Cross' 4-million-square-foot (370,000 square meters) commercial portfolio.  11 and 21 Canal Reach has been granted detailed planning persmission. Image © Bennetts Associates via Kings' Cross 11 and 21 Canal Reach, designed by Bennetts Associates, has received detail planning permission. The twelve-story building contains 415,000 square feet (40,000 square meters) of Grade A office space, a double-height reception space, and 42,000 square feet (4,000 square meters) of landscaped roof gardens and terraces. P2, designed by Stirling-Prize winning architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM), is currently awaiting the results of a reserved matters planning application which was submitted in June. The scheme features nine floors of office space totaling 196,000 square feet (20,000 square meters), along with a new theatre, fifth-floor wraparound terrace, and ground floor retail space.
Facebook's new office is set to open in 2021, which will represent a doubling of its existing floor space in the UK capital. At their new offices in King's Cross, Facebook will join neighbors such as Google, Universal Music, and Louis Vuitton. The deal follows on from Samsung's decision to open a 20,000-square-foot (2,000-square-meter) showcase space at Coal Drops Yard in October, the new Heatherwick Studio-designed shopping and lifestyle district in King's Cross. News via: King's Cross
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| Hamptons Residence / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Posted: 23 Jul 2018 06:00 AM PDT  © ©2015 Peter Aaron/Esto
 © ©2015 Peter Aaron/Esto Text description provided by the architects. Set among fields along the south-facing coast of Long Island and within a short walk to the ocean, this Hamptons residence is a quiet refuge for a growing family and offers extraordinary views of the surrounding landscape. The residence lies parallel to the water, looking south into preserved agricultural land with the distant sound of waves breaking along the ocean shore, and north to a field of wildflowers and native grasses.  Lower Floor Plan  © ©2015 Peter Aaron/Esto The plan bends slightly to maximize views of the coastline. A path from the parking court leads to a linear walkway of silver-grey weathered wood planks that passes through the entry foyer of the house and out to the pool beyond. The volume of the house is a two-story wood, steel, and glass structure; transparent walls provide delicacy to the house.  © ©2015 Peter Aaron/Esto Louvered screens and deep overhangs shield the interior spaces from the summer sun and allow warm winter light to dip below the roofline. Inside, a hall runs past the entry foyer and kitchen, at which point the house plan opens into a light-filled double-height dining and living space. A large chimney mass and skylight anchor the room.  © ©2015 Peter Aaron/Esto Above a suspended bridge spans through the double-height space connecting second story volumes at varying levels, inclining upward and terminating at either end in an open staircase. Guest sleeping rooms and a master suite inhabit these volumes and look out to the sea. The upper-level master suite includes a study, covered deck, and a glorious light-filled bath. The outside is comprised of a serene palette of natural materials which will weather as the house ages, harmonizing with the beachside landscape.  © ©2015 Peter Aaron/Esto  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Habitat for Orphan Girls Crowned 2018 House of the Year by The Architectural Review Posted: 23 Jul 2018 05:30 AM PDT  Habitat for Orphan Girls in Khansar, Iran by ZAV Architects. Image via The Architectural Review The Architectural Review has chosen a Habitat for Orphan Girls in Iran by ZAV Architects as the 2018 House of the Year. A competition staged by the publication every year, the AR House Awards identify "originality and excellence in the design of dwellings," recognizing private houses which go beyond the core function of shelter, and become "an object of fantasy, a source of delight, a talisman, and a testing ground. The ninth edition of the awards saw six projects chosen from a shortlist of 16, which contained schemes from the UK, Ireland, Spain, Scandinavia, Canada, Latin America, Iran, Vietnam, India, Nepal, and Japan. Previous winners have included David Chipperfield's Fayland House in 2015, UID Architects' Cosmic House in 2016, and the anti-seismic prototype in 2017 by Edward Ng, Wan Li and Xinan Chi. The six recognized projects, which consist of one overall winner, two high commendations, and three commendations, are listed below. WinnerHabitat for Orphan Girls in Khansar, Iran / ZAV Architects  Habitat for Orphan Girls in Khansar, Iran by ZAV Architects. Image via The Architectural Review The Habitat for Orphan Girls, situated in the foothills of Iran's Zagros mountains, was chosen as the overall winner. The scheme seeks to give vulnerable children a safe, culturally sensitive environment through an experimentation with new and alternative forms of home life. Jury member Marie-Jose Van Hee described the scheme as "an atypical project that has no ambitions in the architectural sense of monumentality [however] the expression of the "inner" quality is monumental – and also brave." High CommendationsHouse in Nobeoka / Schemata Architects  House in Nobeoka by Schemata Architects. Image © Takumi Ota  House in Nobeoka by Schemata Architects. Image © Jan Vranovsky Binh House in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam / Vo Trong Nghia Architects  Binh House in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam by Vo Trong Nghia Architects. Image © Hiroyuki Oki  Binh House in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam by Vo Trong Nghia Architects. Image © Hiroyuki Oki CommendationsCasa Bruma in Valle de Bravo, Mexico / Fernanda Canales & Claudia Rodríguez  Casa Bruma in Valle de Bravo, Mexico by Fernanda Canales & Claudia Rodríguez. Image © Rafael Gamo  Casa Bruma in Valle de Bravo, Mexico by Fernanda Canales & Claudia Rodríguez. Image © Rafael Gamo Casa IV in Elche, Spain / Mesura  Casa IV in Elche, Spain by Mesura. Image © Pedro Pegenaute  Casa IV in Elche, Spain by Mesura. Image © Pedro Pegenaute Kokoon / Helsinki's Aalto University Wood Programme, Finland  Kokoon by Helsinki's Aalto University Wood Programme, Finland. Image © Tuomas Uusheimo  Kokoon by Helsinki's Aalto University Wood Programme, Finland. Image © Marc Goodwin The remaining projects on the shortlist were as follows:
The 2018 jury was comprised of Chilean architect Mathias Klotz, Belgium-based architect Marie-Jose Van Hee, and British architect Amin Taha. News via: The Architectural Review  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| La Tostaduría / Taller Capitán Posted: 23 Jul 2018 04:00 AM PDT  © Marcos Guiponi
 © Marcos Guiponi Text description provided by the architects. La Tostaduría, the coffee as a cult, from roasting to its consumption. A space designed as a whole, furniture, graphic design and art revolve around a single purpose, passion for specialty coffee.  © Marcos Guiponi  Scheme of roasting Coffee roaster and specialty coffee shop  © Marcos Guiponi Coffee roasting: it was considered as a mini-factory, delimiting cargo mobility routes such as coffee storage. The toast is visible to the public, endowing to the customer for a unique experience.  © Marcos Guiponi Specialty coffee shop: It appears as a single and large coffee bar, more than 6 meters that seeks to break into space as the only heavy element. about her all the activities related to the coffee service, as well as a sector dedicated exclusively to the filtered ones.  Scheme of Taller Capitan 01 The general aesthetic has a marked characteristic, with a palette bounded to black, gray and white. The metal painted in black becomes the protagonist of the whole place, all the equipment is enhanced by this resource, thus reinforcing the monochromatic character of it.  © Marcos Guiponi The pre-existing medians were left as they were, incorporating murals of the artist Kill Beef that made reference to the coffees achieved a very visual impact important.  © Marcos Guiponi All the furniture was designed exclusively for this project, and executed by the same signature Taller Capitán, it was considered as a whole, where the design is applied from the macro even the smallest details, generating the uniformity and empowerment of the idea.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 7 Shout-Outs to Architects in Rap Lyrics Posted: 23 Jul 2018 02:30 AM PDT  © Messe Basel About a month before he unveiled his eighth album Ye in June, Kanye West re-entered architectural conversation with the unexpected and mostly unexplained announcement that he intends to hire architects and industrial designers to staff an architecture practice connected to his Yeezy brand. An outspoken fan and admirer of contemporary architecture, Kanye's fashion and design projects have been a major focus for him since shortly after the prodigious producer started making his own rap albums. Kanye's architectural ambitions have been an interesting factor in the relationship between architecture and rap culture, which seems to be just coming into focus through programs like the Hip Hop Architecture Camps organized by Michael Ford's Urban Arts Collective, and the research of Sekou Cooke. Architecture and rap music have influenced each other in ways we're just starting to notice—with the connection between the two even revealed as consciously and conspicuously as rappers including references to notable architects in their lyrics.  Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jacques Herzog, and Kanye West speak on Architecture in 2013.. Image © Seth Browarnik/startraksphoto.com, via Surface Magazine's Facebook Page Hip-hop heads may not recognize their names as easily as Gucci or Prada, but the fact that rappers are name-dropping architects reflects an interesting development in the relationship between architecture and pop culture. Within the rapid-fire context of rap lyrics, individual references and name drops are often simplified and abstracted to represent a single idea; when rappers mention an architect, the reference is usually intended to symbolize either the status of a famous and well-respected creative genius or a specific designer's work as an exclusive, virtually-unobtainable luxury item on par with uber-costly fashion and car brands. It must be stated that the established conventions and performative aspects of rap culture create a context where lyrics are generally not intended to be interpreted literally, and some references to architecture in hip-hop demonstrate only a minimal understanding of the figures being mentioned. Even so, it might be tough for some architects to hear that popular culture could view the profession as defined by hero worship, immodest extravagance, and consumerism.  © Messe Basel Often intended as praise but possibly symptomatic of sensitive perception issues, the following collection of rap lyrics offer insight into contemporary architecture's cultural reputation, inherited from last century's modernists and continued by the standard bearers of today. Kids See Ghosts; Kanye West and Kid Cudi, featuring Yasiin Bey
In these lines from the title track of his joint album with Kid Cudi, Kanye boasts about his connection to the design world by offering a coded reminder of the time he held an impromptu listening party for his then-unreleased album Yeezus at the 2013 Design Miami/Basel show, sharing a stage with furniture by Rick Owens to perform the songs "New Slaves" and "On Sight." While it does have sister shows in Miami, Kanye makes it clear that he's talking about the event held in the Herzog & de Meuron-designed Messe Basel exhibition hall in Basel, Switzerland. Unpacking this lyric shows that the reference ultimately has little to do with the Swiss firm's architecture though, functioning instead to announce Kanye's status as a participant in the exclusive world of high art. Ghetto Rave; Ebow
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In this multilingual banger, German-Turkish rapper Ebow calls herself "Zaha Hadid of the rap game." In hip-hop parlance, this is one of the highest possible compliments a rapper can bestow, as name-dropping Hadid shows utmost respect for her reputation, to the point that the comparison functions as braggadocio. Flex Off; People Under The Stairs
Connecting the architect's legacy to Prince and the main characters from Miami Vice for probably the first and only time, Underground LA rap legends People Under The Stairs drop Frank Lloyd Wright's name as a demonstration of their sophisticated knowledge of culture in these tight rhythmic bars. As probably America's most famous architect, Wright is mentioned here basically as a symbol of the architectural design process in general. Picasso Baby; Jay-Z
Jay-Z uses the reputation of Leonardo (who produced architectural designs as well as many other forms of creative work in his lifetime) to boast about his own status in hip-hop. This comparison appears in the context of a song consciously peppered with a range of art references, and it's worth noting that he shows admiration for da Vinci's career, rather than a desire to show off his work as a status symbol in the way he does with Givenchy in the next line. Houses In The Hills; Sturla Atlas Featuring Joey Christ & Logi Pedro
This song by rising Icelandic artist Sturla Atlas was written for and about an architect he knows personally, and the lyrics are full of architecture references. While it's unclear if "Corbusier money" refers to the modernist's personal fortune or the wealth perceived as necessary to afford one of his buildings, these lines from Joey Christ's verse present architecture as a symbol of upper-crust lifestyle in the same way as Sturla Atlas does in the chorus when he says "Diamonds in your hair, cruising Malibu / Houses in the hills that I drew for you." Jus Chillin; Curtismith
In some ways, this line appeals to Rem Koolhaas' reputation and functions as a boast by comparison in the same way as other rappers on this list have compared themselves to architects in a flattering way. The overall lack of context and information here makes it just as likely that this rapper is just calling himself Koolhaus because of his interesting name, and appropriate or not, it's hard to deny that Rem Koolhaas has a very interesting name. Oscar Niemeyer; Lord Esperanza
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Coming from the end of a fiery French-language freestyle, Lord Esperanza dropping Niemeyer's name here positions the architect as an aspirational figure both in describing him as an innovator and by using this reference to him as the final punctuation mark on a passionate and impressive series of verses.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Detached House in San Sebastian / Brigati - Polak Arquitectos Posted: 23 Jul 2018 02:00 AM PDT .jpg?1531598775 "© Ramiro Sosa") © Ramiro Sosa
.jpg?1531598593 "© Ramiro Sosa") © Ramiro Sosa Text description provided by the architects. The idea was to generate a large shadow affecting the least amount of soil, as would a tree, spreading with lush foliage over its main stem.  Floor Plans .jpg?1531598658 "© Ramiro Sosa") © Ramiro Sosa In order to achieve it, the loads rise, where with great robustness it spreads its branches to the north, east and west (but not to the south), thus tripling its surface in relation to the ground floor, and then transferring them in three supports, each one transferring on average one hundred and twenty tons to the ground. .jpg?1531598540 "© Ramiro Sosa") © Ramiro Sosa The White interior and ceiling come to cover the musculature that makes all this possible. Reinforced concrete is not a further decision to materialize, it is the seed of the project itself. Could not have been thought of in any other material. .jpg?1531598684 "© Ramiro Sosa") © Ramiro Sosa The other preponderant element is glass, blurring the limits, allowing the landscape to advance on the interior, almost prepotent. The program: A single-family detached house with two floors, with the social area on the ground floor and the rest area plus a playroom on the top floor. .jpg?1531598094 "Model 4") Model 4 .jpg?1531598528 "© Ramiro Sosa") © Ramiro Sosa  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 23 Jul 2018 01:00 AM PDT  Centre Georges Pompidou / Richard Rogers + Renzo Piano. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/2496569412'>Flickr user dalbera</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> As one of the leading architects of the British High-Tech movement, Pritzker Prize-winner Richard Rogers stands out as one of the most innovative and distinctive architects of a generation. Rogers made his name in the 1970s and '80s, with buildings such as the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Headquarters for Lloyd's Bank in London. To this day his work plays with similar motifs, utilizing bright colors and structural elements to create a style that is recognizable, yet also highly adaptable.  © 2013 Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners LLP Rogers was born in Florence, but his family moved to Britain during the Second World War, when Rogers was a child. After attending the Architectural Association in London, Rogers studied in the United States at Yale University, where he met fellow Brit Norman Foster. After graduating, the two architects joined forces with Su Brumwell and Wendy Cheeseman to form Team 4 in 1963. Though their collaboration as Team 4 lasted just four years, it would prove to be a crucial formative stage in British architecture, as both Rogers and Foster went on to be the leading names of the British High-Tech scene.  Rogers House / Richard & Su Rogers. Image © Tim Crocker Shortly after Team 4 was disbanded, Rogers began another fruitful collaboration, this time with Renzo Piano. The duo's big break came in 1971 when, working with architect Gianfranco Franchini and Peter Rice, an engineer from Arup, they won the competition to design the Centre Pompidou. Still young and relatively unknown, Rogers and Piano shocked many with their radical design, placing the building's services in full view in a trademark Rogers technique that went on to be known as "bowellism."  Inmos Microprocessor Factory. Image © Ken Kirkwood Despite a mixed reception when it was completed in 1977, the Centre Pompidou has gone on to be a much-loved building in Paris. It is widely recognized as a defining moment in the history of museum design, as its unpretentious and futuristic design was intended to break down the elitist aura that was often held by art museums. A similar occurrence happened in London a decade later: now working as Richard Rogers Partnership, Rogers utilized his bowellist style again at the Lloyd's of London Building, garnering criticism at the time. However, the Lloyd's building is now a treasured landmark of central London, and was even given the UK's highest listed status, Grade I, in 2011.  Lloyd's of London Building. Image © Mark Ramsay In the 1990s Rogers became involved in British politics, sitting in the House of Lords as a Labour Peer (his full title is Baron Rogers of Riverside). This led to an invitation by the government to set up the Urban Task Force, which in 1998 conducted a review into the causes of urban decay and outlined a vision for the future of British Cities in the paper "Towards an Urban Renaissance." For 8 years he was also chief advisor on architecture and urbanism for the Mayor of London.  The Leadenhall Building. Image © Richard Bryant – Courtesy of British Land/Oxford Properties In more recent years Rogers has continued to produce work of great merit, winning the Stirling Prize in 2006 and 2009, and the Pritzker Prize in 2007.  Millennium Dome. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesjin/58712717/'>Flickr user jamesjin</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/'>CC BY-SA 2.0</a> See all of Richard Rogers' work featured on ArchDaily via the thumbnails below, and more coverage of Rogers below those: Richard Rogers wins Stirling Prize for Maggie's Centre London Names RSHP's Leadenhall "Building of the Year 2015" Richard Rogers Honoured at New London Awards Richard Rogers Honored with Lifetime Achievement Medal Richard Rogers Wins ULI J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development Pritzker Prize Appoints Richard Rogers As Newest Jury Member Pompidou Centre to Receive $110 Million Facelift for its 40th Anniversary Richard Rogers Donates His Parents' Home To Harvard GSD Richard and Su Rogers's Wimbledon House Photographed by Iwan Baan Video: The Making of RSHP's Leadenhall Building On Top of the City: Behind the Scenes at the Leadenhall Building Richard Rogers Speaks Out Against Garden Cities Proposals Architect Lord Richard Rogers and the Making Of Scandicci City VIDEO: Ruth and Richard Rogers' London Home RSHP Adapts Jean Prouvé's 6x6 Demountable House for Design Miami/Basel 2015 Review: 'Richard Rogers: Inside Out' at the Royal Academy  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Brutalism & Skateboarding: J. Byron-H's Unique Furniture Inspired by An Odd Pairing Posted: 22 Jul 2018 11:00 PM PDT  © Samuel McGuire Architects and designers are turning into their very own version of Midas, everything they touch turns into concrete. With products like concrete coffee machines, concrete garden gnomes, and even concrete jewelry, designers are finding remarkable ways of experimenting with the material, proving that concrete is a lot more than just a bulky, building component. Los Angeles based architect-designer J.Byron-H, known for his playfulness with material and unexpected forms, have experimented with concrete and glass-fiber and created contemporary, light-weight pieces of furniture, inspired by skateboards and architectural brutalism.  © Samuel McGuire  © Samuel McGuire  © Samuel McGuire The Concrete Stools series are available in three different dimensions: the low stool, the high stool, and the bench. The stools are made of cast and warped glass-fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC), and are available in a range of colorful pastel shades (grape, tangerine, lemon, blue raspberry, and bubblegum – and yes, we think they look like candy too). The pigmented mixture is poured into a flat skateboard-shaped rubber mold, and is manipulated and bent while curing into its final form. Since every stool is handcrafted, the tones and finishes are never identical, reflecting the uniqueness of hand-made quality.  © Samuel McGuire  © Samuel McGuire  © Samuel McGuire They are pretty rad stools if you ask us. News via: J.Byron-H  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| LAM – Lisser Art Museum / KVDK architecten Posted: 22 Jul 2018 10:00 PM PDT 
 © Sjaak Henselmans  Site Plan From country estate to cultural park  © Sjaak Henselmans Keukenhof cultural park masterplan  © Ronald Tilleman New and different  © Sjaak Henselmans  Circulation Route architecturale  © Ronald Tilleman Modest and welcoming  © Ronald Tilleman Sustainable in every degree  © Sjaak Henselmans The valuable collection items require high-performance building services and security systems, including an extremely well-insulated, low thermal transmittance building envelope. Every exhibition space is equipped with occupancy-reactive air-conditioning and LED lighting. The abundance of filtered daylight helps to reduce energy consumption while also making for a more natural museum experience. The embedding in the dike, the choice of materials and the green roof combine to lend the museum a robust appearance built to endure.  © Ronald Tilleman Museum of art for everyone  Axonometric  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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