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- House in Uxes / terceroderecha arquitectos
- Dilli Haat / Archohm Consults
- Hug & Link / Edam Architecture Design Group
- 'Aerial Futures' Explores the Relationship Between Cities and Their Airports
- Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY Installs Coral-Like Pavilion in 17th Century Bruges Seminary
- Incomplete House / estudio relativo
- h2o architectes Reveals Designs of Three Pavilions Along Seine River
- How Could Modern Self-Build Communities Challenge the Role of the Architect?
- Canoe Lake Leisure Tennis Pavilion / PAD studio
- First Look at Company, the SHoP Architects-Designed Vertical Tech Campus in NYC
| House in Uxes / terceroderecha arquitectos Posted: 07 Jul 2018 10:00 PM PDT  © Baku Akazawa
 © Baku Akazawa Text description provided by the architects. The house is located on a rural plot conditioned by existing guidelines, The house opens in its common areas to the south from where you will enjoy the best views. On the other hand, the presence of a road, elevated compared to the natural level of the plot, with a high traffic, reinforces that intention to turn to the landscape and turn its back on neighbors and road, demonstrating a duality of scales in the exterior appearance of the house. The areas of the day use program on the ground floor of the house is resolved, with the clear intention of enabling direct contact with the land, with the bedrooms on the upper floor.  Lower Floor Plan  Upper Floor Plan The need to build a compact house given the size and shape of the plot doesn't prevent to generates a volume that disintegrates its different rooms into different spaces, all of which are connected by a central hall as a connector of the house. This allows a compact scheme with the absence of corridors. The areas of greatest contact with the plot are located in the lower part of the ends of the arms, this being reflected with the combination of different materials.  © Baku Akazawa The studio and the kitchen shows the clear relation with the outer space, nuanced by folding or unfolding the wooden lattices, while the living room, through the terrace that finishes it, also has that mutation capacity, adapting itself to the needs of the user, thanks again to the movement of the external lattices. Finally, the garage, following the Galician tradition, can be used to carry out domestic work, being possible its total or partial opening by means of the fold of the external wood cladding.  © Baku Akazawa  Facade  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 07 Jul 2018 07:00 PM PDT  © André J Fanthome
 © André J Fanthome 'Haat Beat' was the starting point to this design competition entry in 2005. Delhi Tourism and Transportation Development Corporation had invited entries for a Dilli Haat in Janakpuri - a massive site with a large residential audience, in a part of Delhi that had very few places to go out to. DTTDC has promoted music all across Delhi with its concerts and other initiatives. The idea was to give them a home for playful music and give these homes a place to play with music. This was the underlying layer that bonded the overall program of formal and informal shops to sell crafts and celebrate culture; to inject a new life into this part of Delhi and be its rhythmic 'haat beat'.  © André J Fanthome  Site Layout  © André J Fanthome As a design philosophy, with two Dilli Haats already in the city, one questioned the design elements at multiple levels. Fundamentally, all Dilli Haats need to have a common ground of bringing artisans to interface with city dwellers. All these haats need their own identity to attract people not only from their own neighborhood but from the city at large. One also had to look at evolving the language and imagery of these haats with time. They could not be imitated extensions of the previous haats or imitations of villages in the city. They had to be progressive, in tune with today's times and respecting the craft and cultural centricity of the project.  © André J Fanthome The design solution, therefore, is a conversation between the past and the present, acknowledgment of the traditional and its adaptation in contemporary times, in concept and in construction. The site was a large six-acre northwest facing contiguous piece that turns southeast towards the end. The plot is bound by the main bus terminus on one side, the Tihar jail (a national prison) greens on the other side and a large commercial road in the front. The complex is planned with two entrances; a primary face with vehicular and pedestrian zones and a secondary rear entry for pedestrians into the craft-only zone.  © André J Fanthome The conception of the program is as large a design intervention as its physical manifestation. The final functionality found an indoor, well-equipped, 800- capacity auditorium for formal concerts and an informal similar capacity open-air amphitheater that works simultaneously with independent spaces and support services. A multipurpose, multi-scaled exposition hall for exhibitions and seminars is proposed. A set of four baskets houses a music museum, a music store, and music workshop space along with tourism offices and cafes. A large, air-conditioned food court extends into shaded courtyards and expansive greens for the basic need of spillovers.  © André J Fanthome Formal, informal and open shop spaces are created to bring in the required sensitive adaptations of malls, markets, and bazaars into this haat. An independent fine dining with an extended banquet facility is created to reinforce the business plan for this complex cultural complex. Taking cognizance of all the requirements, so as to make the haat - a functionally viable program, it was decided to give a music theme to the center. The lack of any center dedicated to music is evident while doing the research and soon, the theme of 'haat beat' gathered momentum. A state-of-the-art auditorium that can hold large music concerts, an amphitheater, a music center for sales and exhibition of musical instruments along with inviting exuberant gatherings of budding musicians and music lovers.  Sections 1 and 2 Outdoor shops with roofing canopies and craft shops to hold artisans' workshops are integral to the Dilli haat theme. Air-conditioned shops are added to make it a more viable shopping experience. There is also a children's play area tucked into a small green patch. The food court with basement parking facilities ties it all together to sustain it as an enterprise. Like a well-crafted movie, the strength of this project is that the plot is strong and the basic idea is immersed well in every aspect extensively. The site plan is knit together efficiently. Free-flowing open spaces bind various activities on two levels. The main pedestrian and vehicular entries are from a busy street. There is a separate service entry and a couple of special entry points.  © Mridu Sahai A large open space takes the visitor through a frisking area to another pocket that leads to the huge central plaza formed by meandering Air conditioned shops and the exposition halls. One can also take the open pedestrian ramp to reach the terrace lined by canopy shops. From the frisking area, there are direct access points to the café, surface and basement parking and banquet greens. The central plaza culminates to the auditorium and the craft shops cluster. The most popular activity that is the craft shop clusters located at the rear end to enable the visitor to walk through the entire haat. Another frisking area is located near these clusters since there is a strong possibility of craft shops to become the predominant function.  Section 4 The four 8 m high towers are interspersed along the site. Designed to look like huge bamboo baskets, they are two-storied buildings with a rooftop canopy designed for outdoor activities. Closer to the entry, one basket houses the information center, while the other forms a café. Wander more into the interiors of the site and the baskets house a music center and a museum. The music center not only avails sale of all genres of rare classics, musical instruments but provides ample outdoor space and a small amphitheater to take care of interactive functions. The exposition halls are three linear vaults of ascending widths in the plan, forming one large space that can be divided into three as required.  © André J Fanthome Colorful flowering creepers that soften the scale and help temperature control further cover the steel sheeting on top. The food court will house 48 stalls from different places and celebrate the taste of India. The two storied air-conditioned space is well supported with individual service courts for every stall, in turn, opening into a larger service yard connected with separate access. The front wall of the food court, visible from the main access road holds the huge signage keeping those interested updated on the happening inside is sure to change the skyline of the street forever. A state of the art auditorium with 800 seating capacity also forms an amphitheater on top that can hold an audience of 820 people. The green and paved amphitheater instantly reduce the huge mass of the auditorium and at the same time helps retain the green cover, helping in heat control.  © André J Fanthome The air-conditioned shops bring a sigh of relief to Delhiites, sold out on arty- crafty goods, and summer being the hub of the shopping calendar. Also, covered on top by canopied shops they make a bustling activity space lit up by shop signage and street sculptures. 100 craft shops circular in plan, are arranged in clusters of 5-6 each forming a bazaar. These are built in the most conventional natural stone masonry, covered with the most technologically advance tensile canopies. The clusters are connected with small green patches and paved allies completing the village scene. The rear boundary wall is lined with informal platform shops overlooking this village. Breaking free of the conventional look and feel of its other two counterparts with their brick vocabulary, Dilli Haat, Janakpuri takes a fresh look at the material palette as demanded by the multifaceted program that it houses.  © Mridu Sahai The material spectrum is an eclectic mix of modern and traditional. Using the timeless red Agra stone, Kota stone, slate, and the local Delhi quartz stone masonry on facades and landscapes sets a neat and natural typology to this predominantly green complex. The one material that is being celebrated with its extensive usage is bamboo; Structures for shading, screens for baskets and food court, sculptures for street furniture on one side and the natural growing ones as soft-scapes of boundary plantations and accent trees on the other. Indigenous stones and plants coupled with contemporary mediums of steel and tensile canopies juxtapose themselves aptly. This traditional 'haat' of contemporary times is a rich and earthy play of color and texture and one can experience the warm intimate spaces designed to human scale as well as the grandeur.  © Mridu Sahai  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Hug & Link / Edam Architecture Design Group Posted: 07 Jul 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © Yoon Joon-Hwan
 © Yoon Joon-Hwan Text description provided by the architects. Sejong Lake Park is the biggest man-made lake in Korea, which has a size of 62 times bigger than a soccer field and mean depth of 3m. The lake park reminds of a painting with adjacent Sejong National Library and Jeon-Wolsan mountain in the background. There are five artificial island, including a festival island for a space for festivals, a water show stage show, a water park island which reminds the beach and an island of ecology wetland and various aquatic plants. Sejong residents enjoy the peaceful break along the promenade and cycling road around the lake.  © Yoon Joon-Hwan This is another rest area in the park. The Hug&Link where it has a cafe and exhibition space was created with the concept of linking the culture of communication and hug the nature.  © Yoon Joon-Hwan The site is located in the south of the lake. The outdoor spaces and these plans play a role as a bridge between two parks, actively communicating with the surrounding area while providing an open and comfortable place for the users.  © Yoon Joon-Hwan The cafe space was made into space with a gable roof overlooking the lake. It resembles the beautiful nature around the lake park and blends into one. Also, timber and gable have an intention of being friendly and welcoming the visitiors. The cafe has a mezzanine floor and the wide-open space toward the lake where you can feel every part of the lake with a warm sunshine.  © Yoon Joon-Hwan  Diagram 02  © Yoon Joon-Hwan An exhibition space and office are placed on the first floor adjacent to the pine tree hill. You will find the pine tree hill again as you walk up the stairs along the wall with beautiful pine tree view windows. On the second floor of the cafe, you can also meet this space as a break area in a small forest looking over the lake with a scent of a pine tree and fresh wind.  © Yoon Joon-Hwan This place shall be a pleasant place for the visitors as a communication window of various attractions, rest, meet and dream of a better future.  © Yoon Joon-Hwan  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 'Aerial Futures' Explores the Relationship Between Cities and Their Airports Posted: 07 Jul 2018 09:00 AM PDT A new short film by the non-profit organization AERIAL FUTURES explores the complex relationships between cities and their airports. In conjunction with New York's AERIAL FUTURES: Urban Constellations think tank, this video asks how cities can be imagined collectively to improve both urban life and future travel capabilities. The film features several experts who discuss the challenges and opportunities for the future of New York City's airports and supporting infrastructure, drawing on the think tank's focus of urban design and digital interfaces. ![[Public domain], <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Washington_National_Airport_1941_LOC_fsa.8a36171.jpg">via Wikimedia Commons</a>. ImageWashington National Airport - 1941](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5b39/9a09/f197/cc68/9700/0161/medium_jpg/Washington_National_Airport_1941_LOC_fsa.8a36171.jpg?1530501636 "[Public domain], <a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Washington_National_Airport_1941_LOC_fsa.8a36171.jpg\">via Wikimedia Commons</a>. ImageWashington National Airport - 1941") [Public domain], <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Washington_National_Airport_1941_LOC_fsa.8a36171.jpg">via Wikimedia Commons</a>. ImageWashington National Airport - 1941 Cities such as New York, Chicago, and London present new challenges for passengers and urban dwellers who may struggle to navigate their way around airports. Having so many airports within a single city means they are frequently owned and operated by different governing bodies, thus in competition with one another, and may lack sufficient infrastructure to connect them. With seven airports in New York City, the metropolis offers an interesting case study to explore and reimagine airports as an ecosystem, reliant on architecture and urban planning as it is on technology and data-driven design. The next public AERIAL FUTURES event will take place Thursday, July 19 at the Denver Art Museum. The event titled Constructed Landscapes will ask how airports influence the future of mobility and transportation. Speakers include YJ Fischer from Virgin Hyperloop One, Curtis Fentress from Fentress Architects, Amy Ford from the Colorado Department of Transportation, and Fred Merrill from Sasaki. News via: PLANE — SITE  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY Installs Coral-Like Pavilion in 17th Century Bruges Seminary Posted: 07 Jul 2018 07:00 AM PDT  © Studio NAARO As a part of the second Art and Architecture Triennial in Bruges, Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY's prototype pavilion entitled nonLin/Lin has been taken out of storage and placed on public display for the first time. First commissioned and displayed in 2011 by the FRAC Centre in Orleans, France, the exhibition will explore the rise of computational form-making. The work will spend the summer installed in the nave of the Grootseminarie, a 17th century Cistercian Abbey hosting an exhibition curated by Abdelkader Damani entitled Liquid Architectures.  © Studio NAARO Fitting this year's overarching Triennial theme of Liquid City, the designers explain that the "lively, fluid-like forms" of the pavilion "upend the notion of architecture as rigidly determined and immutable." The exhibition is described as a demonstration of how digital design and manufacturing tools have created new approaches to architecture since their development in the 1990s.  © Studio NAARO Previously displayed in a sparse white-walled gallery, the piece gains a new layer of meaning from the religious architectural context of the Grootseminarie. With its bright white aluminum, smooth curves and tubular limbs, its structure creates a contrast against the classical detailing, vaulted ceiling, and patterned stone floors of the Grootseminarie.  © Studio NAARO The nonLin/Lin pavilion invites visitors inside its tangled structural network, which conjures a liquid effect with its continuous surface of 1mm thick glossy aluminum panels. These components are combined into 40 pre-assembled modules that allow the pavilion to be broken down for storage and re-installed in new places when desired. The panels are pierced by over 150,000 CNC-drilled apertures that fill the inside of the pavilion with dappled illumination. This effect will be amplified in this installation of the piece thanks to the Abbey's sizable clerestory windows.  © Studio NAARO On display since May 5, the exhibition will be open and accessible to the public through the end of the Triennale Brugge on September 16, 2018. News Via: THEVERYMANY  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Incomplete House / estudio relativo Posted: 07 Jul 2018 06:00 AM PDT .jpg?1528686799 "© Ramiro Sosa") © Ramiro Sosa
.jpg?1528687031 "© Ramiro Sosa") © Ramiro Sosa .jpg?1528686548 "© Ramiro Sosa") © Ramiro Sosa Text description provided by the architects. It is a house for a young couple, located in a closed neighborhood in the outskirts of Santa Fe. The loan meant the opportunity to promote a first instance of construction, allowing an early occupation of the property. In this first stage, a series of coordinated extensions would gradually happen in each case according to the emerging priorities of its occupants. The peculiarities of the loan, allowed interpreting it as an appropriate scenario in which to test growth hypotheses and adaptations of the domestic space to the progressive re-configuration of the family scene. .jpg?1528686932 "© Ramiro Sosa") © Ramiro Sosa  Diagram and Floor Plan .jpg?1528686957 "© Ramiro Sosa") © Ramiro Sosa  Diagram Therefore, the dynamics of the contemporary family, with its incorporations and ruptures as an indeterminate project, in permanent process, so that the search for a definitive scheme is avoided in a conscious way: a plan that determines once and for all and forever the character of the construction and the destiny of the spaces. Instead, it proposed a strategy of implementation, a constructive-spatial system of atomic, cellular, devoid of hierarchies and rhizomatic and indefinite growth. Thus housing (in this case), as a living organism, accompanies and adapts to the family nucleus in transit through its multiple ages, settling in from the planning stages of work in a condition of permanently unfinished, to be done, to reinvent itself . .jpg?1528686919 "© Ramiro Sosa") © Ramiro Sosa .jpg?1528687020 "© Ramiro Sosa") © Ramiro Sosa .jpg?1528686233 "© Ramiro Sosa") © Ramiro Sosa The proposed system consists of a series of modules whose dimension characteristics suggest the types of use (social or intimate 'cells') and support 'cells' for both interior spaces and for outdoor and semi-covered spaces. In all cases, it was sought, in function of operationalizing the design to maximize the contact of each cell with an outer space; and minimize the contact of the cells with each other, being the most optimal, through the opening of a door. In this way the 'cells' acquire independence and privacy, while multiplying the options of growth and dispersion. .jpg?1528686944 "© Ramiro Sosa") © Ramiro Sosa We imagine the structure in another time, already occupied by other habitants; wearing medical offices, student pension, social club; attaching new modules and isolating oneself a thousand times and in a thousand different ways; as a structure of programmable (and unprogrammable) occupation , decharacterized or without recognizable face. A piece of neighborhood micro-urbanism affected by the block, more than a singular piece of architecture. A proposal of constructive and social fabric. .jpg?1528686272 "© Ramiro Sosa") © Ramiro Sosa  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| h2o architectes Reveals Designs of Three Pavilions Along Seine River Posted: 07 Jul 2018 05:00 AM PDT  © Julien Attard Paris-based h2o architectes revealed their designs for three pavilions to be constructed along the Seine River, near the western entrance of the Lagravère Park in Colombes. The pavilions are woven into the existing landscape, creating a dialogue between the architecture and surrounding nature. The three small structures were designed according to function and are spread out along the promenade.  © Julien Attard The first pavilion, located near the entrance, welcomes visitors to the trail. The second pavilion is a shop and the third houses public restrooms.  Courtesy of h2o architectes  © Stéphane Chalmeau According to the architects, "the three buildings express directionality: their open gables act like windows onto the landscape. Their elongated yet discrete shape, prolonged by terraces or porches, allows for the three volumes to establish visual connections" to the surrounding park area.  Courtesy of h2o architectes News via: h2o architectes  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| How Could Modern Self-Build Communities Challenge the Role of the Architect? Posted: 07 Jul 2018 02:30 AM PDT  via Graven Hill Village Development Company "Self-build": no mention of an architect, or anyone else for that matter. Maybe it's a prehistoric urge that makes this idea so enticing; our earliest ancestors constructed their primitive huts to suit their unique needs and reflect their status or style. "Self-build" promises to physically re-connect people to the homes they live in. However, the romantic notion of "self-build" housing is rarely compatible with the modern reality we live in. Building has become increasingly clouded by the difficulty of procuring land, excessive governmental red-tape, and an increase in building complexity. While self-build remains the purest form of this dream, there are now a series of nuanced processes that can help us achieve similar results. As a new generation of communities that encourage this dream emerges, we must look at the role the architect plays within them. Looking back on the origins of the modern self-build community, we can see that self-builders retained almost complete autonomy. In 1979, Walter Segal's "Walter's Way" limited the designs of the houses to strict but simple principles, "reducing design and architecture to its essentials" and enabling "ordinary people to build for themselves." The houses could be assembled with standard sizes of material found at the local lumber yard, while the layout could be expanded and altered to suit the growing family's needs, with each house maintaining the unique characteristics of its owner. In one sense, this is architecture working to erase the need for itself. "Walter's Way" was an experiment in being intimately hands-on with your home, without the need for an architect or builder of any kind. One of the main issues with this kind of self-build community is that architects, by definition, are specialists in design. An architect should be able to reduce the gap between a person's ideal living space and the living space that they eventually create for themselves, and should be a desirable asset to the realization of one's dream. Graven Hill—the largest town of its kind in the UK—is a modern interpretation of the Walter's Way ideal. Located just outside Oxford, it allows individuals the ability to design a home "limited only by their imagination and their budget" within its 1.88-square-kilometer "self-build community," and has the capacity to create 1,900 homes (30% of which are planned to be affordable housing) and 2,000 jobs.  via Graven Hill Village Development Company The scheme's design code mixes different plot sizes together to create a diverse, engaged community and splits the residential areas into multiple typologies: rural lanes, urban lanes, village center, tree-lined boulevard, circular railway, swale parks and community streets.  via Graven Hill Village Development Company The rural lanes give the village a controlled, conservative border to match the surrounding vernacular, allowing the more adventurous designs to be partially hidden closer to the village core. Each typology offers a unique relationship with the community and surrounding environment, giving the hopeful resident full control over not only the house, but also the life, that they wish to create.  via Graven Hill Village Development Company  via Graven Hill Village Development Company However, at Graven Hill, self-build has become an umbrella term for a variety of procurement and design options which seek to challenge the injustices of the housing market as it has existed for the last half-century. These options can be separated into three main categories, each with a different level of involvement from the architect: custom-build, design-and-build, and kit houses. Custom-build is a common practice in these communities, and the term is used to describe when the homeowner is the architect's client. The architect maintains a high level of involvement in this scenario, usually leading to unique moments of architecture that reflect the personality of the homeowner, as well as the experience and flair of the designer. Almere—the Dutch self-build town upon which Graven Hill was based—is a great example of a custom-build mentality. The individual designs have made the neighborhood a huge success with both residents and onlookers, highlighting an alternative to the cut-and-paste estates that have defined suburbanization in previous decades.  © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Almere.Aresstraat.02.jpg'>Wikimedia user Leuk2</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/'>CC BY-SA 4.0</a> However, despite the popularity of custom-build neighborhoods like Almere, the construction industry is seeing a shift toward design-and-build as a method of realizing homeowners' dreams. These companies create a one-stop shop for construction and concept design, the logic being that some sense of the dream home can be retained on the part of the homeowner, but with the benefit of a seamless construction timeline and reduced economic strain. While the best design-and-build homes still maintain a relationship with the architect, this is not always the case. The architect is seen as an additional extra, and not a necessity. Kit houses take this approach further, completely distancing the architect from the client with prefabricated designs, that reduce cost and construction time, delivered directly to site. Popularized in the US throughout the 20th century, the modular components of these kit houses still offer a certain sense of design control—similar to the self-build origins of Walter's Way—but in this case they ultimately restrict the homeowner's creative autonomy. These businesses have noted how the main anxiety of a self-build project centers around the very core of the concept—the building process itself—and that project managing their own build is not what most self-builders want at Graven Hill.  Image via <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14577416839'>Flickr user internetarchivebookimages</a> (Public Domain) So how do architects compete with quicker, cheaper alternatives that bypass the architect? Is there a continued role for the architect within "self-build communities," or will the profession have to adapt what they offer? Opinder Liddar, a director of Oxfordshire-based lapd Architects, is working with self-build clients at Graven Hill and highlights design as the irreplaceable core of any self-build project:
 Courtesy of lapd Architects There's a reason architects train for such an extended period of time, and a reason designs by traditional practices are usually more fulfilling. Smart self-builders understand that there is no replacement for design professionals working with their client to achieve their aspirations, but perhaps a new alliance could be forged between the practicality and cost-effectiveness of modular build solutions and the professionalism of architectural design. In the next few years, as more projects reach completion, Graven Hill will provide an insightful precedent for housing schemes of the future, and could be a case study for a new era of architects having increased involvement in the residential housing sector.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Canoe Lake Leisure Tennis Pavilion / PAD studio Posted: 07 Jul 2018 02:00 AM PDT  © Nigel Rigden
 © Richard Chivers Text description provided by the architects. The vision for Canoe Lake Leisure Tennis Pavilion was to create a truly public building as part of a substantial regeneration project for Southsea Common, a historic part of Portsmouth, UK.  Location The brief was to create a permanent home for the Tennis Club, in Southsea, whilst also creating a multi-functioning space to host a wide range of community events, for all ages, throughout the year. A key design requirement was for a two-storey building to take full advantage of the unique setting with views across the tennis courts, the lake and beyond. The building design, however, had to be sensitive and unobtrusive to the surrounding community and residential buildings.  © Richard Chivers Architectural the approach was to create a robust and solid ground floor form which asserts itself on the site, with a visually lightweight and delicate first floor sat atop. The ground floor, formed from brick, has large openings which are carved away to reveal views into the building and activity on the courts beyond, inviting the community to engage with tennis and the activities within. The bricks are Danish handmade clay bricks, rarely seen in public buildings of this scale, much longer than a standard UK brick and half as high, helping the building appear to sit lower and longer.  Ground floor plan The pavilion's first floor viewing gallery is designed to be as unobtrusive, transparent and delicate as possible. Initially a second floor was difficult to gain approval for, due to concerns with mass and scale. With persistence, a scheme with a delicate slim butterfly roof floating above the largely glazed first floor was approved, reducing the building mass and creating covered outdoor space.  © Richard Chivers In the interior the design had to be hard wearing and enduring, the deliberately utilitarian interior is softened with plywood linking, ash floors, a wonderfully tactile cast concrete exposed roof and uses furnishings to add a pop of colour. The multifunctioning space of the pavilion is used on a regular basis for many different functions including art classes, playwright workshops and fitness groups.  Sections This building is intended to be a beacon not only for tennis, but for the community and for Southsea who have eagerly embraced the facility.  © Nigel Rigden  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| First Look at Company, the SHoP Architects-Designed Vertical Tech Campus in NYC Posted: 07 Jul 2018 01:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of SHoP Architects Neighboring Grand Central Station, Company's office building at 335 Madison Avenue has one of the most coveted locations in midtown Manhattan. Charged with completely renovating the building's atrium and office floors, the local New York firm SHoP Architects has unveiled a set of interior renders that show their plans for the commuter-friendly office space.  Courtesy of SHoP Architects Blending a typical workspace with hospitality functions, Company offers work environments for both enterprise and startup businesses within its innovative vertical campus. The building's 350,000 square foot space will house amenities such as a two-story library wrapped in glass, a terrace overlooking Grand Central, a gym and wellness center, event spaces, and several bars and dining venues.  Courtesy of SHoP Architects  Courtesy of SHoP Architects "Company is an innovative new environment where tenants of an office building can derive value from interactions," said Corie Sharples, a Founding Principal at SHoP and the project's lead architect. "The right physical spaces are absolutely critical to unlocking that value." News via: SHoP Architects  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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