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- Royal Birmingham Conservatoire / Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
- 100 Best Wood Architecture Projects in the US
- Vocational School Embelgasse: An Open School of Administration / AllesWirdGut Architektur
- Bridge House / ArchLAB studio
- Musis Sacrum / van Dongen-Koschuch
- Refurbishment of the Lateral Building of the Monastery of San Clodio / OLAestudio
- HAIGAN Seafood Restaurant / Xiamen Fancy Design & Decoration
- Salesforce Transit Center / Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
- Shanghai WaiGaoQiao NO.1 Free Trade Area Industrial Park / DESHIN Architecture & Planning
- Brick City House / Studio B Architecture + Interiors
- Baiming Xiangnanli / Centaland
- Peninsula Addition / Michael Hennessey Architecture
- DBALP Wins Design for Bangkok Airport Terminal Amid Claims of Plagiarism
- Hotel House from Uco / Alberto Tonconogy Arquitectos
- Moscow’s New Supertall Skyscraper Approved for Construction
- Sou Fujimoto's House of Hungarian Music to Begin Construction in Budapest
- Quinta Gaby / Taller Tlaiye
- Renzo Piano Donates New Genoa Bridge Designs following Disaster
- What it Means to Build Without Bias: Questioning the Role of Gender in Architecture
- Napoli Afragola Station / Zaha Hadid Architects
| Royal Birmingham Conservatoire / Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios Posted: 29 Aug 2018 10:00 PM PDT  © Hufton+Crow
_Hufton_Crow_(10).jpg?1535547748 "© Hufton+Crow") © Hufton+Crow Text description provided by the architects. Royal Birmingham Conservatoire's new state-of-the-art home is the first purpose-built music college to be constructed in the UK since 1987 and is the only one in the country which has been specifically designed to cater for the demands of the digital age.  Ground Floor Plan It houses five performance venues: a public concert hall with the capacity of 500 seats and a full orchestra, a 150 seat recital hall, The Lab - a 'black box' experimental music space, a 100 seat organ studio and the Eastside Jazz Club as well as 70 practice rooms of various sizes. _Hufton_Crow_(8).jpg?1535547680 "© Hufton+Crow") © Hufton+Crow  Sectional Perspective _Hufton_Crow_(9).jpg?1535547716 "© Hufton+Crow") © Hufton+Crow The new building is in the heart of the City's learning quarter, on the border between Birmingham and Aston. It will act as a cultural hub, contributing to the performing and visual arts within the city and region, as well as for students of the University. _Hufton_Crow_(6).jpg?1535547611 "© Hufton+Crow") © Hufton+Crow The combination of careful attention to purpose-built detail, together with an over-arching vision of artistic and educational ambition, has delivered a lasting monument to the cultural investment of the City and the University.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 100 Best Wood Architecture Projects in the US Posted: 29 Aug 2018 09:00 PM PDT  © Jeremy Bitterman Considered one of the noblest building materials - and also a favorite of many global architects - wood delivers aesthetic, structural, and practical value in the most versatile of ways. Through different techniques, such as crafted or prefabricated wood, wooden construction remains relevant not only in the history but also in the forefront of architecture and design (thanks to new technologies that have expanded its possibilities). From temporary pavilions to single-family homes and multi-story, large-scale institutions, wood has shown its value at the same level as many other structural materials such as steel, brick, or even concrete. This is especially prominent in the United States, where renowned architects are using new techniques to advance the solutions that this material can provide. 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| Vocational School Embelgasse: An Open School of Administration / AllesWirdGut Architektur Posted: 29 Aug 2018 08:00 PM PDT  © AllesWirdGut / Guilherme Silva Da Rosa
 © AllesWirdGut / Guilherme Silva Da Rosa Transparent administration: the architecture of the Vocational School of Administration by AllesWirdGut demonstrates closeness to citizens, openness, and transparence.  © AllesWirdGut / Guilherme Silva Da Rosa The only thing that encloses the new school building in Embelgasse in Vienna's 5th district is in fact the block perimeter.  © AllesWirdGut / Guilherme Silva Da Rosa Large ground-floor glass surfaces afford an insight into everyday school life and open the green courtyard to the street space. The outward appearance of the new vocational school is characterized by transparence, openness, and through-views.  © AllesWirdGut / Guilherme Silva Da Rosa On the upper floors, the school activities are showcased compartmentalized like in a type case as part of both the facade and the street space.  © AllesWirdGut / Guilherme Silva Da Rosa Through a generous two-level foyer, students get to the classrooms which start from the second upper floor. The foyer brings light, air, and the verdure of the courtyard garden into the building.  Section Classrooms are kept transparent toward the circulation and communication areas—which creates a continuum of learning, working and communication areas flowing into one another.  © AllesWirdGut / Guilherme Silva Da Rosa In addition to the green courtyard, students can use a sunny courtyard terrace on the second floor. Open spaces are available to students at any time within a few steps.  © AllesWirdGut / Guilherme Silva Da Rosa  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2018 07:00 PM PDT  © Leonas Garbačauskas
 © Leonas Garbačauskas Text description provided by the architects. Expressive modern style house is designed in a lot surrounded by nature. Pine forests are on two sides of the lot. It was clients desire to find such an oasis in nature with a small river or creek, what became a specific task for Architects, because the flowing water divided the land into two parts.  © Leonas Garbačauskas  Floor Plan  © Leonas Garbačauskas The challenge was to incorporate the new house into an existing nature as much as possible. Design and concept consist of two main volumes: home of the owners and a small house for guests. These two parts are connected with an open bridge, which becomes the axis of assembly and face of the house. Existing trees were also involved in the design, they are passing through the roof of a building.  © Leonas Garbačauskas  Section Large windows connect the interior and exterior spaces, what creates a cozy and calm atmosphere for residents and their guests. Much attention has been devoted to supplementing the design with subtle landscaping, open fireplace, and wooden terraces, where you can relax listening to the sound of water, enjoy a wonderful view. In the final result, the modern lines of the white house are even more prominent with a green natural environment.  © Leonas Garbačauskas  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Musis Sacrum / van Dongen-Koschuch Posted: 29 Aug 2018 06:00 PM PDT  © Bart van Hoek
 © Bart van Hoek Text description provided by the architects. Since 1847 the concert halls of Musis Sacrum and its surroundings had taken on a range of different forms and positions in the park that reflected the short time needs of its operators, city officials, and residents. The project consists of a renovation of the existing monument and a new extension with a long-term planning in mind. The extension features a large concert hall and supportive functions.  © Bart van Hoek  Ground Floor Plan  © Bart van Hoek The design draws its origin to the core of the institution that defines Musis Sacrum: to perform and listen to music in excellent acoustical conditions within an attractive green context. The inspiration of the design reflects clearly the character of the Park, the Musis Sacrum Institute and the identity of the Gelders Philharmonic Orchestra and its concert hall.  © Bart van Hoek  West Elevation and Sections  © Bart van Hoek No concessions are made regarding multi-functionality and acoustics, enabling the Musis Sacrum institute to be a home for all kinds of shows and events, ranging from symphony concerts to pop gigs and everything in between. The extension is designed as an inviting and transparent pavilion respectfully complementing the historic building in its beautiful surroundings.  © Bart van Hoek  © Bart van Hoek The new large concert hall features a large glass window behind its stage that opens up to the park and acts as a botanical backdrop. The unique quality consists of the fact that this huge window can also be opened for outdoor performances. Unlike its existing extension, the new multi-purpose hall is positioned as a separate volume in the park, ensuring that our design gives the Musis Sacrum both the stage and space it deserves.  © Bart van Hoek  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Refurbishment of the Lateral Building of the Monastery of San Clodio / OLAestudio Posted: 29 Aug 2018 05:00 PM PDT  © Héctor Santos Diez / Manuel Vicente
 © Héctor Santos Diez / Manuel Vicente Build a spa in a stone box.  © Héctor Santos Diez / Manuel Vicente The Tourism Agency of Galicia decided in 2013, undertake its rehabilitation as a spa and complete the whole. The program is the classic of these facilities: changing rooms, reception, massage rooms, relaxation rooms, Turkish bath, sauna and swimming pool. These were the premise and this is the result.  Refurbished Plans  © Héctor Santos Diez / Manuel Vicente The original memory of the project sought to be very brief, as bare we imagined the architecture that should be inserted. In a telegraphic and direct way, the ideas of this work were exhibited and exposed:  © Héctor Santos Diez / Manuel Vicente In short, create a new use recognizing what was a stable and a cellar cradle of the Ribeiro. The reality of the work led us to simplify the inserted architecture, something that, in general, improves the projected. Each of the 6 compartments in which the interior is divided hosts a different use and materializes differently. The light is dimmed from the access piece to the spa piece. Each space graduates its light and accommodates the formalization of what is inserted to generate atmospheres and different scenarios for each use. Light architecture on the upper floor, stony on the ground floor.  © Héctor Santos Diez / Manuel Vicente The proposal is a tour for rest inside this stone box. The architecture was withdrawn for recollection. The interior seeks to be clear and resounding, only explodes when you reach the pool where the wooden structure rises to become a skylight. Your form is a desire. Different light (natural and artificial), different materials, different textures, different pavements, different colors and different scales at the service of silence and the senses.  © Héctor Santos Diez / Manuel Vicente  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| HAIGAN Seafood Restaurant / Xiamen Fancy Design & Decoration Posted: 29 Aug 2018 04:00 PM PDT  Entrance. Image © Weiqi Jin
 Small Squid Exterior. Image © Weiqi Jin Text description provided by the architects. The project was repurposed from a former factory terrace. The unique location and unconventional structure of the original space allowed the designer to give full play to imagination and creativity. At the entrance, the flexible cut spatial block, dilutes the massiveness of the building, which is just like a modern installation art work full of tension, leading the space to extend inward with its clear lines.  Atrium Full View. Image © Weiqi Jin Within the space 4.6 meters high, a two-story structure was built in the atrium. The designer ingenuously created an open door way in this area, which seems to bring people into another dimension. Under the staircase, there is a separate sunken area, deep and tranquil, waiting for foodies to step in.  1st Floor Corridor. Image © Weiqi Jin Looking ahead, irregular ceiling lamps fall one after another. Walking forward, artificial natural landscape and windows of traditional Chinese garden style intersperse the space. As opposed to utilizing red-color elements commonly seen in seafood restaurants, the designer made use of wooden textures and white walls to set an elegant tone, thereby resulting in an otherworldly dining space.  Activity space, alternative dining space. Image © Weiqi Jin The spatial design features serpentine circulations, which contributes to arising people's curiosity about the muti-layered spaces as well as appetite for food. Through these inter-connected spaces, and the exquisitely designed micro landscapes, people can have different views and feelings even at the same end scene.  Small Squid Feature. Image © Weiqi Jin The overall space offers varied visual experience at every step, which not only shows the designers' s ingenuity and creativity, but also makes "eating" more interesting and meaningful. People come here not just to fill up their stomachs, but more importantly, to feel the unique collision between food and the space, which may generate new inspirations for life.  Atrium Full View. Image © Weiqi Jin Through diversified decomposition and recombination of all units of the space, it presents a movement of spatial narrative, with an entertaining and polymorphic tonality. Tables and chairs with various forms are scattered in it, forming unpartitioned dinning areas which are slightly different via distinct combinations, hence enriching people's dining experience. The dining areas bring the spatial theme back to food and communication.  2nd Floor Dining Table. Image © Weiqi Jin The lights in dining areas are soft, with dusky shadows, creating a private space for dinners at each table. All these areas are connected yet non-interfering, enabling people to relieve themselves and communicate freely. Pure and aesthetic, the space provides busy urban people a place to stay a while for relaxing. Elaborately designed visual effects, combined with delicious seafood, together constitute this cozy and relaxing dining space. It guides diners to tell their stories and feelings, which injects emotion and soul into the space.  1st Floor Corridor. Image © Weiqi Jin As a local brand in Xiamen, all the ingredients that Xiaoyouyu uses and the culture it embodies are closely related to "water". The designer took into account such background into the design. A water feature was placed at the center of the space, with the gurgling water endowing the whole space with vigor.  Landscape Seats. Image © Weiqi Jin The flowing-water-shaped lighting fixture above the front desk, the fishing vessel depicted with smooth lines, the fishery-resembled structure installed along the aisle, as well as peddles and bamboo baskets dotted at the corners, all manifest the local culture. Lights penetrate rattan-made structures and cast shadows, making the modern and minimal space more charming. With minimal and refined designs colliding with the space, and modern life style integrating with the local culture of respecting and enjoying the nature, a modern yet elegant dining destination eventually came into being.  Atrium . Image © Weiqi Jin In this way, the space and people in it echo with each other. In other words, through the design details and spatial language, both local dinners and visitors from other places are able to interpret and feel the local fishing culture and the spirit behind it.  Irregular Ceiling. Image © Weiqi Jin  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Salesforce Transit Center / Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects Posted: 29 Aug 2018 03:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of Steelblue
 © Kyle Jeffers Text description provided by the architects. Salesforce Transit Center is a state-of-the-art multimodal transit station in downtown San Francisco, linking 11 transit systems and connecting the city to the region, the state, and the nation. The innovative, highly sustainable design includes a 2.2-hectare (5.4-acre) rooftop park that will anchor the growth of a new mixed-use neighborhood. In the spirit of New York's Grand Central Terminal and London's Victoria Station, the Transit Center's soaring light-filled spaces will give San Francisco a grand entrance that befits its status as one of the world's great cities.  Courtesy of Steelblue The new Transit Center will stretch for five blocks along Mission Street, one block south of the city's Financial District. A gently undulating wall, floating above the street on angled steel columns, will be visible from afar, creating a graceful, luminous, and welcoming image. At street level, shops and cafes will draw visitors and energize the surrounding neighborhood, while high above, the trees and flowers of the rooftop park will invite people to visit for longer periods, transforming the Transit Center from a commuter hub to an urban destination.  © Vittoria Zupicich Within the Transit Center, space is open and light-filled. Tall, structurally expressive skylights — "Light Columns" — bring sunshine deep into the building, creating a vibrant, inviting atmosphere. The largest Light Column forms the central element of the 36-meter tall (118-feet tall) Grand Hall, the Transit Center's primary public space. Reaching from the park, down through the bus deck and Grand Hall, and all the way to the train platforms two stories below grade, this dramatic structure will provide light and long views to all areas of the Transit Center.  Courtesy of Steelblue The heart of the Transit Center's design is the rooftop park. Dense with nature and activities, it will have over a dozen entry points, potentially including bridges to surrounding buildings. Active and passive uses are woven into the landscape, including a 1,000-person amphitheater, cafes, and a children's playground, as well as quiet areas for reading, picnicking or simply taking a break. The park will present a wide variety of Bay Area ecologies, from oak trees to a wetland marsh. The park is symbolic of Salesforce Transit Center's considerable commitment to environmental quality and sustainability.  © Vittoria Zupicich The building's annual energy consumption is projected to be up to 50 percent lower than the 2008 Title 24 Energy Efficiency Standards, and the project is on track to receive a Gold certification under the LEED 2009 rating system. The Transbay Joint Powers Authority, the public agency charged with implementing the Salesforce project, has commissioned four major artworks that will be integrated with the Transit Center's design. Each piece will emerge from a close collaboration between the artists and Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, blurring the line between art and architecture and making both more accessible to the general public.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Shanghai WaiGaoQiao NO.1 Free Trade Area Industrial Park / DESHIN Architecture & Planning Posted: 29 Aug 2018 02:00 PM PDT  © Feng Shao
 © Feng Shao Text description provided by the architects. Shanghai Free Trade NO.1 Eco Industrial Park, which is designed by DESHIN Architecture & Planning, locates in Pudong, Shanghai, in the south of Yinglun Road and in the east of South Fute Road. In the 12th Five-Year Plan, Pudong district insists on science innovation and industrialization, accelerating the developing of emerging industries.  © Feng Shao  1st Floor Plan It will play a new role in the future: the core of international trade centre. And an extraordinary park design can not only provide a pleasant working environment to the emerging industries workers, but also be a good look that Shanghai shows to the world.  Views in the park. Image © Feng Shao This project contains 10 multi-storey comprehensive office buildings, with high density as well as complicated type of spaces. It fills the vacancy of high-end office district in the whole park.  Central Plaza. Image © Feng Shao Form Generation  Space Form. Image Courtesy of DESHIN Architecture & Planning Architecture Design  Space Below Cornice. Image © Feng Shao  Space Below Cornice. Image © Feng Shao Facade Design  Central Plaza. Image © Feng Shao The façade of office buildings mainly use glass, aluminium sheets and metal louver, commercial buildings uses elements of Shanghai Shikumen.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Brick City House / Studio B Architecture + Interiors Posted: 29 Aug 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © Raul Garcia
 © Raul Garcia Text description provided by the architects. The project is located in an older Denver neighborhood consisting primarily of small scale, brick bungalows with large entry porches. By organizing the program around the interior courtyard space,  © Raul Garcia  Ground Floor Plan  © Raul Garcia the building creates a defined street edge on the corner lot. Yet in opposition to many of the newer large scale and overly complex projects with generic building materials typically being constructed in the neighborhood recently, this project is a smaller, lower profile and more interpretive piece of architecture that respects the contextual urban form of its' neighbors. It has a simple and refined palette of high quality materials consisting of handmade brick, walnut, plaster, and glass. In its urban setting with no large dominant views to the exterior, the house turns inwards toward the interior courtyard & pool with a connection to nature by focusing upwards on the sky. This concept is inspired by modern artists' exploration into the connection of the sky, earth, and proportion.  Section 4  Section 2  Section 3  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Baiming Xiangnanli / Centaland Posted: 29 Aug 2018 12:00 PM PDT  © Zhi Chen
 © Zhi Chen Text description provided by the architects. Chengdu Baiming Xiangnanli is located in the south group of Tianfu New City Station in Chengdu. It connects to the Third Ring Road in the north and the city expressway in the south. It is less than 10 kilometers from Chengdu city center and Chengdu International Airport.  © Zhi Chen The project consists of three programs: commercial, office and hotel. It is a commercial project integrating office, catering, leisure and entertainment. The architectural style reflects the inclusive, open and rich urban vibe of the Chinese city. It is a fusion of Chinese and Western styles and combines the traditional Shanghai Shikumen style with modern touch. It is an artwork symbolizing the intersection of East and West.  © Zhi Chen  Courtesy of Centaland  © Zhi Chen The commercial and office buildings are relatively independent and organic. The commercial building is located on the south side of the plot, and the hotel and office are on the west and north sides. The commercial building has smooth continuity and clear direction. Consumers can walk through the entire block along the line and travel around. All the blocks can be covered to form an uninterrupted business atmosphere, which maximizes ecnomic value.  © Zhi Chen  © Zhi Chen Connected to the business district of the mansion, there is JIC Jiachen International Center and the Hyatt Hyatt Group. The two high-rise buildings are in an L-shape, forming a semi-open space for the business. JIC Jiachen International Center is the first building in Chengdu to receive the highest level certification in the US Green Building Council LEED (CS System) assessment. It is also the seventh green building in China to receive this certification in China.  © Zhi Chen The public hall is inspired by the architectural style of Shikumen in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s. The facade is made of blue bricks or red bricks. The door frame is made of stone, and the door leaf is made of solid black wood. The outer wall has a carved pattern from western architecture, and the triangle and round shapes on the door. The curved door decoration is also mostly Western.  © Zhi Chen The façade of office and hotel is mainly based on modern architectural style. The glass curtain wall and the vertical aluminum alloy rods form a contrast. This modern architectural style contrasts with the classical architectural style of the business building, highlighting the sense of history and weight. The high-rise podium part echoes the mansion, reflecting a sense of fashion.  © Zhi Chen  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Peninsula Addition / Michael Hennessey Architecture Posted: 29 Aug 2018 10:00 AM PDT  © Adam Rouse
 © Adam Rouse Text description provided by the architects. A young family approached us to create a greater connection between the interior of their ranch-style bungalow and the rear yard. Several very small existing windows and doors were facing the yard that impeded the parents' desire to spend copious amounts of time outdoors with their children tending the garden, chicken coop, and landscaping. The family sought to live seamlessly between the interior and exterior.  © Adam Rouse The proposed kitchen, family room, office, and master suite were designed to open the home to the outdoors. A direct view from the kitchen, over the family room, and onto the rear yard allows the family to stay engaged with one another over the course of the day.  Floor Plan Natural daylight is brought deep into the existing home with large panes of glazing at the rear elevation, as well as, more discrete skylights and slot windows towards the center of the building. A deep overhang at the rear deck mediates the harsh impact of the sun.  © Adam Rouse The rear yard was designed as three specific zones: dining/seating area, lawn/play area, and vegetable garden/chicken coop area. The board-formed concrete retaining walls and the concrete & stone pavers serve to define these three zones in a comfortable way. A direct connection to the outdoors is now an integral part of the family's daily life.  © Adam Rouse  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| DBALP Wins Design for Bangkok Airport Terminal Amid Claims of Plagiarism Posted: 29 Aug 2018 09:00 AM PDT  Bangkok Airport Terminal II. Image Courtesy of DBALP The architecture practice DBALP Consortium has been selected to design the new terminal of Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport. Led by Duangrit Bunnag, the firm was chosen after approval from the Airports of Thailand (AOT) board of directors. The scheme was designed to reference Thailand's lush landscapes by immersing passengers in a 'forest' environment. The proposal has received claims of plagiarism for copying Kengo Kuma's Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum in southern Japan.  Bangkok Airport Terminal II. Image Courtesy of DBALP DBALP worked with a range of offices on the terminal design, including Nikken Sekkei, EMS Consultants, MHPM, MSE and ARJ Consortium. The design comprises two modular structures supported by overlapping wooden columns. These are the main comparison to Kengo Kuma's Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum design. Between the proposal's passenger and commercial buildings, the team plans to create a constructed tropical landscape with a cascading waterfall. This indoor forest is designed to be a 'live demonstration of how human beings could inherit the natural tropical ecological system'. "I didn't copy anyone else's work. Those who follow my work will know that I created a similar image in my previous designs, such as for a hotel in Sri Lanka," Bunnag told The Standard, a local online news portal. Rejecting these claims, Bunnag argues his inspiration comes from Thailand's forests and green vegetation, which was translated into the series of cascading wooden trees. The second terminal is planned to the first phase of a series of developments at Suvarnabhumi.  Bangkok Airport Terminal II. Image Courtesy of DBALP The AOT invited private firms to participate in the Bangkok airport terminal competition. With an estimated construction budget of 35 billion baht and a design cost of 329 million baht, the second terminal would encompass a 348,000 square meter area. DBALP Consortium is obligated to complete its forest-inspired design on the Suvarnabhumi Airport Terminal 2 project in 10 months' time, with an AOT invitation to bid then being released for the construction phase. If DBALP's proposal goes forward, the new terminal will be built to receive over 30 million passengers annually. Construction is scheduled to be complete in 30 months, with an opening in 2021.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Hotel House from Uco / Alberto Tonconogy Arquitectos Posted: 29 Aug 2018 08:00 AM PDT  © Alberto Tonconogy
 © Alberto Tonconogy Text description provided by the architects. From the beginning, the Master Plan of this property was conceived in various phases of development: hotel, bungalows, villas and winery.  © Alberto Tonconogy It’s difficult to achieve this organic process when embarking on nature and environmental projects. In any complex project, resolving unknown issues can lead to even superior results. The true challenge was to preserve the untouched soil in its natural state, without intervening in the picturesque scenery. The first task: not to disturb the magnificent environment, while also constructing a more accessibly friendly location.  Ground Floor In order to correctly make each detailed decision about the site, it was important to take into consideration the topography of the location. Countless seasonally dry streams flowed down the mountain and were included in the Master Plan. The most notable streams were chosen as the anchor point for development, and to support it, a series of lagoons were constructed near the building.  © Alberto Tonconogy In the absence of any notable scale natural element as a support or anchor of future construction, it was decided to create a tectonic shift mode, a massive and random slab that would grasp the hotel. In contrast to this great stone slab, the building is made up of lightweight and minimalist materials.  © Alberto Tonconogy In an effort to construct the ground, the building was made up of elements such as ramps, a "floating" pool, and forestry and trails as arms that were rooted to the environment. Each facade fully looks to a cardinal point. This position led to four completely distinguishable sides. The windows that were glazed treated towards Valle de Uco coincide with the southern orientation.  © Alberto Tonconogy The facade looking onto the mountains, which face west, were protected with battery parasols, electro-hydraulic and automated movement, which allow to gradually sift this orientation. The north undergoes hard sunlight, the facade is closed, opening only strictly necessary openings.  Section ByW Since it is situated in an earthquake zone, the whole building is articulated in different structural parts, isolated from each other, which coincide in each case with particular internal functions.  © Daniela Mac Adden The areas surrounding the hotel, which stand at the original level, emphasizes the aridity of the site. A bed of rocks overlooks the whole lagoon, nearly 400 meters long, standing at the building to show the strong contrast of the land. The living-dining room, Cava, playroom and Spa are located within the construction area. There, social activities unfold, sharing a single multipurpose, multilevel space.  Views North and South ByW The adjoining body of the building, is reserved for the rooms. Both zones are separated by a triple height ceiling, which connects both buildings and officiates as the primary seismic fuse.  © Alberto Tonconogy  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Moscow’s New Supertall Skyscraper Approved for Construction Posted: 29 Aug 2018 07:30 AM PDT  High-rise Residential Complex. Image Courtesy of Sergey Skuratov Architects Moscow officials have approved a new supertall building that will become the city's tallest skyscraper. Rising 404 meters (1,325 feet) in height as part of the Moscow City commercial district, the tower is designed by Sergey Skuratov Architects. The unnamed structure will be a multifunctional residential complex with 109 floors. The new skyscraper will break Moscow's current tall building record set by Federation Tower at 373-meter-tall (1,226 feet) tall. Construction is scheduled to begin next year.  High-rise Residential Complex. Image Courtesy of Sergey Skuratov Architects The new skyscraper joins a host of other superlative buildings in Moscow City, including five of the ten tallest buildings in Europe, all supertall structures.The district's Federation Tower currently holds the title of Europe's tallest completed skyscraper. Soon, it will be surpassed by St. Petersburg's Lakhta Center, which will rise 462 meters when complete in 2019. When complete, Skuratov's skyscraper in Moscow will become Europe's second tallest building.  High-rise Residential Complex. Image Courtesy of Sergey Skuratov Architects  High-rise Residential Complex. Image Courtesy of Sergey Skuratov Architects Designed with two main volumes, the new supertall design includes a 12 story base structure with offices, a shopping center and a range of commercial facilities. Above, residences will rise to the 104th floor. Capped with a helipad, the project includes an observation at 399 meters (1,309 feet) above ground. The project's facade will feature a gradient of white glass between windows that disappears by the 80th floor. As Skuratov explains, "The plan of the building is an isosceles (trapezoid) 30 meters wide, truncated on one side, facing the Moskva River. The sloping edge on the west side of the tower follows the direction of one of the nearby streets. The other edge is vertical and points toward the center of Moscow." Moscow's supertall is set to open in 2024. Read more about Sergey Skuratov and his work through our recent interview.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Sou Fujimoto's House of Hungarian Music to Begin Construction in Budapest Posted: 29 Aug 2018 07:00 AM PDT  © Varosliget Zrt Sou Fujimoto's House of Hungarian Music is set to begin construction in an idyllic natural setting beside Városliget Lake in Budapest's largest park. Having won a competition for the scheme's design in 2014, the Japanese architect has designed a "modern and extravagant home for music" drawing inspiration from both the natural and musical worlds. The scheme forms part of the Liget Budapest project, one of Europe's largest museum developments, which also includes the striated Museum of Ethnography by French firm Vallet de Martinis DIID Architectes and the cuboidal PhotoMuseum Budapest and Museum of Hungarian Architecture by Hungarian firm Középülettervező Zrt. The Fujimoto scheme features a distinctive floating roof inspired by sound waves, under which sits a building "seamlessly blending into nature as a continuation of the park itself." The roof is perforated with lightwells to create a natural, illuminated interior further lit by a wrapped glazed façade. The scheme's light, open, airy interior and program are inspired by the motto of Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály, - "Let music belong to everyone!"  © Varosliget Zrt The anonymous competition for the House of Hungarian Music attracted designs from numerous notable firms, such as Kengo Kuma's nature-guided proposal, AVA's sculptural house, Ziya Imren's "symphonic architectural poem," and MenoMenoPiu's circular design.  © Varosliget Zrt The winning Fujimoto scheme is about to begin construction, with an opening anticipated by the end of 2020. The £190 million five-building museum project is being led by The Museum of Fine Arts Budapest and the Városliget Zrt.  © Varosliget Zrt Click on any of the images above to access the full gallery of the House of Hungarian Music proposal. News via: Sou Fujimoto / Liget Budapest  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2018 06:00 AM PDT  © Yoshihiro Koitani
 © Yoshihiro Koitani Text description provided by the architects. Quinta Gaby (QG) is a single-family residence built using rammed earth, a thousand-year old technique which consists of building solid walls by tamping layers of damp earth inside a wooden formwork.  © Yoshihiro Koitani The design of the house evokes a complete harmony, honoring the beauty of its natural environment. QG consists of three rectangular shapes, which are located around the central patio where the papelillo tree becomes the heart of the home. The entrance of the house is marked with a pink door, a small tribute to the transcendent work of the renowned Mexican architect Luis Barragan. When crossing the door you enter the patio, an outdoor space, which distributes, communicates and connects the rest of the rooms of the house, acting as the core of all the activities as it used to be in the Mexican haciendas, where the interior and exterior have an intimate relationship. The interior spaces are ample and continuous; the windows hide between the walls opening a unified space where the life of the residents runs without limitations.  Plan The QG project recovers the rammed earth construction method for its multiple benefits by using it extensively in a residential house. From the aesthetic point of view, the material offers unlimited design and creative possibilities; the natural beauty of the rammed earth conveys a great honesty by exposing the irregular shape of its layers, colors and textures that along with its defects and peculiarities, add character and beauty to the house.  © Yoshihiro Koitani Rammed earth is characterized by its thermal inertia, a high hygrothermal comfort and very low CO2 emissions; it also has a very good acoustic insulation capacity due to its density and thickness. In addition, its mineral mixture reacts as a fire inhibitor. The elements of rammed earth are soluble in water and if they are moistened enough, the compactness of the material is lost so it becomes moldable and plastic, which qualifies it as a recyclable element.  Section A y B As architects, we wanted to overcome the limiting preconception of the materials that should be used for the construction of dignified housing, reassessing a traditional construction method and its functional linkage with current needs and technologies.  © Yoshihiro Koitani QG takes the material, our land, as a starting point for a reinterpretation of Mexican architecture, benefiting from the significant relationship between rammed earth and our pre-Hispanic cultures and its aesthetic and sustainable benefits. The Quinta responds to its surroundings using materials from the region and taking advantage of natural lighting and ventilation. The materials are used in their natural state: thick walls of mud and earth kneaded and rammed; apparent concrete baseboards and floors; slabs plastered with high purity lime; pools, water mirrors and bathrooms covered in white cement colored with tannins extracted from the bark of a tree. An organic architecture develops from the inside out responding to the needs of those who inhabit it and its surroundings.  © Yoshihiro Koitani  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Renzo Piano Donates New Genoa Bridge Designs following Disaster Posted: 29 Aug 2018 05:00 AM PDT .jpg?1535539469 "© said.touama. Via Instagram") © said.touama. Via Instagram Renzo Piano has offered to donate the design of a bridge to replace the one which tragically collapsed in Genoa on 14th August. Piano, who was born in Genoa, said he has been deeply affected by the tragedy which claimed the lives of 43 people. The project, reported by Reuters, was announced following a discussion between the architect and the governor of Liguria, who accepted Piano's offer. .jpg?1535539457 "© said.touama. Via Instagram") © said.touama. Via Instagram The Italian government has pledged to rebuild the bridge quickly using the state-controlled Fincantieri, as opposed to the private toll road company who previously managed the bridge. Having voluntary offered his experienced architectural mind to the scheme's rebuilding, Piano has already created several proposals for the new bridge.
The architect was one of many outspoken critics in the wake of the disaster. In an interview with La Repubblica, he said "bridges do not collapse by accident, let nobody say that this was an accident." News via: Reuters  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| What it Means to Build Without Bias: Questioning the Role of Gender in Architecture Posted: 29 Aug 2018 02:30 AM PDT  Courtesy of Hannah Rozenberg Which is more male: a stadium or a nursery? Hannah Rozenberg, a recent graduate of the Royal College of Art, says that it's the former—and she has an algorithm to prove it. Rozenberg's thesis project, "Building without Bias: An architectural language for the post-binary," hinges on the notion that architecture can, by design, be gendered. To illustrate this point, she references St. James, an exclusive London neighborhood that houses dozens of gentlemen's social clubs. "Women are either not even allowed in the clubs or have to follow different rules," Rozenberg told ArchDaily. "One of the gentlemen's clubs for example, is Boodle's. Women have to enter through the back entrance there."  Courtesy of Hannah Rozenberg You'd be forgiven for assuming that, since the foundation of the St James' gentleman's clubs in the 18th and 19th centuries, architecture had become less overtly gendered. Rozenberg argues the opposite. In her research, she explains that even as technology becomes more and more relevant to the way architecture is designed and built, gender-biased architecture will persist. Why? Because gender is built into the technology we use every day. Take Google Translate, a program which Rozenberg says can reveal the gender biases present in technology. If you translated, for example, "she is a leader" from English to Estonian and back to English, the program will automatically swap the pronouns, to read "he is a leader." The same happens if you type "he is an assistant;" Google Translate will turn this into "she is an assistant" based on the word associations inherent to its algorithm. "Because architecture is my medium," Rozenberg said, "I decided to use architecture as a way to highlight the issue and try to revise it."  Screenshot from building-without-bias.co.uk With this goal in mind, Rozenberg phoned a coder friend. Together, they developed a website that uses an algorithm similar to that of Google Translate to measure a word against the gender with which it is most commonly associated. The program then quantifies these linguistic associations into "gender units" (GU), with positive numbers indicating more female words and negative more male. As Rozenberg describes it, by analyzing text sourced from Google News articles, "the machine learns that a man is to a king what a woman is to a queen." And when applied to architecture and design terms, it learns that what concrete, steel, and wood are to men, lace, glass, and bedroom are to women.  Courtesy of Hannah Rozenberg  Courtesy of Hannah Rozenberg To interrupt these linguistic—and in turn, architectural—binaries, Rozenberg designed a series of spaces in and around St. James' gentlemen's clubs that disrupt the hyper-maleness of the area. Rozenberg measured the architectural elements of these spaces on the GU scale and made sure the final product equaled zero. In one of these spaces, "a bench, a canopy, a ladder, a wall, two windows, a door, a balustrade and a ramp equal zero," says Rozenberg, "so if a machine were to read that image and label it, then all those features together would equal zero," meaning the space registers as neither male nor female. Rozenberg is clear, though, to emphasize that because she rendered these spaces herself, they're not entirely free of bias. "I'm not claiming that they're gender neutral in their aesthetics," she says. "Something that might seem very masculine to some might be very female to others." Rather, the images are meant to be readable as gender neutral by a machine, like IBM Watson's image recognition software. Rozenberg articulates this process as a way of retraining the machine—which we perceive to be neutral—to actually be so in practice.  Courtesy of Hannah Rozenberg Likewise, the spaces Rozenberg designed are meant to be sites for retraining language. "Biased language leads to biased technology which in turn results in a biased environment." To get at problems like gender bias in architectural design, she says, "the first thing we need to change is language." Renderings show a library, a theatre, a cinema, a series of benches, and a newspaper office. All are meant to represent ways people communicate with one another. The idea of these theoretical spaces, says Rozenberg, "is that people come to the space and re-think the way in which they use language and the biases that are embedded in it."  Courtesy of Hannah Rozenberg  Courtesy of Hannah Rozenberg Rozenberg's methodology is complex, but her message, ultimately, is simple: by correcting the machine as it begins to play a larger part in designing the buildings of the future—and by self-correcting our own gender biases—we might design spaces that work better for all.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Napoli Afragola Station / Zaha Hadid Architects Posted: 29 Aug 2018 02:25 AM PDT  © Hufton+Crow
 © Hufton+Crow Text description provided by the architects. The new rail station at Napoli Afragola is designed as one of southern Italy's key interchange stations serving four high speed inter-city lines, three inter-regional lines and a local commuter line.  © Hufton+Crow In addition to the planned high speed rail services connecting Bari and Reggio Calabria with the north of Italy and Europe, by 2022 new rail infrastructure will create an important hub at Napoli Afragola serving the entire Campania region by integrating the southern expansion of Italy's high-speed rail network with the Napoli Cancello line and the Circumvesuviana commuter railway extension.  Site Plan Located at this major intersection within southern Italy's rail network, Napoli Afragola connects the 15 million residents of Campania, Puglia, Molise, Calabria and Sicily in southern Italy with the national rail network in the north and the rest of Europe. It also enables goods and passengers from Europe and northern Italy to access the southern ports of Gioia Tauro, Taranto, Bari, Brindisi, Palermo and Augusta.  © Hufton+Crow To meet future demand for rail travel throughout the region (which has increased by 50% in the past decade) the Napoli Afragola station is within the new north/south rail corridor in the east of the greater Napoli metropolitan area that will be wholly integrated with local and regional rail services.  Section Once all lines are operational, 32,700 passengers are expected to use the station each day (4,800 each morning and evening rush-hour) with a total of 84 express trains using the lines. 28 high-speed trains serving each direction will stop at Napoli Afragola every day, providing an express service in each direction every 30 minutes (40 minutes outside peak times), with approximately 700 passengers planned to alight or board from each platform. A further 200 regional and local train services will stop at Napoli Afragola, creating a key interchange within the national, regional and local rail networks.  © Hufton+Crow Public train services will begin on 11 June. Initially with 18 high speed trains in each direction serving 10,000 passengers per day, services will increase to 28 trains in each direction as new infrastructure and further phases of the station come on line.  Section Located 12km north of Naples, Afragola station is also planned to serve its local communities of Acerra, Afragola, Caivano, Casalnuovo di Napoli, and Casoria that vary in population from 10,000 to 50,000 residents. Afragola will be an intermodal hub, relieving congestion in the city centre and will not replace the existing Napoli Centrale terminus.  © Hufton+Crow Designed as an urbanised public bridge connecting the communities on either side of the railway, the station is defined by the circulation routes of passengers, minimising distances for those embarking and alighting at Napoli Afragola as well those passengers connecting to different train services.  © Hufton+Crow The design enlarges the public walkway over the eight railway tracks to such a degree that this walkway becomes the station's main passenger concourse – a bridge housing all the services and facilities for departing, arriving and connecting passengers, with direct access to all platforms below.  © Hufton+Crow The paths of passengers have also determined the geometry of the spaces within. Large entrances at both ends of the station welcome and guide visitors up to the elevated public zones lined with shops and other amenities. Visitors from either side of the station meet in a central atrium above overlooked by cafes and restaurants. This central atrium above the railway tracks is a much-needed new public space for Afragola and the main concourse where rail passengers descend to the platforms.  © Hufton+Crow The station has been constructed as a reinforced concrete base that supports an elevated concourse of steel ribs clad in Corian with a glazed roof.  © Hufton+Crow The concrete used within the station is a specific composition that provides optimum performance, with curved structural concrete elements built using technologies initially developed during the construction of the MAXXI Museum in Rome: wooden formwork replaced by prefabricated steel units, and double-curves realised with formwork created from CNC milled polystyrene models.  Plan Designed as an extrusion of a trapezoid along a 450m curved path, the elevated concourse is made of 200 differently shaped steel ribs that are clad in Corian with a glazed roof.  © Hufton+Crow The main concourse of the station is oriented to benefit the building's ecological sustainability. Integrated solar panels in the roof, combined with natural light and ventilation as well as ground source cooling/heating systems will enable the station to minimise energy consumption.  © Hufton+Crow  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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