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- Robert Venturi Passes Away at 93
- Apartment Building Tödistrasse Zürich / ADP Architects
- Oldham Town Hall / BDP
- De Rijck – Matthys House / Atelier d'architecture Pierre Hebbelinck - Pierre de Wit
- Woodstock Hut / Léa Bostmambrun + Réal Emond
- Between Square and Circle: Xinnan Kindergarten / Jin Niu
- Greenhouse as a Home / BIAS Architects
- Supermonkey / Mur Mur Lab
- MENARI Residence / Ecostudio Architects
- Mackelvie Street Retail / RTA Studio
- UBC Quantum Matter Institute / PUBLIC Architecture + Communication
- Cumberland weeHouse / Alchemy Architects
- Studio JCW Proposes Big Shelf for Park Avenue
- Residence La Salle / Hatem+D + Etienne Bernier Architecte
- Sir David Adjaye Will Design Princeton Art Museum to be a "Place of Mind-Opening Encounter"
- NY House / Urbanscape Architects
- Zaha Hadid Architects Presents Interweaving Carpet Collection for Royal Thai during London Design Festival 2018
- ICA Watershed / Anmahian Winton Architects
- Huguet Apartment / TEd’A arquitectes
- L.A.’s Walt Disney Concert Hall Will Be Lit by Algorithms in Dream-Like Light Show
| Robert Venturi Passes Away at 93 Posted: 19 Sep 2018 08:00 AM PDT  © Rollin LaFrance / VSBA Robert Venturi, famed-postmodernist and icon of American architecture, passed away Tuesday at the age of 93. Among Venturi's many accolades were the 1991 Pritzker Prize, a Fellowship from the American Institute of Architects, and an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects. He started his firm in 1964, running it with his partner and wife Denise Scott Brown from 1967 until 2012. His legacy lives on as the firm continues under the name VSBA (Venturi Scott Brown Associates).  Vanna Venturi House. Image © Maria Buszek The co-author of Learning From Las Vegas and Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Venturi is widely credited with kickstarting the postmodernist movement and is one of the most important postmodern theorists of the 20th century. Through both their built work, academic output, and written texts Scott Brown and Venturi helped to spark a movement in architecture that broke through the hegemony of modernism which had prevailed for much of the 20th century. In a statement made to Architect's Newspaper, the Venturi family said:
 © Frank Hanswijk Venturi was born June 25, 1925 in Philadelphia; the same city where he later attended university. It was at the University of Pennsylvania where he met Scott-Brown when they were both teaching there in 1960. Venturi was a proponent of more historic references in architecture, believing that modernism had stripped identity (both local and historic) from the urban fabric. Throughout his career, his work with VSBA reflected this viewpoint; the Vanna Venturi House, for example, is an abstracted and updated reference to the traditional American house typology. .jpg?1537382774 "Franklin Court. Image © Mark Cohn") Franklin Court. Image © Mark Cohn Venturi officially retired from practice in 2012 due to old age; Scott Brown continues to practice at their firm which is now run under the direction of Daniel McCoubrey. Many of the office's works have recently come under threat; the fate of his Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego has recently gone through a very public preservation battle and his Abrams House in Pittsburgh was torn down as recently as August 01 of this year.
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| Apartment Building Tödistrasse Zürich / ADP Architects Posted: 19 Sep 2018 10:00 PM PDT  © Jürg Zimmermann
 © Jürg Zimmermann Text description provided by the architects. The existing old house was demolished. In its place was built a new building with 16 apartments. The detached apartment building in an urban center position has a mezzanine floor, four regular stories, and one attic story. The mezzanine floor gives the entrance of the house an additional height, which gives the house a certain exclusivity. Three flats per floor are organized around the central staircase.  © Jürg Zimmermann  Second Floor Plan  © Jürg Zimmermann The apartments are each oriented on two sides and receive a retracted loggia at the corner of the building. The floor plans of the apartments allow different arrangements of the kitchens to cover various buyer wishes. Each apartment receives a bathroom with natural light on the facade, as well as a second bathroom in the area of the entrance. One room per apartment receives direct access from the master bedroom to the bathroom.  © Jürg Zimmermann The building created in massive construction is based formally with its perforated facade of the existing building structure. The standing windows have a deep balustrade with outside railing. The regular arrangement of the windows is accompanied by horizontal bands, which represent a quarter typical design feature.  © Jürg Zimmermann The conventional compact insulation is finished with a washing plaster. The window reveals were formed with metal frames. The simply kept façade receives a noble grade corresponding to the price segment, which sets it apart from the standard. The houses are built according to the MINERGIE® standard and certified with the MINERGIE® label. The building has a ventilation system with heat recovery. The central ventilation unit is located in the technical center under the roof.  © Jürg Zimmermann  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 19 Sep 2018 08:00 PM PDT  © Paul Karalius
 © Paul Karalius Text description provided by the architects. Oldham Town Hall is a Grade II listed historic building situated in the centre of a 19th century industrial town in the North West of England which has since lost its traditional cotton spinning industry, and was named the most deprived borough in England.  © Nick Caville The former Town Hall building, built in phases from 1841 onwards, was designed to accommodate civic and administrative uses as well as police and courts functions. It was vacated by its main occupier over 30 years ago. Since then all attempts at conversion have failed, because of local economic conditions and the architecture of the building – notably its complex internal layout, many changes of level and poor circulation routes. The building fell into disrepair and was named on a national register of heritage buildings at risk.  © Nick Caville The client required a solution which would save the building and kick-start the regeneration of the town centre. A multi-screen cinema and family restaurants – although challenging – was seen as the means of achieving both aims.  © Nick Caville  Section  © Paul Karalius BDP's solution was to save as much as possible of the surviving structures and design a new extension – the light box – on the poor (originally the rear) elevation of the building, which solved all circulation, level changes and access issues. All surviving significant heritage elements have been retained and repaired, including three classically inspired stone elevations and several ornate interiors. Seven cinema screens are housed within the complex multi-levelled envelope of the historic building, some within original rooms such as the courtroom and council meeting room. A new landscaped pedestrian square provides access to restaurants located below the cinema concourse. The scheme has succeeded in providing a modern cinema facility and much needed family entertainment within an historic town centre, and in saving a landmark historic building.  © Paul Karalius  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| De Rijck – Matthys House / Atelier d'architecture Pierre Hebbelinck - Pierre de Wit Posted: 19 Sep 2018 07:00 PM PDT  © François Brix
 © François Brix Text description provided by the architects. While meeting strict criteria for achieving low energy consumption, the building offers an exceptional relationship with its context. The house formed its clearance by responding to the constraints and attributes of the site. Its silhouette is divided into two wings opening onto the rural landscape; it also offers a feeling of spontaneous welcome. It is integrated into the site'stopography, ordered simultaneously by the relief and the poor quality of the soil, thus creating the upper floors with gentle spaces without modifying the natural configuration of the lot.  © François Brix  Ground floor plan  © François Brix  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Woodstock Hut / Léa Bostmambrun + Réal Emond Posted: 19 Sep 2018 06:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of Réal Emond
 Courtesy of Réal Emond Text description provided by the architects. The Woodstock hut is part of « Le festival des cabanes » architecture competition around Annecy, France. Twelve huts provide an excuse to offer and share a different view of building with wood and a small budget in some striking places of this mountainous area.  Courtesy of Réal Emond  Plan  Courtesy of Réal Emond Located between two groves of trees, a few steps from the lock of "la Chaise", the WoodStock takes the shape of a pile of wood as there are so many along the way leading to the hut. Behind this raw appearance lies a portal frame structure that opens towards the river. This technical choice allows drawing the negative of a child's hut inside the pile of wood. When you travel through it, the river is gradually emerging thanks to the different openings that reveal the senses.
The sound of the water penetrates the hut through a low window, then the ground is felt by the absence of floor and finally, the river becomes visible from the widest openings. On the side of the river, the facade is softer, devoid of some of the firewood that has given way to a bench. The WoodStock is a smooth transition between the busy trail and the calm of the river.  Courtesy of Réal Emond It is only built with wood. We used spruce for the structural timber and to add some contrast to the pile of wood we chose to stack two different species: ash and beech. The idea of this project was to reuse most of the building materials. Indeed these cabins only stay 6 months on the site before being destroyed. Thus the firewood is already cut in different length and only the spruce structure will not have a second life.  Courtesy of Réal Emond  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Between Square and Circle: Xinnan Kindergarten / Jin Niu Posted: 19 Sep 2018 05:00 PM PDT  Circular courtyard in the building . Image © Chao Zhang
 © Chao Zhang  © Chao Zhang Text description provided by the architects. When I first stepped out into the site of Xinnan Kindergarten, I was a bit down and disappointed. Looking around, in this village nearby the Xiamen Island, I saw nothing but the barren fields and messy country houses. It has neither the rich and interesting information nor the fascinating surroundings.  Quite and peaceful courtyard . Image © Chao Zhang Kindergarten construction belongs to the grassroots people's livelihood project, mainly meeting the growing educational needs of preschool children in several natural villages nearby. The project investment budget is also relatively tight: the construction scale of 3,900 square meters with 12 classes, and the comprehensive cost of 2,000 yuan per square meter (including the sitie, civil work, equipments, simple interior decoration, etc.) Moreover, it should be directly delivered to the users.  © Chao Zhang Although there are some disadvantages on the site and the budget, we still need to find some way to do our best to get it done.  © Chao Zhang Integration The "face" of the Dongliao Village is nothing different from other natural villages in the suburbs. The left-behind people lived on their own land, and they saved the money to build a house, which basically followed the principle of "economical and applicable": horizontal and vertical, and well-regulated. The doors and windows are casual, but it still conforms to the interior functions. As for the "beauty", according to the conditions of each family, decorative overlay of red bricks with Minnan characteristics is applied in order to obtain the good luck. After imitating the buildings with each other, it became a common style. The kindergarten's with nearly 4,000 square meters is going to be built in this village, It should be an unprecedented public building. What would it look like?  © Chao Zhang  Diagram. Image Courtesy of Niu Jin  Skylight. Image © Chao Zhang We don't want to build an alien creature， even if the kindergarten is always recognized as"overly dressed up". Thus, similar to the houses nearby, this kindergarten building is designed as a simple square box. The shape is the most simplified, so the exterior wall area is the smallest. It may reduce some cost. The doors and the windows are based on the interior functions. The children's classrooms and activity rooms are opened up to make the interior space as bright as possible. The exterior wall are decorated by Minnan local red bricks. But there're a little bit interesting changes in the masonry construction. This may be slightly different from the surrounding rural houses. It's so-called "beautiful" and "contemporary". After the house was built, some new teachers even cannot recognize which building is the kindergarten at first sight since it's almost the same with other surrounding houses. They think it is special.  Diagram. Image Courtesy of Niu Jin Contrast After all, the "face" of the house is not our main focus. We were trying to deal with the external features of the building with maximum restraint. We mainly focus on how to show the interior space of the building. We should spend a lot of time working on it. We firstly created a number of courtyards inside the building, and the main functions were based on the courtyards. With the counrtyards, the ventilation is good and the space is bright. The two main courtyards are designed to be a large and a small circles. There is a clear contrast between this round courtyard and the square-shaped building. The building looks a little bit like a big cheese. In the small round courtyard, trees are planted to introduce the seasonal changes, and the big round courtyard is for outdoor activities function.  Courtyard after construction. Image © Chao Zhang The main color and materials in the interior space are pure, fine white, and the ground is decorated by active colors in order to active the atmosphere. Although it has a big contrast with the surrounding red bricks, it increases the fluidity of the space. Due to the cost control, there's no budget for the suspended ceiling in the public area. We try to make the exposed beams display in a smart way, and adjusted to the interior space as well. Besides, we tactfully deal with the position of all kinds of pipelines and try to maintain beautiful surface.  Interior Section. Image Courtesy of Niu Jin Actually, we intentionally make the big contract between the inside and the outside, the square and the circle, and the red and the white. We look forward to seeing the surprise faces of the children when they enter the house. We would like to offer them the opportunity to have a different daily life experience in a place that accords with real kindergarten space.  © Chao Zhang Circulation There is always an inseparable link between the streamline and the space, and the interesting streamline design further stimulates the possibility of the activities. Children of this age seem to have endless energy to play. Chasing with each other again and again is full of attraction and temptation to them.  © Chao Zhang The appearance of two round courtyards, large and small, provides a stage for such scene. The main communication space in the kindergarten surrounds the courtyards, which naturally forms an "8"-shaped space. In this space, the streamline of the infinite shuttle loop is created, soft and smooth, with fewer edges and less angles. It is better for children's daily activities.  Floor Plan . Image Courtesy of Niu Jin Due to complex realistic conditions, the construction process didn't go smoothly. We have limited choices in materials and crafting selection, which left some regrets, but we believe that all parties have done their best. Regarding the design itself, we also have a lot not to be considered enough and we still have room to improve. Fortunately, our initial idea about the house retained finally. At that moment, I saw children running freely in the bright and fluid courtyards. I heard a young teacher who was just on board said that she decided to come to this kindergarten because she liked this house. My upset heart calmed down. We've at least done something meaningful. Once I talked with the headmaster. She said, "If this kindergarten is built in the city, it may be better." If so, it will be another building and another story. In fact, it is not the wrong position of the house, but the improvement of overall level of the region construction still requires the joint efforts from all parties in the society. It's a long road. Let's inspire with each other and keep moving forward.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Greenhouse as a Home / BIAS Architects Posted: 19 Sep 2018 04:00 PM PDT  © Rockburger
 © Rockburger Text description provided by the architects. In 1644, while introducing the mercury barometer, Evangelista Torricelli wrote: "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of the element air, which by unquestioned experiments is known to have weight." Probably, this is one of the most dramatic statements in the early history of atmospheric science. Not only, this is a dramatic statement for architecture, too. Indeed, following Torricelli discovery, we are "submerged" in an element that has properties. Most important, these properties –that we call climatic- can influence the way we inhabit. So, since today we can artificially control the climate, the walls are no more the only important element of architecture.  © Rockburger  Visual guidance  © Rockburger But, in a climatic architecture, there is much more than the possibility to expand the range of disciplinary tools. Climate conditions us as well as the plants. Today, a time when we must develop a new sustainability, a time when we need to start sharing our space with nature, this climatic architecture is what we have to master.  © Rockburger  Ground floor plan  © Rockburger BIAS is an architecture and curating firm devoted to test and expand the boundaries of the architectural discipline. The integration of curating was the first consequence of such objective. Indeed, this corresponded to the attempt of engaging programs as an integral part of the architecture. Engaging the climate directly follows, especially in the light of the contemporary issues of sustainability.  Environmental control system  Space, Forms, Functions and Activities In the context of Taoyuan Agriculture Expo 2018, BIAS has developed an experimental architecture called "Greenhouse as a Home." Here, the human living space is intertwined with that of the plants and organized according to climatic zones, rather than traditional architectural areas. Greenhouses building materials and structures are arranged to separate climatic areas, while the distribution of water and energy flows is technologically managed.  © Rockburger A study for to integrate planting and programs has been developed, too, and the outcome is that the people can experience an integrated variation of climate, landscape, and activities, while they cross "Greenhouse as home." They can also develop some sense for the respective interdependences, that is important for to trigger and develop a culture of sustainability.  Elements of construction The first zone is shadowy, humid, and fresh. It is inhabited by ferns hanged in a steel grid structure. This assemblage creates ambiguous walls and a forest-like spatial experience that introduces to "Greenhouse as home." The second zone is still humid but windy and hosts the main activity area. Here, a large table enables the collective dining. The third zone is climatically stabilized and occupied by a vertical hydroponic farm together with the kitchen. Here, fresh vegetables are picked every day and then cooked in real time for the benefit of the visitors. The fourth zone is hotter and drier, and serves to desiccate vegetable as in traditional courtyard houses, but enables the visitors to sunbath, too. The fifth and last zone is finally hot, humid, and dark. It hosts a fungus farm together with a sensorial theatre where the visitors can enjoy light and sound performances.  © James Teng  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 19 Sep 2018 03:00 PM PDT  © CreatAR Images
 © CreatAR Images Encounter  © CreatAR Images Before Supermonkey came to Mur Mur Lab to seek for the design, it has already been famous in the fitness industry. It is adored by many young people by its new idea of fitness. It could be another product of standardization. Yet, Mur Mur Lab always wants to try out something special. Like Marvel's films, we prepare a surprise filled with elation and amazement for SuperMonkey.
Opportunity  © CreatAR Images After a series of standard retail stores, a new chance came up. This new store locates at the Raffles, near the People's Square. It was a logistics area of a bank.  © CreatAR Images Innovation  © CreatAR Images  © CreatAR Images Steam is the first layer for entering the store. It conceal some details but allow the light to traverse through and to illuminate. The person enters the Supermonkey store through a series of stepping stone and then the surreal, oriental, expressionist arch bridge. The ultimate highlight presented to both the city and the interior, is the fantastical lighted hallway, forged with over 400 light bulbs and over 800 pieces of hanging frosted glass. This moment, spent in this whimsical, surrealist aisle, resting in one another's eyes, is the entire reality. This is a white Supermonkey, different from the common palette of black and yellow. This is a future store, different from the others and shining like the universe.  © CreatAR Images Experience  © CreatAR Images The white curtain establishes a break between the interior and the exterior. The passengers are gently kept off in the exterior, but they can see people's movements and sweats through the veil. They can join in by passing through the red-and-white color-palette of world of difference. The filtered light is the most beautiful one. The architecture with emotions is the most touching one. As you can imagine, when the midday light illuminates a girl resting on the red bench, normal days are not normal anymore. The spirit of architecture exists in the daily life.  © CreatAR Images  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| MENARI Residence / Ecostudio Architects Posted: 19 Sep 2018 02:00 PM PDT  © Anny Leiva
 © Anny Leiva Text description provided by the architects. In a break in the city, the Menari residence is set, creating a respite for its inhabitants. This project is constructed under a series of requirements according to the guidelines given by the client in relation to establish privacy in its immediate surroundings, which is why the morphology responds to this intention and the residence is self-contained, turning into a broad inner courtyard and projecting to the environment via a diaphanous plastic, characterized by pure volumes and solid in its majority, that establishes an interplay of full and empty through the perforations that allow you to peek inside towards the interior of the building, always having gardens as visual end point of the different spaces.  © Anny Leiva This is how its volumetric expression becomes imposing in a plain setting, under a geometric superposition of a trapezoidal surface and a rectangle, seeking the interaction of its simple materiality, characterized by the use of exposed concrete, glass and steel.  First floor plan  Second floor plan The project is located in a hot climate, requiring the consideration of passive strategies to generate optimal comfort, for which bioclimatic guidelines are established that range from the orientation of the house, closing towards the points of greatest solar exposure, and the use of cross ventilation with large openings to optimally ventilate the different spaces, as well as natural lighting in all of the rooms. It is also characterized by high ceilings and wide eaves, and the choice of specific materials to prevent overheating of the interior.  © Anny Leiva On a spatial level, a set of double volume space is created, provoking an intimate relationship between the exterior and the interior so that its neutral materiality allows key features to stand out, such as the floor of the social area with its mosaic of different colors, and the blue tinted wood floor in the private areas of the house.  © Anny Leiva Another distinctive feature are the large terraces that perforate the solid volumes, narrowing the visual relationship between levels, erasing the limits between the internal and the external, taking advantage of the fact that there are no hard edges, such that all spaces enjoy the advantage of the natural surroundings in which the residence is immersed.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Mackelvie Street Retail / RTA Studio Posted: 19 Sep 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © Patrick Reynolds
 © Patrick Reynolds Text description provided by the architects. This is an urban regeneration retail project in the chic shopping precinct of Ponsonby Road, Auckland, New Zealand. While predominantly a new shopping building, the two taller units also house commercial office tenancies accessed from a rear laneway, adding to the mixed use of the project. The brief extended beyond the walls of the building – requiring the activation of the back side of existing heritage shops to develop additional retail frontages for shopping and food and beverage activities.  © Patrick Reynolds An urban program evolved which saw a solution in establishing a network of carefully placed laneways, courtyards and connections linking into the existing pedestrian framework. This small shopping centre became an urban catalyst to the regeneration of under-utilised service areas of the existing buildings.  Formally, the building responds to the scale and proportion of the Victorian row shop houses within the precinct. One and two-story forms are generated from the widths and heights of the Edwardian and Victorian precedents in the neighbourhood. _lowres_proofs_Page_39.jpg?1536847373 "© Patrick Reynolds") © Patrick Reynolds A facade veils these forms in a layer of perforated white cement sheets that moderate sun and daylight while also controlling the visibility in and out of the retail and office spaces above. The perforated pattern has been abstracted from the 'demark' pattern, also prominent in the decoration of surrounding heritage buildings.  © Patrick Reynolds The resultant building provides highly visible and prominent shops while activating a new network of laneways and rear courtyards that facilitate new retail opportunities on the former service side of existing shops.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| UBC Quantum Matter Institute / PUBLIC Architecture + Communication Posted: 19 Sep 2018 12:00 PM PDT  © Martin Tessler
 © Martin Tessler Text description provided by the architects. The Quantum Matter Institute houses an interdisciplinary group of researchers that study things at the atomic scale. Situated in the Applied Science Precinct of the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus, this slender corner addition is both a gateway and a connector. The QMI creates a new portal to the precinct, serves as a new formal entrance to the Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory (AMPEL) and collocates quantum researchers for the first time, creating the potential for research synergies in this ground-breaking field. Just as silicone was the basis of a microelectronics revolution, quantum research could lead to new industries in fields such as electronics, solar energy, and medicine.  © Martin Tessler The QMI creates its own identity while enhancing the integrity of its neighbors. The white brick cladding mixed with black and grey relates to the campus palette while revealing the chemical compound of the crystal lattices that form the foundation for the majority of QMI's research. The corners of the building have been chamfered as required for site constraints and reveal a crystal structure of corbelled masonry. As if affected by a giant magnet, all of the bricks align from north to south.  © Martin Tessler Quantum research is best carried out underground because vibrations from sources as insignificant as a footstep can ruin an experiment. QMI has four underground vaults and a series of above-ground laboratories that provide a high degree of control over the environment. To ensure the vibration performance of these predictable spaces, the entire building is decoupled from its site with isolation pads and absorptive membranes below grade and the laboratories are stacked in a reinforced concrete structure designed to be as stiff as possible. The laboratories are designed to support long-term flexibility, acting as re-configurable stages upon which new research activities can unfold.  © Martin Tessler While quantum experiments flourish in vacuum chambers, the growth of quantum ideas does not. Integration between researchers is essential for new discoveries. Taking inspiration from the crystal lattices – "the interfaces are where things get interesting," according to one researcher – the building fosters a fluid work flow by laminating predictable lab space with unpredictable offices, meeting rooms and lounges. Every time QMI users enter or leave a floor, they are momentarily taken out of their routine as they pass through a gathering space that skews and transforms the pragmatic. These gathering spaces are located at the junctures where the QMI and AMPEL meet, becoming platforms for social interaction and the cross-pollination of ideas.  © Martin Tessler  © Martin Tessler The QMI has been registered with the CAGBC and is pursuing certification at the gold level. The project team's largest hurdle to overcome was reducing the energy consumption required by laboratory process loads. Key strategies included minimizing the number of air changes in laboratories and implementing a fume hood sash management program.  © Martin Tessler  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Cumberland weeHouse / Alchemy Architects Posted: 19 Sep 2018 10:00 AM PDT  © Geoffrey Warner
 © Geoffrey Warner Text description provided by the architects. The Cumberland weeHouse is a year-round lakeside retreat for a family of four and their guests. The sloped, wooded lot provides a foil for the weeHouse's elegant, horizontal form, its strong, overhanging roof, and the accompanying lakeside walkway. The basement level walk-out leads directly to the lake and includes two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a flex living/sleeping space with a cozy, wood-lined sleeping alcove.  © Geoffrey Warner The "tower" provides a staircase, main floor entry and storage, 1st and 2nd floor bathrooms, and is topped off with a sleeping loft and roof deck overlooking the shoreline. The tower is sheathed vertically, accentuating its height and position within the trees. A spacious deck, wrapping around two sides, extends the living areas into the outside, making the most of a floor-to-ceiling window wall.  © Geoffrey Warner  Ground floor plan  © Geoffrey Warner An attached, screen porch merges with the deck and provides a comfortable, protected dining and conversation space. The open kitchen/living area, a half-bath, the master bedroom, and porch access make up the main floor. Alchemy's "corncrib" siding (rough sawn, locally sourced wood) is applied vertically on the tower and horizontally on the base and porch. The tower interior is wrapped in local aspen, and what is usually a junk wood: spalted pine. Corrugated, corten steel wraps the main floor, providing additional texture and delineation between boxes.  © Geoffrey Warner  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Studio JCW Proposes Big Shelf for Park Avenue Posted: 19 Sep 2018 09:00 AM PDT  Big Shelf. Image Courtesy of Studio JCW Studio JCW have created a proposal to revitalize the medians of Park Avenue in New York City. Founded by Chanon Wangkachonkait and Jaehong Chung, Studio JCW argues that Park Avenue's medians have been a fixture on the boulevard for more than a century. Their Big Shelf proposal would create elevated public spaces within a grid structure for expanded programming. The design was made to echo the structural facades of surrounding skyscrapers and building grids.  Big Shelf. Image Courtesy of Studio JCW The Big Shelf structure would be installed on every median of Park Avenue between 46th and 57th streets. In turn, a series of underground paths would be constructed between each block. The expanded and elevated areas are made to provide more diverse programs, views and spaces, as well as more green space. As the team notes, plants and shrubs would be added within the site to contribute towards Vision 2020 by absorbing vehicular noxious gases.  Big Shelf. Image Courtesy of Studio JCW  Big Shelf. Image Courtesy of Studio JCW Addressing the segregation of the medians by crossing traffic, the proposal would connect medians to bring continuous pedestrian circulation along the entirety of Park Avenue without any crosswalks. In addition, the slope from the underground path to the medians would offer diverse view points for pedestrians. From a material standpoint, the structure and vertical trellises would be made from steel. The large planters and pots would utilize recycled materials like glass and concrete. Along the interior of the shelf structure, circulation paths would also be made with recycled materials and perforated metal sheets.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Residence La Salle / Hatem+D + Etienne Bernier Architecte Posted: 19 Sep 2018 08:00 AM PDT  © 1Px Dave Tremblay
 © 1Px Dave Tremblay Text description provided by the architects. This house extension project is located in St-Roch, in the heart of Quebec City. Built in 1915, this former rooming house was renovated and converted into a single-family house. On the facade overlooking the street, the authentic style of the house was preserved by enhancing the look of the cornice and the woodwork and by having its contrast with the contemporary burnt wood of the rear extension.  Ground Floor Plan The St-Roch district is dense and mineral, with very few trees found on the streets. Therefore, the challenge was to open up the residence to the vegetation of the garden in order to maximize brightness and integrate the backyard into the project. In order to create an impression of a vast and airy space, the dining room, the kitchen, the living room and the reading corner were converted into an open space, covering most of the ground floor. To fully maximize the open surface, the bathroom was concealed under the staircase and the vestibule was separated from the living room by a piece of furniture with a glass wall.  © 1Px Dave Tremblay The ground floor space extends to the terrace on the same level as the interior floor finish. The preeminence of white and the plain wood floors create a luminous and modern ambiance. The four bedrooms are located upstairs, as well as a boudoir that opens up to the corridor. This particular area, which can be closed with a folding and sliding wall, fulfills the family's needs for privacy while creating space and bringing in natural light into the central corridor.  First Floor Plan The house extension, sober and modest, is made of black burnt wood and white brick from the existing house. The 19 feet long bay window, which opens up to the garden, stands as the extravagant touch of the project. The La Salle Residence proves that it is entirely possible to obtain a contemporary residence with incredible spatial qualities on a tight budget, by keeping the focus on the priorities (the windows, for example) and the main goals.  © 1Px Dave Tremblay  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Sir David Adjaye Will Design Princeton Art Museum to be a "Place of Mind-Opening Encounter" Posted: 19 Sep 2018 07:00 AM PDT  The existing Princeton University Museum of Art. Image © Flickr user throgers. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Sir David Adjaye has been selected as design architect for the new Princeton University Art Museum. Working in collaboration with executive architect Cooper Robertson, Adjaye will engage with the design of a "cultural gateway" located on the museum's current site at the center of Princeton's campus. The new museum will present "dramatically enlarged space" to exhibit and showcase the institution's extensive collections, as well as classrooms and office space for 100 staff.  Sir David Adjaye. Image © Adjaye Associates Adjaye, who was a visiting professor at Princeton from 2008 to 2010, intends the museum to be a place of mind-opening encounter, with art and ideas studied "in the service of humanity."
New York-based Cooper Robertson will bring extensive experience in their role as executive architect, with recent projects including the Whitney Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art. News of the proposal comes shortly after Princeton celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Steven Holl-designed Lewis Art Complex with a documentary video in collaboration with Spirit of Space. Having founded Adjaye Associates in 2000, Sir David Adjaye has overseen notable projects such as the $540 million Smithsonian Institute National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC, which opened in 2016. Ongoing schemes include the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, and the National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Center in London. His recent accolades include the 2018 Louis Kahn Memorial Award and 2018 WUSTL International Humanities Prize. News via: Princeton University  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| NY House / Urbanscape Architects Posted: 19 Sep 2018 06:00 AM PDT  © Revelateur Studio
 © Revelateur Studio Text description provided by the architects. Designed for a family of four, the NY House, is the result of an extensive renovation of a mid-size, three-storey house in midtown Toronto. The new house references the former life of its owners in New York city, accommodating their current work and life of these two active professionals and their young children. A comprehensive home, it is customized with flexible, multi-purpose spaces fit for a growing family. Mainly, the design strategy responds to the owners' need for the penetration of natural light, air and views into their living space.  © Revelateur Studio The design strategy was achieved through architectural gestures. Firstly, the dated interior partitions were removed to create a memorable and welcoming home—characterized by its intimate relationship with its immediate landscape and context. And subsequently, a customized skylight was positioned meticulously to be visible from every point on the first, second and third floors.  © Revelateur Studio Elegantly detailed millwork in aok along with white, double-cross engineered hardwood floor unified the interior of the house with a large cedar garden pavilion. The choice of dark window frames added a striking contrast to the matte white interior walls as well as the exterior facade, complementing the existing red brick of the cladding. The result is a comprehensive home with a distinguished presence and flexible, multi-purpose spaces fit for a growing family.  © Revelateur Studio  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 19 Sep 2018 04:30 AM PDT  RE/Form Striation collection. Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects As part of the London Design Festival 2018, the Zaha Hadid Gallery is presenting the new RE/Form carpet collection designed by Zaha Hadid Architects for Royal Thai. Consisting of 22 designs across four themes, the pieces showcase fluid patterns heavily reminiscent of Hadid's architectural works. The four themes consist of striated lines, ribbonlike projections, pixelated landscapes, and organic cellular shapes. Each pattern captures "Hadid's signature use of interweaving, layering and play with light and shadow." The designs continue Royal Thai's design-driven direction, introducing custom colors to the commercial carpets with shades of turquoise, red, and green. Translated into "Axminster-loomed and hand-tufted designs, each design represents reconfiguration and transformation." The collection will be on display at the Zaha Hadid Gallery at 101 Goswell Road, London until 21st September 2018, forming part of the London Design Festival. Also on display will be the new 2018 Zaha Hadid Design Collection, along with a recent collaboration of 3D-printed furniture with Nagami. You can find out more about the London Design Festival by reviewing our top picks of the installations from the 2018 edition here.  RE/Form Striation collection. Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects  RE/Form Striation collection. Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects  RE/Form Ribbons collection. Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects  RE/Form Ribbons collection. Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects  RE/Form Cellular collection. Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects  RE/Form Cellular collection. Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects  RE/Form Pixels collection. Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects  RE/Form Pixels collection. Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects News via: Zaha Hadid Architects  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| ICA Watershed / Anmahian Winton Architects Posted: 19 Sep 2018 04:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Anmahian Winton Architects
 Courtesy of Anmahian Winton Architects Text description provided by the architects. The ICA Watershed is a large-scale space for contemporary art, located in an abandoned copper pipe factory. Its site is known as the East Boston Shipyard, an active, industrial yacht basin directly across Boston Harbor from the ICA Museum, accessible by water taxi, car, and public transportation.  Courtesy of Anmahian Winton Architects Although the Watershed's original antique structure was derelict and had to be torn down, several of its iconic elements—crane and monorail hoists, railroad tracks—have been retained, used to reference the site's purpose and help shape the space. Within the 300' long by 50' wide by 25' tall envelope, the design synthesizes the retained infrastructure with equally powerful, new industrial materials, to serve the ICA program for contemporary art.  North-South Section Breaking with the customary "white room / black box" gallery paradigm, daylight plays a seminal role in the space, illuminating a major wall and highlighting both ends of the building. A 250' long slot skylight shines through new steel trusses, allowing light to wash down the richly textured concrete-and-cinderblock surface of an existing wall that had once supported the loading and unloading of rail cars running through the building.  Courtesy of Anmahian Winton Architects A translucent polycarbonate skin clads the steel frames of the building's two end walls. Each is punctuated by a monumental hangar door that opens for access and loading, connecting the art space to the shipyard, the harbor, and the city. This expansive gesture invites the public to and through the building, revealing the industrial history of the East Boston Shipyard and welcoming them as participants in the Watershed's experience.  Courtesy of Anmahian Winton Architects  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Huguet Apartment / TEd’A arquitectes Posted: 19 Sep 2018 02:00 AM PDT  © José Hevia
 © José Hevia Text description provided by the architects. Value the small, the tiny, the almost imperceptible. Observe and attend to architecture closely, from very close. Pursue and be persecuted for the last detail, with no option to stop before. To reach, in certain case, to the aggregate with which the joint between two tiles will be executed, to make the project depend on it, and to know that the project depends on it.  © José Hevia The intervention consists of the interior refurbishment of an old flat located in the Gracia district of Barcelona.  © José Hevia  Plan  © José Hevia The project concentrates its efforts on a single strategy, consisting of opening the flat longitudinally. The whole project is condensed in a single gesture that manages to visually connect the street and the interior courtyard, bringing both opposite and, until now, distant façades closer together. A single element is at the heart of this strategy. A new wardrobe crosses the entire house from one end to the other. This new element organizes the space and physically and visually connects the entire floor from one end to the other. As a new and autonomous element, it is introduced into the house of Laia and Biel almost as a sculpture, independent and exempt from the perimeter that contains it. It is executed with a noble and warm material, that is voluntarily different from the white that characterizes the space that contains it.  © José Hevia The new pavement is organized as a carpet to support this new wardrobe. The history of this pavement has a memory, accepts its pre- existing conditions and proposes to transform them. The history of the new pavement could be understood as a palimpsest. There was, in a previous state, a pavement of 13x13cm clay tiles placed diagonally. Its condition was not very good, it was partially modified, there were many patches and different types of tiles, the result of overlapping alterations and modifications. We decided to replace the pavement with a new one. We opted for a hydraulic pavement manufactured by Huguet.  © José Hevia The new pavement has the same size, 13x13cm, like the existing one and is also laid diagonally. Its entire perimeter is taped, room by room, with special edge pieces that provide a good finish to the perimeter of the flooring. Special pieces are also made to obtain a longitudinal carpet to support the new wardrobe. But a tile floor is not just a tile floor, it's a tile floor and the joint between them. And here the old clay tiles come back into play.  © José Hevia The existing tiles are cleaned and crushed to obtain an aggregate of about 5-8mm. This aggregate is used to make the joint between the new tiles. The joint is quite wide, 1cm thick, and is made with white mortar grout and reddish aggregate obtained from the clay tiles. The size of the crushed aggregate is suitable for the size of the joint. Afterwards everything is polished, tile and join.  © José Hevia Thus, the intervention, from its most general lines to the most concrete details, is able to read and understand the place where it takes place, it is able to transform and manipulate it, in order to improve it and bring it further.  © José Hevia  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| L.A.’s Walt Disney Concert Hall Will Be Lit by Algorithms in Dream-Like Light Show Posted: 18 Sep 2018 11:00 PM PDT  WDCH Dreams. Image © Refik Anadol The Walt Disney Concert Hall is set to be transformed through digital art projections by media artist Refik Anadol and Google Arts & Culture. Created for the Los Angeles Philharmonic's centennial, the light show will be made through deep neural network connections projected as light. Designed for WDCH Dreams, the digital projections draw together the L.A.Philharmonic orchestra's digital archives and translate them into data points.  WDCH Dreams. Image © Refik Anadol Refik Anadol is a media artist and director working in the fields of site-specific public art. Working with parametric data sculpture approach and live audio/visual performance with immersive installations, his work explores the space among digital and physical entities by creating a hybrid relationship between architecture and media arts. Anadol worked with Google Arts & Culture to translate the L.A. Phil's archives, and the work create a "data universe" that can be shaped by the neural networks as they transform and animate the Gehry Partners–designed concert hall.  WDCH Dreams. Image © Refik Anadol  WDCH Dreams. Image © Refik Anadol Alongside the light show, music will be used from the philharmonic's archives and sound designers Robert Thomas, Kerim Karaoglu and Parag K. Mital. The music will be sorted into thematic compositions by machine learning algorithms. Inside the concert hall, visitors can interact with the archives through a mirrored room with two-channel projection in the Ira Gershwin Gallery. Inside the concert hall, the Ira Gershwin Gallery will contain a companion installation where participants can interact with the philharmonic's archives via a mirrored, U-shaped room with two-channel projection. Nightly performances will take place between September 28 and October 6, 2018.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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