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- Groundwater Pumping Station Mittelweiherburg / firm Architekten
- Klencke / NL Architects
- CUBE / KAAN Architecten
- Magush Villa / White Cube Atelier
- Nine Bridges Pergola / JOHO Architecture
- Todoroki House / Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects
- Shanghai Auto Expo Park RV Club / NATURALBUILD
- An Indian Modern House / 23DC Architects
- Coffee Nap Roasters 2nd / Design Studio Maoom
- Fawkner Street House / Workshop Architecture
- Jackson Dinsdale Art Center / TACK architects
- Amazon Invests in Start-Up Company to Deliver Prefabricated Homes
- Es Devlin to Design the UK’s “Poem Pavilion” for Dubai Expo 2020
- House in Cotia / UNA Arquitetos
- Adjaye, MASS Design Group and Shonibare Among 5 Finalists for Boston's MLK Memorial
- Northwestern University Ryan - Walter Athletics Center / Perkins+Will
- Monastery House / Bureau Fraai
- Francis Kéré: "I Draw on Paper, but I Prefer to Draw on the Ground"
- Sir Nicholas Grimshaw Wins the RIBA Gold Medal 2019
| Posted: 27 Sep 2018 10:00 PM PDT  © Antoine Bonnafous Photographe
 © Antoine Bonnafous Photographe Text description provided by the architects. At the origin of this operation, there were two independent buildings, the building overlooking the street of Volontaires and the building on the campus of Pasteur Institute, in Paris.  © Antoine Bonnafous Photographe  Plan  © Antoine Bonnafous Photographe The street building, built in the late 90s was dedicated to housing, it consisted of small students rooms developing on nine levels. It was optimized for this kind of program and offered only a few openings and a very constrained floor height of 2.40m.  © Antoine Bonnafous Photographe  © Antoine Bonnafous Photographe  Section  © Antoine Bonnafous Photographe The trays were cured and the facades were completely sawn to make way for a curtain wall and a corrugated steel cladding covering the entire project.  © Antoine Bonnafous Photographe The low height led to a work on the expression of ducts and other technical elements innervating the building. The buildings now house offices and research laboratories dedicated to bioinformatics on more than 3200 square meters.  © Antoine Bonnafous Photographe  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Groundwater Pumping Station Mittelweiherburg / firm Architekten Posted: 27 Sep 2018 08:00 PM PDT  © Adolf Bereuter
 © Adolf Bereuter Text description provided by the architects. A new groundwater pumping station is built for the city of Bregenz and the towns of Hard, Lauterach and Wolfurt in the west of Austria. A small dark concrete cube next to the main building includes the vertical fountain and pumps up the fresh water. The large dark main building, which is mainly closed to the public, includes the technical installations for the water preparation and huge water tanks.  © Adolf Bereuter Right next to the technical building the landmark "Mittelweiherburg", a small castle is located. The complex of these three buildings create an open space in between, used by the public. A fresh water fountain and concrete blocks to rest on are used by people waiting to enter the museum in the castle, or make a rest while driving along the public bicycle path which passes the site.  © Adolf Bereuter  Plan  © Adolf Bereuter The building façade deals with two very different phenomena's. From distance, the dark building gets blurred within the environment. When you get closer, one can see the washed-out concrete structure and size of the building. The aim was to craft the façade with water, which is contained within the volume.  © Adolf Bereuter Also, the few doors intend to play down their size and therefore the volume of the building. The largest is more than four meters high, hard to guess as long as you come up to the building. The doors are made of dark blue enamel coated metal sheets, which glimmer like a water surface. All in all, the project is an example to create a long-lasting infrastructural building with an architectural idea.  © Adolf Bereuter  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 27 Sep 2018 07:00 PM PDT  © Marcel van der Burg
 © Marcel van der Burg Text description provided by the architects. Klencke (or Terras op Zuid) is a residential complex with a distinctive stepped profile that provides supersized outdoor spaces with a spectacular orientation.  © Marcel van der Burg
Klencke is strategically located at the border of the inner city: a 5 minute walk from an elegant shopping center, a 5 minute bike ride from the economic heart and 5 minute drive from the highway. Work, sports, recreation: all within reach. The nearby station brings you in no time to the airport.  © Marcel van der Burg The site is somewhat hidden alongside a lush canal that is part of the 'ecological framework' of the city: an unexpected green oasis.  © Marcel van der Burg
 Courtesy of NL Architects Buitenveldert is a post war expansion of Amsterdam with a rational, Modernist layout featuring a mix of high and low buildings: Light, Air, Space. It is considered the 'Pièce de résistance' of Cornelis Van Eesteren's so-called Algemeen Uitbreidingplan; Modern and yet well-liked!  © Marcel van der Burg Klencke is placed parallel to the canal to fully take advantage of the position along the water. And since the residential area on the other side is facing east – west, perpendicular to the waterway, a really attractive vista opens up for the prospective inhabitants.  © Marcel van der Burg
 © Marcel van der Burg Living in the city is increasingly attractive but often implies a sacrifice: lack of outdoor space. But not at Klencke. The north-south orientation induces the introduction of a specific residential type: stepped housing. Each consequent Floor is pushed back as to create a terrace on top of the dwelling below: the building a 'stair'.  © Marcel van der Burg Traditional balconies tend to be stacked above one another and as such obscure the sky. The advantage of the stepped typology is that the terrace features optimal exposure, in principle all day long; there is no 'ceiling' hovering over it.  © Marcel van der Burg The greenery will be owned by the homeowners association and will be hand picked by a landscape architect. The residents can choose a specific color palette to their liking. A collective vertical park comes into being. The carefully composed foliage will form a kind of 'veil', a fragile filter between the building and its surroundings. Each floor articulated by its own floral cornice.  © Marcel van der Burg The access is on the North side through open-air galleries. Pushing back each floor also has positive effects on this side of the building. The protruding walkways offer a form of additional shelter and the arched profile adds attractive plasticity to the streetscape; the silhouette becomes sculptural.  © Marcel van der Burg The interface between the dwelling and circulation space will be transparent and generous due to large windows.  Courtesy of NL Architects
 © Marcel van der Burg The specific organization of Klencke allows for a spectrum of different residential types with distinct sizes and characteristics.  © Marcel van der Burg The lowest floor on the south side features single-sided, extra-wide units with an extra large terrace.  © Marcel van der Burg  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 27 Sep 2018 06:00 PM PDT  © Sebastian van Damme
 © Sebastian van Damme Text description provided by the architects. Located in the north-west corner of the campus, which is characterized by an orthogonal plan, the 11.000 square-meter building serves all faculties and it is in constant use by some 2.200 students and lecturers that cross its spaces every day. CUBE is anchored to the landscape by paved pathways that guide users to its entrances on the south-side corners. It is a secluded space for study that feels like an opening in the woods.  © Sebastian van Damme More than any other building in the campus, the new Education and Self Study Center is a building for students: open and spacious, elegant and robust. KAAN Architecten's design choices take into account not only current users, but also future generations and development of the university.  © Simone Bossi In order to secure a free-flowing, open building and to avoid any sense of crowding, the heart of CUBE is a spacious indoor study plaza flanked by a transparent auditorium and two patios. On all sides, the building features a homogenous layout that leaves no closed-off facades, but exudes complete equality on all sides. The transition from façade to green enclosure is practically seamless.  © Simone Bossi The ground floor is welcoming and feels like an inviting public space thanks to the high ceilings and abundant daylight flowing deep into CUBE. It constitutes one continuous realm dotted with open study and circulation spaces, lounges, and a catering area. Here, a white rounded graceful spiral staircase gives the building a sense of serenity.  © Sebastian van Damme The auditorium surrounded by glass walls is part of this dynamic ensemble. Moreover, alongside the green patios, independent study spaces with lower ceilings are recessed, dedicated to concentrated work. On both floors, all fully-equipped lecture rooms run alongside the west, north and east facades highlighting the strong orthogonal orientation of CUBE.  © Sebastian van Damme Spread symmetrically over the plan, four open staircases, including the main one, connect the indoor plaza to the first floor. With the exception of the main spiral staircase, all stairs and canopies are dark in colour, forming a common thread throughout the building, while all the public areas have power floated concrete floors and light grey expanded metal ceilings.  © Simone Bossi Long wooden study tables, comfortable benches and armchairs complete the furnishing.  © Simone Bossi The auditorium has a warm, neutral interior. Floors, walls and ceiling are all ton sur ton - in welcoming shades of grey which create a unified spatial experience, suitable for the diverse typology of events it houses.  © Simone Bossi Now open to the students, the vital and frenetic everyday life of CUBE enhances KAAN Architecten's discreet expression of an architectural concord achieved with a clear and open design process that authentically reflects the building's identity.  Level 1 1_500  Section BB 1_500 The Education and Self Study Center in Tilburg is the latest project dedicated to higher education and research to be completed this year by the Dutch firm. This state-of-the-art approach to public buildings, with a pronounced attitude towards spaces for concentration and lively sharing of ideas, is also intrinsic to the firm's recent UAM Campuses in Piracicaba and Sao José dos Campos in Brazil, the Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay in France, as well as in the award-winning Education Center Erasmus MC in Rotterdam.  © Simone Bossi  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Magush Villa / White Cube Atelier Posted: 27 Sep 2018 05:00 PM PDT  © Farshid Nasrabadi
 © Farshid Nasrabadi Text description provided by the architects. The name of the project is derived from the old name of the city – Maku- where this villa is located in. Maku as a border city in northwest of Iran, has differentiated climatic qualities like heavy snows, rainy days and green plains around.  © Farshid Nasrabadi Formation of the concept was the result of a challenge between the client and the architects; The commission was to create a distinctive family retreat on Qare Khach slopes, and to consider providing spectacular views over natural sceneries around. So we initiated dialogue about the skyline and re-defined gable roof by deconstructing stereotypes. The dynamic soaring skyline caused an iconic form and diverse views to the building while providing potentials for designing the landscape and interior spaces.  Axo The project is located on the slopes which enjoys a great view to Mount Ararat and the whole city.It is comprised of a 150-square-meter building and 150 –square-meter terraces. Stretched terraces, one protected by roof and the other held by 3 slender columns are completed by frameless glass railing to maximize transparency. A cantilevered glass deck is also added to landscape.  © Farshid Nasrabadi The villa blends into the landscape, following the geometric lines of the building to organize surrounding slopes. The user faces a maze as he enters the site; so he has to change the direction while approaching the building and encountering different skylines. The villa is divided into 3 zones which are connected by stairs: a public zone with kitchen and living room on the ground floor, a private zone including bathroom and bedrooms on the first floor and a fully transparent zone which is formed by terraces.  Ground floor plan  1st floor plan Another focal point is the choice of the finishing materials for the facade. These are intended to give light and identity to the building; Basalt stone is utilized as a vernacular material which is used in masonry historical buildings of this district, large picture windows which are influenced by the form of gable roof are added to permit fluidity and transparency to the spaces, and the gable roof is covered by shingle cladding that is perforated by the eastern skylight, so sun rays penetrate through in the early morning.  © Farshid Nasrabadi  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Nine Bridges Pergola / JOHO Architecture Posted: 27 Sep 2018 04:00 PM PDT  © Archframe
 © Archframe Text description provided by the architects. The Pergola of The Golf Club at NINE BRIDGES is a structure built on a location that honors an old sacred tree. The Chinese hackberry, which stood for roughly 600 years before the present golf course was constructed, unconsciously instated a place of animism. The pergola rearranges the site in accordance with the orientation of an aged tree and finds its project motifs in natural algorithms.  © Archframe Inspired by the essential structures of natural algorithms, we have devised a 'dual-duct system' that integrates both the structure and the facility. The inner duct is used for ventilation and wrapped with a 12mm thick steel frame to form the overall structure. The two ducts are covered with highly dense insulating material in between, to prevent dew condensation from indoor-outdoor temperature difference when operating cooling and heating systems.  © Archframe To control this organic form finished with double curved surfaces, 6 main structures and 19 substructures were used. About 160 atypical, semi-tempered pair panes of glasses were placed on the structure and roughly 280 curved panes of glasses were applied on the flank. 440 glass panes of differing sizes were manufactured in a factory in China and assembled onto a locally manufactured structure. The inner structure produced at a factory near Seoul was disassembled into 80 pieces and shipped to Jeju Island for reassembly. The semi-tempered paired glass panes, with 140 different curvatures, were manufactured at the Chinese factory and assembled in Korea.  Sectional Perspective 1 This was a task that required sophistication, only allowing for a less than 5mm difference between the materials manufactured separately in Korea and China when they were to be reassembled at the site. The structure was mainly divided into six strands had a ventilation duct installed with 48 duct pipes to respond to the outside air temperature and to maintain a consistent indoor temperature.  © Archframe  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Todoroki House / Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects Posted: 27 Sep 2018 03:00 PM PDT  © Yuna Yagi
 © Yuna Yagi Text description provided by the architects. The Todoroki Ravine is a windy location. Running through a dense urban forest, the air provided near the ground is humid while dry winds constantly blow up towards the sky. The design of the house has been defined by focusing on these two contrasting environmental conditions and through the studies of primitive architectures pieces from both humid and arid areas around the world.  © Yuna Yagi  Ground + First floor plan  © Yuna Yagi ATTA attempted to combine the various building types that have been shaped into these wet and dry environments into a single house.  © Yuna Yagi  Second + Third floor plan  © Yuna Yagi The first floor provides a large space covered on the outside by the jungle, walls per se are made out of the excavated local soil. The atmosphere is serene. The entrance located on the mezzanine is like a balcony over the first floor and leading to the second floor. The second floor is the master bedroom fitting on a eight-volume space looking towards eight different directions with low ceiling and large windows surrounded by the forest. The third floor is comprised of a six volume space, towards six directions. The connection with the landscape lives through the window.  Section Built on a subdivided lot in a dense neighbourhood of the city center, Todoroki House is an urban house that makes living in the heart of the city a richer and more diverse experience: from the Jungle of the ground to the aerial atmosphere of the roof top.  © Yuna Yagi  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Shanghai Auto Expo Park RV Club / NATURALBUILD Posted: 27 Sep 2018 02:00 PM PDT  southeast view. Image © Hao Chen
 southwest view of the club building in the campground. Image © Hao Chen Text description provided by the architects. The building sits in a Recreational Vehicle campground at the north of the Shanghai Auto Expo Park. Since 1936 when the first Airstream "Clipper" was born in California, RV camping has been winning wide popularity among western families.  event space and lawn. Image © Hao Chen Loved by a small part of Chinese families, RVs are considered to have great potential in China. With the support from Shanghai International Automobile City (SAIC) and Campgrounds of China, the building was not only conceived to be a management support for the campground, but also a culture club that promotes the RV lifestyle to a wider audience.  light travels through the full height interior wall. Image © Hao Chen  sections  main space with light weight movable furniture. Image © Hao Chen The irregular quadrangle footprint responds to its surroundings. The closed back blocks the city traffic to its north, while the open façade faces the greenery of the park on the south. This club is intended for both the club members and the general public, therefore the building is seeking a balance between exclusiveness and inclusiveness.  view from the reception. Image © Hao Chen  elevations  reception and VIP deck. Image © Hao Chen The structural design works in concert with the space's nature of compatibility: The entity is supported by the steel structure and wrapped by a Douglas fir system from the pitched roof to the facade walls.  model study space and structure. Image Courtesy of NATURALBUILD Operation LLC  continuous wood structure and steel beam. Image © Hao Chen The upper part of the full height wall in the main space is built with perforated panels. In this way, it subtly connects the spaces on the two sides of the wall when light travels through slightly and reveals the hidden steel frame inside.  north view. Image © Hao Chen  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| An Indian Modern House / 23DC Architects Posted: 27 Sep 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
 © Purnesh Dev Nikhanj MAIN CONTENT  © Purnesh Dev Nikhanj LAWN AREA STAIRCASE AREA  © Purnesh Dev Nikhanj ENTRANCE  © Purnesh Dev Nikhanj DRAWING ROOM DINING AREA  © Purnesh Dev Nikhanj MASTER BEDROOM LIVING AREA  © Purnesh Dev Nikhanj TERRACE F.F. BALCONY  © Purnesh Dev Nikhanj  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Coffee Nap Roasters 2nd / Design Studio Maoom Posted: 27 Sep 2018 12:00 PM PDT  © Soulgraph Jin Seonggi
 © Soulgraph Jin Seonggi Text description provided by the architects. The hill, where I sit, is my space! A place to relax, a new experience, design concept reinterpreted with the variety of languages. The hill located at the corner of the alleyway in Yeon-nam Dong will catch your attention.  © Soulgraph Jin Seonggi This small shop got rid of the concept of "Space (Tables and chairs) needed to "Sit". Getting rid of the tables and the chairs, and looking up from the low hill, where your sight is, became the space and scenery. Having a diverse way to sit, beyond overcoming uncomfortableness, would mean the beginning of a new experience. This small place is a tiny coffee shop where you can enjoy a cup of coffee with wherever you choose to sit, becomes your space.  © Soulgraph Jin Seonggi  Diagram 01  © Soulgraph Jin Seonggi A purpose such as, "New experience, where everybody stays in the same space but they must be able to enjoy the variety of sceneries." is expressed with metaphorical interpretation including "The hill".  Diagram 03 The hill, where breeze passed by, becomes a space that gives freedom of sights.  © Soulgraph Jin Seonggi In a subconscious moment where the sensibility of a person is moved by the familiar experience, the message of the hill here, will be recognized as space to just sit down and relax. The additional element to the scenery, is probably the moment when nature moves. The light that shines through the ceiling will stay on the hill according to the time.  © Soulgraph Jin Seonggi The winds that will blow across the shop will sway the leaves on the bamboo tree. The sunset will reflect in the mirror and will generate another sense of color. When the sun sets and darkness comes upon, the coffee bar with the barista will become a shining stage like the moon hidden behind the hill.  © Soulgraph Jin Seonggi The hill, with the total floor area of 42.05 square meters, after excluding coffee making area and human traffic moving space out of total area of 50.5 square meters including the stairs that reach up to 1,500mm, and to ease the movement up and down the hill, a gap between the bricks have been adjusted to 10-~15mm on the location, and is consisted of 7,000 sheets of bricks including the flooring and the furniture.  Diagram 02 The stairs, which is the way to the restroom, is structured to go to the highest point of the hill and to come back down, where a feeling of disappearing behind the hill, and the view of resting people intersect.  © Soulgraph Jin Seonggi  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Fawkner Street House / Workshop Architecture Posted: 27 Sep 2018 10:00 AM PDT  © Shannon McGrath
 © Shannon McGrath Text description provided by the architects. Sited to the north of Fawkner Street in South Yarra on a block just over 500 m2, this project is a renovation of the existing double fronted Victorian house and a reworking of the early nineties double story extension. The new works are contained within the shell of the existing house with subtle changes to its front and a complete re-configuration of its rear.  © Shannon McGrath This project is designed around the delicate control of circulation, both horizontal and vertical to create an ever-changing unfolding of view. This entices the occupant from one space to the next whilst leaving the residual destination spaces calm and anchored as spatial eddy pools within the plan. This project is one of several recent projects within the office that have engaged with circulation as the primary idea, fuelled by discussions about traditional Japanese architecture, particularly with Katsura Imperial Villa, Kyoto.  © Shannon McGrath  Ground Floor Plan  © Shannon McGrath Open vistas are then deliberately denied to invite the viewer to seek out and discover that which lies beyond. These discussions prompted by the conundrum of a dominant existing axis (the hallway of the original house) direct the view straight from the front door to backyard. The sandblasted glass plank wall, a glowing panel, arrests this axial view, allows the transverse living spaces to become restful and contained, framed in turn by the views they offer both internally and externally.  © Shannon McGrath Similar gestures are explored vertically where the bridges across the central void upstairs deny all but slithers of view of the skylights far above, coaxing the occupant to the upper level. Here, open circulation along and over the central void connects bedrooms, bathrooms, and children's play area. The void hence creates a series of planar visual thresholds both horizontally and vertically that frame views internally looking across the space and upward, the receding perspective capturing one view within another view within another.  © Shannon McGrath  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Jackson Dinsdale Art Center / TACK architects Posted: 27 Sep 2018 08:00 AM PDT  © Tom Kessler
 © Tom Kessler Text description provided by the architects. Rising from the South-Central Nebraska prairie is a small college town where the Jackson Dinsdale Art Center is located. The new art center has become an iconic piece for Hastings College and its Art Department, the surrounding community, as well as the state of Nebraska.  © Tom Kessler The building includes comprehensive studios for 2D and 3D work, as well as gallery space for exhibitions. The 2D work consists of a painting, printmaking, and drawing, while the 3D work consists of metals fabrication, glass blowing, and ceramics.  © Tom Kessler The design concept elaborates on the principles of the 3D studios; Ceramic[brick], Glass[box], Metal[skrim]. The brick façade sculpts the southern and northern portions of the building envelope. A translucent glass box houses the work of the students and famous artists as an art gallery. The metal skrim consists of triangulated members with perforated panels welded on as a screen to filter the sun in accordance with the seasons.  © Tom Kessler  Plan  © Tom Kessler The organization of the building programs are grouped into 2D and 3D studios. 2D studios to the south and 3D studios to the north with the gallery as a connection point between the separate branches. The result of this connection strategy creates a project that celebrates its individual elements, while centrally unifying them in a cohesive design.  © Tom Kessler  Detail 01  © Tom Kessler  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Amazon Invests in Start-Up Company to Deliver Prefabricated Homes Posted: 27 Sep 2018 07:30 AM PDT  Plant PreFab Home. Image Courtesy of Plant PreFab As the tech giant's first move into prefab construction, Amazon has invested in home-building start-up Plant PreFab. Known for smart home technology and sustainable construction, Plant PreFab is based in Rialto, California and is set to become the latest addition in Amazon's Alexa-integrated homes. As CNBC reports, Amazon's Alexa Fund invested in Plant PreFab for their prefabricated single and multifamily houses and their plan to use automation to build homes faster at lower costs.  Plant PreFab Home. Image Courtesy of Plant PreFab Amazon is part of a larger investment in Plant PreFab with $6.7 million of Series A funding, which includes investments from Obvious Ventures and private investors. The move hopes to support Amazon's larger initiatives as it launched over a dozen Alexa-powered smart home devices this past month. "Voice has emerged as a delightful technology in the home, and there are now more than 20,000 Alexa-compatible smart home devices from 3,500 different brands," says Paul Bernard, director of the Alexa Fund. Plant PreFab is currently based out of a 62,000-square-foot facility in Rialto and has partnered with architects and designers like Ray Kappe, Kieran Timberlake, and Yves Behar.  Plant PreFab Home. Image Courtesy of Plant PreFab Plant Prefab believes factory-built homes can address new building systems and affordability through automation. They claim to be the first home factory in the nation focused on sustainable construction, materials, processes and operations. As Paul Bernard stated, "Plant Prefab is a leader in home design and an emerging, innovative player in home manufacturing. We're thrilled to support them as they make sustainable, connected homes more accessible to customers and developers." Plant Prefab says its approach reduces construction time by 50 percent and cost by 10-25 percent in major cities.  Plant PreFab Home. Image Courtesy of Plant PreFab "We aspire to make the process of building a home far easier, faster, and less expensive in major cities," says Steve Glenn, Plant Prefab's CEO. "And part of this effort involves making sure our homes meet our clients lifestyle needs, and having greater and more effective smart home technology and integration is part of that. Amazon is certainly a leader in this domain and we hope and expect to learn much from them." While Amazon already has a deal to pre-install Alexa with Lennar, the nation's largest homebuilder, the new addition of Plant PreFab could dramatically shape the future of Amazon's smart home integration.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Es Devlin to Design the UK’s “Poem Pavilion” for Dubai Expo 2020 Posted: 27 Sep 2018 07:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Es Devlin Award-winning artist and designer Es Devlin OBE is set to design the UK Pavilion for Expo 2020 in Dubai. The scheme, titled "Poem Pavilion" will highlight "leading British expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Space," and will be produced in collaboration with global brand agency Avantgarde. The Poem Pavilion will feature an illuminated "Message to Space," with each of the Expo's projected 25 million visitors invited to contribute.  Courtesy of Es Devlin For the pavilion's design, Devlin will draw on previous experience with artificial intelligence, such as her luminous red "Fifth Lion" sculpture during the 2018 London Design Festival, and her design for the London Olympics Closing Ceremony. Renderings of the proposition depict visitors arriving through "an illuminated maze featuring augmented reality-enriched exhibits on British advances in Artificial Intelligence and Space." Devlin will also be the first female designer of a UK Pavilion since its inception in 1851, leading a predominantly female team of experts from the fields of artificial intelligence and space technology. Devlin views the project as an inspiration for "girls and young women to investigate areas of science and technology that they might otherwise have felt weren't for them."  Courtesy of Es Devlin
 Courtesy of Es Devlin For the scheme's realization, Devlin will work in collaboration with Manchester-based structural engineers Atelier One, and award-winning sustainability engineers Atelier Ten. News of the pavilion comes after Fentress Architects were chosen to design the USA Pavilion, with further contributions for main pavilions from Foster + Partners, BIG, and Grimshaw. News via: Es Devlin  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House in Cotia / UNA Arquitetos Posted: 27 Sep 2018 06:00 AM PDT  © Bebete Viégas
 © Nelson Kon Text description provided by the architects. Designing a home presupposes making a commitment to shelter a family relationship. Atmosphere of the childhood, the journey of life and establish scales of measure of the world. At the same time, we understand the project as an essay, a possibility of many other constructions. This, in particular, seeks to reinforce the walk, the walk, as a way of perceiving the place. Times that live together. The desire for a house in which "that crossing lasted only an enormous instant (Guimarães Rosa)".
 Axonometric  © Nelson Kon The large corner lot had already thick dense trees, opposite the access lane, where there was a clearing. The deployment takes advantage of this free area, seeks to protect the residents from the noise of the street and opens to the small forest. The challenge is to build the floor, expanding its qualities.  © Nelson Kon  Upper Floor Plan  © Nelson Kon The construction in section was design to fit to the geography, territory of small hills of São Paulo. The development in plan allows integration between the interior and exterior spaces, which alternate, fold and are completed with water, fire, vegetation. Four levels built from three parallel retaining walls organize the landscape.  © Nelson Kon  Section A  © Nelson Kon The flat roof is a garden that almost touches the top of the site, making it easy to access its 45-meter stretch. The concrete structure houses the entire program as the terrain moves, creating plans with environments of different heights.  © Nelson Kon The entrance is realized by the lower part of the site, the shade is created by the volume of the dormitories, a metallic structure hanging from the concrete roof. A house on ramps, like those of Artigas, that allows the continuity of the circulations. The first section bridged over the water, leads to the living room and kitchen. In the second section, the ramp, now metallic, establishes the connection with rooms and library. A slight inflection in the volume ensures better natural light and protection for these rooms.  © Nelson Kon In contrast to the blind face, a balcony ensures shade in the afternoon. In this way, a path is completed, as a continuous drawing, connecting all spaces, going up and down the slope, without determining if we are burying or submerging.  © Nelson Kon  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Adjaye, MASS Design Group and Shonibare Among 5 Finalists for Boston's MLK Memorial Posted: 27 Sep 2018 05:00 AM PDT  Empty Pulpit Monument. Image Courtesy of Barbara Chase-Riboud Nonprofit MLK Boston has released the final five designs for a monument to civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. The finalists include a range of offices like Adjaye Associates, Maryann Thompson Architects and MASS Design Group, as well as artists like Yinka Shonibare, Barbara Chase-Riboud and Walter Hood. As reported by Curbed Boston, the city is working with MLK Boston to make the monument part of a larger initiative that includes an educational center in Roxbury and $1 million endowment for programming related to the Kings. The five final designs will be on display at the Bolling Municipal Building in Roxbury's Dudley Square and the Boston Public Library in Copley Square until October 16. The designs are made to reshape the experience of America's oldest public park. As Mayor Marty Walsh has said, "Each one of these five proposals does a tremendous job of honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King and their ideals, teachings and values. I look forward to hearing the public's response to each proposal, and gathering their feedback on which project best exemplifies the profound impact the Kings had on the City of Boston." The final design is set to be selected in November. Adam Pendleton, Adjaye Associates, David Reinfurt and Future\Pace Boston's King Memorial. Image Courtesy of Adam Pendleton, Adjaye Associates, Future\Pace, and David Reinfurt  Boston's King Memorial. Image Courtesy of Adam Pendleton, Adjaye Associates, Future\Pace, and David Reinfurt Artist Adam Pendleton joins architect David Adjaye, independent graphic designer David Reinfurt, and international cultural partnership Future\Pace to create a proposal informed by Dr. King's final speech, "I've Been to the Mountaintop." The memorial is an overlook in black stone, projecting out from Beacon Street to embrace and overlook the Common below. From the summit of the memorial, visitors are invited to regard America's oldest city park and new mountainous sculptures below, which together compose a radical amphitheater. On the lawn are sloped stone sculptures engraved with the words of the Kings that act as terrain and provide seating. MASS Design Group and Hank Willis Thomas The Embrace. Image Courtesy of MASS Design Group and Hank Willis Thomas  The Embrace. Image Courtesy of MASS Design Group and Hank Willis Thomas Architecture practice MASS Design Group joins conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas to create "The Embrace," a mirror finish bronze memorial about bringing people together. The design includes 22-foot-high arms of Dr. King and Coretta Scott to remind passersby of a shared human connection. The memorial will envelop participants, allowing them to be simultaneously vulnerable and protected. By highlighting the act of embrace, this sculpture shifts the emphasis from singular hero worship to collective action, imploring those curious enough to investigate closer. A wall bearing the iconic image that inspired the Embrace will accentuate the exterior facade and mark the gateway to Dudley Square. Wodiczko + Bonder, Maryann Thompson Architects and Walter Hood The Ripple Effects. Image Courtesy of Wodiczko + Bonder, Maryann Thompson Architects and Walter Hood  The Ripple Effects. Image Courtesy of Wodiczko + Bonder, Maryann Thompson Architects and Walter Hood Cambridge-based partnership Wodiczko+Bonder joins the architecture practice of Maryann Thompson Architects and urban artist Walter Hood for their proposal, "The Ripple Effects: Resonance of Voices, History, Love and Action." The design includes Beacon Towers to symbolize the continuing presence, inspiration, and impact of the Kings' moral and social leadership. Emanating from the Beacon Towers are ripples that evoke the "ripple effect" of the words, actions, and leadership of the Kings. The Mound creates a journey "to the mountaintop" culminating in a deliberately empty and shaded platform conceived to bring into being a public community of engaged visitors. The "bridge" leading from the 54th Memorial across the Common past the Beacon Towers is inscribed with a chronology of emancipatory events. Barbara Chase-Riboud Empty Pulpit Monument. Image Courtesy of Barbara Chase-Riboud  Empty Pulpit Monument. Image Courtesy of Barbara Chase-Riboud Abstract artist Barbara Chase-Riboud created the "Empty Pulpit Monument" as a dedication to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. Made of light, stone and bronze, the design features a truncated stone pyramid representing the pair's mission and collaboration. Atop, a searchlight beacon represents their message from the top of the mountain they climbed together. The memorial is inspired by a 17th-century wooden pulpit, resembling that of the first Martin Luther and symbolizing MLK Jr.'s silenced voice. The Indian granite serves as homage to Gandhi's non-violence movement and inside the passageway is engraved a historic lineage of the diaspora. A series of "waves", green rolling hills where the public can roam, will surround the memorial. Additional quotations from the Kings will be emblazoned on bronze plaques embedded in the hills. Yinka Shonibare and Stephen Stimson Associates Avenue of Peace. Image Courtesy of Yinka Shonibare  Avenue of Peace. Image Courtesy of Yinka Shonibare Yinka Shonibare is an artist with work that explores issues of race and class through the media of painting, sculpture, photography, and film. Titled the Avenue of Peace, his design with Stephen Stimson Associates is a memorial walkway, sculpture, and water feature. The interactive memorial was made to engage the public with the story of the Kings' lives and mission through 22 inscribed benches and an app that visitors can download. The public is invited to journey along the avenue and sit on the stone benches lining the walkway to learn about the couple and their histories. Toward the center of the avenue will stand a tall fountain covered in colorful mosaic, set in the middle of a continuous oval pool lined with black granite. The mosaic design incorporates the couple's names alongside olive branches that will remind viewers of peace.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Northwestern University Ryan - Walter Athletics Center / Perkins+Will Posted: 27 Sep 2018 04:00 AM PDT  © James Steinkamp Photography
 © James Steinkamp Photography Text description provided by the architects. With its sweeping horizontal glass façade and unobstructed views over Lake Michigan, the Ryan Fieldhouse and Walter Athletics Center on Northwestern University's Evanston, Illinois, campus combines a myriad of support services into a first-of-its-kind, multi-purpose center for student-athletes. Designed by global architecture firm Perkins+Will, the critically-acclaimed building represents a thoughtful convergence of design typologies: sports and recreation, performance health, branded environments, and higher education.  Site Plan "These facilities are truly transformational for our Wildcats and our University," said Northwestern University's Combe Family Vice President for Athletics and Recreation Jim Phillips. "Our state-of-the-art home is now in the heart of campus, alongside classrooms and laboratories and residence halls, allowing more interaction than ever before among our student-athletes and this incomparable Northwestern community."  © James Steinkamp Photography The light-filled, four-story Walter Athletics Center houses academic and professional development support services for more than 500 student-athletes, a nutrition center and dining facility, two sports performance centers, a cutting-edge sports medicine and athletic training hub, locker rooms for eight varsity teams, and office space for coaches and administrators. It is the second Northwestern athletics facility designed by Perkins+Will to open this year: in April, the university celebrated the grand opening of the Ryan Fieldhouse, a glass, aluminum and limestone building connected to the Walter Athletics Center, providing year-round practice and training space for football, lacrosse, soccer and other varsity athletes under a dome with soaring arches, and also serving as recreation and event space for campus programs.  Exploded Axonometric The facility's site enabled designers to capitalize on light and the unobstructed views of Lake Michigan. The full-sized field in Ryan Fieldhouse looks directly out through glass windows to the lake. A covered terrace outside the Walter Athletics Center dining hall wraps around the eastern and southern facades of the facility visually connecting the Center to the Chicago skyline. The glass-clad south and east sides of the Center overlook the outdoor football practice field and the soccer, lacrosse, and field hockey stadium and onward to the lake.  Render "Ryan Fieldhouse and the Walter Athletics Center provided an exciting opportunity to take advantage of the spectacular setting overlooking Lake Michigan and bring student-athletes back to the heart of campus to a complex that highlights the interconnectedness of physical fitness, performance, and well-being," said Ralph Johnson, Perkins+Will's global design director. Perkins+Will collaborated on the Northwestern project with associate architect HOK; civil engineer and landscape architect SmithGroup; structural engineer WSP USA; and mechanical engineer AEI Affiliated Engineers.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Monastery House / Bureau Fraai Posted: 27 Sep 2018 02:00 AM PDT  © Madasiro Fotografie
 © Madasiro Fotografie Text description provided by the architects. In the former Sint Lucia monastery in Bennebroek, The Netherlands, Bureau Fraai has made a interior design transforming a part of a characteristic monastery into a high-quality townhouse while maintaining the characteristic qualities of the monastery.  © Madasiro Fotografie  Axonometric  © Madasiro Fotografie By introducing a new oak staircase with slender steel railings, the living room on the ground floor is connected to the basement on the one hand and the sleeping floor for the children and the multifunctional attic floor on the other. By introducing a robust oak element in this attic, the large space with authentic trusses is divided into a sleeping area with Jacuzzi, a bathroom, a walk-in closet and a mezzanine with workplaces. The bed and Jacuzzi are embedded in an elevated stage.  © Madasiro Fotografie  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Francis Kéré: "I Draw on Paper, but I Prefer to Draw on the Ground" Posted: 27 Sep 2018 01:00 AM PDT  © Eduardo Souza This phrase caught my eye during Diébédo Francis Kéré's speech at the AAICO (Architecture and Art International Congress), which took place in Porto, Portugal from September 3 to 8. After being introduced by none other than Eduardo Souto de Moura, Kéré began his speech with the simplicity and humility that guides his work. His best-known works were built in remote places, where materials are scarce and the workforce is of the residents themselves, using local resources and techniques.  Moradia para os professores de Gando. Image © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk Instead of imposing structures and a new way of living for users, Kéré seeks to understand the real demands of the place, the traditions of the residents, their way of living, contributing the technical knowledge acquired abroad to create new functional spaces. Not that this process is always easy. In the design phase, before he reaches a village and iterates how things should be done and how people should work, it can lead to mistrust. However, it is when drawing on the ground, being with people, testing solutions, giving new uses to materials that have always been there, that he can gain trust and respect. And for his architecture, it is imperative that all members feel involved in the process, contributing with its work force and knowledge to an end product that belongs to everyone.  Anexo da Escola Primária de Gando / Kéré Architecture. Image © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk  Cortesia de Kéré Architecture  Cortesia de Kéré Architecture They are simple yet extremely ingenious design solutions that take into account the local climate and possibilities. For instance, clay pots that create zenith openings in the library of the Primary School in Gando, which act as skylights that guarantee the entrance of natural light and air circulation. Or his solution to insert buckets with water near frames for a greater airpath and a significant decrease in internal temperature at Lycee Schorge Secondary School. Using filters and layers for ventilation and shading, creating intermediate spaces, the careful use of traditional materials and living vegetation, are many of the elements that transform these projects into masterpieces.  Anexo da Escola Primária de Gando / Kéré Architecture. Image © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk Above all, its architecture has a pedagogical function, inspiring the local community and showing that the future may be a little more colorful. In a world where architecture remains a luxury, Francis Kéré shows us that it can be universal and still a thrill.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Sir Nicholas Grimshaw Wins the RIBA Gold Medal 2019 Posted: 26 Sep 2018 11:40 PM PDT  © Rick Roxburgh Sir Nicholas Grimshaw has been awarded the 2019 Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Having played a leading role in British architecture for more than half a century, Grimshaw's acclaimed works include the landmark International Terminal at London's Waterloo station and the visionary Eden Project in Cornwall. The medal is awarded in recognition of a lifetime's work and is approved personally by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. It is given to a person, or group of people, who have had a significant influence "either directly or indirectly on the advancement of architecture." Previous winners include Neave Brown (2018) and Paulo Mendes da Rocha (2017).  The Eden Project in Cornwall. Image © Sealand Aerial Photography
 International Terminal Waterloo. Image © Jo Reid & John Peck The medal will be presented to Grimshaw at a ceremony in early 2019. Commenting on the news, RIBA President Ben Derbyshire praised Grimshaw for "an extraordinary number of buildings and infrastructure projects of international significance, and for the continuous development of an architecture which places technology at the heart of the aesthetic."  Pulkovo Airport in St Petersburg. Image © Yuri Molodkovets This is a developing story, which will be updated in due course. News via: RIBA  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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