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- Temperate House / Donald Insall Associates
- Renovation of an Old Mill / Studiolada Architects
- PandaDoc Office / Studio11
- Brise Soleil House / Studio Workshop
- Signature House / 100A associates
- Guest House in Aira / Plan21
- Bank of Thailand's Northeastern Region Office / Plan architect
- SIRI House / GLA DESIGN STUDIO
- San She House / llLab
- Rutgers University / Erdy McHenry
- Artificial Intelligence Estimates Obesity by Analyzing Buildings and Green Space
- The Best Architecture Schools in the U.S. 2019
- Kumoto / Esrawe Studio + Rojkind Arquitectos
- 3XN's Waterfront Climatorium Pays Tribute to the Fishing Culture of Lemvig, Denmark
- Jessie Street Residence / Derrington Building Studio
- Carbuncle Cup 2018: The Shortlist for the UK's Most "Aesthetically Challenged" New Building
- Ávila Pavilion / COTAPAREDES Arquitectos
- Architecture and Criticism: By the People, for the People?
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| Temperate House / Donald Insall Associates Posted: 04 Sep 2018 08:00 PM PDT _Gareth_Gardner_065.jpg?1535602002 "© Gareth Gardner") © Gareth Gardner
_Gareth_Gardner_006.jpg?1535601399 "© Gareth Gardner") © Gareth Gardner Text description provided by the architects. The design and construction of the Temperate House (1859-1899) at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew was predicated on a Victorian obsession with the observation and study of the natural world. On reopening in May 2018 after a major five year restoration programme with Donald Insall Associates as the conservation architects, the Victorian glasshouse will continue to fascinate researchers and visitors alike. Its collection of 10 000 plants from around the world, including many rare and threatened species, will also be better cared for in a building where the environment can be ne-tuned using modern technology. _Gareth_Gardner_0_(3).jpg?1535601196 "© Gareth Gardner") © Gareth Gardner Designed by Decimus Burton (1800- 1881), the Temperate House is a series of five Grade I Listed pavilions standing prominently on a raised earth mound, aligned on an axis with the Kew Pagoda. It is one of a number of other Decimus Burton projects at Kew that include the Victoria Gate and the majestic Palm House. Covering a floor area of 4,880 square metres and extending to 19 metres in height, the Temperate House is twice the size of the monumental Palm House. It is, in fact, the world's largest Victorian glasshouse and is often described as an "architectural wonder".  Spiral stairs Donald Insall Associates were appointed in 2012 as conservation architects to the Temperate House as part of a multi- disciplinary team whose role has been to repair, restore and bring the building back to life for the general public. Importantly, the team's brief was focused on creating an environment offering the best possible conditions for plants within the Temperate House. Improving standards of air- ow, for example, along with optimum lighting levels for plant life was foremost in the team's mind. _Gareth_Gardner_027.jpg?1535601536 "© Gareth Gardner") © Gareth Gardner This notion of "designing for plants" was something Donald Insall Associates was already familiar with at Kew having previously completed a Conservation Management Plan for the Temperate House. The plan has been instrumental in both the technical and visual approach to the restoration works. It also revealed how far ahead of his time Decimus Burton was when designing the Temperate House. _Gareth_Gardner_0_(2).jpg?1535601006 "© Gareth Gardner") © Gareth Gardner  Drawing _Gareth_Gardner_0_(1).jpg?1535601078 "© Gareth Gardner") © Gareth Gardner He was, for example, one the first architects in England to adopt the use of cement render which significantly sped up the building process at Kew. Burton's ornate and distinctive ways of disguising building services are also now better understood through research conducted by Donald Insall Associates. To celebrate such revelations, the architects have repaired the ornate cornucopia urns that acted as chimney flues for the building's now redundant boilers. Other original building services features have also been restored and retained as part of the building's history. These include the entombed heating pipes and actuators, although neither of these is any longer in use. _Gareth_Gardner_010.jpg?1535601645 "© Gareth Gardner") © Gareth Gardner  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Renovation of an Old Mill / Studiolada Architects Posted: 04 Sep 2018 07:00 PM PDT  © Ludmilla Cerveny
 © Ludmilla Cerveny Text description provided by the architects. This building, which had remained empty and abandoned for a long time, is located on a floodplain in a rather attractive area. Initially a mill, judiciously placed along a stream, it then became a small ironwork workshop, hence the presence of the large brick fireplace. Finally, it became a farm, where men and cattle coexisted.  © Ludmilla Cerveny We were confronted with a classic case of an old and poorly built farm, poorly maintained over the years, needing an important renovation with a "reasonable" budget. The architecture and site are atypical and attractive, but the building is much too big and badly damaged. Several contenders had, before us, studied renovation projects. However, they all had given up, faced with the scale and complexity of the work.  © Ludmilla Cerveny To carry out this project, we had to make some radical choices:  © Ludmilla Cerveny  First Floor Plan  © Ludmilla Cerveny The project strives to enhance the building and connect it to its site. We dared to "disfigure" the south-facing facade, which is in direct connection with the meadow, the stream, and the southern sun. The large bay window (6m x 4m) is the main architectural intervention of the project. It "absorbs" the landscape, the trees, the ducks, the running water; it offers the contemplation of this portion of nature, through which one can observe the gradual changing of the seasons.  © Ludmilla Cerveny Given the risk of flooding, the main living areas are placed upstairs: living room, kitchen, bathroom, 3 bedrooms, terrace. To live happily, let's live high up! This pedestal magnifies the frame: the vision plunges through a simple sheet of glass that discreetly maintains the inner comfort zone.  © Ludmilla Cerveny A very large rectangular room of 120 sqm accommodates the collective living spaces. This large space is connected with the garden to the south, and the civilization to the north. The new framework stretches over the 8m range of this large room. The trusses are reinterpreted in a minimal form: one tie beam and two rafters are enough to create the essential beam that will support the new roof.  © Ludmilla Cerveny During the initial studies, we gradually realized how damaged to building actually was. The roofs, framework, partitions and wooden floors were removed; only the 4 peripheral walls were maintained and consolidated with a new paving and an intermediate slab. In order not to overload the walls and the fragile foundations, the slab consists of wooden slabs which are left exposed and visible, shaping the ground floor ceiling.  © Ludmilla Cerveny The lower level accommodates the entrance and a new potential for extra 3 rooms, which could be converted later. A geothermal system with horizontal sensors buried in the meadow makes it possible to heat the 250 m2 of living space at a lower cost. We were able to keep the big chimney, an important symbol for this place and the entire village.  © Ludmilla Cerveny  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 04 Sep 2018 06:00 PM PDT  © Dmitry Tsyrencshikov
 © Dmitry Tsyrencshikov Text description provided by the architects. Studio11 has completed a new project in Minsk for PandaDoc – a company which takes up more than 1200 square meters and employs about 130 people. All employees are functionally divided into 4 large open-spaces complemented by a fifth space which is a common kitchen. From both stylistic and methodologic point of view the project mainly fixes on principles of "the third wave" of modern architecture such as, for example, the purity of technique. Project coloristics highlights the achromatic background and two main colors - blue and burgundy. The influence of postmodern design can be witnessed in the light game-like way these color volumes are arranged and in the variety of usage scenarios created.  © Dmitry Tsyrencshikov The zoning of each block includes an entrance space with a wardrobe visually separated from the work places. On the opposite side of the wardrobes each open-space is closed by a small coffee point facing the window line. The coffee points are also visually separated from work places in order to exclude possible conflicts of zones. The coffee point for each block is a leisure place carrying a social and communicative function. This planning concept positively affects office work capacity, since the employees can have a small coffee break only a few steps away from their desks and go back to work rather than waste time walking to the common kitchen. In addition to that such islands of social functions reduce office space regularity.  © Dmitry Tsyrencshikov The main idea of the layout is the promenade which a pedestrian path marked with blue color that runs along the perimeter of the entire office and connects all work spaces. The coffee points of each of the blocks are located exactly on the way of the promenade, implying places for short-term meetings of members from different teams. For this purpose the coffee points are equipped with markerboards, which creates effective conditions for discussions.  © Dmitry Tsyrencshikov  Plan  © Dmitry Tsyrencshikov The promenade is an alternative link to the office main hall, which allows to decrease pedestrian traffic and increase mobility. We also put temporary work places by the windows with a magnificent view along the promenade. They are designed as alternative standing places in case the employees get tired of monotonous sedentary work.  © Dmitry Tsyrencshikov Meeting rooms occupy large volumes of office space and their color solutions answer completely to one of the main colors of the project - blue or burgundy. Curtains are used as a visual mobile partition, they are also an effective noise-absorbing element for meeting rooms.  © Dmitry Tsyrencshikov The entire floor is designed in one technique, it is a carpet of two colors: background gray and accent black. Floor pattern together with the colored volumes and neon pieces create impressive spatial compositions. In the artistic sense the compositions are associated with modernist abstract painting. The same principles are used in the common kitchen block except for the floor, which inherits a geometric pattern, but is executed in colored linoleum. A peculiar feature of the kitchen is the abundance of greenery and different options of ambient and decorative lighting, which makes the space as cozy and welcoming as possible.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Brise Soleil House / Studio Workshop Posted: 04 Sep 2018 05:00 PM PDT  © Peter Bennetts
 © Peter Bennetts Text description provided by the architects. The Brise Soleil House is a compact 2-bedroom, 173SQM dwelling situated at the top of a steep, west-facing block near Port Moresby Harbour overlooking a former cargo terminal. The house is a cast-in-situ concrete building partially clad in an undulating wave-like timber wrapper which provides shading, privacy, and ventilation to the master suite. The wrapper flattens as it continues around the building to become a full-height operable screen for the upper level gallery to control the western sun and capture views to the Coral Sea beyond.  © Peter Bennetts  Sections  © Peter Bennetts From a design perspective, the wrapper pays homage to local traditions of timber craftsmanship seen in the lowland stilt houses and intricately carved canoes (lakatoi), utilizing a system of complex joints and a high degree of surface articulation. But it does so though a digital lens; updated to address the capabilities of contemporary software and hardware tools and their ability to manage complex systems and to mass-customize intricate geometries with embedded assembly logics. Furthermore, the design of the wrapper engages a broader discussion of screens and veils in equatorial architecture found in the canon of Modern and 20th century works by Ossipoff, Ferrie, Rudolf, and others.  © Peter Bennetts  Screen digital process The wrapper and doors are constructed from 50x50 mm rough-sawn acetylated pine timber which is glued and doweled at digitally-executed complex half-lap joints. The wrapper and doors, with a total area of over 80 square meters, contain over 2200 pieces in total and over 700 unique pieces with CNC milled half-lap joints, often on both ends. All milling, joining, finishing, and assembly into panels took place at the designers' workshop on the Gold Coast of Australia, and was shipped via container to Papua New Guinea for installation. The entire assembly has been organized as a system of seamless 1200mm panels and doors which serves not only to aid in transportation and erection, but also to minimize the need for skilled labor on-site. Though each panel was unique the installation method was identical, which took approximately 2 days for a crew of 3 laborers working exclusively by hand on scaffolding. The 8 door panels were similarly installed in one day.  © Peter Bennetts  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Signature House / 100A associates Posted: 04 Sep 2018 04:00 PM PDT  © Kim Jae Yoon
 © Kim Jae Yoon Text description provided by the architects. A residential space is completed with the accumulation of time and experiences. It can have a meaning of 'house' when someone resides in it and can be settled down as a real home only when the time is accumulated. 100A associates concentrates thoroughly on 'the subject' who leads time and experiences in it when they design residential spaces. The subject's lifestyle enjoying the space defines the spacial design.  © Kim Jae Yoon A country house in Yongin is also completed through a process to establish and organize clients' time and life. 100A associates' designers understood a taste of a couple of businessman in their 50s while taking with them dozens of times, before designing a house where they will lead their old age. It is because that the clients' opinion about residential space and their lifestyle had to become the decisive clue to design this space.  © Kim Jae Yoon The symbolic theme to suggest architectural skin and spatial order was just 'an iron hand in a velvet glove'. It is the propensity of clients who have a fine and delicate aesthetic sense in contrast to their strong and tough appearance, and at the same time a residential environment they have kept in mind. Accordingly, this space had to have the weight of simpleness and to embrace warmness in it. Although strong and rough materials were contrasted with soft ones, rhythm and proportion to connect the gap between them had to be natural.  © Kim Jae Yoon Consequently, this country house's atmosphere is created by the condensation of the clients' impression and taste, and its another name 'Signature House' implies its spacial sense straightforwardly without adding and concealing anything. Signature House is located in a village enclosed by a low mountain like a windpipe among dense apartment complex. Its southwest toward inner village is very sunny, and its northwest toward outer village has a green view. Centering around this site, the ground had a difference of height about 5m between the inner village and outer village. This house had a condition to obtaining a sense of visual expansion by making a basement and raising the ground higher than the houses of the inner village.  © Kim Jae Yoon The basement seen first in this house harmonizes with neighboring houses without a sense of incongruity, while its backside is seen from beyond backyard as opposed to its surroundings through simple shape and heavy feeling of concrete. A narrow stairway between both high walls is set up as an access to inside, a transfer space producing psychological tension. Entering inside with this tension, one can feel doubled stability from dense warmness of inside. While the relationship between spaces, a shape to connect them, and the functions displayed in them are created simply, the large and small frames create delicate balance by showing unusual flow.  © Kim Jae Yoon 100A associates amounted to complete Signature House's spacial form through the process to materialize the clue of 'an iron hand in a velvet glove' conceived from the clients' propensity. However, the form of life will be completed with time in it. Architecture is both space and time, and the place has a new meaning as memories accumulate. The designer also says that this project was a process to realize the residents' life rather than a work of 100A associates. Signature House with strongness and warmness formed through the users' daily life, thoughts and trivial habits as well as the potentiality of ground and the surrounding environment, will be a sufficient container to embrace their life.  © Kim Jae Yoon  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 04 Sep 2018 03:00 PM PDT  © Akira Ueda
 © Akira Ueda Text description provided by the architects. This house is a pair of architectures where the main house and the guest house face each other across the watercourse. The main house was first built, and five years later the guest house was expanded. The place is located in the city of Aira, south of Japan, Kagoshima prefecture.  © Akira Ueda  Plan  © Akira Ueda Originally Japanese houses were open and liberate. However, in recent years, housing in Japan has changed greatly and is becoming closed. In response to that situation, this house was designed to regain its original liberating housing shape. On extending the guest house, I reuse the two spatial elements that the past Japanese houses had. They are the space under the eaves and the dirt floor.  Perspective Sketch The interior floor of the guest house is finished with a dirt floor. The dirt floor extends from indoors to the outdoors, and the outdoor part is covered with large eaves. Beyond the eaves beneath there is a courtyard with plants, and further, beyond that, there is a main house across the watercourse.  © Akira Ueda In recent years many Japanese houses have abandoned their spatial elements, shut off from the outside with aluminum sash and air conditioner. As a result, many Japanese houses lose contact with outside nature and become like autism. In this house, we connect indoor and outdoor with the dirt floor, cover it with large eaves, and realizing a living integrated with nature.  © Akira Ueda  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Bank of Thailand's Northeastern Region Office / Plan architect Posted: 04 Sep 2018 02:00 PM PDT  © Ketsiree Wongwan  © Ketsiree Wongwan Text description provided by the architects. Bank of Thailand's Northeastern Region Office is a 4-storey office building located in the center of Khon Kaen. As a regional office of Northeastern part of Thailand, the building represents the local characteristic through design. The beautiful local landscape, 'Field, Water, and Hill,' of the Northeastern region inspired the design layout of this building. Unique elements from this region are used as an aspect of the design for this project. In order to create a superior entrance, the main entrance hall and drop-off were raised up a level, leaving the ground floor parking and other services.  © Ketsiree Wongwan  2nd Floor plan  © Ketsiree Wongwan Natural light plays an important role for creating a productive working space in this building. Due to its hot climate of this region, façade was introduced in order to decrease the heat from sunlight yet still bring in a decent amount of natural light to the office.  © Ketsiree Wongwan The magnificence of light and shadow play an important role in creating a multi-layer façade for this building. The sun-screens pattern design is also inspired by a Khon Kaen province's well-known fabric pattern "Naka" which symbolizes the abundance and well-being. The exposed structural design of the building represents the traditional rice barn which is Thailand's valuable treasure.  © Ketsiree Wongwan  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| SIRI House / GLA DESIGN STUDIO Posted: 04 Sep 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © Chalermwat Wongchompoo | Sofography
 © Chalermwat Wongchompoo | Sofography Text description provided by the architects. The building is more like their 'Life Gallery' than the house. Their lifestyle required space that exhibit their memories of traveling and their love of nature. The first level open plan is for flexible space and matched with modern lifestyle. Although the house embraced by the greenery, there's still the courtyard – connecting living space in the East Wing to the West Wing service area.  © Chalermwat Wongchompoo | Sofography  Lower Floor Plan  © Chalermwat Wongchompoo | Sofography The courtyard is capable of supporting both active and passive activities, spacious timber deck with fish pond and water feature for throwing a party at home and lawn with benches for chill out while enjoying the garden under the tree canopy. Affording privacy, a horizontal void at the gallery allows inhabitants to see their neighbors passing or guests who always visit them.  Section 1 The second level is a private floor which one wing for children and the other for owners' private floor. Both are connected by the full height frameless glass along the bridge that link courtyard and front yard harmoniously into the interior. Beside the house got more natural light, natural ventilation also brought about by the courtyard. We bring greenery even closer to the green façade at the front of the house which acted as a shading device and a view.  © Chalermwat Wongchompoo | Sofography Landscape design of the house based on the harmony concept. Each tree and shrub was carefully selected and placed to implement each function of the house, such as the frangipani at the end of courtyard acted as the vertical element creating an enclosed feeling and acted as the focal point when viewed from the corridor.  © Chalermwat Wongchompoo | Sofography  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 04 Sep 2018 12:00 PM PDT  Focus on the front of the stage. Image © Hanxiao Liu
 The new urban interface hides in the old environment. Image © Hanxiao Liu Text description provided by the architects. Beingsituated inBeigou Village, Huairou, at the foot of the Mutianyu Great Wall, Beijing, such a space, seems to have much broadermeaning than what it is beingcalled.  The old space is presented by the new interface. Image © Hanxiao Liu A profitable extension of a newlyconstructed village resort, a more proactive and urbanized manner of communication emerged in the village, a sweet integration of originally contrasting life styles, an unprecedented cultural renaissance, a hint of the rural areas of China starting to be sliced apart as how it happened in the cities, or it is merely a space for food?  Space is an understanding of culture. Image © Hanxiao Liu It is ambiguous as a space that the potential attributes of it may far exceed what it intended to achieve, in the culturally transitional period of a country that itself is uncertain about its own identity and the value of it.  New and old recovery, lights and light like life. Image © Hanxiao Liu Superficially, this is a place reconstructed and transformed from a farmer's home kitchen to a restaurant that serves the traditional Beijing hotpot which is one of the most typical representation of the Old-Beijing-Culture, however, the location, the historical background and how the space has been designed and constructed, make any of its given names imprecise, unless being very general.  Design Drawing At such particular moment, when the pursuit of design becomes increasingly visible which makes China seem to be probably still one of the best places to experiment, the opportunities in the urban areas continue to shrink. The conflict between the booming eagerness to create utopian architecture in China and the dramatically decreasing demand, shifts the possibilities to imagine, from where architects in China are familiar with to where are interestingly considered as places that architects are only emotionally attached to.  Cultural Coexistence Definition Space - The Great Wall Museum. Image © Hanxiao Liu As a result, all relevant creations which are meant to be the revival of certain types of culture or the sensitive reaction to particular kinds of social movements turn out to be repetitively numb and senseless.  Provide the possibility of display space. Image © Hanxiao Liu  New looking, old lens. Image © Hanxiao Liu Then what exactly is the place designed for?  Each frame is a cultural story. Image © Hanxiao Liu There is a specific desired program, yet, it will be less numb if it makes people feel reluctant to define.  New and old collisions make the old more charm. Image © Hanxiao Liu  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Rutgers University / Erdy McHenry Posted: 04 Sep 2018 10:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Erdy McHenry
 Courtesy of Erdy McHenry  Courtesy of Erdy McHenry Text description provided by the architects. 330 Cooper Street at Rutgers University-Camden was designed with the intention of boosting on-campus enrollment and revitalizing the city's downtown. The 12-story building was the first new student housing in Camden in more than two decades and was designed to house 350 students and includes 7,000 square feet of retail space on the ground level. This housing and retail complex brings new energy to the urban campus and creates critical mass intended to expand to surrounding downtown Camden, encouraging future development.  Courtesy of Erdy McHenry In the mid-1800s, Cooper Street was one of Camden's most prestigious thoroughfares, lined with beautiful mansions, estates, and gardens. By the late 20th century, its aspect had changed from quiet residential to predominantly institutional and commercial uses which, until recently, was dominated by vacant homes and crumbling factories.  Level 2 Plan The project was developed to reflect upon this historical nature of the surrounding area. 330 Cooper Street is creating graduate student housing and adopts a stark industrial form to serve as a backdrop to a more intimately scaled streetscape with ground floor retail and residential loft units above, consistent with the 19th-century use patterns.  Courtesy of Erdy McHenry  Courtesy of Erdy McHenry The retail space, defining the building at street level, re-establishes a language of the community, greeting pedestrians and residents alike. An energy efficient envelope design, coupled with a second floor green-roof terrace, make the design a sustainable addition to the city. Through innovative building practices, coalesced with a distinct neighborhood vernacular, the project takes part in revitalizing Camden's community while creating a distinct college environment.  Courtesy of Erdy McHenry  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Artificial Intelligence Estimates Obesity by Analyzing Buildings and Green Space Posted: 04 Sep 2018 09:00 AM PDT  Yoga in New York. Image via Creative Commons Urban well-being and health tracking has taken another step forward, as researchers from the University of Washington have created an artificial intelligence algorithm that estimates obesity levels by analyzing a city's infrastructure. Published in JAMA Network Open, the researchers' report explains how the algorithm uncovers urban relationships by using satellite and Street View images from Google. As Quartz reports, the project correlated areas with more green spaces and areas between buildings with lower obesity rates.  Yoga in New York. Image via Creative Commons Trained using more than 150,000 satellite images across six cities, the algorithm uses deep learning to understand city planning and its affect on obesity. The study looked to answer how convolutional neural networks can assist in the study of the association between the built environment and obesity prevalence. Aiming to analyze and improve a city's health, the project hopes to shape new construction. 96 categories of points of interest were included in the work, accounting for the effect urban amenities can have on the the activity of a neighborhood. Researchers have explicitly stated their understanding that the algorithm can be skewed by income and wealth. Recognizing this condition, the project can also draw correlations between wealthier neighborhoods and resident obesity. By conducting a series of validation tests, researchers found that the algorithm does link green space and the number of buildings to obesity, not just wealth. As the paper states, "more than one-third of the adult population in the United States is obese. Obesity has been linked to factors such as genetics, diet, physical activity, and the environment." Researchers hope their work can show how convolutional neural networks (CNN) can allow for consistent quantification of a built environment's features. While the study was based on US data, researchers hope the algorithm can be adapted to analyze cities around the world. However, the project does begin to provide evidence of the efficacy of CNNs at associating obesity prevalence with significant physical environment features.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Best Architecture Schools in the U.S. 2019 Posted: 04 Sep 2018 08:15 AM PDT  via Shutterstock.com The results of DesignIntelligence's annual ranking of architecture schools in the USA are now being determined with a change in the survey question previously used to determine rankings. This year, instead of being asked "Which programs in the United States are best preparing students for a future in the profession?", architecture and interior design professionals responded to two new questions: "What schools do you most admire for a combination of faculty, programs, culture, and student preparation for the profession?" and "From which schools have you hired the greatest number of (undergraduate or graduate) students in the last five years?". Why the shift? DesignIntelligence (DI) explains in a sneak peek of the report on Architectural Record, "Asking for "the best" assumed objectivity, while asking for "the most admired" is a mix of objectivity and the experiential factor. We made this move because we felt that "the most admired" was a broader question."DI also notes the marked increase in survey responses this year, suggesting that it "may reflect the urgency of improving architectural education." So which schools are the best at preparing future architects? Below you can find the USA's top 10 undergraduate and graduate schools. To view the full report when it is released, sign up on DesignIntelligence's new rankings site. Top Undergraduate
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| Kumoto / Esrawe Studio + Rojkind Arquitectos Posted: 04 Sep 2018 08:00 AM PDT  © Jaime Navarro
 © Jaime Navarro Text description provided by the architects. Kumoto is a tribute to the founders passion and the trajectory of Japanese cuisine. After the success of the Tori Tori restaurants and in search of more intimate experience, we created a traditional Japanese restaurant concept, that a few local restaurants have developed.  © Jaime Navarro Taking the Bento Box as a reference (homemade food ration accommodated in a tray of wooden boxes), the walls and the ceiling generate a wraparound reticle made of saw oak veneer. The sushi bar, located in the background, is framed with plates of natural steel and brass, aimed to leave a feeling of a theatrical inspiration. A large table has been build in the middle of the restaurant, which acts as the centerpiece of the space. The island is created in natural steel, exhibiting a variety of objects such as sake containers, collection vessels and tableware, all which are used in the restaurant.  © Jaime Navarro Around this centrepiece table lay wooden tables and chairs, that are specially designed for Kumoto.  © Jaime Navarro  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 3XN's Waterfront Climatorium Pays Tribute to the Fishing Culture of Lemvig, Denmark Posted: 04 Sep 2018 07:00 AM PDT  via 3XN 3XN, working in collaboration with Orbicon and SLA, have won a competition for the design of a new climatorium in Lemvig, Denmark. The scheme seeks to form a modern interpretation of the area's nature and fishing culture, while also influenced by local climate conditions. The predominantly timber scheme balances a dual role of a public amenity serving science and the arts and a working laboratory geared towards the mitigation of climate change.  via 3XN Guests approaching the Lemvig Climatorium are greeted by a timber entrance adopting the form of a wave, referencing a ship's hull, and Scandinavian fjords. The scheme adopts a U-shaped floor plan, featuring an open auditorium and multifunctional room for hosting activities and workshops.  via 3XN The Lemvig Climatorium forms part of the Coast to Coast Climate Challenge, a project which seeks to secure natural assets from the negative effects of climate change. In this instance, the asset in question is salt water, with the main purpose of the 3XN scheme being to collect knowledge about saltwater relevant to trade, industry, tourism, and wider society.  via 3XN The Lemvig Climatorium is scheduled to open in 2020. The project was developed for Lemvig Byråd (Lemvig City Council) and Lemvig Vand og Spildevand (Lemvig Water and Wastewater). News of the scheme comes shortly after 3XN revealed their design for a new sporting arena and associated masterplan in Bregen, Norway. Click on any of the images above to see the full gallery of 3XN's Lemvig Climatorium. News via: 3XN  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Jessie Street Residence / Derrington Building Studio Posted: 04 Sep 2018 06:00 AM PDT  © Leonid Furmansky Photography
 © Leonid Furmansky Photography Text description provided by the architects. Home is where the health is... The Jessie Street Residence was designed for a family struggling with the adverse health effects of an old home with limited natural light and mold issues due to poor site drainage. As a result, the architect's mission was to design a sensible, economic home with the simple goal of providing a healthy interior environment. This project became a study in healthy design, budget restraint, and pragmatic beauty.  © Leonid Furmansky Photography From the outside in, each material and construction technique was vetted and combined to minimize mold, mildew, and other respiratory contaminates. The design team chose Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF) as the exterior wall system and embraced what it had to offer for this house. Apart from its quick assembly time and durability, this material has a 4-hour fire rating, is moisture resistant, soundproof, mold resistant, impact resistant, termite proof, and vermin proof.  © Leonid Furmansky Photography  Level 1 Plan  © Leonid Furmansky Photography Other factors, such as utilizing products with no or low Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC), advanced air-conditioning and dehumidification, and ample natural daylighting were prioritized as necessities for this home's interior environment. From the aesthetic standpoint, the ICF's modular limitations led the design team to capitalize on volumetric simplicity.  © Leonid Furmansky Photography The resultant simple and monolithic shell encouraged a fresh take on the structural system. Exposed steel beams confidently support the entire second floor and simultaneously provide a light and buoyant spatial experience. This approach allowed for pronounced sectionality and formed a strong connection between both stories.  © Leonid Furmansky Photography  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Carbuncle Cup 2018: The Shortlist for the UK's Most "Aesthetically Challenged" New Building Posted: 04 Sep 2018 05:00 AM PDT  20 Ambleside Avenue, London / Pace Jefford Moore Architects. Image via Building Design They say that bad publicity is good publicity. Nevertheless, late August is a time for baited breath among UK architects, as the readers of Building Design generate the shortlist for Britain's "ugliest" building. Beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder and judgment towards these unpopular designs shouldn't necessarily be generalized. However, this competition opens up important dialogues about architectural aesthetics and public reception of new projects. Continuing the 12-year tradition of what has been called the RIBA Stirling Prize's less fortunate sibling, the shortlist for the 2018 Carbuncle Cup showcases the six projects which British architecture followers love to hate. Previous winners of the prize include the Cutty Sark by Grimshaw in 2012, and Rafael Viñoly Architects' 20 Fenchurch Street in 2015. Below, you can explore the six buildings chosen by Building Design readers, all in the running for the prize that all architects want to avoid. Shankly Hotel, Liverpool / Signature Living Shankly Hotel, Liverpool / Signature Living. Image via Building Design Located in central Liverpool, this rooftop extension to the Shankly Hotel has divided opinion among locals. The black extension to the former Millennium House has been dubbed "grotesque," however developers Signature Living claim that the building is "far from complete" and hence was too early to judge. Beckley Point, Plymouth / Boyes Rees Architects Beckley Point, Plymouth / Boyes Rees Architects. Image via Building Design Situated in Devon, in the South West of England, the 23-story student housing block is the tallest building in the region. 20 Ambleside Avenue, London / Pace Jefford Moore Architects 20 Amblieside Avenue, London / Pace Jefford Moore Architects. Image via Building Design A private house in Streatham, South-West London, 20 Ambleside Avenue has been designed with adherence to a low-energy, environmentally-friendly, Passivhaus mantra. Lewisham Gateway / PRP Architects.jpg?1535664469 "Lewisham Gateway / PRP Architects. Image via Building Design") Lewisham Gateway / PRP Architects. Image via Building Design This urban regeneration scheme in south London has seen two towers finished, with another two under construction. The project cost a total of £375 million. Redrock Leisure Centre, Stockport / BDP Redrock Leisure Centre, Stockport / BDP. Image via Building Design A £45million leisure center located south of Manchester, BDP's Redrock Stockport hosts a 10-screen cinema, restaurants, bars, shops, and a 340-space car park. Haydn Tower, London / Rolfe Judd Haydn Tower, London / Rolfe Judd. Image via Building Design Located in south London, the 13-acre residential scheme has been built around a giant supermarket. Two phases of the scheme have been completed, with a 37-story tower due to open in 2019. News via: The Guardian / Building Online  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Ávila Pavilion / COTAPAREDES Arquitectos Posted: 04 Sep 2018 04:00 AM PDT  © Cesar Béjar
 © Cesar Béjar Text description provided by the architects. The project is located in the garden of a rest house on the outskirts of the city of Guadalajara Jalisco.  © Cesar Béjar The building had to function to host events of different purposes, with a capacity for 200 people. By counting the site with a house and a terrace of traditional architecture, the Pavilion should seek to be as respectful of the environment as possible and at the same time be efficient with the resources to facilitate its execution, for which the structure was modulated using the Standard measurements of the materials to be used such as steel, aluminum, glass and sheet cover.  © Cesar Béjar The structure was modulated to 3mts, using columns PTR type where they rest the armors that give form to the cover. To make the wind circulate freely through space, we generate a gap in the roofs, which also helps us for acoustics. The largest surface of the roof is oriented to the north and the smallest to the south. The roof flies 1.5m to the sides to protect from excess lighting as well as generating a "engawa" where the user can walk the pavilion and admire the gardens being "protected" by the architecture.  Plan  East-West Elevation To generate the accesses, two stereotomic pieces were designed that resolve the kitchen and bathroom services and at the same time give it a formal character different from the lateral ones that seeks to be as transparent as possible to integrate with the garden.  © Cesar Béjar The aesthetics of the accesses is framed by the gap play of the covers made of white ribbed sheet prepared to reflect the heat as much as possible.  © Cesar Béjar  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Architecture and Criticism: By the People, for the People? Posted: 04 Sep 2018 02:30 AM PDT  Frank Gehry flips off a reporter who challenged him of practicing "showy architecture. . Image© EFE This article was originally published on Common Edge as "Architectural Criticism that's Not Just for Architects." In case you hadn't noticed the world is going from paper to pixels. You're reading this, here. Everything is changing, and that includes how we talk and think and write about architecture.
A recent essay showed me the impact of how the not-so-new media has changed our sense of what architectural criticism—really any criticism—is and what we expect from it. A few weeks ago, Kate Wagner, creator of the wildly popular blog "McMansion Hell" and contributor to Common Edge, wrote a piece for Vox.Com on Betsy DeVos' new summer home in Park Township, Michigan. The internet exploded. Her send up of the bloated home had clear allusions to her disdain not only for excess and conspicuous consumption, but also for DeVos herself and by extension for the entire Trump Administration. Rather than simply decrying the aesthetic funkiness of a rich person's McMansion, Wagner's article was full-throated cultural outrage that surfed the energy of the Resist Movement—and its reception was in full accord with the many and growing non-architectural pieces that call out the Trump train wreck. Amid the thousands of gleeful tweets and "comments" that followed, was one by Paul Goldberger: "@mcmansionhell brilliantly takes down Betsy DeVos, showing once again that she is one of our sharpest as well as most entertaining architecture critics." Arguably the world's most famous architecture critic, who made his bones in print, conferred upon Wagner his own identity of "architecture critic" (on Twitter, of course). Not just a smart, funny, personal blogger, she is using architectural analysis to describe our greater culture, and doing so in an immediate, relatable voice. That's why I had Wagner on my radio show, "Home Page" before her most recent internet explosion, and asked her why people loved her blog: "I think people enjoy the blog because it's talking about architecture in a way that is not patronizing, which is frankly not common. That might be a bit of a diss, but I am referring to the architecture blogs."  Courtesy of Flickr User Andrew Guyton. ImageMcMansions such as these are among the types of buildings discussed on McMansion Hell Wagner's voice is sharp, witty and among the brightest of this emergent internet-based architecture criticism. You don't need to be a member of the AIA to receive hundreds of articles, images, and projects a day. Once there were half a dozen pre-eminent architecture print magazines, now the few left are struggling to stay alive on paper while scores of web presences make the scrolled review of images on a device the norm. This new world is in contrast to the longer paper screeds of the past, often filled with arcane and impenetrable critical writing, geared to the narrow field of architectural academics. I am published regularly in ArchDaily; wrote for Archinect and HOUZZ before that, and any number of smaller venues. The instant response and mass love/hate or indifference (easily the worst of the three) of the Internet is quick and intense. The comments are unedited and often dazzling in either their brilliance or addled incoherence. This is, believe it or not, a clear virtue. This recent torrent of expression highlighted how the Internet has transformed the way we exchange architectural thoughts and responses. Universal, instant, fully revisable, everything on the Internet is in real time and essentially free (a problem for another day's discussion). In clubbing the baby seal of obvious excess, Wagner mocks the gross in the DeVos house but shows how the overblown can also be grotesque because it reveals the venality of its builder. The reaction to her piece went beyond a critic revealing the negative truth about a building—it was a mass wave of likes, shares, comments, and retweets that flamed and trolled on everything Wagner addressed, not just the aesthetics of the home. It was architecture criticism that transcended architecture. This wider perception of buildings goes beyond aesthetics, and it's what explodes on the Internet. But it is not just Wagner; there is a wave of blogs and websites focusing on Brutalism as an architectural expression of cultural ideology. In these sites architecture evidences a worldview as much as the specific aesthetics of any building. Brutalist websites, such as #SOSBRUTALISM and "Fuck Yeah Brutalism" are as positive as "McMansion Hell" is negative. These blogs embrace the universal intentions and social vision that spawned Brutalism, and are almost nostalgic in their glowing regard for buildings that most civilians (i.e. non architects) believe failed miserably. .jpg?1536050982 "Courtesy of Flickr User Ádám Szedlák. ImageThe Alexandra Road Estate by architect Neave Brown; an example of London's brutalist architecture.") Courtesy of Flickr User Ádám Szedlák. ImageThe Alexandra Road Estate by architect Neave Brown; an example of London's brutalist architecture. This new era of internet criticism reminds me of Postmodernism, when books by Vincent Scully, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown and Tom Wolfe ripped the existing status quo with insight and wit. Postmodernism was crib-killed or committed suicide by its own absurdities, but its alt-architecture criticism was refreshing, provocative and expressed the 1960's counterculture message of "Reject Authority." Some say the aesthetic product of Post Modernism was shallow at best. To me its reactionary impact was based in commentary. It burned bright for a couple of decades because of its place as part of the worldwide cultural revolution of the mid-century. I believe that upheaval will considered a tiny ripple when it's compared to what emerging technology portends for our profession—and that includes criticism. Maybe this new criticism is just in its awkward adolescence. The joy of instant, real time presentation of unlimited length, universal availability and immediate correction of error, is a fantastic way to communicate. But the ability to link to live sites, images, video, and news makes the indirect page-bound world of traditional journalism quaintly tactile. These coming changes are not just about what is produced. Ultimately the methods of creation change what is what is created. Current culture is rejecting Gilbert & Sullivan eight-part harmony in favor of a cappella singing; reflecting the fact that the ability to read sheet music is vanishing from the creation of music. Music is made in several ways, but the ear to mouth of a cappella is defeating the mind-to-hand of making music off paper. Losing the beauty and circumspection of print architectural journalism will be a loss, a loss I feel with each missing newsstand. Fully formed arguments, paper-framed in a bound context, with targeted photos and other graphics, still exist, but like "drawing" it's a dead-method-walking. Of course the fun and conversational tone of "McMansion Hell" may not the way that all future criticism will follow, but the few remaining print magazines will, finally, become beloved footnotes and the burgeoning digital formats of architectural journalism will change architectural criticism far beyond what we see now. Perhaps the line between analysis and commentary is blurring. Perhaps architectural criticism, like journalism itself, is evolving into a place of dialogue and reaction rather than the attempts at intellectual analysis of the print era. Four generations ago Marshall McLuhan famously said "The medium is the message." It's clear that the millions today engaged in seeing, reacting to and thinking about architecture in all the places like "McMansion Hell" were not part of Architectural Record's audience 20 years ago. And maybe that is a good thing.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| San José Preschool / taller de arquitectura de bogotá Posted: 04 Sep 2018 02:00 AM PDT  © Rodrigo Dávila
 © Rodrigo Dávila Text description provided by the architects. The project was formulated as a series of isolated volumes, a village of knowledge that takes the organic character of the natural context of the place and the “small scale” of its users, (children between the ages of 4 to 6).  © Rodrigo Dávila The units are articulated through a covered circulation that forms a patio or an “amorphous cloister” with abundant landscaping.  Elevation 03  Plan  Elevation 02 This kind of configuration allows a flexible development, forming “partial finite units”, regardless of the size or cut-off point that is made, according to the stage in which the project is developed over time.  © Rodrigo Dávila The result configures an ambiguous and unconfused space that doesn’t make evident of the absences of the volumes.  © Rodrigo Dávila Regarding the building´s materiality, the rustic concrete used in the existing Administration Building of the school. A material with textured monochrome finishing that with a play of light and shadows emphasizes its variations according to the position of each classroom module.  © Rodrigo Dávila This is a sober learning space that seeks tranquillity as a learning tool for the society. A society overwhelmed by baroque spaces, an abundance of objects, information and congestion.  © Rodrigo Dávila  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Greenery Engulfs WOHA's Oasia Hotel Downtown Singapore in New Photographs Posted: 04 Sep 2018 01:00 AM PDT  © Infinitude via AGROB BUCHTAL New photographs released by ceramics manufacturer AGROB-BUCHTAL show nature beginning to claim the Oasia Hotel Downtown in Singapore. WOHA Architects' 30-story scheme was designed to be a "verdant tower of green" in the heart of the city's financial district. The tower's red aluminum mesh cladding has begun to sprout a lush landscaping, consisting of 21 different species of creepers. The colorful flowers and green leaves provide food for birds and insects, while the reaction of the creepers to different light, wind, and shade conditions come together to form a natural mosaic. The footage also showcases the building's rooftop tropical bower and series of sky gardens including a swimming pool with sweeping views across Singapore. Since its completion in 2016, the scheme has received numerous accolades, including being crowned the CTBUH Best Tall Building Worldwide in 2018. A gallery of the new photographs celebrating the biodiverse tower is laid out below.  © Infinitude via AGROB BUCHTAL  © Infinitude via AGROB BUCHTAL  © Infinitude via AGROB BUCHTAL  © Infinitude via AGROB BUCHTAL  © Infinitude via AGROB BUCHTAL  © Infinitude via AGROB BUCHTAL Images via: AGROB-BUCHTAL  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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