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- Scary People in Architectural Photography
- Win a Free Ticket to the 2018 World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam
- La Crique / PietriArchitectes
- Stapleford Granary / MCW Architects
- Kyrorty / PAUM design
- Brand Center of Ugan Concept / Jiangjiu Architecture
- Luoqi Xitang Village B&B Hotel / Monolith Architects
- Pyrite House / Freight Architects
- Gentle House / Monotello
- Hepburn Spring Pods / CBG Architects
- 80Hz / Thomas Wing-Evans
- Bentwood / RITZ&GHOUGASSIAN
- Devani Home / RNDSQR
- Apple Unveils Greenest MacBook Ever, New iPad and Mac Mini
- WeGrow / BIG
- Los Altos Poolhouse / Framestudio
- HENN Selected to Redesign Europe's Largest Cultural Center
- Synagogue and Community Center NBI / Nicolas Loi
- Peter Zumthor's Rammed Concrete Retreat for Living Architecture Nears Completion in England
- Apartment in Gracia / Kahane Architects + Maria Alarcón
| Scary People in Architectural Photography Posted: 30 Oct 2018 09:00 PM PDT  DD16 / BIO-architects Halloween. A day plagued by ghost, ghouls, and goblins. Historically, on All Hallows' Evening, many believed that spirits could return to the earthly world. On this frightful occasion, we're highlighting phantoms from the beyond that have entered the architectural realm. Below, 13 hellish projects and their supernatural counterparts. Scroll down if you dare. The Barn / ZIEGLER Antonin architecte The Barn / ZIEGLER Antonin architect The Focal Length / RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio The Focal Length / RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio The Sports Pavilion / Horomystudio The Sports Pavilion / Horomystudio Tobogan House / Z4Z4 AAA Tobogan House / Z4Z4 AAA Tree-ness House / Akihisa Hirata Tree-ness House / Akihisa Hirata Baladrar House / Langarita Navarro Arquitectos Baladrar House / Langarita Navarro Arquitectos Beijing 'Tsuo' / Wonder Architects Beijing 'Tsuo' / Wonder Architects DD16 / BIO-architects DD16 / BIO-architects Les Lumieres a la Campagne / Arch Studio 314 Les Lumieres a la Campagne / Arch Studio 314 Three Apartments in Madrid / Fast and Furious Production Office Three Apartments in Madrid / Fast and Furious Production Office Shelton Marshall Residence / El Dorado Shelton Marshall Residence / El Dorado Espinar House / Miguel de Guzmán + Veidimanna Protum Espinar House / Miguel de Guzmán + Veidimanna Protum Choreographed Performance at Farnsworth House Explores "Queer Space" in the Work of Mies van der Rohe Choreographed Performance at Farnsworth House Explores "Queer Space" in the Work of Mies van der Rohe.jpg This collection is one of many interesting content groupings made by our registered users. Remember you can save and manage what inspires you on My ArchDaily. Create your account here.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Win a Free Ticket to the 2018 World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam Posted: 30 Oct 2018 08:30 PM PDT  King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects shortlisted for "Higher Education and Research - Completed Buildings" The World Architecture Festival is regarded as one of the most wide-ranging and influential architectural events. This year's event will take place in Amsterdam at the RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre from November 28-30. Bringing global voices in architecture, this year's speakers include keynote presenter Rem Koolhaas, Jeanne Gang, David Adjaye, and Li Xiaodong. This year, five lucky ArchDaily readers can win a standard pass to the World Architecture Festival 2018 (worth €1525). Enter the prize draw here.  Confirmed speakers at the 2018 World Architecture Festival. Image Courtesy of World Architecture Festival All entries must be submitted by Wednesday, November 7; winners will be informed on Friday, November 9. Travel and boarding arrangements not included. Enter prize draw here.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 30 Oct 2018 08:00 PM PDT  © Luc Boegly
 © Luc Boegly Text description provided by the architects. Luminous, curvilinear facades, ribbons of generous balconies separated by wood panels… At the foot of the Montagne de l'Aigle, Architect Jean-Baptiste Pietri's studio has created a new programme of 145 apartments, a stone's throw from the coves of the Massif des Calanques that gave the project its name: La Crique.  © Luc Boegly Located in Marseille's 9th arrondissement, where Chemin du Roy d'Espagne crosses Boulevard Louis Pierotti, the project's buildings form two distinct units, surrounded by dense vegetation. Each sits effortlessly on the land, totally in keeping with existing elevations. The first volume to the east is set slightly lower, allowing it to follow the natural lie of the land and minimizing its visual impact. The sculpted volumes snake over the site and interlock to create a sizable green space, the real planted centerpiece of the plot.  © Luc Boegly The end walls with their staggered terraces create tiers, echoing the mountainous topography nearby. To the north, along the Chemin du Roy d'Espagne, the building's line has been interrupted, creating thereby an "inlet", reminiscent of the calanques and revealing a landscaped garden of Mediterranean garrigue. Access to the hallways of the two buildings is set in the center of the plot, slightly below the private road, allowing residents daily enjoyment of the greenery.  © Luc Boegly Also in line with the hills, the north-facing terraces which guarantee superb luminosity all year round are adorned with plant pots containing trees, and gain gradually in depth from the ground up to the roof. The project thus mirrors the fundamental characteristics of the site it is set in.  © Luc Boegly Built in a difficult geographical environment, in the context of a straightforward help-to-buy scheme, with simple materials, La Crique encapsulates all the know-how of the architect, who, with great generosity, designed two seemingly ordinary buildings, yet managed to incorporate an extra share of heart and soul. The exterior spaces allocated to each apartment are more than generous, the specific characteristics of the surrounding landscape are deftly reflected in the design, light has been given its rightful place: everything about the project bears witness to a new way of thinking Marseille's identity.  Plan  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Stapleford Granary / MCW Architects Posted: 30 Oct 2018 07:00 PM PDT  © Jim Stephenson
 © Jim Stephenson Text description provided by the architects. The ACE Foundation is a Cambridge based charity with the aim of encouraging and developing cultural understanding. Providing support for educational projects, courses and summer schools, both locally and internationally, the ACE Foundation has played a pioneering role in adult and continuing education. The Foundation provides a whole host of educational activities, from worldwide study tours to financial support for a variety of educational projects around the globe. The Foundation purchased a Victorian farm in 2009 on the outskirts of Cambridge with the vision of creating an inspiring space for education, culture, music and the arts.  © Jim Stephenson  Ground floor / First floor  © ACE Foundation This project has been about creating a home for the Foundation within the precious and characterful setting of the re-energised farm and granary– a place to provide facilities for events and courses, a sustainable working environment for the study tour team and importantly a focal point and accessible amenity for the community both locally and regionally.  © Jim Stephenson The first phase of the development saw the granary and immediate outbuildings transformed into a small performance space for 60 people. It comprised the granary hall, an outstanding multi-use space for chamber music, lectures and exhibitions; recording facilities; seminar room; and some office space.  © Jim Stephenson Subsequently, MCW Architects were commissioned to undertake the detail design and implementation of the, £1.5m second phase works to complete the refurbishment and add new build elements to complete the original vision. This now completed second phase has connected the Granary with a new glazed linking structure to an existing barn which has been converted into office space for the ACE Cultural Tours team. The ground floor of the granary, along with the existing cart lodge, is a creative space for both fine and applied art. The link acts as a foyer, gathering space and long gallery and opens onto a south facing external terrace – which will be shaded with wisteria on an oak pergola. A new front door opens into a double height lobby which joins office space to foyer. A dilapidated cart lodge has become a space for a ceramics and jewellery studio. A walled garden will be created beyond the office barn within the original farm yard.  © ACE Foundation  Section A-A / Section B-B The redevelopment of this sensitive site was carried out in a way that retains the character of the existing fabric and spaces whilst being able to breathe new life into the place so that it can support and sustain the uses and needs of the Foundation into the future use black stained timber and locally sourced brick. Where new window openings were required, the scale and location reflect how they would have been traditionally handled. Pitched roof forms were retained.  © Jim Stephenson Careful consideration has been given to the building services engineering concepts and integration with the architectural design scheme. The design strategy acknowledges the environmental criteria for the space and the need to maximise energy efficiency. New services were installed throughout. All areas are naturally ventilated with heating provided via an underfloor heating system.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 30 Oct 2018 06:00 PM PDT .jpg?1539308028 "© Sergey Melnikov") © Sergey Melnikov
.jpg?1539308225 "© Sergey Melnikov") © Sergey Melnikov Text description provided by the architects. The interior is based on several main ideas which end the refeccon and the embodiment in decoracve recepcons and the organizacon of space.  Plan .jpg?1539308187 "© Sergey Melnikov") © Sergey Melnikov First, it is the general idea of the resort. The interior is inspired by resort architecture in its "best form". There is indirect reusing of slightly modernist, slightly brutal lines of the best buildings of "the first line" which have a stylish afertaste of an era of the beginning of 20th century. There are smooth lines in furniture, and the general restraint of interior decisions which purpose – to focus on simple beauty of forms. There are slightly vintage materials – a mosaic for with marble crumb, finishing with a stone and seaside limestone, lots of white in "base" of walls and a ceiling, deep coral (terracota) tone of walls, brass objects. .jpg?1539308787 "© Sergey Melnikov") © Sergey Melnikov Secondly, it is the southern atmosphere of an interior. There should be unconscious association with the South and heat, with the resort in his best cme. A combination of white tones and slightly muted, "burned out" accent colours, live plants, beaucful brass furniture and a stone fnishing. Thirdly, it is the idea of thin balance between feeling of the South "Soviet" and the South "European": in this .jpg?1539308586 "© Sergey Melnikov") © Sergey Melnikov interior style there are no direct instructions on a geografc location, but each guest will see here something diferent – someone will see South coast of Crimea, but someone - French riviera. .jpg?1539308829 "© Sergey Melnikov") © Sergey Melnikov  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Brand Center of Ugan Concept / Jiangjiu Architecture Posted: 30 Oct 2018 05:00 PM PDT  Aisle. Image © Feng Shao
 Detail. Image © Feng Shao Text description provided by the architects. As a wooden floor brand, Ugan Concept has met a designing aporia with huge amounts of wood available: how to construct "a space of wood quality" instead of "a wooden" space, making "the quality of wood" a state and an atmosphere rather than "a material" and "functions of the material"? It's like being in the forest, we would not concern about trees in a materialized way; instead, we will have self-perception aroused by the integrity generalized by the surroundings in which trees grow: the sense of smells, the touch of winds, the spots of lights, the distance of sounds and so on. The perception won't come from anywhere else. We may call it "the experience of forest-quality".  Dinning room. Image © Feng Shao According to our thinking habits about space, forest, without its biological characters and natural features, has no evident division in area and function. When we are in the forest, we would not identify the area we are in according to layers of different vegetation, nor walk towards a particular target along certain paths. This may be the so-called "the sense of boundarylessness."  Meeting room. Image © Feng Shao  Plane graph of the art unit At the entrance, in order to indicate its fluxility, an abstract pavilion is used rather than a gate and a courtyard; thus, the affection will be aroused naturally from outside to inside. On contrast, we partly remove the window, which was an important part functioning as a half partition in the building, and design a new container – a tearoom, which blurred the relationships between the interior (office) space and the exterior (courtyard) space with its spirits of "from inside to outside."  Hallway. Image © Feng Shao To make it a loop in the whole space, we removed the partition walls of the bathroom in the core area of traffic and design an invisible door through which the corridor is directly linked with the meeting room with windows on one side. In this way, all the details can permeate with each other in the space.  In-between area. Image © Feng Shao Besides physical boundaries, areas that are often neglected because of their functions or their positions in the visual fade zone can also become a kind of boundaries that are difficult to pass, keeping us in distance. In this space, such areas are everywhere – at the corner on the left of the entrance, the pillars and beams, the high and low edges of the partition walls, corners, etc. Therefore, we materialize them and give them some rhythm, making those meaningless shapes into "symbolic constructive elements" of the space.  Tea house. Image © Feng Shao In urban lifestyle, our spiritual perception about things and even ourselves are gradually degenerating. Then, the emphasis of the design is how to attempt to use the several "designing points" to arouse certain experiences in order to consolidate self-awareness while ensuring their functions. The wooden light hanging on the pavilion will lead you to the tearoom rather than other places that you are expecting, will you be disappointed and excited? The small waterscape linked to the outfall of the washbasin in the bath room will present the scene of "used water" from the outside when someone is washing hands inside… the revolving water tank, the three-dimension curtain, the bucket inlaid with tap, the hanging beam of towel and mirror, the case of stool, the wood bearing landscape desk, the staff desk-scape, etc., all those "designing points" are like those several impressive "events" in our life course, which we can remember its "experience", but we cannot reshape its truth. Sometimes, we need to be left alone with "it". We pile up all the fragments of memories in the space for people who will use it to have dialogue with.  Component. Image © Feng Shao Design makes significance on the basis of people's existence. Only when we are "relating" to the space and objects in the space, could it exist and bring various experiences to people with its function. Here and now, we concern more about people's experience, both physically and mentally.  Dinning room. Image © Feng Shao  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Luoqi Xitang Village B&B Hotel / Monolith Architects Posted: 30 Oct 2018 04:00 PM PDT .jpg?1534088560 "Elevation along south side pool. Image © Lei Mao") Elevation along south side pool. Image © Lei Mao
.jpg?1534088447 "Courtyard along south side pool. Image © Lei Mao") Courtyard along south side pool. Image © Lei Mao Text description provided by the architects. Recently, in China, there are more and more innovation projects rather than new buildings, and the theme of these projects are changing from city to rural area. But the rural area are no longer just traditional villages, essentially, they are more like villages from the city dwellers' viewpoint and to satisfy city dwellers' imagination. .jpg?1534089054 "Bird view. Image © Gang Wang") Bird view. Image © Gang Wang Under this circumstance, village B&B hotel turns out to be a very convenient architecture type for city life to intervene in village development. What it can achieve is city dwellers' imagination of village life. In this project, the core issue for us is how to renovate the building into a classical Chinese garden for city dwellers to escape from their city life, and create a "un-city" experience from city dwellers' view. .jpg?1534088425 "Courtyard along south side pool. Image © Lei Mao") Courtyard along south side pool. Image © Lei Mao .jpg?1534088091 "Square and main entrance. Image © Lei Mao") Square and main entrance. Image © Lei Mao This project sits at Guojiagou village, Tianjin. The site is at the center of the village, both the north side and south side of the site have a small pool, on the west side is a hill, and east side is the main village area. Between the main village area and the site, there is a big square and the main road, all the village roads are distributed in fan shape and centered to the site. .jpg?1534088155 "Center courtyard. Image © Lei Mao") Center courtyard. Image © Lei Mao The existing buildings are a group of single floor buildings with grey tiles sloping roof and black bricks supported structure. We maximized the existing circumstance, maintained and emphasized the main structure of existing building, based on this strategy, we introduced in steel structures, white cubes, glazed walls, wooden grilling, and other modern materials to achieve a balance between new and old. .jpg?1534088214 "Lobby. Image © Lei Mao") Lobby. Image © Lei Mao .jpg?1534089199 "Plan") Plan .jpg?1534088319 "Corridor and dooryard. Image © Lei Mao") Corridor and dooryard. Image © Lei Mao We use outdoor corridors as semi interior space tool to connect all isolated existing buildings and change them into a single building with strong inner relationship. Then, we use new walls and new volumes to change public spaces between buildings and along pools into private spaces as inner courtyards, dooryards or rooms. .jpg?1534088362 "Guest room. Image © Lei Mao") Guest room. Image © Lei Mao .jpg?1534089240 "Section") Section .jpg?1534088482 "Courtyard along north side pool. Image © Lei Mao") Courtyard along north side pool. Image © Lei Mao The process of entering every single room is from public space to semi public space then to private space, as a series of experience like wandering in classical Chinese gardens. The originally private center courtyard was changed into a center public space surrounded by tearoom, lobby, main entrance, and restaurant, this new center courtyard connected the square and hill belongs to the villagers and can be shared by the guest and villagers together as a public center. .jpg?1534088508 "Courtyard along south side pool. Image © Lei Mao") Courtyard along south side pool. Image © Lei Mao  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Pyrite House / Freight Architects Posted: 30 Oct 2018 03:00 PM PDT  © Darren Soh
 © Darren Soh Text description provided by the architects. Pyrite House is a private residential project, mixing innovative design with structural flexibility to create an inspired living space. The brief was to create a space where 3 families could stay together, enjoying the best of communal living while having their own private spaces. We looked into metaphors of inter-connectedness, and started developing 3 separate volumes enclosing a central, sheltered courtyard that would serve as the heart of the house.  Section 02  © Darren Soh That's when we came across pyrite crystals, characterised by their intersecting facades. We adopted intersecting / inter-connecting volumes as our formal language in creating the house. 3 solid prisms are wedged into a central glass block. These 3 prisms are slanted and staggered, with the gaps between the prisms forming corridors and atrium spaces. The living, dining and kitchen areas can be closed off to form individual, air-conditioned spaces. Once connected, these spaces link with the atrium to form an expansive, communal space.  © Darren Soh Playing with the prismatic forms, the tips of the prisms are folded in to create more depth and cast shadows providing shade. We were also interested in how the slits between the prisms allow light to penetrate through, creating interesting shapes and patterns in the shadows. The corner windows are also specifically positioned in order to catch wind drafts from the south and provide panoramic views. Voids created at the party wall allow for cross ventilation once all the windows are opened. Blurring of interior and exterior spaces also inform the design of this project. With light flooding the central atrium area, the sheltered spaces in between prisms can be experienced as a pseudo-outdoor space.  © Darren Soh  Ground Floor Plan  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 30 Oct 2018 02:00 PM PDT  © Soopakorn Srisakul
 © Soopakorn Srisakul Text description provided by the architects. Gentle House is a renovating project for a family of four locating among other relative houses. Because of a limited land size, the architect firstly proposed to torn down the whole building and enlarge the whole new structure. However, the owner rejected the proposal with just only one reason that he would like to keep it as the most memorable place. This had urged the architects to re-analyze the whole project and build accordingly to balancing both the remaining and the extending functions thoroughly.  Assembly of the Elements The most memorable reminiscing architecture is "the main spiral stair." This stair was initially assigned by the owner's mother who got an inspiration from the staircase in Italy. However, this stair was not popular for being a main circulation due to its tightened enclosure. This observation and research incited the design team to preserve the main staircase. To encourage members to use the main staircase, the house plan was reconstructed deleting the service stair.  © Soopakorn Srisakul Comprised of the owner's primary intention, to expand the spaces, the architect decided to rearrange the living units of the house by inserting two-duplex living compacts, of which he called "sub-condominiums," for the sons' future families. As a result, the family would have three houses together on the same old property.  © Soopakorn Srisakul Monotello started by using diagrams to analyze the most common area in the house and the least used space. The solutions revealed that the position of the spiral stair should locate at the center of the house and should be surrounded with the secondary important spaces such as the father's living room, the shrine room, and connecting to the corridor that led to the sons' units. The architect also torn down some floor plates and beams that would increasingly signify space around the spiral stair. He demolished the skylight that allowed sunlight illuminating the internal space. This renovation helped accentuating the spaces and maintaining a good memory of everyone.  © Soopakorn Srisakul  Ground floor plan Despite this reservation, the design team has remodeled the rest of living units. For the father's part, they combined the living room and dining area together, and made it becoming father's meeting space. For the sons' parts, the architects furnished based on their personal styles. Besides, the former outdoor garden that used to be neglected also got renovated. The architects created a small pocket park in the front, while preserving the same tree that used to be an indication of this house.  © Soopakorn Srisakul  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Hepburn Spring Pods / CBG Architects Posted: 30 Oct 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © Pietro Giordano
 © Pietro Giordano Text description provided by the architects. Designed to captivate guests upon arrival, this project involved the creation of an array of linear pods for short-term accommodation in Hepburn Springs. Perched high on stilts on top of the hill, careful consideration has been taken to ensure minimal impact to the ground, leading to minimal excavation, disruption and foot print, with sustainability and uniqueness a key consideration throughout the whole design.  Site Plan Each individual pod is single level, allowing for accommodation for two people. The one bedroom accommodation features 59sqm of internal area and 16sqm of external space, plus a large balcony of 12.4sqm. They feature a marbled twin spa that sits within an open plan bedroom directly opposite a double-sided gas log fire that can be enjoyed from either the bed, spa or lounge. They also feature a king size bed, double shower, fully equipped kitchen and designer interiors. A mixture of natural textures and materials with warm hues have been carefully considered and used throughout to create the ultimate indulgent break, and total privacy for guests. The Hepburn Springs area offers a high number of commercial, short-term residential stay options which meant this project needed an additional edge to its design to provide a point of difference for guests and to ensure commercial success. This was achieved through the pod visual design impact created for guests upon arrival from the main road and through its ability to provide a way for guests to connect with nature during their stay at the pods. This was a rare opportunity to design and deliver a commercial property that complimented and became an extension of the landscape and its natural surroundings with the pods themselves inspired from the landscape and scenery itself.  © Pietro Giordano Each pod has been built with sustainability in mind. The single level structure has been designed on stilts to minimise the footprint on the surrounding landscape and a number of ESD elements have been incorporated throughout. They have also been built to ensure relaxing views of the surrounding countryside, allowing guests to enjoy being transported into the natural environment and in turn, promoting relaxation, contemplation and rejuvenation. Creating a sustainable environment was of utmost important to the client. It was crucial that the existing landscape was protected throughout the whole process, including the final design and actual construction of the pods. Sustainability has been achieved and supported through the use of architecturally designed water spouts that direct rainwater into a naturally filtered reticulation system. This allows for water harvesting that is re-used on the landscape. Other sustainability features include photovoltaic cells for electricity generation, large eaves in living areas for solar control and open design to allow for cross ventilation.  © Pietro Giordano  © Pietro Giordano The large, sloping embankment to the main road, and existing natural landscape to the site, created an opportunity to design built forms that were both functional and visually stunning. The significant slope required additional planning, but allowed for large extended cantilevered forms to be built, creating an immediate visual impact on arrival via the main access road. Simultaneously, the design needed to ensure that each pod/villa had sufficient privacy while incorporating as much of the natural environment. The elevated design and position of the pods/villas allows for privacy and the individual nature of the pods means guests can be placed directly within the natural surroundings.  Elevation + Floor plan Design and planning for these pods through the project development stages remained true to the original concept and intent, which is fairly rare when designing a commercial development. The end result of the 10 built pods heavily resembled the original concept design from the projects initial consultation with the client. New fire zone regulations for the area were introduced during the design process, making it critical to ensure that all team members were educated on the new regulations to guarantee design compliance in the final finished product and this required additional planning. Importantly the design intent was still able to be maintained through these regulatory changes.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 30 Oct 2018 12:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of Thomas Wing-Evans
 Courtesy of Thomas Wing-Evans Text description provided by the architects. British designer and architect Thomas Wing-Evans has created an interactive sound pavilion in collaboration with the DX Lab for the State Library of New South Wales in Australia, which takes paintings from the library's collection and turns them into music. Located outside the Mitchell Reading Room in Sydney's CBD, Wing-Evans' pavilion features a curving black timber frame clad in matt anodized aluminum shingles. Working with studio Sonar Sound, a computer program was developed to translate visual data into sound. Images were analyzed for visual data such as complexity, color, tone and face detection, and metadata like date, location, and subject.  Courtesy of Thomas Wing-Evans These values then formed the basis of computer-generated compositions. Inside the structure, a central mechanism displays a selection of paintings on a reel, like a real-life Instagram feed. Visitors can crank a handle to select an image and listen to its soundscape. Multi-channel audio embedded in the floor and all corners creates an immersive experience that surrounds visitors and resonates through the structure. The metal cladding and geometry means that the sound reverberates, creating a unique acoustic space.  Courtesy of Thomas Wing-Evans  Elevation 'Beyond its acoustic qualities, my intention was to create a structure that provides shelter while allowing visitors to feel rooted in the city and the natural elements. From above, the open shingles completely overlap, keeping the rain off while allowing daylight to enter into the space.'  Courtesy of Thomas Wing-Evans 'Openings at eye level allow passersby to peer inside and visitors to see out, which was key for making the space welcoming. At night, audio-reactive lighting pulsates through the cladding, attracting visitors to experience the State Library's painting collection in an entirely new way.'  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 30 Oct 2018 10:00 AM PDT  © Tom Blachford
 © Tom Blachford Text description provided by the architects. The project pays homage to the sites historic archetype as a furniture workshop under the name of CF Rojo & Sons and later as the Thonet furniture showroom.The project's design and materiality was informed by the existing facade and the surrounding environment.  © Tom Blachford  Floor plan  © Tom Blachford The space sits encased within the original heritage facade made of red pressed brick work and old stucco. An adjacent laneway paved in brick pavers runs underfoot, whilst concrete columns rise up to a ceiling grid primed in red oxide. The ceiling grid compartmentalises the space creating pockets of light and shade, volume and intimacy. Steel cladding to the kitchen reads as an extrusion from the ceiling grid. Timber furniture echoes back to the sites past and divides the space through skeletal shelving units.  © Tom Blachford  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 30 Oct 2018 09:00 AM PDT  © Jamie Anholt
 © Jamie Anholt Text description provided by the architects. This home was built and designed by the current homeowners, Alkarim and Majida Devani. The President and Creative Director of RNDSQR took inspiration from their daughter's love for play and enjoyment of the outdoors and applied it to the whole home. The goal was to bring as much of the outdoors inside as possible and ensure as much natural light was used to create an open an airy concept. A favorite feature of the whole family's is the "Floating Net" or hammock above the entry. Not only is it utilized as a skylight that allows light to filter down into the entrance vestibule, but it also acts as a snuggle nook for the owner's daughter – a cozy, fun space to read a book and play in.  © Jamie Anholt The "Open to Above" space was created with cedar slats to mimic the idea of being in a natural surrounding such as a forest. The second story light filters into the room through the slats and creates a whimsical pattern throughout the space. The inspiration for this room came from travels to Kyoto (the idea of a wooden shoot mimics the bamboo forest) creating a feeling of serenity that is encapsulated within the tall shoots and flickering light. Corten is a material that is used throughout the home – not only to bring some of the outdoor exteriors into the interior but to add warmth against the raw concrete and kitchen wall.  © Jamie Anholt Inspiration from this came from travels in the Atacama Desert, where Corten is much used; the Corten fireplace is a reminder of the warm desert sand. The materials used in the master ensuite were once again part of bringing the green landscape of the outdoors inside. The walls are colored with textured mossy green tile while the water closet and vanity is warm and adds a spa-like feeling with the oak and alder wood paneling. Utilizing the mindset of "better with age" for the exterior of the home, the materials used will change and enhance over time; weathered cedar, concrete retaining walls and black Corten changing to rust will continue to evolve. Heavy use of these materials allows for the exterior of the home to create a story over time.  © Jamie Anholt  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Apple Unveils Greenest MacBook Ever, New iPad and Mac Mini Posted: 30 Oct 2018 08:25 AM PDT  © Apple Apple has released new details about their MacBook Air, Mac Mini and iPad Pro. The MacBook Air has finally gotten the long-requested Retina Display, and the design has new features like its Touch ID fingerprint sensor. The broad redesign also extends to the new iPad Pro, where the design nearly gets rid of the bezel that has traditionally wrapped around the sides of the screen and Apple's Face ID facial recognition technology has been included in the tablet for the first time ever.  © Apple The iPad Pro is being increasingly used by architects with the addition of the Apple Pencil for more fine-tuned control alongside side-by-side apps. The new iPad Pencil stylus works with support for gestures that let you switch between the different digital brush styles. For work, you can attach a keyboard with two different viewing angles, and your chances of losing pencil at the construction site are diminished thanks to its new magnetic attachments to the side of the device. It now charges by clicking onto the top of the tablet, and features a button on the side that can be press for extra controls. Alongside that came a new look for the Smart Keyboard sold alongside the iPad Pro. The new iPad Pro comes in two sizes: an 11-inch version and a bigger 12.9-inch size. The smaller one starts at $769 and the bigger at $969. Both are available to order now and will also go on sale on 7 November. See below for a quick summary of the updates: MacBook Air, Mac Mini © Apple The new MacBook Air model gets the Retina display, but Apple dropped the USB-A ports and SD card reader, just like it did when it redesigned the MacBook Pro in 2016. In its place are two Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C ports for power and connectivity. The Air also features Apple's third-generation butterfly keyboard, which is supposed to be quieter and less prone to failure than earlier models.
iPad Pro 2018 © Apple It's been over a year since Apple has given an update to the iPad Pro, and the new model includes a range of features. The new eight-core, A12X Bionic chip is a 7-nanometer piece of silicon with speeds up to 35 percent faster than the previous iPad Pro. That's just in single-core, though -- multicore speeds are up to 90 percent faster. The iPad Pro is the first iOS device to use USB-C for power and data.
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| Posted: 30 Oct 2018 07:59 AM PDT  © Dave Burk
 © Dave Burk Text description provided by the architects. BIG and WeWork's collaboration and belief in creativity manifests through the first WeGrow school in New York City. The interactive learning landscape supports a conscious approach to education, nurturing the growth, spirit and mind of the 21st century child. The 10,000 ft2 learning universe for children aged three to nine is located in WeWork's HQ in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.  © Laurian Ghinitoiu A field of spaces with a variety of functions allow children to move freely throughout the day and to learn from the environment around them and each other. The learning landscape encourages collaboration by emphasizing transparent and communal spaces, which comprise more than half of the school: four classrooms, flexible workshops, community space, multi-purpose studio, art studio, music room and other playscapes support the energy of creation and togetherness.  © Laurian Ghinitoiu  Most of the partitions inside the school are shelves raised to the level of the child, allowing natural light to reach deep inside the building. Three different shelving levels for each age group curve occasionally to create various activity pockets and give a feeling of comfort, safety and community, while allowing teachers to have full perspective of the space at all times. Above, acoustic clouds made of felt reflect the different patterns in nature – fingerprint, coral, landscape and moon – and illuminate with Ketra bulbs that shift in color and intensity based on the time of day.  © Dave Burk Each learning station within WeGrow includes furniture with details and materials carefully designed by BIG to optimize the educational environment: modular classrooms promote movement and collaboration, puzzle tables and chairs manufactured by Bendark Studios come in kid and parent sizes to offer equal perspectives, and the vertical garden with tiles made in Switzerland by Laufen house different plants depending on shade exposure. The mushroom shelves and magic meadow create a calm setting for a more focused study while reading hives form an immersive library for an organic learning environment.  © Dave Burk Teachers and parents share the lobby with the children, where a playful felt nook forms from the smooth cut out in the walls to serve as a flexible work, meet and waiting area. Children can join in the brain puzzle, an all-felt lounge that can be taken apart for playing and learning. From the lobby to the classrooms, WeGrow is lit by Gople Lamp and Alphabet of Light – flexible lighting systems designed by BIG Ideas and manufactured by Artemide to create ambience effects that form comfortable, natural lighting throughout the school day. Playful and transparent, yet homelike and structured, WeGrow nurtures the child's education through introspection, exploration and discovery.  © Laurian Ghinitoiu  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Los Altos Poolhouse / Framestudio Posted: 30 Oct 2018 07:00 AM PDT Wakely1015507R_copy.jpg?1539921963 "© David Wakely") © David Wakely
Wakely1015504R_copy.jpg?1539921867 "© David Wakely") © David Wakely Text description provided by the architects. Originally built in 1966, this Los Altos home is a single-level ranch style structure, ubiquitous in suburban neighborhoods throughout the United States. Inspired by hotel spas frequented while working overseas, the client tasked Framestudio to design an extension to the house that would accommodate a swim spa and home gym. The challenge was that the scope of work was restricted to the addition only. Nothing else was to be touched. Wakely1015508R_copy.jpg?1539921977 "© David Wakely") © David Wakely Inspired by international historic preservation standards, Framestudio approached the existing home as if it were of subject to strict guidelines and unable to be significantly modified. The team established a visual language for the extension that contrasted with the existing home, creating a clear division between old and new. Inspired by modernist extensions to centuries old historic buildings in Europe, the Framestudio team created a dramatic angular glass volume, which we clad in weathered cedar, playing off the imagery of yard fences commonly found in suburban North America.  Floor plan  Section The vertical cedar rainscreen, contrasting against the horizontality of the ranch house, serves as both cladding and privacy screen for the openings that face the neighboring home. The northern facing windows fill the space with natural light, eliminating the need for artificial lighting during the day. The operable skylights and exterior pocket doors allow the space to be ventilated naturally on warm days. The exterior lap siding of the home was preserved inside the new space, and paired with new marine-grade plywood cladding, adding a rich textural visual experience. Linear LED lighting was recessed along the perimeter to wash the walls with illumination and highlight the plywood grain. Wakely1015509R_copy.jpg?1539921994 "© David Wakely") © David Wakely  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| HENN Selected to Redesign Europe's Largest Cultural Center Posted: 30 Oct 2018 06:00 AM PDT  Gasteig Cultural Center. Image Courtesy of MIR HENN Architekten have been selected to redesign the Gasteig, Europe's largest cultural center in Munich, Germany. The renovation and remodel aims to bring new life to the center after 30 years of use. Originally designed by the architecture partnership Raue, Rollenhagen, Grossmann and Lindemann, the Gasteig welcomes around two million visitors annually. The new design celebrates the building's role as a revered cultural hub and introduces a new glazed bridge to connect the existing parts of the building and bring transparency to the complex.  Gasteig Cultural Center. Image Courtesy of MIR The new glass redesign opens the Gasteig up to city, affording perspectives of the inner vibrancy of the building, and welcomes visitors and staff alike to be part of the city's cultural life. This "Kulturbühne" (Cultural Stage) simultaneously acts as the leitmotif and generates the identity of the new Gasteig, while its transparent, glazed and open architecture stands in deliberate contrast to the monolithic and mineral-like character of the existing building.  Gasteig Cultural Center. Image Courtesy of MIR Following the idea of "ONE" Gasteig, the new Culture Stage extends both horizontally and vertically as a spatial continuum through all the sections of the Gasteig. The Cultural Stage functions simultaneously as a circulation node, foyer, exhibition space and an event area. It provides both visitors and staff with clear orientations and short routes between all of the building's functions. Regardless of its use, the Cultural Stage gives each element its own anchoring and individual identity, be it the Philharmonic, the Carl Orff Auditorium, the library or the Munich Volkshochschule.  Gasteig Cultural Center. Image Courtesy of MIR The Carl Orff Auditorium was designed to be a flexible space within the Gasteig to host ballets, concerts, and theatre performances. The flexibility of the space is achieved by the machine powered lifting platforms under the stage. Used at a single level with a gradation of platforms, the venue will be able to accommodate different stage types with different maneuvers, accommodating up to 1,000 people.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Synagogue and Community Center NBI / Nicolas Loi Posted: 30 Oct 2018 05:00 AM PDT  © Marcos Mendizabal
 © Marcos Mendizabal Text description provided by the architects. The Project is a Synagogue and Community Center for the NBI Community, and it includes a Synagogue, Offices and Meeting Rooms for religious and cultural activities. It houses all the activities of the Community, generally meetings and gatherings of about 300-400 people.  © Marcos Mendizabal  Scheme  Diagram Fabrication Lattices  © Marcos Mendizabal The design concept behind the building is to create a synagogue where its construction materializes through a unique design concept that answers the functional, symbolic and environmental requirements. In that sense, the synagogue is designed with 3 elements: a steel structure with diagonal elements that supports the building, a glass façade that gives transparency, luminosity and lightness, and a set of wooden louvers that brings solar control to the interior of the space. This 3 elements generate a three dimensional stained glass, giving natural light to the space and creating a symbolic relationship with the triangular shapes of the David´s Star. This stained glass gets lighted at twilight, when the jewish celebration of Shabbath starts and ends.  © Marcos Mendizabal  Basement Plan  Sections The building is at the same time a religious and an institutional one; it houses in a single design solution all the functional necessities such as offices and meeting rooms, and at the same time the more religious activities.  © Marcos Mendizabal The materials used are concrete in all the walls of the ground floor, for a more abstract and rustic appearance, and over this area two steel structures: one with metal louvers that houses the second floor offices and the other one with wooden louvers that houses the synagogue.  © Marcos Mendizabal  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Peter Zumthor's Rammed Concrete Retreat for Living Architecture Nears Completion in England Posted: 30 Oct 2018 04:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Living Architecture Living Architecture has published photographs of the Peter Zumthor-designed "Secular Retreat" as it nears completion in Chivelstone, Devon. The retreat will be the Pritzker Prize-winning architect's first permanent building in the UK. The dramatic, layered concrete and glass retreat is the seventh commission in the Living Architecture series, "designed by leading artists and architects in distinctive, unique sites across England.  Courtesy of Living Architecture Situated in the South Devon hills, the horizontally-emphasized scheme is constructed of hand-rammed concrete forms on both interior and exterior spaces. The retreat continues Zumthor's tradition of thoughtful and timeless architecture, sitting in the place of a ruined timber house constructed in the 1940s.  Courtesy of Living Architecture
 Courtesy of Living Architecture The landscape and garden are central to Zumthor's concept, with landscaping by Devon-based Rathbone Partnership comprising of 5,000 local species of trees and shrubs. The scheme's horizontal form has been sculpted to frame views of this extensive landscaping, and the broader natural context in all directions.  Courtesy of Living Architecture The house will accommodate up to ten people with five bedrooms across two wings. A central, large, open plan living space binds the two wings, created from continuous ribbons of layered concrete set against stone floors, with each slab cut to a different size to reflect the raw material sourced from a regional quarry.  Courtesy of Living Architecture The bedrooms are simple in form, representing a "large carved niche in the concrete fabric." Pearwood timber floors lead to full height and width windows overlooking the valleys, while en-suite bathrooms continue the language of stone and rammed concrete. To bring a sense of warmth to the scheme, carefully crafted joinery in doors, inset shelves, wardrobes, and kitchen furniture is all made from apple and cherry woods.  Courtesy of Living Architecture Architect: Atelier Peter Zumthor News via: Living Architecture  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Apartment in Gracia / Kahane Architects + Maria Alarcón Posted: 30 Oct 2018 03:00 AM PDT  © José Hevia
 © José Hevia Text description provided by the architects. The project reinterprets the spatial conception of a typical apartment from the beginning of last century in Barcelona. A space full of interior rooms, doors and halls, which does not adapt to the current needs of a living space.  © José Hevia The strategy of the project is based on recovering and revaluing the original elements of the apartment, contrasting them with a minimalistic intervention. Elements like the original hydraulic floor tiles and high ceilings with the catalan vault are exposed and given an important visual role.
 © José Hevia The project allows to unify the space around a single piece of furniture that articulates the two main rooms of the house: a living-dining-kitchen and a bedroom-study. The annexation of these two spaces allows good cross ventilation on east-west axis.
This unique piece allows us to respond to multiple problems and define a new way of seeing, using and living the space.  © José Hevia The furniture is adjusted to the different needs of the program and activates the adjacent spaces, providing it with different uses, simultaneously accommodating storage spaces, kitchen, dressing room and bookcase. The materiality chosen - oak wood - contrasts with the original elements and marks the intervention.  © José Hevia Concentrating the intervention in a single volume on the interior of the floor plan, allows to completely free the perimeter and create a large, open space, flexible and suitable for the current needs of a living space.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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