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- Snøhetta Designs New Danube River District for Budapest
- Housing Greencity, Building Plot A1 / EM2N
- Dunhuang Tourism Distributing Center / BIAD-ZXD ARCHITECTS
- Forsyning Helsingør Operations Center / Christensen & Co. Architects
- House for Architectural Heritage / Noura Al Sayeh & Leopold Banchini Architects
- Second Stage of Hangzhou Yunqi Town Exhibition Centre / Zhejiang University Urban-Rural Planning&Design Institute
- Smart Innovation Learning Center / NEILI LAB
- House in Takatsuki / Shogo ARATANI Architect & Associates
- MH Creative Studio / Xiamen Himalaya Design & Decoration
- RH House / Metric Arquitectos
- STEPS Dance Academy / SKETCH
- Jardin D’hiver / FMAU
- Canada’s Largest Net Zero Energy Building Opens in Ontario
- Baleia House / Tavora Dainese Arquitetura
- Apple is Building a $1 Billion Campus in Austin, Texas
- Channing School Performing Arts Centre / BuckleyGrayYeoman
- The Top 10 New Skyscrapers of 2018
- Building of Pintor Mir / Rovira Cuyàs Arquitectes
- Algiers Road / Gruff
| Snøhetta Designs New Danube River District for Budapest Posted: 25 Dec 2018 08:00 PM PST  Budapest South Gate Masterplan. Image Courtesy of Filippo Bolognese, Snøhetta Snøhetta has won the competition to create a new neighborhood connected to the Danube River in Budapest. The brief asked for innovative proposals for 12,000 students along with educational, recreational and sports facilities. The South Gate masterplan for the 135-hectare site in the Hungarian capital focuses on urban relations and connects the new city quarter to the water to create a strong identity. Aspiring to create a lively, diverse and colorful new urban quarter, the project aims to create a lively waterfront for the people of Budapest.  Budapest South Gate Masterplan. Image Courtesy of Filippo Bolognese, Snøhetta The South Gate Peninsula site focuses on water as the main design element. The design features channels reaching far into the new district that connect to the Danube River. "It boldly accepts the challenge of developing a new neighborhood in Budapest that does not yet exist. It captures the opportunities of the area – offered by water, green belts and the characteristics of an island", the jury stated.  Budapest South Gate Masterplan. Image Courtesy of Filippo Bolognese, Snøhetta Besides the new public urban spaces along the river front, the park landscape offers recreational areas and sports facilities. The fluvial landscape enhances the biodiversity of the city quarter and provides for water treatment. All parts of the urban fabric are given strong identities, relating to each other and resulting in a resilient, colorful and vibrant new district of Budapest – the South Gate Peninsula. News via Snøhetta  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Housing Greencity, Building Plot A1 / EM2N Posted: 25 Dec 2018 07:00 PM PST  © Damian Poffet
 © Damian Poffet Text description provided by the architects. The elongated plot A forms the start to the new urban district 'Greencity' and is strongly influenced by the neighbouring street and railway. We used this essentially ʻimpossible situationʼ as the impulse to develop a narrow, elongated building with an expressive character that can develop a sense of identity.  © Damian Poffet The unique geometry of the site leads to mostly east-west facing apartments which are all connected by means of a ʻstreet in the airʼ to the communal room and the shared roof garden. The building is massively constructed using a wall and slab system. The motif of interwoven vertical and horizontal bands produces depth and a feeling of volume. In combination with windows of different sizes this leads to a facade composition that is richly varied, yet also calm.  © Damian Poffet  Cross Sections  © Damian Poffet The ground floor is used for commercial functions. It takes up the robust nature of the street and the railway line and is made as a concrete plinth. The passageways leading through the building and the entrances located in them are announced by metal framing. The communal space and the 'street in the air' can be read in the façade through their generously sized window openings.  © Damian Poffet  4th floor plan  © Damian Poffet  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Dunhuang Tourism Distributing Center / BIAD-ZXD ARCHITECTS Posted: 25 Dec 2018 06:00 PM PST  © Zhi Xia
 © Zhi Xia Text description provided by the architects. The Dunhuang Tourism Distributing Center, located on the south side of Yangguan Avenue, as the must pass to enter the city of Dunhuang. This project is the "Portal" of Dunhuang tourism.  © Zhi Xia  Section 1  © Zhi Xia It is an artificial building in the desert, so there should have inherent correlation between its shape and the sand dune. Because of this consideration, architect designed this project adopts the same color as the sand dune, and the slope of the roof is also as gentle as the sand dune. In this way, it can easily attract tourists to come here for experience and leisure.  © Zhi Xia The main building is divided into four individual blocks according to the functions of comprehensive service, office, food service and tourism display. They are in contact with each other, in a semi-enclosed community-style layout, and embrace visitors from afar. The earth-yellow stone of the external facade is in concert with the local style. The opening embedded in the heavy stone is carved into a powerful geometric figure by the sun.  Rendering. Image Courtesy of BIAD - ZXD ARCHITECTS In the interior of the building, a grotto-like space experience similar to that of the Mogao Grottoes is used. In the scorching summer days, visitors enter into this mysterious space formed by large roof and thick wall. The sun comes through which creates a feeling of being in the grotto. This kind of space metaphor is not only the response to the local hot natural environment, but also the reproduction of the body experience given by the Mogao Grottoes, which finally presents the Dunhuang impression.  © Zhi Xia  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Forsyning Helsingør Operations Center / Christensen & Co. Architects Posted: 25 Dec 2018 05:00 PM PST  © Niels Nygaard
 © Niels Nygaard Text description provided by the architects. The design for Helsingør Power Plant´s new HQ supports the narrative about the municipality's sustainable supply technologies – from wastewater treatment to energy and waste handling. The project comprises the Cube and Operating Facilities, two buildings that will stand adjacent to the power plant with its distinctive architecture. The facility forms a protective shield around the central working area while screening the surroundings from noise.  © Niels Nygaard The Cube is a rusty-red building clad in corteen steel that corresponds with the colors of the surroundings. Inside the building opens up a space for interdisciplinary collaboration. The ground floor houses administrative functions, a customer centre, and an exhibition area, organized around an atrium, where daylight flows from large skylights. From the customer centre on the ground floor, there are views to the entire building.  Level 0  Level 2 On a balcony above the customer centre, there is a lounge and canteen, while offices are placed on the top floors. The Operating Facilities house all operations and has simple lean-to roofs for garages; here the storage areas are built around an open courtyard.  © Niels Nygaard  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House for Architectural Heritage / Noura Al Sayeh & Leopold Banchini Architects Posted: 25 Dec 2018 04:00 PM PST  © Dylan Perrenoud
 © Dylan Perrenoud Text description provided by the architects. The house for Architectural Heritage houses the archival collection of sketches and drawings by the architect John Yarwood, as well as serving as an exhibition space for architecture exhibition. The project is conceived as a beam structure that frames the existing adjacent walls of the two neighbouring buildings, serving as a showcase for the architectural heritage of the city, the old as well as the new.  © Dylan Perrenoud  Sections / Elevations  © Dylan Perrenoud The building is an intrinsic expression of the urban condition of the plot, offering an x-ray view into the urban form of the city and revealing the different phases of construction that the city has witnessed. The two main facades contain two sliding doors that can be lifted within the height of the beam, opening the exhibition space to the streets, and transforming the building into a public passage. The exhibition space becomes one with the street encouraging more public participation. The project addresses through its architectural conception the challenges of creating cultural spaces that hold a more participatory approach to local communities. By providing a space that can be completely opened on to the streets, in a neighbourhood that houses communities that often feel excluded, the project attempts to provide a new exhibition typology.  © Dylan Perrenoud By carefully inserting itself within a tight urban fabric, conserving the "found" state of the inner walls, the project freezes an urban condition that is often transient within the fast pace of development in the city. The building is built in reinforced concrete, with a beam that spans the 26m width of the plot, linking both sides of the street. The reinforced concrete is juxtaposed to the other building materials of the city, coral stone, coral stone rubble and block work. The concrete structure is thermally insulated, while the internal space is shielded from direct sunlight, considerably reducing the need for cooling.  © Dylan Perrenoud  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 25 Dec 2018 03:00 PM PST  © Lianping Mao
 Bird View. Image © Lianping Mao Text description provided by the architects. The project lies in the birthland of this characteristic town - Yunqi Town, Hangzhou. To actively embrace imagination, a once unfinished industrial park has now become a technology hub of cloud computing, big-data and artificial intelligence. The 'Yunqi Conference' held in autumn every year has become the largest scientific and technological fiesta. Oddly, the conference was held outdoors several years in a roll simply because of the 'impropriety' of available venues.  Rooftop Park . Image © Lianping Mao Of course, by no means does 'impropriety' suggest those venues were inferior in terms of size or grade, it's just that the conference founders didn't want people's imagination to be constrained by a venue. Therefore, as the designers of the exhibition center, we tended not to follow past experience or the 'desire to go big'. We want to make breakthroughs from its origin instead of constructing another generic exhibition center.  Completely open space. Image © Lianping Mao By nature, an exhibition center is a vehicle for urban cultural life. In fact, exhibition centers in China tend to adopt a pompous design, being pinned with the hope that dimensions and unique looks could fully highlight the ambition of a city. However, from the perspective of an individual, these features often intimidate and discourage people.  © Lianping Mao Therefore, in the process of designing the first-stage of Yunqi Exhibition Center in 2015, we came up with an atypical exhibition center design that abandoned specific models and so-called sense of ceremony. We contrast the refreshingly concise exterior with a blurred boundaries, which opened up the space and made it accessible for everyone.  © Lianping Mao The free and open experiences epitomize the town's atmosphere, giving every visitor a sense of belonging and joy. In leisure time, large numbers of people come here every day to take a walk, rest, meet up and play around. Everywhere you can see their presence. There are even spontaneous shows going on. Therefore, the building turned from a makeshift structure (from design to completion it took only three months, original plan was to tear it apart afterwards) into a permanent building representing the entrepreneurial spirit of the town.  Rock Climbing . Image © Lianping Mao Two years later, in 2017, due to the increased scale of 'Yunqi Conference', a three-times larger second-stage Yunqi exhibition center was to be constructed opposite to the first-stage structure. Just when everyone expected an even larger 'iconic' building, we designed it as a short '3D park'. There was no modelling to begin with. It didn't even strike people as a building. The plan caused instant controversy and opposition. However, hidden behind it was our reimagination of urban large-scale public building design paradigm, which had already gone above and beyond an exhibition center itself.  © Lianping Mao Today, almost every city owns an exhibition center, which requires the support of a huge amount of urban resources. However, only few people know that even the busiest exhibition centers merely have a usage rate of 40%, meaning that they lie idle at least 200 days a year. The usage rate of most other exhibition centers is below 10%.  © Lianping Mao On the other side, the inertial thinking and typical characters of traditional exhibition centers make them hard to be utilized in any other ways, causing a huge waste of resources invisibly. As such, we start to question ourselves: is it possible to facilitate ordinary people's life on the premise of fulfilling the original functions of an exhibition center? Can higher resource utilization rate be achieved, by sharing the same body with other types of urban public facilities or by integration of some sorts?  © Lianping Mao Consequently, we first decided to reduce the building's huge size, in order to dampen its 'aggressiveness', compressing this 66,000 square meters mega-structure to merely 6.6 meters tall. It presents itself as a huge low rooftop covered in lawn, giving it as low a profile as possible and attracting people to approach it. All around the building sit a multitude of gentle grassy slopes, and thus the whole roof appears to be an extension of the horizon, openly welcoming people to walk onto the rooftop. In comparison to raising up the building and returning the bottom level to the public in the first-stage design, the second stage design returns all the land occupied by the building to the public, in a more intriguing and environmentally-friendly '3D park' manner.  Bird View. Image © Lianping Mao  © Lianping Mao Looking at both designs, one is 'light' and the other is 'heavy'. People enter from the bottom of one building, then exit on top of the other without realizing it. A harmonious and interesting dialogue is thusly initiated at the same site. In order to control the height of the roof so that people can easily access, the design embedded one-third of the 9-meter-high exhibition hall underground, which makes people walk down when entering the venue. This has created a strong contrast from the ceremonial large step of the previous convention centers. The building almost filled the entire second phase due to the low building height, and both building density and greening ratio break through the existing design specifications (even if the roof was covered with green land, it could only convert 20% of the total greening demand). This idea has once again suffered a huge controversy, and for several times we were asked to overthrow and redo the building. .jpg?1537425713 "axonometry. Image © Lianping Mao") axonometry. Image © Lianping Mao Fortunately, this era is open to imagination, so as the various government departments of Yunqi Town, Xihu District and Hangzhou City. They are willing to accept the imagination and listen to the architect's ideas, even more willing to create greater benefits for people's lives. Under the concerted efforts, this "death-penalty" plan passed the various approvals in a reasonable and compliant manner.  Rooftop Football Field. Image © Lianping Mao The rooftop isn't just a park. We also introduced ten-odd types of fun-having facilities such as football field, watchtower, sand pit, studio theatre, roller skating platform, community vegetable garden, pavilion and hopscotch, all of which are joined by a 760 meters long winding rooftop runway. All these seemingly non-exhibition-center-related designs attract numerous top-level conferences to be held here. On some ordinary days, large numbers of people come here to exercise, rest and play around. With spontaneous community activities such as township concert, football match, carnival and marathon going on, the exhibition center has become the place for workers and inhabitants of the town on a daily basis.  Rooftop Running Track. Image © Lianping Mao  © Lianping Mao We also preinstalled a large number of ports beneath the lawn. Should people possess interesting ideas, they can simply uncover the lawn and plug in like LEGO. The free development of the building and activities taking place here can both benefit from this. We wish this building would never limit the imagination of its users.  © Lianping Mao  Mobile mini cabins. Image © Lianping Mao Today everyone is talking about interconnecting and sharing, but it appears that all the connections are virtual connections, and all the sharings are alternate sharings. We are living in an age of extremely advanced social networking, but the opportunities for people to truly get to know each other are fewer and fewer. We are in an age of 'universal interconnection', and we are ignoring the quintessential interconnection——interconnection between people. We wish to design this attractive open place to encourage people to get out of their home and their office and come to this park to embrace nature. We wish people could meet here and develop all sorts of interesting stories.  People chilling and exercising on the rooftop . Image © Lianping Mao  © Lianping Mao The rooftop park extends all the way to the sink-style square at the main entrance, in conjunction with half-enclosing stairs, creating a round-the-clock studio theatre. In the corner, previously monotonous freight ramp has been redesigned into an undulated origami shape. People utilize it in all sorts of ways - a roller-skate platform for the youngsters or a slide for kids.  Skating Court . Image © Lianping Mao The interior of the building no longer serves solely as an exhibition hall. Through integration of space and functions, we confer upon it a new property – 'Sports Warehouse'. In absence of a conference, the exhibition hall can be immediately transformed into facilities for a series of sports such as basketball, badminton, table tennis, fitness training and etc., with the addition of closet, showering and professional mechanical/electrical equipment, making it a hustling and bustling place every day. So much so that the demand is well in excess of its capacity.  Basement . Image © Lianping Mao  Basketball Camp . Image © Lianping Mao This is an unprecedented trial. Although it is roughly the same place and construction scale, the end result is not only an exhibition center but also the first public park and stadium for the town. Furthermore, it injects new vitality and infinite possibilities into the town. Looking back on the whole design, it has neither eye-catching exterior, nor complex and costly technique, nor obscure and esoteric ideas. The open, compound and civic design alone makes it the most popular place in town, maximizing the public value of urban resources behind the building. The design is an active imagination of and bold attempt at the urban public building design paradigm under the requirements of the new era. The project has come a long way, here is our special thanks to all the decision-makers and participants for your understanding, support and industrious contribution.  Section . Image © Lianping Mao  草坡上"窥视"室内的情侣. Image © Lianping Mao  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Smart Innovation Learning Center / NEILI LAB Posted: 25 Dec 2018 01:00 PM PST  © Wenjie Hu
 © Wenjie Hu Text description provided by the architects. The case is located on one of the roof top of Shanghai Ganquan Foreign Languages Middle School. It's a re-transformation case against the original flat-to-slope roof.This is from the designers' perspective, an innovative attempt on school space transformation, in which all space is different from the conventional classroom, so as to express the Ganquan School's smart innovation culture and spirit.  © Wenjie Hu Meanwhile, in order to maximize the smart innovative function , the space design is mainly focus on the main users (students). We follow the design concept of the "hidden education" (ie, children's psychology, behavior & cognitive science etc.) and emphasize this point on all the design elements, thus to create the most appropriate smart innovative environment.  Floor plan Transformation Background  © Wenjie Hu Design Concept  Concept figure Dense columns seem just like trees in the forest. We cleverly combined them with the room, the furniture and all the public spaces in order to create an interesting green learning space with rich experiences. This design concept also reflects the harmony between human being and the nature.  © Wenjie Hu Columns and "Cubes"  © Wenjie Hu Columns and Furniture  © Wenjie Hu The Entrance and the Exhibition Hall  © Wenjie Hu "Innovation Cubes"  © Wenjie Hu The Gaps among "the Cubes"  © Wenjie Hu Water Tank！Water Tank? Water Tank!  © Wenjie Hu International interactive kitchen  © Wenjie Hu Historical Remains  © Wenjie Hu "Soft" Implantation of the Knowledge  © Wenjie Hu  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House in Takatsuki / Shogo ARATANI Architect & Associates Posted: 25 Dec 2018 12:00 PM PST  © Shigeo Ogawa
 © Shigeo Ogawa Text description provided by the architects. The architectural program for this project was to rebuild a house in a residential subdivision developed about forty years ago. Many houses from that era remain in the neighborhood today, and this new structure follows their lead in terms of the shape of the roof, color of the exterior walls, and other elements of the overall form. Looking at these older buildings, one notices that the one-meter-wide margin of space around them that is required by setback regulations is typically a simple gap used for storage or to house utility pipes or appliances such as air conditioning units. Even when the setback is wider, the orientation of the properties often means that large windows in neighboring houses look out on these open spaces, making privacy difficult to obtain.  © Shigeo Ogawa  Floor plans  © Shigeo Ogawa On this property, the longer sides of the lot were particularly exposed to neighboring houses. We responded not by widening the exterior gap but instead by bringing the edges of the building right up to the setback lines and including a buffer zone on the inner side of the exterior walls, thus distancing the living spaces from neighboring properties. On the ground level, the buffer zone consists of a concrete-floored entryway extended around part of the perimeter so that it enwraps the living spaces. The buffer zone on the upper level consists of a veranda enclosed by sliding paper screens (shoji) that shield the space from view but still allow light to pass through, creating an ambiguous sense of separation from the adjacent houses. In several places, the screens are interrupted by wooden doors that push out at the bottom, letting in breezes while maintaining privacy.  Perspective Section While relationships with the surrounding community are important in housing developments, privacy is also essential. In this project, the buffer zones serve as that point of distancing and connection; by locating them inside, it was our intention to create a surplus zone beyond the areas essential for daily life. Meanwhile, the core living spaces are covered by a single large roof with skylights running all along its length. These skylights admit an even sunlight to the entire house, including the main room, kitchen, study, and even the bathrooms.  © Shigeo Ogawa  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| MH Creative Studio / Xiamen Himalaya Design & Decoration Posted: 25 Dec 2018 11:00 AM PST  © Xiaodong Xu
 © Xiaodong Xu Text description provided by the architects. MH Creative relocates the new office to the old factory of "YUAN HE TANG", a China Time-honored Brand in Quanzhou. When visitors come to the scene for the first time, they linger on the vicissitudes over years. Water traces are mottled on the walls. Light spots, projected by the round holes of the canopy, play hide-and-seek between the beams and columns. In an instant, an impulse is triggered so as to wake up the sleeping spatial memory, inject new vitality, and let it continue and grow.  © Xiaodong Xu The design conforms to the original spatial pattern and follows the two axes. When going up via the elevator, guest arrival axis is paved. The white rock slab countertop at the foreground extends into the steel ladder box into the sidestep. Big Kaws doll sits on the sidestep, and meditates under the background of merciful Buddha statue not far away (a masterpiece by sculptor Jiang Sheng).  Second floor plan Pushing the steel barn door, the white rock slab continues to extend into a conference table. The light boxes, engraved on the wall, give hint on the structural logic of the mezzanine. The white boxes below light boxes are embedded in the tea table. The horizontal plate supports the glory of MH Creative for many years. Ascending step by step in the ladder box, stepping on the starlight projected from the perforated steel plate, following the steel-pipe handrails on both sides leading to the mezzanine, people can find that steel sidestep penetrates through ladder box to roll out a steel bridge, where they can overlook the composition and intersperse of spaces when leaning against the railing.  © SHEN PHOTO On the other axis, the opening and closing of the barn door are connected with Design Department and Director's Office. Vertical dimension is further stretched by longitudinal light box and the tube groove. The bottom bookshelf is free to rotate so that the opening and closing of the two parallel spaces radiate ritual significance. The steel bridge is connected to one end of the inner gallery through the mezzanine, while one end of the inner gallery is vaulted externally. In this way, top and bottom are in stark contrast and look interesting.  © SHEN PHOTO The space is made of perforated hot-rolled steel plate. The surface of the hot-rolled steel plate is mottled and slightly soft, which highlights the industrial properties of the old building in the past. The enclosure and stepping of the ladder box are all made of U-shaped folded plates. Light-weight perforation is used to overshadow the heavy structure. Opening and closing of the bookshelf further changes the multi-dimensional perforation superposition, which looks thick or light under ink-like artistic conception.  © SHEN PHOTO The daylight sun travels through the circular holes in the canopy. At night, lights diffract into a fantasy. The patina on the wall is lightly polished and lightly sprayed to make the vague and dim water stains of the house. The wainscot is applied with the previous lacquer brushing process. The ground terrazzo mirrors the memory of former days.  © SHEN PHOTO The designer expects to re-architect the space and infuse new design elements in order to rejuvenate the old building.  © SHEN PHOTO  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 25 Dec 2018 09:00 AM PST  © Ivan Ortiz y Santiago Robayo
 © Ivan Ortiz y Santiago Robayo Text description provided by the architects. This single family home is located just on the outsides of Cali Colombia, in a recently occupied area; due to this, it lacks of a clear architectural environment couldn't allow to make reference of a typological or formal resource exposed in nearby architecture.  © Ivan Ortiz y Santiago Robayo From this fact, and after having acknowledged the program required by the family, it’s decided to propose a house that refers to certain forms and typologies that worked well in the city with architects such as Borrero Zamorano and Giovanelli in the decades of the 50s, 60s and 70s of the last century.  © Ivan Ortiz y Santiago Robayo After having made decisions regarding the use and implementation in the property, three basic concepts appear in the overall composition of the architectural project:  © Ivan Ortiz y Santiago Robayo  Section A-A'  © Ivan Ortiz y Santiago Robayo  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 25 Dec 2018 08:00 AM PST  © Fernando Alda
 © Fernando Alda Text description provided by the architects. STEPS is a dance academy based in Panama City since 1986. It is located in an industrial warehouse that has been transformed to house several classrooms suitable for multi-discipline dance activities and related workouts such as pilates and yoga. SKETCH has been tasked with the renovation of the building's top floor, formerly used as a gym, to be transformed into two full-size performing halls, two pilates workout studios, toilets, and changing rooms.  © Fernando Alda The project was approached as a low cost intervention that aims to enhance the spatial qualities of the space, smartly understanding the height limitation set by the double pitched roof, and locating auxiliary areas at the edges, such as viewing and staging areas. The main performing hall is housed in the middle of the floor plan, accessible by two staircases that lead to multiple spaces within the top level, allowing for uninterrupted access to all the performing areas by the students, and direct access to the studios by visitors. This main hall also serves as a gathering space for the more than one hundred students enrolled in the dance school.  Section A  Section B In the absence of natural light, the studio is illuminated by several rows of lamps that bring a bright and uniform ambience light to the space. A mirror clad surrounding wall helps increase the visual perception of the space and aid in the teaching of dance abilities while subtle color accents have been used in some of the elements such as the solution designed to hang the lamps, storage cabinets and seating areas.  © Fernando Alda  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 25 Dec 2018 06:00 AM PST  © Antoine Espinasseau
 © Antoine Espinasseau Text description provided by the architects. The violent debate between scholarly and popular culture that inflamed architects and the general public is at stake in the Winter Garden project. On the one hand, an open-minded project management, very attentive to the integration in the near environment. And on the other hand, urban regulations based on a local mimetic town plan with generic subdivision bylaw.  © Antoine Espinasseau Originally, the building site was located nearby a park of the eighteenth century, a manor house and a magnificent kennel of the seventeenth. These elements has fed the project all long the design process. The drawing of the impasse came after, in the last sketches, because the site has been reconverted as an housing estate, growing years after years. The house was uncompromising suburban.  Axo The Winter Garden is based on square plan, whose the frame is irregular; the four posts are anchored at four meters depth in the clay soil. On that plan, the sequences of everyday life are separated.  © Antoine Espinasseau The four corners are individual spaces including the parents' room, the children's room, the mother's psychoanalysis room and the father's studio. There are split apart by a large common room, north / south / east / west oriented. It is somehow a neutral area, open to discussion, maintaining distance between the individual rooms.  © Antoine Espinasseau As the house has no outdoor terrace on the ground level and as it is a ground level house, a hanging winter garden enable the immersion in the landscape. The winter garden is located on the ceiling of the large common room creating the fifth opening of that space. It connects the kitchen with cedar.  Detail In several months, the park has become a subdivision.  © Antoine Espinasseau  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Canada’s Largest Net Zero Energy Building Opens in Ontario Posted: 25 Dec 2018 05:00 AM PST  The Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation. Image © Ema Peters via B+H Architects Canada's largest net-zero energy building has opened in Hamilton, Ontario. The Joyce Centre for Partnership and Innovation at Mohawk College was designed by B+H and McCallum Sather Architects to embody environmental technologies aimed at reducing the building's carbon footprint. The Joyce Centre is one of 16 pilot projects selected by the Canada Green Building Council's new Zero Carbon Building Standard. A net-zero footprint facility, the building was made to demonstrate Mohawk's vision to be a center for environmental leadership.  The Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation. Image © Ema Peters via B+H Architects Conceived as a living lab on sustainability, the new 96,000 square-foot Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation is the future home to the Center for Climate Change Management. Located at the college's Fennell campus, the project builds on Mohawk's applied research strengths in three focus areas: health, energy and technology. Leveraging existing and new partnerships, the space focuses on technologically advanced learning and lab spaces, all under one roof. The Joyce Center includes state-of-the-art labs, workshops, lecture theaters, and industry training centers. The $54 million project is powered by solar energy,  The Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation. Image © Ema Peters via B+H Architects  The Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation. Image © Ema Peters via B+H Architects Organized around a large, light-filled atrium, the building's classrooms, co-working spaces and laboratories are made as modular spaces and flexible learning environments. The building features locally sourced materials and a double-wall system designed to maximize natural light and regulate the interior climate. The project was also made with 28 geothermal wells to tap into a clean renewable energy source. According to Joanne McCallum, CEO of McCallum Sather Architects, the Centre celebrates the City's industrial heritage, but also demonstrates the city's shift towards creativity and innovation which "drives Hamilton forward".  The Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation. Image © Ema Peters via B+H Architects Lisa Bate, Principal Architect at B+H, expressed that the focal point of the project was designing "the building as an educator". Up top, 2000 solar panels were installed on a set of "wings" to support the building's net-zero performance. The design also features a rainwater harvesting system where the runoff is collected by two below-ground cisterns that can supply the building's water needs. At its core, the center will serve as a living laboratory for students as they learn to manage and maintain the building's systems. News via Urban Toronto  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Baleia House / Tavora Dainese Arquitetura Posted: 25 Dec 2018 04:00 AM PST  © Evelyn Muller
 © Evelyn Muller Text description provided by the architects. The old beach house acquired by the customers was dismantled: a metallic structural reinforcement allowed replacement of walls in the ground floor social area by two metal pillars and glass doors, releasing the vision of the back and lateral gardens for who is inside the house.  © Evelyn Muller The enlargement of the house limits respected an existing huge tree, and was the hook for the second project’s movement: a side garden settle under the tree, with the dining room specially next to it.  1st floor plan The new backyard balcony, in suspended metallic structure, opens toward the existing tree and brings a lightness to the design.  © Evelyn Muller The tropical aesthetic of our landscape culture is well received by the hot and humid climate of são sebastião. Calateias, philodendros, heliconias and alpinias take protagonism in the landscape of the house.  © Evelyn Muller The sequence of open environments living-dining room- balcony-lawn-pool translates the contemporary use of spaces, a celebration of weekend gatherings.  © Evelyn Muller  © Evelyn Muller  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Apple is Building a $1 Billion Campus in Austin, Texas Posted: 25 Dec 2018 03:00 AM PST  Apple opened its Foster + Partners-designed campus in California in 2017. Image © Foster + Partners, ARUP, Kier + Wright, Apple Tech giant Apple has announced plans to build a $1 billion campus in Austin Texas, along with smaller facilities in Seattle, San Diego, and Culver City. The Austin plans, images of which have not been released, will see the creation of at least 5,000 jobs in the Southwestern city as house prices in the San Francisco Bay area begin to discourage creatives from Silicon Valley. Apple had announced plans for a second U.S. headquarters at the beginning of the year, as part of a $30 billion investment strategy. In 2017, it opened the Foster + Partners-designed Apple Park, pictured above. Austin currently hosts Apple's second-largest office in the U.S. handling customer service agents and some manufacturing facilities. The new campus, to be located one mile from this facility, will contain 3 million square feet of office space. In return for building the new facility, Apple is expected to receive up to $25 million from a jobs-creation fund in Texas, as reported by the Houston Chronicle. While significant, the figure is far below the $2.8 billion Amazon could receive in return for expanding its operations in New York, as well as the $750 million figure it could receive in Virginia. 2018 saw many architectural milestones for Apple, with the opening of Foster + Partners-designed Apple Stores in Milan and Macau. Among its many products of interest to architects is the new iPad Pro, which we recently published an opinion piece on. News of the campus comes weeks after Google revealed its revised plans for a North Bayshore Campus in California, focusing on the site's natural environment and affordable housing. News via: The Houston Chronicle  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Channing School Performing Arts Centre / BuckleyGrayYeoman Posted: 25 Dec 2018 02:00 AM PST  © Dirk Lindner
 © Dirk Lindner Text description provided by the architects. BuckleyGrayYeoman has completed an 8,500 sq ft Performing Arts Centre for Channing – an independent girls' school in Highgate London. The professional-standard facility has been designed to provide facilities for the teaching of both the dramatic arts and technical theatre skills, with rigging and lighting that can be configured and operated by school-age children, making the technical aspects of theatre production as much a part of the educational programme as the action on stage.  © Dirk Lindner  Ground Floor Plan Dirk_Lindner-BGY-CS002-6451-print.jpg?1545135900 "© Dirk Lindner") © Dirk Lindner The opening of the Performing Arts Centre marks the completion of BuckleyGrayYeoman's six-year spatial masterplan for Channing School, which has enabled the school to provide high-quality new sports facilities and sixth form accommodation on a tightly constrained site in the Highgate Conservation Area. Paul White, Director of BuckleyGrayYeoman, said:  © Dirk Lindner Channing School sits in a conservation area and the school campus has a strongly built heritage. The defining characteristic of the new building, a series of pitched roofs, creates a strong longitudinal emphasis to the building that harmonizes it with the school's listed Founders Hall. The grouping of the new buildings towards the southern end of the site in close proximity to the existing school has conserved the green landscaping and outdoor sports pitches to the north, strengthening the campus feel by arranging new and old buildings around a landscaped courtyard.  Section A  Sections B and C  Section D The Performing Arts Centre will be used both for rehearsal and performance and can be configured as either a 250 seat theatre or a 950 sq ft performance space overlooked by two tiers of gallery seating. A traditional proscenium stage sits at the end of an auditorium flanked by two stories of gallery seating. Movable banked seating facing the stage in the center of the room can be retracted in order to create a sunken floor area for different performance types or staging, giving the students and staff a highly flexible space for a variety of art practices. The theatre can be operated as a "black box" environment or naturally-lit by three-story-high windows that flood the space with natural light when the curtains are drawn. Dirk_Lindner-BGY-CS002-6434-print.jpg?1545135849 "© Dirk Lindner") © Dirk Lindner High-quality materials were chosen throughout the project. The predominant red brick material was selected in response to the architectural context within and around the site. The handmade bricks have a visually pleasing natural variegation of color and texture and enabled BuckleyGrayYeoman to create a number of special brick shapes to complete key building details such as the chamfered window reveals. Lime mortar was used to minimize the need for movement joints, resulting in a crafted, sculptural finish.  © Dirk Lindner  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Top 10 New Skyscrapers of 2018 Posted: 25 Dec 2018 01:00 AM PST  1: Lotte World Tower / Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates with Baum Architects. Image © Tim Griffith Emporis has announced the results of its annual Emporis Skyscraper Award, recognizing the best new supertall buildings completed in the previous year. This year, the top prize was given to the Lotte World Tower in Seoul, South Korea, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates and Baum Architects. The tapered tower, South Korea's tallest, also houses the world's highest glass-bottomed observation deck, for architects who can handle the 1820-foot (555-meter) drop. Since 2000, the award has recognized newly-completed skyscrapers according to aesthetic and functional design criteria. Below, we have rounded up the top ten towers recognized by Emporis, including schemes by Zaha Hadid Architects, UNStudio, and SOM, spanning the globe from Italy to China, the USA to Kenya. You can see the results in more detail from the official Emporis website here. 1: Lotte World Tower / Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates with Baum Architects 1: Lotte World Tower / Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates with Baum Architects. Image © Tim Griffith Location: Seoul, South Korea 2: Generali Tower / Zaha Hadid Architects 2: Generali Tower / Zaha Hadid Architects. Image © Hufton+Crow Location: Milan, Italy 3: 150 North Riverside / Goettsch Partners, Inc 3: 150 North Riverside / Goettsch Partners, Inc. Image © Tom Rossiter Location: Chicago, USA 4: Raffles City Hangzhou / UNStudio 4: Raffles City Hangzhou / UNStudio. Image © Hufton+Crow Location: Hangzhou, China 5: The Ellipse / Arquitectonica with Haines Lundberg Waehler 5: The Ellipse / Arquitectonica with Haines Lundberg Waehler. Image © Royce Douglas Location: Jersey City, USA 6: Azrieli Sharona / David Azrieli Group with Moshe Zur Architects and Town Planners Ltd. 6: Azrieli Sharona / David Azrieli Group with Moshe Zur Architects and Town Planners Ltd.. Image © Erez Gitai Location: Tel Aviv, Isreal 7: River Point / Pickard Chilton Architects, Inc. 7: River Point / Pickard Chilton Architects, Inc.. Image © Tom Rossiter Location: Chicago, USA 8: Ping An International Finance Center / Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates with China Construction Design International 8: Ping An International Finance Center / Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates with China Construction Design International. Image © Tim Griffith Location: Shenzhen, China 9: Arena Tower / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP 9: Arena Tower / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. Image © Erez Gitai Location: London, UK 10: Britam Tower / GAPP Architects Western Cape with Triad Architects 10: Britam Tower / GAPP Architects Western Cape with Triad Architects. Image © Samuel Ndegwa Location: Nairobi, Kenya News via: Emporis  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Building of Pintor Mir / Rovira Cuyàs Arquitectes Posted: 25 Dec 2018 12:00 AM PST  © Simón García
 © Simón García  Plans  © Simón García Text description provided by the architects. The building is located at “Plaza de Joaquim Mir”, number 2, belonging to Montornés del Vallés city, in Barcelona.  © Simón García It was originally designed by the architect Magí Rius in 1884, for school use. The construction phase was delayed, so it was not inaugurated until 1930.  Sections The building has a square floor. Two parts are identified. The first one, with a hipped roof, is developed on ground floor and first floor, in which the access and the nucleus of vertical communications are located. The second one, with a gable roof, corresponds to the rest of the building, and is developed only on the ground floor. A construction is attached to the rear façade, also covered with a gabled roof, which houses facilities and services rooms.  © Simón García The building’s façades are neoclassical style. The openings are generally distributed symmetrically with respect to the central axis of each of the façades, with a certain predominance of the mass with respect to the gap. The main access, framed by two attached pilasters, is in the central body crowned with a triangular pediment independent of the roof. A plinth and an upper cornice go around the perimeter of the rest of the building.  © Simón García The project proposes the internal redistribution of the building, to adapt it to its current use "Non-regulated teaching” and punctually as “Youth center”. A new ramp is pIanned at Pintor Mir Street access in order to make it accessible. The staircase at the rear façade is also modified, maintaining the original composition style. The lateral ramp and the exterior garden areas attached to the building remain unchanged.  © Simón García  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 24 Dec 2018 10:00 PM PST  © Ben Blossom
 © Ben Blossom Text description provided by the architects. Algiers Road is a contemporary rear extension by Gruff to an end-of-terrace family house in South London. The striking intervention of timber and concrete renovates and adds 30sqm to the Victorian home and was built for just over £160k.  © Ben Blossom  Ground floor plan  © Ben Blossom The client brief was for an enlarged living area with intimate family spaces that simultaneously allowed for entertaining all year round. Gruff's design plays with the idea of the hearth as the focal point of a home, using a duplication of this element to create a fluid connection between the garden and house - drawing the outdoors in, and the indoors out.  © Ben Blossom The concrete chimney duo became integral to the scheme and is a solid sculptural element at the centre the extension. This is surrounded by a charred larch cladding that seamlessly folds into the pergola and decking, creating a bold and distinctive profile and accentuating the concrete ribbon. The rear glazing is composed of sliding panels with minimal frames offering unobstructed long views through the house to the garden beyond.  © Ben Blossom The massing consciously exploited the stepped terrain along Algiers Road. This gave the design a generous eaves height along the higher boundary, and adhered to the height limitations to the lower boundary, leading to the resulting the saw-toothed roof profile.  Rear Elevation Inside the extension Gruff deliver a variety of beautifully designed spaces including a kitchen, dining area, quiet reading alcove and a sunken lounge area. A warm material palette combined with a series of level changes internally, consciously demarcates the open plan areas; with the deep-blue and polished concrete finishes giving an intimate yet contemporary feel.  © Ben Blossom Algiers Road delivers an extension that is inviting, open and multi-functional. With the outdoor decking and fireplace encouraging entertaining and relaxation long into the summer nights and the inside providing a variety of warm, flexible spaces for the family that feels spacious and connected to the outdoors.  © Ben Blossom Director of Gruff Rhys Cannon said of the project: There's something nice about the playful undulating roofscape coupled with the solid and grounded concrete hearths which stitch the two sides of the extension and garden together. Having completed the project and spoken to the clients about how they use their new space it's clear that their family evenings have been transformed by the outdoor concrete hearth, with the lighting of the fire and roasting of marshmallows becoming a favourite post dinner past-time. As they have spent time in the space they have started to notice all those small material details, junctions and subtle sculptural qualities which tie everything together from the inside to out. Although realising a well considered design is part of our job as architects,  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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