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- Laborde / PCA-STREAM
- BONUS / RENGARCH
- Opening Row House / Emerge Architects
- Canyon Studio / Tom Robertson Architects
- Kunshan Financial Street Phase I Complex / FTA Group GmbH
- PRV 843 Building / CH2 arquitectos
- World Architecture Festival Winner Shares Their Experience of the Event
- Art Will Save Architecture, According to Steven Holl
- Terraces of the Lake / Morph Studio
- Utzon UNBUILT Competition to Shed New Light on the Danish Master's Works - and Invites the Public to Take Part
| Posted: 29 Dec 2018 09:00 PM PST  © © Jean-Philippe Mesguen
_Salem_Mostefaoui_pour_PCA-STREAM.jpg?1545952103 "© © Salem Mostefaoui") © © Salem Mostefaoui Text description provided by the architects. The creation of the new headquarters of Gide, the top French international business law firm, is one of the most important redevelopments in Paris in recent years. Situated on Place Saint-Augustin, the headquarters embody the "metabolic" reconstruction of Paris within itself, as well as the creation of new corporate spaces for fostering collective intelligence. _Salem_Mostefaoui_pour_PCA-STREAM.jpg?1545951495 "© © Salem Mostefaoui") © © Salem Mostefaoui AN ARCHITECTURAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO BUILDINGS, TWO ERAS AND TWO FUNCTIONS _Jean-Philippe_Mesguen_pour_PCA-STREAM.jpg?1545951163 "© © Jean-Philippe Mesguen") © © Jean-Philippe Mesguen Between the two, acting as a link between heritage and modernity, there is a monumental pavilion designed as a place to exchange ideas and hold events. _Jean-Philippe_Mesguen_pour_PCA-STREAM.jpg?1545952037 "© © Jean-Philippe Mesguen") © © Jean-Philippe Mesguen HORIZONTALITY AND TRANSPARENCY AS CATALYSTS FOR COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE _Salem_Mostefaoui_pour_PCA-STREAM.jpg?1545951637 "© © Salem Mostefaoui") © © Salem Mostefaoui This is achieved thanks to vast open-plan floors, fluid circulation systems, glass offices and common areas (café, library, terraces), all set out around a veritable village square… As a result, Gide's 600 lawyers and other members of staff meet and interact more frequently, information circulates, and synergies are reinforced.  Section RECONNECTING WITH THE SKY AND NATURE  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 29 Dec 2018 06:00 PM PST  Front Facade. Image © Zhongrui Zhao
 Front Facade. Image © Zhongrui Zhao Text description provided by the architects. The project located on the walking street of Min Le Park in Xi'an. With the accommodation function in its higherfloors and the commercial function in the first and second floor, it miniatures today's street. As a brunch restaurant open to the street, we hope to discuss the "publicity" of our city through such a place and implant "open" and "sharing" into the space to make it an "urban lounge" today.  Axon Perspective Section Facade appreciating street in return  Exterior Facade. Image © Zhongrui Zhao "Urban Lounge"  Facade Interior View. Image © Zhongrui Zhao  Long Table Folded From the Facade. Image © Zhongrui Zhao The mezzanine situates above the bar, where visitors can overlook the lobby, and the mezzanine's design reinforces the intention of public hall as main space.  1F Lobby. Image © Zhongrui Zhao Gazing from the balcony  Mezzanine Level. Image © Zhongrui Zhao An image of the separation from reality is formed when dining surface is elevated from the ground and external sunlight shines in via the reflection of gray self-leveling flooring.  Mezzanine Level. Image © Zhongrui Zhao Long table folded from the facade  2F Platform. Image © Zhongrui Zhao  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Opening Row House / Emerge Architects Posted: 29 Dec 2018 03:00 PM PST  © Studio Millspace
 © Studio Millspace Text description provided by the architects. Averagely 220 wet days per year plus frequent typhoon landings, a newly reform area incorporating alleys exclusively designed for pedestrian activities, with the dwelling needs of urban lifestyle and wide age range. What is the housing reflecting Yilan's terroir and people?  © Studio Millspace Within 6*30m site, we propose three approaches in our design. First, by imputing an "Open Rain-sound Courtyard", which serves as the spatial core. Second approach was to develop the "relative high-rise" comparing to lower rural houses, each level is planned with a "three dimensional living patios", potted and functional for activities as well. Lastly, in the mid of a city lacking of open space, we aspire to elevate our rooftop garden as a new ground, suitable for watching the stars and listening to the ocean in urban solitude. "To Open and To Connect" is the strategy to answer the proposition.  A-A Section. Image Courtesy of Emerge Architects Ground level opened to the street: Originally the garage, now reassigned to be part of public arcade for passersby, also for activities in the rain season. Continuous courtyards: Each unit has a garden courtyard, with further plan linking them to form an ecological corridor.  © Studio Millspace  1F Plan  © Studio Millspace Back alley open space: Kitchens are opened to the back alley, or lively alley, comprising vegetable gardens and outdoor sinks. Culs-de-sac become a community space for neighborly events. Rain-sound open courtyard: Life and space both spread from the center courtyard, where to perceive Yilan's rain and the subtle change of season.  © Studio Millspace Atrium to connect spaces and activities: a continuous curvy ceiling, fir-wood plate molded concrete, makes up the atrium. The atrium connects kitchen-dining room on the first floor, living rooms, hallway library, and a 3.5 m-deep semi-outdoor space on the second floor. By connecting the spaces, the atrium also gathers the activities in the house. For house shrine on the third floor, 2-story high book wall and a tearoom on the fourth floor, another huge slope roof covers all. An open riser staircase ventilates the house vertically and exhales the heat out.  2F Plan Facing the road [outward], hollow brick façade gives a sense of ambiguity, and serves as frontier against typhoon. Facing courtyard and back alley [inward], vast openings let enjoyable sunshine and greenery in. Obscure outward but open inward, is a statement of attitude for new urban living. An ecological pond, a vegetable farm in the backyard and a roof garden with esculent growth, are the natural touches proposed in the urban life.  © Studio Millspace Metaphors and Symbols  © Studio Millspace  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Canyon Studio / Tom Robertson Architects Posted: 29 Dec 2018 01:00 PM PST  © Ben Hosking
 © Ben Hosking Text description provided by the architects. Canyon Studio is an exciting transformation of an existing warehouse shell, creating a contemporary boutique office space for a branding agency.  © Ben Hosking A new feature arch wall is a clear delineator, dividing the meeting rooms and kitchen on one side from the busy staff workspaces on the other. The clean, contemporary lines of the archway are strikingly juxtaposed with the industrial warehouse. Painted black, the original columns and exposed services become a backdrop, highlighting the white arch wall intervention.  © Ben Hosking Against this minimalist palette, the bold kitchen injects colour into the space. The strong blue creates a narrative thread between the contemporary additions; the kitchen and office carpet on the same side of the wall are graphically framed by the arch. Blue is used again in the bathroom grout, establishing a delicate continuity between the spaces.  © Ben Hosking  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Kunshan Financial Street Phase I Complex / FTA Group GmbH Posted: 29 Dec 2018 11:00 AM PST  © Real Estate Frontier
 © Real Estate Frontier Text description provided by the architects. Kunshan is adjacent to Shanghai and only 60 kilometers from the center of Shanghai. It is the closest satellite city to Shanghai.This vibrant city will play an important role in the integration of the Yangtze River Delta and the construction of the Shanghai metropolitan area.  Bird View. Image Courtesy of FTA Group GmbH The first phase of Kunshan Financial Street is located at the core of the new urban area in eastern Kunshan and is the most important gateway to Kunshan Financial Street.The project consists of 7 plots, of which 6 plots each have a high-rise bank office building, which is designed for the FTA.  © Real Estate Frontier  © Real Estate Frontier The office buildings are symmetrically arranged. The clubhouse is located on the central axis between the office buildings. The main facade of the building faces the main street and the ecological river. The detailed glass curtain wall node highlights the financial temperament.The design of the central square maintains a good spatial scale relationship between the building and the city.The square combines a partially sunken courtyard with water and paving organization to form a rich environment, which constitutes a complete commercial interface and will help Financial Street become a new landmark in the new city of eastern Kunshan.  Section Diagram The landscape design of Financial Street emphasizes the design concept of "green building, people-oriented".The project has a construction area of 260,000 square meters, and each high-rise building design meets the national three-star green logo.Sustainability strategies include optimal natural lighting and green landscapes: there is a sky garden on every two floors of the building, which provides a good resting place for office workers and also plays an ecological adjustment role for the building.  Master Plan The single building is designed according to the environmental conditions, the open space and the reasonable organization of the landscape sight to ensure that each building can obtain a better view of the landscape.The whole building is east-west oriented, and the modern and simple architectural style is coordinated with the surrounding environment. At the same time, it conforms to the grid modulus, is easy to control and easy to construct.  © Real Estate Frontier The interior design of the lobby and public areas has been chosen in a modern style. For example, the color of the front hall is selected from logs, grey and white, which conveys the temperament of the financial industry. At the same time, the design takes into account the elements of moving lines and light, and the design is concise. The main, taking into account the practical and experience, presents an office environment with a certain cultural taste.  © Real Estate Frontier  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| PRV 843 Building / CH2 arquitectos Posted: 29 Dec 2018 05:00 AM PST  © Aldo García
 © Aldo García Text description provided by the architects. In Colonia del Valle, a neighborhood located in Mexico City is found PRV 843, an exclusive apartment building. One of the main concerns of the project was to connect the life inside the building with its context. This was accomplished by the creation of a glassy front façade which allows having a direct relationship with the vegetated streets and a Jacaranda that ended up to be the main character.  © Aldo García As a result of the elongated proportions of the location, the building has 4 inner courtyards to provide natural light and ventilation to all inner rooms. The circulation core is situated at the center of the building, allowing to optimize the operation of it.  Level 1 Plan  © Aldo García  Section 1  © Aldo García To ensure the lighting inside the apartments, white was chosen to color the walls. The exposed concrete and steel elements build clean areas, while they contrast the wood warmth found in the building.  © Aldo García  Section 3  © Aldo García  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| World Architecture Festival Winner Shares Their Experience of the Event Posted: 29 Dec 2018 04:00 AM PST  Darren Soh. ImageKampung Admiralty / WOHA A month after the event, the various nominees of 2018's World Architecture Festival have returned to their home cities, leaving the fanfare of the year's event in Amsterdam as a memory. But that's not to say it's not left a lasting impact. The World Architecture Festival is, in many ways, unique among architecture awards programs. Nominees are global (as in many awards programmes) but are expected to attend the event to present and defend their projects in front of a jury. It is a process not dissimilar to that which many young architects experience in school. It also hinges on the notion that architecture is a communal practice, one in which we learn from each other's ideas and experiences, not from images. In the interview below, a representative of WOHA - the designers of this year's winning project - discusses the value of the World Architecture Festival, noting: "...it is a platform where we can share ideas. This is for the benefit of the wider community."  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Art Will Save Architecture, According to Steven Holl Posted: 29 Dec 2018 01:00 AM PST  Courtesy of Yudi Ela Award-winning architect Steven Holl has expressed his dismay of modern-day architecture to Metropolis Magazine. Although Steven Holl Architects (SHA) have recently won the design competition of a gateway building at University College Dublin, and have completed new buildings in London, Houston, Virginia, and Richmond this past year only, the architect is convinced that regardless of all the success, "it's not a great moment, there are a lot of bad architects".
According to Holl, design is not what it once was, as it lacks strength and discipline. Architects are no longer concerning themselves with space, instead they are invested in functionality and programs. His undying devotion to forms of art and traditional architecture practice is reflective in his studios and workflow. His offices are often swamped with models and sketches, inducing the same technique onto the architects and designers at his firm. A project begins with a series of watercolor sketches and is developed into a series of 3D models. This is when, according to the architect, you begin to develop the program and discover what it is ought to be, opposite to how people tend to practice architecture today. For over forty years, the architect has created structures based on the possibilities of experimenting with the complexities of geometry and transforming them into volumes and spaces. His approach has influenced his partners and wife to have the same design strategy, thinking of architecture as an art project, rather than a program or function. Holl has extended his design strategy to his New York premises, the 'T-Space' residency, where he implemented small houses, art galleries, and sculptures on a vast landscape. The 'T-Space' helped Holl capture the glory of his youth in New York City, when MoMA was as its peak, having a new exhibition every month, and bookstores and galleries were always around the corners of city. "My God, it was so inspiring, and now it's so not", declares the architect.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Terraces of the Lake / Morph Studio Posted: 29 Dec 2018 12:00 AM PST  © Héctor Santos-Díez
 © Héctor Santos-Díez “It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.”-Oscar Niemeyer.  © Héctor Santos-Díez This project is a project one dreams of building, without trusting it will come true. It was rejected several times for being risky and atypical. Fortunately, Inmoglaciar; the promoters, bet hard on it.  Scheme  © Héctor Santos-Díez According to the regulations, 75% of the façade had to be aligned with the site line and left us with only 25% to play. The first approach was a curved joint between two aligned facades. If the regulations had forced us to align a 100% then we would not be talking about “Terrazas del Lago”. On the contrary, if the project had been given more freedom then it would have become riskier and probably it would not have seen the light.  © Héctor Santos-Díez The deep crisis in which we were sunk in Spain completely changed the focus of the real estate sector. The concept of housing was re-defined. An empowered client was heard, after many years of being in the background; plotting bigger and more attractive houses with large terraces.  © Héctor Santos-Díez  Plan  © Héctor Santos-Díez We responded to these conditions by orienting the building towards a big park at the southern end of the plot; achieving conveniently for most of the housing, huge terraces with views you cannot put a price on. This compositional vector gives the building a coastal aspect, almost nautical. Like the buildings that overlook the sea, Terrazas del Lago grew under the influence of a focal point.  © Héctor Santos-Díez The curve of the corner is transferred to the terraces; along with a slight inclination of the breastplate, for its softest and most organic finish. It resonates in every detail, from gardening to the design of the dividing wall.  © Héctor Santos-Díez As per this criteria, a facade of heterogeneous texture was designed, breaking the typical paradigm of horizontal bands.  © Héctor Santos-Díez The team that intervened on behalf of Inmoglaciar, Avintia and Morph was really exceptional and they took it personally to materialize a new icon in Madrid's sky. The support of the promoter and Porcelanosa to make the façade with Krión was also vital. It is one of the first buildings in Madrid with A energy rating, and it incorporates an interior layout that optimizes the rooms, solving almost all the curves on account of the terraces that give the project its name.  © Héctor Santos-Díez It has been about 7 years since the first sketches with very few expectations of materializing. In this time I have learned that if you have an idea and you protect it, if you embrace it with force, if you surround yourself with a team that makes the idea their own, it ends up becoming reality; and when that happens, you see that all the steps that have been taken were necessary and they make up a great puzzle in which you are just a small piece. In that moment, you remember why you are an architect.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2018 11:00 PM PST  Jorn Utzon's name is, for most people, tied inextricably to his most famous work: the Sydney Opera House. Completed in 1973, the project was named a World Heritage Site in 2007, making Utzon only the second architect (after Oscar Niemeyer) to receive such an honor in his lifetime. The project is arguably the most recognizable and significant works of architecture of the 20th century and remains a work ahead of its time. But the uncompromising detail and futuristic design of Utzon's work left many of his projects unrealized or unknown by the time of his death in 2008. No longer. A new international competition, Utzon UNBUILT, aims to rectify this by sharing his unbuilt designs and inviting the public to reinterpret his ideas. "By using Utzon's designs to inspire a new generation of talented architects, designers, animators, and digital media developers to interpret them with a contemporary perspective, we will shed new light on Utzon's potential," explains Lasse Andersson, Creative Director of the Utzon Center in Aalborg. "Who knows? Maybe a new Sydney Opera House-like masterpiece will emerge!" says Lasse Andersson, Creative Director of the Utzon Center." This potential has already been explored by the Utzon Center, who have made a video depicting possible futures of the architect's unrealized Silkeborg Museum. Utzon's project combined a range of influences - cave structures, the narrow shopping streets of Europe, and mid-century Danish architecture - in a project that was ultimately too complex to be constructed. The video cycles through new opportunities for the structure - designs all feasible with today's construction technologies. Utzon UNBUILT, which is to be held, will begin in 2019 and run for three years, inviting participants to reinvent a new Utzon work each year. The three selected projects are the Theatre in Zurich, the Opera House in Madrid, and the Jeddah Stadium in Saudi Arabia. Each year's winner will receive a cash prize of €3500 and their design will be displayed in the Utzon Center. The jury for the 2019 competition includes:
 © Julian Hibbard In addition to the competition, the Utzon Center has also held a series of talks - Utzon100 - celebrating the architect and his enduring influence in architecture today. The most recent talk was held on 4 December at Henning Larsen's New York City office. Among the panelists at the event was legendary architect, historian, and professor Kenneth Frampton, the 2018 recipient of the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice Biennale. For more information about Utzon UNBUILT, including the call for entries, submission requirements, and schedule, you can visit the official website here. The competition is organized by Utzon Center and is supported by Spar Nord Foundation and Utzon Centers principal partner Vola.
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