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Patio / Yaita and Associates

© Shigeo Ogawa
Architects: Yaita and Associates
Location: Tokyo,
Architect In Charge: Hisaaki Yaita , Naoko Yaita
Area: 227.0 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Shigeo Ogawa

City Garden Zug / Planetage landscape + Ramser Schmid

© Guido Baselgia
Architects: Planetage landscape, Ramser Schmid
Location: Zug, Switzerland
Management And Landscape Architecture: architects, Marceline Hauri, Christine Sima, Karolina Katsabi, Helge Wiedemeyer, Ramon Iten, Thomas Volprecht (Planwirtschaft)
Year: 2013
Photographs: Guido Baselgia, Courtesy of Planetage landscape +

A-2 House / Architect Show

© Toshihisa Ishii
Architects: Architect Show
Location: Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture,
Architect In Charge: Masahiko Sato
Builder: Shiraishi construction Co.,Ltd
Area: 195.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Toshihisa Ishii

Mamun Residence / Shatotto

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Architects: Shatotto
Location: Chittagong,
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Shatotto

Rubber Holiday Home / Benthem Crouwel Architects

© Jannes Linders
Architects: Benthem Crouwel Architects
Location: Texel, The
Lead Architect: Mels Crouwel
Project Team: Mels Crouwel, Pia Hanhijärvi, Jos Wesselman, Volker Krenz
Area: 135.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Jannes Linders
Watts Tower. Image via Wikimedia

Gehry to Design Campus for Non-Profit in Los Angeles Neighborhood

Frank Gehry, renowned for his often enormous public works projects, is turning his attention to something on a smaller scale: a campus for the non-profit organization CII (Children’s Institute Inc.) in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts. Perhaps best known for Watts tower, the architecture of Watts is shaped by limited income and the need to deter vandalism. according to the LA Times Gehry’s intervention will hopefully be a tipping point for a neighborhood desperate to change not just its aesthetic but its future. Read the full article about the project here.

Temple of Agape / Morag Myerscough + Luke Morgan

© Gareth Gardner
Architects: Morag Myerscough , Luke Morgan
Location: , UK
Artists: , Luke Morgan
Year: 2014
Photographs: Gareth Gardner, Supergrouplondon

Inside SeARCH’s Utopian Hobbit Hole at the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam

Courtesy of Ronald Tilleman
Windowless, sparse, and connected to nature — this is how architecture and urban design firm SeARCH envisions the home of the future. In their new project “Yourtopia,” they challenge stereotypical ideas about what a home should be and demonstrate an awareness about our relationship with our environment. This article originally published on Metropolis Magazine investigates the home’s minimal design and construction process.
Our homes shield us from distractions so that we may cultivate our own interests and, in the process, sense of selves. Dutch architecture firm SeARCH has taken this idea to the extreme with “Yourtopia”, a temporary refuge that radically reconsiders what a home can be.
More on Yourtopia’s radical living environment after the break

Room 13 / Mitchell Taylor Workshop

© Piers Taylor
Architects: Mitchell Taylor Workshop
Location: , UK
Year: 2008
Photographs: Piers Taylor
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AD Interviews: Diébédo Francis Kéré / Kéré Architecture

<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/102059795">http://www.vimeo.com/102059795</a> Award-winning African architect Diébédo Francis Kéré is renowned for his cross-cultural approach to architecture. Although his office, Kéré Architecture, is based in Berlin, many of his projects are carried out in his native West African country Burkina Faso, where he is known for incorporating local materials and talent into his designs.
“I am working between two continents or between two cultures. And what I’m doing is trying to bridge the gap,” Kére told us at the opening of the 2014 Biennale. Kére has carried out projects such as School Library Gando, Centre for Earth Architecture and the National Park of Mali.
In this interview, Kéré explains his two-continent approach to architecture, what architecture means to him and what “” means for Burkina Faso.

Pandora Media Inc. New York Office / ABA Studio

© Durston Saylor
Architects: ABA Studio
Location: , NY 10168, USA
Architect In Charge: , Andrew Bartle Architects
Project Management: WG Project Managment
Year: 2014
Photographs: Durston Saylor

AD Round Up: Architecture of the Soviets

Druzhba Recreation and Retreat Centre - Yalta, Ukraine. Image © Frédéric Chaubin via edgecast.metatube-files.buscafs.com
During the Soviet Union’s relatively brief and tumultuous history, the quest for national identity was one that consumed Russian culture. The decadence of Czarist society was shunned, and with it, the neoclassical architecture the Czars so loved. Communism brought with it an open frontier for artistic experimentation, particularly where public buildings were involved. It was on this frontier that Russian Constructivism was born, and some of Russia’s greatest buildings were built.  This article on EnglishRussia.com compiles a list of some of the “best of the best” in —and we liked it so much that we’ve compiled our own top ten list! See all of our favorite Soviet projects, after the break!

Till House / WMR Arquitectos

© Sergio Pirrone
Architects: WMR Arquitectos
Location: El Arco, , Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins Region, Chile
Architect In Charge: Felipe Wedeles, Jorge Manieu, Macarena Rabat
Area: 185.0 sqm
Photographs: Sergio Pirrone

Norman Foster Joins Hollywood Stars in Petition Against Venice Cruise Ships

© Flickr CC User Ed Wohlfahrt
Over 50 Leading figures from architecture, art, film and fashion – Including Norman Foster, the director of ’s National Gallery Nicholas Penny, the director of the Guggenheim Foundation Richard Armstrong, and Hollywood stars Cate Blanchett, Michael Douglas, Julie Christie, Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton and Rob Lowe – have signed a petition pleading Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and the Italian Minister of Culture and Tourism, Dario Franceschini to keep large cruise ships out of Venice.
The petition, created by the UNESCO-backed Association of the International Private Committees for the Safeguarding of Venice, says is a reaction to both the aesthetic intrusion caused by the cruise liners, but also what it believes is a “probable risk of catastrophe” due to the possible effects that such large ships could have on the fragile Lagoon surrounding .
More on the cruise ship controversy after the break

stadiumconcept and IAA architecten Create Stadium with Tractor Valve Columns

Exterior View. Image © stadiumconcept with
Designed to seat 33,000 people, stadiumconcept and IAA architecten’s proposal for Minsk’s newest football stadium has a unique and allusive form. The column-like supports of the stadium roof resemble tractor valves, a reference to Minsk’s booming tractor fabrication industry. These tapering columns provide a signature identity for a building that, in addition to being a stadium, will serve the city as a shopping and business center.

Azur Arena / Auer Weber

© Aldo Amoretti
Architects: Auer Weber
Location: Azur Arena , 06600 ,
Design Architecture: Auer+Weber+Assoziierte
Area: 12120.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Aldo Amoretti

Zahner Produce Façade for Brazil’s Acquario Ceará Aquarium

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The Brazilian coastal city of , one of the host cities for the 2014 Brazil World Cup, will soon be home to one of the world’s largest aquariums. Designed by Leonardo Fontanelle (Imagic Brasil), Acquire Ceará is projected to be the third largest building of its type and is intended to provide a lasting beacon for tourism in the area. Zahner, a US company known for their ability to design and create complex façades (including the Petersen Automotive Museum by Kohn Pedersen Fox) have been tasked with constructing twenty three curving “legs” which support the structure of “the Manta and Sea Urchin-shaped roof surface”. Zahner’s President, William Zahner, believes that “this is perhaps the most intricate building ever constructed in the Americas.”
See Zahner’s prototype and images of the aquarium after the break.

The Pangbourne Communications Centre / Mitchell Taylor Workshop

© Peter Cook
Architects: Mitchell Taylor Workshop
Location: Pangbourne College, Pangbourne, Reading, RG8 8LA, UK
Year: 2012
Photographs: Peter Cook
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