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Faculty of Engineering + Information Technology / Denton Corker Marshall

© Richard Glover
Architects: Denton Corker Marshall
Location: Jones Street, Ultimo, NSW,
Area: 22,050 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Richard Glover

House in Tatuí / Felipe Hsu & Lucas Bittar

© Pedro Kok
Architects: Felipe Hsu & Lucas Bittar
Location: , São Paulo, Brasil
Collaborator: Pedro Fernandes de Bona
Project Area: 287 sqm
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Pedro Kok
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“Bungalow Germania” – Germany’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2014

Bungalow Germania. The German Pavilion at the 2014 Biennale.. Image © Nico Saieh
Germany’s contribution to the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale scrutinizes the architecture of representation, its crisis, and potential cessation. Aside from the universal ambition of modernism to break with the past, has undergone a number of decisive political and societal breaks during the last hundred years. Through the question of how the nation “(re)builds and represents itself through architecture, we are able to discuss the friction between national identity and architecture expression—however, architecture is not only a mirror to ideology, but a constituting reality and societal context.”

Rocas House / Studio MK27 + Renata Furlanetto

© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Architects: Studio MK27 + 
Location: El Pangue, Zapallar, Valparaíso Region,
Author: Marcio Kogan
Co Author: Renata Furlanetto
Project Team: Carlos Costa, Diana Radomysler, Laura Guedes, Maria Cristina Motta, Mariana Simas
Project Area: 460 sqm
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
2013 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion / Sou Fujimoto. Image © Danica O. Kus

Melbourne to Launch Its Own Serpentine Pavilion

Mirroring the Serpentine Galleries of London, the Naomi Milgrom Foundation has announced its own yearly pavilion commission for the city of Melbourne. Sited in the Queen Victoria Memorial Gardens, the premier “MPavilion” will be designed by Sean Godsell, opening October 6th of this year.  The pavilion will host a variety of community events, including art installations and performances, over a four month period.  It remains to be seen whether the MPavilion will have a lasting impact on the architectural culture of the city, as some critics have pointed out. To learn more about this now annual commission, visit this article from infolink.

Extension of the Helicopter Group of Civil Security / NBJ architectes

© Paul Kozlowski – photoarchitecture
Architects: NBJ architectes
Location: ,
Architects In Charge: Elodie Nourrigat, Jacques Brion, Romain Jamot
Area: 5,700 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Paul Kozlowski – photoarchitecture

Video: Los Angeles from Above

<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/97726387">http://www.vimeo.com/97726387</a> This time-lapse video, entitled “Above LA,” is Chris Pritchard’s love letter to Los Angeles. Filmed over the course of two years, Pritchard sought out locations to showcase the city in a way people rarely get to see – from above. Some of the views were easy to seek out, while others involved some exploratory hiking and trespassing. He encourages “everyone – lifelong Angelenos, transplants, visitors – to hit the trails, drive the mountain roads, find a reason to get on top of a high-rise. From the basin to the valley, this city offers so many opportunities to rise above and look down. Never stop exploring.”

Qichun Catholic Church / Leekostudio

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Architects: Leekostudio
Location: , China
Design Team: Li Yikao, Jin Xing
Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Leekostudio

Imperial War Museum / Foster + Partners

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Architects: Foster + Partners
Location: Lambeth Road, ,
Interiors: Casson Mann
Year: 2014
Photographs: Nigel Young – Foster + Partners
Williams & Tsien made headlines in last year thanks to the demolition of their American Folk Art Museum. Image © Flickr CC User Wallyg

Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Awarded National Medal of Arts

Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have been awarded the National Medal for Arts by the National Endowment for the Arts. The duo, known for projects such as the Barnes Foundation and for the controversy surrounding the demolition of their 2001 American Folk Art Museum last year, will be rewarded for their “deliberate and inspired designs” as well as their services in teaching. The medals will be awarded to them by President Obama in a ceremony on July 28th. Also receiving a medal will be Johnpaul Jones of Washington DC firm Jones & Jones, who will be the first Architect to receive the National Humanities Medal in the Award’s 17-year history. Find out more about the awards at World-Architects.

Flügel Haus / Arch-D

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Architects: Arch-D
Location: , Estonia
Architect In Charge: Viacheslav Deev
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Arch-D

Winy Maas Selected as Curator for Strelka Institute’s Upcoming Academic Year

WoZoCo / MVRDV. Image Courtesy of Samuel Ludwig
Dutch architect Winy Maas has been selected as the curator for the Strelka Institute’s 2014-2015 academic year. One of the co-founders of Rotterdam-based firm MVRDV, Maas also lectures and teaches all over the world, most recently serving as a visiting professor of architectural design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and as a professor of architecture and urban design at Delft University of Technology.

A Prize for Promise: GAGA’s Hunt for the New Hadid

Post-Graduate Runner-up, GAGA 2013. Rob Taylor – Golden Temple of Trash
A few years ago London’s Architectural Association held an exhibition called First Works: Emerging Architectural Experimentation in the 1960s & 1970s, which wonderfully gathered together early projects from a host of the most famous names in architecture. In both Zaha Hadid’s gorgeously animated plan/perspectives of the Taoiseach’s Residence and Daniel Libeskind’s intensely unstable drawings of Micromegas, you can already sense a lifetime of formal exploration ahead for the pair; and yet who would ever guess the unique tectonic language to come from the anonymously mundane drawings of the Sequoyah Educational Research Centre by Morphosis?
When I set up the Global Architecture Graduate Awards (GAGAs) at The Architectural Review in 2012, it was with the insight that, at its best, the work produced at the start of a career can be its most daring and projective. At that fertile threshold between the academy and practice, uncertain graduates can be years ahead of more assured and mature colleagues in the creative risks they are willing to take.

Stelka Institute Presents: Moscow’s “Urban Routines”

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Over the course of nine months, graduate students at the Strelka Institute studied the urban landscape of and the daily routines of its inhabitants, focusing “on new, little-noticed, and as-yet unresolved contradictions.” The main goal of the projects was to come up with solutions that could be applied in practice.
The research projects, collectively entitled “Urban Routines,” were presented at the end of this past June at the graduate show. Program director David Erixon said that while the theme might seem naive, “when you start looking at seemingly trivial things in a new way they are not so trivial anymore.” For details about the individual research projects – covering Cars, Retail, Dwelling, Offices, and Links - keep reading after the break.

SURE Wins Competition with “Endless City” Skyscraper

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Recently winning first place in a Skyscapers and SuperSkyscapers Competition, SURE Architecture has put forth a daring new proposition for a London skyscraper design. Their proposal, titled “The Endless City in Height,” does away with the traditional notion of stacking floors on top of each other. Rather, this innovative design incorporates two street-sized ramps that wind their way up the exterior of the tower, creating extensions of the city streetscape that rise and coil vertically into the skyline.

Gomba / Hetedik Müterem

© Tamás Szentirmai
Architects: Hetedik Müterem
Location: 1114 Budapest, Móricz Zsigmond körtér,
Architect In Charge: Levente Szabó DLA, Zsolt Gyüre
Co Architects: Orsolya Simon, Dávid Kohout, Balázs Biri
Area: 450.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Tamás Szentirmai, Balázs Biri, Courtesy of
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RIBA Future Trends Survey Shows Workload Forecasts Are Firmly In Positive Territory

The results of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Future Trends Survey for June show that the Workload Index among UK practices increased slightly to +34 (from +33 in May) with confidence levels amongst RIBA practices about the level of future workloads remaining “very strong and widespread across the whole of the UK”. Whereas last month’s survey showed Wales and the West with the brightest outlook, this month’s survey saw Scotland top the index with a balance figure of +50, the East Midlands and East Anglia tailing closely behind with a figure of +48. Workload forecasts from practices of all sizes are optimistically reporting positive balance figures.

The Garden Room / Welsh+Major

© Brett Boardman
Architects: Welsh+Major
Location: Sydney NSW,
Year: 2013
Photographs: Brett Boardman
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