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Mothersill / Bates Masi Architects

Architects: Bates Masi Architects
Location: Water Mill, NY, USA
Area: 6,027 sqft
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Bates Masi Architects

ESO Headquarters Extension / Auer Weber

Architects: Auer Weber
Location: Garching, Germany
Design Team: Philipp Auer, Martin Klemp, Christian Richardt, Heinz Wendl, Dominic Horn, Birte Böttger, Sascha Dehnst, Joachim Esser, Stefanie Kahle, Jakob Plötz, Ingo Pucci, Martin Janik, Kang-Min Lee
Area: 18,736 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Roland Halbe

Les Quinconces Cultural Center / Babin+Renaud

Architects: Babin+Renaud
Location: Le Mans, France
Area: 28,198 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Cécile Septet

Hangar XS / Ecker Architekten

Architects: Ecker Architekten
Location: Buchen, Germany
Area: 160 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Brigida González

Modernism in the Arab World: Bahrain’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

In Bahrain‘s pavilion for the 2014 Venice Biennale, the country uses its position on the eastern edge of the pan-Arabic region to investigate modernity’s impact on the Arab world: first as a colonial imposition, then as a local attempt to reconcile global and Arabic culture, then finally as an acceptance of neoliberal ideals.

The exhibition collects 100 projects from across the Arabic states, with the intention of consolidating and preserving knowledge of this critical period. The installation itself, a giant bookcase, is the manifestation of this research, and will later be made available at the Arab Center for Architecture.

Escribenta House / Emilio Rodríguez Blanco

Architects: Emilio Rodríguez Blanco
Location: A Coruña, Spain
Area: 330 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Santos-Díez | BISimages

MAD Architects + Studio Gang Selected for Chicago’s George Lucas Museum

The rejected proposal for the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum in Crissy Field, San Francisco. Image © Art Zendarski

After the controversy surrounding their rejection by San Francisco and subsequent relocation to Chicago, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts has today announced a team of MAD Architects and Studio Gang as the designers of their new building in Chicago‘s museum district near Northerly Island.
The building itself will be designed by MAD Architects, chosen “because of its innovative approach to design and the firm’s philosophy of connecting urban spaces to natural landscapes.” In this case, that landscape will be designed by Studio Gang, who will also add a bridge to Northerly Island, an area which they have worked on turning into an ecologically diverse urban park.

AS67 Student Housing / LoT

Architects: LoT
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Architects In Charge: Leonidas Trampoukis, Eleni Petaloti
Area: 2,200 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: George Messaritakis

AD Interviews: Pedro Alonso, Curator of the Chilean Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale

<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/101420388">http://www.vimeo.com/101420388</a> We had the chance to sit down with Pedro Alonso, one of the curators of the Chilean pavilion “Monolith Controversies,” at the 2014 Venice Biennale, to learn more about the concept and inspiration behind the Silver Lion-winning pavilion. “We were interested in demonstrating that architects didn’t absorb modernity, but rather, they supplied it. The ones who absorbed it were the workers and the people,” Alonso told us, outside of a replica of a Chilean apartment – the entrance to the Pavilion. “The absorption of modernity has to do with the pieces we are exhibiting. For example, this apartment, the apartment of Mrs. Silvia Gutiérrez in Viña del Mar, which is an exact replica – object by object- of the 518 things that make up her living room.”
Enter Gutiérrez’s apartment and the rest of the Chilean pavilion in the full interview with Alonso. And don’t forget to check out additional pictures and text from the curators in our coverage of the pavilion here.

Desert Courtyard House / Wendell Burnette Architects

Architects: Wendell Burnette Architects
Location: Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Architect In Charge: Wendell Burnette
Design Team: Thamarit Suchart (lead design collaborator), Jena Rimkus, Matthew G. Trzebiatowski, Scott Roeder, Brianna Tovsen, Chris Flodin, Colin Bruce
Area: 7200.0 ft2
Photographs: Bill Timmerman, Courtesy of Wendell Burnette Architects

SCI-Arc Parodies “Poor Door” Housing Design

In 2008, a group of students from SCI-Arc put out a proposal for a series of mixed income city housing projects for Dubai. In their design, wealthy residents would live in apartments on the building’s perimeter, with natural daylight and views of the city, while low-income housing tenants would live in the core of the building, isolated from “the upper class.” The proposal was a parody aimed at the classist design of residential development in Dubai, but what unsettled the SCI-Arc students was that their proposal generated almost no controversy. Inspired by the recent approval of a similar ‘poor door’ in a project in New York, this article from the LA Times covers that parody, and shows that both at home and abroad, residential design is slipping towards socio-economic segregation.

No Wódka / KONTENT

Architects: KONTENT
Location: Pappelallee 10, Berlin, Germany
Architect In Charge: Monika Ryszka, Marcin Giemza
Area: 86 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Zajaczkowski Photography

5 Pros of Working Abroad in China

Have you ever considered working abroad in China? The thought may be daunting, but there are plenty of reasons why you should take that thought and turn it into a reality. Originally published on Arch-Shortcuts, here are five reasons to take the leap — as written by Arch-Shortcuts founder Chen Tang, an architect currently working in Hong Kong.

1. Bigger Projects

Forget about doing houses and deck extensions! Projects in China consist mainly of large schemes and developments – a small/medium sized project in China would be considered a significant project in other countries. You will be more focused on the overall image and conceptual design as opposed to intricate details – due to the short timelines of a project, which leads to our next point.

Kobato Nursery School / so1architect

Architects: so1architect
Location: Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Architect In Charge: Soichi Yamasaki
Area: 1,098 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Kai Nakamura

Thomas Heatherwick Selected for Latest Maggie’s Centre

Heatherwick's trademark ingenuity, demonstrated in previous projects such as the London Garden Bridge proposal, will be needed for the difficult site in Leeds. Image © Arup — Heatherwick’s trademark ingenuity, demonstrated in previous projects such as the London Garden Bridge proposal, will be needed for the difficult site in Leeds. Image © Arup

The Maggie’s cancer charity has announced Thomas Heatherwick as the latest high-profile designer who will contribute to the Maggie’s Centre program, with a site at the new Bexley Wing of St James’s University Hospital in Leeds. The new centre will be the first Maggie’s in Yorkshire, with Heatherwick joining the likes of Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and Steven Holl in the list of Maggie’s Centre designers.
More on the appointment after the break

7N Architects Unveils Masterplan for Edinburgh’s Fountainbridge Site

7N Architects have revealed their designs for the 8.2 acre Fountainbridge site, one of the largest city centre developments in Edinburgh, where they plan 350 homes, a range of workspaces, a 130 room hotel, canalside retail and café space and two arts buildings. The intention for the former industrial zone is to offer “enhanced canalside features, open space and paths for both pedestrian and cycle use.”
More on the proposal after the break

Kirstenbosch Centenary Tree Canopy Walkway / Mark Thomas Architects

Architects: Mark Thomas Architects
Location: Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa
Architect In Charge: Mark Thomas, Christopher Bisset
Photographs: Adam Harrower

Stirling Prize Winning Architects Build LEGO Cities for the London Festival of Architecture

Organised as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Image © Agnese Sanvito

As part of the 2014 London Festival of Architecture, teams of architects from the four of the most recent Stirling Prize winning British practices were challenged with creating the most imaginative piece of a city – out of LEGO. Each team began with a carefully laid out square on the floor of the largest gallery of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, at which point they were given just one hour and 45 minutes to create an urban masterpiece out of blocks. Each group of architects worked alongside students from the Royal Academy’s attRAct programme, which offers A-level art students the chance to engage with art and architecture. An esteemed panel of judges ultimately selected the team from Zaha Hadid Architects as victorious, who “considered London on a huge scale and used curving buildings of different typologies which echoed the shape of the Thames.”
Read more about the brief and the other participating entries after the break.

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