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Establishment for Dependent Elderly / PARALLELE

© Laurent Dequick
Architects: PARALLELE
Location: , France
Architects In Charge: Antonio Pedro De Sousa, Pascal Hory, Grégoire Noyer
Area: 7400.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Laurent Dequick

Y7-House / Architect Show

© Toshihisa Ishii
Architects: Architect Show
Location: Omura, Nagasaki Prefecture,
Architect In Charge: Masahiko Sato
Area: 95.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Toshihisa Ishii

VUW Campus Hub / Architectus + Athfield Architects

© Paul McCredie
Architects: Architectus, Athfield Architects
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
Area: 13000.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Paul McCredie

NAB Docklands / Woods Bagot

© Trevor Mein
Architects: Woods Bagot
Location: 700 Bourke Street, Docklands VIC 3008,
Area: 63000.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Trevor Mein, Shannon McGrath

Junya Ishigami to Install “Cloud Arch” in Downtown Sydney

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Set to be installed over a set of light rail tracks, Junya Ishigami’s Cloud Arch will soon be one of the biggest landmarks in downtown Sydney.  Commissioned by Sydney’s public art program, City Art, the arch will symbolize Sydney’s qualities of being “Green, Global, and Connected.” Over 50 meters high, it will change shape as viewer’s walk past it. Cloud Arch will act as both a gateway for the pedestrian George Street, and a defining feature of the city.

GVSU Pew Library / Stantec

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Architects: Stantec
Location: 1 West Campus Drive, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401,
Architect In Charge: Janice Suchan
Project Manager: Jennifer Durham
Principal Designer: Tod R. Stevens
Area: 75150.0 ft2
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Stantec

Fourteen Tower Proposals Unveiled for Controversial Brooklyn Bridge Park Development

New York City have released images of fourteen tower proposals as part of a controversial scheme to bring affordable housing to the 85 acre Brooklyn Bridge Park, originally designed by Michael van Valkenburgh and realised in 2004. The schemes, designed to be located on “two coveted development sites” on Pier 6, have been actively met with strong opposition from local community members. The park and surrounding area has seen a number of interesting recent regeneration proposals, from an 11,000ft² beach beneath the Brooklyn Bridge to a triangular pier proposed by BIG. Read on to see the proposals in detail, including those by Asymptote, Pelli Clarke Pelli, Davis Brody Bond, and Bjarke Ingels Group ().

Dalston Studio / Cassion Castle Architects

© Kilian O’Sullivan
Architects: Cassion Castle Architects
Location: Dalston, E8, UK
Area: 60.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Kilian O’Sullivan

Urban Intervention Winners Built in Abrantes, Portugal for Canal 180’s Creative Camp

"The 12 Thousand Pairs of Shoes From Abrantes" by Victor Lledó Garcia, Juan José Pérez Moncho and Mateo Fernández-Muro. Image Courtesy of Canal 180
Twelve thousand pairs of shoes and stacked, rotating geometric forms were installed in the city centre of Abrantes, Portugal from July 13th-20th. The installations were the two winning projects of ’s 180 Creative Camp 2014, which was designed by the country’s Canal 180 to promote Projects.
The competition received 72 entries from 18 countries and was created in partnership with Archdaily, Canal 180, and the Municipality of Abrantes. The contest ran until June 8th with a jury that included Archdaily Executive Editor Becky Quintal, the Executive Director of Canal 180, and the President of the Municipality of Abrantes. The two winning projects each received 2,500 Euros to realize and install their work in Abrantes.
See photos and read more about the winning projects of 180 Creative Camp after the break.

Swift House / WMR Arquitectos

© Sergio Pirrone
Architects: WMR Arquitectos
Location: Matanzas, , Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins Region,
Area: 285.0 sqm
Year: 2009
Photographs: Sergio Pirrone

Animal Printheads, Biomimicry and More: How Nature Will Shape the Built Environment of the Future

© John Becker
Biomimicry is quickly emerging as one of the next architectural frontiers. New manufacturing processes such as 3D printing, coupled with the drive to make buildings more environmentally sustainable, have led to a wave of projects that are derived from natural phenomena or even constructed with biological materials. A recent example of this trend is “Hy-Fi,” this summer’s MoMA PS1 design that is constructed of organic and compostable eco-bricks. Other projects such as MIT Media Lab’s Silk Pavilion have taken biological innovation a step further by actually using a biometric construction processes – around 6,500 silkworms wove the Silk Pavilion’s membrane. “Animal Printheads,” as Geoff Manaugh calls them in his article “Architecture-By-Bee and Other Animal Printheads,” have already proven to be a viable part of the manufacturing process in art, and perhaps in the future, the built environment as well. But what happens when humans engineer animals to 3D print other materials?

Pino Street House / Oscar Gutiérrez

© Vanessa Guízar
Architects:
Location: Jalisco,
Area: 165.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Vanessa Guízar

Free CAD Files of 241 Major World Cities

Image of the layers in the New York file via bdon.org
Creating designs for cities all over the planet may have just gotten a whole lot easier – thanks to Brandon Liu, a Software Developer from San Francisco who used data from OpenStreetMap to create .DXF CAD files of 241 major cities worldwide. These files are entirely free to download, and from San Francisco to Sydney, Buenos Aires to Beijing and Helsinki to Harare, most of the world’s major cities are included.
The files do have some limitations, due to the way they were converted from online data (perhaps the most limiting is that roads are only marked by a single line), however the files give information on roads categorized from major to minor, buildings, railways, parks and bodies of water, with each element given its own layer on the drawing.
Check out the links to all 241 files after the break, and visit Liu’s website here for more information.

Introducing the DEAD Prize: Recognizing the Worst in Design

Numerous awards recognize innovative, forward-thinking and environmentally-friendly design, yet there is no way to recognize projects that are harming the environment or detrimental to the planet – until now. Created by Cameron Sinclair, one of the co-founders of Architecture for Humanity and current Executive Director of the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, the recently launched “DEAD Prize” seeks to highlight projects that have a negative impact on the planet, with the aim of inspiring designers to “see these failures as a challenge to create something new, to correct the mistakes of the past or to find the antidote for the project in question.” Tweet your nominations for the prize to @deadprize by November 1 and learn more about this tongue-in-cheek award at the DEAD Prize website.

Office of the brand agency Svoyo mneniye / za bor Architects

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Architects: za bor Architects
Location: Bolshaya Tatarskaya ulitsa, 35, , Russia, 115184
Architect In Charge: Peter Zaytsev, Arseniy Borisenko
Area: 450.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of za bor Architects
© Marco Anelli

Performance Space: Marina Abramović at the Serpentine Gallery

One of the latest installations at London’s Serpentine Gallery, where Smiljan Radic recently unveiled an ethereal pavilion, is Marina Abramović’s performance installation entitled 512 Hours. Creating what has been described as “the simplest of settings” in one of the gallery’s large spaces, the artwork employs Abramović’s most frequently used material: herself. Coupled with the audience and a selection of common objects, the constantly changing sequence of events on display is the very first live installation by the artist displayed in the UK. Upon arrival, visitors are asked leave their baggage (including mobile phones, cameras and any other electronic equipment) behind in order to enter the exhibition.

Kaminoge House / Kawabe Naoya Architects Design Office

© Takumi Ota
Architects: Kawabe Naoya Architects Design Office
Location: , Tokyo,
Area: 734.0 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Takumi Ota

WIX Lithuania / Inblum Architects

© Darius Petrulaitis
Architects: Inblum Architects
Location: ,
Architects In Charge: Dmitrij Kudin, Laura Malcaite
Wall Graphics: Artemij Brutov
Area: 370.0 sqm
Photographs: Darius Petrulaitis
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