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Breath Box / NAS Architecture

© Paul Kozlowski
Architects: NAS Architecture
Location: 4 Esplanade Maurice Justin, 34280 ,
Architect In Charge: Hadrien Balalud De Saint Jean, Guillaume Giraud, Johan Laure
Client: Festival of Lively Architecture (FAV)
Area: 20.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Paul Kozlowski

Clayton Park School Hall and Administration / Stephenson&Turner

© Paul McCredie
Architects: Stephenson&Turner
Location: Manukau, Auckland, New Zealand
Client: Ministry of Education
Area: 860.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Paul McCredie

Airwell House / ADX Architects

© Edward Hendricks
Architects: ADX Architects
Location:
Area: 253.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Edward Hendricks

3 Houses in Rosario / I+GC [ar]

© Walter Salcedo
Architects: I+GC [ar]
Location: Noruega, Rosario, Santa Fe Province,
Architects In Charge: Matías Blas Imbern, Agustina González Cid
Year: 2012
Photographs: Walter Salcedo
Apartments in Shenzhen. Image © Neville Mars under a CC licence

Should China put Design Restrictions on New Developments?

China may be at a turning point in urban design: a recent article in Australian Financial Review points out that over 50 million apartments in Chinese cities (about 22.5 percent) are unoccupied. This problem springs from the ongoing Chinese construction boom, prompted by developers looking to stimulate urban economic growth as quickly as possible. However, Ma Yansong of MAD Architects believes these empty apartments are a sign that buyers find them unsuited to their needs, and that China should begin to enforce good design principles on these rapidly-constructed complexes. Read the full article here.

Heliópolis Social Housing / Biselli Katchborian Arquitetos

© Nelson Kon
Architects: Biselli Katchborian Arquitetos
Location: – , Brazil
Architect In Charge: Mario Biselli, Artur Katchborian
Area: 31330.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Nelson Kon

Ryo Yamada’s Installation Connects Garden Goers to the Sky

Courtesy of Ryo Yamada
Ryo Yamada‘s “Air Garden” is a passage, but not in the traditional sense of the word. It’s not a passage that connects one point to another, since the walkway does not lead to a tangible destination, but rather a passage that connects an enclosed garden to the vastness of the open sky. The artist believes everyone shares a common desire for the sky, which represents freedom and equality. Read on after the break for more information, images and a video.

Parking Structure Art Facade / Urbana

© Serge Hoeltschi
Architects: Urbana
Location: Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital, 720 Eskenazi Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46202,
Year: 2014
Photographs: Serge Hoeltschi

GPA&A Designs Floating Administrative Center for Belo Horizonte

Courtesy of Gustavo Penna
Brazilian Firm GPA&A was unanimously chosen by a panel of judges to design the new Administrative Center for Belo Horizonte – the capital of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The judging commission selected the firm’s proposal because of its attention to accessibility, , and the quality of architectural and landscaping features. The transparent building features a bikeway leading to the top floor and is integrated with the metro and bus rapid transit systems. For more information and images, continue after the break.

Beyond Ruin Porn: What’s Behind Our Obsession with Decay?

Historic mill city in downtown Minneapolis. Image Courtesy of Flickr CC License / Joey Lax-Salinas
Lately, architects are sharing an increasing captivation with ruins. As our technologies for envisioning the buildings of the future become ever-more accurate – enabling us not only to walk through, hover over, and inhabit walls, but also to calculate exact quantities of materials, structural load capacities and costs – our fascination for ruin, a process that is governed by laws of nature and time in a manner that is spatially unpredictable and rarely uniform, has also seen a rise in popularity.
Blogs such as Ruin Porn, Abandoned America and Architecture of Doom draw from a recent sub-genre of , identified as ‘ruins photography’ or ‘ruin porn’. While buildings can go into decay for many reasons, these images tend to focus on urban decay, especially in cities such as Detroit, Chicago and Berlin, which saw a surge of industrialization in the last century that has since dwindled.

The Whale Primary School / Studio di Architettura Andrea Milani

© Pietro Savorelli
Architects: Studio di Architettura Andrea Milani
Location:
Year: 2013
Photographs: Pietro Savorelli

Résidence Roy-Lawrence / Chevalier Morales Architectes

Courtesy of
Architects: Chevalier Morales Architectes
Location: Quebec,
Architects In Charge: Stephan Chevalier, Sergio Morales
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Chevalier Morales Architectes

Arquitectonica Takes Over Miami Beach Convention Center From OMA

’s scrapped plans. Image ©
Following the controversial decision to scrap plans by OMA earlier this year, Miami Beach officials have selected Arquitectonica for the redesign of the Miami Beach Convention Center. In a significant scaling-down of OMA’s $1 billion masterplan, the new scheme calls for the existing center to be kept and renovated to ‘Class A’ standards, along with the addition of a new ballroom, meeting space and rooftop parking. The center’s existing parking lot will be converted into a 6.5 acre public park, designed by landscape firm West 8.
More on the Convention Center Controversy after the break

London Science Museum Selects Wilkinson Eyre to Design Medical Galleries

© Wilkinson Eyre
London’s Science Museum has announced Wilkinson Eyre as the winner of its competition to design new medical galleries. Winning the project over a shortlist of six architects – including Caruso St John, Amanda Levete Architects and Haworth Tompkins - Wilkinson Eyre’s £24 million galleries will occupy 3,000 square metres on the museum’s first floor, almost doubling the size of the museum’s existing galleries.
More on the Science Museum’s transformation after the break

House on a Hillside / Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros

© José Ramón Oller
Architects: Virgilio Gutiérrez Herreros
Location: Mesa Mota, 38206, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Technical Architect: Pedro Alonso Quecuty
Collaborators: Attenya Campos de Armas, Fermín Delgado Perera, Iván Ascanio Delgado
Project Area: 439.0 m2
Project Year: 2013
: José Ramón Oller

Video: The Elevated London That Almost Was

<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/80787092">http://www.vimeo.com/80787092</a> Inspired by an article written by Michael Hebbert in 1993, Chris Bevan Lee’s forty minute documentary explores the elevated post-war infrastructural redevelopment of the , fragments of which still stand across the square mile today. The : Elevating London examines London planners’ attempt to build an ambitious network of elevated walkways through the city that largely never saw completion. In a carefully produced film those ’pedways’ that remain are photographed and discussed as symbols of a utopia that almost was.

DI Telegraph / Archiproba

© Ilya Ivanov
Architects: Archiproba
Location: , Russia
Architect In Charge: Tamara Muradova, Askar Ramazanov
Area: 1400.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Ilya Ivanov

Kinetic Architecture: Designs for Active Envelopes

Courtesy of Images Publishing
Kinetic Architecture: Designs for Active Envelopes is a book about energy. We have written it to explore the new ways architecture has developed in the last decade to respond to the flow of energy, both natural and man-made, that primarily affects building performance and the comfort of the people in them. Buildings regulate energy flow in several ways, but in this book we explore the approaches that innovative architects, engineers, and consultants have taken with building envelopes, façades, and types of enclosures that modulate the internal environment of architecture to various ends. Architects have expressed this regulation in ways both visible and invisible, using the media of air, water, and the thermal mass of a variety of materials, and often a combination of all three.
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