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T-house / ASOstyle

© Aquarius
Architects: ASOstyle
Location: Gifu,
Architect In Charge: Tatsushi Shibata,Toru Watabe
Area: 723.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Aquarius

Bagrecha Residence / Cadence

© Anand Jaju
Architects: Cadence
Location: , Karnataka, India
Architect In Charge: Smaran Mallesh, Narendra Pirgal, Vikram Rajashekar
Project Architects: Smitha Lukose, Komal Bhulani, Sangeetha Patrick, Aishani Nath
Area: 2200.0 ft2
Year: 2013
Photographs: Anand Jaju
South Harbor. Image © City of Helsinki

Michael Sorkin Leads Competition Seeking Alternative Visions for Helsinki

As the first phase of the Guggenheim Helsinki design competition concludes, a group of independent arts organizations headed by Michael Sorkin has launched an “alternative” competition: The Next Helsinki. The competition calls on architects, urbanists, landscape architects, artists, and “all others who love cities to suggest ways in which Helsinki and its South Harbor can be transformed for the maximum benefit of the city.” More information, after the break.

DAf Offices / Albert Tidy

© Pablo Casals-Aguirre
Architects: Albert Tidy
Location: Los Navegantes 1955, Providencia, Santiago Metropolitan Region,
Collaborators: Melisa Ortíz, Sebastián Cruz
Project Area: 343.0 m2
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Pablo Casals-Aguirre

Milan Expo 2015: b720 Designs Greenhouse-Inspired Pavilion for Spain

© b720 Arquitectos
Barcelona’s b720 arquitectos has designed a greenhouse-inspired pavilion to represent Spain at the 2015 Milan Expo. Representing a “fusion” of Spain’s gastronomic tradition and innovation, the portico-like structure will be divided into two halves and united by a repetitious form.

Kocka Bar / MINUSPLUS

© Tamás Bujnovszky
Architects: MINUSPLUS
Location: Budapest, Kazinczy Street 48, 1075 Hungary
Architect In Charge: Zsolt Alexa, Donát Rabb, Ákos Schreck, Ferenc Kis, Tímea Molnár, Szabina Pap, Balázs Turai
Year: 2013
Photographs: Tamás Bujnovszky, Bertalan Soós

VIDEO: Bjarke Ingels on “Promiscuous Hybrids” and “Worldcraft”

Referring to his work as “promiscuous hybrids,” Bjarke Ingels details his vision of “worldcraft” where architecture harnesses the desires, knowledge and of its people to transform surreal dreams into reality.

Les Marais / Alain Carle Architecte

© Adrien Williams
Architects: Alain Carle Architecte
Location: Wentworth-Nord, QC J0T,
Area: 6505.0 ft2
Year: 2012
Photographs: Adrien Williams

IaaC Students Develop Material System with Responsive Structural Joints

Courtesy of IaaC (Instituto de Aquitectura Avanzada de Catalunya), Ece Tankal, Efilena Baseta, Ramin Shambayati
Despite architecture’s continued evolution over the course of history, our use of structural has remained largely the same since the advent of modern building . This reality may be changing thanks to the development of new seeking the same kinds of adaptability often found in nature.
Adaptable architecture is becoming an increasingly viable endeavor as a result of recent developments in building technologies and materials. Masters research students Ece Tankal, Efilena Baseta and Ramin Shambayati at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia were interested in “architecture of transition” and have developed a new material system that utilizes a thermally responsive polymer as structural joints with their project, “Translated Geometries.” Read on after the break to learn about how this new material system was developed and its potential for applications in architecture.
The Bertram and Judith Kohl Building / Westlake Reed Leskosky. Image © Nic Lehoux

Architect Magazine’s Top 50 US Architecture Firms

Architect Magazine has released its list of the 50 best architecture firms in the US, with Westlake Reed Leskosky, William Rawn Associates and Gensler taking home the top three slots in the overall ranking. The ranking is based on three key factors: business, design and sustainability. Westlake Reed Leskosky also ranked number 1 in the Best in Business category, along with HDR and Spector Group in second and third place, respectively. NADAAA, Behnisch Architekten and Payette were the top three firms in the Best in Design category, while EYP Architecture & Engineering, William Rawn Associates and Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects were ranked as the top three in the Best in Sustainability category. For the full list visit Architect Magazine.

Aspen Art Museum / Shigeru Ban Architects

© Michael Moran / OTTO
Architects: Shigeru Ban Architects
Location: 637 East Hyman Avenue, , CO 81611, USA
Area: 33000.0 ft2
Year: 2014
Photographs: Michael Moran / OTTO, Derek Skalko

London Science Museum Taps Zaha Hadid to Design Maths Gallery

View from East Gallery Entrance. Image © ZHA
Zaha Hadid Architects has been selected to design a new mathematics gallery in ’s Science Museum. Aimed to be the “world’s foremost gallery of mathematics,” as described by museum director Ian Blatchford, the £7.5 million state-of-the-art gallery will examine the ideas of mathematicians from the past 400 years in an effort to illustrate just how mathematics has helped shape our world.
“The design explores the many influences of mathematics in our everyday lives; transforming seemingly abstract mathematical concepts into an exciting interactive experience for visitors of all ages,” stated Hadid. 

How to Design Elevated Cycling Structures that Actually Work

London’s proposed SkyCycle. Image Courtesy of
There’s no doubt about it – cycling in cities is a deal these days. But, while cycle lanes and bike-sharing schemes are all well and good for our cities, the cycling revolution hasn’t yet brought us many examples of beautifully designed infrastructure to gawp at. This article, originally printed on The Dirt as “Do Elevated Cycletracks Solve Problems or Just Create More?” discusses two seemingly similar examples of high profile cycling infrastructure, examining why one is a success and the other a non-starter.
This year, two designs – one proposed and one built – for elevated cycletracks, which create bicycle highways above street level, have gained considerable media attention. They highlight questions at the heart of urban design: Should cities blend or separate transportation options? How can cities best mitigate the hazards created when cars, bikes, mass transit, and pedestrians mix? How can cities create low-cost transportation networks in increasingly dense urban cores?

Delta Cabin / AToT

© Manuel Ciarlotti
Architects: AToT
Location: Delta del Tigre – Buenos Aires Province,
Architects In Charge: Agustin Moscato, Lucia Hollman (Arquitectos Todo Terreno)
Project Area: 72.0 sqm
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Manuel Ciarlotti
Courtesy of The Van Alen Institute

Van Alen Institute Launches Competition to Shape the Future of US National Parks

With over 275 million visitors to the United States‘ 401 national parks per year, what will be the experience of visitors in the 21st century? The Van Alen Institute has teamed up with the National Park Service to launch a new competition: National Parks Now - a central component of Elsewhere: Escape and the Urban Landscape, the Institute’s initiative to investigate how the form and organization of the built environment shapes a need and desire for escape. Operating on the belief, stated by Van Alen Institute Executive Director David van der Leer, that “too few people realize what a huge resource these smaller national park sites are for local communities and for larger urban networks,” this initiative seeks to make parks relevant for the 21st century audience. More on the competition after the break.

Richard Rogers Speaks Out Against Garden Cities Proposals

’s winning proposal for the Wolfson Economics Prize. Image Courtesy of
Reacting to URBED‘s winning proposal in the Wolfson Economics Prize, Richard Rogers has denounced the idea of creating new Garden Cities in the UK, saying that the “ridiculous concept” risks “emptying out existing cities and that is a ridiculous idea.”
The proposal by URBED demonstrates how as many as forty towns and cities in the UK, including Northampton, Norwich, Oxford, Rugby, Reading and Stafford could be expanded, using the fictional city of ‘Uxcester’ as a case study. However, speaking to the Guardian, Rogers claimed that there was enough brownfield land in Britain’s major cities to meet the needs of the current housing crisis, and the creation of new Garden cities would lead to increased car use and middle-class only towns.
Read on after the break for more of Rogers’ comments

Alpine Cabins / pedevilla architekten

© Gustav Willeit
Architects: pedevilla architekten
Location: Strada Pliscia, 13, 39030 Bolzano, Italy
Partners In Charge: Alexander Pedevilla, Armin Pedevilla
Year: 2013
Photographs: Gustav Willeit

BLOCK: Envisioning Future Cities in a Video Game

BLOCK is a that “will breach the digital with the physical” and allow anyone to become an active participant in the future of Los Angeles. Described by FAST Co.Exist as “Minecraft for real life” the gameplay, which also bears similarity to The Sims, is founded on understanding the interdependencies of city entities such as housing, shops, parks and infrastructure. The objective of the is to both educate people and to generate user data for design patterns for the Los Angeles of 2050, producing the first database of a future city. BLOCK allows the player to understand the ecology of the urban realm (focusing on resources such as money, waste, and social capital) ultimately encouraging entrepreneurship “through the design of an ecological urbanism.” Fundamentally, it allows for new opportunities to be conceived in the city.
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