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Gemeinde / Stefan Forster Architekten

© Lisa Farkas
Architects: Stefan Forster Architekten
Location: Hafenstraße 5, 60327 ,
Area: 2880.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Lisa Farkas

C-House / Yasuhiro Sone

© Hideo Mori
Architects: Yasuhiro Sone
Location: Gero, Gifu,
Area: 382.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Hideo Mori

Construction Begins on Miami’s Tallest Tower

Courtesy of Skyrise
Construction has begun on Miami’s tallest tower: SkyRise Miami. Standing 305 meters above the Biscayne Bay, the waterfront tower will offer three viewing decks, a restaurant, nightclub, ballroom, exhibition space, and even the chance to bungee jump off its upper floors.
It’s designers, locally based arquitectonica, hope SkyRise will achieve LEED Gold upon completion in mid-2017.

Malaca House / Mario Martins Atelier

© Fernando Guerra | FG + SG
Architects: Mario Martins Atelier
Location: Sargaçal, 8600 Lagos,
Architect In Charge: Mário Martins
Team: Sónia Fialho; Filipa Santos; Sónia Santos; Rui Duarte; José Cabrita
Year: 2013
Photographs: Fernando Guerra | FG + SG

National Building Museum Honors Charlie Rose with Vincent Scully Prize

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The National Building Museum has announced Charlie Rose as the recipient of the 2014 Vincent Scully Prize. The American talk show host and journalist was honored for his exploration “good design, the growth of cities, and the shape of the urban form through his insightful and substantive conversations with leading thinkers of our day.”
“One of the great joys of spending twenty-five years at the table is meeting a cross-section of the best in culture and science and technology,” said Rose. “I have a special place for the men and women who inspire us with the buildings they create. Architecture is a passion of mine and I’ve been proud to know not only architects but also those who teach, assess, and love great buildings. Architecture is one of the reflections of the permanence of a civilization. I am indeed honored to be the recipient of the , named for a man I have known, admired, and interviewed.”

Constitución 8 / Proyecto Cafeína

© Patrick López Jaimes
Architects: Proyecto Cafeína
Location: Puebla, Puebla,
Project Area: 1159.0 m2
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Patrick López Jaimes, Leonardo Neve Sánchez

Jump Off A Cliff and Land in Bed in this Edgy Australian Home

Exterior View. Image Courtesy of
Picture yourself waking up daily to a 180-degree view of the ocean without leaving the comfort of your living room. The owners of the as-yet-unbuilt Cliff House have teamed up with Modscape of Australia to design their compact dream home, delicately perched above open water, hanging off the cliff’s edge. Cliff House redefines “living dangerously” with its vast floor to ceiling windows and slender steel supports acting as the only separation between watching Jaws and actually being in Jaws.
Dive into Cliff House with photos, plans and more info after the break.

Mediateca de Carballo / Óscar Pedrós

© Héctor Santos -Díez
Architects: Óscar Pedrós
Location: Rúa Pontevedra, 15100 , A Coruña, Spain
Area: 1570.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Héctor Santos -Díez, Courtesy of

Amazon to Occupy Stalled Foster Scheme

© with Brookfield
Amazon has confirmed plans to move more than 5,000 of its London employees into a Foster + Partners-designed office building planned for Shoreditch High Street. On hold since January 2012, the £290 million mixed-use scheme will compete with Amazon’s Farringdon office to serve as the online retailer’s new headquarters.

Las Delicias House / FWAP Arquitectos

© Gonzalo Viramonte
Architects: FWAP Arquitectos
Location: Córdoba, , Argentina
Project Architects: Federico Weskamp, Federico Arguello Pitt, Javier Zanotti, Gustavo Ostoich
Collaborator: Belen Mari Arq.
Project Area: 550.0 m2
Photographs: Gonzalo Viramonte

AR Issues: Who Needs Architecture Critics?

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ArchDaily is continuing our partnership with The Architectural Review, bringing you short introductions to the themes of the magazine’s monthly editions. In this post, we take you back to AR’s June 2014 issue, which examines the state of architectural criticism in our age of online media and ever-present PR. Here, AR Editor Catherine Slessor argues that “more than ever, architecture is in need of provocative, engaging and entertaining critics.”
Ambrose Bierce, the great 19th-century satirist and author of the The Devil’s Dictionary, once defined a critic as ‘a person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him’. Critics occupy a curiously parasitical position in the modern cultural milieu, and an architecture critic perhaps especially so. But in an age when architects can easily find obliging PR minions to dispense their gospel and biddable publishers to churn out infinite, anodyne oeuvres complètes, who still needs critics and criticism?

Les Elfes / Alain Carle Architecte

© Adrien Williams
Architects: Alain Carle Architecte
Location: Morin-Heights, QC,
Area: 5165.0 ft2
Year: 2011
Photographs: Adrien Williams

Design With Empathy: An Exhibit Honoring Maggie’s Architecture of Cancer Care

Snohetta – Maggie’s Aberdeen, 2013. Image Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art
Organized by the New York School of Interior Design, and curated for CMOA by Raymund Ryan, curator of architecture, Carnegie Museum of Art is hosting a new exhibit: Maggie’s Centres: A Blueprint for Cancer Care. Opening September 13, the exhibit showcases the extraordinary Maggie’s Centres, works of integrated architecture designed to address essential human needs and the everyday challenges of cancer patients undergoing treatment. The work of Frank Gehry, Piers Gough, Steven Holl, Rem Koolhaas, and Richard Rogers have been selected to be included in the exhibition, and provide insight into how some of the most influential architects of our age have sought to positively alter the look, and more significantly, the feel, of healthcare facilities.

Argentina to Build Latin America’s Tallest Skyscraper

Winning Proposal Image. © Fan Page de Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has announced the winning proposal for the Cinematography and Audiovisual Tower that will be built in capital Buenos Aires.
Out of five competing proposals, MRA+A Álvarez| Bernabó | Sabatini’s design was selected. At 335 meters, the skyscraper will become the tallest building in Latin America, surpassing the 300-meter Costanera tower in Santiago, Chile and a 330-meter tower under development in Monterrery, Mexico. To be used mainly for Argentina’s film and television industry, the tower will have 67 floors and 216,000 square meters of space. A hotel will occupy the top 13 floors.
More details after the break…

House AND / adn Architectures

© Filip Dujardin
Architects: adn Architectures
Location: ,
Area: 24.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Filip Dujardin

A Temporary Setting for Performance in the Centre of Southampton

© Jim Stephenson
The Playing Field, a 450-seat “high tech Tudor theatre” in the heart of the British city of Southampton, represented a major collaboration between the city’s arts organisations and was realised through a collaborative effort between engineers Structure Workshop and Assemble Studio, the London based practice known for innovative interventions within the public realm. Their Cineroleum, coupled with a bold renovation of a yardhouse, are part of a small canon of cultural buildings designed to temporarily reimagine the urban landscape on a small scale.

The Long Brick House / Foldes Architects

© Levente Sirokai
Architects: Foldes Architects
Location: , Hungary
Architects In Charge: Laszlo Foldes, Peter Sonicz
Area: 138.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Levente Sirokai

Casa Ribeira de Abade / Carlos Castanheira

© Fernando Guerra |
Architects: Carlos Castanheira
Location: Rua Nossa Senhora de Fátima, 4420 Valbom, Portugal
Architect In Charge: & Clara Bastai, Arqtos Lda.
Design Team: Duarte Rodrigues, Sofia Reis, Demis Lopes, Barbara Guedes, Isabel Ribeiro, Bruno André, Luís Calheiros, João Figueiredo
Year: 2005
Photographs: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
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