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First Prize: Aboveground Anomaly / Tiffany Szeto (Hong Kong). Image © d3 Housing Tomorrow 2014

d3 Housing Tomorrow 2015

Exploration of contextual, cultural, and life cycle flows offers a critical lens for visualizing new housing strategies for living in the future. The d3 Housing Tomorrow competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore, document, analyze, transform, and deploy innovative approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects. More about the competition, after the break.

Sergey Makhno Office and Showroom / Sergey Makhno + Illya Tovstonog

© Andrey Avdeenko
Architects: Sergey Makhno ,
Location: Ukraine
Area: 200.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Andrey Avdeenko

adjkm’s Releases Final Design for Caracas Symphony

CASMSB - View from Boulevard. Image ©
In 2011, adjkm won an international competition to design the Simon Bolivar Complex for Social Action through Music (CASMSB - Complejo de Acción Social por la Música Simón Bolívar) in Caracas. Now, almost four years later, the Venezuelan practice has released their updated design for the “Caracas Symphony” in preparation for its groundbreaking at the end of this year. 
The building is being constructed for the El Sistema project, an internationally distinguished program based on the premise that musical training can create great musicians and completely alter the expected life paths of children born into extremely impoverished circumstance. 

Bringing Dance to New Heights: A “Waltz on the Walls” of Oakland’s City Hall

The walls of ’s City Hall transcended their usual purpose during the city’s 2014 Art+Soul festival, becoming the stage for a beautifully choreographed dance by aerial dance company Bandaloop. Filmed with a GoPro, “Waltz on The Walls of City Hall” captures Bandaloop dancers Amelia Rudolph and Roel Seeber as they take dancing to new heights (literally).
Founded in 1991, the Bandaloop dance company is known for their vertical choreography and they have performed on skyscrapers, in atriums and in locations as diverse as Seattle’s Space Needle and the wall of the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York. Watch the video above as the dancers gracefully twirl, jump and glide on the side of the 320-foot City Hall building. Visit the Bandaloop website for more information on the dance team.

Lopez House / Martin Fenlon Architecture

© Eric Staudenmaier
Architects: Martin Fenlon Architecture
Location: Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Area: 2200.0 ft2
Year: 2013
Photographs: Eric Staudenmaier

Gia Wolff Transforms the Tate Modern with Canopy of Ropes

© Gia Wolff
From the architect. What happens when a designer decides to turn a classic Herzog & de Meuron masterpiece into a carnival space? That’s precisely what happened when architect Gia Wolff was asked to create an installation – part of which doubled as a performance piece – for the show Up Hill Down Hall: An Indoor Carnival in the Tate Modern‘s Turbine Hall. How did she approach transforming such a cultural icon? Three words: red-pink rope.

How to Design Offices for Clients Who Have Bigger Problems Than Design

How much impact can the configuration of an office have? Microsoft, Thames Valley Park by Perkins+Will. Image Courtesy of David Churchill
We spend a lot of time and effort debating and researching how to design the perfect office – perhaps too much time, according to Rachel Casanova, a Principle and Director of Workplace at Perkins + Will. In this post, originally published by Metropolis Magazine as “When the Open Office Isn’t Always the Problem or Solution“, Casanova argues that we ought to be thinking about office design more holistically, taking into account not just the physical space of the office, but also how the client runs their workplace. At best, design can catalyse a more nurturing office environment, but for each company the way to achieve this may be different; there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ office solution. Read on after the break to find out why.

Forest House / NORM Architects

© Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen
Architects: NORM Architects
Location: Copenhagen,
Area: 215.0 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen
Courtesy of Cards Against Urbanity

Are You a Card-Carrying Member of the Urban Elite? Find Out With “Cards Against Urbanity”

Architects have been known to dabble in product design, but what about board game design? A team of Washington, D.C.-based architects, urban planners, and designers have come together to create a game with a comedic (yet somewhat serious) take on the nuances of city living. Cards Against Urbanity, a parody on the wildly successful Cards Against Humanity, is simultaneously a critical and satirical game designed to open a dialogue about the development of cities among those who influence them.

HOK Selected for Redevelopment of St Helier’s Fort Regent

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Global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm HOK has recently been selected as lead designer and masterplanner for the of Fort Regent, a former fortress turned community center in St. Helier on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands of the English Channel.
The redevelopment of the 22-acre (9-hectares) site will make Jersey’s largest leisure and entertainment venue a premiere destination, and includes a masterplan that aims to strengthen the economic value of the site and encourage public funding for the redevelopment.

Leather Dressing / Simon Astridge

© Nicholas Worley
Architects: Simon Astridge
Location: Paddington, London W2, UK
Area: 272.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Nicholas Worley

House and Ateliers / Cláudia Melo

© Miguel d ́Aguiam
Architects: Cláudia Melo
Location: 6000 , Portugal
Area: 538.0 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Miguel d ́Aguiam

Apartment in Rue de Lille / spamroom

© Martin Argyroglo
Architects: spamroom
Location: Rue de Lille, 75007 ,
Collaborator: LEAinvent
Area: 100.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Martin Argyroglo

Vantan Design Institute Osak / eleven nine inteiror design office

© Seiryo Yamada
Architects: eleven nine inteiror design office
Location: Chuo Ward, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture,
Area: 330.0 sqm
Year: 2009
Photographs: Seiryo Yamada

a+u 529: Recent Projects

Courtesy of Shinkenchiku-sha
The October issue of a+u introduces 14 recent works from around the globe. In particular, the issue is focused on architecture that emerged from the relationship with the urban structures or the developmental history of the site. Over time, they influence and transform the surrounding environment. Architects employ diverse “tactics” in order to create such architecture: collaborating with the residents, relating to the neighboring buildings and open spaces, diversifying the building’s programs, and employing intricate construction details. In this issue, we focus our attention on the process of conceiving the projects driven by various tactics. We invite our readers to look beyond a single building and examine the works’ possibilities to be used in a long span of time.
Downtown Vancouver. Image Courtesy of SFU

RISE Competition Seeks Ideas to Combat Sea Level Rise in Vancouver

How will sea level rise affect Metro Vancouver and what can we do about it? Take a look at the #RISEIDEAS competition from SFU Public Square – an open ideas competition with a Grand Prize of $35,000 to find innovative ways to address sea level rise. Form a team of one to four people, submit your idea online, and you could take home the cash, rub shoulders with experts at the October 19 public exhibition day, and win free event tickets. The deadline for competition submissions is October 6, 2014. Check out the website for all the details.

Amunategui Building / Alemparte Morelli y Asociados Arquitectos

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Architects: Alemparte Morelli y Asociados Arquitectos
Location: Hnos Amunátegui 232, , Metropolitan Region, Chile
Project Architects: José Gabriel Alemparte, Patricio Morelli
Project Area: 32790.0 m2
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Alemparte Morelli y Asociados Arquitectos

2014 Restaurant & Bar Design Award Winners

Best Restaurant: Les Haras () / Jouin Manku
The 2014 Restaurant & Bar Design Award winners have been announced! The award, now in its sixth cycle, is one of the most prestigious in hospitality. Projects from the UK to China and Australia have all been recognized as being some of the world’s best designed restaurant and bars. See who was selected from 3000 international submissions, after the break.
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