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B House / i.House Architecture and Construction
Architects: i.House Architecture and Construction
Location: Nhà Bè District, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Design Team: Le Canh Van, Dang Huy Cuong, Chu Ngoc Anh
Area: 82.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Le Canh Van, Vu Ngoc Ha
Location: Nhà Bè District, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Design Team: Le Canh Van, Dang Huy Cuong, Chu Ngoc Anh
Area: 82.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Le Canh Van, Vu Ngoc Ha
Open for Submissions: Unbuilt Visions 2014
Unbuilt Visions promotes critical debate about architecture and design by acknowledging excellence in unbuilt projects. This annual competition provides an opportunity to engage with architecture, urbanism, interiors, and designed objects at the conceptual stage by recognizing work that offers a critical contribution to worldwide architectural discourse. More information, after the break.FORA Chosen to Revitalize Plovdiv’s Central Square
Final Call for 2015 Bauwelt Award Applicants
Final Call! All entries for the 2015 Bauwelt Award must be submitted by September 30th. The award (consisting of 5 awards at 5000 Euros each) is applicable for all architects and landscape architects’ “First Works” projects – any work realized by independent responsibility and completed after September 30, 2011. In addition to the prize, award-winners will be published in an exhibition at the BAU 2015 on the Munich fairgrounds starting January. An Advancement Award grant is also available, prized at 5,000 Euros, to fund an interdisciplinary research, exhibition or installation project that has yet to be completed. Visit the official website to learn more about the competition and how to apply.House in the Mountains / Wolff Architects
Architects: Wolff Architects
Location: Cederberg, West Coast DC, South Africa
Architect In Charge: Heinrich Wolff
Year: 2013
Photographs: James Puttick , Courtesy of Heinrich Wolff
Location: Cederberg, West Coast DC, South Africa
Architect In Charge: Heinrich Wolff
Year: 2013
Photographs: James Puttick , Courtesy of Heinrich Wolff
Tour a Building a Day Throughout Archtober
If you live in or plan to visit New York City during the
month of October, we suggest you set aside some time to participate in
one of Archtober’s many events. What is Archtober? Archtober is
New York’s official Architecture and Design Month. Hosted by the Center
for Architecture and the AIA New York Chapter, the annual festival
organizes a plethora of architecture activities, programs and
exhibitions to take place throughout city during the month of October.
The goal is to raise awareness of the important role design plays in the
city, celebrate the richness of New York’s built environment, and
simply enjoy some great architecture.
Archtober highlights include the Architecture & Design Film Festival at Tribeca Cinemas; the Municipal Art Society Summit for New York City,
featuring over 100 speakers gathered “to debate the future of our city
and spark conversations about planning, design, infrastructure,
preservation, culture, and development;” the Pratt Institute’s “City by Numbers: Big Data and the Urban Future” symposium; and 31 architect-led “Building of the Day” tours.
Preview a selection of building’s on tour after the break and find out how to reserve tickets.
AD Interviews: Peter Cook / CRAB Studio
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Having taught architecture for almost fifty years, Sir Peter Cook has seen generations of architects go from student to high-profile practitioner. In almost half a century, though, architecture education has
not particularly moved on: “I don’t see the general situation as being
any more progressive than it was when I was a student,” he says.
Cook tells ArchDaily that instead of focusing on curriculum, structure and countless other preoccupations of many schools, “my experience is that doesn’t matter, it depends who’s teaching and how enthusiastic they are and whether they understand people,” adding that “a really good architecture school is like a village,” with tutors who simply don’t go home because they are enjoying it so much (or perhaps for other, less innocent reasons).
In addition, Cook also explains that there is potential for a radical shift in the understanding of architecture education, so that we think of it not only as a route into an architectural career, but rather as a route into a whole host of other jobs. ”I know people who have science degrees but they actually organize railways,” he says. “There’s a role for a wing of architectural education at a certain point to take off and say, ‘that person is never going to design buildings, but a certain form of architectural education can enable them to look at the world in more depth.’”
Cook tells ArchDaily that instead of focusing on curriculum, structure and countless other preoccupations of many schools, “my experience is that doesn’t matter, it depends who’s teaching and how enthusiastic they are and whether they understand people,” adding that “a really good architecture school is like a village,” with tutors who simply don’t go home because they are enjoying it so much (or perhaps for other, less innocent reasons).
In addition, Cook also explains that there is potential for a radical shift in the understanding of architecture education, so that we think of it not only as a route into an architectural career, but rather as a route into a whole host of other jobs. ”I know people who have science degrees but they actually organize railways,” he says. “There’s a role for a wing of architectural education at a certain point to take off and say, ‘that person is never going to design buildings, but a certain form of architectural education can enable them to look at the world in more depth.’”
Loft ESN / Ippolito Fleitz Group
Architects: Ippolito Fleitz Group
Location: Esslingen, Germany
Area: 400.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Zooey Braun
Location: Esslingen, Germany
Area: 400.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Zooey Braun
Tranquility in the Heart of São Paulo: Meet the City’s Slender Residential Tower
Step inside AIR Madalena’s elegant lofts after the break
Plans Revealed for Denmark’s Delta District in Vinge
Antonio Derka School / Obranegra Arquitectos
Architects: Obranegra Arquitectos
Location: Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Area: 7500.0 sqm
Year: 2008
Photographs: Isaac Ramírez, Sergio Gómez, Alejandro Arango, Alfonso Posada, Carlos Pardo, Luis Adriano Ramírez
Location: Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Area: 7500.0 sqm
Year: 2008
Photographs: Isaac Ramírez, Sergio Gómez, Alejandro Arango, Alfonso Posada, Carlos Pardo, Luis Adriano Ramírez
Jing Mian Xin Cheng / Spark Architects
Architects: Spark Architects
Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
Project Director: Jan Felix Clostermann
Project Architect: Phi Wenhui Lu
Desing Team: Andrew Ng, Chris Taeubert
Area: 87800.0 sqm
Photographs: ShuHe
Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
Project Director: Jan Felix Clostermann
Project Architect: Phi Wenhui Lu
Desing Team: Andrew Ng, Chris Taeubert
Area: 87800.0 sqm
Photographs: ShuHe
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
Architects: Sergey Makhno , Illya Tovstonog
Location: Ukraine
Area: 200.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Andrey Avdeenko
Location: Ukraine
Area: 200.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Andrey Avdeenko
adjkm’s Releases Final Design for Caracas Symphony
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 Oakland’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.
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
Architects: Martin Fenlon Architecture
Location: Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Area: 2200.0 ft2
Year: 2013
Photographs: Eric Staudenmaier
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
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