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Seongdong Cultural & Welfare Center / UnSangDong Architects
Architects: UnSangDong Architects
Location: Seongsu, 300-1 Seongsu-dong 2(i)-ga, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Architect In Charge: Jang Yoon Gyoo, Shin Chang Hoon
Design Team: Kim Sung Min, Kim Min Tae, Seo Hye Lim, Ryu Sam Yeol, Ahn Hye Joon, Kim Won Il, Ahn Boo Young, Kim Mi Jung, Jo Eun Chong
Area: 1014.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Sergio Pirrone
Location: Seongsu, 300-1 Seongsu-dong 2(i)-ga, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Architect In Charge: Jang Yoon Gyoo, Shin Chang Hoon
Design Team: Kim Sung Min, Kim Min Tae, Seo Hye Lim, Ryu Sam Yeol, Ahn Hye Joon, Kim Won Il, Ahn Boo Young, Kim Mi Jung, Jo Eun Chong
Area: 1014.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Sergio Pirrone
Gallery at REDCAT Presents “Small Museum for the American Metaphor”
Continuing a curatorial program of experiments, collaborations and interdisciplinary projects, the Gallery at REDCAT presents Small Museum for the American Metaphor September 27 to November 30, 2014.REDCAT gallery curator Ruth Estévez invited the Belgian architect Kersten Geers to develop the exhibition, which focuses on themes that are clearly evident in the architectural work he creates with his firm, OFFICE Kersten Geers and David Van Severen.
UNStudio Brings Interactive Exhibit to Munich: Motion Matters 4.0
The evening of October 6th marks the grand opening of UNStudio‘s new exhibit, Motion Matters 4.0 at the Architektur Galerie in Munich. The opening ceremonies will coincide with the first day of the Expo Real International Trade Fair for Property and Investment and include a welcome speech by the Dutch Consul General Peter Vermeij, followed by an introductory talk about the exhibit from UNStudio co-founder and principal Ben van Berkel. More information, after the break.Nepean Mental Health Centre / Woods Bagot
Architects: Woods Bagot
Location: Parker Street & Derby Street, Kingswood NSW 2747, Australia
Area: 7278.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Trevor Mein, Ethan Rohloff
Location: Parker Street & Derby Street, Kingswood NSW 2747, Australia
Area: 7278.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Trevor Mein, Ethan Rohloff
Five Practices Compete to Design Los Angeles LGBT Center
Michael Maltzan, Frederick Fisher, Predock Frane, MAD and Leong Leong have been shortlisted in a limited competition to design a new Los Angeles LGBT Center (formerly called LA Gay and Lesbian Center). Each have received a stipend of $20,000 to develop proposals for the new campus, which will include arts, educational and affordable housing programs on more than an entire city block in Hollywood. Once complete, the center hopes to serve LGBT community members of all ages by providing access to multigenerational affordable housing, healthcare, senior care and family services. You can learn more on KCRW here.Villa Sarvilahti / K2S Architects
Architects: K2S Architects
Location: 54500 Luumäki, Finland
Architect In Charge: Kimmo Lintula, Niko Sirola, Mikko Summanen
Area: 326.0 sqm
Year: 2008
Photographs: Courtesy of K2S Architects
Location: 54500 Luumäki, Finland
Architect In Charge: Kimmo Lintula, Niko Sirola, Mikko Summanen
Area: 326.0 sqm
Year: 2008
Photographs: Courtesy of K2S Architects
The Parisian Hôtel Particulier in Drawings
Starting October 18th, the Tchoban Foundation will
be showing 65 art works of Hôtel particulier buildings – prestigious
town houses, which were built in the first part of the 18th century and
characterize Parisian architecture until today – in the exhibition “Lʼhôtel particulier à Paris.”
After Sergei Tchoban, architect and founder of the Tchoban Foundation
for Architectural Drawing, showed his collection of 24 drawings at the
École des Beaux-Arts in 2011 with the exhibition “À la source de l’
Antique. La collection de Sergei Tchoban”, the two institutions now
continue their collaboration, this time with a selection of works from
Paris that will be displayed in Berlin. Learn more after the break.
JustPeople / Cristián Olivi
Architects: Cristián Olivi
Location: Las Condes, Las Condes, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Design Team: Daniela Reyes, Diana Menino, Roberto Gutierrez, SimpleLab
Furniture Design: Manuel Oneto
Area: 1100.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Nico Saieh
Location: Las Condes, Las Condes, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Design Team: Daniela Reyes, Diana Menino, Roberto Gutierrez, SimpleLab
Furniture Design: Manuel Oneto
Area: 1100.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Nico Saieh
Madrid to Eliminate Cars from City Center
Starting January, the City of Madrid will close off
190 hectares of its central core to traffic, expanding its restricted
vehicular areas to 352 hectares. Vehicles not belonging to residents
within the city’s four most central barrios will be restricted to large
avenues. If a vehicle enters the car-less zone, and does not have access
to one of the 13 official parking lots, the owner will be automatically
ticketed €90 ($115 U.S). The new legislation is part of a larger goal
to completely pedestrianization central Madrid by 2020. A map of the
restricted area, after the break.
How Three Colleges Brought Modernist Design to the US
Though modernism was developed in the 1920s, and was
popular among many architects by the time the 1930s arrived, in many
places it took years for the style to gain favor among clients. In the
USA, people often point to the 1922 Chicago Tribune Tower Competition as
a turning point, the winning entry was actually a neo-gothic design. In
this article, which originally appeared on Curbed, Marni
Epstein looks at another potential turning point: three high-profile
competitions in the late 1930s where modernist designs were (sometimes
controversially) successful.
The Great Depression of the 1930s hit everyone, and hard—even architects and draftsmen found themselves out of work as development and construction dried up amid vanishing capital. They found a partial solution in the Historic American Buildings Survey and Historic American Engineering Record, two programs of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration that involved surveying and cataloging the country’s existing infrastructure. These programs, however, were a long way from the prestige, creativity, and financial rewards that came with new architectural commissions. The work available was limited, and what work existed was focused on the architecture of the past, not designs for the future.
The Great Depression of the 1930s hit everyone, and hard—even architects and draftsmen found themselves out of work as development and construction dried up amid vanishing capital. They found a partial solution in the Historic American Buildings Survey and Historic American Engineering Record, two programs of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration that involved surveying and cataloging the country’s existing infrastructure. These programs, however, were a long way from the prestige, creativity, and financial rewards that came with new architectural commissions. The work available was limited, and what work existed was focused on the architecture of the past, not designs for the future.
Around fireplace / Ruetemple
Architects: Ruetemple
Location: Moscow, Russia
Design Team: Alexander Kudimov, Daria Butahina
Area: 60.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Ruetemple
Location: Moscow, Russia
Design Team: Alexander Kudimov, Daria Butahina
Area: 60.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Ruetemple
Architects Design Cardboard Carrier to Improve City Cycling
There’s no denying that biking is one of the biggest trends in
urban development right now, with many touting cycling as the solution
to reducing pollution and congestion – not to mention its health
benefits. As cities
are focusing on what they can do to encourage cycling and make their
streets bike-friendly, architects have played a critical role in
ushering bikes into the city, designing everything from protected cycle lanes to elaborate elevated cycletracks. Yet
after cycling in Vienna for eight years, two architecture students
decided to take a different – and simpler – approach to improving biking
conditions. Focusing on the often cumbersome task of trying to run
errands while on a bike, Philipp Moherndl and Matthias Lechner have
designed a lightweight, recyclable cardboard pannier that can seamlessly
go from store to bike.
“Due to the mass appeal of the bike, conventional cycling accessories do not fit the lifestyle of many urban cyclists,” Moherndl and Lechner told ArchDaily. “The limited transport capacity of usual bicycles makes shopping difficult and inflexible. People often do their shopping spontaneously, on their way home or whilst cycling in the city. Therefore we wanted to come up with a more flexible solution: a multi-use bag for bicycles, which is low priced and environmentally-friendly.”
Learn more about the Packtasche after the break.
“Due to the mass appeal of the bike, conventional cycling accessories do not fit the lifestyle of many urban cyclists,” Moherndl and Lechner told ArchDaily. “The limited transport capacity of usual bicycles makes shopping difficult and inflexible. People often do their shopping spontaneously, on their way home or whilst cycling in the city. Therefore we wanted to come up with a more flexible solution: a multi-use bag for bicycles, which is low priced and environmentally-friendly.”
Learn more about the Packtasche after the break.
Spotlight: Henry Hobson Richardson
Henry Hobson Richardson (29 September 1838 — 27 April 1886) was known across North America as the father of the Romanesque Revival. Although he only lived to age 48, Richardson is revered across the northeast United States for his appreciation of classic architecture and is the namesake for Richardsonian Romanesque, a movement he pioneered. Richardson studied engineering at Harvard University, a discipline he abandoned in favour of his interest in architecture.Andrée Chedid Media Library / D’HOUNDT+BAJART Architects & Associates
Architects: D’HOUNDT+BAJART Architects & Associates
Location: 156 Rue Fin de la Guerre, 59200 Tourcoing, France
Façade Engineering: VS-A
Area: 920.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of D’HOUNDT+BAJART Architects & Associates
Location: 156 Rue Fin de la Guerre, 59200 Tourcoing, France
Façade Engineering: VS-A
Area: 920.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of D’HOUNDT+BAJART Architects & Associates
The Avery Review: Insightful Critical Writing Online
The Avery Review (AR), a new online journal dedicated to thinking about books, buildings and other
architectural media, seeks to utilise the potential in the critical
essay and repackage it for the digital realm. A project of the Office of
Publications at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, the AR’s responsive website (designed by Nothing in Common) perfectly matches the exceptional quality of the content. Featuring essays from Owen Hatherley and Amale Andraos,
among others, the overarching aim of the review is to “explore the
broader implications of a given object of discourse” whether that be
“text, film, exhibition, building, project, or urban environment.”
Find out more from editors Caitlin Blanchfield and James Graham after the break.
Find out more from editors Caitlin Blanchfield and James Graham after the break.
House W / Studio Prototype
Architects: Studio Prototype
Location: Duiven, The Netherlands
Design Team: Jeroen Spee, Jeroen Steenvoorden
Project Team: Gijs van Suijlichem, Titus Lammertse, Jan Paulus Hoogterp, Jan van der Schaaf
Area: 270.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Studio Prototype
Location: Duiven, The Netherlands
Design Team: Jeroen Spee, Jeroen Steenvoorden
Project Team: Gijs van Suijlichem, Titus Lammertse, Jan Paulus Hoogterp, Jan van der Schaaf
Area: 270.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Studio Prototype
Quality Hotel Friends / Karolina Keyzer + Wingårdhs
Architects: Karolina Keyzer, Wingårdhs
Location: Råsta Strandväg, Solna, Sweden
Area: 21935.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Tord-Rickard Söderström, Filip Mesko
Location: Råsta Strandväg, Solna, Sweden
Area: 21935.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Tord-Rickard Söderström, Filip Mesko
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