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Incheon Children Science Museum / HAEAHN Architecture + Yooshin Architects & Engineers + Seongwoo Engineering & Architects

© Park Young-chae
Architects: HAEAHN Architecture, Yooshin Architects & Engineers, Seongwoo Engineering & Architects
Location: 108-1 Bangchuk-dong, Gyeyang-gu, Incheon, South Korea
Area: 14998.0 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Park Young-chae

House in Nagatoro / CASE-REAL

© Hiroshi Mizusaki
Architects: CASE-REAL
Location: Saitama, Saitama,
Area: 119.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Hiroshi Mizusaki

Santiago Calatrava Breaks Ground on Church at 9/11 Memorial Site

© Santiago Calatrava
Construction has begun on Santiago Calatrava’s Saint Nicholas National Shrine on the World Trade Center site in . A “tiny jewel” for lower Manhattan, as referred by Calatrava, the white Vermont marble shrine will be based around a translucent central Cupola that illuminates from within. 
More images and an updated construction image of Calatrava’s neighboring transportation hub, after the break.

Bates Smart Sydney Studio / Bates Smart

© Brent Winstone
Architects: Bates Smart
Location: 43 Brisbane Street, NSW 2010, Australia
Year: 2014
Photographs: Brent Winstone

World’s Tallest Twin Towers Planned for Dubai

© Emaar Properties and Holding; Courtesy of Gizmodo
Developers Emaar Properties and Dubai Holdings have unveiled a new mega development planned for Dubai, dubbed Dubai Creek Harbour. Though no official architects have been named, the 6 million-square-meter masterplan is designed to be three times larger than downtown Dubai and will include the world’s tallest twin towers.

Munich Botanical Garden Entrance Building / Kunze Seeholzer

© Jann Averwerser
Architects: Kunze Seeholzer
Location: Menzinger Straße 65, 80638 Munich,
Year: 2014
Photographs: Jann Averwerser , Herbert Stolz

Michael Graves School of Architecture to Open in 2015

Graves-designed University building planned for Wenzhou. Image ©
Kean University has announced plans to open a new architecture school based on the design philosophy of Michael Graves. Following the footsteps of a man who laments the “loss of drawing,” the new Michael Graves School of Architecture will prioritize hand drawings as a key to design process.
“In our technologically savvy world, to this day, Michael Graves’ philosophy is to draw by hand first so that the students see, ‘feel’ and experience the new building spatially. Then, only after the drawing is complete will the students transfer the design to a computer so that the computer becomes an execution tool, not an ideation tool,” describes acting dean and former student of Graves, David Mohney.

Stephen Hawking Centre at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics / Teeple Architects

© Tom Arban
Architects: Teeple Architects
Location: 31 Caroline Street North, , ON N2L 6B9, Canada
Area: 55000.0 ft2
Year: 2011
Photographs: Tom Arban , Scott Norsworthy , Shai Gil

Fly Through Milan’s 2015 Expo Site in Progress With the Help of a Drone

Construction is entering into the final stages for Expo Milan 2015, with just over six months left in the five-year build. A quick fly through shows the centrepiece Italian Pavilion nearing structural completion, with national and corporate pavilions making steady progress. The video is the fifth in a series of drone-led tours of the site, created in partnership between Expo Milan and Telecom Italia.
Find out more and watch the remaining four videos after the break 

St Teresa’s Academy Windmoor Center / Gould Evans

© Assassi Productions
Architects: Gould Evans
Location: 5600 Main Street, , MO 64113, USA
Area: 10650.0 ft2
Year: 2012
Photographs: Assassi Productions, Courtesy of , Michael Spillers Photography

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How Kunlé Adeyemi “Engages the Local and Specific To Have a Powerful Effect on a Global Level”

Makoko Floating School / NLÉ Architects. Image © Iwan Baan
Kunlé Adeyemi, the 38 year-old former disciple of Rem Koolhaas, made headlines last year with his Makoko Floating School, which enabled better access to education a slum community in . In this profile of Adeyemi and his Practice NLÉ Architects, originally published by Metropolis Magazine, Avinash Rajagopal explores what drives the young architect, explaining why he was selected as one of 10 designers in Metropolis Magazine’s 2014 New Talent list.
When the Makoko Floating School was completed in March 2013, it received wildly enthusiastic critical acclaim from the international news media. The simple A-frame structure, buoyed by recycled plastic barrels in a lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria, was designed by NLÉ, a Lagos- and Amsterdam-based studio founded by the architect Kunlé Adeyemi. The project, intended as a model for how Lagos’s floating community could build simple, sustainable structures for themselves, subsequently faced a few challenges. One of the biggest was winning over local officials, who simply did not know what to make of such a building.

Biomuseo / Gehry Partners

© Fernando Alda
Architects: Gehry Partners
Location: Amador Causeway, ,
Architect In Charge: Frank Gehry
Design Team: Elmer Barco, Danelle Briscoe, Vartan Chalikian, Tina Chee, Denise Disney, Sam Gehry, Jose Gonzalez, Kerenza Harris, Jeremy Leman, Chris Mercier, George Metzger, Nathaniel Nacionales, Scott Natvig, Michael O’Boyle, Markus Sohst, Armando Solano
Exhibition Design: Bruce Mau Design
Area: 4100.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Fernando Alda

Studio Octopi Proposes Floating Swimming Pool in the Thames

The latest iteration of the design proposed for Victoria Embankment. Image © / Picture Plane
A proposal to create a floating swimming pool in the Thames river will step up a gear tomorrow, as Studio Octopi will present their design for the Thames Baths at the Guardian’s World Cities Day Challenge. Originally created as part of the Architecture Foundation’s competition to design ways to reconnect Londoners with the river, the Thames Baths design has gained momentum over the last year, with a recent iteration of the design proposed for London‘s Victoria Embankment.
More on the design after the break

Preston Bus Station to Become a Youth Centre Under New Proposal

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
A proposal to ensure the future of Preston Bus Station could see part of the structure converted into a youth centre, as part of a £23 million renovation. The proposal by the building’s owners, Lancashire County Council, involves halving the number of bus bays used by the structure to 40, freeing up the western end of the building for other uses, including a sports hall, climbing wall, art centre and outdoor sports pitches.
In addition to the youth centre, the £23 million budget covers renovation to the existing structure and improvements to the surrounding highway. Funding for the proposal will come partly from the council and partly from Youth Zone.
More on the proposal after the break

The NSA Muscle: Conversations Exploring Pioneering Projects in Digital Architecture

Screenshot. Image Courtesy of Canadian Centre for Architecture
The NSA Muscle, an interactive inflatable structure built in 2003 that responded to touch and presence by changing its shape, is the latest subject explored in the Canadian Centre for Architecture‘s series on pioneering projects of digital architecture. Joining a roster of influential names including Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry and Chuck Hoberman, this e-book recounts a conversation between Greg Lynn and the author of the project Kas Oosterhuis of ONL []. The ‘breathing’ structure was covered by a grid of ‘muscles’ that contracted and relaxed in response to external stimulus, combining commercial pneumatics and virtual control technology in new ways to prototype an new kind of interactive architecture.
Discover the story by downloading  for free after the break.

Ice Kraków Congress Centre / IEA + Arata Isozaki & Associates

Courtesy of Ingarden & Ewý Architects + Arata Isozaki & Associates
Architects: Ingarden & Ewý Architects, Arata Isozaki & Associates
Location: Krakow,
Collaborating Architect: Jacek Ewý
Main Architect: Krzysztof Ingarden
Architects: Jacek Dubiel, Sylwester Staniucha, Dariusz Grobelny, Piotr Hojda, Sebastian Machaj, Grzegorz Miąsko, Joanna Bielawska-Ząbek, Olga Jasiak, Bartosz Kardaś, Piotr Kita, Tomasz Koral, Jakub Wagner, Anna Biskupska-Sperka, Sławomir Janas, Hiroyuki Mae, Agata Staniucha, Krzysztof Stępniak, Maciej Szromik, Jacek Szuba, Maciej Wierzbiński, Maja Wilczkiewicz-Janas, Tomasz Żełudziewicz, Marta Brańska, Joanna Domagalska, Sylwia Gowin, Łukasz Kępski, Jakub Turbasa, Bartosz Haduch (competition) project administration: Renata Skowron
Team: Yoko Sano, Tadayuki Uchida
Area: 36720.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Ingarden & Ewý Architects + Arata Isozaki & Associates

House In Oxfordshire / Peter Feeny Architects

© Rafael Dubreu
Architects: Peter Feeny Architects
Location: Oxfordshire,
Design Team: Peter Feeny, Matthias Thum, Ondrej Mundl, Richard Hood, David Max Phillips, Jose Soto
Year: 2012
Photographs: Rafael Dubreu
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