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Photography Studio / FT Architects

© Shigeo Ogawa
Architects: FT Architects
Location: Kanagawa,
Architect In Charge: Katsuya Fukushima, Hiroko Tominaga
Work Title: Light Sheds
Area: 33.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Shigeo Ogawa

Shizimen Central Business District / 10 Design

© Kerun Ip
Architects: 10 Design
Location: Zhuhai, Guangdong,
Chief Design Architect: Gordon Affleck
Area: 640000.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Kerun Ip
Courtesy of WBDC 2014

2014 World Bamboo Design Competition

Architects, students and designers worldwide are being summoned to propose innovative design solutions centered around bamboo that explores the material’s future potential. The competition, organized by World Bamboo and Damyang-Gun, hopes to “discover fresh ideas related to domestic and foreign industrialization of bamboo.” Architecture is one of three divisions in the competition. Winners will receive up to $10,000 in awards. Submissions are due November 30, 2014. You can learn more about the 2014 World Bamboo Design Competition, here.

Riverview House / Bennett and Trimble

© Peter Bennetts
Architects: Bennett and Trimble
Location: NSW,
Architects In Charge: Marcus Trimble, Matthew Bennett
Collaborator: Erin Field
Year: 2013
Photographs: Peter Bennetts

Bosco Verticale: The World’s “Most Beautiful and Innovative Highrise”

Bosco Verticale, Milan / . Image © Kirsten Bucher
Bosco Verticale by Boeri Studio has won the 2014 International Highrise Award, deeming it to be the “most beautiful and innovative highrise in the world.” Selected from a competitive shortlist of towers by Rem Koolhass, Steven Holl and Jean Nouvel, the forested highrise was praised by the jury for bringing 800 trees and 14 thousand plants to the Milan skyline.
“The Vertical Forest is an expression of the human need for contact with nature,” stated jury president Christoph Ingenhoven. “It is a radical and daring idea for the cities of tomorrow, and without a doubt represents a model for the development of densely populated urban areas in other European countries.”

Apartment Renovation in Eixample of Barcelona / Adrián Elizalde

© Adrià Goula
Architects: Adrián Elizalde
Location: Carrer de Provença, Barcelona, Barcelona,
Construction: Forneas Guida
Area: 70.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Adrià Goula

Three OMA-Designed “Park Grove” Towers to Rise in Miami

© Bloom
OMA is set to realize their first commercial residential project in the US: Park Grove. Planned to rise alongside the Biscayne Bay in ’s Coconut Grove, in close proximity to BIG’s “Grove” residences at Grand Bay, the three-tower luxury residential project will be the last building allotted for the “walkable” Floridan neighborhood.

HDJ75 / T38 studio

© Alfredo Zertuche
Architects: T38 studio
Location: Tijuana, Baja California,
Area: 290.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Alfredo Zertuche

Hadid, Gehry, and Others Fight to Save Helmut Richter’s Modernist Masterpiece

Science Secondary School in Kinkplatz, , Exterior. Image © Manfred Seidl
The Science Secondary School in Kinkplatz, Vienna is the work of late Modernist architect Helmut Richter. Considered to be his most iconic and enduring work, Richter’s school is now faced with partial demolition to make way for a conversion of the building’s use and architects from around the world are making an effort to prevent that demolition from happening. Influential individuals, from Zaha Hadid to Bernard Tschumi, have signed a petition voicing their dissent and demanding that Richter’s legacy be protected. See the details, and sign the petition, after the break.

Her Majesty’s Pleasure / +tongtong

© Lisa Petrole
Architects: +tongtong
Location: , ON,
Architect In Charge: John Tong
Area: 3000.0 sqm
Photographs: Lisa Petrole

Surface Mag Interviews Liz Diller on Architecture, Art, and Early “Aha” Moments

© Ungano + Agriodima
Below is an excerpt of the cover story of this month’s Surface magazine: an in-depth interview with Elizabeth Diller, published online for the first time here on ArchDaily.
The 35-year career of Elizabeth Diller, a founding partner of the New York–based architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro, is a study of contrasts: conceptual and pragmatic, temporary and permanent, iconoclastic and institutional. After graduating from Cooper Union in 1979, Diller started her practice mounting temporary installations with her partner and future husband, Ricardo Scofidio, their interests leaning closer to art and theory than conventional buildings and construction. Today the duo—along with Charles Renfro, who became a partner in 2004—is responsible for some of the most important architectural projects in the country. DS+R counts Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art (completed in 2006) and a makeover of New York’s Lincoln Center (finalized in 2012) among its highest-profile works. Especially influential, at least among architects and academics, has been the firm’s unbuilt Slow House (1991), a proposal for a residence on Long Island, New York, renowned for its examination of how we see in a media-saturated world.
One notices sharp contrasts not just in the firm’s work history but in its public reception as well. Widely lauded for repurposing a dilapidated elevated railway into New York City’s beloved High Line park (the third phase opened in September), DS+R received heavy criticism this year for its involvement in a major expansion proposal for the Museum of Modern Art. The museum’s plans included the demolition of its little-guy neighbor, the American Folk Art Museum; despite efforts to work the idiosyncratic building into the design scheme, Diller’s studio, hired to lead the expansion, ultimately acknowledged that the structure couldn’t be saved.
Surface recently met with Diller at her office in Manhattan to speak about the ensuing controversy, as well as early career experiences that have influenced her firm’s recent commissions for cultural institutions, including the current exhibition “Musings on a Glass Box” at the Cartier Foundation in Paris (through Feb. 25, 2015), a collaboration with composer David Lang and sound designer Jody Elff. Diller, 60, is pensive and surprisingly relaxed for someone whose aides are constantly interrupting her to remind her of meetings she has to attend. She speaks with an erudite inflection befitting her academic credentials and professional accolades (she is, after all, a professor at Princeton and a MacArthur “genius grant” recipient), though she smiles with the ease of an affable neighbor.

Redaction House / Johnsen Schmaling Architects

© John J. Macaulay
Architects: Johnsen Schmaling Architects
Location: , WI 53066, USA
Year: 2014
Photographs: John J. Macaulay

AD Classics: Kuwait National Assembly Building / Jørn Utzon

Covered plaza. Image © Jeffrey van der Wees
No single building typology reveals as much about a nation’s political culture as the seat of its government. Parliamentary or palatial structures can tell stories of bureaucratic sprawl, autocratic excess, democratic openness, and anything in between. Kuwait’s National Assembly Building, the home of its popularly elected legislature, is no exception. Much like the nominally-democratic, effectively-oligarchic government it hosts, the building projects conflicting messages of accessibility and regionalist modernity, referencing traditions that don’t necessarily exist in the country and sometimes ending up in direct contradiction with itself. As an emblem of political culture, the building is thus perhaps too accurate in its reading of the Kuwaiti story, yielding a revealing insight into the complex political fabric of the country through its own eclectic bricolage of ideas.

Andrew Burges Architects Wins Competition for Park and Aquatic Centre in Sydney’s Green Square

© Andrew Burges Architects via www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
The City of Sydney has selected the team of Andrew Burges Architects working with Grimshaw and TCL, as the winners of a competition to design a new park and aquatic centre in Green Square, around 4 kilometres to the South of central Sydney. One of the city’s six “Major Development Zones,” the park and aquatic centre is part of a larger development in the centre of Green Square, with an adjacent site slated for a new public square and library.

Noa Restaurant / Kamp Arhitektid

© Terje Ugandi
Architects: Kamp Arhitektid
Location: Tallinn,
Architect In Charge: Peeter Loo, Jan Skolimowski, Kaspar Kruuse
Interior Design: PINK OÜ
Area: 544.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Terje Ugandi
Caruso St. John's Remodelling of the Tate Britain (London, 2014). Image © Helene Binet

Will The Traditional Museum Survive?

The question of whether the traditional museum survive in the digital age has been bounced around since the dawn of digital art and archiving. In an article for The Independent, Christopher Beanland examines the issue of a global “museum boom” (especially in China where a new one opens every day), and how this is having an undoubtedly positive impact on people’s quality of life. For Beanland, it’s curious that “we don’t splash out on council houses or universities or hospitals any more – but we do build museums and galleries.” Perhaps it’s because they are “a reliquary for our collective memories” and “a triumph of our collective will” or, in most cases, because they employ excellent PR and branding strategies. He notes that “despite being swamped by possessions, we’ve changed our views towards those things. In the second half of the 20th century, people defined themselves by what they had. But today people increasingly define themselves by what they do.”

Single Family House with Garden / DTR_Studio Arquitectos

© Javier Callejas
Architects: DTR_Studio Arquitectos
Location: Granada, Granada,
Architect In Charge: Jose Miguel Vázquez , Jose María Olmedo
Architects Collaborators: Claudia Gutierrez, Alba Márquez
Area: 287.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Javier Callejas

Chamber of Industry and Commerce / Wulf Architekten

© Brigida González
Architects: Wulf Architekten
Location: Jaeger Street 30, 70174 ,
Architect In Charge: Prof. Tobias Wulf, Kai Bierich, Alexander Vohl, Stuttgart
Area: 16670.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Brigida González, Markus Guhl
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