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Viravent / Debarre Duplantiers Associés Architecture & Paysage

© Yohan Zerdoun
Architects: Debarre Duplantiers Associés Architecture & Paysage
Location: Henri Descot Street, 33150 ,
Architect In Charge: Martin Duplantier Architectes, Laurent Duplantier Architect
Project Manager: Jean-Baptiste Monthiers
Area: 7280.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Yohan Zerdoun, Arthur Pequin

Haghighi Residential Building / Boozhgan Architecture Studio + AAD Studio

© Hamed Farhangi
Architects: Boozhgan Architecture Studio, AAD Studio
Location: Tehran, Iran
Area: 1180.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Hamed Farhangi

Yandex Saint Petersburg Office / Za Bor Architects

© Peter Zaytsev
Architects: Za Bor Architects
Location: , Russia
Architects In Charge: Arseniy Borysenko, Peter Zaytsev
Decor : Nadezhda Rozhanskaya
Area: 3310.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Peter Zaytsev

Video: Robert A.M. Stern on Designing Background Buildings and The Limestone Jesus

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“We have lots of silly buildings being built, in my opinion. The buildings should not look like Lady Gaga,” stated Robert A.M. Stern in the latest installment by the Louisiana Channel.
Fifteen Central Park West, what many know to be the “world’s most powerful address,” was designed by Stern with one intention: to fill in the wall of Central Park West with a single, well articulated “background building” rather than a “twisting and turning isolated” structure. As Stern describes in the video above, the building, known as the “Limestone Jesus,” is praised in the real estate world for it’s high-priced apartments.
“Almost every building that is new has a built-in history. We are architects that build on the shoulders of the past. I think is is much more exciting to enter into a dialogue with the past and also to take things from the past and restudy them, their theme and variation. Architecture is made up of many languages in my view and if we have a modern language that is evolved but it doesn’t mean that the other languages can’t also continue to be spoken.”
Eduardo Souto de Moura, 2011 Pritzker laureate, in front of the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego © Francisco Nogueira

Eduardo Souto de Moura Tapped for Mixed-Use Condo Project in DC

Eastbanc has tapped Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura to transform a former “Four Seasons gas station” site into a mixed-use condo. According to a report on the Georgetowner, the developer has asked residents to have “an open mind” for the design, which, as Urban Turf points out, is likely to stand out in the historic Washington D.C. district. Little details have been released. “We are considering all options, from condo to rental to hotel,” Eastbanc President Anthony Lanier stated. “It’s early in the design phase.”

Léon Blum Viaduct Bridge / RFR

Courtesy of RFR
Architects: RFR
Location: ,
Architect In Charge: Jean-François Blassel / RFR
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of RFR

13 Projects Win Regional Holcim Awards 2014 for Asia Pacific

GOLD: “Protective Wing” Bird Sanctuary . Image © Holcim Foundation
Teams from Thailand and New York have received top honors in the 2014 regional Holcim Awards for Asia Pacific, an award which recognizes the most innovative and advanced sustainable construction designs. Among the top three winners are the “Protective Wing” bird sanctuary and a locally-adapted orphanage and library in Nepal.
The 13 recognized projects will share over $300,000 in prize money, with the top three projects overall going on to be considered for the global Holcim , to be selected in 2015.
The full list of Pacific winners, after the break…

Alpha House / Studio Fabrício Roncca

© R.R.Rufino
Architects: Studio Fabrício Roncca
Location:
Photographs: R.R.Rufino

COBE and DISSING+WEITLING Wins Competition to Design 225-Meter Pedestrian Bridge for Køge

© COBE, DISSING+WEITLING and COWI
COBE, DISSING+WEITLING and COWI have been announced as winners of an international competition to design a 225-meter-long pedestrian bridge, station, 32,000-square-meter park and associated park-and-ride facility for the Danish city of . The winning design, selected over three other invited submissions, will stretch across a unique traffic “hot-spot” where ’s most trafficked freeway, an existing train line and a planned double-tracked high-speed rail line meet.
More about the Køge North Station, which is expected serve 90,000 people daily as a “new gateway to Copenhagen” by 2018, after the break.

Office Dones del 36 / Zest Architecture

© Adrià Goula
Architects: Zest Architecture
Location: Plaça de les Dones del 36, 08012 Barcelona, Barcelona,
Design Team: Co Govers, Joana Ramalhete
Area: 110.0 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Adrià Goula

Mario Palanti: Architect of Rome’s Skyscraper That Never Was

Adam Nathaniel Furman, architect and winner of this year’s Blueprint Award for Design Innovation, is currently undertaking his tenure as the recipient of the 2014/15 Rome Prize for Architecture at the British School at Rome. His ongoing project, entitled The Roman Singularity, seeks to explore and celebrate Rome as “the contemporary city par-excellence” – “an urban version of the internet, a place where the analogical-whole history of society, architecture, politics, literature and art coalesce into a space so intense and delimited that they collapse under the enormity of their own mass into a singularity of human endeavour.”
In this short essay, Furman examines what would have been “the tallest building in the world [...] housing Italy’s new Parliament, lecture halls, meeting rooms, a hotel, library, enormous sports facilities, lighthouse, clock, astronomical observatory, telegraph and telephone stations, [reflecting] sunlight off its acres and acres of white Carrara marble.” In the shadow of Italian Fascism, saw an opportunity to transform the skyline of the Italian capital by pandering to the egotistical ambitions of a dictator. Ultimately the extent of his vision was matched only by his failure.

State Street Townhouse / Ben Hansen Architect

© Francisc Dzikowski Photography Inc.
Architects: Ben Hansen Architect
Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA
Design Team: Eric Simon, Ben Hansen and Christine Hansen
Area: 320.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Francisc Dzikowski Photography Inc.

V&A and RIBA Present “Architects as Artists”

Designs for Truro Cathedral, 1878 Artist: William Burges. Image Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Drawings have long been used as a method for architects to represent their projects. However, architects sometimes make drawings to communicate a sense of space in a deeper and more meaningful way – in a manner that begins to venture into the realm of art. A new exhibition opening at London‘s V&A Museum this Saturday entitled Architects as Artists examines the overlapping relationship between architecture and art, and documents the many ways in which it is used and created.

20th Century Society Presents 100 Buildings 100 Years at the Royal Academy of Art

1952: Stockwell Bus Garage, London. Image © John East
The 20th Century Society was founded in the 1970s, to protect British architectural heritage which was built from 1914 onwards - following from the protection of the Victorian Society, which protects architecture from the 19th century up until 1914. This year, to celebrate the one hundred years of architectural heritage which they are sworn to protect, they have selected one building from each year, presenting one hundred of the best, most interesting or most loved buildings from the last century with their 100 Buildings 100 Years project.
The 100 selected buildings are featured in an ongoing at the Royal Academy in London, and also feature in a new book published by Batsford Books. Read on after the break to learn more about 100 Buildings 100 Years, and see a selection of the chosen buildings from the past hundred years.

Mühlestrasse Residential and Studio Building / AmreinHerzig

© Lucas Peters
Architects: AmreinHerzig
Location: Edlibach, 6313 ,
Architect In Charge: Pirmin Amrein, Claudio Herzig
Area: 320.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Lucas Peters, Courtesy of AmreinHerzig
Champs Elysees - Paris, France. Image © Flickr User justininsd

Typological to Evolutionary: A New Theory of Cities

Why do cities exist and how will they grow and change? As more than half of the world’s population now lives in cities it is becoming increasingly important for urban designers and planners to seek answers to these questions. This article by Laura Bliss from City Lab presents the “science of cities,” and the ways in which the urban-planning world is moving away from traditional methods of simply putting cities into categories, in favor of a more evolutionary theory. Benefiting from the vast amounts of data available today on statistics such as crime and voting patterns across cities, researchers have worked to establish the quantifiable characteristics of urban areas as a whole, and recent studies in this area reveal how the shapes of cities themselves could be connected to internal economic and social processes. Learn more about these radical developments in the full article from City Lab.

Leventis Art Gallery / Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

© Hufton & Crow
Architects: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Location:
Year: 2014
Photographs: Hufton & Crow

Refurbishment of an Old Barn / Arcoquattro Architettura

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Architects: Arcoquattro Architettura
Location: 22070 Como, Italy
Area: 200.0 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Arcoquattro Architettura
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