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Stone Art Gallery / O- Office

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Architects: O- Office
Location: , Guangdong, China
Area: 1270.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: LIKYFOTO , Courtesy of O- Office
Open Call: jumpthegap Seeks Ideas for “Bathroom of the Future”

Open Call: jumpthegap Seeks Ideas for “Bathroom of the Future”

Encouraging young designers and architects to create and design innovative, sustainable solutions for the bathroom, the sixth edition of the international design contest jumpthegap, organized by Roca and the Barcelona Design Centre (BCD), has been launched at the Roca London Gallery with a presentation from the contest’s UK judge Tom Dyckhoff. An ideal platform for new generations to show their talent and visions for the bathroom of the future, jumpthegap is aimed at young professionals and students of architecture and design under 35. Registration closes February 2015. The jury, which will be led by MAD principle Ma Yansong, is expected to announce the winner in October 2015. More information, after the break.

Aedas’ Leaf-Shaped Sales Gallery Nears Completion in Shanghai

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Aedas is nearing completion on the sales gallery for the mixed-use Greenland Qingpu Xujing District complex. The gallery, shaped as a leaf, is designed to fit with the “clover leaf” concept of the nearby Qingpu Xujing Conference and Exhibition Centre, in which it will be connected with by a pedestrian bridge.
Meinel Optical Sciences Building / richärd+bauer (downtown Tucson). Image © Bill Timmerman

Four Practices Shortlisted for Tucson’s January 8th Memorial

The January 8th Memorial Foundation has selected four finalists out of the 60 practices and artists, both national and international, who submitted applications to create a permanent memorial and master plan concept for the El Presidio Park in Tucson, Arizona. The permanent memorial would commemorate the January 8, 2011, mass shooting that wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, killed six people and injured 12 others. The memorial is also intended to honor the spirit of the Tucson community in its responses to the tragedy and to inspire future generations to work together on community issues. The four finalists are:

Santa Catarina House / Ludens

© Angélica Ibarra
Architects: Ludens
Location: City, Federal District,
Architecture: Iván Hernández
Design Team: Tiago Pinto + Anna Mieszek + Antonio García + Juan Vázquez
Project Area: 300.0 m2
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: Angélica Ibarra, Courtesy of Briefcase

designcamp moonpark dmp Wins Competition for Ansan Cultural Arts Center

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designcamp moonpark dmp has won a competition to design the new cultural arts center in Ansan, . The winning proposal balances mass and void with two theaters and a cultural arts building that frames a garden and civic waterfront plaza.
More on the winning design, after the break.

TED Talk: How MASS Design Group Gave the Word “Architecture” a Meaning in Rwanda

In one of the eight talks that make up the TED Prize-winning City2.0, MASS Design Group Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Alan Ricks explains how, with their Butaro Hospital Project, MASS brought architecture to Rwanda - quite literally, as before they arrived there was not even a word in the local language to refer to an architect. Through anecdotes and testimonials from others involved (including everyone from the hospital gardener to Rwanda’s Minister for Health), Ricks demonstrates that no matter what the context, architecture can and should find opportunities in the local environment that bring not only health benefits but also economic benefits, jobs and even dignity.

Provença Apartment / NUG

© Andrés Flajszer
Architects: NUG
Ubicación: Barcelona, Barcelona,
Architect In Charge: Amadeu Santacana, Umberto Viotto
Área: 143.0 m2
Año Proyecto: 2013
Fotografías: Andrés Flajszer

Climb Inside Numen/For Use’s Membrane of Packing Tape at Palais de Tokyo in Paris

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They began with a single roll of tape, frenetically navigating the space between columns with the help of a ladder and a lot of creativity. Ten days and twelve sets of hands later, Tape Paris was completed at Palais de Tokyo for ‘Inside,’ an exhibition of site-specific projects designed to be interactive and introspective. Tape  delves into the physical and psychological experience of interior space through an experiential model of exploration. Visitors travel through a matrix of elastic tunnels suspended precariously above the traditional exhibition space, as guests observe their movements from below. The biomorphic skin is a playground for the senses, offering opportunities to climb, relax, and discover.
Enter the elastic world of Tape Paris after the break 

Video: Leibar&Seigneurin on their “Sculptural” Social Housing Project in Anglet

<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/104280896">http://www.vimeo.com/104280896</a> Based in Bordeaux and Bayonne, architecture studio Leibar&Seigneurin has created a new video to introduce their social housing project in Anglet. Last week we brought you their video on their project in Bordeaux in which they revealed the ways in which film can represent the fabric of architecture better than photography alone. In this video, they discuss the ways in which the white monolithic form of their project in takes on a sculptural quality, with various elements animating the façade and looking out onto a courtyard.
The project mixes smaller collective housing units with individual housing units in addition to providing spaces that are a combination of the two. A variety of outdoor furniture was designed specifically for the project, to provide outdoor functions for people of all ages.

Secondary School / Hubert & Roy Architectes

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Architects: Hubert & Roy Architectes
Location: ,
Area: 8400.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Hubert & Roy Architectes, Abbadie

Alpine Foothills House / Deamicisarchitetti

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Architects: Deamicisarchitetti
Location: 10080 Turin,
Area: 180.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: L. Bartoli, G. Leo

NQ House / N¬ha Dan Architects

© Hiroyuki Oki
Architects: N¬ha Dan Architects
Location: , Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Architect In Charge: Nguyen Dinh Gioi , Nguyen Van Anh
Design Team: Nguyen Phan Anh Tuan , Tran Minh Phuoc , Pham Thi Cam Van
Area: 141.0 sqm
Photographs: Hiroyuki Oki
Toronto's life guard stands. Image Courtesy of RAW Design, Ferris + Associates and Curio

Open for Submissions: Re-Imagining Toronto’s “Winter Stations”

RAW Design, Ferris + Associates and Curio have launched Winter Stations, an open international design competition challenging artists, designers, architects and landscape architects re-imagine the life guard stands on Toronto’s waterfront as “temporary wintertime installations” that “inject color, movement, humor and more into the landscape.” The theme is “Warmth,” and there is no limit to the size of the installation, but the jurors will take durability and constructibility into account. The selected installations will be built in February 2015. Registration is now open and submissions are due December 5, 2014 with winners announced in early January 2015. All the details can be found, here.

Mikolai Adamus’ Proposal for a New Aquarium in Gdynia

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Mikolai Adamus has shared with us his proposal for a “New Aquarium” to activate the Southern Pier in , Poland. Using the golden ratio and the Fibonacci sequence to guide the design, the rectangular structure burrows into the pier, becoming secondary to the surrounding landscape. As Adamus describes, the aquarium is designed to transparent and “a place where architecture is subordinated to function, devoid of unnecessary detail.” More details, after the break.

Video: Snøhetta on Designing the 9/11 Memorial Museum

<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/111407938">http://www.vimeo.com/111407938</a> “So in some ways I think that this tragedy gave a sense of purpose to people that was very positive, and we tried to translate that feeling into this building.” In this video from the Louisiana Channel, Craig Dykers of Snøhetta describes how his own experience with the events of 9/11 and the positivity of the spirit of people around him helped inspire the design process of the 9/11 Memorial Museum.
He speaks of the journey of healing and understanding as central to the design and experience of the building itself. “As you move through these cycles, you realize one day that you are alive, and you that have to present the strength of being alive to those around you, and this building is meant to be a part of that cycle…to allow you to see yourself, at a moment in time.”
Watch the video above to learn more about the challenges of designing a memorial museum fully integrated within an essentially nonexistent site.

JD House / Atelier d’Arquitectura J. A. Lopes da Costa

© Manuel Aguiar
Architects: Atelier d’Arquitectura J. A. Lopes da Costa
Location: ,
Architect In Charge: José António Lopes da Costa, Tiago Meireles
Co Workers: Rita Gonçalves and Filipe Ribeiro
Year: 2013
Photographs: Manuel Aguiar

SYNWHA Consortium Wins Competition to Design Waterfront Park for Busan North Port

Nomad Park. Image Courtesy of SYNWHA Consulting
The Port Authority (BPA) has named the SYNWHA Consortium winners of an international competition for the Busan North Port Redevelopment in South Korea. The winning proposal is an “Interactive Pier” slated to transform the original port into a cultural center that celebrates the marriage of mountains, river, and sea, while crafting dynamic connections between the city of Busan and its seaside.
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