Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Arch Daily

BIOPOLE Biotech Business Incubator / PERIPHERIQUES Architectes

© Luc Boegly
Architects: PERIPHERIQUES Architectes
Location: , 
Architect In Charge: Anne-Françoise Jumeau + Emmanuelle Marin + David Trottin
Area: 2730.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Luc Boegly

Shichigahama Tohyama Nursery / Takahashi Ippei Office

© Iwan Baan
Architects: Takahashi Ippei Office
Location: Shichigahama, Miyagi District, Miyagi Prefecture, 
Area: 1069.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Iwan Baan

House 3 / Coy Yiontis Architects

© Peter Clarke
Architects: Coy Yiontis Architects
Location: Balaclava VIC 3183, 
Year: 2014
Photographs: Peter Clarke

510 Cabin / Hunter Leggitt Studio

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Architects: Hunter Leggitt Studio
Location: , CA, USA
Area: 1100.0 ft2
Year: 2012
Photographs: Courtesy of Hunter Leggitt Studio

Facebook Moves into New Headquarters with the “Largest Open Floor Plan in the World”

Earlier today, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted an announcement onto his own Facebook page that the company had moved into its brand new, 430,000-square foot Frank Gehry-designed headquarters. In the post, Zuckerberg offers a photo of the building from above, showing off its 9 acre green roof, with a promise of interior images – of what is essentially the building’s giant, single room – “once we’re fully unpacked.”
That interior,  enough for 2,800 of Facebook employees plus room for growth, also played host to some of Instagram’s most popular photographers to preview the space – see a selection of their images after the break.

First Look Inside BIG’s W57 Manhattan Pyramid

South Facade. Image © Field Condition
Field Condition has published a photographic tour through BIG’s first New York project, two months after W57 topped out. A “courtscraper,” as the Danish practice affectionately calls it, the 32-story, 709-unit tower is a hybrid of the European courtyard block and New York City skyscraper. It’s tetrahedral shape, “born from logic,” is designed to provide every resident in the building’s North Tower to have views of the Hudson River, while allowing sunlight deep into the building’s interior space. View the project from within, after the break. 

Foster + Partners Chosen to Design New Transport System for Jeddah

© Foster + Partners
Foster + Partners has been appointed through an international competition to develop the “architectural vision” for Jeddah’s city-wide public transport plan. The commission, made official today by the Makkah Province governor, seeks to establish a “long-term, sustainable” city network plan that will foster flexible growth and achieve efficiency through the integration of all modes of transportation, including metro, ferry, bus and cycle.
“The comprehensive plan extends from the design of the stations to the trains and branding,” said Foster + Partners. “In addition, the development of the metro system will create a new urban amenity for the city of  at key locations below the elevated track.” The  will also allocate space for public squares and various nodes of development.

Dent Protetyka / Adam Wiercinski Architekt

© Przemyslaw Turlej
Architects: Adam Wiercinski Architekt
Location: Poznań, Poland
Area: 10.0 sqm
Photographs: Przemyslaw Turlej
The masterplan for the Expo produced by Herzog & de Meuron in 2009. Image © Herzog & de Meuron

Jacques Herzog, Masterplanner of the Milan 2015 Expo, Thinks it will be a “Vanity Fair”

It seems Jacques Herzog is not particularly excited about the opening of the 2015 Expo in Milan later this year. In an interview with uncube magazine Herzog – one half of Herzog & de Meuron, the Expo’s masterplanners – explains why they left the project in 2011, along with collaborators Stefano Boeri, William McDonough and Ricky Burdett. In their absence, he says, the Expo will now feature their plan “only as an urbanistic and formal pattern, not as an intellectual concept,” and their plan to transform the event into ”a radically new vision for a world exhibition” has been twisted so that the Expo “will be the same kind of vanity fair that we’ve seen in the past.” Read the full interview here.

See All 24 Projects Shortlisted for RIAS’ 2015 Awards

Dalmunach Distillery, Moray / Archial Norr (Inverness Studio)
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has shortlisted 24 projects for its 2015, the single most important recognition of architectural achievement in . This year’s judging panel, chaired by Iain Dickson PPRIAS, will now visits all 24 sites to determine which projects are “worthy” of an award, only choosing those in which they feel “best address the key role of architecture: to improve the quality of people’s lives.”
See all 24 shortlisted projects, after the break. 

Contreras House / Gustavo Crisóstomo

© James Florio
Architects: Gustavo Crisóstomo
Location: Condominio Bosquemar de Tunquén, Algarrobo, .
Area: 410.0 sqm
Year Project: 2013
Pictures: James Florio
Büro + Fabriksgebäude, Tainan, Taiwan, 2005-2008. Image © Atelier Adam Chen

Spotlight: Hans Hollein

Described by Richard Meier as an architect whose “groundbreaking ideas” have “had a major impact on the thinking of designers and architects,” Austrian artist, architect, designer, theoretician and Pritzker Prize laureate Hans Hollein has worked in all aspects of design, from architecture to furniture, jewelry, glasses, lamps — even door handles. Known in particular for his museum designs, from the Abteiberg Museum in Mönchengladbach to the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt to Vienna’s Haas House, Hollein’s work manifests a unique, fascinating take on 1950s Modernism.

Dunham Pavilion at Aurora RiverEdge Park / Muller&Muller

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Architects: Muller&Muller
Location: 360 North Broadway, , IL 60505, USA
Architect In Charge: David Steele, Mark Vrba, Susan Johnson
Area: 1733.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Muller&Muller

5 Reasons Architects Should Learn to Code

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In his popular post on how architects can “work smarter, not harder,” Michael Kilkelly suggests that you should ”customize your tools to work the way you work” and “use macros to automate repetitive tasks.” Both sound very helpful of course, but wouldn’t those require you to to write some code? Yes – but according to Kilkelly this should be a tool available in every architect’s toolkit. Originally published on ArchSmarter, here he offers 5 reasons that architects should learn to code.
As architects, we need to know a lot of stuff. We need to know building codes, structures, mechanical systems, materials. We need to know how to read zoning codes, how to calculate building area, how to layout office floor. The list goes on and on. Do we really need to know how to write computer programs as well?

House in Q2 / Santiago Viale

© Gonzalo Viramonte
Architects: Santiago Viale
Location: , Córdoba, 
Area: 364 sqm
Year Project: 2015
Photography: Gonzalo Viramonte
Courtesy of Social Cooperation Architects (SCoopA)

Call for Proposals: Exhibit Your Work at Milan Expo 2015

Architects, Engineers, Artists, Designers and students from all around the world are invited to participate in the Expo Milano 2015 with projects that propose solutions to the theme of the Expo Milano 2015 “Feeding the planet, energy for life.” Participants are also being encouraged to submit proposals that solve some of the main challenges that our society is facing, such as the rapid population growth and all the problems that this brings (destruction of the ecosystems, social divisions, scarcity of resources, etc.). This exhibition desires to showcase different architectural, construction, urban and social solutions promoting its different authors in the Universal Exposition.
The winners will be selected by the group Social Cooperation Architects (SCoopA) to exhibit their proposals at the Expo Milano 2015. In addition, a virtual platform will be established to foment the dialog between the different participants and proposals. Important dates, after the break.

Media Library Choisy-Le-Roi / Atelier d’Architecture Brenac-Gonzalez

© Sergio Grazia
Architects: Atelier d’Architecture Brenac-Gonzalez
Location: Choisy-le-Roi, 
Architect In Charge: Florent Descolas
Economist: MEBI
Area: 2400.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Sergio Grazia

Villa H in Brabant / Coenen Sättele Architecten

© Arthur Bagen
Architects: Coenen Sättele Architecten
Location: Tilburg, 
Design Team: Bettina Sättele, Ivo Janssen, Edwin van Oppen
Design Villa, Horse Stable, Interior, Furniture, Garden: 
Area: 380.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Arthur Bagen

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