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Sunday, July 13, 2014

Architecture Daily- News

Refurbishment of Office Building / Moura Martins Architects

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Architects: Moura Martins Architects
Location: ,
Project Team: Sara Moura Martins, Ariana Faustino
Area: 2,570 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: FG+SG

Schäfer Roofscape / Plasma Studio

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Architects: Plasma Studio
Location: San Candido Bolzano,
Architect In Charge: Eva Castro, Holger Kehne, Ulla Hell
Design Team: Peter Pichler
Area: 844 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Plasma Studio

V Confession Agency Office / M17

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Architects:
Location: Obydenskiy Pereulok, Moscow,
Area: 156 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: U.Palmin, A.Volkov
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti proudly displays his pro-Lucas Twitter hastag. Image Courtesy of City of Los Angeles

New Study Discredits Bilbao Effect

Before George Lucas found a home for his museum in Chicago, the mayors of other cities were desperately vying for the honor (see Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti above). If they are still disappointed about losing out, a new study about the aftermath of building cultural centers might offer some consolation. To learn about the planning fallacies and negative outcomes often associated with these building types, check out CityLab’s recap.

GL Events Headquarters / Studio Odile Decq

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Architects: Studio Odile Decq
Location: Quai Rambaud, 69002 ,
Area: 8300.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Roland Halbe, Studio Odile Decq

Studio Gang Architects Reveals Design of Twisting San Francisco Skyscraper

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Last night Studio Gang Architects unveiled designs of their first ever building in San Francisco, a 400 foot tall residential tower with an undulating, twisting facade. Inspired by the bay windows of older local buildings such as 450 Sutter Street, Studio Gang have added a twist (literally) to the typology with incremental rotations of the 90-degree bays running vertically up the facade.
Read on for more details of the design

Erasmus University College in Rotterdam / Erick van Egeraat

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Architects: Erick van Egeraat
Location: Nieuwemarkt 1A, 3011 HP , The Netherlands
Year: 2014
Photographs: Ossip van Duivenbode
ECOWEEK London 2014

ECOWEEK London 2014

ECOWEEK is a non-governmental NGO with the mission to raise awareness on environmental issues and Climate Change and to promote the principles of sustainability. ECOWEEK has been organizing conferences and workshops across Europe that inspire and empower young architects to be…

750 Cubic Meters of Extracted Concrete Turned This Nazi Bunker Into a Gallery & Home

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In a cultural capital like Berlin, where ‘pop-up’ stores appear in abandoned warehouses, local brands emerge from stores over-run with squatters, and nightclubs rave in power plants,  it is only appropriate that an art gallery would find its home in a nearly indestructible concrete vessel. Such is the case with the “Berlin ” in the heart of the fashionable “Mitte” district.
Monolithic and symmetrical, decorated only by thin strips of vertical windows on its four identical facades, this former Nazi air-raid shelter stands as a relic of Germany’s past.  Yet a closer look beyond its sharp-edged cornice reveals something unexpected: luscious green gardens and a luxurious penthouse, completed in 2007. This is the home of Christian Boros, the art collector whose private collection is stored and exhibited in the depths of the fortified bunker below.

Aix en Provence Conservatory of Music / Kengo Kuma and Associates

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Architects: Kengo Kuma and Associates
Location: Aix-en-Provence, France
Design Team: Kengo Kuma, Diego Lopez Arahuetes, Miruna Constantinescu, Natalia Sanz, Elise Fauquenbergue, Miguel Orellana, Junki Wakuda, Tristan Zelic, Magnus Casselbrant, Ioanna Angelidou, Yuki Ito, Emilie Bret, Majid Katir, Roman Martin, Dennis Cheung, Chao Chen
Area: 1,796 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Roland Halbe

Gehry Unveils Designs to Extend the Philadelphia Art Museum Downwards

The heart of the Museum will be opened up, creating a clear sight line through the ground-floor and first-floor galleries that will greatly simplify wayfinding. Image © Gehry Partners, LLP
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has revealed Frank Gehry‘s designs for a 169,000 square foot expansion that will see the museum dig down to create a new set of galleries underneath its existing footprint. Already an unusual choice for a project whose brief called to preserve the architectural integrity of the existing building, Gehry’s design is an unexpectedly muted intervention, focusing on interior rearrangement and additions that are in keeping with the 86 year-old building’s aesthetic.
Perhaps the most dramatic alteration proposed by Gehry is a plan to punch a hole through the museum’s famous ‘Rocky steps’, the iconic training location from the Rocky film series, creating a window into the new subterranean galleries; however as the $350 million project will by necessity by undertaken in stages, this intervention is likely to be a subject of discussion for some time.
More on the design after the break
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