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Shams Villa / Karand Group

© Kaveh Seyed Ahmadian
Architects: Karand Group
Location: , Iran
Design Team: Ali Shariati, Sokhi Sarabandi, Hadi Shapourian
Area: 450.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Kaveh Seyed Ahmadian

OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Center (TPAC) Tops Out

Courtesy of OMA; Photography by Philippe Ruault
OMA‘s Taipei Performing Arts Center (TPAC) has topped out in a ceremony including Taipei’s mayor Hau Lung-pin, and OMA’s Partners in charge of the project, Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten. Even in its current skeletal state, the rigidly geometric form is clearly expressed with it’s central cube supporting three protruding auditoriums, two cubic and one spherical. The design of the TPAC is in many ways experimental, incorporating a looped public path which shows off the building’s backstage areas, and flexible auditoriums which can even be combined, offering extraordinary stage spaces that allow performances which would be impossible in any .
Ahead of the topping out ceremony we spoke to partner in charge David Gianotten, who explained the building’s design concepts and the challenges (or rather, surprising lack of challenges) in the construction, and told us “you will only understand it when you have seen it. It’s super exciting, we encourage everybody that loves architecture to come and see it because it’s spectacular.”
Read on after the break for the full interview

Office 05 / i29 interior architects + VMX Architects

© Ewout Huibers
Architects: i29 interior architects, VMX Architects
Location: Industrieweg 29, 6541 TT , The Netherlands
Area: 1000.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Ewout Huibers
Courtesy of ZHA

Martin Filler Admits Mistake in his Critique on Zaha Hadid

Last week Zaha Hadid filed a libel lawsuit against critic Martin Filler, after Filler’s review of Rowan Moore’s book “Why We Build: Power and Desire in Architecture” for the New York Review of Books included a scathing section on Hadid. In the article Filler said she had shown “no concern” for the death of construction workers in Qatar, where she designed a stadium for the 2022 World Cup. Now, Filler has admitted to a significant error in the article he wrote, The New York Times has reported. In an amendment to his article Filler acknowledges that the quotes he used from Hadid were taken out of context and had “nothing to do” with the Qatar stadium she designed. Read Filler’s full statement in the New York Times article, here.

Bedaux-Nagengast Residence / Bedaux de Brouwer Architects

© Filip Dujardin
Architects: Bedaux de Brouwer Architects
Location: Tilburg, The
Design Team: Rob Vermeulen, Kees Paulussen, Rien Lagerwerf
Year: 2013
Photographs: Filip Dujardin

SXSW Eco Names 15 “Place By Desgn” Finalists

Courtesy of
South by Southwest Eco (SXSW Eco) has announced the finalists in its second annual “Place by Design” competition, which celebrates “cutting-edge ideas in the reinvention of public space.” Held from the 6th-8th of October, the offshoot of the SXSW festival explores cutting edge solutions to the challenges of sustainability.
The Place by Design finalists include high profile proposals such as New York‘s +Pool or the Lowline, but also some lesser-known initiatives such as Dublin‘s temporary Granby Park. Read on after the break to see all 15 finalists.

Beefeater Gin Visitor Centre / Lee Boyd

© Paul Riddle
Architects: Lee Boyd
Location: SE11 5DE, UK
Year: 2014
Photographs: Paul Riddle

Al Jazeera’s Rebel Architecture: Episode 2, “The Traditional Future”

The second episode of Al Jazeera’s new series “Rebel Architecture” features Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari, who has built over 36,000 houses since 2010 for those affected by Pakistan’s floods and earthquakes. Rather than using the mass-produced housing designs offered by international organizations, Lari implements traditional building techniques and local materials. In this 25-minute episode she returns to the Sindha Valley region to see how her homes survived floods in 2013 and helps villagers in Awaran district who were hit by the 2013 Balochistan earthquake.
Watch the full episode above and read on after the break for a full episode synopsis and a preview of upcoming episodes…

CR House / H+H Arquitectos

© Rodrigo Dávila
Architects: H+H Arquitectos
Location: Bogotá, Bogota,
Project Architects: Eric Halliday, Martin Halliday
Project Area: 711.0 m2
Project Year: 2013
Photography: Rodrigo Dávila

Japanese and Chilean Architects Collaborate to Design Houses for the Ochoalcubo Project

Ochoalcubo (Eight-Cubed) is a pioneering project in Chile that seeks to unite leading Chilean and Japanese practices with ground-breaking architecture. The collaborative enterprise was started by Eduardo Godoy, a design impresario who began working in Chile in the 1980s and who has always been a strong advocate for innovative design and architecture in the country. For a nation that boasts more than forty individual schools of architecture, the ever growing number of professionals seems to have had a relatively small impact on Chilean cities. Faced with the seemingly infinite landscape of ‘cookie-cutter housing’ in the suburbs, Godoy implemented Ochoalcubo in order to provide opportunities for young professionals, alongside fostering a new kind of appreciation for the profession itself. With a large number of architects having taken part in the first stage, including Smiljan Radic (designer of the 2014 Serpentine Pavilion), the third and fourth stage of what is certainly one of the world’s largest active architectural laboratories will be launched in the coming days.
See images from all sixteen proposals from third and fourth stages of the Ochoalcubo project, including those by SANAA, Sou Fujimoto, Kengo Kuma, Alejandro Aravena and Atelier Bow Wow, after the break.

Shanghai MOCA / Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects

© Jeremy San
Architects: Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects
Location: People’s Park, 231 Nanjing West Road, People’s Square, Huangpu, , 200000
Design Team: Liu Yuyang, Keith Yee, Tynnon Chow, Larry Tsoi
Area: 3900.0 sqm
Year: 2009
Photographs: Jeremy San

Is Bigger Better? HOK’s Acquisition of 360 Architecture and How Mergers Have Changed the Business of Design

World Expo 2020 Master Plan. Image Courtesy of
International design, architecture, engineering and planning firm HOK has recently announced its plan to acquire 360 Architecture, a firm specializing in sports facility design. With HOK’s global influence and ’s expertise, the acquisition could bring about significant advances in sports facility design and expand the market reach for each firm. When it comes to the business of architecture, acquisitions such as this often enable large corporate firms to take on a wider variety of projects, giving them a competitive edge against famous designer names in the industry. But what else can we learn from the growth of the world’s largest firms?

Villa el Libertador Príncipe de Asturias Municipal Hospital / Santiago Viale + Ian Dutari + Alejandro Paz

© Gonzalo Viramonte
Architects: Santiago Viale, , Alejandro Paz
Location: Centro de salud municipal Villa el Libertador – Córdoba, Córdoba Province, ,
Design Team: Edgar Ermoli, Damian Durando, Clarita Delfino, Ceci Gaisán
Project Area: 6281.0 m2
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Gonzalo Viramonte

Frank Lloyd Wright School Facing Loss of Accreditation

The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture’s Main Campus at West. Image © Flickr User: lumierefl
The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture is currently at risk of losing its . The school has been cited as no longer meeting requirements by the Higher Learning Commission, a non-profit group whose approval is a prerequisite for the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB)’s accreditation process. Founded in 1932 by Frank Lloyd Wright himself and still operating out of his campuses at Taliesin West and Taliesin, the school must now decide how best to meet HLC requirements, or risk losing the ability to confer Masters of Architecture degrees on its students.
Read on after the break to find out why the school faces this risk, and their plans to combat it

AD Classics: Aarhus City Hall / Arne Jacobsen and Erik Møller

Courtesy of VisitAarhus.com
In 1941, at the height of World War II in Western Europe, the city of , Denmark achieved an unusual architectural feat. It finished construction on a brand new city hall that was to be a beacon of democratic governance while the city lay under direct Nazi occupation. Designed four years earlier by the heralded duo of , the Rådhus survived the war and became an internationally recognized classic of Danish modernism.

Health Sciences and Student Resources Building at North Seattle College / Schacht Aslani Architects

© Lara Swimmer
Architects: Schacht Aslani Architects
Location: 9600 College Way North, North College, , WA 98103, USA
Principal Architects: Walter Schacht, FAIA; Cima Malek-Aslani, AIA
Area: 46500.0 ft2
Year: 2014
Photographs: Lara Swimmer

RIBA To Launch Retrospective of Edwin Smith’s Photography

To coincide with the opening of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)’s new Architecture Gallery at their headquarters in London’s Portland Place, the first major retrospective of Edwin Smith will open next month. Smith, one of Britain’s foremost 20th century photographers, was considered a master of capturing the essence of the places, landscapes and buildings he documented over an extensive career. The exhibition, entitled Ordinary Beauty, will display over a hundred carefully curated black and white images from a collection of over 60,000 negatives and 20,000 prints donated by Olive Cook, Smith’s widow and collaborator, to the RIBA Library.

Au Pain Doré / NatureHumaine

© Adrien Williams
Architects: NatureHumaine
Location: Côte-des-Neiges Road, , QC, Canada
Area: 1500.0 ft2
Year: 2014
Photographs: Adrien Williams
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