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SP Setia Headquarter / Shatotto
AD Classics: Thorncrown Chapel / E Fay Jones
Hidden in the middle of the forests surrounding Arkansas’
Ozark Mountains, Thorncrown Chapel rests amongst the oaks, pines and
maples. The humble chapel, designed by Euine Fay Jones, is less than 35
years old – yet it’s on the U.S. Historic register, has been named one
of the AIA’s top ten buildings of the 20th century, and has even been called the best American building since 1980.
Renovation of an apartment in Eixample / Sergi Pons
“Lina Bo Bardi: Together” at the DAZ Berlin
If you are in Berlin in August, make sure to check out the exhibition “Lina Bo Bardi: Together” at The Deutsche Architecture Zentrum, dedicated to the legacy of the famed Italian-born Brazilian architect, and focusing on her “capacity to engage with every facet of culture and to see the potential in all manner of people.” More on the exhibition after the break.Unified Architectural Theory: Chapter 7
We will be publishing Nikos Salingaros’ book, Unified Architectural Theory,
in a series of installments, making it digitally, freely available for
students and architects around the world. The following chapter, written
by Salingaros and Kenneth G. Masden II, delves deeper into the
limitations of current architectural philosophies, including “Critical
Regionalism,” and justifies the creation of Intelligence-Based Design.
If you missed them, make sure to read the previous installments here.
As the architects of tomorrow, today’s students must come
to understand the role and responsibility of their profession as
something intrinsically tied to human existence and the lived
experience. A new suggested educational system provides a direct means
to design adaptive environments, in response to growing needs of the
marketplace (client demand). Nevertheless, most architectural
institutions continue to propagate a curricular model that has sustained
an image-based method and its peculiar ideology for decades. We can
trace this support to early twentieth-century anti-traditional
movements. Reform is impossible without addressing the system’s
long-forgotten ideological roots.
TBWA\LISBON office / ColectivArquitectura
Architects: ColectivArquitectura
Location: Avenida Engenheiro Duarte Pacheco 26, 1070-103 Lisbon, Portugal
Architects: Vera Martins Alves and Cristóvão Fonseca Ferreira
Area: 5.330 sqft
Year: 2012
Photography: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Location: Avenida Engenheiro Duarte Pacheco 26, 1070-103 Lisbon, Portugal
Architects: Vera Martins Alves and Cristóvão Fonseca Ferreira
Area: 5.330 sqft
Year: 2012
Photography: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
AATU Wins Competition to Design ‘From Field to Kitchen’ Industrial Park
OMLC / Tzannes Associates
Architects: Tzannes Associates
Location: Parramatta NSW, Australia
Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Tzannes Associates
Location: Parramatta NSW, Australia
Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Tzannes Associates
Rocha Apartment / CaSA
Architects: CaSA
Location: Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Surface: 170m2 + 10m2 of terrace
Area: 180.0 sqm
Photographs: Roberto Ruiz
Location: Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Surface: 170m2 + 10m2 of terrace
Area: 180.0 sqm
Photographs: Roberto Ruiz
Akmani Legian / TWS Partners
Architects: TWS Partners
Location: Legian, Kuta, Badung, Bali, Indonesia
Shortlisted At World Architecture Festival 2013: Hotel Category
Area: 3165.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Courtesy of TWS Partners
Location: Legian, Kuta, Badung, Bali, Indonesia
Shortlisted At World Architecture Festival 2013: Hotel Category
Area: 3165.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Courtesy of TWS Partners
Mildred & Co / Jose Gutierrez
Architects: Jose Gutierrez
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Area: 300.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Jeremy Toth
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Area: 300.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Jeremy Toth
Conversion of a Chapel in Bern / Morscher Architects
Architects: Morscher Architects
Location: Berne, Switzerland
Area: 500.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Dominique Uldry
Location: Berne, Switzerland
Area: 500.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Dominique Uldry
Single-Family Residence Tunquén / CO2 Arquitectos
Architects: CO2 Arquitectos
Location: Tunquen, Algarrobo, Valparaíso Region, Chile
Architects In Charge: Cristián Oliva C., Camilo Oliva A.
Area: 207.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Productora AndesEmpire
Location: Tunquen, Algarrobo, Valparaíso Region, Chile
Architects In Charge: Cristián Oliva C., Camilo Oliva A.
Area: 207.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Productora AndesEmpire
The Solution To Pollution Is…The Rooftops?
The potential solution to smog and pollution may be hovering right over our heads, now that Students at the University of California – Riverside have designed a pollution reducing rooftop tile. According to their calculations, cladding one million rooftops with the tiles could remove 21 tons of nitrogen oxides – daily. Currently the Los Angeles area spits out 500 tons of nitrogen oxides a day, so the tiles are just one piece of the puzzle in reducing pollution – however the students are imagining their nitrogen-oxide-eating Titanium Dioxide compound in exterior paints, concrete and more. To see all the possibilities, read the full article here.Milbank / Triptyque
AD Interviews: Barkow Leibinger / Kinetic Wall at the Venice Biennale
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The room dedicated to the Wall at the 2014 Venice Biennale’s “Elements of Architecture” exhibition traces the development and evolution of walls over time, starting with archaic walls and ending with Barkow Leibinger’s “Kinetic Wall.”
It was here that we caught up with the Kinetic Wall’s architects, Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger, to learn more about the vision and thought process that went into the design of this expanding and retracting elastic wall.“It’s very ephemeral, very light, but an idea of a kind of maybe not too far away future, that’s spatial. It changes the space that we’re standing in by moving back and forth. It has a kind of front, it has a back, it’s a little tongue-in-cheek,” Barkow explained.
A series of motorized points extend and retract the wall’s translucent synthetic material, creating peaks and valleys. Two layers of gridded fabric produce a moiré effect, “a second scale of movement, that is translucent/ephemeral,” according to a project description on Barkow Leibinger’s website.
If you enjoyed this video interview make sure you check out the rest of our 2014 Venice Biennale coverage, here.
It was here that we caught up with the Kinetic Wall’s architects, Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger, to learn more about the vision and thought process that went into the design of this expanding and retracting elastic wall.“It’s very ephemeral, very light, but an idea of a kind of maybe not too far away future, that’s spatial. It changes the space that we’re standing in by moving back and forth. It has a kind of front, it has a back, it’s a little tongue-in-cheek,” Barkow explained.
A series of motorized points extend and retract the wall’s translucent synthetic material, creating peaks and valleys. Two layers of gridded fabric produce a moiré effect, “a second scale of movement, that is translucent/ephemeral,” according to a project description on Barkow Leibinger’s website.
If you enjoyed this video interview make sure you check out the rest of our 2014 Venice Biennale coverage, here.
The Romain Rolland Elementary School / Babled Nouvet Reynaud Architectes
Architects: Babled Nouvet Reynaud Architectes
Location: France
Architects In Charge: Yves Rolin (studies), Renaud Schwartz (site)
Area: 2715.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Frédéric Delangle
Location: France
Architects In Charge: Yves Rolin (studies), Renaud Schwartz (site)
Area: 2715.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Frédéric Delangle
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