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Pearl Bay residence / Gavin Maddock Design Studio

Architects: Gavin Maddock Design Studio
Location: Yzerfontein, South Africa
Photographs: Adam Letch

I-House / Architecture Show

Architects: Architecture Show
Location: Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Architect In Charge: Masahiko Sato
Area: 129.0 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Toshihisa Ishii

Green Renovation / Vo Trong Nghia Architects

Architects: Vo Trong Nghia Architects
Location: Hanoi, Hoàn Kiếm District, Hanoi, Vietnam
Architect In Charge: Vo Trong Nghia, Takashi Niwa, Tran Thi Hang
Project Architects: Ngo Thuy Duong, An Viet Dung
Contractor: Wind and Water House JSC
Area: 387.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Vo Trong Nghia Architects, Hiroyuki Oki

Lightbox / Hsuyuan Kuo Architect & Associates

Architects: Hsuyuan Kuo Architect & Associates
Location: Taipei City, Taiwan
Design Team: Hsuyuan Kuo, Effie Huang, YaChun Tsai
Area: 1045.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Kuo-Min Lee

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AD Interviews: Leong Leong, designers of US Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale

<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/101656313">http://www.vimeo.com/101656313</a> We sat down with Leong Leong Architecture, designers of the US Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale to discuss their concept for OfficeUS. Commissioned by Storefront for Art and Architecture, Leong Leong was tasked with designing a temporary and multi-functional space for architectural practice and exhibition. The minimal, airy US Pavilion features over 1000 projects designed by American architects abroad, set amongst a functional office space.
Seated in the work space of one of the “partners” and surrounded by a steady stream of visitors, Dominic Leong described the design process: “The mission of the project was to generally try to understand modernism in relationship to architectural office.” The firm strived to adapt the space in keeping with the Biennale theme of “Absorbing Modernity” set by Rem Koolhaas: ”A large part of our design was to reconfigure the perception of a very neoclassical building – the US Pavilion.” Leong added: “The project was boiled down into two main components: the repository and history of architecture researched by the curators, and an architectural office which was conceived as a prototype for a new mode of architectural production.”
Take a look at the full interview to find out more about Leong Leong Architecture and their concept for the US Pavilion. Make sure to check out our full coverage of the US Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale here.

Edificio de viviendas Sucre 4444 / Esteban-Tannenbaum Arquitectos

Architects: Esteban-Tannenbaum Arquitectos
Location: Mariscal Antonio José de Sucre 4444, Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Design Team: Javier Esteban, Romina Tannenbaum, Mario Tannenbaum
Area: 2005.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma

New Images Released of Krumbach, Austria’s Famous Bus Stops

What happens when seven internationally acclaimed architects are invited to design sculptural bus stops for a tiny Austrian village of 1000 inhabitants? Collaborating with local architects and utilizing local materials to design the pavilions, Alexander Brodsky, Rintala Eggertsson, Ensamble Studio, Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu, Smiljan Radic, Sou Fujimoto, and Wang Shu’s Amateur Architecture Studio worked with Austria’s Verein Kultur Krumbach to carry out the BUS:STOP project and usher in a unique new facet of culture to Krumbach. We brought you images of the design proposals earlier, and now we have photos of the incredible results: Hufton + Crow has just released a stunning new set of images showcasing the completed bus stops.
Hufton + Crow’s brilliant photography captures the inimitable originality and sensational quality of the uniquely crafted pavilions embedded within the Austrian landscape. Immerse yourself in Krumbach and check out the latest images after the break.

Sunshine Canyon Residence / THA Architecture

Architects: THA Architecture
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Area: 2200.0 ft2
Year: 2013
Photographs: Jeremy Bittermann

Hello Wood 2014 Invites Student Teams to ‘Play With Balance’

Set in the bucolic fields of Csórompuszta in the Hungarian countryside, the annual Hello Wood camp was recently back for its fifth year. Every year, students have one week to create wooden installations under the instruction of specially selected tutors, each of whom provide an outline idea of a project in response to a theme. This time around the challenge from the organizers was to “play with balance,” which generated ideas that investigated the balance between opposing concepts – but also generated a whole lot of play, too. See all 14 of the weird and wonderful results after the break.

Rehabilitation of the Resin Factory / Cor Arquitectos

Architects: Cor Arquitectos
Location: Marinha Grande, Portugal
Architect In Charge: Roberto Cremascoli, Edison Okumura, Marta Rodrigues arquitectos, Lda.
Design: Luísa Ribas – DEF Design (competition), João Cruz – DEF Design (competition)
Area: 4925.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Cor Arquitectos

IE School of Architecture and Design Announces SPACES FOR INNOVATION Prize

IE School of Architecture and Design announces IE SPACES FOR INNOVATION Prize for young architects and designers worldwide, seeking to attract top architecture and design talents to invite them to take part in the IE Master in Design for Work, Retail and Learning Environments starting next February 2015.

Renzo Piano Explains How To Design the Perfect Museum

The new Whitney Museum building, seen from the West Side Highway in July. Image © Paul Clemence

In the following article, originally published on Metropolis Magazine as “Q&A: Renzo Piano“, Paul Clemence talks with the Italian master of museum design about the design process and philosophies that have brought him such tremendous success in the field – from sketching, to behaving with civility, to buildings that ‘fly’, Piano explains what makes the perfect museum.
There’s a reason why Renzo Piano is known as the master of museum design. The architect has designed 25 of them, 14 in the US alone. Few architects understand as well as Piano—along with his practice, the Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW)—what board directors, curators, and even the visiting public needs and wants in a cultural institution like a museum. When I spoke with Donna de Salvo, chief curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, whose new downtown digs were authored by RPBW she remarked on the how the curators’ input was often incorporated into the final building design. “Our curators and the architects had an ongoing dialogue throughout the design of this building,” de Salvo says. “The physical needs of the art were a priority for Renzo and his team, down to the most seemingly minute detail. Our curatorial voice was central to the discussion and has given us a terrifically dynamic building, a uniquely responsive array of spaces for art.”
But what often goes unmentioned is how well Piano’s buildings, particularly his museums, connect to their surroundings. The buildings not only perform well, but they integrate themselves into the life of the city, as if they have always been there. From Beaubourg to The New York Times Building, they fully embrace the space and energy of their urban contexts. Now, as two of his newest and very high-profile museum projects near completion—the renovation and expansion of the Harvard Art Museums (due to open this Fall) and the Whitney Museum of Art (expected to be in use by Spring 2015)—I had a chance to meet with Piano at his Meatpacking District office to talk about the creative process, criticisms, contemporary architecture, and “flying” buildings.

Cortes House / WMR Arquitectos

Architects: WMR Arquitectos
Location: El Arco, Navidad, Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins Region, Chile
Architect In Charge: Felipe Wedeles, Jorge Manieu, Macarena Rabat
Area: 150.0 sqm
Photographs: Sergio Pirrone

Mirrored Seafront Pavilion Among Seven Installations at Festival Des Architectures Vives

Each summer, the French cities of Montpellier and La Grande Motte host Le Festival Des Architectures Vives (Festival of Lively Architecture). These twin festivals seek to raise awareness about architecture among the public, and to give needed exposure to the work of up-and-coming designers. In the process, they also draw attention to previously unknown places in the two cities—in Montpellier, many of the private courtyards in the city are opened to the public specifically for the festival. In La Grande Motte, the exhibition weaves its way through the city center, a site designated as “Heritage of the 20th Century” due to the prevalence of works designed by architect Jean Balladur. This year’s festivals featured a total of 18 temporary installations. Read more about the festivals, and view photos, after the break.

The Yellow Building / Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

Architects: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Location: West Cross Route, London W11, UK
Area: 161500.0 ft2
Year: 2008
Photographs: Timothy Soar

Proposed Rendering. Image Courtesy of NextCity

Damien Hirst Receives Planning Permission for “Hirst-on-Sea”

According to Will Doig of NextCity, world renowned contemporary artist Damien Hirst has received planning permission to build a town from scratch on the British coastline. Working alongside Rundell Associates the project, which has been dubbed “Hirst-on-Sea” near the town of Ilfracombe, will consist of 75 affordable homes built over the next ten to fifteen years. Most famous for his 2007 diamond-studded skull entitled For the Love of God and, more ubiquitously, glass cases containing sharks and cows preserved in formaldehyde, Doig wonders that, “given Hirst’s history, it’s hard to imagine he’s not trying to make some sort of statement.” Time will tell as to what that might be.

15 Social Housings in Riaillé / Mabire Reich

Architects: Mabire Reich
Location: Riaillé, France
Architect In Charge: Régis Pioche
Area: 987.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: 11h45

Heydar Aliyev International Airport Baku / Autoban

Architects: Autoban
Location: Baku, Azerbaijan
Area: 65000.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Kerem Sanliman

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