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White Rose School / Naoko Horibe Associates
Architects: Naoko Horibe Associates
Location: Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Architect In Charge: Naoko Horibe
Area: 204.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Kaori Ichikawa
Location: Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Architect In Charge: Naoko Horibe
Area: 204.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Kaori Ichikawa
The Family Playground / House Design
Architects: House Design
Location: Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Area: 122.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Hey! Cheese
Location: Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Area: 122.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Hey! Cheese
Natural Histories for Los Angeles Presents “Wet Horizons”
Natural Histories for Los Angeles presents Wet Horizons, an installation and exhibition by architect Luis Callejas / LCLA OFFICE in the Neutra VDL Research House. Located in the existing context of the Neutra-designed penthouse—its glazed walls, rooftop reflecting pools, and views of the Silver Lake Reservoir, Wet Horizons articulates environmental connections between Callejas’s landscape and architecture practice and the architecture of the house itself. Veiled textile drawings, re-inserted into the domestic space of the house, were created in collaboration with textile artist Charlotte Hansson. Combined with digital projections and models, the installation merges the reading of landscapes from distant geographies with actual views of Los Angeles.Woy Woy Rehabilitation Unit / Woods Bagot
Architects: Woods Bagot
Location: Woy Woy NSW, Australia
Area: 2200.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Peter Bennetts
Location: Woy Woy NSW, Australia
Area: 2200.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Peter Bennetts
Kent State Breaks Ground on WEISS/MANFREDI-Designed Center for Architecture
Ohio’s Kent State
is set to break ground tomorrow on its New Center for Architecture and
Environmental Design. The $48 million building was designed by New
York-based WEISS/MANFREDI following a collaboration with Richard L. Bowen & Associates which won first in the project’s national competition.
The design, dubbed the “Kent State Design Loft,”
transforms the notion of a continuous studio loft into a three-tiered
structure that unites all the college’s programs, including construction
management, under one roof.
New images of the building, after the break.
V House / Agraz Arquitectos
Architects: Agraz Arquitectos
Location: Puerta Plata, Zapopan, JAL, Mexico
Project Architect: Ricardo Agraz
Project Manager: Brenda Barron
Project Area: 354.0 m2
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: Mito Covarrubias
Location: Puerta Plata, Zapopan, JAL, Mexico
Project Architect: Ricardo Agraz
Project Manager: Brenda Barron
Project Area: 354.0 m2
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: Mito Covarrubias
Amsterdam Launches Competition in Honor of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
matterbetter and the City of Amsterdam has launched an international open-ideas competition for a Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) Memorial and Park in Amsterdam. MH17 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down near the Ukraine–Russia border on July 17, 2014, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew members on board.The competition, open to all architects and students, is initiated to remember and honor the victims of the MH17 tragedy. It is hoped that the memorial park could form a new public space, free from the political overtone, at the Marine Establissement site in the center of Amsterdam that could be used as a place for remembrance, ceremonies, recreation, and private gatherings The deadline for registration is December 10th, 2014. Learn more about how to participate here on the competition’s official website.
COBE and Lundén Win Competition to Design Transport Hub in Tampere
The Mayor of Tampere has announced Danish architects COBE and Finnish Lundén Architecture as
winners of an international competition for the Tampere Travel and
Service Centre. The winning scheme, “Reconnecting Tampere” will join two
disparate districts in the heart of Finland’s second largest city and
establish a “new urban living room” beneath an expansive steel canopy.
”Tampere’s new Travel and Service Centre has not only the
potential to become a gateway to Tampere and the rest of Finland, but
also the potential of becoming a generator for the future development of
the urban center of Tampere,” says Dan Stubbergaard, Founder and
Creative Director of COBE.
Energy Positive Relocatable Classroom / Anderson Anderson Architecture
Architects: Anderson Anderson Architecture
Location: Ewa Beach, HI, USA
Architect In Charge: Mark Anderson, Peter Anderson
Project Manager: Johnson Tang
Design Team: Mark Anderson, Peter Anderson, Johnson Tang, Yevgeniy Ossipov, Gennifer Muñoz, Yingying Xue, Jia Wu, Chris Campbell, Brent Sumida, Matthias Steppuhn
Area: 960.0 ft2
Year: 2014
Photographs: Anthony Vizzari
Location: Ewa Beach, HI, USA
Architect In Charge: Mark Anderson, Peter Anderson
Project Manager: Johnson Tang
Design Team: Mark Anderson, Peter Anderson, Johnson Tang, Yevgeniy Ossipov, Gennifer Muñoz, Yingying Xue, Jia Wu, Chris Campbell, Brent Sumida, Matthias Steppuhn
Area: 960.0 ft2
Year: 2014
Photographs: Anthony Vizzari
INSIDE Awards Name 2014’s Best Interiors (Round 2)
CRAB studio’s Abedian School of Architecture and Clive Wilkinson’s “endless” office table are two of four INSIDE Awards winners announced on day two of the World Festival of Interiors in Singapore. The projects join a complete list of nine category winners, all of which will be considered for the “World Interior of the Year” title.
See what was considered the best creative re-use project, civic center, education and office building after the break.
Chiarano Primary School / C+S Architects
Architects: C+S Architects
Design Team: Alessandro Mimiola, Giulia Riso, Guido Stella, Mauro Tonello
Partners In Charge: Carlo Cappai, Maria Alessandra Segantini
Structural Engineering, Consultants Acoustic, Mep, Safety, Cost Control And Monitoring: F&M Ingegneria srl
Photographs: Alessandra Bello, Pietro Savorelli
Design Team: Alessandro Mimiola, Giulia Riso, Guido Stella, Mauro Tonello
Partners In Charge: Carlo Cappai, Maria Alessandra Segantini
Structural Engineering, Consultants Acoustic, Mep, Safety, Cost Control And Monitoring: F&M Ingegneria srl
Photographs: Alessandra Bello, Pietro Savorelli
WAF Unveils Day 2 Award Winners
The 2014 World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced its second group of architecture award winners, which included two more awards for Vo Trong Nghia Architects and a Culture award for BIG’s Danish Maritime Museum.
The festival will culminate on Friday with the World Building of the Year and Future Project of the Year awards, which will be selected by the festival’s ‘super-jury’: Richard Rogers, Rocco Yim, Julie Eizenberg, Enric Ruiz Geli and Peter Rich.
The winners of day 1 and 2 were selected from a shortlist that included practices from over 50 countries. Among the judges was ArchDaily’s very own David Basulto.
This year’s festival is taking place from October 1-3, featuring three days of talks, key-note speakers- including Rocco Yim and Richard Rogers - and networking opportunities. With “Architects and the City” as the overarching theme for this year’s main conference sessions, the festival will focus on the contributions architects can make to cities and how they affect – and are affected by – politics, infrastructure, planning communities and technology.
Click here to view the full shortlist and here for day 1 winners. And read on after the break for the full list of WAF day 2 category winners.
The festival will culminate on Friday with the World Building of the Year and Future Project of the Year awards, which will be selected by the festival’s ‘super-jury’: Richard Rogers, Rocco Yim, Julie Eizenberg, Enric Ruiz Geli and Peter Rich.
The winners of day 1 and 2 were selected from a shortlist that included practices from over 50 countries. Among the judges was ArchDaily’s very own David Basulto.
This year’s festival is taking place from October 1-3, featuring three days of talks, key-note speakers- including Rocco Yim and Richard Rogers - and networking opportunities. With “Architects and the City” as the overarching theme for this year’s main conference sessions, the festival will focus on the contributions architects can make to cities and how they affect – and are affected by – politics, infrastructure, planning communities and technology.
Click here to view the full shortlist and here for day 1 winners. And read on after the break for the full list of WAF day 2 category winners.
Reinier de Graaf: Mayors Should Not Rule The World
This weekend, the first planning session of the Global Parliament of Mayors took place in Amsterdam: a platform for mayors from across the world, triggered by Benjamin Barber’s book: If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities.
In this book the current political system and its leaders is dismissed as dysfunctional. Defined by borders and with an inevitable focus on national interests, they are not an effective vehicle to govern a world defined by interdependence. Mayors, presiding over cities with their more open, networked structure and cosmopolitan demographics, so the book argues, could do it better.
It is of no surprise that this book has been welcomed by the same political class as the one it praises: mayors. As was apparent during the first planning session of the GPM: a conference about mayors, for mayors, attended by mayors, moderated by mayors and hosted by a mayor, all triggered by a book about mayors.
I recognize many of the book’s observations. Many mayors are impressive figures and time appears to be on their side. Nation states (particularly the large ones) have an increasingly hard time and, in the context of a process of globalization, cities, and particularly small city-states, increasingly emerge victorious. Cities have first-hand experience with many of the things that occur in globalization’s wake, such as immigration and cultural and religious diversity, and are generally less dogmatic and more practical in dealing with them.
So far so good.
In this book the current political system and its leaders is dismissed as dysfunctional. Defined by borders and with an inevitable focus on national interests, they are not an effective vehicle to govern a world defined by interdependence. Mayors, presiding over cities with their more open, networked structure and cosmopolitan demographics, so the book argues, could do it better.
It is of no surprise that this book has been welcomed by the same political class as the one it praises: mayors. As was apparent during the first planning session of the GPM: a conference about mayors, for mayors, attended by mayors, moderated by mayors and hosted by a mayor, all triggered by a book about mayors.
I recognize many of the book’s observations. Many mayors are impressive figures and time appears to be on their side. Nation states (particularly the large ones) have an increasingly hard time and, in the context of a process of globalization, cities, and particularly small city-states, increasingly emerge victorious. Cities have first-hand experience with many of the things that occur in globalization’s wake, such as immigration and cultural and religious diversity, and are generally less dogmatic and more practical in dealing with them.
So far so good.
Modern Barn / Specht Harpman
Architects: Specht Harpman
Location: Wilton, CT, USA
Design Team: Scott Specht, Louise Harpman, Courtney Rice
Photographs: Courtesy of Specht Harpman
Location: Wilton, CT, USA
Design Team: Scott Specht, Louise Harpman, Courtney Rice
Photographs: Courtesy of Specht Harpman
Spotlight: Bjarke Ingels
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels is often cited as one of the most inspirational architects of our time. At an age when many architects are just beginning to establish themselves in professional practice, Ingels has already won numerous competitions and achieved a level of critical acclaim (and fame) that is rare for new names in the industry. His work embodies a rare optimism that is simultaneously playful, practical, and immediately accessible.The Future of London’s Historic Alexandra Palace Revealed in New Exhibition
The soaring glass roofs of London‘s Alexandra Palace are about to receive a major overhaul thanks to a £23.8m ($38.6m USD) fundraising project focused on the revitalization of the 139 year old palace. Images of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios 2014 revitalization are on display for the first time in an exhibition
showcasing the upcoming changes to the public palace, including
extensive renovations to reopen derelict sections of the building. Find
out more about the exhibition after the break.
Arcueil ZAC du Coteau / ECDM
Architects: ECDM
Location: Avenue du Général Malleret Joinville, 94110 Arcueil, France
Architect In Charge: Emmanuel Combarel, Dominique Marrec
Client: NEXITY
Area: 9600.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Benoit Fougeirol
Location: Avenue du Général Malleret Joinville, 94110 Arcueil, France
Architect In Charge: Emmanuel Combarel, Dominique Marrec
Client: NEXITY
Area: 9600.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Benoit Fougeirol
Amchit Residence / BLANKPAGE Architects
Architects: BLANKPAGE Architects
Location: Lycee Amchit, Aamchit, Lebanon
Architect In Charge: Karim Nader, Patrick Mezher, Walid Ghantous
Area: 430.0 sqm
Photographs: Ieva Saudargaitė
Location: Lycee Amchit, Aamchit, Lebanon
Architect In Charge: Karim Nader, Patrick Mezher, Walid Ghantous
Area: 430.0 sqm
Photographs: Ieva Saudargaitė
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