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Tianjin Riverside 66 / Kohn Pedersen Fox

© Tim Griffith
Architects: Kohn Pedersen Fox
Location: Tianjin, Tianjin, China
Design Principal: James von Klemperer, FAIA
Director/Senior Designer: Jeffrey Kenoff, AIA
Project Team Leader Ny: Audrey Choi
Project Team Leader Hk: Edwin Lau
Area: 152800.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Tim Griffith

Moore Park Residence / Drew Mandel Architects

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Architects: Drew Mandel Architects
Location: , ON, Canada
Design Team: Drew Mandel, Jowenne Poon, Rachel Tameirao, Jasmine Maggs
Area: 2880.0 ft2
Year: 2014
Photographs: Ben Rahn / A-Frame

Winning Proposals Transform Power Plants into Public Art

First Prize: The Solar Hourglass / Santiago Muros Cortés . Image Courtesy of LAGI
Winners have been announced for the 2014 Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI). The competition, this year sited in , calls on interdisciplinary teams to design large scale site-specific artworks that provide renewable electricity to the city at a utility-scale (equivalent to the demand of hundreds or even thousands of homes). Once constructed, these public infrastructure artworks have the potential to offset thousands of tons of CO2 and provide iconic amenities that will serve to educate and inspire the communities in which they are built.
Check out the winning -generating sculptures, after the break.

Emerging Voices: David Benjamin of The Living

<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/100443664">http://www.vimeo.com/100443664</a> In his lecture as one of winners of the Architectural League’s annual Emerging Voices awards, David Benjamin discusses his unique approach to environmental and computational design and how it manifests itself in the work of The Living, a firm he founded in 2006.
Throughout the lecture Benjamin discusses projects that are fundamentally linked to the natural environment and ideas related to sustainability. To introduce how the firm generates new ideas, Benjamin describes a method of experimentation developed in their practice called flash research: beginning with the idea that architecture could be dynamic and responsive, these are prototypes that operate under self-created constraints such as a budget of $1000 or less and a required time span of three months or less.
Read on after the break for further synopsis of the lecture.

Video: Three Writers On Olafur Eliasson’s Riverbed

<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/107689056">http://www.vimeo.com/107689056</a> In this video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art‘s Lousiana Channel, three acclaimed writers – Sjón, James McBride and Daniel Kehlmann – talk about their experience of Olafur Eliasson’s Indoor Riverbed at the Danish museum. Sjón describes how he felt when he saw 180 tons of rock from his home country of Iceland filling the room, saying “It was like a moment in a dream, when you enter a room and something is not right, but familiar.”
The writers reflect on the role of art itself, as Sjón states ”If art is to give answers at all, it should be confusing answers.” Watch the full video to learn more about how the impacts its viewers and successfully blurs the lines between art and nature.
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Rem Koolhaas and the New Frontline of Transformation

When you abandon the countryside in favour of the city, what do you leave behind? In a recent essay for Icon Magazine, OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas deliberates on the intersection between the two, arguing that “our current obsession with only the city is highly irresponsible because you cannot understand the city without understanding the countryside.”
“The countryside is now the frontline of transformation,” Koolhaas says, describing a new type of hybridized urban-countryside where no stone is left unturned. Koolhaas refers to this land as ”the intermediate,” describing it as “a well-manicured place where surface appearances bear almost no relation to what is actually happening on the land and in the buildings.” The countryside, Koolhaas argues, is no longer a sober second thought for the urban dweller but a facsimile of the failures of city life. Read the essay in full, here.

Cloudscapes / Transsolar & Tetsuo Kondo Architects

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Architects: Transsolar & Tetsuo Kondo Architects
Location: ,
Designer: Nadir Abdessemed, Jakob Merk and Matthias Schuler
Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Transsolar & Tetsuo Kondo Architects

House Krailling / Unterlandstättner Architekten

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Architects: Unterlandstättner Architekten
Location: , Germany
Project Team: Telemach Rieff, Anke Göckelmann, Enrico Schreck
Area: 350.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Unterlandstättner Architekten

House T / Haro Architects

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Architects: Haro Architects
Location: ,
Architect In Charge: Bernd Haslauer, Roberto Rodríguez Paraja
Collaborators: Angel Muñoz, Christina Golser
Area: 385.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Stefan Zauner
Marlborough College via Wikipedia

Five Shortlisted for Marlborough College Science Building

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Nicholas Hare Architects, Orms, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects and Tim Ronalds Architects have been shortlisted in a competition to expand and develop the Marlborough College science building in Wiltshire, England. “The current Science Block has a fascinating heritage but needs a new life to accommodate new teaching methods,” explained Malcolm Reading, the competition’s organizer. “The competition is all about finding a balance between the architectural grain of the existing eclectic campus and a confident and exciting piece of contemporary architecture.” The teams will now develop proposals. A winner will be announced in December.

Competition Entry: Studio Ricatti Wins Second Prize for Arcispedale Sant’Anna University Proposal

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Studio Ricatti has revealed their design for a new university in the Arcispedale San’Anna in Cona-Ferrara . In a competition hosted by the University of Ferrara, the firm was awarded second place for the proposal, which was characterized by clarity of form, efficient flow, and a balance between intimate and social spaces.
More about the winning entry, after the break.

Students of Ball State Construct Parametric Tensegrity Structure for Local Art Fair

© Gernot Riether
A group of architecture students from , together with professors Gernot Riether and Andrew Wit, have transformed a post-industrial landscape in Muncie, Indiana, into a new destination for the city’s local fair with the construction of the Underwood Pavilion. The parametric tensegrity structure, made from 56 lightweight, self-shading modules of Elastan fabric, provides visitors with refuge from the sun and framed views of the surrounding landscape.
More about the structure, after the break.

Sausalito Hillside Remodel / Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects

© Mathew Millman
Architects: Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects
Location: Sausalito, CA, USA
Design Team: Mary Griffin – FAIA, Stephan Hastrup – AIA, John Kleman
Area: 3888.0 ft2
Year: 2013
Photographs: Mathew Millman

Take a Moment to Enjoy ArchDaily’s 12 Most Popular Outdoor Spaces on Pinterest

Binh Thanh House / Vo Trong Nghia Architects + Sanuki + Nishizawa architects. Image © Hiroyuki Oki
Architects are notorious for working long, consecutive hours. So, in an attempt to remind you to take a break, we’ve compiled the top 12 most re-pinned images of inviting, well-designed outdoor spaces from our Pinterest. Take a look, after the break, then step away from the screen and go outside for some much needed fresh air.

Did the New World Trade Center Live Up to its Expectations?

© Joe Mabel via Wikipedia
The USA’s tallest building shoulders one of the nation’s greatest challenges: paying tribute to lives lost in one of the country’s greatest tragedies. One World Trade Center in lower Manhattan has yet to be completed and yet has still recently been condemned by a number of critics, who cite the former “Freedom Tower” as an inspirational failure. Thirteen years after the attacks, the wider site at ground zero also remains plagued by red tape and bureaucratic delays, unfinished and as-yet-unbuilt World Trade Centers, Calatrava’s $5B transit hub, and an absence of reverence, according to critics. Read some of the most potent reviews of the new site from the press in our compilation after the break.

Proyecto Hombre / Elsa Urquijo Arquitectos

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Architects: Elsa Urquijo Arquitectos
Location: , A Coruña, Spain
Area: 2996.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Courtesy of Elsa Urquijo Arquitectos

TEDxTalk: Contour Crafting: Automated Construction / Behrokh Khoshnevis

Almost everything around us is made automatically: our shoes, our clothes, home appliances and cars – so why not buildings? Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis, the Director of the Manufacturing Engineering Graduate Program at the University of Southern California, has set out to change that through the development of an automated construction process known as Contour Crafting. “Contour-crafting is basically scaling-up 3D printing to the scale of buildings. What we are hoping to generate is entire neighborhoods that are dignified at a fraction of the cost, at a fraction of the time, built far more safely and with architectural flexibility that would be unprecedented,” Khoshnevis says in this TedxTalk in Ojai, California.
CAD Drinks. Image Courtesy of Shaan Hurley

The Architecture of Happy Hour: Plotted, Not Stirred

Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind, and Rem Koolhaas walk into a bar. What do they order? CAD Drinks, of course. It’s a Singapore Sling like you have never seen before: drawn to scale, in elevation, and divided meticulously by content – ice cubes…
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