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Editor's ChoiceRoomroom / Takeshi Hosaka
Shonan Christ Church / Takeshi Hosaka
Architects: Takeshi Hosaka
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Area: 175.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Koji Fujii / Nacasa&Partners Inc.
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Area: 175.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Koji Fujii / Nacasa&Partners Inc.
Competition Winners Announced for Madrid Digital Arts Museum
A team of architects from Rome have been announced as winners of CTRL+SPACE’s ideas competition for a digital arts museum in central Madrid.
The competition challenged teams to envision a 21st-century
contemporary arts museum that embodies technology as an “integrated
medium of work” and questions the meaning of “public access.”
The winning proposals, after the break.Construction Begins on Shift Architecture Urbanism’s C-City Museum District
Shift Architecture Urbanism has broken ground on the C-City (Creative City) museum district in Kerkrade. Host to the Netherlands’
first design museum and Europe’s first planetarium, the new district
will be formed as an “urban ensemble defined by clearly recognizable
volumes, all connected by a vast, underground public space.”
By the end of 2015, two new public facilities – Cube and
Columbus – will compliment the existing and highly successful Discovery
Centre Continium at the gateway of the city. Read on the learn more.
Puritama Thermal Bath / Germán del Sol
Architects: Germán del Sol
Location: Río Puritama, San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Area: 1190.0 sqm
Year: 2000
Photographs: Guy Wenborne, Felipe Camus, Courtesy of Germán del Sol
Location: Río Puritama, San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Area: 1190.0 sqm
Year: 2000
Photographs: Guy Wenborne, Felipe Camus, Courtesy of Germán del Sol
ULI Releases New Report on the Infrastructural Challenges of Rising Sea Levels
The Urban Implications of Living With Water, a recent report by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Boston, opens with the clear assertion: “We are beginning to feel the effects of climate change.”
The result of a conversation amongst over seventy experts from the
fields of architecture, engineering, public policy, real estate and
more, the report covers the proposed integrated solutions for a future
of living in a city that proactively meets the challenges accompanying
rising water levels.
“We accept that the seas are rising, the weather is changing, and our communities are at risk; and we recognize that no solution can be all-encompassing. It is our hope that this report will spark conversation, shift our understanding of what is possible, and aid us in reframing challenges into opportunities as we move toward this new era of development.”
Become part of the discussion and read more about the collective ideas, after the break.
“We accept that the seas are rising, the weather is changing, and our communities are at risk; and we recognize that no solution can be all-encompassing. It is our hope that this report will spark conversation, shift our understanding of what is possible, and aid us in reframing challenges into opportunities as we move toward this new era of development.”
Become part of the discussion and read more about the collective ideas, after the break.
Casa dos Caseiros / SAMF Arquitectos
Architects: SAMF Arquitectos
Location: Mesão Frio, Portugal
Area: 70.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: José Campos
Location: Mesão Frio, Portugal
Area: 70.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: José Campos
Enter the Mesmerizing World of Rainbow Coloured Maps with “Crayon the Grids”
A new series of maps by California-based
artist-scientist Stephen Von Worley give colour coding an entirely new
meaning. With his latest algorithm-generated project, “Crayon the Grids,”
Von Worley has taken maps of ten major metropolitan areas and coloured
them based on geographical orientation of the urban grid. Each street is
assigned a colour specific to its orientation, varying in hue and
weight depending on its cardinal direction and length. The result is a
dizzying technicolor of urban planning, creating completely new
demarcations for some of the world’s most recognizable cities.
Enter the chromatic world of coloured city grids after the break
Enter the chromatic world of coloured city grids after the break
Video: Peter Murray of New London Architecture Outlines his Cycling Vision
In the latest video from Crane.tv, architectural journalist and planner Peter Murray ruminates
on the benefits of integrating cycling into the urban fabric of the
world’s biggest cities. “For the last half century, we’ve bowed down to
the god of the motor car and have destroyed cities across the UK,” says Murray, Chairman of New London Architecture and the London Society. Murray and his team at New London Architecture are charged with analyzing and advocating for the improvement of London’s
Built environment, acting as advisors to Mayor Boris Johnson on an
array of projects including the overhaul of cycling infrastructure in
the city.
Murray discusses his foray into cycling around the world, most recently from Portland, Oregon, to Portland Place in London, via New York City. Through his adventures in cycling across the United States and Europe, Murray has gained insight into best practices with an eye towards implementation in London. Inspired by Dutch cycling infrastructure, “Mini Hollands” are London’s latest project, spearheaded by the NLA and executed under a major redevelopment of London’s bicycle infrastructure, designed to create entire communities where bicycles rule the roads and vehicles are a thing of the past.
Murray discusses his foray into cycling around the world, most recently from Portland, Oregon, to Portland Place in London, via New York City. Through his adventures in cycling across the United States and Europe, Murray has gained insight into best practices with an eye towards implementation in London. Inspired by Dutch cycling infrastructure, “Mini Hollands” are London’s latest project, spearheaded by the NLA and executed under a major redevelopment of London’s bicycle infrastructure, designed to create entire communities where bicycles rule the roads and vehicles are a thing of the past.
Tobb Etü Technology Center / A Architectural Design
Architects: A Architectural Design
Location: Ankara/Ankara Province, Turkey
Photographs: Fethi Mağara
Location: Ankara/Ankara Province, Turkey
Photographs: Fethi Mağara
Gui House / Harunatsu-Arch
Architects: Harunatsu-Arch
Location: Izumo, Shimane, Japan
Architects In Charge: Shoko Murakaji, Naoto Murakaji
Statics : Tatsumi Terado Structural Studio / Terado Tashumi
Area: 68.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Kai Nakamura
Location: Izumo, Shimane, Japan
Architects In Charge: Shoko Murakaji, Naoto Murakaji
Statics : Tatsumi Terado Structural Studio / Terado Tashumi
Area: 68.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Kai Nakamura
Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s “Musings on a Glass Box” Opens in Paris
In celebration of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain’s 30th anniversary, Diller Scofidio + Renfro has
installed an immersive exhibition that encourages visitors to
experience the Jean Nouvel-designed, glass and steel museum building in
an entirely new way.
“The Fondation Cartier building designed by Jean Nouvel
will be used as raw material for their work, a first in the history of
the institution. Musings on a Glass Box is
a complex work occupying the entire ground floor of the Fondation
Cartier, where a disturbance in the ceiling will trigger a surprising
reaction. The result is an immersive environment, including an integral
acoustic component by American composer David Lang and sound designer
Jody Elff, that works with the building’s architecture to raise
questions about transparency, perception, and one’s relation to space.”
A statement from Diller Scofidio + Renfro, after the break.
Europe 40 Under 40 Winners Announced
Europe 40 Under 40 has announced its 40 architects selected for 2014. Hosted by the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies, the annual awards program aims to select the next new talented generation of European architects.The program aims “to support new and emerging design talent that will influence the near future of European architectural design, thinking, and theory with the direct consequence of impacting future environments and future European and international cities,” reads the press release. Architects under the age of 40 ( as of December 1, 2015) were allowed to submit both built and unbuilt projects for consideration.
Check out the full list of Europe’s 40 Under 40 after the break.
Escalalatina: Rendering Your Designs with Diversity
Tired of seeing Nordic families in representations of Colombian markets and New York hipsters drinking coffee in Mexican cultural centers, a group of self-described “young latinos” have created Escalalatina, a collection of high-resolution images of “people on the road to development” to be used for renderings.
Inspired by Teodor Javanaud Emdén’s SKALGUBBAR - a virtual library of people for renders - Escalatina aims to provide a way for Latin American architects to fill their renders with images of local people.
All of the images are available in .png format and users can also submit their own images for the site as well.
Check out some of the Escalalatina images after the break.
Inspired by Teodor Javanaud Emdén’s SKALGUBBAR - a virtual library of people for renders - Escalatina aims to provide a way for Latin American architects to fill their renders with images of local people.
All of the images are available in .png format and users can also submit their own images for the site as well.
Check out some of the Escalalatina images after the break.
Winery in Balaton Highland / SAGRA Architects
Architects: SAGRA Architects
Location: Szenta, Dózsa György Street, 8849 Hungary
Architect In Charge: Sajtos Gábor
Design Team: Sajtos Gábor, Gilvesy Robert, Grand Gabriella, Virág Péter
Year: 2014
Photographs: Sajtos Gábor
Location: Szenta, Dózsa György Street, 8849 Hungary
Architect In Charge: Sajtos Gábor
Design Team: Sajtos Gábor, Gilvesy Robert, Grand Gabriella, Virág Péter
Year: 2014
Photographs: Sajtos Gábor
Alvar Aalto’s Restored Viipuri Library Wins 2014 Modernism Prize
The 2014 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize has
been awarded to the Finnish Committee for the restoration of Alvar
Aalto’s seminal Viipuri Library in Vyborg, Russia. “Designed by Aalto
and constructed between 1927 and 1935 in what was then the Finnish city
of Viipuri,” stated WMF in a press release, “the library reflects the
emergence of Aalto’s distinctive combination of organic form and
materials with the principles of clear functionalist expression that was
to become the hallmark of his architecture.”
A quote from Barry Bergdoll and more images, after the break.
Emerging Voices: Estudio Macías Peredo
<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/105034745">http://www.vimeo.com/105034745</a>
Estudio Macías Peredo is led by Salvador Macías Corona and Magui Peredo Arenas and is based in Guadalajara, Mexico. In their lecture as one of the winners of the Architectural League’s annual Emerging Voices awards,
Corona and Arenas reveal the ways in which the local conditions and
building traditions of their country have become creative drivers for
their contemporary practice of architecture. They have a shared interest
in primitive buildings, seeking to incorporate some of the inherent
abstract qualities of primitive structures in ways that address
contemporary issues.
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