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Tinman House / Junsekino Architect And Design

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Architects: Junsekino Architect And Design
Location: , Thailand
Area: 415.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Spaceshift studio

House Nara-zaka / Yoshiaki Yamashita Architect & Associates

© Eiji Tomita
Architects: Yoshiaki Yamashita Architect & Associates
Location: 314-28 Hannyajicho, , ,
Collaborators: Yoshiki Mondo
Area: 139.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Eiji Tomita

MAD Architects Unveils Mountainous Design for Lucas Museum in Chicago

Courtesy of Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts
The design for Chicago‘s Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts has been revealed, with MAD Architects unveiling their plans for a sculptural white “mountain,” rising from the site to be topped by a metallic crown. Designed as a landscape that can be approached from all sides, with the main entrance located on a ‘floating’ public plaza accessed via a network of ramps and steps, the building is organized around a central domed lobby and events space, with four stories of gallery spaces, a set of four theaters, and at the top of the building an observation deck and glass-encased restaurant. In a connected, smaller “mountain” are the building’s educational functions, with classrooms, lecture theaters and a library.
Speaking to ArchDaily from , director of Ma Yansong explained how he wanted the design “to be futuristic but at the same time to be natural,” connecting with the landscape of the waterfront site.
More about the design from Ma Yansong after the break

Lune de Sang-Shed 2 / CHROFI

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Architects: CHROFI
Location: Northern Tablelands, NSW,
Project Director : John Choi
Project Leader : Toby Breakspear
Project Team : Steven Fighera, Tai Ropiha, Jerome Cateaux, Clinton Weaver, Linda Lam, Felix Rasch
Area: 2360.0 sqm
Photographs: Brett Boardman
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Chipperfield’s Musée des Beaux-Arts Nixed for Being to Costly

The French government has cancelled its £8 million contribution towards the £43 million Musée des Beaux-arts by David Chipperfield Architects, causing the Reims’ mayor to “shelve” the museum for being too costly. As reported by the Architects’ Journal, the funds will be reallocated towards the redevelopment of a recently closed sports complex. The museum, originally awarded to Chipperfield following an international competition, was intended to be built on an excavation area and display mediaeval relics. You can review the design, here.

And the Best US Architecture Schools for 2015 Are…

The Trays at Harvard GSD. Image © Kris Snibbe/Harvard University News Office
DesignIntelligence has released their 2015 rankings of the Best US Architecture Schools for both undergraduate and graduate programs. Over 1,400 professional practice organizations were surveyed and asked to respond to the question: “In your firm’s hiring experience in the past five years, which of the following schools are best preparing students for success in the profession?” In addition, more than 3,800 architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, and industrial design students were also surveyed about their education, in data presented separately from the rankings.
However, perhaps more enlightening than the ranking itself are the firms’ responses to several additional issues raised in the report.  For example, 54.6% of the firms surveyed selected sustainability and climate change as the professions’ biggest concern, while maintaining design quality was a close second.  Firms also provided insights on the most important qualities of new graduates entering the workplace, with an overwhelming 70.1% selecting attitude/personality as the most important attribute.
Read on after the break for the Top 10 undergraduate and graduate programs.

Stampsy & IO Studio / Archiproba

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Architects: Archiproba
Location: , Russia
Architect In Charge: Tamara Muradova
Area: 400.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Olya Eichenbaum

TED Talk: How to Reinvent the Apartment Building / Moshe Safdie

Nearly 50 years after realizing Habitat ’67, when the need for high quality affordable housing is at an all time high, is expanding on his ideas first explored in the stacked Montreal utopia to discover just how natural light and the feeling openness can be achieved in today’s megalopolises. Watch as Safdie makes a case to do away with the high-rise in the short TED Talk above.

Blau Projects Gallery / ARKIZ

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Architects: ARKIZ
Location: São Paulo – State of São Paulo,
Architect In Charge: Alexandre Hepner, João Paulo Payar, Rafael Brych, Ana Maria Montag
Contributor: Veronica Vacaro
Area: 2475.0 ft2
Year: 2013
Photographs: Marcus Vinicius Damon

SOM’s One World Trade Center Opens in New York

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The first tenant has moved into the One World Trade Center, marking the official opening of the (arguably) tallest building in the Western hemisphere 13 years after the tragedy of 9/11. The “extraordinary moment was passed in the most ordinary of ways,” described the New York Times, as employees of Conde Nast entered into the white marble lobby (taken from the same quarry that produced marble for the original twin towers) and headed straight to the elevators to start their work day.
Over the years the 104-story, 1776-foot tall skyscraper designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) has been the center of a number of public squabbles. The latest, a debate over whether or not the $3.9 billion structure’s 408-foot spire should count towards its overall, patriotic 1776-foot height. 

Quilotoa Shalalá Overlook / Jorge Javier Andrade Benítez + Javier Mera Luna + Daniel Moreno Flores

© Lorena Darquea
Architects: Jorge Javier Andrade Benítez, Javier Mera Luna, Daniel Moreno Flores
Location: Zumbahua,
Area: 616.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Lorena Darquea, Daniel Moreno Flores

Four Steps to Fix the Global Affordable Housing Shortage

Mirador Project by MVRDV in Spain aligns with McKinsey’s goals for . Image © Flickr User Wojtek Gurak; Licensed via Creative Commons
According to global consultancy firm McKinsey & Company, the projected cost of providing affordable housing to 330 million households around the world currently living in substandard accommodation is $16 trillion USD. The firm’s latest report, A Blueprint for Addressing the Global Affordable Housing Challenge, assesses critical pathways for providing housing to families across a range of socio-economic backgrounds and nationalities. According to the report, adequate and affordable housing could be out of reach for more than 1.6 billion people within a decade. The comprehensive report examines everything from income to cost of heating, boiling down the data into four key mandates aimed at solving the global housing crisis.
The proposed solution is one of ascending goals, similar to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, with a four-tiered plan targeted towards households earning 80% or less of the median income for any given region. The program is designed to meet McKinsey’s 2025 Housing Challenge which aims to provide housing to a projected 440 million households worldwide within ten years through community engagement,  gathering funding, appropriate delivery of housing models, and creation of governmental infrastructure to sustain housing.
Find out the four steps to solving the global affordable housing shortage after the break

Northwest Harbor / Bates Masi Architects

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Architects: Bates Masi Architects
Location: , NY, USA
Structural Engineer: Steven L. Maresca, Hampton Bays, NY
Area: 1895.0 ft2
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Bates Masi Architects

Video: Tightrope Walker Nik Wallenda Crosses Chicago’s “Skyscraper Canyon”

Last night, thousands in Chicago turned out to cheer on tightrope walker Nik Wallenda, as he performed two tightrope walks involving some of the Windy City’s most famous buildings: Bertrand Goldberg‘s Marina City Apartments and Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates‘ Leo Burnett Building. Wallenda set two Guinness World records, the first for the steepest ever tightrope walk as he climbed from the 588-foot Marina City to the 671-foot Leo Burnett Building, and then for the highest blindfolded tightrope walk as he crossed between the two Marina City towers. The stunt was covered live by Discovery, whose footage comes replete with dramatic sweeping shots of a mid-walk Wallenda, made miniscule against the backdrop of ’s famous Skyscraper Canyon.

Autodesk Announces $100 Million Investment in 3D Printing

Many groups are working on innovative technologies, such as Emerging Objects’ designs for a 3D printed house made from locally harvested salt. Image © Emerging Objects
Autodesk has announced a new program which aims to invest up to $100 million in 3D printing companies over the next several years. The Spark Investment Fund will invest in innovative entrepreneurs, startups and researchers in the 3D printing field who ”push the boundaries of 3D printing technology and accelerate the new industrial revolution.”
The investment fund has been developed alongside ’s recently released Spark software, a free and open 3D printing platform which connects a wide range of 3D printing hardware and design software, and can work with any material. The company hopes to encourage the 3D printing community to build upon and improve this software.
More on the fund after the break

Regional Court and Industrial Tribunal at Montmorency / Dominique Coulon & Associés

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Architects: Dominique Coulon & Associés
Location: 143 Charles de Gaulle Avenue, 95160 ,
Area: 2110.0 sqm
Photographs: David Romero-Uzeda, Patrick Miara
Brion Tomba, Carlo Scarpa. Image © Flickr User: seier+seier

The Interface of the Afterlife: Examining Cemeteries and Mausoleums in the 21st Century

The relationship between immortality and architecture is ancient one. Writing in The New Yorker, Alexandra Lange discusses the past and future of cemetery design in relation to a new exhibition on display in New York. Featuring a selection of 1300 individual mausoleum designs stored in Columbia University’s archives, Lange notes how “patrons weren’t picky about originality. In the late nineteenth century, memorial companies might just bring back a shipment of angels from Carrara to be distributed among future clients.” These “rural estates in miniature” eventually gave way to more contemporary designs which dabbled in Realism and Cubism. What will the people of today house their remains in? For Lange, “the design we take personal pleasure from everyday is now less likely to be architecture and more likely to be an interface.”

The Corten House / DMOA Architecten

© Luc Roymans
Architects: DMOA Architecten
Location: , Belgium
Collaborators: Benjamin Denef, Matthias Mattelaer, Stefanie Dieleman, Charlotte Gryspeerdt, Lien Gesquiere, Koen Paridaens engineering
Area: 540.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Luc Roymans
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