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Monday, December 15, 2014

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ChungMuGong YiSUNSHIN Memorial / METAA

© Jaekyung Kim
Architects: 
Location: South Korea
Architect In Charge: Jongho Yi, Euijung Woo
Architecture Design : Sangjin Yi, Eunsuk Lee, Yongbum Lee
Area: 3104.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Jaekyung Kim

DupleXS / architectureRED

© Prem, Rajan Gero
Architects: architectureRED
Location: , Tamil Nadu, India
Design Team: Biju Kuriakose, Kishore Panikkar, Kani Pandian, Yasir Azami, Preetha John, Apoorva Madhusudan
Area: 17000.0 ft2
Year: 2014
Photographs: Prem, Rajan Gero

#ILookUp: AIA Seeks to Enhance Public’s Awareness of Design Importance

What do you see when you look up? As part of the American Institute of Architects’ () #ILookUp campaign, this video seeks to elevate the public’s awareness of the impact and importance of the design profession by asking everyone to “look up.” It is the AIA’s goal to spark a two-way conversation on the value of architects and architecture. Please watch the video above and share your thoughts on social media using the #ILookUp.

Stirling House / Mac-Interactive Architects

© Tom Ferguson
Architects: Mac-Interactive Architects
Location: Sydney NSW, 
Architect In Charge: Andy Macdonald
Photographs: Tom Ferguson , Murray Fredericks 
The Eames House. Image © J. Paul Getty Trust

Spotlight: Ray Eames

Ray Eames (December 15, 1912-August 1988) is best known for her personal and artistic collaboration with Charles Eames, and together, their innovative designs shaped the course of modernism. Although Charles often gave the firm its public face, particularly in the male-oriented world of midcentury design, the two designers are almost always discussed as a couple and every project that their office pursued was in fact a team effort. When asked about any particular piece of furniture, for example, Ray always maintained that she contributed to the details of the design in a “million ways” and considered the overall form of each project in a critical fashion, emphasizing the collaborative nature of not just their partnership, but their entire office.

Stereotank Designs Heart-Beating Urban Drum for Times Square

© Stereotank 
Come February 9,  will be celebrating the opening of its seventh annual Valentine’s Day installation in Times Square. As part of Times Square Alliance’s heart design competition, Brooklyn- based and Venezuelan-born firm Stereotank will be constructing a heart-beating urban drum in hopes that it will bring together New Yorkers through music. 

Plywood Trio Apartment in Madrid / BUJ+COLÓN Arquitectos

© Elena Almagro
Architects: BUJ+COLÓN Arquitectos
Location: Calle de las Huertas, 28914 , Madrid, Spain
Framing: La Carpintería, Madrid.
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Elena Almagro 

REX Cantilevers Stacked Library Entry Over Downtown Calgary Site

© Luxigon
REX has shared with us their competition proposal for ’s New Central Library (NCL). Though Snøhetta and DIALOG ultimately won the competition,  was shortlisted as a finalist with an unconventional scheme that was based on adaptability, serendipity and treating the librarians as curators. By literally stacking the library’s program according to the client’s desired sequence,  formulated six typological clusters hoisted on top an illuminated plinth.
Check out the complete proposal, after the break. 

Palacio de Hierro Antea Façade / Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos

© Paul Rivera
Architects: Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos
Location: , Querétaro, 
Architects In Charge: Arq. Javier Sordo Madaleno Bringas
Architecture Leader: Arq. Javier Sordo Madaleno de Haro
Project Leader: Arq. Humberto Mendoza
Architecture Team: Fernando Sordo Madaleno de Haro, Juliam Silva, Andrés Muñoz
Área: 9000.0 m2
Year: 2014
Photographs: Paul Rivera

OMA’s Pantheon-Inspired Faena Forum Set to Open in 2015

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Alongside the launch of Faena Circle, an experimental collaboration between Faena Art in Miami Beach and its sister institution in Buenos Aires, comes new images of the OMA-designed Faena Forum. The new center for arts and culture planned for Miami Beach is designed to “catalyze experimentation within and across artistic disciplines and foster cross-cultural collaborations among artists throughout the Western Hemisphere.” A series of flexible spaces formed by interlocking cylindrical and cuboidal volumes will provide for a range of projects, commissions, performances and events. 

ATRIUM – Groupe Dynamite / Ædifica

© François Descôteaux
Architects: Ædifica
Location: , QC, 
Area: 9800.0 ft2
Year: 2014
Photographs: François Descôteaux

INTERIORS: Home Alone

Courtesy of 
Interiors is an online film and architecture journal, published by Mehruss Jon Ahi and Armen Karaoghlanian. Interiors runs an exclusive column for ArchDaily that analyzes and diagrams films in terms of space. Their Official Store will carry exclusive prints from these posts.
In their first collaboration together as writer and director, John Hughes and Christopher Columbus produced Home Alone (1990). This quintessential Christmas film is a prime example of a “movie home” — a home that is made iconic and famous with its appearance in a popular film.
The film concerns itself with Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin), a young boy whose family accidently leaves him home alone after leaving for a vacation. In this small suburban town, on Christmas, their home is targeted after a string of successful break-ins in the neighborhood. The McCallister Residence as a result becomes the central space where the majority of the action in the film occurs.
The production used an actual home for the setting of the film. The home’s location is 671 Lincoln Avenue in Winnetka, Illinois, north of Chicago. The majority of the interiors were filmed on location, including most of the first floor, while several rooms were recreated and filmed on a sound stage. Interiors visited the location in July 2014.

Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership / Studio Gang

© Steve Hall for Hedrich Blessing
Architects: Studio Gang
Location: , MI, USA
Owner: Kalamazoo College
Area: 10000.0 ft2
Year: 2014
Photographs: Steve Hall for Hedrich Blessing, Iwan Baan

OMA Wins Competition for Shanghai Exhibition Center

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OMA has won a competition to design the Lujiazui Exhibition Centre, a 1,500 square meter space in Shanghai  on the site of the former “Shanghai Shipyard.” The design aims to create a concentrated culture and event space within the surrounding financial district, on the edge of the Huangpu River, one of the most photographed waterfronts in the world.
More on the design after the break

Library in Dublin / Carr Cotter & Naessens

© Dennis Gilbert
Architects: Carr Cotter & Naessens
Location: Moran Park House, Queen’s Road, , 
Architect In Charge: Louise Cotter and David Naessens
Area: 6327.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Dennis Gilbert

A Look Inside SelgasCano’s First UK Project

© Iwan Baan
In an article for The Observer  examines ‘Second Home’, a newly opened “creative hub” in London designed by Spanish practice SelgasCano, who were recently announced as the designers of the 2015 Serpentine Pavilion. For Moore the project, which is the practice’s first building in the , offers a “lightness and grace as well as invention, and an awareness of when to stop.” The building is designed to be fluid, allowing start-up creative businesses to move in and move out as and when their business model dictates. Heavy tables can emerge from the floor, and ‘roaming zones’ facilitate creative thought. According to Moore’s review, there “are no water-coolers, no kitchenettes, [and] no microwaves.”
Cathedral of Brasília. Image © Brasilia

Spotlight: Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho, or simply Oscar Niemeyer, was one of the greatest architects in Brazil‘s history, and one of the greats of the global modernist movement. After his death in 2012, Niemeyer left the world more than five hundred works scattered throughout the Americas, Africa and Europe.
Niemeyer attended the National School of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro in 1929, graduating in 1934. He began working with the influential Brazilian architect and urban planner Lúcio Costa also in 1932, a professional partnership that would last decades and result in some of the most important works in the history of modern architecture.

Cabin Norderhov / Atelier Oslo

© Lars Petter Pettersen
Architects: Atelier Oslo
Location: Norderhov, 
Design Team: Nils Ole Bae Brandtzæg, Thomas Liu, Marius Mowe, Jonas Norsted, Juan Ruiz, Bosheng Gan, Sveinn Thorarinsson, Emmanuel Ferm
Area: 80.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Lars Petter Pettersen, Courtesy of Atelier Oslo, Jonas Adolfsen
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