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Stadskantoor Torhout / Gino Debruyne & Architecten

Architects: Gino Debruyne & Architecten
Location: Aartrijkestraat 11, 8820 Torhout, Belgium
Area: 6100.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Koen Van Damme

Office Around a Tree / Lukstudio

Architects: Lukstudio
Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Design Team: Christina Luk, Wesley Shu, Scott Baker, Mavis Li
Area: 133.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Peter Dixie

Torno Co. Lab / Rama Estudio

Architects: Carolina Rodas y Felipe Donoso
Location: Quito Rumipamba, Ecuador
Project Area: 260.0 m2
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Felipe Donoso, Courtesy of Juan Martínez

Stoke Newington School Sixth Form Centre / Jestico + Whiles

Architects: Jestico + Whiles
Location: London, UK
Area: 589.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Jestico + Whiles

Friis & Moltke Designs Housing Complex as Conceptual Scandinavian Forest

Friis & Moltke is set to break ground next year (2015) on a housing project inspired by the Scandinavian forest. Just as “moss-covered hillocks and majestic towering trunks with crowns filter light and create shimmering patterns on the forest floor,” says the architect, the Løvhusene housing complex adapts to its natural surroundings as circulatory “boardwalks” weave between a “forest” of clustered wooden residences, all centered around a shared community “clearing.”

Competition Entry: AVA’s Sculptural House of Hungarian Music Takes Third for Liget Budapest

Courtesy of Andrea Vattovani Architecture, Segnoprogetto

This past spring, the Liget Budapest competition was launched in the interest of finding new designs for planned cultural buildings in the Hungarian capital. One of these, the House of Hungarian Music, is to be a museum as well as a performance space set in Budapest City Park. Over 170 entries were submitted for the building, and of those, Andrea Vattovani Architecture’s proposal has taken third place. This gently curving and folding sculpture of a building aims to present the history of Hungarian music in an engaging setting, while creating an iconic landmark for the city of Budapest. Learn more, after the break.

Alphaville Store – Contain[it] / SuperLimão Studio

Architects: SuperLimão Studio, contain[it]
Location: Araçatuba – São Paulo, Brasil
Project Architects: Sergio Cabral, Arthur Norgren e Ana Belizario
Collaborators: Paulo Modolo, Filipe Bulhões
Construction: contain[it]
Project Area: 122.0 m2
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Maira Acayaba

Niyang River Visitor Center / Standardarchitecture + Zhaoyang Architects. Image © Chen Su

Aedes Architecture Forum Highlights ZAO/standardarchitecture

Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin will mark the beginning of its 35^th Anniversary Program for 2015 by continuing its focus on Asia and China. With the architect Zhang Ke ofZAO/standardarchitecture from Beijing, Aedes presents one of the most promising protagonists of a young group of Chinese architects and urban planners. This follows on from the 2001 exhibition ‘TU-MU’, in which Aedes presented for the first time, and with global success, the first generation of independent architects in China. At that time, the architects and artists introduced in the exhibition, Yung Ho Chang, Liu Jiarkun, Ai Wei Wei, Wang Shu, Lu Wenyu, etc., were fully unknown in the West, while some have since gone on to become Pritzker Prize winners or internationally known artists. Read on to learn more.

SIP m3 House / Ian Hsü + Gabriel Rudolphy

Architects: Ian Hsü + Gabriel Rudolphy
Location: Colina, Colina, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Project Area: 155.0 m2
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Aryeh Kornfeld, Courtesy of Ian Hsü + Gabriel Rudolphy

Three Lessons From Finnish Architecture

Kuokkala Church – OOPEAA . Image © Fernanda Castro

I recently had the opportunity to visit Finland, representing ArchDaily on an architecture press tour organized by the Museum of Finnish Architecture. This was a chance for me to see firsthand some of the recent architecture projects built in the last several years by young architects.

I would like to share with you some of the lessons and best practices I learned from Finnish architecture that I believe we could apply to our work as architects (especially in Latin America, where I am from).

1–6 Copper Lane N16 9NS / Henley Halebrown Rorrison Architects

Architects: Henley Halebrown Rorrison Architects
Location: Stoke Newington, London, UK
Year: 2014
Photographs: Ioana Marinescu

The Portland Building Won’t be Demolished, says Michael Graves

The Portland Building will be saved from the wrecking ball and undergo renovation, Michael Graves, the architect behind the postmodern masterpiece, told A/N blog. “It’s going to be saved,” Graves said to AN. “They told me… They said they are saving the building and not only that but we want you to sit on a committee for the redesign. I would imagine in the next year we’ll do something.”

LIKEarchitects’ “Frozen Trees” Installation Moves to London

LIKEarchitects‘ Christmas installation, Frozen Trees, has found a new home in London’s Victory Park in East Village. Originally created by LIKEarchitects in 2011 and displayed on Lisbon’s D. Pedro IV Square, the installation will now light up the holiday period in one of London’s newest public spaces, on the site of the former Olympic Village, as its 1,296 Rationell Variera plastic bag dispensers from IKEA gently glow through the night.

Gösta Serlachius Museum / MX_SI

Architects: MX_SI
Location: Gösta Serlachiuksen taidemuseo, 35800 Mänttä, Finland
Architects In Charge: Boris Bežan, Héctor Mendoza, Mara Partida
Area: 3500.0 sqm
Photographs: Pedro Pegenaute, Tuomas Uusheimo

Cedric Price Exhibition Opens In Maastricht

CP. DoT. Potteries Thinkbelt. Image Courtesy of CCA / Bureau Europa

A new exhibition and accompanying digital documentary on Cedric Price, a British architect, writer and educator who had a formative influence on architects such as Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and Bernard Tschumi, is open in The Netherlands. The exhibition, curated by members of Bureau Europa, introduces the work of Price by “presenting a cross-section of the elements of his inventive and singular practice” through sketches, project drawings, recorded talks, and first-hand accounts by staff, colleagues and friends. In addition, a series of selected projects present his “innovative models for industry, education, government, tourism, ecology and the house.”