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Thursday, December 4, 2014

Arch Daily

Espriss Café / Hooba Design Group

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Architects: Hooba Design Group
Location: , , Iran
Architect In Charge: Hooman Balazadeh
Project Manager: Elham Seyfi azad
Design Team: Niloofar Al-taha, Noushin Atrvash
Area: 28.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Hooba Design Group

100 Office / Shimizu Corporation

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Architects: Shimizu Corporation
Location: 2 Chome-5-1 Mishima, Settsu-shi, Ōsaka-fu, 
Area: 3753.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Architects

Miaoli Station / Bio-architecture Formosana

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Architects: Bio-architecture Formosana
Location: , Taiwan
Area: 2756.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Bio-architecture Formosana

SCAPE and Rogers Partners Design New Public Gateway for Mississippi River Waterfall

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SCAPE / Landscape Architecture and Rogers Partners have envisioned a new public gateway for the Mississippi River’s “one true waterfall” – St. Anthony Falls in downtown Minneapolis. Named after being the city’s original site for its 19th-century water supply and fire-fighting pumping stations, “Water Works” is designed to “weave” together heritage ruins, local ecology, and recreational systems into a “coherent civic space” on four-acres of Central Riverfront. 

Five Cities Elevated by UNESCO “City of Design” Status

V&A Museum of Design planned for Dundee (click image for more). Image © Kengo Kuma & Associates
Dundee, Bilbao, Curitiba, Helsinki and Turin are often considered the cultural epicenters of their respected countries. Therefore it is no surprise that these five metropolises are the latest to achieve UNESCO’s  status. Joining a list of 12 other cities, the newest selections are being recognized for the international influence on design. By awarding them “” status, UNESCO hopes to help further the development of creative industries and encourage cross-city cultural exchange in each selected metropolis.

Kollaskolan School / Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture

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Architects: Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture
Location: , 
Design Team: Fredrik Kjellgren, Joakim Kaminsky, Michael Tuuling, Joti Weijers-Coghlan, Mélia Parizel, Maria Syrén, Michele Pascucci, Gaby Andersson, Paulina Kaluzna, Paco Pomares, Sanna Johnels, Sofia Wendel, Marta Menéndez, Sandra Nygren
Partners: Ramböll, 02 Landskap, Anna Törnqvist
Area: 4500.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture

Images Released of Cummins’ Deborah Berke-Designed Headquarters in Indianapolis

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Cummins has released preliminary renderings of their new $30 million  headquarters designed by New York-based Deborah Berke Partners. The news comes shortly after the diesel engine manufacture had announced plans to transform a four-acre downtown site in the heart of the Market East cultural district into a 10-story office building and public park.

Laguna Street Residence / Michael Hennessey Architecture

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Architects: Michael Hennessey Architecture
Location: , CA, USA
Area: 4370.0 ft2
Year: 2014
Photographs: Joe Fletcher

Qatar Unveils Designs for Fourth World Cup Stadium

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A new, 40,000-seat stadium has been unveiled in preparation for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Planned for ’s Education City, the home of  Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), the “ Foundation Stadium” is the fourth stadium design that has been released by the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC).
The structure is intended to reference Islamic architecture. Both the interior and exterior will be clad in translucent triangular panels whose color and patterns will shift throughout the day, depending on the position of the sun and influence of artificial illumination which will reflect the events happening from within the stadium.
Read on after the break for more on the design.

ArchDaily + IIDEXCanada Launch Virtual Spaces Competition

Have you ever wanted to see your un-built or fantasy project brought to life through the lens of a  headset? We’ve teamed up with IIDEXCanada and Invent Dev for the ArchDaily + IIDEXCanada Virtual Spaces Competition, which aims to find the best un-built and fantasy projects. Designers and architects can submit images of renderings of their un-built and fantasy projects across three square-footage categories. The winners will have their designs developed into virtual spaces by Invent Dev and exhibited using virtual reality headsets at IIDEXCanada 2015 in Toronto. Winners will also be featured on ArchDaily and flown to the 2015 awards ceremony.
IIDEXCanada and The Buildings Show are North America’s largest annual exposition, networking and educational event for construction, design, and real estate professionals.
Learn more and find out how to enter the competition after the break.

ESCALA83 Apartments / GRUPODEARQUITECTURA

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Architects: 
Location: ,  Province, Argentina
Structures: Paula Pizolatto
Area: 230.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: GARCÍA+BETANCOURT

SelgasCano to Design 2015 Serpentine Pavilion

Selgas Cano Architecture Office. Image © Iwan Baan
Spanish architects SelgasCano have been selected to design the 2015 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, which has become one of the top-ten most visited architectural and design exhibitions in the world. The Pavilion will stand in Kensington Gardens during the summer and serving as a multi-purpose social space.
The award-winning studio is led by José Selgas and Lucía Cano and will be the first Spanish architecture practice to design a Serpentine Pavilion, with AECOM once again providing the engineering and technical design services. Although designs will not be revealed until February 2015, SelgasCano had this to say about designing the pavilion:
“This is an amazing and unique opportunity to work in a Royal Garden in the centre of . Both aspects, ‘Garden’ and ‘’, are very important for us in the development of this project. We are in the middle of a garden, a ‘Royal’ garden indeed, once divided in two and separated by a Serpentine. That garden clings in the middle of . Garden and  (which best defines ?) will be the elements to show and develop in the Pavilion. For that we are going to use only one material as a canvas for both: the Transparency. That ‘material’ has to be explored in all its structural possibilities, avoiding any other secondary material that supports it, and the most advanced technologies will be needed to be employed to accomplish that transparency. A good definition for the pavilion can be taken from J. M. Barrie: it aims to be as a ‘Betwixt-and-Between’.”

Material Masters: Le Corbusier’s Love for Concrete

To celebrate the first anniversary of our US Materials Catalog, this week ArchDaily is presenting a three-part series on “Material Masters,” showing how certain  have helped to inspire some of the world’s greatest architects.
Le Corbusier‘s love affair with concrete, evident in a number of his nearly 75 projects, began early. Having already designed his first house, the Villa Fallet, at the age of just 17, in 1907 the young architect embarked on a series of travels throughout central Europe on a mission of artistic education. In Paris, he apprenticed at the office of Auguste Perret, a structural rationalist and pioneer of reinforced concrete, followed in 1910 by a short stint at Peter Behrens’ practice in Berlin. These formative experiences initiated a life-long exploration of concrete in ’s work.

“La Cité des Loisirs” / 2/3/4/

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Architects: 2/3/4/
Location: Courbevoie, 
Area: 16000.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Vincent Fillon 

Vice President Joe Biden to Break Ground on Steven Holl’s Kennedy Center Expansion Today

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Almost 50 years to the day after President Lyndon B Johnson broke ground on Edward Durell Stone‘s design for the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC, today Vice President Joe Biden will do the same for Steven Holl Architects‘ design of the Kennedy Center Expansion, a largely below-ground addition that will add an extra 60,000 square feet to the Center.

Rockefeller Foundation Announces the Next 35 Cities to Join Its 100 Resilient Cities Challenge

BIG’s winning design for the Rebuild by Design competition, the BIG “U”. Image Courtesy of rebuildbydesign.org
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced the next group of  that will be part of the 100 Resilient Cities Challenge, which aims to help prepare cities from around the world for the social, economic and physical challenges of the 21st century. After reviewing close to 350 applications from 90 countries across six continents, the  selected 35 cities to join the 32 cities that were announced last year. The cities selected are addressing numerous challenges, ranging from flooding and extreme weather events to economic stress and strains on infrastructure and health systems, according to a press release.
“When you think about what makes a resilient city, you have to think in holistic terms. The reality is that resilience building is a multi-sector, multi-level kind of enterprise,” President of 100 Resilient Cities, Michael Berkowitz, told us earlier this year at the start of the inaugural Chief Resilience Officer summit in New Orleans.
Each city selected receives funding to hire a Chief Resilience Officer and assistance in developing and implementing a resilience strategy. Read on after the break to see which 35 cities were selected.

Multifunctional Sports Hall / DICO si TIGANAS

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Architects: DICO si TIGANAS
Location: Cluj-Napoca 400000, 
Architect In Charge: Șerban Țigănaș, Florin Dico, Alexandrina Kiss, Camelia Gâz
Design Team: Carmen Brădățeanu, Ciprian Onețiu, Diana Edițoiu, Iustinian Orza, Bogdan Dico, Alexandra Bendea, Alexandra Rus, Andreea Dărac, Adina Schmidt, Sorin Bularca, Ciprian Cătineanu, Ioan Iov
Design Partners: Plan 31 Ro, Instal Data Proiect
Area: 38500.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Dico si Tiganas

2014 RIBA President’s Medals Winners Announced

Winner of the : Nick Elias of the Bartlett School of Architecture. Image Courtesy of RIBA
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have announced the President’s Medals Student Awards at a special event today in London. The awards, recognised as the world’s most prestigious set of awards in architectural education, were inaugurated in 1836 (making them the institutes oldest award, including the RIBA Gold Medal). Three medals in particular – the Bronze for a Part I student, the Silver for a Part II student, and the Dissertation Medal – are awarded to “promote excellence in the study of architecture [and] to reward talent and to encourage architectural debate worldwide.” In addition to these, the winners of the Serjeant Award for Excellence in Drawing and the SOM Foundation Fellowships are also announced.
317 schools of architecture from over 61 countries were invited to nominate design projects and dissertations by their students. This year saw the majority of winners come from London schools, including the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), Kingston University, the University of Westminster, London Metropolitan University (the CASS), the , the University of East London, and the University of Greenwich. University College Dublin (Ireland) and the University of Brighton (UK) also saw their students commended, alongside the University of Sydney (two students) and the University of Hong Kong (one student).
See drawings from all the winning and commended students after the break.
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