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Monday, December 8, 2014

Arch Daily

Conservation, Restoration and Adaptation of Church “St. Paraskeva“ / TE architects

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Architects: TE architects
Location: Nessebar, 
Architect In Charge: Todor Mihaylov, Elitsa Andreeva, Emilia Kaleva, Aleksandra Vadinska
Design Team: Ivan Bilbilov, Stefka Stefanova, Atanas Papadakis, Ivan Barakov
Year: 2014
Photographs: Evgeni Dinev

ISANA / Niko Design Studio

© Taketo Nishikubo
Architects: Niko Design Studio
Location: Musashino, Tokyo, 
Design Team: Taketo Nishikubo
Area: 217.0 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Taketo Nishikubo, Masaya Yoshimura

Marronnier Park / METAA

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Architects: METAA
Location: 1-1 Dongsung-dong, Jongno-gu, , South Korea
Architect In Charge: Jongho Yi (K’Arts. studio metaa)
Architecture Design : Euijung Woo. Sangjin Yi, Hoisung Kim (MIC)
Area: 998.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of METAA

SYAA Designs New Natural Science Museum Complex in Romania

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SYAA has just been named first prize winners for their design of a new Natural Science Museum Complex in Constanta, Romania. Proposed at an unprecedented scale for the region, the design seeks to become a significant destination in the Black Sea tourist industry. Incorporating features of an amusement and leisure park into the program of a science museum, SYAA proposes a building equipped to adapt to a diverse variety of public activities and events. Some of the primary functions will include an aquarium, dolphinarium, exotarium and tropical greenhouses, planetarium, and observatory.

The Nelson / Techne Architecture + Interior Design

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Architects: Techne Architecture + Interior Design
Location: 56 Acland Street, St Kilda VIC 3182, 
Project Director: Justin Northrop
Architect: Dale McDougall
Area: 82.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Tom Blachford

JAHN and ADG Unveil Mexico City’s Newest Baseball Stadium

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JAHN and ADG have released designs for Los Diablos Rojos del Mexico’s new home stadium in Mexico City. Scheduled to open in the city’s Magdalena Mixhuca sports complex in 2017, the 13000-seat “Estadio Diablos” will feature a “monumental lightweight” roof structure that resembles Diablos’ trident. 
“Indicative of the sky, the roof design is sharp, translucent, luminous and dynamic,” says JAHN. “Composed of lightweight steel wrapped in PTFE textile material, the roof will become an iconic symbol for the great City of Mexico.”
More on the stadium’s design, after the break. 

Synopsis / ansham architects

© Ashley Gendek
Architects: ansham architects
Location: 64 Westbourne Drive, Forest Hill, London SE23, 
Area: 240.0 sqm
Photographs: Ashley Gendek

Steven Holl Selected to Design New Wing for Mumbai City Museum

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Steven Holl Architects has been selected to design a new extension to one of India’s oldest museums, the  City Museum, also known as the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum. Selected over OMA, Studio  Architecture, Zaha Hadid and four others, Holl is now the first architect ever to be chosen through an international  to design a public building in Mumbai.
Continue reading to learn more about Holl’s winning design. 

Miami-Dade College Kendall Campus / Perkins+Will

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Architects: Perkins+Will
Location: Miami, FL, USA
Area: 135000.0 ft2
Year: 2012
Photographs: Robin Hill

London Launches Call for Architects to Design Second Pedestrian Bridge

Nine Elms on the South Bank skyline, looking west. Image © St James’ Group
The  Borough of Wandsworth has launched an international call for architects and engineers interested in envisioning what could be the second pedestrian bridge to rise near the Battersea Power Station development. The two-stage ideas competition, whose announcement comes shortly after the recent approval of Thomas Heatherwick’s Garden Bridge, believes that the bridge could potentially become “one of the most expressive and visible landmarks in London.”
Though the competition cannot guarantee that the winning design will be built, partial funding has already been budgeted for the bridge’s future construction and it is hoped that the winning design can be used to attract further interest and funding. Continue reading to learn more.

ArchDaily’s 2014 Holiday Card Contest

‘Twas the month of December, when all through the house, not an architect was stirring, not even a (computer) mouse. The drawings were hung in the boardroom with care, in hopes that the client soon would be there. The designers were nestled all snug in their beds, while dreams of unlimited budgets danced in their heads. So instead of preparing for the year’s final meeting, dear readers, please send us a holiday greeting!
The holidays are upon us, and at  we’ve decided to put an architectural spin on traditional festive greeting cards. You’re invited to submit your own architectural holiday card to be hung above the (proverbial)  mantle with care. You could win a $500 Amazon Gift Card!
Send us your best Corbusier Santa Claus, Rem ‘Jack Frost’ Koolhaas, Graves-inspired Postmodern Menorah, or perhaps the latest holiday wares from Zaha Hadid. We’ll be collecting our favorites and sharing them at the end of December. Get ready to deck halls like Gehry and gather around the hearth with Saarinen – we’ll go easy on building code.
ArchDaily’s 2014 Holiday Card Contest has been generously sponsored by Mosa. 

EGL1916 / Alvaro Moragrega arquitecto

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Architects: Alvaro Moragrega arquitecto
Location: Guadalajara, JAL, Mexico
Area: 1320.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Jaime Navarro

UNESCO Launches Design Competition for Bamiyan Cultural Centre in Afghanistan

As Afghanistan begins its second decade of democratic governance after nearly 30 years of political instability, through the funding from the Republic of Korea, UNESCO has teamed up with the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture, to build a Cultural Center close to the boundaries of the Bamiyan World Heritage property. With the realisation of the Bamiyan Cultural Centre, Afghans have the opportunity to recapture their heritage, to create a new impact on a historical site and to foster a positive relationship between their struggles and their hopes.
“This new architectural programme can challenge cultural barriers, reaffirm Afghanistan’s remarkable ancient history and enforce culture as a foundational component to Afghan national identity and peace-building,” states UNESCO.

AD Interviews: Juulia Kauste / Museum of Finnish Architecture (MFA)

On her recent trip to Chile for the Finland-Chile Architecture Marathon lecture series we had the chance to chat with Juulie Kauste, the director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture (MFA) in Helsinki. “[MFA] has always had the dual mission of focusing on collecting the heritage of architecture in  as well as focusing on contemporary architecture both in Finland and internationally,” Kauste explained.
One of the oldest architecture-focused museums in the world, MFA is unusual in that not only do they archive the work of every Finnish architect, but they also play an active role in promoting Finnish architecture and participating in the global architectural community. At both the Shenzhen Biennale and the 2014 Venice Biennale, MFA hosted “Re-Creation,” an installation that used both traditional Finnish and Chinese construction techniques to explore the concepts of “copying” and “reinterpretation.”
“The key part of the role of the museum is to provide a platform for a discussion and debate around architecture and around the ways in which architecture matters to society,” Kauste said. “It’s very much about this idea of sharing information about architecture, making information about architecture available, but also understandable.”
See what else Kauste has to say about what the role of architecture museums should be, how the digital age is affecting museums and the benefits of cross-cultural collaboration in the full video interview above and check out some of our past coverage on MFA below.

B+B House / Studio MK27

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Architects: Studio MK27
Location: State of São Paulo, Brazil
Architect In Charge: Marcio Kogan, Fernanda Neiva
Co Architect : Renata Furlanetto
Interior Design: Diana Radomysler
Project Team : Julia Pinheiro Ribeiro
Area: 683.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

The Work of SelgasCano, the 2015 Serpentine Pavilion Designers

Office in the Woods. Image © Iwan Baan 
The latest designer of the prestigious Serpentine Gallery Pavilion has been named as SelgasCano, the Spanish practice known for their use of the latest synthetic materials and new technology. The Serpentine Pavilion, which has grown to become one of the most visited annual architecture attractions in the world, aims to provide architects who have never built in the UK their first chance to do so. In the past, this has led to pavilions by globally-recognized names such as Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Oscar Niemeyer, and Peter Zumthor, but in recent years the Serpentine Gallery seems to have changed course a little, instead bringing lesser-known, emergent stars to a much wider audience. This was true of Smiljan Radić and his 2014 pavilion, and will likely prove true for the duo of José Selgas and Lucía Cano.
Although designs for the 2015 pavilion will not be released until February, SelgasCano have promised ”to use only one material… the Transparency,” adding that “the most advanced technologies will be needed to be employed to accomplish that transparency.” This coy description perhaps calls to mind the design of their own office, a partially sunken tube of a building with one side made entirely of curved glass, which won them widespread recognition in 2009.
To give a better idea of the design style that SelgasCano will bring to the 2015 Serpentine Pavilion, we’ve rounded up a number of their major projects for your viewing pleasure, after the break.

Legal Challenge Dropped After Maggie’s Agrees Changes to Holl’s St Bart’s Design

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A legal challenge against Steven Holl‘s design for the new Maggie’s Centre at St Bart’s Hospital in London has been dropped, after Holl and Maggie’s agreed to change the design. The challenge was brought by the Friends of the Great Hall, a group that has been campaigning against Holl’s design and arguing that it would have a detrimental effect on the adjacent Great Hall designed by James Gibb in the 18th century.
Holl’s design narrowly won planning permission in July, however the Friends of the great hall launched the judicial review a month later as a final attempt to block the scheme.

Silver Bay / SAOTA

© Adam Letch
Architects: SAOTA
Location: Shelley Point, , South Africa
Design Team: Greg Truen, Yusuf Vahed, Mark Rielly, Ashleigh Gilmour, Silvia Eigelaar
Year: 2010
Photographs: Adam Letch

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