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Friday, January 2, 2015

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Kyung Hee Cyber University ACAPeace Building Renovation / Chiasmus Partners

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Architects: Chiasmus Partners
Location: , South 
Design Team: Hyunho Lee AIA, James Wei Ke, Kyungmin Kim, Myung shin Kang, Kiryung Kim, Youngjong Park, Narae Yang
Area: 478.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Youngchae Park

Carol Urzua / Lira Arquitectos Asociados

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Architects: Lira Arquitectos Asociados
Location: Santa Rosa 1727, , Región Metropolitana, Chile
Architect In Charge: Raimundo Lira, Marlene Fischer, Diego Arroyo, Carolina Valenzuela
Area: 2373.0 sqm
Year: 2008
Photographs: Pedro Mutis

Loft Vasco / Urbana Arquitetura

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Arquitetos: 
Localização: Rua Vasco da Gama, 1020
Execução E Projeto: Urbana Arquitetura
Área: 246.0 m2
Ano Do Projeto: 2011
Fotografias: Marcelo Donadussi

MOBO to Streamline Public Access to Cartagena’s UNESCO-Protected Fortress Wall

La Media Luna. Image © M.O.N.O.M.O.
MOBO Architects has won a competition to refurbish the vertical and horizontal access structures of the UNESCO protected fortresses that surround ’s colonial walled city. With an aim to create a walking tour through the bastions and walls that is both safe and pleasant, MOBO’s winning proposal offers a series of urban interventions that will unify the existing disparate structures and create a continuous pathway for pedestrians and cyclists. This, as MOBO describes, will “completely restructure the way that the citizens and visitors use not only the wall, but also the spaces in the city.”

The Broad Reveals Its Honeycomb “Veil”

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The final exterior scaffolding has been removed from Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s “The Broad” in downtown Los Angeles, revealing its distinctive honeycomb-like “veil.” Comprised of 2,500 fiberglass reinforced concrete panels and 650 tons of steel, the structural exoskeleton “drapes” over the building’s interior “vault,” lifting at its south and north corners to provide two street-level entrances. At its side, the veil is torn by a central “oculus” that provides a direct visual connection between the museum and Grand Avenue.
“ will be porous and absorptive, channeling light into its public spaces and galleries. The veil will play a role in the urbanization of Grand Avenue by activating two-way views that connect the museum and the street,” described Liz Diller.

Malinalco House / Arquitectura Alternativa

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Architects: Arquitectura Alternativa
Location: , MEX, 
Director: José Palomar Romo
Project Area: 137.0 m2
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: Luis Gordoa

Rhode Island College Art Center / Schwartz-Silver

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Architects: Schwartz-Silver
Location: , RI, USA
Executive Architect: Design Partnership of Cambridge
Area: 54000.0 ft2
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Schwartz-Silver

Audi Urban Future Award 2014: Team Berlin’s “Flywheel” Could Revolutionize Personal Mobility

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One of three runners-up in the 2014 Audi Urban Future Award, the Berlin Team of Max Schwitalla, Paul Friedli and Arndt Pechstein proposed a futuristic and innovative concept for an entirely new type of personal transport. Drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as elevator  and biomimicry, their designs offer a thought-provoking alternative to our existing transportation systems that could revolutionize the city as we know it.
Though their proposal ultimately lost out to Jose Castillo’s Team Mexico City, the work of the Berlin team correlates closely with the aims of Audi’s Urban Future Initiative, offering a compromise between the convenience and status of personal transport and the civic benefits of public transport. Read on to find out how this was achieved.

B928 Building / Claudio Walter Arquitectos Asociados

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Architects: Claudio Walter Arquitectos Asociados
Location: Rafaela, Santa Fe Province, 
Project Team: Arq. Claudio Walter, Arq. Ana Piuzzi, M.M.O. Leandro Schmithalter, Paola Lambrecht
Project Area: 918.0 m2
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Ramiro Sosa

AD Classics: Expo’98 Portuguese National Pavilion / Álvaro Siza

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At the Expo ’98 Portuguese National Pavilion, structure and architectural form work in graceful harmony. Situated at the mouth of the Tagus River in , Portugal, the heart of the design is an enormous and impossibly thin concrete canopy, draped effortlessly between two mighty porticoes and framing a commanding view of the water. The simple, gestural move is both weightless and mighty, a bold architectural solution to the common problem of the covered public plaza. Under the graceful touch of Álvaro Siza Vieira, physics and physical form theatrically engage one another, and simplicity and clarity elevate the pavilion to the height of modern sophistication.

FT House / Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados

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Architects: Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados
Location:  – SP, Brasil
Architecture: Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados
Project Architects: Henrique Reinach e Maurício Mendonça
Coordinator: Victor Gonçalves
Project Area: 966.0 m2
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Nelson Kon

Start the Year the Right Way With 18 Illustrations of Architecture Classics

© Xinran Ma
To celebrate the start of 2015, Xinran Ma, a New York-based architectural designer and illustrator, has created this brutalist-inspired greetings card. Based on his work illustrating over 50 of the classic projects of modernist and brutalist architecture, this card features pieces of these recognizable buildings, remixed and adapted to create a typeface.
Xinran says that the buildings he illustrates all have one unfortunate thing in common: “they are extremely attractive and inspiring to me,” he says, but ”ironically they have been somehow gradually forgotten.” As a result, the  he produces are not just a hobby, but part of an obligation he feels “to defend, memorize and deliver the classics that I believe are immortal.” Xinran has shared 18 of these  with ArchDaily to spread the word about these buildings; check them out after the break, and click on the images to find out more about each one.

Villa J / Johan Sundberg

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Architects: Johan Sundberg
Location: Malmö, 
Project Architects: Maria Mauléon Lundberg, Andreas Amasalidis, Staffan Rosvall, Marcus Andäng
Year: 2013
Photographs: Markus Linderoth

Milhundos House / Graciana Oliveira

© João Morgado
Architects: 
Location: , Portugal
Area: 420.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: João Morgado

2 in 1: Intergenerational House / TICA architecture

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Architects: TICA architecture
Location: , France
Area: 260.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Courtesy of TICA architecture

Black Box / UTAA

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Architects: UTAA
Location: Pangyo-dong, Bundang-gu, , Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Architect In Charge: Kim Chang Gyun
Design Team: Choi Byung Yong, Jo Myeong Seon
Structure: Reinforced concrete + Light-weight wood frame
Area: 183.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Jin Hyo-suk

Apos2 / Apostrophy’s

© Ketsiree Wongwan
Architects: Apostrophy’s
Location: , 
Area: 176.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Ketsiree Wongwan, Sirichai leangvisutsiri
ockwell Group’s pop-up theater for TED. Image © Rockwell Group

Forbes Profiles David Rockwell, Celebrates 30 Years of Design

In honor of Rockwell Group’s 30th year of design, Forbes has published a profile on its founder, American architect David Rockwell, detailing his life, work and thoughts on the power of theater. “My mother, Joanne, played a great role in forming my interest in design,” stated Rockwell. “She first introduced me to the excitement and spectacle of live theater, which has had a profound impact on my life and work. These productions really opened my eyes to the power of design to create emotional connections between people and their environment.” Read the complete article, here. 

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