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Street House / Massive Order
Architects: Massive Order
Location: Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium, Sixth Ring Road, Al-Ardiya, Kuwait
Principle Architect: Muhannad Albaqshi
Design Team: Reem Alhumaidan
Area: 400.0 sqm
Photographs: Nelson Garrido
Location: Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium, Sixth Ring Road, Al-Ardiya, Kuwait
Principle Architect: Muhannad Albaqshi
Design Team: Reem Alhumaidan
Area: 400.0 sqm
Photographs: Nelson Garrido
Dig In the Sky / Alphaville Architects
Architects: Alphaville Architects
Location: Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Architect In Charge: Kentaro Takeguchi, Asako Yamamoto
Design Team: Tomohisa Koike
Area: 152.0 sqm
Photographs: Shigeo Ogawa
Location: Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Architect In Charge: Kentaro Takeguchi, Asako Yamamoto
Design Team: Tomohisa Koike
Area: 152.0 sqm
Photographs: Shigeo Ogawa
Youth Hotel of iD Town / O-office Architects
Architects: O-office Architects
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Architect In Charge: Jianxiang HE, Ying JIANG
Design Team: Mincong Deng, Jingyu DONG, xiaolin CHEN
Area: 1800.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Chaos.Z
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Architect In Charge: Jianxiang HE, Ying JIANG
Design Team: Mincong Deng, Jingyu DONG, xiaolin CHEN
Area: 1800.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Chaos.Z
On View in LA: “ZOOM” / Steven Christensen and Mads Christensen
Now on view until January 18 at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles, Zoom is an installation by the interdisciplinary collaborative NO RELATION, led by architect Steven Christensen and artist Mads Christensen. The project reflects upon the topic of scale, and the exuberant surface qualities one often observes in ordinary objects when magnified. The installation acts as a space multiplier, using form and light to produce an immersive and disorienting spatial experience at a scale seemingly larger than the project’s diminutive footprint. More images and information, after the break.
The Plinth House / Luke Stanley Architects
Architects: Luke Stanley Architects
Location: Langdons Hill VIC 3363, Australia
Area: 140.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Hilary Bradford Photography
Location: Langdons Hill VIC 3363, Australia
Area: 140.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Hilary Bradford Photography
Vincent Laforet’s Images of New York From Above Will Take Your Breath Away
Something he has “dreamed of capturing for decades,” Pulitzer Prize-winning photographerVincent Laforet has released a stunning set of images that captures his hometown of New York in a way that has never before been seen. Taken from a nauseating 7500-feet above the city, Laforet’s “Gotham 7.5K” series reveals the unrelenting, pulsating energy that radiates from the Big Apple’s city grid.
All the images and the making-of video, after the break.
Hug Shaped House / Pedro Quintela
Architects: Pedro Quintela
Location: Rua da Malveira 98, 2755 Alcabideche, Portugal
Area: 130.0 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Ricardo Oliveira Alves
Location: Rua da Malveira 98, 2755 Alcabideche, Portugal
Area: 130.0 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Ricardo Oliveira Alves
New York’s “City of Dreams” Competition Selects Two Winners
Two winners have been announced for the fifth annual cycle of New York’s “City of Dreams” competition: the “Billion Oyster Pavilion” by locally-based BanG Studio and “Organic Growth” byIzaskun Chinchilla Architects of Madrid and London. Pending approvals and fundraising, both pavilions will be assembled on Governors Island and open to the public for the summer 2015 season. The winning pavilions, after the break.
Walnut Residence / Modal Design
Architects: Modal Design
Location: Venice, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Architect In Charge: Daniel Monti
Area: 2727.0 ft2
Year: 2010
Photographs: Benny Chan for Fotoworks
Location: Venice, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Architect In Charge: Daniel Monti
Area: 2727.0 ft2
Year: 2010
Photographs: Benny Chan for Fotoworks
Video: The Making of RSHP’s Leadenhall Building
In celebration of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ relocation to their newly constructed Leadenhall Building, the London-based practiced has released a short film that captures the “making of” the 52-story, 225-meter skyscraper. RSHP, now occupying the building’s 14th floor, is said to be proud to be Leadenhall’s latest tenants:
“After 30 years at Thames Wharf Studios, it is important for us to be moving into a building that reflects the ethos and evolution of our design practice, clearly stated in its urban relationship with the Lloyd’s building opposite,” says the partners of RSHP. “We will begin this new phase of our history in a building that already feels like home but allows us the advantages of a contemporary, flexible office space in a prime location in the increasingly vibrant and exciting City of London.”
The building, popularly referred to as the “Cheesegrater,” was completed in September of last year.
JG House / Modulo 12 Architects
Architects: Modulo 12 Architects
Location: Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain
Architect In Charge: Jorge Palomo Carmona
Area: 75.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Angel Baltanás
Location: Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain
Architect In Charge: Jorge Palomo Carmona
Area: 75.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Angel Baltanás
“Why Are There Not Skyscrapers with a 100-Foot Curtain Wall of Art Glass?”
Most contemporary architects probably don’t spend too long thinking about stained glass in their everyday practice – and for the “art glass” industry, that’s becoming a big problem. In a fascinating article for the Wall Street Journal, Timothy W Martin carefully examines an industry that has been in decline for decades, ever since glass designer Kenneth von Roenn warned them in a 1970s conference speech that it was “time to jump ship” and diversify from their work in religious buildings.
Through the Lens: The Social Implications of Green Roofs in Film
Film often makes a mockery of architectural features. Glass facades are obliterated by gunfire, grisly murders are set against a white modernist palette, deconstructed stairs are the cause of nasty accidents or ludicrous slapstick, and you just know a tensile fabric roof will be shredded by the time 007 is finished with it.
There is one architectural feature however that has benefited from very complimentary treatment by the film industry, and surprisingly it is a sustainable one. Green roofs and other “architectural” green spaces have been popping up regularly in mainstream movies over the past decade: blockbusters including The Vow (2012) and Source Code (2011) utilized the greenscape outsideGehry‘s Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park; last year the Vancouver Convention Centre was featured in both Godzilla and Robocop; and Kaspar Schroder’s 2009 uber cool documentary My Playground, about the sport of parkour (the art of bouncing off buildings made famous by the opening scenes of Casino Royale), features BIG’s Mountain Dwellings in Copenhagen. And we cannot forget two of the biggest film franchises in history: both of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit franchises feature green roofs in their portrayal of Hobbiton – home of the virtuous and incorruptible Hobbits.
Cross-Laminated-Timber Cottage / Kariouk Associates
Architects: Kariouk Associates
Location: Ladysmith, QC J0X, Canada
Architect In Charge: Paul duBellet Kariouk
Senior Design Associate: Chris Davis
Design Associates: Sarah McMurtry, Adam Paquette, David King
Year: 2014
Photographs: Photolux Studio/Christian Lalonde
Location: Ladysmith, QC J0X, Canada
Architect In Charge: Paul duBellet Kariouk
Senior Design Associate: Chris Davis
Design Associates: Sarah McMurtry, Adam Paquette, David King
Year: 2014
Photographs: Photolux Studio/Christian Lalonde
Chile to (Finally) Build Gaudí’s Only Project Outside of Spain
Chile may soon be home to the only Antoni Gaudí-designed building located outside of Spain. At a recent press conference, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet confirmed government funding for the construction of the Gaudí Cultural and Spiritual Center in the city of Rancagua, which will include a chapel designed by the Catalán architect.
The project originated in 1922 through a series of letters exchanged between Gaudí and Chilean Franciscan Friar Angélico Aranda, who asked Gaudí to design a chapel for Chile. “I wish to implement an original work, very original, and I thought of you,” wrote Aranda to Gaudí, who by then was immersed in constructing his masterpiece, La Sagrada Familia. Since 1996, Chile’s Corporación Gaudí de Triana has been working to make the design resulting from this conversation a reality.
Learn more about this project after the break.
Sto Werkstatt to Showcase World’s Best “Building Images”
Modern times have seen the rise and proliferation of architectural media, allowing people to remotely experience spaces and buildings without ever physically entering them. As such, the importance of the architectural image has never been greater.
Opening on January 15 at London’s Sto Werkstatt and organized in conjunction with Arcaid Images, Building Images celebrates the “power and impact of photography on the way we sense and experience spaces.” Described by Arcaid Images co-founder Lynne Bryant as having “long been the means of communicating architecture,” photography is a medium that has grown inseparable from the notion and creation of the architectural image. Learn more and view selected images from the exhibition, after the break.
Girona Public Library / Corea & Moran Arquitectura
Architects: Corea & Moran Arquitectura
Location: Girona, Girona, Spain
Architect In Charge: Mario Corea, Lluís Moran, Sebastián Guerrico Corea Moran Arquitectura
Area: 8072.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Pepo Segura
Location: Girona, Girona, Spain
Architect In Charge: Mario Corea, Lluís Moran, Sebastián Guerrico Corea Moran Arquitectura
Area: 8072.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Pepo Segura
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