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Taipei Flora Expo Pavilions / Bio-architecture Formosana
Architects: Bio-architecture Formosana
Location: Xinsheng Park, Zhongshan District, Taipei City, Taiwan 104
Area: 6185.0 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Bio-architecture Formosana
Location: Xinsheng Park, Zhongshan District, Taipei City, Taiwan 104
Area: 6185.0 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Bio-architecture Formosana
Ada Louise Huxtable: “A Look at the Kennedy Center”
Architecture critic Alexandra Lange recently stumbled upon “On Architecture” – an Audible.com collection of over 16 hours of Ada Louise Huxtable’s best writings from the New York Times, New York Review of Books, the Wall Street Journal and more. Displeased with the narration, Lange has taken it upon herself to read Huxtable’s 1971 New York Times critique “A Look at the Kennedy Center” in honor of its “many famous witticisms.” Give it a listen, here.
Liget Budapest Awards Graeme Massie Architects’ Museum of Ethnography Third Place
Recent participants in the Liget Budapest design competition, Graeme Massie Architects have taken home third place for their proposed Museum of Ethnography design. The museum, one of five museums planned for the Liget Budapest development, is located at the very corner ofBudapest City Park and is meant to act as a welcoming landmark for the city. Graeme Massie fulfills this requirement in a unique fashion, creating a building that is instantly recognizable, but still manages to blend with its surroundings. Learn more, after the break.
Cardedeu / EMC Arquitectura
Architects: EMC Arquitectura
Location: Lago de Coatepeque, El Salvador
Project Team: Walberto Lara, Georgina Alfaro
Project Area: 2446.0 m2
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Tom Arban
Location: Lago de Coatepeque, El Salvador
Project Team: Walberto Lara, Georgina Alfaro
Project Area: 2446.0 m2
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Tom Arban
Competition Entry: Sang-Uk & Heeyun’s Proposal for Copenhagen’s New Modern Library
Sang-Uk & Heeyun has shared with us their entry for the AWR Copenhagen New Modern Library Competition. Centered around park, sea, and the city, the undulating ribbed library aims to connect to its surroundings seamlessly. “The form of building reflects the idea of continuous and extended circulation from everywhere to everywhere,” says Sang-Uk & Heeyun.
Faith & Form’s 2014 Religious Art & Architecture Award Rewards Diversity in Religious Design
Originally published by The Huffington Post as “These Religious Architecture Award Winners Evoke The Sacred In Unconventional Ways,” this article reveals the winners in the 2014 Religious Art & Architecture Award run by Faith & Form, an organization dedicated to promoting the architecture of worship.
What makes a space sacred?
If the winners of Faith & Form’s 2014 Religious Art & Architecture award are any indication, it may be something different every time. A high ceiling, curved walls, stained glass windows or lush landscaping — no two winners are alike, and yet each offers viewers a fresh way of interacting with the divine.
Take a look at some of Faith & Form’s 2014 award and honor award winners for religious architecture after the break
PN House / ZD+A
Why Spaces Shouldn’t Be Described as “Masculine” or “Feminine”
What is the most misused word in the world of architectural writing? Could it be “iconic”? What about “innovative”? The staff over at Curbed have a nomination: referring to spaces as either “masculine” or ”feminine.” In an op-ed published last month, they write that “the people who write about decor and design need to stop describing spaces with gendered terms,” arguing: “Let’s say two spaces were written up in a decor blog, and one was described as masculine, and the other feminine. Which would have white walls? Which would have raw concrete floors? … If these have fairly easy answers, it’s because we’re in the realm of stereotype.”
Video: Rem Koolhaas and Nest CEO Tony Fadell on Architecture and Technology
How will technology that began in Silicon Valley change global urbanism and the elements of architecture? In this video from the 2014 Venice Biennale, inventor, designer and entrepreneur Tony Fadell discusses technology and its emerging impact on architecture with Rem Koolhaas. As a co-founder of Nest Labs, Fadell played a major role in developing the first Apple iPod and has taken his knowledge of interactive user interface with him to change one of the most basic interface elements in our homes – the thermostat. With adaptive technologies becoming increasingly prevalent in our daily lives, Koolhaas discusses the potential ramifications of technological architecture with concerns ranging from privacy to individual freedoms and more.
Research Institute / Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados
Architects: Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados
Location: São Paulo – São Paulo, Brasil
Project Architects: Henrique Reinach e Maurício Mendonça
Coordinator: Camila Osele
Collaborators: Victor Gonçalves, Tony Chen, Mariana Picolo, Fernanda Almeida, Luena Vettorazzo, Tais Vieira, Yuri Chamon, Paula Leal, Pedro Tavares, Caio Tritto, Olivia Uliano, Alessandra Musto, Ayla Barros, Paulo Scheuer, Barbara Rubira
Project Area: 467.0 m2
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: Leonardo Finotti
Location: São Paulo – São Paulo, Brasil
Project Architects: Henrique Reinach e Maurício Mendonça
Coordinator: Camila Osele
Collaborators: Victor Gonçalves, Tony Chen, Mariana Picolo, Fernanda Almeida, Luena Vettorazzo, Tais Vieira, Yuri Chamon, Paula Leal, Pedro Tavares, Caio Tritto, Olivia Uliano, Alessandra Musto, Ayla Barros, Paulo Scheuer, Barbara Rubira
Project Area: 467.0 m2
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: Leonardo Finotti
Sipan Residential Building / RYRA Studio
Architects: RYRA Studio
Location: Tehran, Tehran, Omidvar, Jamshidieh Park, Iran
Architect In Charge: Abbas Riahi Fard , Farinaz Razavi Nikoo
Design Associates: Ali Ashouri,Ashkan Bagheri Aghdam,Saeed Bamdadi, Mehdi Yaghoubian
Detail Design Team: Mahmoud Abbasi,Navid Nasrollahzadeh,Yaser Karimian,MinaVakili,Atefeh Lotfollahi, SoudehShahabi, Reyhaneh Rezaei
Area: 12600.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Parham Taghioff, Mehdi Kolahi
Location: Tehran, Tehran, Omidvar, Jamshidieh Park, Iran
Architect In Charge: Abbas Riahi Fard , Farinaz Razavi Nikoo
Design Associates: Ali Ashouri,Ashkan Bagheri Aghdam,Saeed Bamdadi, Mehdi Yaghoubian
Detail Design Team: Mahmoud Abbasi,Navid Nasrollahzadeh,Yaser Karimian,MinaVakili,Atefeh Lotfollahi, SoudehShahabi, Reyhaneh Rezaei
Area: 12600.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Parham Taghioff, Mehdi Kolahi
Apartment at Paulicéia Building / JPG.ARQ
Architects: JPG.ARQ
Location: Avenida Paulista, São Paulo – SP, Brazil
Design Team: José Paulo Gouvêa, Giovanni Meirelles, Thaís Marcussi
Lighting: Luciana Yamamura e Ricardo Heder (Reka)
Area: 90.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Fernando Stankuns
Location: Avenida Paulista, São Paulo – SP, Brazil
Design Team: José Paulo Gouvêa, Giovanni Meirelles, Thaís Marcussi
Lighting: Luciana Yamamura e Ricardo Heder (Reka)
Area: 90.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Fernando Stankuns
“Juxtaposition” Challenges Designers to Envision Hip Hop-Inspired Building Forms
What happens at the intersection of urban culture and architecture? How can the four elements of hip hop (DJing, MCing, Breaking and Graffiti) inspire the built environment? Participants of JUX.TA.PO.SI.TION are encouraged to create a sketch using mediums of their choice to depict new building forms, urban design concepts, and/or architectural products inspired by the four foundational elements of hip hop. This international competition is open to all individuals including students, graffiti artists, architects, urban planners, landscape architects, graphic designers, muralists, etc. You can complete the free registration form and find more information, here.
Liget Budapest Awards Third Place to LEAD’s Blue Tiled Museums
Taking home third place in the Liget Budapest competition, the Laboratory for Explorative Architecture and Design (LEAD) has proposed a colorful design for Budapest’s new photography and architecture museums. A stunning shade of blue, the undulating buildings will mark the entrance to Budapest City Park, and provide a new cultural hotspot for Hungary’s capital city. Learn more about them, after the break.
Pinar House / MO+G taller de arquitectura
Architects: MO+G taller de arquitectura
Location: Zapopan, JAL, Mexico
Project Area: 535.0 m2
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Miguel Valverde Hernández / Fabrica de Arquitectura, Helmer Murayama Caro / Fabrica de Arquitectura
Location: Zapopan, JAL, Mexico
Project Area: 535.0 m2
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Miguel Valverde Hernández / Fabrica de Arquitectura, Helmer Murayama Caro / Fabrica de Arquitectura
Social Maps Could Potentially Shape Future City Planning
What is a city? To technologist Dave Troy, a “city is the sum of the relationships of the people that live there.” By mapping the interests of dwellers in some of the world’s most populated cities by looking at what they share online, Troy has generated a new and incredibly detailed way to view a city’s diversity beyond race. This rich data, as Troy believes, provides a real opportunity to designcities that are truly desired.
How a Le Corbusier Design Helped Define the Architecture of Southern California
We all know that in architecture, few things are truly original. Architects take inspiration from all around them, often taking ideas from the designs of others to reinterpret them in their own work. However, it’s more rare that a single architectural element can be borrowed to define the style of an entire region. As uncovered in this article, originally published by Curbed as “Le Corbusier’s Forgotten Design: SoCal’s Iconic Butterfly Roof,” this is exactly what happened to Le Corbusier, who – despite only completing one building in the US - still had a significant impact on the appearance of the West Coast.
Atop thousands of homes in the warm western regions of the United States are roofs that turn the traditional housetop silhouette on its head. Two panels meet in the middle of the roofline and slope upward and outward, like butterfly wings in mid-flap. This similarity gave the “butterfly roof” its name, and it is a distinct feature of post-war American residential and commercial architecture. InHawaii, Southern California, and other sun-drenched places, the butterfly roofs made way for high windows that let in natural light. Homes topped with butterfly roofs seemed larger and more inviting.
Credit for the butterfly roof design often goes to architect William Krisel. He began building single-family homes with butterfly rooflines for the Alexander Construction Company, a father-son development team, in Palm Springs, California, in 1957. The Alexander Construction Company, mostly using Krisel’s designs, built over 2,500 tract homes in the desert. These homes, and their roofs, shaped the desert community, and soon other architects and developers began building them, too—the popularity of Krisel’s Palm Springs work led to commissions building over 30,000 homes in the Southland from San Diego to the San Fernando Valley.
Goycolea Building / FG arquitectos
Architects: FG arquitectos
Location: Vitacura, Región Metropolitana, Chile
Architect In Charge: Alfredo Fernández Recart, Enrique Colin Altuzarra, Matías González Rast
Area: 15562.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Renato Sepúlveda, Enrique Colin (FG arquitectos)
Location: Vitacura, Región Metropolitana, Chile
Architect In Charge: Alfredo Fernández Recart, Enrique Colin Altuzarra, Matías González Rast
Area: 15562.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Renato Sepúlveda, Enrique Colin (FG arquitectos)
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