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Sunday, May 10, 2015

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A House for an Architect / Pitsou Kedem Architects

© Amit Geron
Architects: Pitsou Kedem Architects
Location: Ramat Hasharon, 
Area: 380.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Amit Geron

PWD to Break Ground on Mixed-Use Development in Dali City

Birdseye view of the complex. Image © PWD, +OUT, White Monkeys
China-based firm PWD Architecture will soon break ground on Dali Creative Area, a mixed-use development in Dali City, in Yunnan province. The project took home first place in a 2014 design competition, and takes significant direction from the area’s landscape, employing a minimalist stepped-form that celebrates its setting. The development will include a hotel, restaurants, , retail and exhibition space. It is slated for completion in 2016.

In 4 Days, 100 Volunteers Used Mud and Reeds To Build This Community Center in Mexico

© Pedro Bravo, Sofia Hernández, Francisco Martínez
Developed by architects from Colectivo bma in Barranca de Huentitán, Guadalajara, , this new building for the Mexican Institute for Community Development (IMDEC) was built in just four days with the help of 100 volunteers.
The new facility includes both housing and meeting space, and was constructed using local building techniques and materials. Built with a concrete base, the walls were made usingbahareque ( frames and mud) and woven  lattices that cover most of the building’s exterior.
Learn more about the construction process after the break.

Library, Game Library & Municipality Administration in Spiez / bauzeit architekten

© Yves André
Architects: bauzeit architekten
Location: Sonnenfelsstrasse, 3700 Spiez, 
Area: 2003.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Yves André

Competition Entry: Latitude Studio Consolidates Office Space at WHO’s Geneva Headquarters

WHO Headquarters after intervention. Image Courtesy of Latitude 
Latitude Studio’s entry for the World Health Organization’s (WHO) design competition to expand its Geneva headquarters seeks to embody WHO’s sustainable and collaborative approach to enhancing universal health. Their design consolidates individual  and open workspaces within one facility, maximizing areas for collaboration and communication, while solar panels and rainwater collection systems improve the building’s sustainability. If chosen, the proposal would become one of three main buildings at the WHO headquarters.

Why Do Professors “Rip Apart” Projects In The Final Review?

© Flickr CC user Rory MacLeod
In a recent article in which ArchDaily reached out to our readers for comments about all-nighter culture, one comment that seemed to strike a chord with many people was kopmis’ assertion that, thanks to the tendency for professors to “rip apart” projects in a final review, ”there is no field of study that offers so much humiliation as architecture.” But what causes this tendency? In this article, originally published by Section Cut as “The Final Review: Negaters Gonna Negate,” Mark Stanley – an Adjunct Professor at Woodbury University School of Architecture – discusses the challenges facing the reviewers themselves, offering an explanation of why they often lapse into such negative tactics – and how they can avoid them.

Harjunkulma Housing Block / Kirsti Sivén & Asko Takala Arkkitehdit

© Tuomas Uusheimo
Architects: Kirsti Sivén & Asko Takala Arkkitehdit
Location: 40100 Jyväskylä, 
Architect In Charge: Kirsti Sivén, Asko Takala
Area: 1200.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Tuomas Uusheimo

Studio Esinam’s Limited Edition Prints Capture Elevations from Around the World

Courtesy of  Esinam
Swedish firm Studio Esinam‘s new print series depicts “Elevations” of architectural landmarks across the globe. Using minimalist line drawings, the illustrations attempt to “capture the unique feeling of various cities around the world”.
Meticulously recreating the facades of landmarks in Berlin, Brooklyn, Copenhagen, Gothenburg,London, Paris, Stockholm, and Tokyo, the growing collection of prints reframes technicaldrawings as works of art. By distilling iconic facades to their barest and most essential elements, Studio Esinam aims to direct “attention to details that mostly pass unseen.”
View selected prints from the “Elevations” series after the break.
National Museum of Roman Art / Rafael Moneo. Image © Flickr user James Gordon

Spotlight: Rafael Moneo

As the only Spanish architect to receive the Pritzker Prize, Rafael Moneo (born 9 May 1937) is known for his highly contextual buildings which nonetheless remain committed to modernist stylings. His designs are regularly credited as achieving the elusive quality of “timelessness”; as critic Robert Campbell wrote in his essay about Moneo for the Pritzker Prize, “a Moneo building creates an awareness of time by remembering its antecedents. It then layers this memory against its mission in the contemporary world.”

S. Victor Lofts / A2OFFICE

© AL.MA
Architects: A2OFFICE
Location: Porto, 
Architecture And Coordination: Alberto Dias Ribeiro
Area: 52.0 sqm
Year: 2015
Photographs: AL.MA

Barcelona Sur Power Generation Plant / Forgas Arquitectes

© Simón García
Architects: Forgas Arquitectes
Location: Zona Franca, 08040 Barcelona, Barcelona, 
Project Architects: Joan Forgas, Dolors Ylla-Català
Project Area: 9435.0 m2
Photographs: Simón García

Marginal de Esposende Redevelopment / Victor Neves Arquitectura e Urbanismo

© Fernando Guerra | 
Architects: Victor Neves Arquitectura e Urbanismo
Location: Avenida Engenheiro Eduardo Arantes e Oliveira, 4740 , Portugal
Project Architect: Prof. Dr. Arqt.º Victor Neves
Collaborators: Arqt.º David Correia, Arqt.ª Carla Anastácio
Project Area: 25500.0 m2
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Situla Housing and Office Complex / Bevk Perovic

© Miran Kambic
Architects: Bevk Perovic
Location: Vilharjeva cesta, 1000 , 
Design Team: Matija Bevk, Vasa J. Perovic, Andrej Ukmar, Christophe Riss, Jure Kozin, Gonzalo Piqueras, Blaz Gorican, Natasa Sprah, Maja Valic, Davor Pocivasek, Ida Sedusak
Year: 2013
Photographs: Miran Kambic

Rue du Charolais / Eva Samuel

© Clément Guillaume
Architects: Eva Samuel
Location: Rue du Charolais, 75012 , France
Year: 2014
Photographs: Clément Guillaume
Chen's travel plan. Image © Michelle Tianhui Chen

Michelle Tianhui Chen Wins Robert A.M. Stern’s 2015 RAMSA Travel Fellowship

Michelle Tianhui Chen, a Master’s candidate at the Yale School of Architecture, has won Robert A.M. Stern Architects‘ $10,000 RAMSA Travel Fellowship. With the award, Chen will travel to India where she will study the architectural shift from a diverse fabric of expressive design languages to a politically and ethnically neutral vocabulary.
“In our world of increasingly ubiquitous gleaming towers, clean in form but cleansed of details, looking to centuries-old traditions might be a means toward reestablishing human attachment to our everyday surroundings,” says Ms. Chen. Her proposal promises to “culminate in a book of drawings and text that attempts to chart a path to a more balanced architecture—one which does not forsake cultural expression for a shallow conception of political order.”

MM House / Estudio Puyol – Meinardy

© Federico Cairoli
Architects: Estudio Puyol – Meinardy
Location: Colastine, Santa Fe, 
Project Architects: Gervasio Meinardy, Ma. Dolores Puyol, Virginia Fabre, Leticia Santarelli, Milagros Reinante
Collaborators: Melisa Roth
Project Area: 224.0 m2
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Federico Cairoli

Davis Brody Bond to Expand Baltimore’s National Great Blacks in Wax Museum

© 
Davis Brody Bond‘s plan to expand Baltimore‘s National Great Blacks in Wax Museum has been approved. As the Baltimore Business Journal reports, the $75 million overhaul hopes to foresee a significant increase in attendance, bringing in more than 500,000 visitors annually.
A destination for both tourists and locals, the expanded museum will open itself to the surrounding community beyond normal operating hours. It will house a multi-purpose space, retail, orientation theatre, changing gallery and educational programs as well as the museum and a bus drop-off on the main thoroughfare.

Housing and Urban Planning of “Grand-Pré” Neighbourhood / Luscher Architectes

© Pierre Boss
Architects: Luscher Architectes
Location: , 
Architect In Charge: Rodolphe Luscher, architect FAS/SIA, town planer FSU
Area: 13000.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Pierre Boss

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