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Thursday, May 7, 2015

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Proekt Agency / Iceoff

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Architects: Iceoff
Location: , Russia
Area: 108.0 sqm
Year: 2015
Photographs: Courtesy of Iceoff

Passo Novita / Oska&Partners

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Architects: Oska&Partners
Location: Midorigaoka, , Chiba Prefecture 276-0049, 
Collaborators: LGROW lighting planning room
Area: 497.0 sqm
Year: 2015
Photographs: kentahasegawa

Passage de Melun / Gaëtan Le Penhuel Architecture

© Sergio Grazia
Architects: Gaëtan Le Penhuel Architecture
Location: , 
Area: 980.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Sergio Grazia
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ArchDaily Founders to Discuss Globalization and “Going Viral” at AIA Convention 2015

A week from today the 2015 AIA National Convention will kickstart in Atlanta, Georgia. With a plethora of options to consider, we encourage those attending to sign up for the hour-long discussion “Going Viral: Blurred Borders and Globalization.” Presented by ArchDaily co-founders David Basulto and David Assael, and organized by the AIANY Global Dialogues Committee, “Going Viral” will discuss how you can take your practice (and profits) to a global level. The discussion will occur at 5PM on Friday, May 15th. Sign up for the course here, using the code “FR418.”

Whitehall Road Residence / Jon Boucher

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Architects: 
Location: Flinders VIC 3929, 
Area: 740.0 ft2
Year: 2013
Photographs: Peter Clarke

BIG and Heatherwick’s Futuristic Google HQ Proposal Loses to LinkedIn

©  / BIG / Heatherwick Studio
Google‘s ambitious plans to expand its California headquarters in  took a major blow last night when council members announced their decision to award LinkedIn three-quarters of the North Bayshore area site. With just 500,000 square-feet of area to work with, Google would only be able to construct one of its four proposed buildings.
Unveiled earlier this year, the company’s futuristic “Googleplex,” designed by BIG and Heatherwick Studio, gained international attention for its outlandish plans to build four Lego-like buildings beneath a cluster of translucent canopies.
As The New York Times reports, LinkedIn won the council over by promising to “preserve business diversity.”

House in Lubliniec 2 / Dyrda Fikus Architekci

© Bartłomiej Osiński
Architects: Dyrda Fikus Architekci
Location: , 
Design Team: Marta Dyrda, Radek Fikus
Area: 169.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Bartłomiej Osiński

Henry N. Cobb Awarded Architectural League President’s Medal

John Hancock Tower in Boston. Image © Flickr CC User Zach Heller
The Architectural League of New York has awarded its President’s Medal to Henry N. Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects. The League’s highest honor, the medal was awarded to Cobb “for the truly consequential work he has created as designer, educator, thinker, writer, and leader,” says the jury citation.
“We are inspired by his decades-long passion for the art of architecture; by his analytic rigor, manifest in subtle and articulate buildings and penetrating readings of history and place; by the broad and profoundly informed humanist culture that suffuses his writings and approach to education; and by the unbounded curiosity and delight he takes in new ideas, new work, and new talent. Henry N. Cobb embodies that combination of capability and conviction—artistic, intellectual, practical, and civic—that defines the ideal architect.”

Brazil Pavilion – Milan Expo 2015 / Studio Arthur Casas + Atelier Marko Brajovic

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Architects: Studio Arthur Casas, Atelier Marko Brajovic
Location: Ingresso EXpo, Via Giorgio Stephenson, 107, 20157 , Italy
Architecture Author : Arthur Casas
Architecture Co Authors : Alexandra Kayat, Gabriel Ranieri, Alessandra Mattar, Eduardo Mikowski, Nara Telles, Pedro Ribeiro and Raul Cano
Architecture Project Coordination : Alexandra Kayat
Architecture Co Author And Interior Design Coordination : Renata Adoni
Architecture Studio Director: Marilia Pellegrini
Architecture Collaborators : Arnault Weber, Rodrigo Tamburus, Fernanda Müller, Daniel Vianna and Juliana Matalon.
Area: 3674.0 sqm
Year: 2015
Photographs: Courtesy of Atelier Marko Brajovic, Raphael Azevedo França

Help Shigeru Ban Provide Emergency Shelter to Nepal

Shigeru Ban’s permanent paper housing in India. Image © Kartikeya Shodhan
Shigeru Ban Architects, together with the Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN), has announced plans to send emergency shelter, housing and other community facilitates to the victims of Nepal’s deadly April 25th earthquake. As part of a three-phase plan, Shigeru Ban will first delivery and assemble tents with plastic partitions acquired though donation to provide immediate shelter. A few months after, the Japanese practice will collaborate with local architects and  to build temporary housing with materials found prevalent in Nepal.
Permanent housing will also be provided in the architect-led recovery plan’s third phase, although little details have been released. However, you can help make it happen by donating to Shigeru Ban’s efforts (here).
Watch Shigeru Ban’s TED Talk on paper emergency structures, after the break. 

Fondazione Prada / OMA

© Bas Princen – Fondazione Prada
Architects: OMA
Location: Largo Isarco, 2, 20139 , Italy
Partners In Charge: Rem Koolhaas, Chris van Duijn
Project Leader: Federico Pompignoli
Preliminary Design Team: Sam Aitkenhead, Doug Allard, Andrea Bertassi, Aleksandr Bierig, Eva Dietrich, Paul-Emmanuel Lambert, Jonah Gamblin, Takuya Hosokai, Stephen Hodgson, Jan Kroman, Jedidiah Lau, Francesco Marullo, Vincent McIlduff, Alexander Menke, Aoibheann Ni Mhearain, Sophie van Noten, Jan Pawlik, Rocio Paz Chavez, Christopher Parlato, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Dirk Peters, Andrea Sollazzo, Michaela Tonus, Jussi Vuori, Luca Vigliero, Mei-Lun Xue
Final Project Team: Anna Dzierzon, Jonah Gamblin, Ross Harrison, Hans Hammink, Matthew Jull, Taiga Koponen, Vincent Konate, Andres Mendoza, Susanan Mondejar, Vincent McIlduff, Sasha Smolin, Michaela Tonus
Area: 18900.0 sqm
Year: 2015
Photographs: Bas Princen – Fondazione Prada, Charlie Koolhaas – OMA

Light Matters: Heightening The Perception Of Daylight With Henry Plummer (Part 2)

Monastery of La Tourette, Éveux-sur-l’Arbresle, France by Le Corbusier. Image ©  2011
Architecture professor and photographer Henry Plummer has heightened the transformative power of daylight with his cameras and published several remarkable books about light and architecture. His deep interest in light, and his lyrical writing perspective, were formed through his contact with the designer and art theorist György Kepes while studying at MIT. Within his numerous photo journeys Plummer has documented the various facets of daylight in Japan and the Nordic Countries, and of masters like Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn. As a Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Plummer also still has ambitious plans for future book projects. In the second part of this interview, Plummer reveals how changing technologies have affected his photography, and discusses his thoughts on phenomenology and developing a poetic language of light.
If you missed it, you can read part one of this interview here.
© Ingenhoven und Partner Architekten, Düsseldorf

uncube Pays Homage to Frei Otto

uncubed has published an entire issue dedicated to the late Frei Otto. The architect and inventor, known best for his tensile structures, was the first ever to be awarded the Pritzker Prize posthumously. Honoring Otto with more than a “simple retrospective homage,” uncubed has compiled an extensive online issue of “thoughts, anecdotes and observations” that reflect Otto’s legacy and the ideas that lead him to be a significant part of architectural history. View the entire uncubed issue on Frei Otto, here. 

G House / Esaú Acosta

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Architects: Esaú Acosta
Location: El Sauzal, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 
Area: 240.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Esau Acosta 

An Interactive Look at Japan’s Tall Building History

Japan’s tallest skyscraper, Abeno Harukas. Image © Hisao Suzuki
A new research study conducted by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), entitled Tall Buildings in Numbers – Japan: A History of Tall Innovations, examines the evolution of tall buildings in Japan since the 1960s. The study highlights key innovations in Japan’s skyline through a compilation of graphic representations, including a timeline of notable highrises, a scatterplot of towers over 150 meters and annual construction rates, and a comparison of skyscraper density with regional populations.
View the interactive charts after the break.

Seelenkiste – Spirit Shelter Finding Arcadie / allergutendinge

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Architects: allergutendinge
Location: 
Architects In Charge: Matthias Prüger, Manuel Rauwolf, Ulrike Wetzel
Area: 8.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Courtesy of allergutendinge

#donotsettle: User-Oriented Architecture Vlogging

Visiting Delft Station on opening day. Image Courtesy of #donotsettle
The medium of film has long been employed to visualise, document and narrate architectural and urban space. Since the advent of more accessible devices to capture and record these journeys and explorations it has been used more frequently by practices and  in an attempt to develop new ways of experiencing built designs. #donotsettle, a YouTube channel established by two architects and urban enthusiasts while studying at  in The Netherlands, seeks to reconcile the disparity between film as architectural representation and as an experiential medium. Although not high in production value, their films are exciting examples of how user-oriented architectural ‘vlogging’ can uncover an entirely new way of understanding the world around us with a level of refreshing authenticity.

Mill Mavaleix / Piet Hein Eek

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Architects: Piet Hein Eek
Location: Mavaleix, 24800 , France
Year: 2015
Photographs: Thomas Mayer 
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