Pedestrian Bridge in Zapallar-Chile By Enrique Browne

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Architects: Enrique Browne y Asociados Arquitectos
Location: Zapallar, Chile
Collaborators: Rodrigo Rojas, Davor Pavlovic, Baltazar Sánchez y Tomás Swett
Project year: 2006-2008
Structural Engineering: Alfonso Larraín
Photographs: Enrique Browne
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Veech Media Architecture | Swarovski Baselworld Trade Fair Pavilion | Switzeland

Veech Media Architecture (VMA) wins the international IF Communication Design Award in Gold for the Swarovski Baselworld Trade Fair Pavilion

Vienna/Munich, August 28, 2009 - The Vienna based architecture and design office Veech Media Architecture (VMA) was presented in Munich with the Golden Award in the category Corporate Architecture for the trade fair pavilion design for Swarovski Enlightened TM. The pavilion Ambient Gem at the exclusive Watch and Jewellery Show BASELWORLD convinced the members of the eminent jury by the way it sets new standards for the term "brand world".

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Contemporary Design-The Hemeroscopium House | Ensamble Studio

Type: Private ResidenceLocation: Las Rozas, Madrid, Spain
Size: 400 m2 (4,300 sf)
Date of Project: December 2005
Date of Completion: June 2008
Author of the Project: Ensamble Studio. Antón García- Abril

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Nathalie Djunberg at OMA's The Prada Transformer | Seoul,Korea

Nathalie Djunberg has collaborated with composer Hans Berg to create this installation. The interior of the Transformer has been covered with white felt which ripples and twists to form a highly baroque, sensual wrapping. Djunberg articulates the walls and floors using objects and projections to create a ‘cave of the unconscious’.
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Shanghai World Expo 2010 | Hungarian Pavillion

Hungary inveiled the design for their pavillion for next year’s Shanghai World Expo, designed by Tamás Lévai. Gömböc, as a hungarian invention, is the central element of the exhibition, a two meter high solid plexiglass moving object.

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Austrian Pavillion for Shanghai Expo 2010 | SPAN and Zeytinoglu Architects

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Capital Hill Residence by Zaha Hadid Architects

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Project architect: Helmut Kinzler

Project designer: Daniel Fiser

Project team:
Anat Stern
Daniel Santos
Thomas Sonder

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Masdar Design Competition | Masdar City Abu Dhabi ,UAE | LAVA

LAVA wins international design competition for the heart of Masdar, world’s first sustainable city.

Giant umbrellas, with a design based on the principles of sunflowers, will provide moveable shade in the day, store heat, then close and release the heat at night in the plaza of a new eco-city in the United Arab Emirates.

The ‘sunflower umbrellas’ are one aspect of the winning design by the international practice Laboratory for Visionary Architecture [LAVA] for the city centre for Masdar in the UAE - the world’s first zero carbon, zero waste city powered entirely by renewable energy sources.

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Sports Hall-Knin Square in Zagreb-Zoka Zola Architecture + Urban Design

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Urban structure on an existing square designed to create inumerable urban activities and interactions.
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Erasmus Train Station, The Hague Central-Zwarts & Jansma Architects

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International Architectural Competition | National Library Kazakhstan | Astana,Kazakhstan | BIG

Invited as one of five pre-selected architect led teams, BIG was awarded first prize in an open international design competition which included 19 entrants among others Lord Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid.
The new National Library, named after the first President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, encompasses an estimated 33.000m2. The winning proposal was chosen by the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan K. Masimov together with Astana's akim I.Tasmagambetov and a council of architects.
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House in Kohoku Yokohama, Japan By Torafu Architects

Shaped like a cluster of barnacles, the House in Kohoku doesn’t exactly blend in with its neighbors. Located in a hilly suburb of Yokohama, it has neither the conventional pitched roof nor the standard-issue wood frame. But contained within its reinforced concrete shell is a barrier-free home for a nautical architect and his wife who were ready to chart a new course.
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Eco-City Hamburg | Germany | tec architecture

"The Eco-City project proposes to not only enhance Harburg's current progression, but to set a new standard for environmentally forward construction of our built world".
Key Consultant: ARUP, Los Angeles

Total Gross Floor Area: 829,000 sqft / 77,000 sqm

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Boh Visitor Center/Cameron Highlands,Malaysia/ZLG Design

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Architect: ZLG Design
Team: Huat Lim, Susanne Zeidler, Jimmy Wong, Mary Verhaeghe, Hong Chieh
Location: Sungai Palas, Cameron Highland, Boh Visitor Centre, Malaysia
Locale description: Tea plantations and factory
Site area: 12,168.32 sqm
Built area: 1,233.8 sqm
Building start: November 2005
BUilding completion: July 2006
Budget: USD$498,652.29
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Aquarium and Aviary, Batumi, Georgia | Zvi Hecker

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The design is an expression of the way the two primordial elements; water and air, brought about the chain of evolution on earth from fish to birds and finally to humans.
The combination of the two forms, the one transparent and the other solid, creates an architectural ensemble of simplicity and strength.
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Indoor Golf Arena- The World's Largest Indoor Golf Centre-Zwarts & Jansma Architects

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2007 | 2010

Client:

Indoor Golf Project

Indoor Golf Arena's facilities will amongst others include 14.000 m2 training facilities on synthetic grass, 20 state-of-the-art golf simulators and a rooftop driving range with 34 bays.

Zaha Hadid | Ordrupgaard Museum Extension | Ordrupgaard, Denmark | Cristobal Palma

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”Even though Zaha Hadid’s building has a strikingly different and contemporary idiom in relation to the original country house, she has managed to capture the special spirit of the site and skilfully bring it up to date. Despite the new extension, Ordrupgaard retains its basic character.”
Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark
Director Ordrupgaard

Total area: 1,150 square meters
Completed: August 2005

Client: Ordrupgaard Museum
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Design: Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher
Project Architect (Zaha Hadid): Ken Bostock
Project Team (Zaha Hadid): Caroline Krogh Andersen
Modelmaker (Zaha Hadid): Riann Steenkamp,

Competition Team:
Ken Bostock
Patrik Schumacher
Adriano de Gioannis
Sara de Araujo
Lars Teichmann
Tiago Correia
Vivek Shankar
Cedric Libert,

Associate Architect: PLH Arkitekter (Denmark)
Structural Engineers:
Jane Wernick Associates (UK)
Birch & Krogboe (Denmark)
Service Engineers:
Ove Arup & Parnters (UK)
Birch & Krogboe (Denmark)
Lighting Consultants: Arup Lighting (UK)
Acoustic Consultants: Birch & Krogboe (Denmark)
Photographs:Cristobal Palma

Guest House - Karuizawa Counterpoint | Nagano, Japan | Poda

Who: Hideki Tamura
What: Weekend residence
Where: Kitasaku-gun, Nagano Prefecture
When: September 2008
How: Two-story reinforced concrete construction
Site Area: 27,803 square feet
Construction Area: 2,849 square feet
Total Floor Area: 3,334 square feet

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Michael Jackson Monument Competition | Live Forever

Michael Jackson lived one of the most extravagant, magnificent, and crafted lives in centuries. What act of design could possibly outshine the combined effect of the star's own intricate life?

While the music and images Michael left us will seal his cultural immortality, we are still obliged to commemorate him. What is the nature of a monument to Michael Jackson? What single place do we choose to remember a person who touched the globe and had aspirations for the moon?

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Soumaya Museum | LAR | Mexico City, Mexico

Type: Art Museum
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Exhibition space: 20,000 sqm (215,000 sf)
Exhibition floors: 5
Scheduled to open: end of 2010
Architect:LAR

The Soumaya Museum will be a state-of-the-art facility that will house a diverse collection of art when it opens by the end of 2010.

While museum buildings tend to opt for maximum functionality, in which case they are basically boxes or containers of art, or they are conceived as iconic buildings that represent a city during a particular historic moment.
The Soumaya Museum, however, was conceived as a sculptural buildings that is both unique and contemporary, yet serves to house a diverse collection of international painting, sculpture, and object art from the 14th century to the present, including the world's second biggest collection of Rodin sculptures.

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National Tourist Route Trollstigen | RRA | Romsdalen - Geiranger Fjord, Norway

Architects: Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Oslo Norway
Location: Romsdalen - Geiranger Fjord, Norway
Project team: Reiulf D Ramstad, Christian Fuglset, Anja Strandskogen, Christian Dahle, Nok Nimakorn
Client: Norwegian public roads administration
Structural Engineer: Dr Techn. Kristoffer Apeland AS, Oslo Norway
Mechanical Engineer: Erichsen & Horgen Engineering AS, Oslo Norway
Electrical Engineer: Norconsult, Norway
Contractor: Christie Opsahl AS, Norway
Landscape: Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Oslo Norway
Constructed Area: 200,000 sqm (the landscape area)
Design year: 2004-2010
Construction year: 2005-2010
Photographs: Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Oslo Norway

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Unique Boutique Hotel | The Azucar Hotel | Veracruz, Mexico

Named for the sugar cane grown in its home state of Veracruz, the Azucar was conceived by hotelier Carlos Couturier, founder of some of Mexico’s hippest resort properties. For the Acuzar he decided on an almost anti-design back-to-basics theme that finds its expression in an airy, breezy feeling. The hotel’s 20 low-slung bungalows, all in an intense white-on-white colour scheme, inspire visions of loose cotton clothing, sandals and the easiest of schedules.
The Azucar Hotel is reachable via two airports both in close proximity to the hotel. The airport of Veracruz is located to the south (approximately 2 and a half hours from the hotel). The Poza Rica airport located to the north is (approximately 1 and a half hours from the hotel).
A private Cessna plane (maximum capacity 4 people) is available for hire upon request.

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Modern Japanese Apartment | NE Apartment | Japan | AKIYOSHI TAKAGI ARCHITECTS

NE apartment Apartment complex for motorbike enthusiasts

This 8-unit rental apartment house complex was designed to house motorcycle enthusiasts, with a built-in garage included in every unit.
The building is located on a flag-shaped plot near the apex of a triangular block, with a certain degree of open space toward the main road to the south.
The c-shaped design was a practical decision to allow the residents to access their apartments through a common alley that leads right to the center of the complex. The wall on the entrance side was curved to provide maximum space on the outside, while guaranteeing sufficient volume for each apartment unit and wall length to fit 8 entrance doors. The resulting little square avoids giving the impression of a narrow and dark dead end, and allows the residents to rotate their bikes easily. The walls separating each apartment unit were disposed in a radial pattern, each with a gentle curve that leads them to meet the external wall at a right angle. By connecting the angles of each room, the curved walls contribute to give the impression of a more spacious environment. The entire structure is designed as an extension of the road, smoothly following the movement of its residents as they drive through the alley, enter the central square, park their motorbike in the garage and move upstairs to their living quarters.
About the use of curved walls
The building is a reinforced concrete structure composed of seven walls and slabs. The main characteristic of the structure lies in the fact that the reinforced walls, composed of an in-plane rigid frame of columns and beams, were disposed in a radial pattern. The walls rely on the transfer of horizontal force from the slabs instead of using perpendicular beams. They are in fact vertical cantilevers fixed in the foundation of the building. Although the centrally-oriented radial displacement is vulnerable to rotational forces, the changing angles of each wall reinforce the structure's resistance. Because the structure of the building relies on the seven interior walls, the exterior wall was handled using a dry construction method. This allowed us to continue studying the emplacement and size of the wall openings in accordance with the uneven surroundings until the very last moment of the construction process. The functions of each wall are also enhanced by a clear division of their roles: structure and sound insulation for the interior walls, openings and thermal insulation for the exterior walls. Despite their curve, the interior walls always meet the outside wall at right angles, preventing the presence of sharp corners and thus improving livability. On the entrance side, each floor is fitted with a continuous strip of curved windows, with a comparatively wider opening on the second level. The orientation of each room was set to avoid a direct view of the opposite apartment. Combined with a double-paned window, this setting provides a peculiar feeling of privacy.

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TAIYUAN MUSEUM | Taiyuan, China | Preston Scott Cohen

TAIYUAN MUSEUM
Taiyuan, China 2007-2009.

Client: Taiyuan City Government
Total Area: 40,500 m2
Construction Budget: RMB 200,000,000

Winner of the international competition
Project Schedule: 2007-2010
Project Team: Preston Scott Cohen (architectural design); Amit Nemlich (planning); Hao Ruan, Joshua Dannenberg (design assistants, modeling, renderings); Yair Keshet(model)
Project Consultants: Architecture Design and Research Institute of South East University

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St Patrick's Island Bridge Competition | Calgary, Canada

CMLC Announces Conceptual Bridge Design Competition New pedestrian bridge to increase connectivity in inner city.
The Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC) today launched another exciting step in the ongoing rejuvenation of the Rivers District, which includes East Village, with the opening of the St. Patrick’s Island Bridge conceptual design competition. CMLC is seeking submissions for the creation of a bridge for pedestrians and cyclists from qualified candidates who demonstrate cost effective, innovative design with consideration for safety, connectivity, aesthetics and common design guidelines. The competition opens today and the deadline for the conceptual submissions is Monday, September 14, 2009.
All design guidelines and criteria are available on the CMLC website at www.calgarymlc.ca.

Nature Factory | Diesel Denim Gallery | Aoyama, Japan | Suppose Design Office

The Diesel Denim Gallery, the signature store of the brand name, functions as a gallery space for art installations and exhibits throughout the year showcasing talented rising artists. For this year’s store installation, Tanijiri has created an “innovative art space” entitled Nature Factory.

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Furniture Design | SCI_Arc Boardroom Table | Emergent Architecture

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This Design is composed as two seperate parts- a highly articulated Table and a simple sliding glass wall defining the new space in the Kappe Library.

The Table, while functionally rectangular, is characterized by a radial patterning which is intended to spatially interconnect people sitting around it. This pattern exhibits both an open-ended cellularity and an emerging linear heirarchy, which delaminates downwards to become the ‘legs’ of the Table, and upwards to become relief for organizing books, water bottles, and flowers. The internal cavity defined by the table structure will be lit with red LEDs for atmospheric effect, in particular for evening meetings, dinners, and cocktail parties.

A power strip and cable tray will be located in the linear members of the pattern on both long sides of the Table. The construction of the Table will involve unfolding the 3-D geometry, CNC routing the parts in 1/8” aluminum sheet, spot-welding the parts together, finishing and auto painting.

The glass wall is intended to allow spatial continuity between the Kappe Library and the new Boardroom. It is hung on a 3-track system allowing 4’x10’ framed units to slide. These units will be made of a thin steel frame and tempered glass, and will be silkscreened with the individual names of members of the SCI_Arc Board of Directors, as well as Supporters of SCI_Arc, Distinguished Alumni, etc. These names will add to the simple, elegant atmosphere of the space and reflect the future of SCI_Arc as a stable, endowed institution.
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crosby observatory,england | duggan morris architects

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Jinbocho Theater | Tokyo Metropolis | Nikken Sekkei

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Owner：Shogakukan Inc.
Location：Tokyo Metropolis
Land area：319.28㎡
Site area：252.53㎡
Total floor area：1,427.59㎡
Structure：RC（steel plate anti-shock panel）
Floors：2 floors underground, 6 floors above ground
Max height：GL+28.05m
Construction period：From March 2006 to June 2007
Jinbou-cho, which is the City of Ancient Books, was lined up with cinemas and story-telling theaters, which is also referred to as the City of Theater Canopy. This plan, which is jointly devised by shogakukan and Yoshimoto Kogyo, is to revive the vitality of Jinbou-cho. This is an integrated project putting together a 100-seat cinema, a 126-seat story-telling theater, and a 300m² practice arena for artistic school on approximately 300m² of land.
Since the foundation is affected by the surrounding narrow streets and diagonal limitation, which effectively limits the planning, the necessary area may not be guaranteed, therefore, the sky rate system is flexibly used. Steel anti-shock plate that acts as exterior wall and anti-shock element covers the outside of the multi-facade structure of the new system, which makes this an external heat isolation building. The light structural frame produced by this method and the pillar-less space ensures the effective space utilization and guarantees the seat number.
The black cleavage acts as both the heat expansion and contraction device and rainwater-channeling device. An air ventilation device that may raise exterior heat isolation efficiency is here. Matching the theatrical image of the actor, exterior look that neglects details, and the unfurnished concrete wall, all of these will assist the revitalization of the city.
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Umraniye Retail Complex & Multiplex | Istanbul, Turkey | Foreign Office Architects

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Architects: FOA Foreign Office Architects, Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Location: Istambul, Turkey
Collaborators: Friedrich Ludewig, Kenichi Matzusawa, Chris Yoo; Schemes, Detail Design: Friedrich Ludewig, Christian Wittmeir, Samina Azhar, Andrei Gheorghe, Emory Smith, Ebru Simsek, Eduarda Lima
Client: Metro Group AG
Constrution year: 2007
Constructed Area: 55.000 sqm
Budget: 34 M EURO ( US $53,37 M)
Photographs: Cristóbal Palma, Friedrick Ludewig
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Community Center Aussersihl,Zurich | EM2N

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Project Name: Community Center Aussersihl
Location: Zurich
Client: City of Zurich, represented by: Buildings Department
Architects: EM2N : Mathias Mueller / Daniel Niggli, Zurich
Construction Management: Jaeger Baumanagement GmbH, Zürich
Structural Engineers: Tragwerk Bauingenieure GmbH, Affoltern a.A.
Timber construction Engineers: Pirmin Jung Ingenieure für Holzbau GmbH, Rain
HVACR: Amstein + Walthert, Haustechnik, Zürich

Competition: 1999, 1st prize
Start of planning phase: Sep 2002
Start of construction: Nov 2004
Completion: Sep 2004
Gross Floor Area: 866 m2
Building Footprint: 228 m2
Costs: EUR 1.8 Mio
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Museum Of Modern Art-Warsaw,Poland-EM2M

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Giza, Egypt International Competition 2002-Elenberg Frazer

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"Our submission responded to the scale of ancient Egypt and the sublime. The scheme proposed to link a network of buildings within the sand dunes and cover the assemblage with an environmental skin to mediate the environment.
The skin moves as it responds to external conditions and is informedby the sun, wind, thermal loads, light levels and fresh air.
The Museum is a cluster of buildings under one roof where the circulation cores and internal network of lane and ramps maximise the complexity of circulatory options and programme adjacencies."Elenberg Frazer

Le Prisme Concert Hall | Aurillac ,France | Brisac Gonzalez

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CLIENT:Communauté d’agglomération d’Aurillac

VALUE & SIZE:£ 7 000 000 / 5 265m²

DATE:Completed 11/2007

SUMMARY

The building is a new venue for concerts, theatre, trade fairs and sports events located on the outskirts of the city centre, adjacent to the main train station. As the venue is never permanently inhabited, the building is essentially a chamber for ephemeral events. The main events space accommodates up to 4,300 people during performances and contains retractable seating and a demountable stage for versatility. During the day, sunlight plays across the 25,000 bespoke pyramidal-shaped glass bricks embedded in the façade, producing glimmering lighting effects and dramatic shadows. In the evening the building awakens as the Fresnel lens-like surfaces of the glass bricks amplify the intensity of the controllable coloured lighting scheme, producing a glittering solitaire in the landscape.
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crosby observatory,england | duggan morris architects

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Cultural Centre-Carreau des Halles,Paris By Du Besset-Lyon Architectes

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Restoration Of 13th Century Arab Bath | Baza, Granada, Andalusia,Spain | Francisco Ibanez

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The Baths are situated just off the Plaza de Santiago in the old Moorish quarter of Marzuela in the town of Baza. Built in the 13thC and 14C these Baths were discovered at the end of the 19thC by the historian Gómez Moreno. In recent years the building has undergone a program of painstaking restoration and the whole edifice is protected by a concrete shell.

The Baños Árabes were finally opened to the public in July 2009.
Photographs:Fernando Alda
Restoration works by :Francisco Ibanez

Pedregal Shopping Centre | Pascal Arquitectos | México City

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Construction: Pascal Arquitectos
Date: 2007

Area: 7.000.00 m2.
Location: Av. de las Fuentes nº 425 Colonia Jardines del Pedregal Delegación Álvaro Obregón, México City

This project comes to set a new architectural statement in the Pedregal area of Mexico City which has been neglected, because nothing new and important had happened since its beginings when “Cuidad Universitaria” was built. Nowadays the real-estate pressure and the need of services are beginning to promote significant changes. The way that this building relates with its context, is by breaking up with what is common to the zone, which are big houses in big areas surrounded by very high stone walls which do not let anybody know what is happening outside and vice versa. This goal is achieved with the main facade that consists of two elements: one of them linen with a zinc plate with large irregular perforations to which a different shades of yellow and translucent laminated glass section is inlay. It allows the view of the interior event from the outisde, and at the same time allowing the view of the exterior event from the inside; in such way the public social spaces mix and the limits within the urban and the private become frontiers. The project consists of two commercial levels and a roof garden and two underground parking levels. Mobility impaired individuals access and areas are included: ramps, special parking spaces, elevators, etc.; car reception area at the entrance and the exit to avoid parking in the public way, numerous garden areas, including the roof; car delivery zone inside the first parking basement floor.

This is a sustainable and intelligent development project with an automation and control system that contemplates passive and active energy saving resources: lighting and extraction control, opening and closing façade rolling doors, air conditioning, security and control access, prevention signage, CCTV, all of them scheduled and synchronized. The main facade consists of two elements: one is covered with a zinc plate with large irregular perforations, the other one is a laminated glass box with different shades of yellow and translucentness.

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Masterplan for the Ajman Marina Free Zone | Dubai | Rojkind Arquitectos

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Architect: Rojkind arquitectos
Staff:
Agustin Pereyra
Moritz Melchert
Juan Carlos Vidals
Eugenio Villarreal
Client: City of Dubai
Design: 2007
Link:www.rojkindarquitectos.com

Project Description:
The project proposes buildings of different heights, the highest structures is residential, while in the lower buildings are office spaces, businesses and more apartments.

The tallest buildings are the central icon of the masterplan. Easily recognizable even from a distance, and to become a new attraction for tourism.

"The architecture - comments the author of the project - faces the dual challenge of a bold proposal aesthetically but also rational in terms of functionality."
"We have also given importance - Michel Rojkind continues - the need for flexibility by concentrating the elements that characterize the identity of the project in the external part of the architecture in keeping the idea of simplicity and adaptability to different needs over time."

"The function of the lower elements is to integrate the experience of users both functional and aesthetic ones."

The creation of new pedestrian path to connect the main waterfront will also increase the commercial potential of the area.

Zaha Hadid | Spiralling Tower | Barcelona, Spain

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Design and Context
Zaha Hadid’s design for the Edifici Campus confirms the role of the 22@ area at the very forefront of Barcelona’s changing water edge. The tower’s striking design creates a new presence in a territory of transition.The spiralling tower stitches the border of the municipalities of Barcelona and Besòs, creating a new infrastructure that is a joint-venture of the two cities and two clients: El Consorci, Zona Franca de Barcelona y b –TEC, Consorci del Campus Interuniversitari del Besòs.

The design articulates the transition between the forum and the campus, between the new equipments and parks water-front area, in Barcelona, and the requalification of the delta of the river Besòs area, in Sant Adriá del Besòs. The formal theme of the spiral actively binds the two together with an encompassing movement, stimulating the seamless integration of the city fabric, connecting in a dynamic way, the different surrounding areas.

Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Designers: Zaha Hadid
Staff:
Fabiano Contini ,Víctor Orive ,Rafael González ,Oihane Santiuste ,Mónica Bartolomé ,RaquelGallego ,Esther Rivas ,Jessica Knobloch ,Hooman Taleb ,Maria Araya ,Ebru Simsek

Client: Consortium of the Zona Franca in Barcelona and the Consorzio Interuniversitario Besòs
Design: 2006
Realization: 2009
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Galileiplatz Elementary School | Berlin | Baupiloten

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Year:2006 - 2008

Owner :Stattbau GmbH

Project Management :Constantin from Mülbe

Design:Baupiloten
Berkholz Melanie, Tanja friend
Anna Ohlrogge, Robert Tesch, Beatrice Traspedini, Katja Zimmerling (Draft)
Amaia Sánchez Velazlo, Benno Fiehring, Florence Harbach, Gaspard Van Parys,
Jorge Valiente Oriol, Leif Lobinski,
Neli Pavlova, Quentin Nicolai, María García, Clara Rodriguez, Sophie Mundzik (acoustic design)
Quentin Nicolaï (implementation planning)

American Graphics :Florencia Young Sol Matas

Project Participants :Neighborhood Management at Mehringplatz

Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition |Shenzhen ,China | Serero Architects

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MOCAPE-Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition Shenzhen International Competition – Finalist 2007

Site: Shenzhen
Client: City of Shenzhen, China
Area: 80 000 m2
Cost: 65 000 000 Euros H.T
Design Team : SERERO Architects (David Serero, Anthony Cheung, Nordine Chevalier, Alice Sabatier, Fabrice Zaini)

"Gongshi (or Scholar's Rocks) is the term for stones that were collected by Chinese scholars because they resembled mountains (both famous and imaginary) and similar natural wonders of the world around. They represented a focus for meditation of religious or philosophic principles and served for contemplation prior to writing poems or painting. Chinese learned to admire the rocks for "surfaces that suggest great age, forceful profiles that evoke the grandeur of nature, overlapping layers or planes that impart depth, and hollows or perforations that create rhythmic, harmonious patterns." For over 1,000 years, Chinese literati and Taoist monks often brought these mountains into their studios for meditation and contemplation while they wrote or painted. Our proposal for the MOCAPE aims in similar terms to question the way the people consider an art museum, and its relationship with its urban environment. It is a point of singularity in the master plan of the Shenzhen Civic Centre. The MOCAPE is not a building, it is rather conceived as a rock , which geometry has been sculpted by program and by its surrounding condition. It is wrapped by a continuous surface which integrates strong structural characteristics with ornamental pattern inspired by the traditional Chinese puzzle called the Tangram."

Architectural Design Competition | Re:Vision Dallas | Winners

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About Competitions:
Re:Vision is a revolutionary initiative to create the prototype for an innovative, sustainable urban community. At the heart of the process is a series of contests generating visionary ideas for what can and should be in the design about urban space.
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Old Siberian Houses | english russia

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European Solidarity Center | Gdansk,Poland | ONL

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Transforming the star. The pentagonal shape of the site for the ESC has seduced our design team to connect the corners of the site as to form an a-symmetrical 5 pointed star. By categorically lifting up two point of the star and leaving the third at ground floor level, we discovered a strong spatial image for the ESC. Braking the symmetrical rigidity of the communist red star, and replacing it by a set of 5 connected tetrahedron shaped pyramids, we transformed the star shape and gave it a new meaning.

Design: ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd]
Design team: Kas Oosterhuis, Ilona Lénárd, Rafael Seemann, Paulina Seemann, Marta Szaban, Tomasz Krzempek, Michal Górczynski, Lukasz Pluta
Site: Gdansk, Poland
Date: 2007

Paris Philharmonic Hall | Paris | Jean Nouvel

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Architect: Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Designer: Jean Nouvel
Client: City of Paris ,Paris Philharmonic
Status:In Progress
Realization: 2012
Link: www.jeannouvel.fr

Project Description:
The project involves the construction of a concert hall with 2400 seats, a center for training, exhibition spaces, meeting rooms for testing, a library and administrative offices.

"An architecture reflections, created by a calm relief, materialized from aluminum panels that create a graphics Esher.
This project in the words of Nouvel himself, which emphasizes the importance of harmony with the surrounding context . Harmony with the park of La Villette and the city of music, but also continuity with the choice of Bernard Tschumi, who overall design of the park with pavilions red metal known as "follies".

The concert hall - an area characterized by extreme flexibility - can accommodate up to 2400 people.
"The combination of acoustic principles, scenic and architectural - comments the author of the project - allowing the interplay between place and music, between the eye el'orecchio".

For the realization of the structure is expected to cost 200 million euros, which will be funded 45% by the Ministry of Culture edellä Communication, for another 45% by the City of Paris, and the remaining 10% by the Region Ile-de France.

The New Performing Arts centre | Nodeul Island,Korea | Vincent Callebaut

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PROGRAM : The New Performing Arts centre (Opera House, Concert hall and Outdoor Concert Hall)
LOCATION : The Nodeul Island in the middle of the Hangang River
COMPETITION PROMOTERS : Seoul Metropolitan Government
COMPETITION ORGANIZATION : Dong Whan Kim, Director of Culture & Art Center Development
PERSPECTIVES : Philippe Steels

"The Opera House and the Concert Hall are both created on oval plans inscribed in the ellipse of the ground floor. They are studied for a reverberation time of sound between 1,6 and 1,9 second. Moreover, they belong both a morphology of acoustic adjustable boards which enables to change the corrections parameters and to obtain a listening quality adapted to different repertories. The music lovers imagine already they are listening to the National Orchestra of Corea ! "

The Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art | Cincinnati ,USA | Zaha Hadid

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Architectural Design:Zaha Hadid
Associate Architect:KZF Incorporated, Cincinnati
Donald L. Cornett, Mark Stedtefeld
Building Footprint:11,000 square feet
Total Area:80,000 square feet
Project Cost:$34 million(including land acquisition and endowment)
Groundbreaking:May 2001
Completion:Spring 2003

Interior Breakdown:

Lower Level:
Performance space: 2,366 sf
Lobby: 1,160 sf Entry Level:Lobby: 3,512 sf
Reception: 184 sf
Museum shop: 960 sf

Second Floor:Galleries: 6,145 sf

Third Floor:Offices: 3,737 sf

Fourth Floor:Galleries: 5,442 sf
Offices: 1,379 sf
Board Room: 834 sf
Terrace: 381sf

Fifth Floor:Members' Room: 540 sf
Galleries: 4,854 sf

Sixth Floor:UnMuseum: 6,621 sf

Total Gallery Space: 16,441 sf
Performance Space: 2,366 sf
Education Space: 6,621 sf
Total Building Square Footage:82,265 sf
Text and Drawings from:CAC
Photographs:Roland Halbe

House of Music and Music Theater | Graz,Austria | UN Studio

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Address: Lichtenfelsgasse 14, 8010 Graz, Österreich

Architect: UNStudio (Caroline Bos, Ben van Berkel)

Assistance Architect: Hannes Pfau, Miklos Deri, Kirsten Hollmann, Markus Berger, Florian Pischetsrieder, Uli Horner, Albert Gnodde, Peter Trummer, Maarten van Tuijl, Matthew Johnston, Mike Green, Monica Pacheco, Ger Gijzen, Wouter de Jonge

Client: BIG Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft m.b.H.

Structural engineer: Arup & Partners (Cecil Balmond, Volker Schmid, Charles Walker, Francis Archer)

Site management: Peter Mandl

Construction physics: Tomberger Dr Ziviltechniker GesmbH, Pro Acoustic Engineering

Further consulants:
Technische Ausführung: Peter Mandl ZT GmbH Structural Engineering, Arge Statik, Graz

Haustechnik: Housinc Bauconsult GmbH, Vienna

Electrical: Klauss Elektro – Anlagen Planungsgesellschaft m.b.H.

Acoustic: ZT Gerhard Tomberger, Graz. Pro Acoustic Engineering Thorsten Rohde, Graz

Competition: 1997–1998

Planning: 1998–2003

Construction: 2006–2008

Opening: 2009

Land area: 2,800 m2

Gross floor area: 6,200 m2

Building Area: 31,600 m3

House N | Sou Fujimoto Architects | Oita, Japan

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Architects: Sou Fujimoto Architects
Location: Oita, Japan
Project Team: Yumiko Nogiri
Structural Consultant: Jun Sato Structural Engineers
Design Year: 2006-2007
Construction Year: 2007-2008
Site Area: 236,57 sqm
Constructed Area: 150,57 sqm
Photographer: Iwan Baan
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Resort-Singita Lebombo | Kruger National Park, South Africa | OMM Design Workshop | Cécile and Boyd’s

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Singita Lebombo takes its cues from nature’s finest engineers through a design concept inspired by the position and structure of nests, dens, eyries and lairs.

Text :Mandy Allen

Location: Kruger National Park, South Africa

Architects :Andrew Makin and Janina Masojada, OMM Design Workshop

Interior designers:Cécile & Boyd’s

Photographs: Ken Hayden

Shopping Centre | Mega Baumax | Vienna, Austria | Walter Stelzhammer

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The project is based upon an urban development concept made in cooperation with architect Ernst Hoffmann.
Our aim was to plan a building centre with about 10.000 m2 sales area.
The usually separated departments for home improvement and gardening are in this case concentrated in one single building. The home improvement area develops in two floors and the gardening department spreads over an interior and an exterior ground floor area.
Following different needs in height, we’ve designed a slightly bowed roof, descending from the front-peak down to the porch over the outdoor sales area in the rear.
The facade was supposed to function as a shop-window and was to allow natural lighting, but it had to hide the high rise racks and storage rooms as well.
Therefore we’ve chosen to reduce cladding only to two elements:
Glass fronts, where the interior presents itself as a showcase and Trimo facade panels for closed walls and blinds for the delivery and the storage areas behind.
In order to integrate the outside zones in the main building, the glass fronts and Trimo-façade-panels were used as well to enclose the open sales areas of the gardening department.
Though the most outstriking part of the object is certainly the distinctive tapered glass front at the main front, a veritable eye catcher seen from the Brünnerstrasse.
According to our original concept, a three-dimensional logo was planned to be placed in its inner space, but the idea wouldn’t be accepted by the advertising department yet.

Address: Brünner Straße 74 / Shuttleworth 2-4, 1210 Vienna, Austria
Architect: Walter Stelzhammer
Collaboration: Adrian Ryser (PL). Lana Nikolic, Waltraud Meier, Ömer Selcuk Baz, Didem Durakbasa; FA.
Client: Schömer Fa, Fa Immorent
Planning: 2001
Executions: 2003-2004
Photographs: Rupert Steiner

Urban Outfitters Corporate Campus | Philadelphia, USA | Meyer Scherer and Rockcastle

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Previously scattered across downtown, Urban Outfitters' 650 employees now occupy 5 buildings in Philadelphia's historic Navy Yard. Reminicent of its shipbulding heydays the campus mirrors the fashion retailers' culture.Designed and constructed withing 20 months the project sparked waterfront development.
330,000 sf.
Text from:Meyer Scherer & Rockcastle
Photographs:Lara Swimmer

Tacoma Art Museum | Tacoma ,Washington | Antoine Predock Architecture

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Located at the corner of Pacific Avenue and Hood Street, the Tacoma Art Museum (TAM) is a critical link connecting the core of the Downtown district with the History Museum and Union Station and the art and commercial loop of the Thea Foss Waterway development. Designed to provide an engaging built edge along Pacific Avenue while providing focused pedestrian views towards Mt. Rainer, the proposed Museum design mediates the vehicular scale of the I-705 freeway with the pedestrian scale of the proposed arts loop created by Pacific Avenue, Hood Street, the Thea Foss promenade and the Chihuly bridge. Oriented on the site to accommodate the possible future expansion of the existing courthouse, the footprint of the future courthouse has been designed as surface garden parking. Until such time as the Courts choose to implement the proposed expansion, this surface garden parking area will provide a visual buffer between I-705 and the Museum. Preliminary site massing has explored the slope of the site to the East of Pacific Avenue. By pulling the edge of the building away from the street edge and creating a fissure, bridges could span over the perimeter fissure, enticing one to sectionally experience the building while providing choreographed vignettes into the inner working of the Museum. Apertures are cut into this fissure wall orienting the pedestrian to views of Mt. Rainer, the Museum lobby, the educational component of the Museum program, and other critical programmatic elements of the building. Hierarchically organized around the different ends for views and the critical nature of light in a Museum, the storage and service elements of the building are located at the lower level of the building, the public functions and galleries are located at street level, while the administrative functions are located at the upper level. In association with Executive Architect Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects.
Text: Antoine Predock Architecture
Images: Antoine Predock Architecture / Lara Swimmer

Mountain restaurant in Ramundberget | Sweden | Murman arkitekter

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The location is selected with care. A birch overgrown hill where the tree line meets kalfjället, midway between Solliften and Osthang.

We have placed the building between the birch trees, mountain streams and stone slabs, light tangible but away from the lift's immediate vicinity. The placement strengthens the building's connection to nature and works well in both summer and winter. From here you have a the outlook from Skar mountains over entirely to Mittåkläppen.

The target was a building which harmonises well with fjällandskapets nature, both in form and materials. It will offer visitors a unique experience of the fantastic view in an environment with the atmosphere. It is hoped that the interior contains both intimacy and space, and works just as good a windy winter day as a sunny spring in April.

Facade material is natural given, birch bark-covered birch strains as a protective screen. The round shape allows the wind to pass and give the restaurant the visitor maximum outlook. Southwest open his arms to form a protected patio, from which one can gaze out over the mountain expanses.
Text and images from Murman arkitekter

Bursa Wholesale Vegetable Market | Turkey | Tuncer Cakmakli Architects

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The requirements of this 50.000m² wholesale market facility called for orchestrating the continuous movement of vehicles, produce, waste, and 5000 daily visitors.
Text and images from:Tuncer Cakmakli Architects

Yunnan Museum | Yunnan Province,China | Aedas

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The Museum’s theme is “The Many Colors,” starting with the perfect unity of a square, then discovering within it a more complex continuity of shades and tones — each one distinct, but overlapping at the edges to form new, bridging colors. A series of three stacked plateaus create the body of the museum. The flat tops of the plateaus demonstrate the continuity of Yunnan. The reverse surfaces of the plateaus turn up dramatically to reveal a spectrum of vivid, saturated colors that signals the distinctness of the many peoples of Yunnan. Competition entry a collaboration of Aedas New York with Aedas Hong Kong and Aedas Beijing.

Text and images from Aedas