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SALA Phuket Restaurant / Department of Architecture

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Hotels and Restaurants , Selected , ,

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Architect: Department of ARCHITECTURE Co., Ltd.
Location: Phuket, Thailand
Owner: SALA Phuket, Co., Ltd.
Principals in Charge: Twitee Vajrabhaya Teparkum and Amata Luphaiboon
Collaborator: Penwisa Kietduriyakul
Interior Designer: Department of ARCHITECTURE Co., Ltd.
Lighting Designer: ACCENT Studio
Structural Engineering: SPC Consulting Engineers Co., Ltd.
M&E Engineering: A E Two O Co., Ltd
Interior Contractor: New Muang Thong Furniture Co., Ltd.
Project year: 2009
Photographer: Wison Tungthunya

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New administrative building for BSU

By Sebastian J — Filed under: Offices , , ,
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German office rasmussen | brunke | sauer shared with us their design of the new administrative building for BSU in Hamburg, Germany. It was an invited competition and they won the first prize ex aequo with three other offices (Sauerbruch Hutton, Behnisch Architects and GAP). More images and architect’s description after the break. read more »

Alviaes House 02 / Materia Modular

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Houses , Selected , ,
© Orlando Fonseca

© Orlando Fonseca

Architects: Matéria Modular
Location: Alviães, Palmaz, concelho de Oliveira de Azeméis, Portugal
Project team: Adelino Pinheiro, Marco Ferreira, Maria José Matos, Pedro Ribeiro, Zita Torres
Client: ACS, Investimentos Imobiliários Lda.
Project year: 2003
Construction period: 2007-2009
Constructed area: 938,44 sqm
Photographs: Orlando Fonseca

© Orlando Fonseca © Orlando Fonseca © Orlando Fonseca © Orlando Fonseca

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St. Falls / Elenberg Fraser Architecture

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Housing , Selected , , , , ,

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Architects: Elenberg Fraser Architecture
Location: Falls Creek, Victoria, Australia
Client: Zacamoco
Project team: Callum Fraser, Valerie Tan, Hazel Porter, Frank Olbrich, Lorenzo Nuti, Kathrin Wheib, Marcus Ieraci, Caroline King, Iva Foschia, Andrew Prodromou, Beth Solomon, Karl Engstrom
Project Management: PDS Group
Structural consultant: Bonacci Group Pty Ltd & VSL Australia Pty Ltd
Builder: LU Simon
Quantity Surveyor: Slattery Australia
Building Surveyor: Gardner Group
Budget: AU $24 millions
Project year: 2007
Construction year: 2009
Photographs: Peter Bennetts, Tony Miller & Peter Clarke

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Cages for Macaws / Enric Batlle & Joan Roig Architects

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Public Facilities , Selected , , ,

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Architects: Enric Batlle & Joan Roig, arquitectos
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Collaborators: Francesc Puig, architect & Elena Mostazo, engineer
Project year: 2007
Construction year: 2008
Client: Foment de Ciutat Vella, S.A. – Barcelona Serveis Municipals
Contractor: COPISA
Project Area: 1,375 sqm
Budget: $343,239 Euro
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Eva Serrats, Wenzel

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Construction of MVRDV’s Market Hall started

By Sebastian J — Filed under: Uncategorized , , ,
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Yesterday the mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb and city councilor Hamit Karakus officially started the construction of the new Rotterdam Market Hall (previously featured here). The arched building located in the centre of Rotterdam, developed by Provast and designed by MVRDV is a hybrid of public market and apartment building.

The project with a total of 100.000 m2 is set to be completed in 2014 and part of the current regeneration of Rotterdam’s post war centre. Project developer Provast realizes the building, Unibail Rodamco invested in the shops and restaurants whilst Housing Corporation Vesteda will manage the rental apartments, making the building a socially integrated part of the city.

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Pavillion 21 / Coop Himmelb(l)au

By Karen Cilento — Filed under: Mixed Use , News , , ,
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© Armin Hess, Isochrom

Coop Himmelb(l)au has designed a temporary mobile performance space for the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Germany.  The pavilion will house performances during the annual Opera Festival  in 2010, and once that festival is over, the pavilion will be reassembled in various locations.  Designed to “give the impression of a quieter environment,” the pavilion reduces the apparent noise  to create a ‘zone of silence’ where visitors can sense a change in the soundscape.

More images and more about the pavilion after the break.

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Mizu Spa / Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Interiors , Leisure , Selected , ,
© Cesar Rubio

© Cesar Rubio

Architects: Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Project team: Stanley Saitowitz, Alan Tse
Acoustics Consultant: Colin Gordon & Associates
Mechanical Engineering: MHC Engineers, Inc.
Audio Visual Consultant: Pacific Audio Video
General Contractor: Landmark Construction
Project year: 2006
Photographs: Cesar Rubio

© Cesar Rubio © Cesar Rubio © Cesar Rubio © Cesar Rubio

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S. Romão Sports Park / Jose Marini Bragança

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Selected , Sports Architecture , , ,
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© Catarina Costa Cabral

Architect: José Marini Bragança
Location: Leiria, Portugal
Preliminary Project Team: Inês Vicente, Carla Costa, Susana Santos
Execution Project Team: Vítor Santos, Fabrice Margarido, Maria João
Client: LeiriaPolis
Landscape Architecture: SITIO E LUGAR – Sociedade de Arquitectos Paisagistas Lda / Paula Simões e Catarina Patrão
Foundations and Structures: CSA – Carlos Serrano & Associados / Carlos Serrano
Water Supply Drainage and Sewerage: BETAR – Marta Azevedo Pereira
Land Movement: BETAR – José Pedro Venâncio
Installation of Electric network: Álvaro Lopes
Acoustic Conditioning: BETAR/ CETIPROJECTO
Builder: MRG
Project year: 2005-2007
Photographs: Catarina Costa Cabral

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Cocoon / Camenzind Evolution

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Institutional Architecture , Offices , Selected , ,

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Architects: Camenzind Evolution
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
Project Team: Stefan Camenzind, Marco Noch, Susanne Zenker
Client: Swiss Life
Project Area: 1,900 sqm
Budget: US $8,800,000
Project year: 2006-2007
Photographs: Camenzind Evolution

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Winspear Opera House / Foster + Partners

By David Basulto — Filed under: Cultural , Selected , , , ,
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© Nigel Young / Foster + Partners

Location: Dallas, USA
Architects: Foster + Partners
Team: Norman Foster, Spencer de Grey, Stefan Behling, Michael Jones, James McGrath, Bjørn Polzin, Laszlo Pallagi, Morgan Fleming, Leonhard Weil, John Small, Ingrid Sölken, Hugh Whitehead, Francis Aish
Client: AT+T Performing Arts Center
Collaborating Architect: Kendall Heaton Associates
Main Contractor: Linbeck Construction
Acoustician: Sound Space Design
Theatre Consultant: Theatre Projects Consultants
Structural Engineers: Buro Happold, Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers
Services Engineers: Battle McCarthy, CHP & Associates
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Hot Air: An inflatable, inhabitable monument

By Sebastian J — Filed under: Exhibition ,

white head night w peopleSMPP_1Twenty years after the Romanian government was overthrown and its dictator, Nicolae Ceauşescu executed, Anca Trandafirescu erected a “monument ” to that dark chapter in the otherwise peaceful events of Central and Eastern Europe ’s 1989 revolutions. Trandafirescu, an architect and assistant professor in architecture at the University of Michigan, designed and constructed the large inflatable, inhabitable structure ―in the iconic shape of the head of a toppled statue ―that was displayed on the Piata Victoriei (Victory Plaza) in Timişoara from November 3 -7, 2009.

This location was the site of the first large demonstrations in the country and that led to the subsequent fall of the Ceauşescu dictatorship. The head itself is without specific identity and is meant to signify, rather than a particular hero, a toppled everyman who has in the course of twenty years following the revolution continued to await a government free from rulers of the past regime.

The name HOT AIR refers to both the unusually warm temperatures in Romania during that special week in December 1989, which helped to bring citizens out into the streets to rally against the government; and also to the large amount of rhetoric surrounding the events that ensued.

The inflatable monument was erected in association with the city ’s Young Artists/Young Democracy expo and the American-Romanian Music Festival and was a venue for visitation,conversation,and a bit of recreation by the public.It kicked off a series of planned celebrations commemorating the events of December 1989 in Timisoara.

More images and a video after the break. read more »

Alviaes House / Materia Modular

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Houses , Selected , ,
© Orlando Fonseca

© Orlando Fonseca

Architects: Matéria Modular
Location: Alviães, Palmaz, concelho de Oliveira de Azeméis, Portugal
Project team: Adelino Pinheiro, Marco Ferreira, Maria José Matos, Pedro Ribeiro, Zita Torres
Client: Alfredo Couto dos Santos
Thermal efficiency engineer: Marília Sousa
Pipeline engineer: Susana Tomás
Mechanical engineer: Gonçalo Machado
Structural engineer: Adolfo Ferreira
Project year: 2001
Construction period: 2004-2009
Constructed area: 578,70 sqm
Photographs: Orlando Fonseca

© Orlando Fonseca © Orlando Fonseca © Orlando Fonseca © Orlando Fonseca

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Pope John Paul II Hall / Randić & Turato

By David Basulto — Filed under: Cultural , Religious Architecture , Selected , , ,

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Architects: Randić & Turato / Saša Randić and Idis Turato
Location: Rijeka, Croatia
Project team: Sinisa Glusica, Gordan Resan, Iva Cuzela-Bilac, Ana Stanicic (Technical Architects)
Contractor: Aljosa Travas
Client: Franciscan monastery Trsat
Total built surface: 1,048 sqm
Design year: 2003
Construction date: 2008
Photographs: Robert Leš

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Gimpo Art Hall / G.Lab*

By Karen Cilento — Filed under: Awarded Competitions , Museums and Libraries , News , , , ,

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Situated on the southern bank of the Han River, Gimpo is a city in the process of transforming from an agricultural economy toward a consumer-based economy.   Seoul architects G.Lab*’s, of Gansam Partners, proposal for the Gimpo Art Hall embraces the fact that the city is emerging as a contemporary regional hub and the design also reflects upon the region’s history.

More about the project and more images after the break. read more »

AD Round Up: Refurbishment Part I

By Sebastian J — Filed under: AD Round Up , Refurbishment

Sometimes, designing a renovation or repair of a project may be more difficult than designing something from scratch. So to start this week’s Round Up, we bring you our first selection of previoulsy featured Refurbishment projects.

1Los Heroes Building / Murtinho y Asociados Arquitectos
The challenge was the rehabilitation of a ‘70s building for a new purpose: The General Offices of Caja de Compensación Los Heroes. The corporation is privet, independent and non profit institution. Its role is to administrate social security funds for economic help for retired persons and workmen through small and soft loans (read more…)

2White Apartment / Parasite Studio
The apartment is located on the first floor of a building raised in the last century in the central area of Timisoara, within an area of protected buildings. From the first design sketches we tried to get distance from the interventions that have become „standard procedures” in the local scene of designing within old buildings (read more…)

3Performers’ House / SHL Architects
The project – centred on a 19th-century paper mill – was commended for the simplicity of the design, characterised by the choice of materials as well as the successful transformation of an existing historic boiler house. The new building is linked to the refurbished boiler house by a new square where many folk high school activities take place (read more…)

4Council Sport Complex / Vora Arquitectura
The Council Sport Complex is a building situated in a zone with a number of important developments in recent years with others pending. The complex is important for the revitalisation of the neighbourhood, which is historically a run-down area and also has to contribute to the integration of all social strata (read more…)

5Pionen – White mountain / Albert France-Lanord Architects
The project takes place in a former 1200 square meter anti-atomic shelter. An amazing location 30 meters down under the granite rocks of the Vita Berg Park in Stockholm. The client is an internet provider and the rock shelter hosts server halls and offices. The starting point of the project was to consider the rock as a living organism (read more…)

Water Pumping Plant Renovation / Wenk und Wiese

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Houses , Interiors , Refurbishment , Selected , ,
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© Udo Meinel

Architects: Wenk and Wiese Architects
Location: Berlin, Germany
Client: Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Udo Meinel & Nils Wenk

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Deegan Day Design

By Sebastian J — Filed under: Events , Exhibition , , ,

PortadaDeegan Day Design, an architectural installation at the SCI-Arc Gallery in Los Angeles started on October 23 and will be available to everyone till December 13 with changing visual media throughout and public discussions with artists, architects and critics, including: An Te Liu, Bettina Korek, Andrea Fraser, Rhea Anastas, Bennett Simpson, Josh Melnick, Lauri Firstenberg, Sarah Morris Richard Massey, Eric Owen Moss, and Joe Day.

You can learn more at the exhibition’s official website. Watch a video after the break. read more »

Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Cultural , Selected , ,

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Architects: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Location: Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA
Project Area: 2,044 sqm
Year: 2007
Photographs: BCJ

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