Courtesy of Carlos Bartesaghi Koc
Peruvian architect Carlos Bartesaghi Koc shared with us his project Systemic Agro-Tourism, for which he received an Award of Merit in the 2009 URBAN-SOS Competition. More images and architect’s description after the break. read more »
Photo by jmhdezhdez - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmhdezhdez/
Only a few days left till we reach 25,000 photos on our Flickr Pool. And with a lot to choose from, here’s our 18th selection of the best. Check the other 17 right here. As always, remember you can submit your own photo here, and don’t forget to follow us through Twitter and our Facebook Fan Page to find many more features.
The photo above was taken by jmhdezhdez in Barcelona, Spain. Check the other four after break. read more »
This documentary film explores the fascinating life and complex legacy of architect and city planner Daniel Hudson Burnham, famous for designing the Flatiron Building in New York, Union Station in Washington D.C., and the 1909 master plan for Chicago, among others.
The film will premiere nationally on PBS on Labor Day, September 6. Seen at Architectural Record.
Fitz Henry Lane, "A Smart Blow (Rough Sea, Schooners)," 1856 via The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research
I recently paid a visit to the smallest office I have ever set foot in. It was actually a tiny one-bedroom apartment overlooking a pool. Its location, and the maneuvers I had to make to gain access, gave it the ambiance of secrecy. This must be what it feels like to visit a safe house, I thought.
Significant things are going on here. You may learn of them soon enough so, excepting one thing, I will not break the mystery. On one wall, in the very center of the wall, there hangs a small oil painting. The subject: a shipwreck in turbulent seas. It was done in blues with a very purposeful, skilled hand. It is not famous but could have been had it gotten into the right hands. It reminded me of Fitz Henry Lane’s “A Smart Blow (Rough Sea, Schooners),” 1856.
I asked the architect if he had done this. No, he said. He then told me the story of how this painting was the first beautiful thing that had ever transfixed him. When he was five or six, he used to sit and stare at it endlessly. This reminded me of how I used to stare out at the thunderstorms from my grandmother’s window, feeling like I was in the midst of them. As a child, he must have felt transported by this painting the way I was by that surrounding sky.
© Masao Nishikawa
Architect: Hiroyuki Miyabe / SPEAC, inc.
Location: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Producer: Hiroya Yoshizato (SPEAC,inc.)
Architect in Charge: Kimiyoshi Arakawa, Tomoko Kawai, Jun Yoshimura (SPEAC,inc.)
Documentation, Engineering and Construction: Satohide corporation
Landscape Design: Townscape Design Institute,inc.
Site Area: 1,080 sqm
Built Up Area: 2,949 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Masao Nishikawa
© Patricia Parinejad
Photographer Patricia Parinejad shared with us some photos of the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale designed by Dominique Perrault Architecture. You can see more images after the break. read more »
© Jamie Cobeldick
Architects: Lat Forty Five
Location: Central Otago, New Zealand
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Jamie Cobeldick
© Jean Nouvel
Peaking above some contemporary New York favorites – such as Gehry’s IAC Building and Field Operations + DS+R’s High Line – Jean Nouvel’s 100 Eleventh Avenue adds yet another touch of character to Manhattan’s West Side. ArchRecord‘s great pieces on curtains walls gave us a better look at Nouvel’s textured glass curtain wall.
More about the curtain wall after the break. read more »
© Marco Zanta
Italian photographer Marco Zanta shared with us some great photographs of the exhibitions currently showed at the Venice Biennale.
© Bates Masi Architects
Architects: Bates Masi Architects
Location: Pryor, Montauk, NY, USA
Client: Victoria & Greg Pryor
Landscape Architects: Coen & Partners
Structural Engineer: Steven L. Maresca
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Bates Masi Architects
Yaohua Wang shared with us his project An Open Appeal for China, designed along with Scott Chung, Jiaohao Lu, Xiaoxuan Lu, and Lennard Ong. They recently received 2nd Prize in the AIM International Architecture Competition. More images and architect’s description after the break. read more »
WORK ac was one of the first practices we interviewed here at ArchDaily. When we visited their office they were working in P.F.1 (Public Farm 1), their awarded entry for the 2008 P.S.1 summer installation – one of the best installations I’ve seen so far.
An interesting part of the conversation was on how they worked with a mixed group of experts for this project, bringing more into the discussion and finally into the installation. This becomes the central part of the book, with over 150 pages dedicated to a series of interviews with the parties involved, from structural engineers to growing soil experts, telling the story of the process behind P.F.1. This section is structured as a story, but you can still read it picking from any random page. Interesting interview format with no questions, just “answers” that become the narrative of the project.
On the appendix we found a series of recipes for the vegetables that grew on the urban farm, and also a foreword with an interview by Winy Maas with Dan Wood and Amale Andraos.
WORK ac has also edited 49 Cities, a highly recommended guide to unrealized urbanism.
More info on the book after the break.
First Prize - Studio Architektoniczne Kwadrat
The jury for the Museum of the Second World War Competition in Poland have recently announced the winner. Studio Architektoniczne Kwadrat received 1st Prize and will design the new museum in Gdańsk, the city where the war broke out. 2nd Prize was awarded to Polish architects Piotr Płaskowicki & partnerzy Architekci and 3rd Prize to Greece-based BETAPLAN S.A.
See more images and justification of the jury for the winner after the break. read more »
© Meg Mulloy
Architects: Specht Harpman
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Project Team: Scott Specht, Louise Harpman, Brett Wolfe
Contractor: Artifice / Jean Goehring & Amy Hovis
Project Area: 4,060 sq ft
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Meg Mulloy
First Prize - LIRR Long Island Radically Rezoned
d3 is pleased to announce the winners of the Natural Systems international architectural design competition for 2010. The program, developed by co-directors Gregory Marinic and Mary-Jo Schlachter, invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore the potential of analyzing, documenting, and deploying nature-based influences in architecture, interiors, and designed objects.
The competition calls for innovative proposals that advance sustainable thought and performance through the study of intrinsic environmental geometries, behaviors, and flows. By identifying, examining, and applying their structural order on form and function- -bottom-up, performance-based solutions for limitless building typologies, functional programs, and material conditions may be realized.
The competition awarded four prizes and eight special mentions. You can see the four prizes after the break. For complete list of special mentions, go to the competition’s official website. read more »
Designed by Junya Ishigami + Associates © designboom
Continuing our coverage of Kazuyo Sejima’s exciting 2010 Venice Biennale, the International Jury of the exhibition has recently awarded a Golden Lion for the best project of the ‘People Meet in Architecture’ Exhibit to Junya Ishigami+ Associates, a Golden Lion for the best National Participation to the Kingdom of Bahrain, and a Silver Lion for a promising young participant to OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen + Bas Princen. We’ve featured Ishigami + Associates’ work previously on AD, and his Venice exhibit explores similar ideas about transparency and structure evident in his elegantly simplistic Kanagawa Institute of Technology.
More about the project, including a video from Domus about Ishigami’s project and beliefs. read more »
© Charles Davis Smith
Architects: LaguardaLow Architects
Location: Dallas, TX, USA
Partner in Charge: Pablo Laguarda
Project Manager: Linh Tran
Contractor: Solid Green Construction
Client: Stan Light & Andrew Sie
Project Area: 16,000 sq ft
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Charles Davis Smith
© Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects
Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects shared with us their exhibition at the Venice Biennale, showing two buildings with a similar size are located in two different contexts. A light grey concrete piece rests in the middle of a natural scene. A cooper oxide green concrete prism stands in the middle of a suburban setting. Two opposite conditions which are presented by a disproportionate relationship between figure and background. The proposed constructions are reproduced as small sculptural models. The landscape is recorded in a huge panoramic backlight photograph. The objects, autonomous from their location, seem insignificant in front of the monumental effort of trying to capture most of the details and complexities of the surroundings.
Courtesy of Fondation Le Corbusier
Pratt Institute School of Architecture and the Pratt Library will present “Le Corbusier – Miracle Boxes”, a multidisciplinary, three-part exhibition on the work of renowned Swiss-French architect, urbanist, designer, writer, and painter Le Corbusier (born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris), who is considered by many to be the most important architect of the 20th century, starting August 30, 2010.
“Miracle Boxes,” the first New York exhibition dedicated entirely to the work of Le Corbusier, is curated by Ivan R. Shumkov, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor of architecture at Pratt Institute. Shumkov will deliver an opening lecture that will be followed by a reception on September 13, 2010 at 6 p.m in Higgins Hall Auditorium located at 61 St. James Place in Brooklyn. The exhibition, opening lecture, reception, and an upcoming related symposium will be free and open to the public.
More information and images on the event after the break. read more »
Great projects often come from competitions. You don’t believe me? Check our fourth part of our previously featured awarded competition projects after the break.
3LHD to design private medical center in Croatia
Close surrounding and historical site of Firule area are one of the most enjoyable Split’s living, working and recreation environments. Extraordinary location for the polyclinic is one of its greatest advantages. Placed near existing hospital complex on Firule, close to the sea and fresh air gives it even more importance and value (read more…) read more »
Above the Pavement – the Farm! : Architecture & Agriculture at Public Farm 1
WORK ac was one of the first practices we interviewed here at ArchDaily. When we visited their office they were working in P.F.1 (Public Farm 1), their awarded entry for the 2008 P.S.1 summer installation – one of the…
Mark Magazine is by far one of my favourite architecture magazines. Their motto “Another architecture” tells us what we´ll find inside: fresh architecture – the main reason we love this magazine so much.
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Modern Construction Handbook / Andrew Watts
A good construction manual is a must have for any architect’s library.
The Modern Construction Handbook by Andrew Watts is in my opinion one of the best construction manuals these days, covering construction systems in an extensive way. The…
