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Room for London / Arctic Associates

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Courtesy Arctic Associates

The English design team, Arctic Associates has shared their proposal for 2012 Room for London, situated on the banks of the River Thames in London. A short narrative from the architects and additional images after the break.

Adelaide Convention Centre Redevelopment Proposal / Hassell

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Architects: Hassell Location: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Project team: Hassell, W&G, WSP Lincolne Scott, Synergy, ARUP, Village Well Project year: 2010 Photographs: Hassell

Videolecture: Industrial Complex Conversion by Josef Pleskot

Czech leading architect Josef Pleskot gives a videolecture on a unique project of a huge industrial complex conversion (European Heritage monument).

Østfold Airport Region Master Plan / FUTUREPROOF

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Courtesy of FUTUREPROOF

FUTUREPROOF, a dynamic architecture firm that combines design, communication and strategy, was commissioned in September 2010 by Østfold Fylkeskommune to design a master plan for the surrounding areas of Moss Airport Rygge in Norway. The proposal incorporates a regional strategy of physically developing the region surrounding the airport itself and strengthening the airport as a main infrastructural hub without contributing to urban sprawl.

The architects were able to accomplish this by maximizing the density of development with necessary functions, such as hotel and conference facilities.  The regional strategy emphasizes that future development should be interventions in the existing city centers.

More images and information about this project after the break.

PRAXIS 9

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We featured a review of PRAXIS’ eighth issue, and within the next few weeks, we’d like to bring you up to speed with their most recent publications. Today, we’ll take a look at their ninth issue which focuses on the surface. The issue is particularly interesting as we cannot deny that the term “surface” has been tossed around in many projects, and yet the meaning behind the word can become so general and all-encompassing that it soon becomes meaningless. The editors’ note expresses the division of architects based on the concept of surface; those who designed formally expressive buildings with materially mute surfaces versus those where the materiality was fully developed on a formally mute surface. The issue seeks to highlight projects of our era that reach a compromise. The projects presented illustrate formal projects with articulated surfaces, and materially intensive projects manifested on a developed form.

More about the issue after the break.

Harvest City / Tangram 3DS

Architects: Tangram 3DS Location: Haiti Project year: 2010 Photographs Tangram 3DS

Woliatta Village / Ethiopia Studio

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Courtesy of Ethiopia Studio

Woliatta Village is a collaborative project designed by Ethiopia Studio, eleven ASU graduate students led by a practicing architect. The project includes an orphanage, chapel, medical clinic and guest house for the community of Soddo, in Ethiopia, Africa. More images, a video and information after the break.

Water Sport Pavilion / buijsenpennock architects

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buijsenpennock architects has shared with ArchDaily their competition entry for a water sport pavilion. Additional renderings and a brief architects description after the break.

Park City / Építész Stúdió

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Courtesy of Építész Stúdió

Budapest-based Építész Stúdió shared with us Park City, a 29,000 sqm residential project located in Moscow, Russia. More images and architect’s description after the break.

Urban Design Project for Izmit Shoreline / Ervin Garip

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Ervin Garip shared with us his competition entry for the Urban Design Competition for the shoreline of Izmit, Turkey where he was awarded the first prize. For this competition, his main goal was to improve the daily social life by creating urban squares, seafront recreation, new urban parks and annotating the required program with a holistic approach. More images and architect’s description after the break.

Old Grangonian Club competition entry / LAND Arquitectos

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Architects: LAND Arquitectos (Cristóbal Valenzuela Haeussler + Ángela Delorenzo Arancibia) Location: Avenida del Valle, Colina, Santiago, Chile Collaborator Architects: Javier Lorenzo, Pablo Andrade Master Plan and Landscaping design: LAND arquitectos + Karl Yunis (Ecology) Project area: 1,300 sqm Project year: 2010 Photographs: LAND Arquitectos

MAXXI Joins Young Architects Program

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The annual make-over of PS1′s courtyard is one of our favorite summertime events, as the competition brings fresh, crazy and creative proposals to the table. The NYTimes recently shared that the MoMA and PS1 have asked MAXXI – the National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome – to be the third partner in their Young Architects Program. MAXXI will take part in transforming the Long Island City site, but there will also be a separate installation displayed in Rome.

Bracket [on farming]

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“t is the territory that becomes the privileged protagonist of the post-industrial economy, acting as a place for working out the weak and diffuse energies of a powder-fine productivity.”

- Andrea Branzi, “Architecture and Agriculture”

Weak and Diffuse Modernity

An almanac, in its simplest form, is a book containing a calendar that includes notations for holidays and holy days, as well as astronomical information such as the rising and setting of the sun and moon, the phases of the moon and high and low tides, as we can read at Almanacs. Inspired by the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the editors of the first issue of Bracket had released a sort of almanac in the sense of those publications used during 19th century. With a series of contents that seeks to interrogate the fertile territory where architecture, environment, and digital culture collide, Bracket presents complete overview of what is architecture in the current times. As Mason White and Maya Przybylski pointed on the introduction On Farming: “Architecture is not only a byproduct of predictions, but Architecture itself is a prediction machine.”

AD Round Up: Religious Architecture Part V

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Millions around the world will celebrate Christmas today. So we decided to feature our fifth selection of religious architecture, with five amazing churches from Croatia, New Zealand, Chile, and Germany. Check them all after the break.

Pope John Paul II Hall / Randić & Turato The Church of Our Lady of Trsat is one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Croatia. According to the legend, angels transferred the Nazareth Tabernacle of the Holy Family to Trsat on 10 May 1291 where it remained until 1294 when angels transferred it to Loreto, Italy (read more…)

The Indicator: Book Review: Walter Benjamin and Architecture

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Here is something to consider: September 25, 1940. Portbou, Spain. Walter Benjamin, aged 48, is found dead in his hotel room. He had been fleeing the Gestapo, intending to make his way to the United States. He carried with him a manuscript he deemed more important than his own life. To this day, it has never been recovered.

The end of Benjamin the man would ultimately be the beginning of “Benjamin” the international philosopher. Had he made it to the United States one suspects he would have attained the unique fame philosophers can enjoy—alive and relevant rather than dead and relevant. Due to the influence of colleagues, Benjamin’s position in the pantheon of the philosophy of modernity would be secured.

The discipline of architecture, seeking new ideas, would ultimately turn to his oeuvre through Manfredo Tafuri’s influential Teorie e storia dell’architettura, translated in 1968. This marks Benjamin’s official entrée into architectural discourse. The attention subsequently led to an explosion of Benjamin citations in the field.

More after the break.

Light Screen Installation

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Courtesy of Gray Architecture

The Light Screen is a site specific installation located in a walnut grove at Fort Benjamin Harrison State Park in Indianapolis. The proposed project was a finalist in the “Great Ideas” competition sponsored by the Arts Council of Indianapolis, and builds on an architectural installation previously completed by the entrant in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2006 – Light Sail (selected images of which are also included here). More about this installation following the break.

Architects: Timothy Gray of Gray Architecture with Kurt West, Melli Hoppe Location: Walnut Grove, Ft. Benjamin Harrison State Park, Indianapolis, Indiana Design Team / Collaborators: Timothy Gray, Kurt West, Melli Hoppe (Light Screen); Timothy Gray, Lina Ali, Kirsten Bremmer, Andrew Cranford; Guy Fimmers; April Hiebert; Luc Johnston; Lauren Macaulay; Michelle Poon; Adam Read; Lauren Staples, FreeLAB 2006 (Light Sail) Model and renderings: Kurt West Photographs: Timothy Gray, Ken Cam, Guy Fimmers, Luc Johnston

"Ready. Steady. Go." / Sandra Janser and Elisabeth Koller

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Sandra Janser and Elisabeth Koller won first prize in the design competition: Design Month Graz 2010 project, “Ready. Steady. Go.” that called for a catalyst for the resettlement of the Jakomini district, in Graz, Austria, through the promotion of activities and attractiveness of the neighborhood through its revitalization. Their proposal was the installation of a visual frame, one that would serve as a marker for significant design areas with a visible and positive identity.

For more on this project continue after the break.

Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Center Competition proposal / Malone Chang + Yu-lin Chen Architects

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Courtesy of Malone Chang + Yu-lin Chen Architects

Our latest proposal for the Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Center International Competition proposal comes from Malone Chang + Yu-lin Chen Architects (in association with OZ-P and You-Yi Lu Architect). More images and architect’s description after the break.

Trois-Rivières Amphitheatre / Open Form

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Courtesy Open Form

Canadian design team Open Form has shared with us their recent competition entry for the new Trois-Rivières Amphitheatre. Additional images and a description from the architects after the break.

Landscape Loop / JAJA Architects

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Copenhagen-based JAJA Architects recently placed above 40 Scandinavian firms with their proposal, Landscape Loop, for Norway to receive a shared first prize for an idea competition. The proposal incorporates the existing contextual qualities of Andalsnes and develops ways to improve and connect the area into a unified entity for the future. “It is a project that gathers the city’s development within a belt that wraps around the town core – creating a series of “blue” and “green” urban spaces while establishing natural connections between city and landscape,” explained the architects.

More images and more about the proposal after the break.

Video: Zamet Centre / 3LHD

3LHD recently shared with us this video of Zamet Centre. The film combines photographs by Domagoj Blazevic, Damir Fabijanic, 3LHD archive, aerial footage from Hrg, and videographers Mladen Kostanjsek and Marko Stanic. Directed by Vladislav Knezevic, the video editor was Mario Kalogjera and the sound design was done by Vjeran Salamon.

AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part XXVII

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Finally, we got to 35,000 photos from our Flickr Pool. And in case you didn’t notice, now we are going to feature our Flickr Round Up every week! 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 samuel t ludwig in Madrid, Spain. Check the other four after the break.

Dr Chau Chak Wing Building / Frank Gehry

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East façade, view across Ultimo Pedestrian Network, model scale: 1-to-100 / Gehry Partners, LLP

The Dr. Chau Chak Wing Building, part of the University of Technology in Sydney, is Frank Gehry‘s first building in Australia. More images and full press release after the break.

AD Interviews: Craig Konyk, kOnyk Architecture

While visiting New York, we had the chance to stop by Brooklyn-based kOnyk Architecture to speak with the firm’s principal, Craig Konyk. The architects categorize themselves as a creative architectural design studio – a characteristic that is evident in all of their work ranging from the smaller scale designs, such as their Hybrid House, to their larger scale proposals for the Museum of Polish History.

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