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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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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
© Antonio Corcuera
Project: Infiniski Manifesto House
Architects: James & Mau
Location: Curacaví, Chile
Built Area: 160 m2 ( + 15 m2 terraces 2nd floor)
Landscaping: Infiniski
General Contractor and manager: Infiniski
Renewable strategy: Infiniski + Geotek
Project year: 2009
Execution Time: 90 days
Total Cost: 79.000 €
Photograph: Antonio Corcuera
Furniture: Cómodo Studio
The ninjas at AMNP just featured this short video shot from the top of the Burj Dubai, designed by SOM, the tallest building in the world.
An interesting aerial view of Dubai, where you can see how long the shadow of this tower can get.
General view of the pavilion in its wild context © Leonardo Finotti
Architect: PARATELIER – Leonardo Piella
Landscape: GLOBAL – Joao Gomes da Silva, Sofia Raichande
Structure: Adao da Fonseca – Pedro Morujao
Electrical engineering: ACRIBIA, Engenheiros Lda – Joana Andrade
Contingency plan: Tabique, Engenharia Lda
Contractor: Toscca
Date: 2007-2009
Client: Camara Municipal Almada
Photographer: Leonardo Finotti
Architecture photographer Leonardo Finotti shared with the recently completed Pavilion at Aventura Park, in Charneca da Caparica, Portugal. The pavilion was designed by the portuguese office PARATELIER (Leonoardo Piella).
As you can see on the photos, the wooden skin hides the connecting pieces, producing a very light image from the outside, almost as if the heavy roof was only supported by these wooden panels barely connected.
More photos after the break.
Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts, © Tod Williams Billie Tsien
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects, a renowned practice with expertise in public/cultural buildings, just unveiled the details for the new Reva and David Logan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Chicago.
This new building will offer 170,000sqf for studios, rehearsal space, director’s cut screening rooms, state–of–the art acoustical theaters, lecture rooms and set–building shops, that will be shared by many departments including visual arts, theater, music, as well as cinema and media studies.
The project includes a 11-story tall tower, which will become a new landmark at the south of the campus. At the top of this tower we find the Performance Penthouse, a tall space for performances and rehearsals with an amazing view over the city (see render below).
The rest of the complex is distributed on smaller buildings, with an interesting set of skylights to naturally lit the interiors.
As usual in Tod Williams Billie Tsien works, such as the American Folk Art Museum in New York, the Phoenix Art Museum and the East Asian Library at Berkeley, the simplicity of the materials (stone and glass) give the building a contemporary yet ageless look, a building that will stand over time, not just a fad.
More renderings after the break.
© Herzog & de Meuron
Miami has been changing a lot over this last decade, turning into a rich cultural city. Events such as Art Basel Miami Beach (the most important art event in the US) and buildings by international architects are part of this ongoing change.
One of these new projects in the city is 1111 Lincoln Road, a development envisioned by Robert Wennett and materialized by swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron.
This mixed use project is currently being built at the corner of Alton and Lincoln, one of the most active pedestrian areas in the city, and it will include residences, retail spaces and parking. Parking takes a central space in this building, with one of the best views I have ever seen on a parking space.
© Paul Clemence
Jacques Herzog stated that this builing will reinterpret the essence of Tropical Modernism, and somehow it reminds me of the modern movement in Brazil, with huge structures providing shade, while containing smaller enclosing elements. The slabs stand over a set of irregular columns, giving a sense of a precarious equilibrium. This columns also cast different shadows, giving more character to the facade.
I´m very interested on seeing how this project ends up, and how this can affect (in a positive way) the extension of the Miami Art Museum, another project by Herzog & de Meuron for the city.
Photographer Paul Clemence shared with us some photos of this project during construction, on which you can see more about the expressive concrete structure.
More renderings and the construction photos after the break.
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© Nils Petter Dale
Architect: Jarmund / Vigsnæs AS Architects MNAL – Einar Jarmund, Håkon Vigsnæs, Alessandra Kosberg
Location: Vestfold, Norway
Assisted by: Jan Stavik, Nikolaj Zamecznik
Contractor: Torolf Stenersen as
Gross area: 300 sqm
Design year: 2000 / 2007-2009
Construction year: 2008-2009
Photography: Nils Petter Dale
Spanish architect Francisco Mangado is currently working on the design of a tower in the capital city of Argentina. The 200m tall building will be the tallest tower in Buenos Aires.
The project, located in the Puerto Madero area, includes over 68.000sqm, for housing, an hotel, restaurants, commercial space and parking.
The big dilema of this kind of project in the city is the public space, most of the times only approached at ground level. Francisco Mangado’s strategy includes public program along the tower, as a vertical boulevard.
After the residences on the first levels, we find a public lobby on floor 27th, with public services and restaurants, where the tower varies in section as you can see on the drawings below. We find more public facilities at the top, continuing with this openness of the program as the tower develops.
More images and drawings after the break.
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© Fernando Guerra
Project: CAN FRAMIS Museum at 22@
Location: Can Framis, 22@ District, Poble Nou, Barcelona, Spain
Architect: Jordi Badia
Project leader: Jordi Framis
Team: Daniel Guerra, Marta Vitório, Mercè Mundet, Miguel Borrell, Moisés Garcia
Collaborators
Structure: BOMA, Josep Ramón Solé
Installations: PGI engineering
Measuring and budget: FCA Forteza Carbonell Associats
Executive direction: GPO-Meritxell Bosch
Landscape: Martí Franch
Project Management: LAYETANA
Contractor: Construcciones San José
Client: Fundació Vila Casas. Layetana
Project: 2007
Construction: 2008
Area: 5.468 m2
Photography: FG + SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
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© nico saieh
Architects: tFPS
Location: Santiago, Chile
Project team: Eduardo Fam Mancilla, Diego Pinochet Puentes, Leonardo Suárez Molina
Structural engineer: José Manuel Morales
Site area: 3,128 sqm
Constructed area: 1,670 sqm
Project year: 2006-2009
Photographs: Nicolas Saieh & tFPS
© David Wakely Photography
Location: Atherton, California, USA
Architect: Turnbull Griffin Haesloop – Eric Haesloop, FAIA and Mary Griffin, FAIA, John Kleman, Evan Markiewicz, Jule Tsai
Interiors: Margaret Turnbull Simon, ASID of Turnbull Griffin Haesloop
Landscape Architects: Lutsko Associates
Engineer: Mike Forbes, Fratessa Forbes Wong
Lighting: Eric Johnson, Eric Johnson Associates
General Contractor: Carter Seddon, Carter Seddon Construction
Year: 2008
Photographer: David Wakely, David Wakely Photography
© David Wakely Photography
Location: Sebastopol, California, USA
Architect: Turnbull Griffin Haesloop – Eric Haesloop, FAIA and Mary Griffin, FAIA, Jerome Christensen, Juliet Hsu
Landscape Architect: Jennifer Brooke, Landscape Office, Ltd.
Engineer: Mike Forbes, Fratessa Forbes Wong
Interiors: John and Loreta Hornall
General Contractor: Ken Sawyer and Micah Sawyer, Sawyer Construction
Year: 2008
Photographer: David Wakely, David Wakely Photography
John Hill from Archidose is writing his new book: “A Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture”, including a comprehensive list of buildings in NY completed between 2000-2010, and those planned for completion after 2010.
And in order to have a complete list, he has asked for the help of ArchDaily’s readers to find “diamonds in the rough” in NY, and I´m pretty sure you can do it:
Projects in the book will fall into two broad categories:
1. Those completed between 2000-2010
2. Those planned for completion after 2010
I’m interested in both, but primarily the first, as they will make up the bulk of the book. Those in the second category, which I will include in an “On the Horizon” appendix, should be actual projects that have a good chance of realization, not hypothetical or speculative ones never to go beyond renderings. Given that my research to date has yielded a lot more buildings than can fit in the book, it is not necessary to send me obvious choices, like 40 Bond by Herzog & de Meuron, IAC HQ by Frank Gehry, the Cooper Union Academic Building by Morphosis, or any other NYC building on the Archi-Tourist, for that matter. I’m looking for “under the radar” buildings, quality architecture that has not clogged the airways of the architectural media. That said, here is my criteria for what is included in the book.
- John Hill
So leave your suggestions on the comments to see if you can spot those unique buildings!
© Sergio Pirrone
Location: 4560 Conesa street, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Architects: Adamo-Faiden
Project team: Sebastián Adamo, Marcelo Faiden, Luciano Intile, Aldana Rizza, Gastón Duarte
Year: 2008
Photography: Sergio Pirrone
© Francisco Mangado
Site: Vitoria, Spain
Architect: Francisco José Mangado Beloqui
Work direction: Francisco José Mangado Beloqui
Collaborators:
Architecture: José Mª Gastaldo, Richard Král’ovič, Eduardo Pérez de Arenaza.
Structural engineering: NB 35 SL (Jesús Jiménez Cañas / Alberto López) Ingenieros.
Installations engineering: Iturralde y Sagüés ingenieros / César Martín Gómez.
Acoustic engineering: Higini Arau. Estudi Acustic.
Lighting: ALS Lighting arquitectos consultores de iluminación (Antón Amann).
Quantity surveyor: Laura Montoya López de Heredia.
Contractor: UTE Arqueología (Dragados SA, Lagunketa SA).
Total area: 6.000 m2
Total cost: $9.000.000 €
Competition: 2000. First Prize Project Contest
Project: 2002-2003
Construction: 2004-2009
Client: Diputación Foral de Álava.
Photos: Courtesy of Francisco Mangado
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During my trip to Croatia to participate in CIP Talks 2009, I had the chance to meet an interesting group of young architects with very good built works, which we have been featuring on ArchDaily during this days. I also interviewed some of them, and I will be presenting these interview in the following days along with their works.
We start with Davor Katušić, founder and principal at Produkcija 004, authors of the Esseker Center in Osijek and the Emergency Terminal in Zagreb.
When we interviewed Jeffrey Inaba at the C-Lab last year, he told us about his research on altruism, which was the base for his new book “World of Giving”.
In place of the pursuit of personal wealth, World of Giving presents a mindset revolving around generosity. It paints a picture in which giving animates all levels of human interaction, acknowledging that each and every one of us gives. From helping out an acquaintance to donating to a valued cause, we all provide in acts big and small that benefit the immediate recipient and often others as well. In this important exploration of the sentiments of our time, the authors describe the basic motivations for why we give in reference to examples such as local volunteering, philanthropy and the flow of aid through foundations, governments, multinationals and NGOs. The book details the process of working toward a greater good and shows that a gift transforms at numerous junctures as it circulates from giver to receiver. Articulating these intricate relationships, World of Giving offers an understanding of the actions that build bridges between goodwill and need, intention and realization.
World of Giving is by Jeffrey Inaba and C-Lab in collaboration with Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, New Museum and Lars Müller Publishers.
The book will be launched in a party at the New Museum on November 12th, from 630-830p, with Richard Flood (Chief Curator, New Museum), Mark Wigley (Dean, Columbia GSAPP), Lars Müller (Founder, Lars Müller Publishers) and Jeffrey Inaba ( author of World of Giving and Director of C-Lab).
