AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part LV
We have now over 63,000 photos in our Flickr Pool! 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 Clément Guillaume in the Fujian Province, China. Check the other four after the break. (more…)
AD Round Up: Health Architecture Part VIII
Three projects from USA, one from Austria and one from Australia for our 8th selection of previously featured health architecture. Check them all after the break.
St. Anthony Hospital / ZGF Architects LLP
Prior to the completion of the new St. Anthony Hospital, the South Sound Region represented one of the largest population centers in the State of Washington without a central community hospital. As a result more than 3,500 emergencies and 4,000 patients requiring overnight care had to travel well outside of the area for treatment annually (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Mixed Use Part VIII
Five great mixed use projects from earlier this year for our 8th selection. Check them all after the break.
Glass Lofts / Front Studio Architects
Commissioned by the Friendship Development Associates (FDA) as a central player in its community revitalization program, the Glass Lofts are a new mixed-use construction consisting of 39,000 sqf artist’s work spaces, 18 loft condominiums, retail and restaurant space, FDA offices and a flexible-use community space. Located at the center of the Penn Avenue Arts District, the Glass Lofts is the result of a community-driven planning process actively involving neighborhood residents, artists and business owners in the development of the project (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Industrial Architecture Part VIII
Five great industrial projects we published back in January this year for our 8th selection. Check them all after the break.
Biotechnology Industry / Marlene Imirzian & Associates
Phoenix, Arizona has a burgeoning Biotechnology industry and in order to help fill the demand for skilled employees the Paradise Valley Community College plans to double its Biotechnology Program. The new Life Science Building provides new instructional space, housing the college’s Anatomy, Physiology, General Biology, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Marine Biology and Environmental Biology Programs (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Housing Part VIII
Five great projects from early 2009 for our 8th selection, including BIG’s Mountain Dwellings, winner of our Building of the Year Award 2009, Housing category. Check them all after the break.
Mountain Dwellings / BIG with JDS
The Mountain Dwellings are the 2nd generation of the VM Houses – same client, same size and same street. The program, however, is 2/3 parking and 1/3 living. What if the parking area became the base upon which to place terraced housing – like a concrete hillside covered by a thin layer of housing, cascading from the 11th floor to the street edge? (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Leisure Part VIII
Do you want to enjoy a sauna in the south of Chile? Or a pool house in Denver? A nice club in Sao Paulo perhaps? Check them all after the break!
Sauna in Ranco / Panorama
The project is situated in Ranco in the lake district – Chile, over a dark granite rock at the shore surrounded by mountain cypresses. The project consists of a sauna with a roofed terrace and a changeroom, each of them looking towards different views from the rock to the lake. The three of them connected by a north-south oriented circulation (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Retail Part VIII
For our 8th selection of previously featured retail projects we have five great buildings from Europe, all published in 2009. Check them all after the break.
Esseker Center / Produkcija 004
In 2002 we won an urban architectural competition for one of the rare not built plots in the historical center of Osijek. Urban part has to give a solution that will connect the main city square and the promenade along Drava River. The building has to put together: public garage, shopping center, offices and the housing on one side and to fit into the existing urban tissue on the other side (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Green Roof Part VIII
Five amazing green roof projects from earlier this year. Check them all after the break.
Sky Garden House / Guz Architects
This house is located on a new housing estate on the island of Sentosa adjacent to Singapore. The plots are not large and neighbouring buildings are built close to the sides of each house. Thus our strategy was to build a solid wall to each side neighbor to provide privacy where possible, while creating a central light and stair well which would funnel the sea breeze through the centre of the building (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part LIV
Our Flickr Pool has nearly 60,000 photos! Keep them coming! 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 Chimay Bleue in Beverly Hills, USA. Check the other four after the break. (more…)
AD Round Up: Restaurants Part VIII
Thinking of going out to dinner tonight? Maybe the 8th part of our previously featured restaurants selection will help you decide. Check them all after the break!
Spectacles Jeux Restaurant / Malcotti Roussey Architectes
This project is located in the space that was left free in the ancient saline, a place that was partially destroyed. It is situated in Salins-les-Bains near the museum, which is being restored (see the museum fact sheet). In March 2007, a fire took place in the former and major building of the saline called « pardessus ». It included a restaurant, an auditorium and a gambling room (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Hotels Part VIII
An hotel in Slovenia, a resort in India, The Trump International in Hawaii, a nice Japanese hotel and even an AD Classic from Michael Graves in Disney World! All for our 8th selection of previously featured hotels. Check them all after the break.
Leti 360 / Studio Mumbai
Located at 2350 m (7700 ft.) above sea level, Leti 360 resort is perched on a promontory in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas. The site is a two hour walk [9 km] from the nearest motorable road and is accessed by a narrow footpath carved into the mountainside, part of a network of trails used by local villagers for daily travel and transport (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Public Facilities Part VIII
Five great projects from 2009 for our 8th selection of previously featured public facilities, including a winner of our Building of the Year Award from 2009! Check them all after the break.
Community centre Herstedlund / Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter
Community Centre Herstedlund provides the framework for joint activities for a new residential area, housing approximately 600 families. The site plan, designed by Juul & Frost, is based on the idea of “the forest and the glades”. We elaborated on this theme as we designed the building as a large stylized tree at the edge of a glade (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Educational Architecture Part VIII
It’s our 8th selection of previously featured educational projects and we’re still featuring great posts from 2009! Check them all after the break.
Erika Mann Elementary School / Die Baupiloten
Following the successful modernization of the Erika-Mann Elementary School in the Utrechter Strasse 25/27 – 13347 Berlin, the Baupiloten have now designed the building’s interior for all-day use. With new seating-landscapes and worlds of recreation, the Baupiloten – together with the schoolchildren – expanded upon the concept of a comfortable learning environment to include the school’s hallways and classrooms (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part LIII
Our Flickr Pool has now more than 56,000 photos! 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 toxophilite in London, England. Check the other four after the break. (more…)
AD Round Up: Institutional Architecture Part VIII
Five great projects from nearly two years ago for our 8th selection of previously featured institutional projects. Check them all after the break.
Rothoblaas limited Company / monovolume
The Rothoblaas office is a large scale commercial operation specializing in assembling systems and power tools for the woodworking industry. Warehouse and commissioning are situated on the ground floor and a showroom can be found on the upper floor. The aim of the project was to create a compact building with a high level of recognition (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Sports Architecture Part VIII
Round Ups are back! And for today, we have our 8th selection of previously featured sports architecture projects, including a stadium used for South Africa’s World Cup last year. Check them all after the break.
The 4th Gymnasium / HVDN
Until recently, the area in the Houthavens was an open, undefined space with scattered placed industrial buildings. Meanwhile, due to problems with the development-zoning plan, the area is temporarily in use. By now it has changed into a lively spot, a “place to be” for the city with several restaurants, artist studios and student housing (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part LII
Amazing architecture photography from our Flickr Pool. 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 toxophilite in Sheffield, England. Check the other four after the break. (more…)
AD Round Up: Museums Part VIII
Many great museums for our 8th selection, including an AD Classic, and even a Tree Museum! Check them all after the break.
New Acropolis Museum / Bernard Tschumi Architects
Located in the historic of Makryianni district, the Museum stands less than 1,000 feet southeast of the Parthenon. The top-floor Parthenon Gallery offers a 360-degree panoramic view of the Acropolis and modern Athens. The Museum is entered from the Dionysios Areopagitou pedestrian street, which links it to the Acropolis and other key archeological sites in Athens (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part LI
Just over 53,000 photos in our Flickr Pool! 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 Wojtek Gurak in Madrid, Spain. Check the other four after the break. (more…)
AD Round Up: Interiors Part VIII
Mid-2009 projects for our 8th selection of previously featured interior posts. Check them all after the break.
Eva’s bed / h20 architectes
The arrival of a new child in the family pressed a young couple to think about a way to divide a room into two parts. The idea was to provide a personnal space to each child. The projet answers to this request of separation by adding a third space making the partition. The creation of a “multiple-use furniture” in the middle of the space allows to add some depth to the primary basic partition. It afford passages, secret storage, bed, office… in a funny way (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Offices Part VIII
Projects from 2009 for our 8th selection of previously featured offices. Check them all after the break.
El Bosque Norte Building / Murtinho + Raby Arquitectos
This building is located on a corner of El Bosque Avenue, within Las Condes Local Authority in Metropolitan Santiago, Chile. The neighbourhood has been increasingly the community’s office centre with several leading office buildings projects (read more…) (more…)
