AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part L
It’s 50! Since we started with the Flickr Round Up, we’ve chosen 250 photos of the best architecture photography out there. Check our Flickr Pool for more! 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 thomaslewandovski in Frankfurt, Germany. Check the other four after the break. (more…)
AD Round Up: Sports Architecture Part VII
The biggest NFL stadium ever built, and our 2009 Sports Building of the Year included in our 7th selection of previously featured sports architecture. Check them all after the break.
Dallas Cowboys Stadium / HKS
Designed to be open or closed, depending on weather conditions, the expansive retractable roof is the largest of its kind in the world and measures approximately 660,800 square feet. When closed, the roof encompasses 104 million cubic feet of volume, making it the largest enclosed NFL stadium in the world (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Libraries Part VIII
Three great projects and two Classics for our 8th selection of previously featured libraries. Check them all after the break.
Vasconcelos Library / Alberto Kalach
The project integrates the public library with a botanical garden. A 250 meter steel, concrete and glass structure surrounded by greenery and water. The design is based in four fundamental considerations (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part XLIX
One more and that’s 50 Flickr Round Up! Almost 250 of the best architecture photography out there. 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 p r k b k r in Okayama, Japan. Check the other four after the break. (more…)
AD Round Up: Refurbishment Part VII
All projects from mid-2009 for our seventh selection of previously featured refurbishment buildings. Check them all after the break.
Palomar Welcome Center / Johnsen Schmaling Architects
As the harbinger of a large-scale development slated for LEED certification, the Palomar Welcome Center utilizes an abandoned one-story warehouse building on the edge of Milwaukee’s Park East redevelopment corridor. The area, an urban desert formerly occupied by an underused freeway spur, is slated to be transformed into the Palomar District, a series of mixed-use projects that will connect downtown to the adjacent neighborhoods (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part XLVIII
We have reached the 50,000 photos in our Flickr Pool! Thanks to everyone who helps by submitting their best photos day after day! 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 thomaslewandovski in Frankfurt, Germany. Check the other four after the break. (more…)
AD Round Up: Religious Architecture Part VII
Two churches, two chapels, and one temple. Check our seventh selection of previously featured religious architecture after the break.
Kuokkala Church / Lassila Hirvilammi
The wish of the Parish of Jyväskylä was to build “a church that looks like a church”. Our proposal was a simple, sculptural form within which all of the church’s different functions could be contained. The design is “of our time”, yet permeated with nods to and re-interpretations of church-building tradition (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Cultural Center Part VII
Projects from Europe and USA for our seventh selection of previously featured cultural centers. Check them all after the break.
Kodály Centre / Építész Stúdió
There are two identities constituting the units of our world: inside and outside. Object and space. Extrovert and introvert. Active and passive. Community life and internal silence. The building that we can walk around, and the hall where music surrounds us. The building itself is vivid, moved by the dynamic symmetry of golden ratio. The hall itself is tranquillity filled by the symmetry of intellectual serenity (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Health Architecture Part VII
Late-2010 projects for our seventh selection of previously featured health architecture. Check them all after the break.
Barwon Health Teaching Training & Research Centre / Billard Leece Partnership
This project challenges the view that clinical interiors need to be limited in colour or texture. Using a limited achromatic palette of external materials, the perception of a vibrant visceral-like interior is heightened in this integrated clinical teaching, training and research centre in Geelong, Australia (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Mixed Use Part VII
All projects from December 2010 for our seventh selection of previously featured mixed use buildings. Check them all after the break.
Contemporaine / Perkins + Will
Contemporaine is a 28-unit condominium building located on a corner lot in the River North area of urban Chicago. The building consists of an eleven-story residential tower and a four-story retail and parking base. The sculptural quality of the tower and the articulation of its functional parts work to mediate the building to the varying scales of the surrounding context (read more…)
AD Round Up: Industrial Architecture Part VII
A whole variety of insdustrial projects for our seventh selection of previously featured posts. Check them all after the break.
Kangan Batman Institute / Lyons
The new Automotive Centre of Excellence (ACE) in Melbourne’s Docklands accommodates a dedicated training and showcase facility for Australia’s automotive trades and manufacturing. It consists of high-bay workshop spaces, specialist workrooms, classrooms and office accommodation (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Housing Part VII
Early-2009 projects for our seventh selection of previously featured housing projects. Check them all after the break.
Koidula Apartment Building / 3+1 Architects
Building is located close to the Kadriorg park, one of the most important and historical green areas in Tallinn. Currently the socially and historically rich district is developing quickly into prestigious living area. The residential buildings along Koidula St. date from different periods and it has caused the chaotic structure of the street (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Leisure Part VII
Five projects form earlier this year for our seventh selection of previously featured leisure projects. Check them all after the break.
Costa Brava Gran Casino / b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos
The Gran Casino Costa Brava, located in the historic gardens of the Gran Hotel Monterrey in the centre of Lloret de Mar (Girona), is based on a distinctive environmental and architectural project by b720 Arquitectos, headed by Fermín Vázquez. At once practical and singular, the design of the new casino breaks with convention by approaching the complex as a unified structure that rises out of the ground. The building is divided into three clearly differentiated levels that are integrated in the surrounding environment (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part XLVII
We are slowly getting closer to 50,000 photos on our Flickr Pool, so if you want to see a lot of amazing architecture photography, go ahead. 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 thomaslewandovski in Glauburg, Germany. Check the other four after the break. (more…)
AD Round Up: Kindergarten Part VII
Five great kindergartens for our seventh selection of previously featured projects. Check them all after the break.
Kindergarten Kekec / Arhitektura Jure Kotnik
Kindergarten Kekec is an extension of a typical Slovene prefab kindergarten from the 1980s. Situated in one of Ljubljana’s residential areas, Kekec answers the growing demand for kindergartens. This comes as a result of Ljubljana having witnessed considerable population growth as well as legislative changes and a planned increase in building density inside the highway ring surrounding the city (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part XLVI
We are slowly getting closer to 50,000 photos on our Flickr Pool, so if you want to see a lot of amazing architecture photography, go ahead. 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: Retail Part VII
Five projects from 2009 for our seventh selection of previously featured retail projects. Check them all after the break.
Havaianas Store / Isay Weinfeld
Havaianas Sandals, created in 1962, drew their inspiration from the “zori”, traditional Japanese slippers made of rice straw. A product of extremely low cost, for many years they were just rubber flip-flops, a long way from the fashion icon they are today (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Restaurants Part VII
Thinking of going out for a bite tonight? Here are five great restaurants to get you inspired! Check them all after the break.
Cave Restaurant / Koichi Takada Architects
We aim to change the way we eat and chat in restaurants. The acoustic quality of restaurants contributes to the comfort and enjoyment of a dining experience. We have experimented with noise levels in relation to the comfort of dining and the ambience a cave like environment can create. The timber profiles generate a sound studio atmosphere, and a pleasant ‘noise’ of dining conversation, offering a more intimate experience as well as a visually interesting and complex surrounding (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Public Facilities Part VII
Five projects from 2009, including the winner of the 2009 Building of the Year, Public Facilities category, for our seventh round up. Check them all after the break.
National Tourist Route Trollstigen / Reiulf Ramstad Architects
The project will enhance the experience of the Trollstigen plateau’s location and nature. Thoughtfulness regarding features and materials will underscore the site’s temper and character, and well-adapted, functional facilities will augment the visitor’s experience. The architecture is to be characterised by clear and precise transitions between planned zones and the natural landscape (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part XLV
Almost 47,000 photos of the most amazing architecture photography from our readers 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 aspheric.org in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Check the other four after the break. (more…)
AD Round Up: Educational Architecture Part VII
We’ve published so many amazing educational projects, that in our seventh selection, we’re still showing you posts from 2009. Check them all after the break!
UCSD Price Center East / Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design
The plan of the University of California at San Diego’s existing student center, the Price Center, was developed with an “introverted” configuration – a central courtyard bordered on three sides by all of the building’s program elements facing inward – that established a powerful sense of place and a hub for dining, socializing, and events (read more…) (more…)
