AD Round Up: Institutional Architecture Part VII
2009 institutional projects for our seventh selection of previously featured posts. Check them all after the break.
US Census Bureau Headquarters / SOM
Situated on 80 wooded acres of the Suitland Federal Center near downtown Washington, D.C., the new 2.5-million-square-foot headquarters for the U.S. Census Bureau houses all the Bureau’s 6,000 employees. The Bureau’s previous workplace model was a 1930s ideal with offices arranged along long corridors (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part XLIV
More than 46,000 architecture photos from our Flickr Pool! Wow! 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 piotr krajewsi in Barcelona, Spain. Check the other four after the break. (more…)
AD Round Up: Interiors Part VII
Amazing interior projects for our seventh selection! All of them from 2009. Check them after the break!
Como Loft / JMA
When an old monastery located around the city of Como, Italy, was being remodelled and converted into a residential complex, two adjacent units have been connected to form this duplex apartment. The shape of the original units is clearly enhanced by the different pitched ceiling direction as well as by their different heights. The main idea was to keep the shell intact, maintaining the entire length of the unit open and invading the space minimally (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part XLIII
Have you seen our almost-46,000 Flickr Pool lately? We want to thank everyone who contributes to this amazing group of architecture photography. 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 Sophienesss in Los Angeles, USA. Check the other four after the break. (more…)
AD Round Up: Libraries Part VII
For our 7th selection, we have five great libraries featured between August and October 2010. Check them all after the break.
New Queens Library at Hunters Point / Steven Holl Architects
New York will be the recipient of another Steven Holl project – a new library at the Queens West Development at Hunters Point. Envisioned as a contemporary “urban forum”, the project will shape public space and create new connections across the Queens West Development, Hunter Points South, and the existing neighborhood of Hunters Point (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Museums Part VII
Last year we featured many great museums. Like Alberto Campo Baeza’s Museum of Memory in Andalucia. Or Tampa’s Museum of Art designed by Stanley Saitowitz. Check five amazing museums from 2010 after the break.
Tampa Museum of Art / Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects
Museums began in ancient times as Temples, dedicated to the muses, where the privileged went to be amused, to witness beauty, and to learn. After the Renaissance museums went public with palatial structures where the idea of the gallery arose, a space to display paintings and sculpture (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part XLII
We’ve passed the 45,000 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 George Rex in London, England. Check the other four after the break. (more…)
AD Round Up: Offices Part VII
Five amazing offices we published in 2009 for our seventh selection of previously featured projects. Check them all after the break.
Patio Alameda Building / Baixas del Rio Arquitectos
This Building is the first stage of an ensemble of buildings belonging to the Universidad Católica called “Patio Alameda “, which is part of the Central Campus of the university placed on the Alameda Avenue in Santiago’s downtown. Alameda is the city’s main avenue and runs East – West. This group of buildings was designed to form a “fourth patio” related to the three patio traditional building of the university (read more…) (more…)
AD Recommends: Best of the Week
Here’s our selection of last week’s best posts. Check them all after the break.
Shelter Home for the Homeless / Javier Larraz
What the construction of the new Shelter Home for the Homeless offers, beyond satisfying the needs of shelter and food for the residents, is an opportunity for improving the quality of life of a socially excluded group, whose needs reach further than the simple fact of finding a place to sleep (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Hotels Part VII
Going out for the weekend? Thinking on a place to stay? Check our seventh selection of previously featured hotels after the break.
Grand Hotel Casselbergh Brugge / BURO II
With its central location and rich history, this site is of major importance to the World Heritage City of Bruges. Tourism is an important engine of the local economy. The conversion of this building into a hotel with conference facilities will finally, after many years, remove an eyesore from the Hoogstraat (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part XLI
Almost 45,000 photos on 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 Vesper Hsieh in Singapore. Check the other four after the break. (more…)
AD Round Up: Classics Part III
The Classics. Extraordinary projects that will never get too old. Check our third selection after the break.
AD Classics: MIT Baker House Dormitory / Alvar Aalto
Alvar Aalto designed the Baker House in 1946 while he was a professor at the Massachussets Institute of Technology, where the dormitory is located. It received its name in 1950, after the MIT’s Dean of Students Everett Moore Baker was killed in an airplane crash that year. The dormitory is a curving snake slithering on its site and reflects many of Aalto’s ideas of formal strategy, making it a dormitory that is both inhabited and studied by students from all over the world (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Cultural Center Part VI
Art, music, movies, etc… All part of our sixth selection of previously featured cultural centers. Check them all after the break.
Fogo Island Long Studio / Saunders Architecture
Fogo Island lies outside of Newfoundland, Canada and is home to a gentle, independent people who have lived for centuries between wind and waves in pursuit of fish. Fogo Islanders live in the untamed landscape of the North Atlantic. The people are subtle and unpretentious yet have seen their traditional way of life by threatened by forces largely beyond their control (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part XL
We have now 40 Flickr round ups from our 44,000 photos 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 garmendia arquitectos in Cruces, Basque Country. Check the other four after the break. (more…)
AD Round Up: Refurbishment Part VI
For our sixth selection of previously featured refurbishment projects we have five posts from June 2009! Check them all after the break.
Pullpo Advertising Agency / Hania Stambuk
Starting the project from the abandoned facilities of a salt factory in the western sector of Santiago Chile, the commission is considered as a counterpoint of industrial aesthetics of the precarious versus a clear and contemporary proposal that complies with the various demands of an advertising agency (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part XXXIX
Almost 40 selections of photos submitted in our Flickr Pool, which now has more than 43,000 photos. Be sure to check more of them 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 naoyafujii in Tokyo, Japan. Check the other four after the break. (more…)
AD Round Up: Health Architecture Part VI
Amazing hospitals, clinics and a veterinary hospital for our sixth selection of previously featured health architecture projects. Check them all after the break.
Zoo Veterinary Hospital / Carreño Sartori Arquitectos
In the Veterinary Hospital, a single building on a restricted site, must collect the programmatic complexity. At street level the veterinary requirements and animal recovery rooms are designed with easy vehicle and stretchers access. A 50 cm. height base, separates the outside ground, setting a distance between a sterile interior and the pollution from a path that serves other uses (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part XXXVIII
Week after week, photographers from all over the world keep surprising us with their fantastic photos. You can check them all on our fast-growing 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 Chimay Bleue in La Jolla, USA. Check the other four after the break. (more…)
AD Round Up: St. Patrick’s Special Part II
St. Patrick’s today, and it’s all about green! So for today’s Round Up, we have our sixth selection of previously featured green roofs! Check them all after the break.
Welham Studios / Mark Merer
Welham Studios started with the study of placement, watching objects in clay and sand creating shapes through the interaction of the wind and rain. The work is looking for a union of object and environment (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Kindergartens Part VI
Four amazing kindergartens from Europe and one from South America. Check our sixth selection of previously featured kindergartens after the break.
Monthey Kindergarden / Bonnard Woeffray Architectes
Monthey’s new kindergarten is located in the town’s Cinquantoux Park and replaces the former villa that had become obsolete. Conceived as a large house for children, the venue assumes an almost organic shape that merges with the wooded park and offers a range of interior spaces. Following the same logic is its composition of volumes topped by a roof composed of gently slanting sections (read more…) (more…)
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part XXXVII
We’re over 42,000 photos in our Flickr Pool now, so if you haven’t seen it in a while, you have a lot to catch up! 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 naoyafujii in Tokyo, Japan. Check the other four after the break. (more…)
