© Andrej Strehovec
Architect: Ravnikar Potokar Arhitekturni
Location: Idrija, Slovenia
Competition Team: Robert Potokar, Sabina Colnar, Ajdin Bajrović, Mateja Šetina, Carlos Graca
Project Team: Robert Potokar, Andrej Strehovec, Marjan Starič
Interior Design Project: Andrej Strehovec, Maja Slapernik, Robert Potokar
Project Area: 7,740 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Andrej Strehovec
Rendering
MSA+PMA Architecture entered this competition in collaboration with “MAS Urban Design ETH Zürich” – successful teamwork that revealed a First-Prize Winning Project for “Cabuço de Baixo 5”. The initiative of this cooperation began with a proposal from a cohort of postgraduates who were attending the Masters Program in Advanced Studies in Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich).
Courtesy of MACK Architect(s)
Architect: MACK Architect(s)
Location: Pan Gyo, South Korea
Project Team: Mark Mack, Matt Bean, Kyle Richardson, Ine Mayerhofer, Alia Hasan, Gerardo Rivero
Associate Architect: Dongwoo Architects
Client: Korea National Housing Corporation
Sustainability: Ibe Consulting Engineers
Landscape Architect: Ahbe Landscape Architects
Project Area: 26,200 sqm
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Courtesy of MACK Architect(s)
© Robert Janez
We first brought you this project when OFIS won the design competition back in 2008. Here it is now under construction. For the renderings and further information check out our previous post.
More construction photos after the break.
Architect: OFIS arhitekti
Location: Paris, France
Project leaders: Rok Oman & Špela Videčnik
Design Team: Rok Oman, Spela Videcnik, Robert Janez, katja aljaz, Andrej Gregoric, Javier Carrera
Structural Engineering: INTEGRALE 4; Bruno PERSON
Mechanical, Electrical engineering & economy: Cabinet MTC; Cyril GANVERT
Photographs: Robert Janez
© Hertha Hurnaus
Architects: AllesWirdGut Architektur + feld72
Location: Vienna, Austria
Client: EGW Heimstätte + ÖVW Österreichisches Wohnungswerk
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 20,212 sqm
Photographs: Hertha Hurnaus
© Flickr / _gee_
The Balfron Tower by architect Erno Goldfinger is an iconic Brutalist residential high rise located in London’s eastside Poplar borough. Designed in 1963 for the London County Council and completed in 1967 by the Greater London Council, this social housing estate broke the traditions of typical residential architecture. Conceived as a solution to sprawling suburbia, Goldfinger embraced verticality as the cure. More details after the break. read more »
© Miran Kambič
Architect: Ravnikar Potokar
Location: Hodoš, Slovenia
Text: Ravnikar Potokar
Project Area: 2473 sqm
Project Year 2010
Photographs: Miran Kambič
© Thomas Mayer
Architect: Peter Geusebroek
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Client: De Alliantie
Text: Provided by Peter Geusebroek
Photographs: Thomas Mayer
© Anne Leroy
Architects: Pierre Marsan
Location: La Soule, France
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Anne Leroy
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The Torre Blancas is an architectural icon of the Spanish Organicism movement. Designed by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza and completed in 1969, this exposed concrete tower rises 71 meters above the Madrid skyline. It also stands as one the most complicated and innovative reinforced concrete structures of the era, absent of the typical rectilinear qualities associated with cast-in-place concrete. More details after the break. read more »
Courtesy of Drucker Arquitetura
The informal city is a problem that could not be solved by the twentieth-century urbanism. It is necessary to produce a set of tools that will allow us to perform with solvency and responsibility in this area. Some of the tools of traditional architecture and urbanism can be successfully applied; others are yet to be elaborated. With this in mind, Drucker Arquitetura designed the winning proposal for the Sáo Paulo competition to rebuild the city’s slum-areas.
© Phipps, Rose, Dattner, Grimshaw
After winning the 2007 New York New Housing Legacy Competition, Jonathan Rose and Phipps Houses Group teamed with Grimshaw Architects and Dattner Architects to make “green” architecture for where it matters most. Via Verde, the South Bronx’s newest affordable housing development, goes beyond the hype of creating a sustainable building for marketing purposes, and allows design to inform a healthy building for its occupants. So, what constituents a “healthy” building? Well, in the minds of those from the South Bronx, that means a place that can address growing asthma rates, obesity, and the need for fresh produce. In the 290,000 sqf project at Brook Avenue and East 156th Street, Via Verde is connecting to its neighborhood’s needs while not shying away from giving a community in the process of urban renewal an iconic piece of architecture.
More about the project after the break. read more »
Courtesy of CHYBIK+KRISTOF Associated Architects
CHYBIK+KRISTOF Associated Architects won an international architectural and urbanistic competition on 33 apartment buildings close to Bratislava. The project aims to create quality housing with direct contact with water surface. It also sets a considerable part of the house into the riparian forest in the river-bed of the Danube. They have designed for each object a group of four materials which create together a common atrium as well as a scenic jetty near the water. The resulting combination of two- or three-floored buildings makes ideal conditions for social life inside each villa house whilst at the same time it provides enough privacy in each apartment. They did not design an ensemble of anonymous apartments, but a place with a bountiful view on water surface and with sojourning areas in the semi-private space. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
© Anna Blau
Architect: MACK Architect(s)
Location: Venice, California, USA
Project Team: Mark Mack, Carlos Florez
Structural: Parker Resnick
Title 24: South Bay Energy
Methane Investigation: Methane Specialists
Project Year: 2007
Project Area: 4,900 sqf
Photographs: Anna Blau
© João Morgado
Architect: José António Barbosa
Location: Porto, Portugal
Project Area: 5600 sqm Houses: 16 (T4 and T4+1)
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: João Morgado
© Allard van der Hoek
Architects: LEVS Architecten
Location: Almere, The Netherlands
Client: Syntrus Achmea Vastgoed
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Allard van der Hoek
© FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
We recently received new photographs by FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra of Living Foz. We featured this project back in February, and has been recently award a 2011 Emirates Glass LEAF Award. “The Emirates Glass LEAF Awards honour the architects designing the buildings and solutions that are setting the benchmark for the international architectural community.”
New photographs after the break.
Original ArchDaily feature.
© Miran Kambič
Architects: dekleva gregorič arhitekti
Location: Kamnik, Slovenia
Project Team: Aljoša Dekleva u.d.i.a., M.Arch. (AA Dist),Tina Gregorič u.d.i.a., M.Arch. (AA Dist)
Client: SAVA IP d.o.o., Ljubljana
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 1760 sqm
Photographs: Miran Kambič
© Marcel van der Burg - Primabeeld
Architect: Dick van Gameren architecten
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Project team: Dick van Gameren; Paul Vlok; Willmar Groenendijk; Dries van Eijk; Remco van Buuren; Maarten Kemperink; Julien Merle
Client: Far West / De Principaal, Amsterdam
Contractor: BAM Woningbouw, Amsterdam
Structural Engineer: Strackee Bouwadviesburo, Amsterdam
Technical Engineer: Huygen Installatie Adviseurs, Rotterdam
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Marcel van der Burg – Primabeeld
© Marcel van der Burg
Architects: LEVS Architecten
Location: Den Helder, The Netherlands
Client: Rijksgebouwendienst (Dutch Government Building Department)
Landscape design: Marlies van Diest
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 1,150 sqm
Photographs: Marcel van der Burg
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