Architects: Ney & Partners
Location: Knokke, Flanders, Belgium
Client: Flemish Community
Project length: 110 m
Budget: $1,700,000 euro
Construction year: 2004–2007
Photographer: Daylight
The project for a footbridge located in Roche-sur-Yon was commissioned as a collaborative work in between HAD Paris, who has a previous experience with the footbridge they did in Turin for the Olympic Village in 2006 and Bernard Tschumi, who recently finished the Acropolis Museum.
Sadar Vuga Architects have shared with us their design for the air traffic control centre for the Brnik Airport in Slovenia. The centre is conceived so as to provide security and enable high operativeness, 24-hour work comfort as well as comfort for the employees and visitors to the Centre. Furthermore, the Centre is designed according to all strict requirements of safety, operation and efficient functioning, but it is also envisaged as a special, memorable and symbolic building of the arrival in Slovenia.
The Centre is designed as a compact shell that uncloses where natural lighting is needed in the interior. The compact building with a pentagonal ‘head’ of the Centre, which is tied to two administration ‘wings’ by the vertical hall in the central area of the Centre, is situated, for safety reasons, in the centre of a plot along the central boulevard of the future Airport City. The Centre is separated from the edge of the plot in the north by a parking platform and in the south by the tall greenery of the Centre’s garden. The Centre’s interior is organized into zones of various safety degrees. The more we move from the perimeter with administration offices and resting areas towards the free centre of the building, the higher the safety level.
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Architects: Drost + van Veen architecten
Location: Haarlemmermeer, The Netherlands
Project Architects: Evelien van Veen, Simone Drost
Client: Gemeente Haarlemmermeer
Structural Engineer: ABT Delft
Project year: 2006
Photographs: Jeroen Musch
Architects: Irisarri + Piñera / Jesús Irisarri Castro & Guadalupe Piñera
Location: Cangas, Pontevedra, Spain
Client: Portos de Galicia
Engineer: Juan Antonio Rodríguez Pardo
Builder: C&C
Master Builder: Eva Fernández
Project area: 897 sqm
Urbanization area: 3,920 sqm
Design year: 2003
Construction year: 2005-2007
Photographs: Manuel Gonzalez Vicente
Architect: Fearon Hay Architects
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Constructed Area: 375 sqm
Project Year: 2007-2009
Photographs: Patrick Reynolds
Architects: Jasmax
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
Client: Wellington Zoo Trust
Project Area: 500 sqm
Project Completed: 2007
Photographer: Paul McCredie
Architects: Kanner Architects
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Architect in Charge: Stephen H. Kanner
Project team: Damian Lemons, Nicolas O.S. Marques, Jay Fukuzawa, Clare Olsen, John Mebasser, Claudia Wiehen, Lincoln Tobier, Stephane Corbel
Client: United Oil
Project Area: 630.8 sqm
Project year: 2009
Photographs: John Linden & Nicolas O.S. Marques
Architects: monovolume architecture + design
Location: Dörfl, Italy
Project team: Juri Pobitzer & Patrik Pedó
Collaborators: Rita Rabensteiner, Simon Constantini, Cecile Dobler, Benjamin Gaensbacher
Client: Hydroelectric power station consortium limited company
Project year: 2008-2009
Photographer: Simon Constantini & Marion Gelmini
Architects: FTL Design Engineering Studio – Nic Goldsmith. Matthew Hilyard, Amedeo Perlas, AmyPalmer, Ashish Soni
Location: Sun Valley, Idaho, USA
Project Architects: Ruscitto/Latham/Blanton Architectura P.A; Nicholas Latham, Thadd Blanton, Michael Bulls ,Scott Heiner
Engineering of Cable net and Fabric: FTL Design Engineering Studio; Joe Schedlbauer, Mary Korotkova
Structural Engineering: ES2Engineering; Dough Weber, Terrol Bateman
Acoutical Engineering: Jaffee Holden Acoustics; Dr. J. Christopher Jaffe, Mary Cook, Mark Reber
Theatrical Design& Lighting: Auerbach Pollock & Friedlander; Steven Friedlander, Don Guyton
Landscape: Eggers Associates; Kurt Eggers, Nathan Schutte
General Contractor: Intermountain Construction, Inc,Jeff Ogden, Derek Wright
Interior Design: Frank Nicholson, Inc.
Mechanical Engineering: Van Boerum & Frank Assoc., Inc.
Electrical Engineering: Paul Stoops Associates
Budget: $30 Million USD
Project year: 2008
Photographs: FTL
Architects: LAM Architects
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Program: Giraffe-house and visitor centre
Structural Engineer: CAE Nederland
Wooden Frames: Heko Spanten
Building Contractor: Dura Vermeer Heyma Rotterdam
E-Contractor: Electro-Four
Client: Stichting Koninklijke Rotterdamse Diergaarde, Rotterdam Zoo
Constructed Area: 570 sqm
Project year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Franken Architecturalphotography
Architects: Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Oslo Norway
Location: Romsdalen – Geiranger Fjord, Norway
Project team: Reiulf D Ramstad, Christian Fuglset, Anja Strandskogen, Christian Dahle, Nok Nimakorn
Client: Norwegian public roads administration
Structural Engineer: Dr Techn. Kristoffer Apeland AS, Oslo Norway
Mechanical Engineer: Erichsen & Horgen Engineering AS, Oslo Norway
Electrical Engineer: Norconsult, Norway
Contractor: Christie Opsahl AS, Norway
Landscape: Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Oslo Norway
Constructed Area: 200,000 sqm (the landscape area)
Design year: 2004-2010
Construction year: 2005-2010
Photographs: Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Oslo Norway
Santiago Calatrava is known for his elegant bridges that combine structure with a sculpture-esque touch. Yet, could his iconic style be changing? His latest design for Calgary, Canada is a red and white tubular structure, an aesthetic quite unlike of his earlier works. The new footbridge, slated for completion in 2010, will span the Bow River and aid approximately 5,000 people a day commuting in and out of the city on foot or on bike.
More about the bridge after the break.
A few weeks ago, we shared the Bering Strait Project which asked participants to create a massive spanning element connecting Russia to America. The design would physically join the world together and could potentially promote world unity and peace. Paris-based OFF Architecture’s team of Manal Rachdi, Tanguy Vermet, Mathieu Michel, Takanao Todo, and Lily Nourmansouri was awarded second place in the professional category of the competition. Their project “does not simply concern itself with the construction of a commercial or railway link, nor a bridge connecting one continent to another. The amplitude, siting, geopolitical context as well as the global ecological conscience entails a proposal far more audacious, an active project sensitive to the conditions of the site.”
More about the proposal after the break. read more »
Architects: archimedialab -Bernd Lederle
Location: Schwandorf, Bavaria, Germany
Project Team: Bernd Lederle / Wolfgang Heckmann / Tina Kierzek / Tilo Weber / Katharina Schneider / Jonas Beer / Sylvia Schaden / Achim Zumpfe / landscape : Andreas Mallin / Berthold Schröder model: Georg Launer
Program: 2,800 sqm administration building + auditorium, 38,000sqm landscape and master plan, acoustic barrier earth wall
Client: Zweckverband Müllverwertung Schwandorf
Budget: € 8,000,000
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Bernd Lederle / archimedialab
Located in Singapore, Telok Blangah Hill Park’s newest addition includes “a fly-over-like infrastructure” that reaches 120 feet above the forest floor. The walkways are a respectful way to view nature as they provide a place for viewers to unobtrusively admire the landscape.
More images and more about the walkways after the break. read more »
Architect: Muller&Muller, Ltd
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Client: City of Chicago Department of Transportation
Program : parking for 300 bikes / bike repair and parts shop / showers and lockers / Chicago bicycle police station / portable cafe / bike rental
Project Area: 1,486 sqm
Budget: US $3,000,000
Photographs: Nathan Kirkman & Robert Murphy
Our friends from F451 Arquitectura, a Barcelona-based office have shared with us their design of a ferry terminal that won a competition in Spain. The terminal will be located in the Mahón Port, on the island of Menorca. More images after the break. read more »
Architects: CA-DESIGN / Architecture and Urban Planning
Location: Quingpu, Shanghai, China
Director in charge: Pedro Pablo Arroyo Alba
Collaborators: Yki Fo (project leader), Chen Junquan, Yang Yixiu, Wang Fan, Wang Xin, Pablo Sendra Fernández, Eva Jiménez del Río, Luo Wei.
Client: Shanghai Qingpu New City Construction Development (Group) Co. Ltd.
Engineering: Bridge Structures Department of Tongji University
Contractor: Shanghai Greenland Construction (Group) Co. Ltd.
Project year: 2004-2008
Site Area: 1,000 sqm
Photographs: CA-Design
Architect: QVE Arquitectos
Location: Vitoria, Spain
Architects in charge: José María García del Monte, Ana María Montiel Jiménez & Fernando García Colorado
Cost consultant: Rafael Valín Alcocer / Project Phase
Structure Consultant: José Luis Fernández Cabo
Cost consultant: José Luis Montoya & Luis Alberto Martinez de Sarriá / Construction Phase
Services Consultant: GEA S.L.
Project year: 2002-2003
Construction year: 2006-2008
Project Area: 2,000 sqm
Photographs: Eduardo Moratinos
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