© Iwan Baan

Construction is complete on Hypar Pavilion at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, situated on the edge of Hearst Plaza and 65th Street, the new free standing structure is the home of a new public lawn and restaurant.

The dual requirements of a destination restaurant and a public green space located within the confines of the Plaza are satisfied with a single architectural gesture sited between the reflecting pool and the plaza’s north edge. Elizabeth Diller comments, “Hypar Pavilion’s moment of invention came when we discovered how to design a destination restaurant without consuming public space on the Lincoln Center campus. The roof became a new kind of interface between public and private, with an occupiable twisting grass canopy over a glass pavilion restaurant.”

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Architects: Diller Scofidio + Renfro with FXFOWLE
Location: New York City, New York, USA
Design Team Principals: Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio and Charles Renfro
Design Senior Associate: Kevin Rice
Architecture Team: Zoe Small, Haruka Saito, Ann-Rachel Schiffman, Stefan Roeschert, Michael Hundsnurcher, Roman Loretan, Dan Sakai, Chris Andreacola, Anthony Saby, Mateo Antonio de Cardenas, Toshikatsu Kiuchi, Felipe Ferrer, Hallie Terzopolos
Core and Shell Design: Diller Scofidio + Renfro with FXFOWLE
Kitchen Design: Yui Design
Lighting: Tillotson Design Associates
SMEP: Ove Arup & Partners
Acoustical: Jaffe Holden
Telephone and Data Consulting: Shen Milsom & Wilke
Construction: Turner Construction
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Iwan Baan

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Photo by Tjeerd Derkink.

For this temporary hotel, IAA Architects created a shelter where the occupants become a form of entertainment to passersby.   Designed in collaboration with artists and Aneta Grzeszykowska Jan Smaga, the hotel is part of a temporary installation and envisioned as a piece of art.  With five screened bedrooms, a shared gardens and common facilities, the hotel offers an inexpensive place to lodge and creates a simple aesthetic for the Grenswerk Festival of Arts.

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© Nicolas Waltefaugle

Architects Matthieu Gelin & David Lafon designed both an office building and pavilion on this site in Paris, France. The office building required two different programs; housing both RATP office space on the ground level and circus office space on the second floor, each function was defined by use of materials.

The pavilion is a white folded shape that emerges from the ground at the entrance of the subway station Porte des Lilas. This monolithic shelter provides a dynamic shape and strong signal for travelers. Exceptional by its great dimension, its sharpness and folding is both artistic and functional, appropriately providing enough space for two buses.

After the break is further description about each project and photographs.

Architects: Matthieu Gelin & David Lafon
Location : Paris, France
Landscape Designer: Territoires
Structure Engineer: Intégral 4
Road Engineer: ATPI
Light Designer: Light Cible
Client: City of Paris, SEMAVIP
Project Area: 252 sqm (office), 250sqm (pavilion)
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Nicolas Waltefaugle

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Courtesy of Pedro Sousa + Tiago Ferreira + Tiago Coelho + Bárbara Silva + Madalena Madureira

A couple of weeks ago, we featured the winners of the House in Luanda: Patio and Pavilion Competition promoted by the Lisbon Architecture Triennale together with Luanda Triennale. Now, we can have a better look at the winning proposal, designed by the team of Pedro Sousa, Tiago Ferreira, Tiago Coelho, Bárbara Silva, and Madalena Madureira.

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Courtesy of Gansam Architects & Partners

Gansam Architects & Partners proposal for the SILO Recycling International Competition for the Yeosu Expo in Yeosu, South Korea.  The design includes an expo gallery and visitor’s center that hopes to establish the feeling of the expo center with the city and its natural environment.

Read on for more images and information after the break.

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© Ken Hayden

Simpson Park Hammock is easily accessible from downtown Miami at the intersection of South Miami Avenue and SW 15th Road. Simpson Park Hammock’s history dates back to 1913 when residents requested that 5.5 acres of native hardwood hammock be preserved as a natural area.  Since then there have been many highs and lows and this new pavilion structure, by Miami architect Chad Oppenheim and Swiss landscape designer Enzo Enea, was part of the first phase of a public/private partnership to revitalize this historic park and return it to the community.  The pavilion embodies a symbiotic relationship between nature and architecture as the structure embraces and becomes interwoven within the diverse indigenous canopy of the hammock while minimizing ecological site impact.

After the break you will find more photographs of the pavilion and words from Chad Oppenheim.

Architects: Oppenheim Architecture + Design
Location: Miami, Florida, United States
General Contractor: Enea Garden Design / Larqcon Group
Structural Engineer: Ysrael A. Seinuk
Landscape Architect: Enea Garden Design
Electrical Engineer: Gustavo Solano
Lighting Designer: Kreon
Client: City of Miami Department of Parks and Recreation
Project Team:  Chad Oppenheim, Carl Römer, Robert Moehring, Kurt Petgrave
Project Area: 300 sqf
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Ken Hayden

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The International Competition A HOUSE IN LUANDA: PATIO AND PAVILION, promoted by the Lisbon Architecture Triennale together with Luanda Triennale, with the goal of selecting the best proposal for the conception of a family unit house in Luanda, was the most participated International Competition of Ideas ever to take place in Portugal, thus showing that the Lisbon Architecture Triennale completely fulfills its international calling.

The competition received 599 proposals, 588 of which were accepted to the competition, from 44 countries and 5 continents. ArchDaily has recently featured the 2nd prize winner of this competition. 1st prize as well as all others after the break. read more »

Courtesy of Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech garnered the first price for LUMENHAUS, their design of cutting edge responsive architecture. The 10-day inaugural Solar Decathlon Europe competition featured 17 inventive designs from around the world. The competition challenged the designs to “clearly demonstrate that solar houses can be built without sacrificing energy efficiency or comfort, and that they can be both attractive and affordable.”

Designed as a modern day pavilion and inspired by Mies Van der Rohe’s Farnsworth house, the LUMENHAUS successfully created open flowing spaces connecting occupants visually to their surrounding environment.  More photographs and a detailed description about LUMENHAUS following the break.

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Courtesy of Cristina Peres, Diogo Aguiar, Teresa Otto & Tiago Andrade

Luanda, which is the capital and largest city in Angola, is located in an area of south-central Africa that is mostly characterized as having poor living conditions for its inhabitants, but is surrounded by the natural beauty of the Atlantic Ocean.

In a competition that encouraged its participants to design a house that foretold the urban future of the city, the collaborative team of Cristina Peres, Diogo Aguiar, Teresa Otto and Tiago Andrade won the 2nd Prize for the International Competition ‘House in Luanda: Patio and Pavillion’ where they responded to what Luanda has to offer and created an idea that would revive society and its economic conditions. More images and description after the break. read more »

Courtesy of AnL Studio

The Parklands, South Bank, Brisbane, Australia, has played host to Lightwave, a sensory light installation at the Unlimited festival. At 10m x 16m x 5.5m, Lightwave is not just a sculpture or an art piece, but an object that can be interacted with, like a large animated toy or hybrid living creature—glowing and pulsing by the river. The design by AnL Studio was intended to provoke conversations about using contemporary parks as a performative public space. By offering a new and unexpected experience between people and the object (displayed art), or between nature and the (artificial) object, Lightwave responds in a purposefully dynamic and playful way, engaging and inviting public participation. The object is responsive to the new environment, therefore generating a new pattern into the place and time.  More explanation and photographs of Lightwave following the break.

Architects: AnL Studio
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Project Architects: Keehyun Ahn and Minsoo Lee
Prototyping Design/Interactive Consultant : Rory Nugent, Andy Doro
Project Management: Laing O’Rourke, Byte Logic
Curator: Creativesight, Hassell
Electrical Engineers and Lighting/Interactive Consultants: Webb Australia
Structural engineer: OPUS
Cost Planning: Mitchell Brandtman
Building Certification: Certis
Surveying: LandPartners
Construction and Construction Management: Laing O’Rourke
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of AnL Studio
Interactive Fabrication: Watthouse, Zenith, Xenian, CTI, Imaginus
Fabrication: Flow Force, Heyday
Landscaping: Dig It, South Bank Corporation,
Concrete Supply: Boral

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Courtesy of Simon De Aguero

Brittlebush was developed as a design-build experience for Simón De Agüero, graduate student, designer, and project manager. The design is an experimental desert dwelling for winter residents at Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Simón envisioned the design to be an open-air living space with protective roof and walls for the sleeping area.

Approximately 90% of the steel in the project was salvaged from the school scrap yard; 100% of the rammed earth for the walls was from the school property; 100% of the wood used for the formwork was salvaged from onsite renovation waste.

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Architect: Simon De Aguero
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Assistant Project Manager: Erik Krautbauer
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Simon de Aguero & Saskia Jorda

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Last year we featured the Brochstein Pavilion designed by Thomas Phifer & Partners and The Office of James Burnett. Since then, the pavilion has received a National AIA Award, a National ASLA Honor Award and the ASU Architectural Citation. Today, we’d like to share with you a video that The Office of James Burnett made about the pavilion. Enjoy!

Courtesy of Studio Gang Architects

The project transforms a picturesque urban pond from the 19th century into an ecological habitat buzzing with life. With the design’s improvements to water quality, hydrology, landscape, accessibility, and shelter, the site is able to function as an outdoor classroom in which the co-existence of natural and urban surroundings is demonstrated.

Architect: Studio Gang Architects
Client: Lincoln Park Zoo
Project Area: 4 acres
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Beth Zacherle and Studio Gang Architects

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© Pedro Kok

Architect: Gerrit Rietveld
Location: Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Project Years: 1955 (Arnhem, the Netherlands), 1965 (Kröller-Müller Museum) and 2010 (rebuilt)
Photographs: Pedro Kok

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Courtesy of UGO architecture and design

After the H3Ar split earlier this year, Hugon Kowalski founded UGO architecture and design, and he shared with us his proposal for the Sukkah City Design Competition in New York. More images and architect’s description after the break. read more »

Courtesy of LGT Office

Architects Christo Logan, Chris Gee, and Gayle Tsern (LGT Office), shared with us their proposal for the Stratford Station Olympic Kiosk Competition, in London, England. More images and architect’s description after the break. read more »

© MacDowell.Tomova

A young design firm led by Parke MacDowell, Diana Tomova and Boriana Tomova have shared their recently completed Wave Pavilion with us. Situated on the campus of the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, the pavilion functions as a gathering space and doubles as a didactic tool within the dialogue of digital fabrication.  Constructed from ½ inch steel rods, the pavilion intends to illustrate how the line can be “explicitly leveraged toward the nuanced description of space.”

More about the pavilion, including a quick construction video, after the break. read more »

© Esan Rahmani + Mukul Damle

Australian designer Esan Rahmani in collaboration with Mukul Damle have designed “Bamboo Pavillion”, a synthesis of sustainable ideas for a communal shelter for the disadvantaged around the Indian Ocean Rim.

Focusing on readily available materials in the region, the whole pavillion is designed to be made from bamboo. Bamboo’s extraordinary physical characteristics make is suitable for all types of structures including roofing, water pipes, drainage, flooring. This along with smart joinery means that there is little need for any other materials.

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© JDS Architects

For JDS Architects‘ Encants Market in Barcelona, the firm employs their conventional strong geometry to create an open market place.  The occupiable  roof measures 7 meters in thickness and contains about half of the market’s activity (the other half occurs between the roof and the parking level).  Inside, a ramp brings visitors to ground level, echoing the same circulation ideas found in Frank Lloyd Wright’s New York Guggenheim.  From ground level, the open sides of the market create a feeling of permeability, allowing easy access for those passing by.

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© Hoogte Twee Architecten

Netherlands-based Hoogte Twee Architecten shared with us their project B(h)uis, a small pavilion built with PVC tubes. More images and architect’s description after the break. read more »