Spanish practice Capilla-Vallejos Arquitectos sent us this great project, with an amazing wood and stone mix. Great transparency.
You can see more photographs, drawings and the architect’s description after the break.
Architect: Beckmann-N’Thépé architects – Aldric Beckmann, Françoise N’thépé
Location: Rouen, France
Project Manager: Alice Auriau
Project Architect: Nicolas Gaudard, Laura Giovannetti
Assistant Architects: Nathanaëlle Baes, Frank-David Barbier, Caroline Huybrechts, Camille Lacoste
Landscape: Florence Sylvos (Paris)
Constructed Area: 950 sqm + patio
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Stephan Lucas
Chicago Union Station, by Germany-based Graft Architects will treat the user group as two: the traveler and the inhabitant.
The traveler has a destination, a purpose, a need to get through the process as efficiently as possible. The penetration into the site will be minimal; the tickets purchased en route, the space and time between the city and the outbound areas are optimized. The inhabitant seeks an extended stay; the coffee shop, the sunday morning market, life anchored to the city. The station becomes a rock jutting out of a raging river. The place of the inhabitant is at the center of the chaos, a place to better experience the city, a place to relax, a place to watch the chaos unfold.
The station serves as infrastructure for the city. It’s not a singular building, a place confined by boundaries.
The interface with the city is blurred, inside and outside undefined.
Seen at designboom. More images after the break. read more »
Architects: Willy Müller Architects
Location: Mercabarna, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
Principal in Charge: Willy Müller
Associate Architect: Frédéric Guillaud
Project Team: Caterina Morna,Rupert Maurus (modelos 3D), Isabella Pintani, Valeria Santoni, Bruno Louzada, Francisco Villeda, Iris cantante, Marco Loperfido, Mara Cascais, Sabine Bruinink, Mario Perez Botero
Collaborators: Sérgio Pinto, Ricardo Amaral, Joana Lagès, Anne-Irène Valais, Christof Larbig, Jean-baptiste Scharffhausen, Deborah Schor, Jetske Kox, Andre Mota, Andres Ferner, Kelly Hendricks, Christian Lasch, Martin Ober-Hascher, Anja Summermatter, Kelly Klein, Gilda Camacho, Sérgio Ramos, Elke Gall
Structure Consultant: Area 5
Contractor: Iconsa
Project year: 2005/2008
Constructed Area: 15,000 sqm
Model Photographs: Adria Goula Sarda
Photographs: Jordi Puig, Ricardo Loureiro
Architects: Atelje Desman & Gregorc+Vrhovec
Location: Ig, Slovenia
Project team: Miha Desman, Vanja Gregorc, Katarina Pirkmajer Desman, Ales Vrhovec
Collaborators: Sandra Banfi, Eva Fiser Berlot, Damjana Zavirsek, Dean Pertinac
Building Physics: Simon Fiser
Construction Engineer: Franc Zugel
Electrical Engineer: Ladislav Poboljsaj
Mechanical Engineer: Iztok Koch
Quantity Engineer: Irena Bele
Project year: 2005-2006
Construction Year: 2008
Photographs: Atelje Desman, Gregorc+Vrhovec, Miran Kambic and Peter Rauch
Architect: Aldo Amoretti + Marco Calvi + Giancarlo Ranalli
Location: Santo Stefano al mare, IM, Italy
Project Year: 2003-2005
Construction year: 2005-2006
Photographs: Aldo Amoretti
Architects: ADD+ Arquitectura – Manuel Bailo Esteve, Rosa Rull Bertran
Location: Manresa, Spain
Collaborators: J. Maroto, N. Canas, N. Font, E. Grammont, M. Hita, A. Mañosa, A. Marin, M. Rull, J. Palá, M. Berasategui, M. Camallonga, A. Rovira
Structure: M. Cabestany
Budget: US $1,301,558
Project year: 2005-2006
Construction year: 2006-2007
We’d like to thank the photographer Duccio Malagamba for shearing with us this great photo set. We invite you all to visit his website to see some other projects.
Architect: Pedevilla Architekten
Location: St. Lorenzen, Italy
Project Team: Armin Pedevilla, Kurt Egger
Project type: Town Hall
Client: Community of St. Lorenzen
Constructed Volume: 8,500 m³
Budget: US $3.7 M
Project Year: 2007
Energy Consumption: 5,5 kWh/m²a
Photographs: Armin Pedevilla, Günter Wett
Architects: debartolo architects ltd.
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Project team: Jack DeBartolo 3 AIA, Jack DeBartolo Jr FAIA, Aaron Taylor, Christoph Kaiser
Civil Engineer: hec engineering
Structural Engineer: rudow + berry
Mep engineering: sullivan designs
Lighting design: roger smith lighting design
Contractor: arthur porter construction
Landscape: e group
Constructed Area: 2,415 sqm
Design year: 2000-2004
Construction year: 2006
Photographs: Bill Timmerman
It’s Tuesday, that means Round Up day! Over the past weeks we brought you our selection of Patio Houses and Beach Houses. It’s time to go bigger, with our first selection of Public Facilities previously featured on ArchDaily.
Beijing Airport / Foster + Partners
Located between the existing eastern runway and the future third runway, Terminal 3 and the Ground Transportation Centre (GTC) together enclose a floor area of approximately 1.3 million m2, mostly under one roof. The first building to break the one million square meter barrier, it will accommodate an estimated 50 million passengers per annum by 2020. Although conceived on an unprecedented scale, the building’s design aims to resolve the complexities of modern air travel, combining spatial clarity with high service standards (read more…)
Zenith Strasbourg / Massimiliano Fuksas
The new Zenith building is an important project for the exhibition area in Strasbourg. It will be the new attraction which will give impulses to the future development of the city’s infrastructure. The concept of the design is based on a modular and a well balanced organization of the different elements: good views for all spectators, best acoustics and an optimized cost management already addressed during the concept phase of the design. The building is to be understood as a single, unifying and autonomous sculpture (read more…)
Kastrup Sea Bath / White arkitekter AB
Reaching out into the Øresund from Kastrup Strandpark in Kastrup, Kastrup Sea Bath forms a living and integral part of the new sea front. The project consists of the main building on the water, the new beach and an ajoining service building with lavatories and a handicap changing room. A wooden pier leads the visitor round to a circular construction, gradually elevating above the sea surface, and ending in a 5m diving platform. The building material is Azobé wood, chosen for it’s durability in sea water (read more…)
Congress Centre Brdo / Bevk Perović arhitekti
Congress Centre Brdo, built on the occasion of Slovenian Presidency of the European Union, is located in the Brdo compound, a medieval castle complex formerly belonging to Yugoslav royal family, 20 kilometers from Ljubljana. Building is conceived as a low glass pavilion which by no means reveals its representative purpose and leaves the primary role to nature. The volume of Congress Centre Brdo follows the outlines of existing old service building of the castle from which the congress centre is distanced by a stone platform (read more…)
Tivoli Concert Hall / 3XN
The venerable hall has been renovated in respect of its historical surroundings; the building has been gently modernized and improved with regards to the modern, second millennium requirements for a concert hall. The scene and the orchestra pit have been expanded, the acoustics and seating comfort considerably improved. And the Tivoli spirit remains intact. Moreover, a new extension has been realized in a light, transparent and modern expression in keeping with the existing Tivoli pavilion architecture (read more…)
drdharchitects has won first place in the international competition to design a new library and concert hall in Bodø, Norway.
The Bodø Kulturhus and Library will consist of two public buildings; a new city library (5,500m²) and a three-auditorium concert hall (7,350m²), creating a new cultural centre for the Norwegian coastal city.
The results of the competition were announced in Bodø, Norway on 27 February. drdharchitects beat five other practices to win the invited competition, including CF Moller, Medplan, General Architecture, Langdon Reis Zahn and Lundgaard & Tranberg.
Architects: Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec
Location: Thiais, France
Engineering: BETOM – SIT
Main Contractor: DUTHEIL – BETSINOR / LABASETERE
Client: PARIS HABITAT
Program: Administrative building
Project year: 2003-2007
Site Area: 3,5 há
Constructed Area: 2,450 sqm
Photographs: Benoit Fougeirol – Philippe Ruault
Photography: Nicolas Waltefaugle
This building designed by French architects AAT, was built in a small village close to the millenary town of Reims called Gueux. This building is made to centralize many local institutions and services in one place. a kind of “community for villages”.
Architects: Saucier + Perrotte architectes
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Principal in Charge: Gilles Saucier
Project Architect: André Perrotte
Project team: Sergio Morales, Anna Bendix, Maxime-Alexis Frappier, Christian Hébert
Structure: Genivar
Mechanical & Electrical engineer: Genivar
Landscape: Williams Asselin Ackaoui et associés inc.
Museum Consultants: Cultura – DES
Garden Area: 10,000 sqm
Constructed Area: 415 sqm
Project year: 2001
Photographs: Marc Cramer
The London architecture firm Sarah Wigglesworth Architects have finished a bike store in Bermondsey, London. The structure can store 76 bikes in two levels, using a system designed by bicycle rack producers Josta.
The building is constructed from 13 portal frames, clad externally with triangular, stainless-steel panels and internally with translucent, glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) sheeting. The structure will provide secure shelter for residents and workers in the Bermondsey Square area.
Photos by Mark Hadden Photography. More images, after the break. read more »
Architect: Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas
Location: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel
Programme: Auditorium, Offices, Library, Cafe, Lobby
Construction year: 2008
Interior Design: Fuksas
Site work supervisor: Michal Schaffer
Client: Pares Centre for Peace
Landscape Architects: TEMA
Art Work: Mimmo Paladino
Site Area: 7.000 sqm
Constructed Area: 2.500 sqm
Photographs: Moreno Maggi
Architects: PLOT = BIG + JDS
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Client: Sjakket Youth Club, Realdania
Partner in Charge: Bjarke Ingels
Collaborator: Julien De Smedt
Project Leader: Sophus Søbye
Project Architect: Sophus Søbye
Contributors: Bo Benzon, Christian Dam, David Zahle, Julie Schmidt-Nielsen, Kathrin Gimmel, Louise Steffensen, Mia Frederiksen, Nanna Gyldholm Møller, Nina Ter-Borch, Ole Elkjær-Larsen, Ole Nannberg, Olmo Ahlmann, Søren Lambertsen
Constructed Area: 2,000 sqm
Project year: 2007
Budget: US $3,880,000
Photographs: Vegar Moen
Architects: Carlos Meza, Alejandro Piñol, Germán Ramírez, Miguel Torres
Location: Villanueva, Colombia
Collaborators: Andrés Rodríguez Cabra y Diana Pizano
Client: National Ministry of Culture, Casanare Government
Graphic design, logo & artwork: Santiago Piñol
Builder: UT Quimper: Ing. Camilo Blanco y Arq. Óscar Pontón
Project year: 2006
Site Area: 2,500 sqm
Constructed Area: 1,551 sqm
Photographs: Nicolás Cabrera, Alejandro Piñol
Structures of Utility / David Stark Wilson
It is such a great pleasure for ArchDaily to promote David Stark Wilson’s photographic exploration Structures of Utility. We have feature Wilson’s firm WA Design… on ArchDaily, but this book offer something uniquely different. Wilson traveled the back roads
We just received the lastest edition of MARK, one of our favorite publications. There are some absolutely arresting projects and articles in this issue. A personal favorite is a piece on Jean-Francois Rauzier’s art work. Rauzier builds unique worlds out…
Architecture Humanitarian Emergencies / Jorge Lobos
2/3 of the world population have no link to professional architecture, it means 4.400.000.000 of people has not relation with academic knowledge of architecture. This book tries to explain how this knowledge can come to everywhere of our planet and…
