Construction is an exercise in frugality and compromise. To see their work realized, architects have to juggle the demands of developers, contractors, clients, engineers—sometimes even governments. The resulting concessions often leave designers with a bruised ego and a dissatisfying architectural result. While these architects always do their best to rectify any problems, some disputes get so heated that the architect feels they have no choice but to walk away from their own work. Here are 6 of the most notable examples:
"Don't Blame Me!": 6 Projects That Were Disowned by High-Profile Architects
56 Leonard Street / Herzog & de Meuron
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Architects: Herzog & de Meuron
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Laufen, Soprema
Advice For Procrastinator Architects
Scrolling through memes of cats in disguise. Checking if food has magically appeared in your refrigerator every ten minutes. Obsessively arranging books on your shelf by color. Renaming your computer's folders. In short, we seem to thrive on any irrelevant activity to avoid starting a reading, essay, model, or project. Procrastinate now, work later. Your future self can take care of business, after all.
As we suffer through long and strenuous projects, it is likely that we have all slipped into procrastination in order to avoid our next task. Not only do we avoid confronting work at the office or university studio, but also those personal errands which, if we dedicated ourselves, would enhance our daily lives. Below, based on our own experiences and expert opinion, and in order to avoid a host of other jobs around the ArchDaily office, we present 10 tips for architecture procrastinators, helping you to focus on the site analysis diagrams you should probably be doing right now!
Maidan Tent - Architectural Aid for Europe's Refugee Crisis
Over the past two years alone, more than a million people have fled the Syrian conflict to take refuge in Europe, strenuously testing the continent’s ability to respond to a large-scale humanitarian crisis. With the Syrian Refugee Crisis still unresolved, and temporary refugee camps now firmly established on the frontiers of Europe, architects and designers are devoting energy to improving the living conditions of those in camps fleeing war and persecution.
One emerging example of humanitarian architecture is Maidan Tent, a proposed social hub to be erected at a refugee camp in Ritsona, Greece. Led by two young architects, Bonaventura Visconti di Modrone and Leo Bettini Oberkalmsteiner, and with the support of the UN International Organization for Migration, Maidan Tent will allow refugees to benefit from indoor public space – a communal area to counteract the psychological trauma induced by war, persecution, and forced migration.
Galeotas House / Appleton & Domingos
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Architects: Appleton & Domingos
- Area: 3150 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Interescritório, Primus Vitória, Projecto Mosaico, Umbelino Monteiro
Look Inside a Collection of Parisian Architecture Offices, Photographed by Marc Goodwin and Mathieu Fiol
Architectural photographer Marc Goodwin, alongside Mathieu Fiol, has recently completed the fifth collection of his "ultra-marathon of photoshoots" – this time in la Ville Lumière, Paris. Following Goodwin's insight into the spaces occupied by Nordic architectural offices, his look at studios both large and small lived in by London-based practices, his lens on a collection of Beijing-based studios and, most recently, his and Felix Nybergh's study of studios in Seoul, the project has now focused on the French capital.
bedded köfererhof / bergmeisterwolf architekten
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Architects: bergmeisterwolf architekten
- Area: 300 m²
- Year: 2014
Computer Shop / OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen
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Architects: OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen
- Area: 450 m²
- Year: 2010
Renovation of Captain's House / Vector Architects
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Architects: Vector Architects
- Area: 470 m²
- Year: 2017
Armadale House / Robson Rak Architects + Made By Cohen
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Architects: Made By Cohen, Robson Rak Architects
- Area: 150 m²
- Year: 2013
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Manufacturers: APLO, CDK stone, ROYAL OAK FLOORS
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Professionals: Made By Cohen, Weller Landscapes
Dajiaoting “Big Family” Community Center / MAT Office
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Architects: MAT Office
- Area: 300 m²
- Year: 2016
Truss House / Carter Williamson Architects
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Architects: Carter Williamson Architects
- Area: 390 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Builder, The Brick Pit, western red cedar
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Professionals: Cardno, Melissa Wilson Landscape Architects
Continuity of Structure Defines this Timber Canopy in Chile
Set in a valley located 45 minutes west of Santiago de Chile, an elementary timber shed by Josep Ferrando and Diego Baloian seeks to unhinge the division between vertical and horizontal architectural elements. The scheme is the result of a private commission to build a wooden shed on a family-owned plot in the town of Curacaví, halfway between the Chilean capital and the coastal town of Valparaíso.
Drawing heavy inspiration from vernacular canopies which historically dotted the landscape of rural Chile, the scheme seeks to create a central family meeting point amongst a vast 2 hectare plot.
DELVA Landscape Architects to Revive The Hague’s Historic Centre With Interconnected Urban Greens
Serving as a new gateway to the city through the connection of various green spaces and public programs, The Green Entrance is DELVA Landscape Architects’ masterplan for a historic district of The Hague. Given The Hague’s future inner-city densification, which involves the creation of 50,000 new houses, the Dutch firm’s aim is to aid these developments through sustainable and green urban strategies, manifested “through an integral approach between landscape design, cultural heritage, mobility, programming and technology.”
Commenting on the project’s primary function, the architects state: “’The Green Entrance’ connects areas that have been isolated over the years. It starts in the spacious and open ‘City Hall' that connects to the train station and continues to the ‘Koningin Julianaplein’. No narrow doors or gates, but a wide view over the green and lively surrounding public space.”
Raval Hideaway / Mariana de Delás + Marcos Duffo
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Architects: Marcos Duffo, Mariana de Delás
- Area: 55 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: JUNG, Ceramica A Mano Alzada, HEPYM, taller Sori2
This Hand-Laid Brick Feature Wall Was Inspired by Soundwaves in Water
German architecture firm 22quadrat was inspired by the visual effect created by soundwaves moving through water when designing “impulses,” a brick relief wall in the interior courtyard of the Pallotti Residential Complex in Freising, Germany. The architects derived the concept from a metaphor; a single brick is like a single particle, hardly noticeable on its own but capable of much greater impact when combined with others.
Pl@ntNet: The "Shazam" of Plants Making Life Easier for Landscape Designers
You've probably used or heard of the app Shazam, used by millions of people to identify songs and song lyrics. A team of researchers from Cirad, IRA, Inria / IRD and Tela Botanica Network - had the idea of developing a similar application, but instead of identifying songs, the application identifies plant species.
Pl@ntNet is a new tool that helps identify plants using pictures. Collecting data from a large social network that constantly uploads images and information about plant species, Pl@ntNet has a visualization software that recognizes the plant photographed and links it to its plant library.