As the Milan Expo 2015 comes to a close, the winners of its best pavilions are being revealed. Wolfgang Buttress' UK Pavilion has taken top honors being named the exhibition's "Best Pavilion for Architecture & Landscape." A crowd favorite, the pavilion caught the attention of the world with it's mesmerizing (and photogenic) "beehive" made of 169,300 individual aluminium components that allowed visitors to experience the life of a bee.
UK and Wolfgang Buttress Win "Best Pavilion" at Milan Expo 2015
Ontario's Celebration Zone Pavilion / Hariri Pontarini Architects
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Architects: Hariri Pontarini Architects
- Area: 1200 m²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: Serge Ferrari
SOFTlab Wins Second Annual Flatiron Competition in New York
SOFTlab has been chosen as the second annual winner of the Flatiron Public Plaza design competition in New York. Their winning proposal, Nova will open to the public next month on Wednesday, November 18th. Its "crystalline" structure aims to intrigue the passer-by, welcoming them inside for framed views of the Flatiron Building and surrounding landmarks, including the Met Life Tower and Empire State Building.
HDE 17 / Poggi architecture + MORE Architecture
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Architects: MORE Architecture, Poggi architecture
- Year: 2015
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Professionals: SNC Lavalin, AIA Ingenierie, Bureau Pastier, Elithis, Emacoustic
Serpentine Director Julia Peyton-Jones Steps Down After 25 Years
Julia Peyton-Jones has announced her plan to step down as the Serpentine Gallery director in the summer of 2016. During her 25-year lead, Peyton-Jones oversaw the start of the Serpentine Gallery Pavillon commissions and opening of Zaha Hadid Architects' Serpentine Sackler Gallery.
"There is never a good time to leave an institution but I wanted to leave the Serpentine at a time of strength and success," said Peyton-Jones, as reported by the Architects' Journal.
La Chèvre / Atelier Pierre Thibault
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Architects: Atelier Pierre Thibault
- Year: 2015
A Virtual Look Into Pierre Koenig's Case Study House #21, The Bailey House
Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House 21 (Bailey House) represents an icon in the Case Study program, the visionary project for reimagining modern living developed by John Entenza for Arts & Architecture magazine. On being completed in 1959, Arts & Architecture applauded it as “some of the cleanest and most immaculate thinking in the development of the small contemporary house”, and it remains an influential single family house for architects worldwide. Now Archilogic has modelled this icon in 3D, so you can explore it yourself.
Theatre de Kampanje / van Dongen-Koschuch
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Architects: van Dongen-Koschuch
- Area: 7850 m²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: Blom & Blom, Espero
Design Trust and Farming Concrete Release World’s First Public Urban Agriculture Database
The Design Trust for Public Space and Farming Concrete have released the Farming Concrete Data Collection Toolkit: the first public platform for gathering, tracking and understanding urban agriculture production and the benefits of community gardens, urban farms and school gardens. The result of a six-year initiative, Five Borough Farm, the Toolkit features a user-friendly manual with simple methods of generating and collecting data at each garden and farm, with accompanying instructional videos; Barn, an online portal for farmers and gardeners to input and track their production; and Mill, a public database providing access to numbers, reports for practitioners, researchers, policymakers, funders and anyone with interest in urban agriculture.
Debate: Vanity Publishing
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IAAC Researcher’s Pylos 3D-Prints with Soil
Sofoklis Giannakopoulos, a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), has designed Pylos, a 3D printer that utilizes a natural, biodegradable, cheap, recyclable and local material that everyone is familiar with: the earth.
In an effort to make 3D printing a “large scale construction approach” even in years of economic and environmental turmoil, Pylos explores the structural potential of soil, a material that has been widely used in vernacular architecture around the world, and particularly in the Global South.
Learn more about the printer after the break.
VIVES University College Campus Bruges / SAR architecten
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Architects: SAR architecten
- Area: 24000 m²
- Year: 2009
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Manufacturers: Zumtobel
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Professionals: Buro voor Vrije Ruimte VOF, De Klerck engineering, Ingenieursbureau Fraeye NV, STRABAG AG
Monocle 24 Report from the CityLab Summit
For this edition of The Urbanist, Monocle 24's weekly "guide to making better cities," the team report from the two-day CityLab summit, which "gathered the world’s top mayors and urban leaders for a series of chats on how to to make our cities a better place." They explore the vision for London’s transport infrastructure, discover how Rio de Janeiro is gearing up its digital strategy ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games, and find out how to create a smart city through data. On top of that, they chat to millennials in Washington and "sit down for a very honest chat with the mayor of Athens."
Nakâra Residential Hotel / Jacques Ferrier Architecture
Mendelkern / DZL Architects
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Architects: DZL Architects
- Area: 200 m²
- Year: 2013
Valiahdi Office and Commercial Building / Hooba Design
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Architects: Hooba Design
- Area: 5500 m²
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Professionals: Harmony Company
Courtyard House Plugin en Masse – Second Phase / People's Architecture Office
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Architects: People's Architecture Office
- Year: 2015
Bakery & Restaurant SAWAMURA / Yuji Tanabe Architects
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Architects: Yuji Tanabe Architects
- Area: 635 m²
- Year: 2015
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Professionals: LFS, NCN, Takehanagumi, Yuji Tanabe Architects, honda GREEN