Courtesy of Shinichi Ogawa & Associates
Architect: Shinichi Ogawa & Associates
Location: Tochigi, Japan
Structural System: Steel frame
Building Area: 725.27
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Shinichi Ogawa & Associates
Launching in fall 2012, Parsons The New School of Design is offering a new graduate program in urbanism in New York City, the MA Theories of Urban Practice. The 2-year, 36-credit research-oriented program is designed for those who want to…
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Courtesy of ODOS Architects
Architects: ODOS Architects
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Photographs: Courtesy of ODOS Architects
[ January 17, 2012 0:00 to April 28, 2012 0:00. ] Just last month, University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design announced their lecture series for Spring 2012. All lectures are held at 6PM in Meyerson Hall and free and open to the public unless otherwise noted with continuing education credits available.…
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© Edgar Cézar
Architects: Atria Arquitetos
Location: Brasília, DF, Brazil
Total Area: 420 sqm
Client: Private
Project Year: 2010
Project Team: Gustavo Costa + Gabriela Müller, Ana Carolina Caetano, Daniel Nardelli
Photographs: Edgar Cézar
Courtesy of Studioninedots + HVDN
Studioninedots + HVDN shared with us their winning proposal for the student housing competition for TU Delft Campus. The project parameters were to design a volume of 67 meters long and 5 storeys high, with its own strong identity and a collective space on the roof including a rain water harvesting element. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
Architects: Katon Redgen Mathieson
Location: Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia
Year: 2011
Photographs: Katon Redgen Mathieson
© Duccio Malagamba
Architects: Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Client: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Department of Culture, Ministry of Public Works
Project Architect: Thomas Offermans
Design Team: Marta Pelegrin, Joaquín Pérez, Tirma Reventos, Iko Mennenga, Juan Carlos Mulero, Miguel Velasco, Luis Gutiérrez, Mónica del Arenal, Rocío Peinado
Local Architects: HMADP-architecten BV Amsterdam, Holland
Built area: 9,100 sqm
Budget: 20,000,000€
Completion date: 2007
Photography: Duccio Malagamba Fotografía de Arquitectura, Luuk Kramer
For over 20 years, Esto has been a primary source for architectural photography, as they represent a group of photographers who concentrate on architecture, design and the built environment. Esto offers an ever-expanding archive of architectural photography along with a list of extended services which now includes video and time-lapse documentation. Check out their new reel above and continue reading to find more information provided by the professionals of Esto. read more »
Courtesy of HKS
Don’t forget to check out the building today when Super Bowl XLVI kicks off at Lucas Oil Stadium in the heart of downtown Indianapolis. HKS repeats as designer for two consecutive Super Bowl venues, immediately following the Super Bowl debut at HKS-designed Cowboys Stadium in Dallas in 2011. The 1.8 million-square-foot sports and entertainment venue has normal capacity of 63,000 for Indianapolis Colts Football, but will expand to approximately 70,000 for the 2012 Super Bowl. The stadium and surrounding site will be transformed to incorporate game-day fan plazas, sponsorship zones, media broadcast areas, fan interactive zones and tailgating. The economic impact to the host city is estimated at $300 million to $400 million.
Mark A. Williams, AIA, principal for HKS Sports & Entertainment Group, said, “We are proud to have created the venues selected for the world’s preeminent sporting event. While very different in their designs, Lucas Oil Stadium and last year’s host, Cowboy Stadium, both provide a setting that immeasurably enhances fan enjoyment and contributes to the success of this momentous event.”
Continue reading to learn more about the 2012 Super Bowl venue.
© Pedro Pegenaute
Architects: José María Sánchez García
Location: Don Benito, Badajoz, Spain
Project Year: 2006
Project Team: ARO consultores: Francisco Sánchez García, Enrique García- Margallo Solo de Zaldivar
Structural Engineer: Aro Consultores / Enrique García- Margallo Solo de Zaldivar
Services Engineer: Aro Consultores / Francisco Sánchez García
Photographs: Pedro Pegenaute
Courtesy of Studio Schiattarella
Conjugating innovation and tradition, the first prize winning proposal for the Celebration Hall of Riyadh by Studio Schiattarella, in collaboration with Tecturae, aims at adhering to the specific route adopted by the Saudi culture. The building appears to be the requirement currently expressed globally and each culture develops it in its own fashion. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
[ March 17, 2012 0:00 to September 30, 2012 0:00. ] As part of the V&A’s British Design Season, this display in the Theatre and Performance Galleries taking place March 17 – September 30 will celebrate the work of over 30 of the most pioneering British theatre designers, architects and artists…
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Courtesy of NFO
The proposal for the Vrbani Business Center by NFO in Zagreb, Croatia aims to solve its inner urbanism within itself and set the guidelines for the development of the surrounding area. They do so through a cube form set on the site while passages carve within the closed volume to emphasize directions from the environment and, at the same time, pull users closer to the internal context of the new structure. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
Courtesy of Make Architects
Architects: Make Architects
Location: Nottingham, UK
Client: The University of Nottingham
Completed: 2008
Collaborators: Rok Sol Construction, Adams Kara Taylor, AECOM, Faber Maunsell, Craft Pegg Landscape Architects, Davis Langdon, Gardiner & Theobald
Area: 12,000 sqm
Photographs: Zander Olsen, Make Architects
You may remember our coverage on the Flight Assembled Architecture exhibit by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea, in collaboration with ETH Zurich, that featured a team of flying drones constructing an architectural structure at the scale of a 600m high “vertical village” out of foam blocks. Well, check this out! Roboticists at the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab, along with developer Kmel Robotics, have created these autonomous Nano Quadrotors capable of flying in formation and flawlessly performing complex maneuvers. Imagine the possibilities!
Reference: Wired, GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania
© Adrià Goula
Architect: Sergi Pons Architecte
Situation: Barcelona, Spain
Collaborators: Anna Giralt
Project year: 2011
Photographs: Adrià Goula
Courtesy of Influx Studio
European Union Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard urges world leaders attending the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro this June to double the share of renewable energy they use by 2030 and give all citizens access to sustainable power.
Back in 1992, Rio hosted the first conference, known as the Earth Summit, where 108 heads of state attended to set up the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in effort to stabilize increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
Bloomberg reports that Hedegaard declined to comment on whether or not the promises made should be legally binding. As certain nations are attempting to make the commitments enforceable, China and India seem to be in opposition. India’s Environmental Minister Jayanthi Natarajan believes richer nations should “shoulder the larger burden so poorer countries that weren’t responsible for emissions in the past aren’t saddled with measures to combat climate change.”
Via Bloomberg
Check out Algae Green Loop / Influx Studio, a project that explores the sustainable opportunities of algae, shown in the rendering above.
Courtesy of MDR Architectes
Architects: MDR Architectes
Location: Roussillon, France
Photographs: Courtesy of MDR Architectes
[ January 28, 2012 0:00 to July 8, 2012 0:00. ] Big Enough? Architecture Exhibition held at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, Canada now until July 8 features architecture firms Altius Architecture Inc., nkA and rzlbd who created new installations which explore the idea of what is big enough. In addition,…
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“The representation of creative ideas is of primary importance within any design-based discipline, and is particularly relevant in architecture where we often do not get to see the finished results, i.e. the building, until the very end of the…
We recently received KieranTimberlake’s newest book, Inquiry. Instead of listing one project after the next, as in most monographs, this book is organized around ten gerunds: bending, coupling, filtering, inserting, offsetting, outlining, overlapping, puncturing, reflecting, and tuning. This is…
We recently received the newest edition of Mark Magazine. Number 33 offers in depth looks of several projects ArchDaily has previously featured such as: Sunset Chapel by BNKR Arquitectura, iGuzzini Illuminazione Spain Headquarters by MiAS Arquitectes, Villa Geldrop by Hofman Dujardin…
