Technical Construction Pavilion of the Universitario de Toledo General Hospital / TASH
Architects: TASH – Taller de Arquitectura Sánchez-Horneros
Location: Toledo, Spain
Design Team: Emilio Sánchez-Horneros, Antonio Sánchez-Horneros, Álvaro Cabrera
Area: 680 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Miguel de Guzmán
Magma Architecture Wins AIA UK Design Award
Magma Architecture…‘s Olympic and Paralympic Shooting Arenas have just been distinguished with a 2013 AIA UK Excellence in Design Award. Driven by the desire to evoke an experience of flow and precision inherent in the shooting sport through the
Kickstarter Campaign Aims to Transform Denver Parking Lot into Outdoor Classroom
Architecture for Humanity-Denver is seeking to raise money for the transformation of a museum parking lot into an outdoor classroom for children in need. The goal of Denver’s Museo de las Americas is to educate the community about the diversity…
Casa del Viento / A-001 Taller de Arquitectura
Architects: A-001 Taller de Arquitectura
Location: Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico
Architect In Charge: Eduardo Gorozpe Fernández
Project Year: 2013
Area: 650 sqm
Photographs: Jaime Navarro
San Rocco Summer School
[ August 28, 2013 0:00 to September 6, 2013 0:00. ] Taking place August 28-September 6, the University of Genoa’s San Rocco Summer School (SRSS) will teach you to design buildings by making drawings, copying precedents and talking about corner solutions. Each teacher, who is a member of the San Rocco editorial board, and some…
ADR18 Housing / LPzR architetti associati
Architects: LPzR architetti associati
Location: Andreoli 18, Milano, Italy
Architect In Charge: Gabriele Pranzo-Zaccaria
Design Team: Gabriele Pranzo-Zaccaria, Luca Gobbo, Chiara Pranzo-Zaccaria
Year: 2007
Photographs: Chiara Pranzo-Zaccaria, Gabriele Pranzo-Zaccaria
Baku White City Office Building Proposal / ADEC – Azerbaijan Development Company
The Baku White City Office Building Proposal by ADEC – Azerbaijan Development Company… just received the awards for Office Architecture and Office Development at the Asia Pacific Property Awards event last week. A development of an international level, Baku White
Evolucio / Onionlab
Projected onto the façade of the Musées d’art et d’histoire de Genève, Onionlab‘…s ‘Evolucio’ is a piece that revolves around the graphic and sound abstraction of the concept it is named after: evolution. Created with 3D projection mapping techniques, It
House in Maitencillo / Patricio Cortese Opazo
Architects: Patricio Cortese Opazo
Location: Maitencillo, Chile
Area: 250 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Courtesy of Patricio Cortese Opazo
Emergency Station in Alboraya / OMBRA Arquitectos
Architects: OMBRA Arquitectos
Location: Alboraya, Spain
Architects In Charge: Pablo Peñín Llobell, Diego Carratalá Collado, Francisco Miravete Martín y Carmen Mellado Vera
Area: 2,200 sqm
Year: 2008
Photographs: Courtesy of OMBRA Arquitectos
Tel-Aviv White City Forum Winning Proposal / Kimmel Eshkolot Architects
The Tel-Aviv White City Forum winning proposal by Kimmel Eshkolot Architects is an exhibition center, part of the huge Tel- Aviv wholesale market project currently under construction. Comprising thousands of apartment units, a mall, a school and a sports complex, the Forum will be a platform for genuine urban celebration. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Techos House / Mathias Klotz
Architects: Mathias Klotz
Location: Patagonia, Argentina
Project Architect: Mathias Klotz (KLOTZ & asociados)
Area: 650 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Matías Klotz
Outside-In / Meir Lobaton Corona + Ulli Heckmann
Architects: Meir Lobaton Corona, Ulli Heckmann
Location: Chaumont Sur Loire, France
Landscape Consultant: Julia Pankofer
Structure Consultant: Hector Triana
Area: 40 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Fabio Ferrario
Spiegel / Ippolito Fleitz Group
Architects: Ippolito Fleitz Group
Location: Hamburg
Architect In Charge: Ippolito Fleitz Group
Design Team: Peter Ippolito, Gunter Fleitz, Tilla Goldberg, Christian Kirschenmann, Tim Lessmann, Alexander Fehre, Christine Ackermann, Roger Gasperlin, Katja Heinemann
Area: 520.0 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Zooey Braun
Architect Gia Wolff Wins Inaugural Wheelwright Prize
Brooklyn-based architect and Harvard GSD alumni Gia Wolff has been awarded the $100,000 Wheelwright Prize for her proposal Floating City: The Community-Based Architecture of Parade Floats. Now in its first edition, the Wheelwright Prize is a travel grant issued by Harvard University in an effort to foster new forms of architectural research led by cross-cultural engagement.
Mohsen Mostafavi: “The positive response to the Wheelwright Prize has been extraordinary. It is inspiring to see so many talented architects with clear agendas and visions. I am delighted for Gia Wolff, the winner of the prize. Her proposed investigations at the intersection of design, performance, and temporality will surely provide us with new insights and new directions for the future of architecture.”
Two in One House / Clavienrossier Architectes
Architects: Clavienrossier Architectes
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Year: 2012
Photographs: Roger Frei
The Indicator: The Lure of the Vernacular
There is something soothing, even easy about vernacular architecture. It’s the territorial and spatial equivalent to Muzak. It evades and pre-dates the self-conscious identity of glitzy, cutting-edge architecture we are so familiar with today. There is an innocence to the vernacular. These are the buildings and environments of childhood.
This is apparent in the exhibition, In Focus: Ed Ruscha, currently showing at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. What captivates about the shots is that they dare to curate buildings that are usually just part of the background. They become objects of curiosity, spectacles, even.
Studio Terra240 / Arquitetos Associados
Architects: Arquitetos Associados
Location: Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil
Architects In Charge: Bruno Santa Cecília y Carlos Alberto Maciel
Collaboration: Enara Paiva, Michelle Andrade, Fernanda Rabelo
Area: 750 sqm
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Eduardo Eckenfels, Leonardo Finotti
2013 AIA Housing Awards Announced
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected the six recipients of the 2013 Housing Awards. The AIA’s Housing Awards Program, now in its 13th year, was established to recognize the best in housing design and promote the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit and a valuable national resource. All the winners, after the break.
Station Center Family Housing / David Baker + Partners Architects
Architects: David Baker + Partners Architects
Location: Union City, California, United States of America
Developer: MidPen Housing Corp
Year: 2012
Photographs: Bruce Damonte
Construction begins on OMA’s Bryghusprojektet in Copenhagen
OMA has broke ground on a 27,000 square meter, mixed-use development on the banks of Copenhagen’s historic waterfront in the culturally rich Slotsholmen district. Upon its completion in early 2017, Bryghusprojektet will become the new headquarters for the Danish Architecture Centre (DAC), while also providing housing, offices, retail, a restaurant, and an urban park. These programs will be stacked over and under the busy Christians Brygge, providing city dwellers direct and uninterrupted access to the water’s edge.
OMA Partner-in-charge Ellen van Loon explained: “Instead of stacking a mixed-use program in a traditional way, we positioned the DAC in the centre of the volume, surrounded by and embedded within its objects of study: housing, offices and parking. The urban routes reach into the heart of the building and create a broad range of interactions between the different program parts and the urban environment.”
More images and the architects’ description after the break…
