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Marina Otero Wins 2022 Wheelwright Prize with a Project Focused on Data Storage Architecture
Harvard University Graduate School of Design (Harvard GSD) has announced Marina Otero as the winner of the 2022 Wheelwright Prize. The 100,000 USD grant funds two years of research and travel to support contemporary architecture's investigative approaches, with an emphasis on globally minded research. The winning proposal, “Future Storage: Architectures to Host the Metaverse”, examines a new architecture paradigm for storing digital data. The project looks at how reimagining digital infrastructures could provide answers to the unprecedented demands facing the world today. The field research, data collection, and prototype development will result in an open-source manual for data center architecture design containing examples of ecological, circular, and egalitarian data storage models.
Which Building Construction Materials Are Ecological?
In the current scenario of a climate crisis, thinking about an architectural project without defining ecological guidelines has become practically unacceptable. One of the main emitters of carbon dioxide and other pollutants, the construction sector is increasingly looking for new ways and means that can make works more sustainable and, in some way, mitigate damage to the environment. Thinking about ecological materials can be one of the fundamental steps, but, which materials are these?
The Origins and Evolution of Gothic Architecture
The word “Gothic” often envokes a description of mysterious homes, or a modern-day group of people who have an affinity for dark aesthetics, but what the gothic architectural style historically brought to the built environment could not have been more opposite. Gothic designs were actually created to bring more sunlight into spaces, mainly churches, and led to the design and construction of some of the world’s most iconic buildings.
EDGE Suedkreuz Berlin Brings Hybrid-Timber Construction to a New Scale and Vision
Located in the area between Sachsendamm and Berlin Südkreuz S-Bahn train station in Schöneberg, a new mixed-use complex, EDGE Suedkreuz Berlin, was completed last month by Berlin-based architect Sergei Tchoban and his firm Tchoban Voss Architekten with additional offices in Hamburg and Dresden. The complex comprises two freestanding structures—a larger Carré Building and a smaller Solitaire Building. Together they occupy their own block. The pair is now the largest hybrid-timber complex of buildings in Germany and one of the largest in Europe.
ZGS Pavilion / Studio*K
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Architects: Studio*K
- Area: 130 m²
- Year: 2022
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Professionals: ArchStruct Design Partners, Phenomenal Solutions, Pachipamwe Africa
Mannal House / Denizen Works
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Architects: Denizen Works
- Area: 240 m²
- Year: 2021
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Professionals: John MacKinnon Builders
Blue Bottle Coffee Shanghai Cafe / Schemata Architects
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Architects: Schemata Architects
- Area: 762 m²
- Year: 2022
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Manufacturers: WHITELIGHT, ZH DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION
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Professionals: RHY, Taguchi Audio, WHITELIGHT.Ltd
Baie-de-Valois Nautical Center / ADHOC architectes + Prisme Architecture
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Architects: ADHOC architectes, Prisme Architecture
- Area: 665 m²
- Year: 2021
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Professionals: DWB Consultants, Groupe Piché Construction, Plomberie Mario Thivierge Inc
KitKat House / Alhumaidhi Architects
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Architects: Alhumaidhi Architects
- Area: 1366 m²
- Year: 2022
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Professionals: Arabian Sail Est. General Trading and Contracting
Clare House / Invilla Architecture
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Architects: Invilla Architecture
- Area: 670 m²
- Year: 2021
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Professionals: Incode Engineers, Sutton Construction, DCM Landscaping, Teneille Anderson
CHEE-SE Restaurant / KSOUL Studio
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Architects: KSOUL Studio
- Area: 245 m²
- Year: 2022
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Manufacturers: An Cuong, Dulux, EUROTO, Kohler, Vitto
CUPA Apartment / Mariel Lozano + José Esparza
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Architects: José Esparza, Mariel Lozano
- Area: 60 m²
- Year: 2022
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Manufacturers: Teka, URREA
Araucaria Greenhouse / Angá Arquitetura
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Architects: Angá Arquitetura
- Area: 33 m²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Concresteel
New A.M Enriques Agnoletti High School of Sesto Fiorentino / Settanta7
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Architects: Settanta7
- Area: 9061 m²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: Saint-Gobain, Gam Srl, Schüco, Screenline Pellini Spa
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Professionals: Stain Engineering Srl, ICIS Srl
Max 18 House / DG Estudio
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Architects: DG Estudio
- Area: 260 m²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Arkoslight, Joquer, Ondarreta, Porcelanosa Grupo, TREKU
A New Building by Kazuo Shinohara will be Added to the Vitra Campus
One of Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara’s iconic architectures, designed under the so-called "First Style" has now been reconstructed on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein. The Umbrella House, originally built in Tokyo in 1961, will serve as a venue for small gatherings on the campus, offering visitors insights on modern Japanese architecture. After the geodesic dome by Buckminster Fuller/George Howard in 1975, and a petrol station by Jean Prouvé in 1953, the project is the third historic building to be reconstructed on the Vitra Campus.
Ursula von der Leyen and Francis Kéré Open the Bauhaus Earth Conference
The “Reconstructing the Future for People and Planet” Conference, hosted by Bauhaus Earth and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS), has begun at the Casina Pio IV in the Vatican Gardens. The conference opened with a speech from Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. The extensive program brings together renowned scientists, architects, spatial planners, and policymakers to discuss the transformation of the built environment from a driver of climatic and societal crises into a force for regeneration.