Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom-Stilwerk / Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Opening its doors to the public in December 2010, Ateliers Jean Nouvel’s latest project, Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom-Stilwerk is comprised of a variety of uses. Featuring a 5 star hotel with 182 bedrooms and suites, the mixed-use project also includes conference rooms, a fitness club, a restaurant with panoramic views on the 18th floor, retail trade area of 4,900 sqm and a public parking lot.
Architects: Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Location: Vienna, Austria
Collaborators: Pipiloti Rist, Alain Bony, Henri Labiole, Patrick Blanc
Photographs: Julien Lanoo
Rafal Secondary School / Grupo Aranea
Architects: Grupo Aranea
Location: Rafal, Alicante, Spain
Director: Francisco Leiva Ivorra
Architects: María Gadea Pascual, Martín López Robles
Collaborators: María Gadea Pascual, Martín López Robles, Marta García Chico, Marta Martínez Osma, Marian Almansa Frias, José Luis Campos, José Vicente Lillo.
Structure: TYPSA
Budget: 5.121.702,47 €
Project area: 6,195 sqm
Project year: 2003 – 2009
Photographs: Jordi Tost Llopis and Grupo Aranea
AD Classics: Miller House and Garden / Eero Saarinen
Completed in 1957 for industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his family in Columbus, Indiana, the Miller House and Garden embodies midcentury Modernism in it’s fullest. Architect Eero Saarinen‘s steel and glass composition has held together very well, proving the quality and use of materials to be worthy of time.
More on the Miller House and Garden after the break.
GSC House / e2a
Architects: e2a – Wim Eckert, Piet Eckert
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Project Team: Markus Giera, Hans-Peter Kistler, Harris Illiadis
Landscape: Vogt Landschaftsarchitektur, Zürich
Construction Management: Oppliger von Gunten, Zürich
Structure: Walt + Galmarini, Zürich
HVAC: Rechberger Huustechnik, Zürich
Electric engineering: IBG Engineering, Winterthur
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Radek Brunecky
Beton Hala Waterfront Center Competition
The City of Belgrade is launching an international one-stage architectural competition to design the Beton Hala Waterfront Center in Belgrade.
The Waterfront Center is envisioned as the principal new access point from the capital’s riverfront to its historic core, and a contemporary architectural anchor point for a vibrant pedestrian zone in one of the city’s oldest continually inhabited parts.
For more information on submissions, schedule, and prizes you can go to the competition’s official website.
Cloud City / ALA Architects
Finnish design team, ALA Architects has shared with us their latest commission, a mixed use project in Helsinki, Cloud City. Seeking to take advantage of available space within the urban core, this unique project brings density to a underutilized courtyard within a large existing factory block. Additional images, including a full set of detailed floor plans and a description by the architects after the break.
Vancouver Circus School / Marianne Amodio Architecture Studio
Architects: Marianne Amodio Architecture Studio
Location: Vancouver BC, Canada
General contractor: Woodworks Custom Developments
Project area: 6,500 sq. ft.
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Marianne Amodio Architecture Studio
Freight House Pedestrian Bridge / BNIM
Once located along the riverfront, the Pencoyd Railroad Bridge was built in 1892 and closed in 1970. Led by BNIM, the recipient of the 2011 AIA National Architecture Firm Award, this historic bridge was relocated in 2006 to a new home where it became part of a new pedestrian link spanning the railroad artery separating the revitalized Crossroads district from popular civic destinations to the south.
Project description, images, and drawings after the break.
Architect: BNIM
Location: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Project Team: TranSystems Corporation
General Contractor: JE Dunn Construction
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Farshid Assassi, BNIM
Training Center of Town Hall in Sevilla / sol89
Architects: sol89 / María González y Juanjo López de la Cruz
Location: Barriada de Palmete, Sevilla, Spain
Project area: 1,451 sqm
Project year: 2006 – 2009
Photographs: Fernando Alda
Christ Episcopal Church / Studio B Architects
Nicknamed the ‘Quonset Hut’ for its unique barrel-shaped nave, the original Christ Episcopal Church was constructed in 1962 in Aspen’s Historic West End. After numerous alterations and minor additions, the CEC sought to unify and update the aging and inefficient structure through a significant renovation and addition effort. This historic preservation, remodel and addition had to first receive approval from Aspen Historic Preservation Committee.
Architects: Studio B Architects
Location: Aspen, Colorado, USA
Project Area: 9,000 sqf
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Raul J. Garcia, Derek Skalko
Win BIG’s ‘Yes is More’ for your iPad
Registering at ArchDaily can bring you many benefits. And now, it could bring you one more. Next Wednesday, thanks to BIG and Taschen, we are giving away two copies of Yes is More, the world’s 1st architectural monograph in an eBook edition tailored to the Apple iPad (of course, you can also enjoy it in the new iPad 2!)
Become a registered user of ArchDaily right here, and good luck next Wednesday!
Shortlist for the Multi-Comfort House Competition
The following projects were selected by insulation specialist Saint-Gobain Isover as the eight shortlisted projects for the UK final of the Multi-Comfort House Competition. The competition produced many interesting solutions to the problem of urban development and energy efficient construction for high rise buildings.
Read on for more informations and images from the shortlisted projects.
Shima Kitchen / Atelier Ryo Abe Works
Atelier Ryo Abe Works shared with us this project called Shima Kitchen, located in a village on Teshima. It’s a renovation project to create a venue for arts, and dinning from an old vacant house.
Further information on this project and more photos after the break.
Low Country Residence / Frank Harmon Architect
This house, an AIA Housing Award recipient, was designed by Frank Harmon Architect to tread lightly on its lush site, and to evoke the feeling of living outdoors. The long shape and one-room-deep floor plan create a slender footprint and give each room windows and porches overlooking Shem Creek. Operable windows provide natural cross-ventilation and lighting. Approaching the house under a canopy of moss-draped live oaks and up a gentle ramp, the view of the marsh – replete with blue herons and water lilies – appears like an element in a Japanese painting. A modern interpretation of Charleston’s historic shutters provides protection from harsh weather and summer sun.
Project description, images, and drawings following the break.
Architect: Frank Harmon Architect
Location: Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, USA
Project Team: Frank Harmon FAIA, Erin Sterling AIA
Structural Engineer: 4SE Structural Engineers
Mechanical: Orbit Engineering
Landscape Architect: Judy Harmon ASLA
Geotechnical: S&ME Geotechnical
General Contractor: Design Build Corp.
Project Area: 2,900 spf
Project Year: 2005
Photographs: Richard Leo Johnson, Atlantic Archives, Inc.
Trent University Chemical Sciences Building / Teeple Architects
The Chemical Sciences Building at Trent University is conceived as a promenade, both architectural and natural, that brings one into repeated contact with the Otonabee River, the central focus of Ron Thom’s Trent University campus. Designed by Teeple Architects, it is directly linked to the ground floor of the existing science precinct, and to its +15 circulation system. The promenade weaves between these two levels, presenting views of Trent’s unique river landscape to students as they move through the campus and the building. The river is the constant reference point, ever present in one’s experience of the place.
Project description, images, and drawings following the break.
Architect: Teeple Architects
Location: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Principal in Charge: Stephen Teeple (OAA, FRAIC)
Project Team: Christopher Radigan, Matthew Smith, Myles Craig, Mark Baechler, Dean Lavigne, Stephen Irwin
Associate Architect: Shore Tilbe & Irwin
Structural Engineer: Yolles
Landscape: MBT
Mechanical Engineer: Smith & Anderson
Electrical Engineer: Crossey Engineering
General Contractor: Vanbots
Project Area: 38,736 spf
Project Yea: 2004
Photography: Tom Arban, Shai Gil
Video: Fragments of the Ideal City
Back in July, we first introduced Aarhus, Denmark’s School of Architecture along with a cool temporary pavilion assembled from euro-pallets. Recently, three of the university’s students – Johan Stoustrup, Gustav Kragh-Jacobsen and Martin Erlandsson – have shared a creative video-project which focuses on the abstraction of fragmentation. Entitled ”Fragments of the Ideal City,” the video depicts the city as an constantly changing organism as different video clips project various images upon a lime plaster model set to music by Band Ane.
Palmerston Studio / Boyd Cody Architects
Architects: Boyd Cody Architects
Location: Palmerston, Dublin, Ireland
Project area: 25 sqm
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Paul Tierney / Boyd Cody Architects
Giant Headquarter Building / Studiobase Architects + Reborn Studio
Architects: Studiobase Architects + Reborn Studio
Location: Taichung , Taiwan
Design principal: Ming-Wei Huang, AIA
Project team: CJ Wang, Mark Sun, Hsing-Feng Lin, Han Wang
Project area: 4,800 sqm
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Wei-Min Yuan
Dalene Cabin / Tommie Wilhelmsen
Architects: Tommie Wilhelmsen
Location: Østhusvik, Norway
Project area: 120 sqm
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Tommie Wilhelmsen
AD Classics: L’Auditori amb els Grans D’Europa / Rafael Moneo
Located near Placa de les Glories in Barcelona, Spain is one of Rafael Moneo’s most significant projects, L’Auditori. L’Auditori sits in the heart of Barcelona’s urban redevelopment of the Glories neighborhood that is transitioning from an infrastructural network to a more commercial, cultural node within the city. Completed in 1999, L’Auditori has come to be the center of music in the city of Barcelona showcasing operas, classical symphonies, and contemporary compilations.
Moneo’s L’Auditori is a bridge between the infrastructural and the cultural. The cor-ten steel that clads the building evokes a gritty aesthetic that’s juxtaposed to a more elegant and rich maple lined interior. L’Auditori’s inherent differentiation between elegant and industrial can be understood as a localized contextualization of Barcelona’s urban fabric.
More on L’Auditori after the break.
Quick Response Codes for New York
It has become standard to check the stock market, book a flight, and find a restaurant using our phones…but to review building permits? Starting today, Mayor Bloomberg of New York announced the Quick Response code that will allow New Yorkers to simply scan the bar code located on construction permits to access information about a specific building or construction site. The information given will share the “approved scope of work, identities of the property owner and job applicant, other approved projects associated with the permit, [and] complaints and violations related to the location,” explained the Mayor in a press release.
What do you think of this new feature? More about the latest app after the break.
