House for Two Artists / Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects
Designed by Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects, the House for Two Artists replaces a dilapidated shack that was on their secluded property. The clients, a composer and a photographer, desired a home that could be a refuge drawing from and connected to the land. Their view of their role as custodians of this beautiful site bolstered their motivation to design and build as sustainability as possible – an objective shared by the architects as well. The surrounding vistas consist of rolling hills with dense covers of various species of native California trees. This context in concert with the owners’ and designers’ principles of environmental stewardship, were the guiding inspirations for the placement, form, and materials of the house.
Architects: Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects
Location: Sonoma County, California, USA
General Contractor: Sawyer Construction
Structural: Greg P. Luth & Associates, Inc.
Project Area: 1,660 sqf
Project Year: 2004-2007
Photographs: Mark Citret Photography
Residential Building In Slovenia / Ravnikar Potokar Arhitekturni
Architects: Ravnikar Potokar Arhitekturni
Location: Majske poljane, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Competition Designers: Vojteh Ravnikar, Matjaž Bolčina, Nika Grabar, Ernest Milčinovič, Teja Savelli, Jure Zavrtanik
Design Group: Vojteh Ravnikar, Robert Potokar, Marjan Starič, Petra Slukan
Structural Engineering: Primorje d.d.
Mechanical Installations: Pinss d.o.o.
Electrical Installations: Elita i.b. d.o.o.
Contractor: Primorje d.d.
Investor: Majske poljane d.o.o.
Project area: 8,200 sqm
Project year. 2007 – 2010
Photographs: Peter Krapež
Heerenschürli Sports Facilities / Dürig AG + Topotek 1
Architects: Dürig AG
Location: Helen Keller Strasse 20, 8051 Zürich, Switzerland
Landscape Architects: Topotek 1
Client: The City of Zürich, represented by: Grün Stadt Zürich, Immobilien-Bewirtschaftung, Amt für Hochbauten
Project area: 100,200 sqm
Project year: 2004-2010
Photographs: Hanns Joosten, Ruedi Walti
Ebi / yHa architects+ L&C design
Architects: yHa architects (Yujin HIRASE)+ L&C design (Ayaka YASUDA)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Constructor: Kitano Kensetsu Co., Ltd.
Project area: 111 sqm
Project year: 2006 – 2007
Photographs: Takeshi YAMAGISHI
AD Classics: MIT Chapel / Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen is one of the most respected architects of the 20th Century, often regarded as a master of his craft. Known for his dynamic and fluid forms, his design for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s chapel takes on a different typology than his previous works. Completed in 1955, the MIT Chapel is a simple cylindrical volume that has a complex and mystical quality within. Saarinen’s simple design is overshadowed by the interior form and light that were meant to awaken spirituality in the visitor.
The non-denominational chapel is intended to be more than just a religious building, rather it’s meant to be a place of solitude and escape that induces a process of reflections. Located at the heart of MITs campus, the chapel’s cylindrical form breaks the rigidity of the campus’s orthogonal grid.
More on the MIT Chapel after the break.
Studio Spec / Facet Studio
Architects: Facet Studio
Location: Sydney, Australia
Project team: Olivia Shih, Kashiwagi Yoshihito
Project area: 75 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Katherine Lu
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part XXXIV
We’ve finally passed the 40,000 photos on our Flickr Pool. A huge thank you to all the photographers that share their work with us! As always, remember you can submit your own photo here, and don’t forget to follow us through Twitter and our Facebook Fan Page to find many more features.
The photo above was taken by Ken Lee 2010 in Chiba, Japan. Check the other four after the break.
The Indicator: Keep Off the Grass
PREFACE
Since 2002, the U.S. Department of Energy has been running the Solar Decathlon to promote innovation in sustainable building technologies. The program places twenty collegiate teams from around the world in competition to produce prototype homes capable of producing more energy than they consume and powered exclusively by the sun. This year, the teams received the surprise news that their “sites” have been changed from the Mall to an as yet undecided alternate location. Even though one of the conditions of participation in the contest is to provide for the replacement of damaged lawn areas, the Department of the Interior and the National Parks Service are worried about the grass. Judging from the current state of the lawn, it would probably be in better shape after the Decathlon teams have removed their houses and fixed it.
Here is a link to a heart-wrenching video produced by the SCI-arc/Cal Tech Team. They ask you to contact members of Congress and The White House. Please support the Decathletes by calling, emailing, tweeting, facebooking, and writing.
More after the break.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Spring 2011 Lecture Series
The School of Architecture Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shared with us their Spring Lecture Series. Lectures are held at EMPAC beginning at 6pm with free admission.
March 23rd
Peter Bohlin
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
April 5th
Henry N. Cobb
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
April 26th
Paola Antonelli
Curator for Architecture and Design, MoMA
San Pedro Apóstol Rural Sports Center / blaanc borderless architecture
Portuguese office blaanc borderless architecture, in collaboration with Mexican-based architects CaeiroCapurso, have been awarded a $25,000 USD funding by the international competition Gamechangers for their Project dedicated to building a Rural Sports Center in San Pedro Apóstol in Oaxaca, México for its underprivileged community. The competition was promoted and financed by Architecture for Humanity in partnership with Nike Inc. in another initiative to increase social cohesion through sports. The project is scheduled for construction in 2011.
More on the project after the break.
Brent Knoll / March Studio
Architects: March Studio
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Principal architects and team: Rodney Eggleston, Anne-Laure Cavigneaux, Lauren Steller, Joseph Reyes, Ben Waters, Geoffrey Binder, Dave Henderson, Mark Raggatt
Engineer: Tim Hall and Associates
Project area: 230 sqm
Photographs: March Studio Pty. Ltd and John Gollings Photography
Elm / Randy Brown Architects
The architects were challenged to design an affordable, modern, eco-friendly home that would sell at the same price point as a homebuilder house with comparable square footage. The result was a modular designed bar that sits on a poured-in-place concrete foundation situated within a 2 acre lot in suburban Omaha. More photographs and drawings of Elm, designed by Randy Brown Architects, following the break.
Architects: Randy Brown Architects
Location: Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Courtesy of Randy Brown Architects
Student Dormitory / Nickl & Partner Architekten
Architects: Nickl & Partner Architekten
Location: Im Neuenheimer Feld 136, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Client: Studentenwerk Heidelberg
Project area: 3,800 sqm
Project year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Stefan Müller-Naumann
Lecture: Bjarke Ingels at NSAD
Bjarke Ingels, award winning Danish architect and author and recently winner of our Building of the Year Award in the Cultural category, will deliver a lecture to NewSchool of Architecture and Design (NSAD) students on his architecture and how the evolution of political, economic, and social issues in today’s society is manifested in architecture designs.
The insightful and at times humorous presentation, “YES is More”, will highlight the evening presentation, Friday, February 25 at 6 p.m. at the Museum of Natural History in Balboa Park. For more information on this lecture, please click here.
Phoenix Health Sciences Education Building / CO Architects & Ayers Saint Gross
CO Architects, specialists in architecture for education and healthcare, along with the office of Ayers Saint Gross, associate and master plan architect, shared with us their award-winning design that exemplifies new, interdisciplinary teaching and research.
The physical manifestation of a new, interdisciplinary approach to health sciences education and research is rising from the flat pans of downtown Phoenix, AZ in the form of an architecturally expressive, world-class, sustainable educational facility. Currently under construction, the project recently won a 2010 NEXT LA Citation Award given to “on-the-boards” projects by the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). More images and project description after the break.
University Of Alberta Triffo Hall / Group2
Architects: Group2 Architecture Engineering Ltd. {Predecessor Firm: Barry Johns (Architecture) Limited}
Location: Edmonton, Canada
Client: University of Alberta
Project Team: Barry Johns, Laura Plosz, Troy Smith, Eugene Gyorfi, Graeme Johns, Katrina Szekely, Christie Grayson, Chad Oberg, Steve Londry
Structural Engineering: Reed Jones Christofferson Consulting Engineers
Mechanical Engineering: Hemisphere Engineering Inc.
Electrical Engineering: Washea Mah Engineering Ltd.
LEED Consultant: Group2 Architecture Engineering Ltd
Commissioning Agent: Independent Commissioning Solutions Inc.
Contractor: Binder Construction
Cost Consultant: Cuthbert Smith Consulting Partnership
Project area: 2,368 sqm
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Robert Lemermeyer Photography/Group2
In Progress: The Hepworth Wakefield Gallery / David Chipperfield
Wojtek Gurak recently shared these photographs of The Hepworth Wakefield Gallery designed by David Chipperfield. Still under construction the new art gallery will open May 21, 2011. Situated next to the River Calder, the state-of the-art facility has ten gallery spaces displaying historic and modern art as well as temporary exhibitions of contemporary art making it one of the largest purpose-built galleries outside of London. The program also includes an auditorium, learning studios, garden, cafe and shop.
Ferreries Cultural Centre / [ARQUITECTURIA]
Architects: [ARQUITECTURIA] Olga Felip + Josep Camps
Location: Tortosa, Spain
Collaborators: Mariel·la Agudo, Aitor Horta, Jaume Farrés, Irene Solà
Client: Ajuntament de Tortosa
Project area: 2,495 sqm
Project year: 2009 – 2010
Photographs: Pedro Pegenaute
House of Tapes / Emmett McNamara
Emmett McNamara, a student of the Edinburgh College Of Art, has shared his House of Tapes with us. The project is an exercise in re-use as emphasis was placed on developing a new function for an abundant waste material. McNamara gathered over 7,000 tapes from charity shops, friends, and tape dealers in the local vicinity to construct the structure.
More about the project after the break.
Atelier K / Kensaku Tohmoto
Architects: Kensaku Tohmoto
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Contractor: Sanwa Koumuten Co. Ltd.
Project area: 86 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Yoshiyuki Hirai
MARU MARU Office / RSP Architects
Architects: Chia Tien San, Clarence – RSP Architects
Location: Beijing, China
Client: White Peak Real Estate Investment
Photographs: Alexander Ford
