The Holy Hills in Arles / GVultaggio Architects
GVultaggio Architects of Rome has shared with us their proposal for a ecumenical center in Southern France. Follow after the break for additional images of the model as well as a description from the designers.
Police Station In Provins / Ameller & Dubois Associés
Architects: Ameller & Dubois Associés
Location: Provins, France
Engineers: AR&C, INEX
Project area: 1,940 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Luc Boegly
Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts / Allied Works Architecture
Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts is a building that supports the production of young artists. Where the school excels in the academic preparation of its students, it aspires to forge rigorous, creative thinkers and makers in spaces that inspire ideas and provoke experimentation and production. The 200,000 sqf expansion to the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, designed by Allied Works Architecture, includes areas for the core programs of music, dance, theater, and visual arts, as well as spaces for assembly and traditional academic instruction. The expansion is organized as simple loft spaces of concrete, brick and glass that rotate around and extend outward from an open-air central amphitheater, known to students as the ‘Green Room’. The program clusters are contained in distinct volumes that provide individual identity yet overlap adjacent disciplines in plan and section. Project description, images and drawings following the break.
Architects: Allied Works Architecture
Location: 2501 Flora St, Dallas, Texas, USA
Project Team: Brad Cloepfil (Principal), Chris Bixby (Project Lead), David Suttle (Project Architect)
Project Area: 202,000 sqf
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Jeremy Bittermann and Vicky Sambunaris
Origami Peace Dove / AR+TE Architectes
Architects: AR+TE Architectes
Location: Paris, France
Engineering: CTC Ingeniere
Project area: 78 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: AR+TE Architectes
Yanlord Landmark / NBBJ
Hailed as one of China’s top 10 new urban landmarks NBBJ‘s design of Yanlord Landmark sets a new standard for high-end retail, work, and residential space in Chengdu. Yanlord Landmark was selected by the China Index Academy and China Index Research Institute as one of China’s Top 10 New Urban Landmarks two years in a row (2008-2009 and 2009-2010).
Project description and images after the break.
Architect: NBBJ
Location: Chengdu, People’s Republic of China
Architect of Record: China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute
Interior Design: Lian Zhitian and CL3
Structural Engineer: ARUP
Landscape Architect: EDAW
Lighting Consultant: Panorama
Curtain Wall Consultant: Aurecon
Property Consultant: Jones Lang LaSalle
Surveyor: DLS
Signage: Dutton Bray
Project Area: 212,482 sqm
Project Area: 2010
Photography: Paul Dingman
26LAB: A life enrichment program and learning lab
26LAB, NFP is a new not-for-profit founded in the city Chicago, a life enrichment program and sustainable learning lab using architecture, engineering and construction education. While they complete the renovations of the lab, they are hosting a “26LAB iit pilot” program for high school students, in partnership with IIT Idea Shop on the famed campus designed by Mies Van der Rohe, and now with a building by Koolhaas.
Also, 26LAB is hosting a Pre-Opening Fundraiser event on Friday March 11th, at 7pm. More information after the break.
Instituto of Health Sciences Career Academy / JGMA (Moreno Architects)
JGMA won the competition to design the Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy High School (IHSCA) in Chicago, Illinois for the Institutio del Progreso Latio. The program is for a charter school that will serve 600 youth from Chicago communities. It will be the first career academy in the state of Illinois dedicated to health sciences. The new facility will also provide serves to consolidate existing programs under the Instituto.
More on this project after the break.
MTV Networks Headquarters / Dan Pearlman
Architects: dan pearlman Markenarchitektur GmbH
Location: Berlin, Germany
Client: MTV Networks
Project year: 2010
Photographs: diephotodesigner.de
University of Pennsylvania School of Design 2011 Spring Lecture Series
University of Pennsylvania School of Design boasts one of the Top 10 Graduate Architecture Schools in the United States. This month their Spring Lecture Series, More and More, is hosting Qingyun Ma (M.Arch), dean of the USC School of Architecture. This event is free and open to the public and PennDesign is a registered provider of continuing education programming for the American Institute of Architects.
Qingyun Ma has been called one of “the 27 most influential designers making an impact on business today.” Ma is considered to be among the most exciting contemporary Chinese architects, first receiving international attention as coordinator of Rem Koolhaas’ first Harvard Project on Cities and subsequent book, The Great Leap Forward.
His work has been exhibited around the world, earning him honors including a Design Vanguard award from Architectural Record, Phaidon’s Emerging Design Talents designation and a New Trends of Architecture designation by the Euro-Asia Foundation.
Wednesday, March 16
Qingyun Ma
MORE AND MORE – 2011 Spring Lecture Series
6:00pm – 7:30pm, Meyerson Hall, B3
Other events this month for the Architecture Department:
Tuesday, March 22
Urbanism II
6pm, Meyerson Lower Gallery
Thursday, March 24
Armand Grüntuch & Almut Ernst, Grüntuch Ernst
6:30pm, Meyerson B3
Monday, March 28
Karim Rashid
IPD, sponsored by the IPD Lecture Fund and Lisa Roberts and David Seltzer
6pm, Meyerson B1
Chuckanut Drive Residence / Miller Hull Partnership
Designed by The Miller Hull Partnership, this 1,400 sqf main house and guest house/ garage is located on a heavily wooded cliff site with views out over the San Juan Islands of Washington State. The plan orients to major views south down the coast line and west out to the islands while being careful to stay outside of the drip line of the dominant Doug fir trees. Large overhangs protect glazing and provide shelter. This house was awarded an American Institute of Architects Housing Award.
Project description and images following the break.
Architect: Miller Hull Partnership
Location: Bellingham, Washington, USA
Project Area: 1,400 sqf
Photographs: Benjamin Benschneider
Centre for Hearing and Language / e2a
Architects: e2a – Wim Eckert, Piet Eckert
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Project Team: Hans-Peter Kistler, Sebastian Holzhausen
Construction Management: Oppliger von Gunten, Zürich
Structure: Walt + Galmarini, Zürich
HVAC: Rechberger Huustechnik, Zürich
Electric engineering: Thomas Lüem Partner AG, Zürich
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Radek Brunecky, Dominique Marc Wehrli
New Pumping Station in Stockholm / UD Urban Design AB
Architects: UD Urban Design AB
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Client: Fortum Värme AB & Stockholm stad
Structural Engineering: Mattias Lilja, Pyrit
Project year: 2009 – 2010
Photographs: Per Kristiansen
New Flagship Campus for City of Westminster College / schmidt hammer lassen architects
Architects: schmidt hammer lassen architects
Location: Westminster, England
Engineer: Buro Happold
Project area: 24,000 sqm
Project year: 2006 – 2010
Photographs: Adam Mørk
AD Classics: Boston City Hall / Kallmann, McKinnell, & Knowles
As part of an international competition to design Boston’s City Hall in 1962, three Columbia University professors, Kallmann, McKinnell & Knowles, diverted from the typical sleek, glass and steel structures that were being requested by popular demand. Rather than basing their design on the material aesthetics, their goal was to accentuate the governmental buildings connection to the public realm.
Completed in 1968, the Brutalist style city hall bridges the public and private sectors of government through a gradient of reveal and exposure that allows the public to become integrated, either physically or visually, into the daily affairs of the governmental process.
More on the Boston City Hall after the break.
FK Austria Wien Training Academy / Franz Architekten + Atelier Mauch
Architects: Franz ZT gmbh + Atelier Mauch gmbh
Location: Vienna, Austria
Project area: 2,630 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Stephan Wyckoff
Las Torres De Cotillas Competition proposal / STL Architects
As a finalist for the Torres De Cotillas Competition, STL Architects shared with us their proposal for the new Auditorium and Arts Center within the future office park. The design is projected to become the key element of connection between the new urban space and the consolidated old town grid. The new building will become a symbolic reference of public activity that will be established around the future office park of Torres de Cotillas, Spain. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Nature Preserve House / John McLeod Architect
Architects: John McLeod Architect
Location: Middlebury, Vermont, USA
Builder: Northern Timbers Construction, Inc.
Project area: 1,500 sq. ft.
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Susan Teare Photography
Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church / Teeple Architects
The new Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church, designed by Teeple Architects, has been conceived as a direct reflection of the liturgical vision of its Baptist congregation. This liturgical vision has a dual focus – fellowship, which the church characterizes as horizontal relationships between people, and spirituality, which is seen as a vertical relationship between people and God.
Project description, images, and drawings following the break.
Architect: Teeple Architects
Location: Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Principal in Charge: Stephen Teeple (OAA, FRAIC)
Project Team: Cheryl Atkinson, Bernard Jin, David Jensen, William Elsworthy, Graham Baxter
Structural Engineer: CPE
Mechanical Engineer: LKM
Electrical Engineer: LKM
Civil: Masongsong
Landscape Architect: Dutoit Allsopp Hillier
General Contractor: Derbtile Construction Inc.
Project Area: 80,000 sqf
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Shai Gil Photography
Paddington House / Nobbs Radford Architects
Architects: Nobbs Radford Architects – Alison Nobbs, Sean Radford
Location: Paddington, Sydney, Australia
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Peter Bennetts
INCS Zero Factory / KPF
The INCS Zero Factory and showroom is a building focused on merging landscape with architecture and art with technology. Designed by KPF, it is located within the Japanese Alps in Nagano. The new factory also needed to include offices and a demonstration facility, as well as provide areas of focused experimentation for research and development.
Architects: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Location: Nagano, Japan
Client: INCS
Project Area: 86,000 sqf
Photographs: H.G. Esch, Iijima
Hauptbahnhof Campus Project / PPAG Architects
Situated in Vienna, Austria, PPAG Architects shared with us their winning competition entry for the campus project consisting of a kindergarten, primary and junior high school. Their design is based on the new and ambitious education guidelines of the city of Vienna. The project promotes a typological paradigm shift regarding the spatial articulation of classroom and interior-exterior activities across the entire campus. More images and architects’ description after the break.
