Network Reset: Rethinking the Chicago Emerald Necklace Competition
MAS Studio and the Chicago Architectural Club are pleased to announce the competition: NETWORK RESET, a single-stage international competition that seeks to provide ideas and actions that can reactivate the Boulevard System of Chicago and rethink its potential role in the city.
Participants are asked to look at the urban scale and propose a framework for the entire boulevard system as well as provide answers and visualize the interventions at a smaller scale that can directly impact its potential users. Through images, diagrams and drawings we want to know what are those soft or hard, big or small, temporary or permanent interventions that can reactivate and reset the Boulevard System of Chicago.
For more information, please visit the competition’s official website.
Double Infinity Exhibition / HHD_FUN
Double Infinity is a collaborative exhibition by HHD_FUN in collaboration with Holland Van Abbe Museum and Arthub, commissioned by Holland Art Center. It’s opening coincides with the opening of the Shanghai World Expo and is aimed at connecting these two countries, China and Holland, and two cities – Shanghai and Eindhoven. The aim is to conduct an impressive virtual dialogue by sharing the respective daily conditions and spatial features. More images and exhibition description after the break.
House SNR / TheHeder Partnership
Architects: TheHeder Partnership / Hanan Pomagrin, Brad Pinchuck, Boubi Luxembourg
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
Project area: 400 sqm
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Amit Geron
Osprey Nest / Jones Studio
Osprey Nest is located in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico. Designed to reflect its natural surroundings and culture, the home also explores shadows and materiality. More photographs and drawings of this residence by Jones Studio following the break.
Architects: Jones Studio
Location: Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico
JSI Team: Eddie Jones
Landscape: Chris Winters
Contractor/CMAR: Design and Building, Inc., Plinio Rivero
Client: Lisa Johnson & Eddie Jones
Project Area: 5,500 sqf
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Robert Reck
VolgaDacha House / Bureau Bernaskoni
Architects: Bureau Bernaskoni
Location: Dacha, Russia
Project team: Boris Bernaskoni
, Oleg Dyachenko
, Pavel Prishin
Project area: 90 sqm
Project year: 2009 – 2010
Photographs: Vlad Efimov, Oleg Dyachenko
Hurteau-Miller Cottage / Kariouk Associates
Architects: Kariouk Associates
Location: Val-des-Monts, Québec, Canada
Architectural team: Paul Kariouk, Chris Davis, Susan Gardiner, Todd Duckworth, Mathew Lahey
General contractor: Timber Wolf Developments, Donald Thom
Landscape Architect: Heartwood Design and Consulting Ltd., Colin Stewart
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Photolux Studios, Christian Lalonde
AD Classics: Palais Bulles / Antti Lovag
Fittingly named Palais Bulles, or “Palace of Bubbles,” this residence represents the fundamental ideas of architect Antti Lovag, who views architecture as a “form of play- spontaneous, joyful, full of surprise.” Built in 1989, it rests on a rocky cliff overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
More on Palais Bulles by Antti Lovag after the break.
Showroom in Champs-Elysees / Pascal Grasso Architectures
Pascal Grasso Architectures were asked to convert an existing space including two 115 ft long corridors into an office space and showroom gallery. The resulting design capitalizes on the length of the corridors transforming the space into an ideal location to showcase clothing and fashion accessories. A rhythm of extruding volumes increase along the face of the showroom wall gradually fading away as its proximity nears the office space.
Architects: Pascal Grasso Architectures
Location: 34, Avenue des Champs-Elysees, Paris 8e, France
Client: Stella K
Assistants: Damien Descamps – Juliano Bottari
General Contractor: Bane Deco
Carpenter: Art and comfort
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Nicolas Dorval-Bory
Roll Play – Temporary Pavilion for The Sydney Architecture Festival
Architecture students from UNSW’s Faculty of Built Environment have given Sydney a new take on sustainable construction by building a pavilion made from 2000 recycled cardboard tubes in the heart of the city. More images, information and a video after the break.
Ara Pacis Museum / Richard Meier & Partners Architects
This museum on the bank of the Tiber River has been designed as a renewed setting for the Ara Pacis, a sacrificial altar dating to 9 B.C. and now located on the western edge of the Piazza Augusto Imperatore. Planned as part of an effort to protect Rome’s cultural legacy, the new structure replaces the monument’s previous enclosure, which was in a state of advanced decay. The structure consists of a long, single-story glazed loggia elevated above a shallow podium providing a transparent barrier between the embankment of the Tiber and the existing circular perimeter of the mausoleum of Augustus, built circa 28 B.C.
Architects: Richard Meier & Partners
Location: Rome, Italy
Project Year: 1995-2006
Photographs: Courtesy of Richard Meier & Partners Architects, Roland Halbe ARTUR IMAGES
‘Quartier du Grünewald’ Residential Estate / AllesWirdGut
AllesWirdGut Architects won the international architectural competition for residential estate in Luxembourg. The project is part of the Quartier du Grünewald masterplan which, in the course of the development of the Kirchberg Plateau, 700 residential units are to be constructed in 21 buildings. The design of the 56 apartments includes doctors’ offices and a kindergarten. More images and architect’s description after the break.
Montan University Leoben / Gangoly & Kristiner Architekten
Architects: Gangoly & Kristiner Architekten
Location: Leoben, Austria
Project Manager: DI Irene Kristiner
Collaborators: DI Kerstin Wissounig, DI Ulrike Wallnöfer, DI Hans Schaffer, DI Julia Lainer, DI Markus Kutschach
Client: BIG Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft mbH
Structural Consultant: Wendl ZT-GmbH, Graz
Construction Physics/Acoustics: Dr. Gerhard Tomberger, Graz
Mechanical Services: dieHaustechniker, Jennersdorf
Fire Protection Consultant: Norbert Rabl Ziviltechniker GmbH
Project Area: 5,871 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Paul Ott
Bridge House / Joeb Moore + Partners Architects
The Bridge House is located in Kent, Connecticut along a 300’ ridge that parallels the Housatonic River not far from Kent Falls State Park. The state park boasts a beautiful series of cascading falls and a historic covered bridge. Joeb Moore + Partners Architects took these impressions and observations of the surrounding environment as inspiration and the jumping off point for the conceptual design of the Bridge House.
Architects: Joeb Moore + Partners Architects, LLC
Location: Kent, Connecticut, USA
Structural Engineer: Ed Stanley and Associates
Mechanical Engineer: ENCON Inc.
General Contractor: Corporate Construction, Inc.
Landscape Architect: Donald Walsh
Project Area: 5,000 sqf
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Frank Oudeman, Michael Biondo, David Sundberg/Esto
Istria Residence / Dva Arhitekta
Architects: Dva Arhitekta
Location: Istria, Croatia
Project Team: Tomislav Ćurković, Zoran Zidarić
Collaborator: Barbara Vuković
Site Area: 1,755 sqm
Project Area: 545 sqm
Project Year: 2004-2009
Photographs: Robert Leš
Calabar International Conference Center / Henning Larsen Architects
Henning Larsen Architects has won the international architectural competition for the new Calabar International Conference Center in the southeastern part of Nigeria. More images and full press release after the break.
Fargo 365 / WRT Design
Fargo 365 was one of three entries into the Downtown Fargo: an Urban In-fill Competition from Philadelphia-based design firm Wallace Roberts and Todd, the design team of David Witham, Douglas Meehan, Anna Ishii, and Hannah Mattheus-Kairy. Their entry was selected as one of two first prize winners. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Casa Ruiz / Momo Estudio
Architects: Momo Estudio
Location: Murcia, Spain
Collaborator: David Navarro Moreno
Project year: 2008
Photographs: David Frutos Llamazares
Architecture City Guide: Los Angeles
The Architecture City Guide series heads to the West Coast this week. Los Angeles area is huge and it was nearly impossible to narrow down 12 buildings for this weeks list. Here’s what we suggest visiting if you are in LA, but we want to know what additional buildings you think we should add to our list! Visit the comment section and provide your can’t miss buildings in LA.
The Architecture City Guide: Los Angeles list and corresponding map after the break!
Goldenkey Ski Hotel / LEA Invent
Design team: LEA Invent (Emir Drahsan, Alexandre Schrepfer, Lorenzo Sangiorgi architects, Margherita Frezza, Ugur Can Erol, Burcak Pekin collaborators)
Location: Kartalkaya, Bolu, Turkey
Client: Goldenkey Otelcilik
Constructors: Uyar grup, Odak ince yapi sis, Proterm muhendislik
Mechanical: Proterm muhendislik
Electrical: STM muhendislik
Photographs: Courtesy of LEA Invent
AD Classics: Lovell House / Richard Neutra
The 20th Century was one of the most inspiring and progressive centuries for the discipline of architecture; Richard Neutra was one such contributor that has left his mark on modern architecture with his advancement of residential design. Prior to the Kaufmann House, Neutra design the Lovell House for Philip Lovell and his family in Los Angeles, California between 1927-1929. The Lovell House was the turning point in Neutra’s career, putting him on the architectural radar.
More on the Lovell House after the break.
BGU University Entrance Square & Art Gallery / Chyutin Architects
Architects: Chyutin Architects
Location: Beer sheba, Israel
Art gallery team: Bracha Chyutin, Michael Chyutin, Ethel Rosenhek, Joseph Perez, Jacques Dahan
Project area: 4,500 sqm
Project year: 2008 – 2009
Photographs: Sharon Yeari
