Parking in Setif / Zinneke
Focusing on ideas and projects that redefine a city, Zinneke Architects have shared with us their Parking in Setif project where they adapt to the historical context of the surrounding buildings. With the ability to work during the night and day, this design is a proposal to help the second largest in Algeria relieve their traffic congestion brought about by its fast-growing urban fabric. More images and architect’s description after the break.
Wyne Sales Gallery / Supermachine Studio
Architects: Supermachine Studio
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Design Team: Pitupong Chaowakul with Suchart Ouypornchaisakul, Nuntawat Tasanasangsoon, Wattikon Kosonkit, Santi Sarasuphab
Landscape Architect: Sanitas Studio
Interior Design: Design plus Style Co.,Ltd.
Client: Sansiri
Project Area: 720 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Wison Tungthunya
House on the Slope / Paisajes Emergentes
Architects: Paisajes Emergentes
Location: El Retiro, Antioquia, Colombia
Collaborators: Juan Carlos Aristizábal, Farid Maya, Erica Martínez and Sebastián Monsalve
Landscape: Paisajes Emergentes + Carlos Zapata
Structural Design: Jorge Aristizábal
Contractor: Gedesa
Project Area: 480 sqm
Project Year: 2007-2010
Photographs: Cristobal Palma
Earll Residence / StudioROEDER
Architects: StudioROEDER
Location: Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Project Architects: Scott Roeder and Betsy Lynch
Structural Engineer: Stuktur Studio – David P. Luneng
Project area: 1,200 sq. ft.
Project year: 2008 – 2010
Photographs: Matt Winquist, StudioROEDER
AD Classics: Casa Batlló / Antoni Gaudí
The inspiring imagination of Antoni Gaudí undoubtedly reveals itself in one of his most poetic and artistic designs for a building, Casa Batlló. His synthesis of animal shapes, vine-like curves, hints of bone and skeleton, and his use of lustrous colored bits of glazed ceramic and glass create a masterpiece that will forever astonish its observers.
More on Casa Batlló after the break.
Rabat Grand Theatre / Zaha Hadid
Following a recent ceremony in Rabat, Morroco, Agence pour l’Aménagement de la Vallée du Bouregreg (The Bouregreg Valley Development Agency) verified that architectural designs will be provided by Zaha Hadid Architects. The program will include three theater spaces, indoor spaces consisting of 2,050-seat and a 520-seat, and a fully-equipped outdoor amphitheater holding up to 7,000 people. The theaters will share back of house facilities, efficiently reducing the size of the building services needed. Creative studios will also be incorporated into this cultural venue. Estimated cost is at 120 Million Euros for the Rabat Grand Theatre.
Follow the break for more renderings of The Rabat Grand Theatre.
Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects
Location: Rabat, Morocco
Design: Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
Associate: Nils Peter Fisher
Project Leader: William Tan
Project Team: Torsten Broeder, Martin Krcha, Hoda Nobakhti, Rafael Contreras, Yevgeniya Pozigun, Michal Treder
Structure Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor
MEP Engineer: MaxFordham
Acoustics & Theatre: Artec Consultant
Facade: Donnell Consultants Incorporated
Lighting: Office for Visual Interaction Inc
Client: Agence pour l’Aménagement de la Vallée du Bouregreg
Project Area: 47,000 sqm
Renderings: Methanoia, Courtesy of Zaha Hadid
AD Recommends: Best of the Week
For this selection of last week’s best posts, we have five amazing and very different project. One university, an office building, a restaurant, a museum, and a kindergarden. Check them all after the break.
University of Chicago – South Campus Chiller Plant / Murphy Jahn
The project for a new chiller plant at the University of Chicago provided the opportunity to design for function, performance, materials, construction while simultaneously considering how the technical equipment could be displayed as if it were a piece of art. The resulting expression of the South Campus Chiller Plant is a modern celebratory display of technical equipment (read more…)
modeLab Advanced Parametrics Workshop
Advanced Parametrics is a two-day intensive design workshop (with an optional third day) to be held in New York City during the weekend of December 04.
This workshop will cover advanced parametric topics such as data structure manipulation as well as design strategies that incorporate Simulation and Genetic Algorithms in a fast-paced and hands-on learning environment. An optional third workshop day is offered to those participants desiring further time to develop individual projects or lines of research.
Attendance will be limited to provide each participant maximum dedicated time with instructors. Participants should be familiar with the basic concepts of parametric design and interface of Grasshopper.
For more information, go to the workshop’s official website.
Yaletown Loft / Kelly Reynolds
Interior designer: Kelly Reynolds
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Client: Brad Friesen
Project area: 92,9 sqm
Project year: 2009 – 2010
Photographs: Chad Falkenberg
Taichung Tower / Nicolas Laisne Architecte
Nicolas Laisne Architecte has been awarded honorable mention in the international Taiwan Tower Conceptual Design competition. The proposal placed fifth among over four hundred entries. Additional images, a video and a description from the architect after the break.
Family House In Farmstread / Architectural Bureau G.Natkevicius & Partners
Architects: Architectural Bureau G.Natkevicius & Partners / G.Natkevičius, E.Spūdys
Location: Pociūnų vill., Kaunas dist., Lithuania
Lightning: Promodus IO
Project area: 5,890 sqm
Project year: 2008
Photographs: G.Česonis
Pixel House / Mass Studies and Slade Architecture
The Pixel House designed by Mass Studies in collaboration with Slade Architecture in Gyeonggido, Korea, thoughtfully incorporated the needs of their client, a young family of four. There is a vagueness between public and private space, landscaping and building, which was the intention of both the client and architects.
Follow the break for more on this house, photographs and drawings.
Architects: Mass Studies and Slade Architecture
Location: Gyeonggido, Korea
Mass Studies Project Team: Minsuk Cho, Kisu Park, Joungwon Lee, Soonbok Choi, Junkoo Kang, Sungpil Won
Slade Architecture Project Team: James Slade, Illya Korolev, Oliver Spreckelsen
Structural Engineer: Youngho Lee
MEP Engineer: Samjung Engineers, Jinsan Engineers
Construction: Hanwool Construction
Client: Younghyo Jin, Sookhee Chan
Project Area: 85.30 sqm
Project Year: 2003
Photographs: Yong-Kwan Kim
P.S.1 2011 shortlist
Since 2000, the MoMA and the P.S.1 have been running a competition under their Young Architects Program, each year inviting a group of emerging architects to experiment with new shapes and materials, resulting in a summer installation at the P.S.1. Past winners include WORK ac (P.F.1. Public Farm 1), MOS (Afterparty) and SO-IL (Pole Dance). Architects Newspaper recently announced the short list for the 2011 summer installation, which includes Interboro Partners (NY), FormlessFinder (NY), Matter Architecture Practice (NY) MASS Design Group (Boston) and IJP Corporation Architects (London). Matter Architecture practice was already invited to the 2008 competition, which also happened to MOS back in 2007, then winners in 2009. As usual expect a complete coverage here at ArchDaily, we look forward to see all the projects!
Triangolo / Sebastian Nagy
We just received this very interesting building from Sebastian Nagy. This apartment house TRIANGOLO, located in Nitra, Slovakia, was created as a dialog between natural predispositions, town and the construction site locality.
Further information and photos after the break.
Art of Urban Environments Festival Competition Call for Entries
The Art of Urban Environments Festival celebrates how the arts are a positive force in the economic and creative life of communities. Organized by Lafayette College and the City of Easton, located in eastern Pennsylvania, the Art of Urban Environments Festival is an international event recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts with major support.
The international, national, and regional design community including, but not limited to, artists of all disciplines, architects, landscape architects, engineers, film makers are invited to submit unique and engaging proposals such as installations and performances that engage places of nature, art, and culture in transforming the post industrial American City.
For more information, go to the competition’s official website.
3x3x3 Taiwan Tower Competition / Broadway Malyan Architects
ArchDaily has recieved another submission from the Taiwan Tower Competition in Taichung, by Broadway Malayn. The project was dubbed 3x3x3 to represent the conceptual framework of the coalescence of three distinct features of the tower: environmental, social and economic.
More after the break.
Hunsett Mill / ACME
Architects: ACME (Friedrich Ludewig, Stefano Dal Piva) with Karoline Markus, Nerea Calvillo, Chris Yoo
Location: Hunsett Mill, Chapel Field Road, Stalham, Norfolk, England
Contractor: Willow Builders
Structural Engineering: Adams Kara Taylor
Sustainability: Hoare Lea
Client: Catriona and John Dodsworth, Joanna and Jon Emery
Project Area: 213 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Cristobal Palma
Solar Umbrella / Brooks + Scarpa
Inspired by Paul Rudolph’s Umbrella House of 1953, the Solar Umbrella provides a contemporary reinvention of the solar canopy—a strategy that provides thermal protection in climates with intense exposures. Nestled amidst a neighborhood of single story bungalows the residence establishes a precedent for the next generation of California modernist architecture. Located on a 41’ wide x 100’-0” long through lot, the new addition transforms the architects’ existing 650 square foot bungalow into a total 1,900 square foot residence equipped for responsible living in the twenty-first century.
More photographs, drawings, and project description after the break.
Architects: Brooks + Scarpa
Location: Venice, California, USA
Principals-in-Charge: Angela Brooks, AIA and Lawrence Scarpa, AIA
Project Architect: Ching Luk
Project Design Team: Peter Borrego, Angela Brooks, Anne Burke, Michael Hannah, Vanessa Hardy, Anne Marie Kaufman Brunner, Fredrik Niilsen, Tim Peterson, Gwynne Pugh, Bill Sarnecky, Lawrence Scarpa
Interior Design: Lawrence Scarpa and Angela Brooks
Landscape Consultant: SQLA, Inc
Energy Efficiency and Alternative Energy Consultant: Dr. John Ingersoll
General Contractor: Above Board Construction
Structural Engineering: Gwynne Pugh
Renderings: Fredrik Nilssen, Ching Luk, Lawrence Scarpa
Clients: Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa
Project Area: 1,250 sqf (new) 650 sqf (remodeled)
Photographers: Marvin Rand
Sacred Heart Primary School Library / Suters Architects
Architects: Suters Architects
Location: Kew, Victoria, Australia
Project Team: Joshua McAlister, Stasinos Mantzis, Wilson Heng, Peter Smith
Building Contractor: Contract Control
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Gollings Photography
AD Classics: S.C. Johnson and Son Administration Building / Frank Lloyd Wright
Located in Racine, Wisconsin, the SC Johnson and Son Administration Building is one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most important statements about the nature of office buildings. H.F. Johnson Jr. commissioned Wright to design a worldwide headquarters administration building for the family company and in 1936 Wright’s drawings were approved and the building officially opened in April of 1939.
Often referred to as the Johnson Wax Building, its most identifiable element are the dendriform columns, the name used by Wright because of their tree like shape. Wright’s ability to effortlessly incorporate the organic metaphor into his architecture is revealed in the building via a tall slender mushroom column that tapers to a base of a mere 9-inch diameter. They rise 30 feet and terminate at the roof level as broad circular lily pads of concrete 18 1/2 feet wide. Wright’s imagination led to creating these hollow cored columns that serve as storm water drains and which feature hinged bases with pin jointed bronze shoes. The circular lily pads of concrete are woven together by a membrane of Pyrex glass tubing that illuminate spaces with natural light. The use of Pyrex glass tubing allowed for a lot of diffused light to enter the interior of the Johnson Wax Building. The large workspace is well lit with indirect light and very little glare, resulting in a work environment conducive for creativity.
More on the S.C. Johnson and Son Administration Building following the break.
AD Classics: Lloyd’s of London Building / Richard Rogers
After the completion of Centre Pompidou in 1977 with Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers was commissioned to design a new building to replace the original Lloyd’s insurance building in London. It would be the second expansion in the history of the company’s headquarters due to the overcrowded conditions of hundreds of people working with international insurance cases. Completed in1986, the Lloyd’s building brought a high-tech architectural aesthetic to the medieval financial district of London that was previous implemented in the design of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Since 1928, the site has been home to the Lloyd’s of London; one of the largest insurance firms in the world dating back to the 17th Century. After it originated in the 17th Century, the Lloyd’s of London has grown from an insurance company dealing from within the United Kingdom to working on a global scale, taking on staff and clientele at an unprecedented rate, which has required several expansions; the largest and most prominent being Roger’s.
