New Technology May Double the Height of Skyscrapers
Finnish elevator manufacturer KONE has unveiled a new hoisting technology that will enable elevators to travel heights of one kilometer – twice the distance than currently possible. The new development implies that the Burj Khalifa, whose longest elevator travels a distance of 504 meters, will not remain the world’s tallest building for very long.
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Koica Library / Solis Colomer arquitectos
Architects: Solis Colomer Arquitectos
Location: Villa de las Niñas, Zona 13, Guatemala
Area: 812 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Solis Colomer arquitectos
CASE Wants your Brain! Share your BIM experience and help the software industry
CASE is working with HP to embark on the task of investigating the future of how the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry manages information and they want YOU for their survey. Help them out by answering a few harmless…
New International Master’s Program in Croatia
Beginning in the academic year 2013-2014, the University of Split Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy will be offering a new international graduate course in English in the field of Architecture. The master’s study program is envisioned as a…
Fujimoto’s Serpentine Pavilion Receives High Praise from Critics
With the opening of his cloud-like gridded structure in Hyde Park last week, Sou Fujimoto became the youngest architect in the pantheon of Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designers. The pavilion is an annual commission for a temporary structure, always given to a well known architect who is yet to build in the UK. In previous years the commission has been awarded to Herzog & de Meuron with Ai Weiwei (2012), Peter Zumthor (2011), Jean Nouvel (2010), SANAA (2009), stretching back to the original pavilion designed by Zaha Hadid in 2000.
With such a prolific history of star designers over the past 13 years, Fujimoto’s ethereal design has a lot to live up to. But despite these high expectations, architecture critics have been gushing over the new design. See a full round-up of opinions after the break…
DPS Kindergarden School / Khosla Associates
Architects: Khosla Associates
Location: Bangalore, India
Principal Designers: Sandeep Khosla and Amaresh Anand
Design Team: Sandeep Khosla, Amaresh Anand, and Bijeta Bachaspati
Client: Annabelle Manwaring
Area: 35000.0 ft2
Year: 2013
Photographs: Shamanth Patil
eVolo 05: Architecture Xenoculture
Xenoculture is a term coined by Iranian writer and philosopher Reza Negarestani that describes the need for embracing and exploring the unexpected, the alien. In this issue we borrow the idea and explore the realm of Architecture Xenoculture — the work of architects and designers who detach from everything that architecture is supposed to be and look like, including preconceived forms and aesthetics, to look into new architectural and design possibilities. An architectural form that emerges from mathematical processes and new material explorations and proposes something never before seen — an aesthetic yet to be determined.
Refurbishment of a Warehouse / TAO – Trace Architecture Office
Architects: TAO – Trace Architecture Office
Location: Beijing, China
Architect In Charge: Hua Li
Design Team: Hua Li, Guo Pengyu, Zhu Zhiyuan, Jiang Nan, Li Guofa
Area: 430 sqm
Year: 2009
Photographs: SHU He, Courtesy of TAO Architect’s Office
‘POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions.’ Exhibition
Taking place at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York from June 19 – July 20, the ’POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions.‘ exhibition will investigate what constitutes a position in architecture today and how that might be generated through the architect’s drawing. The exhibition presents 30 original drawings by 30 architects of the Storefront gallery space at 97 Kenmare Street that address both ends of the architectural drawing spectrum, understanding its codes and protocols and deploying the personal obsession of each architect in the articulation of a position now. For more information, please visit here.
The Bow / Foster + Partners
Architects: Foster + Partners
Location: Calgary, Canada
Architect In Charge: Foster + Partners
Design Team: Norman Foster, David Nelson, Spencer de Grey, Nigel Dancey, James Barnes
Area: 199,781 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Nigel Young – Foster + Partners
City Cultural Center Competition Entry / Georges Batzios Architects + Sparch
Georges Batzios Architects + Sparch (Rena Sakellaridou and Morpho Papanikolaou)… shared with us their proposal, titled ‘Calligraphic-scapes,’ for the Taichung City Cultural Center competition which stems from the origins of calligraphy. The rigorous transformation of knowledge, to be found in written language, is brought
Forum at the Eckenberg Academy / Ecker Architekten
Architects: Ecker Architekten
Location: Adelsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Client: Baden-Württemberg Department of Property and Construction – Heilbronn Office
Area: 1000.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Brigida Gonzalez, John Ruffolo, Image Agency
KMC Corporate Office / RMA Architects
Architects: RMA Architects
Location: Cyber City, Hyderabad, India
Year: 2012
Photographs: Robert Stephens, Rahul Mehrotra, Courtesy of RMA Architects, Rajesh Vora, Carlos Chen
Køge University Hospital Winning Proposal / Rådgivergruppen USK
Rådgivergruppen USK, headed by C.F. Møller, Alectia and Rambøll, has been named as the winner of the competition to build the new Køge University Hospital, an expansion of the existing Køge Hospital, which will be increased threefold to a total area of 177,000 m². A visionary project in terms of both architecture and functionality, the hospital’s various functions can be structured on a highly flexible basis, with good opportunities to support Region Zealand’s vision of holistic patient care. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Lutkemeerweg / MAS architectuur
Architects: MAS architectuur
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Architect In Charge: MAS architectuur
Photographs: John Lewis Marshall
Aurea Residence / Chris Pardo Design: Elemental Architecture
Architects: Chris Pardo Design: Elemental Architecture
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
General Contractor: Delen Construction Services Inc
Artwork: Cassandria Blackmore
Engineering: LFD Structural Engineering
Area: 3,300 sq ft
Year: 2013
Photographs: Dale Tu
Medical Facility in Burges / Cristian Panaite + Katrien Devreese
Architects: Cristian Panaite + Katrien Devreese
Location: Dudzele, Bruges, Belgium
Area: 215 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Filip Dujardin
2013 Great Places Award Winners Announced
Seven exemplary projects in architecture, planning, landscape architecture, and urban design have been named winners of the 2013 Great Places Awards and were honored during the 44th annual conference of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) earlier this month. The EDRA Great Places Awards recognizes professional and scholarly excellence in environmental design and pay special attention to the relationship between physical form and human activity or experience.
The winners after the break…
Fremantle Additions / Jonathan Lake Architects
Architects: Jonathan Lake Architects
Location: Western Australian, Australia
Year: 2012
Photographs: Robert Frith
Kunstcluster / van Dongen-Koschuch
Architects: van Dongen-Koschuch
Location: Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
Architects: Frits van Dongen and Patrick Koschuch
Project Team: H. de Haas, J. Baks, J.W. Baijense, F. Jaubert, R. Versteeg, R. Bos, K.R. Sluijs, S. Lin, R. Duarte
Area: 27550.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Courtesy of van Dongen-Koschuch
SANAA Unveils Plans for New Downtown Arts & Design Campus in Jerusalem
Today, SANAA (Sejima & Nishizawa and Associates) unveiled plans for a 400,000 square-foot building in Jerusalem that will form a new, interdisciplinary downtown campus for the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. The competition-winning proposal, designed by the 2010 Pritzker laureates in collaboration with Israel’s Nir -Kutz Architects, features an array of stacked horizontal slabs that react to the area’s topography and surrounding context in order to create a series of outdoor terraced viewing platforms and multi-level interior spaces where students and teachers can meet, study and display their work.
More on the new SANAA-design downtown campus after the break…
