The Shingle House / NORD Architecture / Living Architecture
Set for completion this October, NORD Architecture’s Shingle House will be part of the Living Architecture vacation houses, a project aimed to enhance the public’s appreciation of architecture. For their project, the young practice responded to the site’s strong winds and incorporated a modern take on the typical shingle homes that are scattered across the area.
More images and more about the home after the break.
Admirant e 18 September Plein / Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas
Architects: Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas
Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Client: Heijmans
Roof Engineering: Knippers Helbig – Advanced Engineering
Project Area: 3,000 sqm
Project Year: 2003-2010
Photographs: Rob’t Hart & Rob Hoekstra
Casiraghi Gorizia Mediatheque / Waltritsch a+u
Architects: Waltritsch a+u
Location: Gorizia, Italy
Director in Charge: Arch. Dimitri Waltritsch
Project Team: Dimitri Waltritsch and Federico Gori, Leonardo De Marchi, Cecilia Morassi
Façade Main Contractor: Seretti srl, San giorgio di Nogaro
Interior Main Contractor: SZ arredamenti, Cervignano
Project Area: 500 sqm
Project Year: 2009-2010
Photographs: Marco Covi. Trieste (© Dimitri Waltritsch)
Fishman Shade Canopy / Benjamin Hall + Brent Vander Werf
By studying the solstice solar angles, Benjamin Hall and Brent Vander Werf’s research project, Fishman Shade Canopy, creates a site specific geometric strategy where the canopy provides 100% shade while maintaining a visual opacity. This prototype builds upon experiments conducted throughout Hall’s Capstone project at the University of Arizona, a few years ago. After developing a warp and weft system of structural shade members, the next step of the project was to manifest those findings in a full-scale built project.
More about the canopy after the break.
New Buildings New York: Alice Tully Hall and the Redesigned Public Spaces at Lincoln Center
New Buildings New York, a program of the Center for Architecture Foundation, is a series of tours that provide a behind-the-scenes look at new building in the New York metropolitan area and are led by their architects, engineers and designers. All proceeds benefit youth and family programs at the Center for Architecture.
All interested parties are invited to join the Center for Architecture Foundation for an insider’s tour of Alice Tully Hall and the redesigned public space at Lincoln Center. The tour will be led by the principals of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Sylvia Smith, FAIA, LEED of FXFOWLE followed by a cocktail reception. Tickets are $80 per person ($50 tax-deductible) and advance RSVP is required. It will take place on July 29 between 6-8 pm.
More information can be found here.
AD Round Up: Green Roof Part IV
Doesn’t matter if it’s a medical technology campus, a residence, a housing project, or a public facility. The green roof looks amazing in this projects from all over the world. Check them all after the break.
Becton Dickinson Campus Center / RMJM
The Campus Center at BD (Becton Dickinson and Company), a medical technology company that serves healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, industry and the general public, is a 38,500-square-foot facility that bridges and blurs the boundaries between building/landscape, indoor/outdoor, roof/earth, figure/ground, and the two local business cultures of management/production (read more…)
‘Megan Geckler: Every Move You Make, Every Step You Take’ Exhibition
The work of Los Angeles-based artist Megan Geckler lies somewhere between art and design, with architectural installations that are assembled from thousands of strands of multicolored flagging tape, a plastic ribbon typically utilized by surveyors to demarcate space on construction sites.
The end result resembles an updated three-dimensional version of string art that shares the seemingly kinetic territory of the Op Art and Light+Space movements. These site-specific projects are also strongly influenced by minimalism, but retain a sense of play and delight.
The exhibition will be on display at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, 490 E. Union Street, Pasadena CA , from July 17 till October 31. More information can be found here.
Tsunami Memorial / VeeV Design
For their competition design for the Tsunami Memorial, VeeV Design has blended the built and natural environments to produce a reflective atmosphere. Contrasting the horrific magnitude of the tsunami, the memorial provides a calming essence for those who visit. “We intentionally propose a gentle recasting of memorial conventions: discrete sites of contemplation modestly submit to the power of the land itself,” explained the architects.
More about the proposal after the break.
Oporto House / hoffice
İzmir Opera House Competition Entry
Architects Kutlu İnanç Bal and Hakan Evkaya shared with us their proposal for the İzmir Opera House Competition in Turkey. See more images after the break.
In Progress: Doha Office Tower, Qatar / Ateliers Jean Nouvel / Nelson Garrido
A year ago, we featured a set of Tim Harris’ early construction photos of Jean Nouvel’s Doha Office tower previously on AD, and now photographer Nelson Garrido has shared some new shots of the 45 story cylindrical structure. The building’s dia-grid gives much character to the project, as it not only provides structural support but also gives the volume a textured appearance from far away that turns into a more delicate patterning in closer range. The facade is layered with metal brise-soleil based on a traditional Islamic pattern. The fairly standard geometry module becomes a complex visual as it is rotated and flipped to provide maximum shading for the interior of the building. In this way, the arrangement of the panels is both functional and supplies the aesthetic touch that will define the tower.
More of Garrido’s photographs after the break.
Kangbuk Samsung Hospital / Hyunjoon Yoo Architects
Architect: Hyunjoon Yoo Architects
Location: Samsung Headquarter Basement, 2 Taepyoung-ro, Joong-gu, Seoul, Korea
Client: Kangbuk Samsung Hospital
Collaborators: Kookbo Design Co. Ltd, Samsung Everland Co. Ltd
Size: 5,697 sqm
Design Year: 2009
Completion Year: 2010
Photographs: Seunghoon Yum
100% Content / Cheungvogl
During the post-WWII era, the surge in the housing market often resulted in “faceless” suburban communities that sprang up to relieve the immediate need for housing. The cities maintained their cultural identity and rather than the suburbs infusing their new communities with commercial or cultural entities, the suburbs constantly relied on the city’s proximity for such things. As this old model is highly unsustainable and car dependent, Christoph Vogl from Cheungvogl has studied Long Island’s suburbs, in particular Hempstead, that did not grow as independent communities. He has outlined a master plan of what can be done to give Long Island the social, cultural and economic context it needs.
“Very much representing these observations, the so-thought town centres of Long Island’s communities, placed around the major traffic intersections are not occupied by cultural, commercial and social institutions, as expected from the ratio of communal identity and urban context, but by parking lots. Not some, but hectares of paring lots. Not complaining about the non-existence of urban context and real community, these vacant areas around Long Island’s “Cross roads” offer the unique chance for master planning based reconsideration of the meaning of community,” added Vogl.
Check out the steps of the master plan after the break.
Lightsails / Söhne & Partner
Architects: Söhne & Partner
Location: Millstaetter Lake, Carinthia, Austria
Consultant: In Association with Karl Sodek
Client: MTG
Structural Engineer: Werkraum Wien
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Gisela Erlacher
Fernandes House / Khosla Associates
Architects: Khosla Associates
Location: Bangalore, India
Project Team: Sandeep Khosla and Amaresh Anand
Civil Contractor: Dan Constructions Pvt. Ltd.
Structural Engineer: S & S Associates
Landscape: Hariyalee Consultants
Photography: Bharath Ramamrutham (photos, courtesy Khosla Associates)
Embankments of the River Drava / DELISABATINI Architetti
Bridging the gap between the ancient city and its contemporary expansion plans, DELISABATINI Architetti’s winning proposal for the International Competition: EPK 2012 – Embankment of the River Drava redevelops the riverside of Maribor City by addressing the differneces in the contrasted site. Important interventions of the past century, such as the great bridge and the dam, have distorted the character of the medieval city, whose buildings have lost direct contact with water. As the years progressed, the city’s differing sections, such as the historic town of Lent and the edge of Tabor, have grown too separate. The proposal incorporates a uniform organizational element that responds to the different conditions but also joins the two parts to make a strong whole.
More images and more about the winning proposal after the break.
Interview with Kengo Kuma, Alfonso Acocella, and Luigi Alini
On the occasion of the Settimana milanese del Design 2010, during which the Japanese architect presented an impressive installation anticipating the new work of architecture, Kengo Kuma himself gave a video-interview on the meaning of the very “CCCWall” (photos here / video here), its conception and tangible character. The image and voice of the Japanese architect allow the viewers to approach the ceramic masterpiece which will be inaugurated in Casalgrande, Reggio Emilia.
AD Recommends: Best of the Week
Last week we featured projects from all over the world. We understand that you may have missed a few, so our selection of last week’s best projects come from Colombia, Portugal, Czech Republic, Austria, and Australia. Check them all after the break.
Argos, Building for an Electrical Generator at a Cement Factory / Felipe Gonzalez-Pacheco
In July 2006, the project is the winner of an architectural contest, for the resolution of a “skin” for a technical building containing an self generation electrical plant for cement factory. The Factory wanted to generate also a corporative image with the building. Their purpose became a mutual opportunity to generate an experimentation laboratory of technical possibilities with the material they produce, with very low density concretes (read more…)
Tram Museum in Porto competition proposal / OODA + Lencastre Arquitectos
Portuguese architects OODA shared with us their proposal (in collaboration with Lencastre Arquitectos) for the Tram Museum International Competition in Porto, Portugal.
More images and architect’s description after the break.
MOCA Cleveland / FOA
Residents are hopeful that Foreign Office Architects (FOA)’s first museum design (and the firm’s first major US building) will help Cleveland’s urban-revitalization project move forward. Farshid Moussavi of the FOA London has designed a geometric volume that dominates the Uptown area’s site, creating a bold icon for the new Museum of Contemporary Art. Prior to this, the MOCA rented a 23,000 square feet of space on the second floor of the Cleveland Play House complex, but with this 34,000 sqf new home, the museum will be able to showcase a bigger selection and accommodate more visitors.
More images, a cool video, and more about the project after the break.
Nije Gritenije / FLATarchitects
Architects: FLATarchitects
Location: Heerenveen, the Netherlands
Project architect: Jos Blom
Collaborators: ADK, Martin Draax
Client: Rabobank Heerenveen-Gorredijk
Croduction: Rodenburg Interieurs, Drachten
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Arend Loerts
