MBIArch – A new international architecture Master’s degree program in Barcelona
The Barcelona Institute of Architecture (BIArch) is a center for research, practice, and dissemination of contemporary architecture. BIArch is an open laboratory for professionals and researchers that promotes new ways of thinking and practicing architecture in face of technological, energy,…
World Architecture Festival 2010
This year’s World Architecture Festival, WAF2010, will take place from November 3rd to 5th in Barcelona. The WAF is an international event to reward excellence in a fully interactive inclusive live format. The festival features seminars and exhibition content, as well as projects from architects all over the world (last year 1507 architects from 71 countries came to Barcelona). To submit an entry, just create an online account here before July 2. Plus, architects are encouraged to submit more than one project.
More information about how projects will be judged after the break.
The Canada Hotel / Hayball
In Progress: Beekman Tower / Frank Gehry
As Frank Gehry’s Beekman Tower rises in Lower Manhattan, we can’t help but wonder if the apartments in this undulating, rippling building will be snatched up as soon as possible. The tower is scheduled for leasing to begin early spring of next year and, although information regarding floor plans and pricing still hasn’t been released, we are interested to see if you’d take up residence in the Beekman Tower.
More about the tower and more construction shots after the break.
Prospect.1 Welcome Center / Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
Architects: Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
Location: New Orleans, LA, USA
Consultants: Canal Construction of Louisiana LLC – General Contractor
Client: U.S. Biennial, Inc.
Project Size: 300 sf
Completion Date: 2008
Photography: Will Crocker Photography, Steve Dumez
Final departure lounge Terminal 2 Mexico City International Airport / SPACE
Architecture weekend fun: LEGO Sears Tower
Over the weekend I took some time to assemble my LEGO Sears Tower
This LEGO set was designed by Adam Reed Tucker, who has also put out more complex sets such as the Guggenheim Museum
This one looks great on my desk, and will shortly join the
Empire State Building
More photos after the break:
World Cities Summit 2010
World Cities Summit is a premier event that brings together practitioners and policy makers with leading experts in their field to identify innovative solutions to the most pressing challenges facing cities today. The inaugural summit in June 2008 brought together 800 senior delegates including leaders, mayors, policy makers and the civil society. To build on its success, the next Summit in 2010 will offer a strategic platform comprising a high-level summit, plenary sessions, networking forums and technical workshops.
The theme for the second Summit is Liveable and Sustainable Cities for the Future. World Cities Summit 2010 will be a four-day event focusing on leadership and governance and building liveable and sustainable communities. Through the exchange of ideas and knowledge, cities can learn from each other to create a good environment that is sustainable and forward-looking.
More information on the event’s official website.
Aarhus Gymnastics and Motor Skills Hall / C. F. Møller Architects
Architects: C. F. Møller Architects
Location: Hvidkildevej, Aarhus, Denmark
Client: VIK Gymnastik
Engineering: Moe & Brødsgaard A/S
Size: 1,600m2 (1,200m2 new building and 400m2 refurbishment)
Year: 2009-2010
Photography: Poul Nyholm, Julian Weyer
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards winners announced
The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will celebrate outstanding achievement in design this fall with its 11th annual National Design Awards program. Yesterday, Cooper-Hewitt Director Bill Moggridge announced the winners and finalists of the 2010 National Design Awards, which recognize excellence across a variety of disciplines. The Award recipients will be honored at a gala dinner Thursday, Oct. 14, at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York. First Lady Michelle Obama serves as the Honorary Patron for this year’s National Design Awards.
See the winners after the break.
House on Lake Okoboji / Min | Day
Architects: Min | Day – E.B. Min, Jeffrey L. Day.
Location: West Lake Okoboji, Iowa, United States
Project team: Nicholas Papaefthimiou, Kristine Mummert, Matt Cavin, Christina Kaneva, Jeff Davis, Matt Goldsberry
Client: Paul & Annette Smith
Landscape design: Min | Day
Lighting Design: HLB Lighting Design / Min | Day
Size: 6000 square feet
Year: 2008
Photographs: Paul Crosby Architectural Photography
Phase 2 of the High Line
Field Operations and DS+R’s High Line has been enjoyed by many ever since its opening, but we’ve been waiting patiently for the next segment to be finished. And, thanks to Curbed.com, we’re able to share some recent construction shots of the progress being made.
Check out more photos and more about the second phase after the break.
Spa by MTM Shanghai / PAL Design
- © Courtesy of PAL Design
Architect: PAL Design Consultants Ltd, Patrick Leung
Location: Shanghai, China
Photographs: Courtesy of PAL Design
The Trump International Hotel and Tower at Waikiki Beachwalk / Guerin Glass Architects
Architects: Guerin Glass Architects
Location: 223 Saratoga Road Honolulu, Hawaii 96815, USA
Associate Architect, Honolulu HI: Benjamin Woo Architects LLC
Interior Design: SN Design
Completion Date: December 2009
Mechanical/Plumbing Engineer: Notkin Hawaii, Inc.
Electrical Engineer: Albert Chong Associates
Civil Engineering: Wilson Okamoto Corp.
Environmental: Clayton Group Services
Geotechnical Engineering: Professional Services Industries
Landscaping: Brownville & Lee
Waterproofing: Specialized Architectural Services
Telecommunications/Security Design: Communications Consulting Services
Client: Irongate Azrep Beachwalk LLC
Floor Area: 575,000 sf
Total built area: Total height of the building: 700,000 sf
Photos: Andrea Brizzi
Rome 2010: Vertical Spa Competition
Arquitectum and the Istituto Nazionale di Architettura want to bring a new element to the city’s debate and enigma: a hundred meter high tower, next to the Coliseum, which would present itself as an “important” element, but not necessarily monumental, which would expose Rome’s complexity by being a “vertical” Rome, which would assemble the facts and the enigmas lived and surviving in the Eternal City.
The challenge of this competition is, of course, to discover this “belonging” to Rome, the hidden beauty and exposed all over the city as a mendicant spirit, wandering lost, waiting for the architect willing and able to capture it. Therefore the suggested tower will serve as an element demonstrative of this spirit, projecting it in the present time and the uncertain future of a city which has survived every kind of buildings and can always take in a new one: refreshing, renewing and exposing of the constant rebirth of its vital structure. More information at the competition’s official website. Seen at Death by Architecture.
Dr. Nancy Foster Florida Keys Environmental Center / Eskew+Dumez+Ripple and Guidry Beazley Architects
Architects: Eskew+Dumez+Ripple – Guidry Beazley Architects
Location: Key West, Florida, USA
General Contractor: BRPH
MEP Engineer: Associated Design Group, Inc.
Structural Engineer: McKee and Deville Consulting Engineers
Civil Engineer: URS Group, Inc.
Cost Management: Atkins HF+G
Year of Completion: 2006
Client: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Division
Project Size: 30,000 square feet
Software Implemented: AutoCAD
Photography: Timothy Hursley
Paulo Mendes da Rocha discusses soccer and architecture
These days, everything seems to be about soccer. Our friends from abitare knew this, so some months ago they conducted a series of short interviews with four Brazilian architects so they could share their ideas about soccer and architecture.
This week, Pritzker Prize winner Paulo Mendes de Rocha explains his project for Serra Dorada Stadium as an interesting solution where popular entertainment and social comfort coexist.
25 Cradles Nursery / RMDM Architectes
Architects: RMDM Architectes
Location: Passage des Tourelles 75020, Paris, France
Client: City of Paris – SLA XX
Area: 272 m2
Cost: €780.000
Construction engeneering: Corebat
Photos: Grégoire Vieille
Ground Zero’s Newest Restaurant
As workers labor over the newest development at Ground Zero, moving, bolting and welding the 46,074 tons of steel can be tiresome and, well, make a person hungry. With an allotted 30-minute lunch break, workers wait anxiously for the hoist that descends dozens of stories, making their 30 minutes often times extend to 60. The solution – bring the lunch to the workers. The new sandwich shop, built by DCM Erectors (the same company that is putting up the steel girders and beams), is a movable pod made of stacked cargo containers which sit on either side of two tower cranes.
More images and more about the new restaurant after the break.
DOGone House / archimania
Architects: archimania
Location: Memphis, TN, USA
Building area: 11.25 sf
Total cost: $1,554
Completion date: October 2009
Photography: Chad Mellon Photography
LITE Technology Center / Eskew+Dumez+Ripple and Guidry Beazley Architects
Architects: Eskew+Dumez+Ripple / Guidry Beazley Architects
Location: Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Consultants: J.B. Mouton, Inc. – General Contractor, Associated Design Group – MEP Engineers, Bellard and Associates – Structural Engineer, Visual Acuity – Visualization Systems, Global Data Systems – Communications/IT, Jon Emerson & Associates – Landscape Architect
Client: Lafayette Economic Development Authority
Project Size: 61,040 square feet
Year of Completion: 2006
Photography: Timothy Hursley
