Nestlé Social Block / GH+A Guillermo Hevia

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Architects: GH+A / Guillermo Hevia
Location: Graneros,
Collaborators: Tomás Villalón, Francisco Carrión, García, Marcela Suazo
Client: Nestlé Chile S.A.
Contractor: Precon S.A.
Bioclimatic Consultant: Biotech
Lighting: Opendark
Project Area: 2,800 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Cristián Barahona, Guillermo Hevia H. & Guillermo Hevia García

Grand Canal Theatre / Daniel Libeskind

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Architect: Daniel Libeskind
Location: Dublin Docklands,
Principal in Charge: Stefan Blach
Project Leader: Gerhard Brun
Project Team: Feargal Doyle, Patrick Cox, Andreas Baumgärtner, Matthias Rühl, Toralf Sümmchen, Anna Poullou, Guillaume Chapallaz, Nathaniel Lloyd, Jens Jessen, Jens Hoffman, Kaori Hirasawa, Luca Mangione, Anja Bungies and Christian Müller
Client: Ramford Limited, Chartered Land
South Office Block Area: 21,092 sqm
Theatre Area: 13,768 sqm
North Office Block Area: 33,320 sqm
Budget: $269.9M USD
Project Year: 2009-2010
Photographs: Ros Kavanagh

Roche Residence / Atelier Archiplein

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Architect:
Location: Rochebaudin,
Client: Mauricette Tracol
Project Area: 220 sqm
Budget: 300,000 euros
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Courtesy of Archiplein

Mowing to Growing: A Design Competition for Creating Productive Green Space in Cities

One Prize is launching this competition in the context of larger issues concerning the environment, global food production and the imperative to generate a sense of community in our urban and suburban neighborhoods.

From Mowing to Growing is not meant to transform each lawn into a garden, but to open us up to the possibilities of self-sustenance, organic growth, and perpetual change. In particular, they seek specific technical, urbanistic, and architectural strategies not simply for the food production required to feed the cities and suburbs, but the possibilities of diet, agriculture, and retrofitted facilities that could achieve that level within the constraints of the local climate.

Calling all future-forward architects, urban designers, planners, engineers, scientists, artists, students and individuals of all backgrounds. For more information click here. Seen at Death By Architecture.

Metzgerstüble Bar / DI Bernardo Bader

DI Bernardo Bader Architects have designed the Metzgerstüble bar and café in the Austrian town of Mellau.  The cafe is situated between one of the small town’s main roads and the water.   Made of wooden strips that vary in size to break the monotony of an entirely furnished structure, the cafe has a punched in window facing the water, while the front entry is more open.    When viewed from the water, it becomes more apparent that the wooden box is perched on top of a wall of large stones.  The juxtaposition of the soft with the stones makes for a pleasant contrast.  All furnishings, (even the lighting fixtures) are simplified to form a non-overpowering space which welcomes the residents of Mellau.

More images after the break.

Apartment in Thessaloniki / .27 Architects

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Architects: .27 Architects
Location: Thessaloniki,
Directors in Charge: Stelina Tsifti, Panagiotis Chatzitsakyris
Project Area: 100 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: .27 architects

The 22 / JSª

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Architects: JSª: Javier Sánchez, Irvine Torres, Juan Reyes, Héctor Hernández and Francisco de la Concha
Location: Bay Beach, Lima,
Renders: Gerardo Fonseca
Models: Edith Razo, Isabel Medina and Anayetzi Ruiz
Structural Engineering : Fernando Valdivia and Sergio Barrios
Installation Engineering: JPR Proyectos
Construction Development: Buckle y Konno
Wood: Peru Lumber, Ing. Jorge Tintorer
Average surface area of apartments: 185 sqm
Total construction area: 995 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Eduardo Hirose

MONU Magazine New Issue: Real Urbanism

MONU – magazine on urbanism is a unique bi-annual international forum for artists, writers and designers that are working on topics of urban culture, development and politics.

Each issue collects essays, projects and photographs from contributors from all over the world to a given topic. Thus examines topics that are important to the future of our cities and urban regions from a variety of perspectives.

They have just released their latest issue on the topic of “Real Urbanism”. You can see more about the articles on their official website. Also, you can browse the entire issue #12 on YouTube (video after the break).

House in Sde-Yizhak / GalPeleg Architects

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Architects: GalPeleg Architects / Adi Gal + Amir Peleg
Location: Sde-Yitzhak,
Collaborator: Orit Gariani-Rozental
Total floor area: 240 sqm
Project year: 2008-2009
Photographs: GalPeleg Architects

Germann House / marte.marte Architekten

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Swiss photographer Bruno Helbling shared with us this concrete house designed by marte.marte Architekten Feldkirch, Austria. You can check the text description, more photographs and drawings after the break.

AD Recommends: Best of the Week

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During this week, we’ve been featuring some amazing projects you may have missed. Here’s our selection of the top five. Check them all after the break.

Tampa Museum of Art / Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects
Museums began in ancient times as Temples, dedicated to the muses, where the privileged went to be amused, to witness beauty, and to learn. After the Renaissance museums went public with palatial structures where the idea of the gallery arose, a space to display paintings and sculpture. Later, museums became centers of education, researching, collecting, and actively provoking thought and the exchange of ideas (read more…)

Feelings are Facts Exhibition

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Feelings are Facts will showcase the first collaboration between the Danish-Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson, and leading Chinese architect, Ma Yansong (check MAD Architects projects on ArchDaily). Eliasson and Ma will create for UCCA a unique experience through architecture, fog and light. Eliasson is known for his exploration of the human perception, and he often works with light, shadows, color, water, wind, or fog to create a specific environment in order to move us to think about our experience of our surroundings – perceptions we usually take to be self-evident.

Ma’s architecture stands at the forefront of new experimentation in building structures, refashioning form in bold pursuits of perfection. Their collaboration is specifically designed for ’s big hall inviting the Chinese audience to enter an endless space of fog, with color emanating from fluorescent tubes of red, green and blue. By moving through the space, the colors blend, and so the viewers will endlessly create their own color spectrums.

The exhibition will be open on 4th April 2010 and last until 6th June 2010.

Les Aventuriers / Shun Hirayama Architecture

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Architects: Shun Hirayama Architecture
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Total Floor Area: 166.77 sqm
1st Floor Area: 81.57 sqm
2nd Floor Area: 85.20 sqm
Design Period: 2007-2008
Construction Period: 2008-2009
Photographs: Daici Ano, Katsuhisa Kida-FOTOTECA & Shun Hirayama

QuadroClad™ Metal Façade Panels / Hunter Douglas Contract

This month, we would like to introduce you the QuadroClad™ Metal Façade Panels, a great product from Hunter Douglas Contract.

QuadroClad™ Aluminum panels feature flat or curved planes for a smooth, uniform appearance. Durable aluminum panels are available in either anodized or painted finishes and a wide range of colors. Installation is executed on the same substructure as glass and resin panels, allowing all panels to be used in combination.

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Panels constructed with fabrication technology used in the aerospace industry to create lightweight, extremely strong panels. Each panel sandwiches a stable metal honeycomb between two skins of smooth, coil-coated aluminum. Layers are bonded together with high-quality adhesives to form a monolithic mechanical construction.

The result: Optimal quality control. Maximum flexibility. The ability to withstand the most severe environmental conditions.

Dalian Shell Museum

Features & Benefits at a Glance

- Open-joint rainscreen façade systems control rain penetration, maintain ventilation, and provide thermal insulation.
- Honeycomb construction enables exceptionally large, flat modules up to 1500 mm (4.9 ft) wide and 4500 mm (14.8 ft) long.
- Metal panels fully integrate with QuadroClad glass and resin panels on the same plane.
- Ideal for both new construction and over-cladding projects. Full CAD and project management support available.

1. Ventilation
2. Drainage Channel
3. QuadroClad Pannel
4. Cavity
5. Thermal Insulation
6. Loadbearing Wall

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Specifications

External Skin: Aluminum coil-coated with Luxacote® or PVF2 finish (0.95 mm/~0.037 in). Other base metals and finishes available.
Internal Skin: Aluminum coil-coated with protective finish (0.5 mm/~0.02 in).
Core Structure: Aluminum honeycomb core.
Edge Extrusion: Extruded aluminum, mitered and crimped to seal each panel,with integrated fixing detail for easy attachment to support structures.
Wall Bracket: Available for insulation thicknesses of 100 mm, 150 mm, and 200 mm (4 in, 6 in, 8 in). Slotted holes allow for adjustment of +/- 25 mm (+/- 1 in) in depth and +/- 10 mm (+/-0.375 in.)in horizontal plane.
Support Rail: Extruded aluminum profile for maximum rigidity where required. Rails also serve as vertical drainage channel. Standard length 7,200 mm (283.5 in).
Fixing Plates: Fully adjustable in vertical directions, with integrated anti-vibration gaskets.
Panel Sizes: Complete range of sizes up to 1,500 mm x 4,500 mm (59 in x 117 in).
Windows: Twin-color powder-coated or anodized aluminum profiles. Windows are thermally improved and incorporate a range of mullions and transoms.

Panel Composition

1. Pre-coated and roll formed aluminum external skin
2. Adhesive file
3. Aluminum extrusion
4. Aluminum honeycomb
5. Pre-coated aluminum internal skin

Technical Drawings

Projects that use this product

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This post is part of our ongoing effort to create a database of architectural products, a useful resource for all architects, with the help of our partners.

Hunter Douglas Contract is a business partner of ArchDaily.

Tianzhushan Pavilion / Archiplein

Architect: Atelier Archiplein
Location: Montagne Tianzhushan 天柱山炼丹湖, Anhui province,
Client: Anhui local government
Project year: 2009
Construction Phase: April 2010
Project Area: 850sqm
Budget: 300,000 US
Program: Tourist Facilities, Tea House, Restaurant, Hotel

Capture the Rain / H3AR

The duo of Ryszard Rychlicki and Agnieszka Nowak, of H3AR, was awarded a special mention for their proposal in the 2010 eVolo skyscraper competition (see the winners on our previous article).  The competition attracts innovative designers and receives hundreds of eccentric proposals.  For this project, designed by 4th year student, the skyscraper is comprised of a system of gutters to catch as much rainfall as possible.  The water captured and processed by the building may be used for flushing toilets, feeding washing machines, watering plants, cleaning floors and other domestic applications.

More about the skyscrapper after the break.

PS House / Iwamoto Scott

© Craig Scott

Architects: IwamotoScott
Location: North Beach, , CA,
Principals in Charge: Lisa Iwamoto & Craig Scott
Collaborators: Dan Sullivan & Blake Altshuler
Diagrams: Ryan Gollenberg
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Craig Scott

Barn 2.0 / UTArchitects

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Architects: UTArchitects / Tim Bauerfeind, Henning von Wedemeyer
Location: Berlin,
Collaborators: Matthias Lötscher, Ralf Grubert
Client: RZB e.V.
Engineering: Pichler Ingenieure Berlin
Project Area: 1,000 sqm
Project Year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Ulrich Schwarz

AD Round Up: Green Roof Part III

From Poland, Spain, China, and France. Here’s our third selection of previously featured projects. Check them all after the break.

OUTrial House / KWK PROMES
A green clearing surrounded by forest was the only context for the proposed small house. Hence the idea to “carve out” a piece of the grass-covered site, move it up and treat it as the roofing to arrange all the required functions underneath. When the whole was ready, the client came up with another request, to create some space for a small recording studio and a conservatory (read more…)

Contemplating the Void Artwork Auction

Artwork by 24H Architecture

During 2009 the Guggenheim Museum celebrated its 50th anniversary. The museum commissioned nearly 200 artists, architects and designers to imagine their dream interventions on the most significative space of Frank Lloyd Wright’s building, the central void.

The artwork for every design is now available through a charity . You can bid for your favorite one right here. “” (check some of the designs in ArchDaily here) will be on exhibit at the Museum until Apr 28th.

Forestview House / Atelier st

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Architects: Atelier st
Location: Leipzig,
Directors in Charge: Silvia Schellenberg- Thaut & Sebastian Thaut
Collaborator: Ludwig Uphues
Client: Gaedtke Family
Structural Engineer: Mittenzwei GmbH, Werdau
Project Area: 186 sqm
Project Year: 2006-2007
Construction Year: 2009
Photographs: Bertram Bölkow