Twin extentions of 2 elementay schools in Courbevoie / BP Architectures

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@ Kozlowski

Architects: (member of PLAN01)
Location: Courbevoie,
Contracting Authority: City of Courbevoie
Contracting Companies: CERP, Roger Renard, Lebrun, ALMA
Project Area: 2,200 sqm
Budget: €3.1 Million
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Frédéric Delangle & Kozlowski

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Romania Pavillion for Shanghai World Expo 2010

021The concept design competition for the Pavilion, “Exchange of Ideas”, was won by SC M&C Strategy Development who designed Greenopolis, “The green mega polis”. Name of the pavilion is term with universal meaning, metamorphosed in a fruit, the apple, which means health, knowledge, freshness, temptation, eternity. The surrounding Greenopolis landscape recreates principal elements of the nature (the lawn from the hills, rivers, grass).

The apple is divided in two parts: the main body from which is detached a slice, the secondary body. The inside architectural design has generous and multifunctional spaces, disposed on 5 floors and the access in Greenopolis follows a natural line which allows visiting all the modules without passing over any zone. Seen at Big Creative Industries. More images after the break.

Fiscavaig / Rural Design

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Architects: Rural Design
Location: Isle of Skye,
Client: Nick and Kate Middleton
Structural Engineering: AF Cruden Associates, Inverness
Main Contrator: James MacQueen Builidng Contractors Ltd, Borneskitaig, Isle of Skye
Project Area: 70 sqm
Budget: £123,000
Project Year: 2009
Photographs:

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Het Kasteel / HVDN

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© John Lewis Marshall

Architects: HVDN
Location: ,
Design Team: Arie van Der Neut, Albert Herder, Vincent van Der Klei
Project Team: Arie van Der Neut, Albert Herder, Vincent van Der Klei, Monika Pieroth, Pascal Bemelmans
Structural Engineering: Jean-Marc Saurer, Vincent van Der Klei
Client: Hopman Interheem Groep Gouda
Contractor: Heddes Bouw
Project Year: 2004-2008
Budget: € 17.000.000
Photographs: John Lewis Marshall, Luuk Kramer & Jean-Pierre Jans

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MVRDV exhibits “China Hills: A vision of future cities”

image004Saturday 28th of November the Beijing Centre for the Arts opened the exhibition “Green Projects II, Three Dimensional City: Future ” featuring work of Paolo Soleri and MVRDV. The centre piece is an installation by , “China Hills”: a scale model of a future Chinese city which offers alternatives to the current urbanization in China.

On a hypothetical site of 1x1x0.5 km the plan offers space to accommodate up to 100,000 inhabitants and a well balanced mix of urban program and nature, agriculture and energy production; all in the shape of a Chinese mountain landscape: realizable with today’s technologies. The exhibition is open until February 28th 2010.

More information at the Beijing Center for the Arts official website.

Voest Alpine Office Center / Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes

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© Jo Feichtinger

Architects: Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
Location: Linz,
Project Leader: Gerhard Pfeiler
Competition Team: Claire Bodénez, Benni Eder, Simone Breitkopf, Barbara Feichtinger-Felber, Vicentiu Sopterean, Silviu Aldea, Markus Himmel, Ruth Pofahl, Rupert Siller
Project Team: Philipp Hugo Urabl, Dorit Böhme, Roland Basista, Albert Moosbrugger, Ulli Gabriel, Andreas Trampe-Kieslich, Ralitsa Kafova, Camille Duperche, Katharina Düsing, Nemanja Kordic
Site Area: 36,700 sqm
Project Area: 23,160 sqm
Competition Year: 2006
Project Year: 2006-2009
Photographs: Josef Pausch, Jo Feichtinger & Barbara Feichtinger-Felber

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Waterfall House / Andres Remy Arquitectos

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Architects: Andres Remy Arquitectos
Location: Buenos Aires,
Project Team: Andres Remy, Flavia Bellani, Marcos Pozzo, Paula Mancini, Laura Rodriguez Segat, Leandra Rodriguez Llebana
Construction Management: Andres Remy & Laura Rodriguez Segat
Structural Engineering: Carlos Dolhare
Project Area: 340 sqm
Project Year: 2005
Photographs: Alejandro Peral & Juan Raña

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Elizabeth Diller and Jürgen Mayer H., next week at Columbia

Diller@GSAPP_Nov.30Two events will take place next week at . On Monday, ‘Pointless’,  a lecture by Elizabeth Diller. Then on Wednesday, ‘Re:Activators’,  a lecture by Jürgen Mayer H. Both events will take place at 6:30 PM in Avery Hall, Auditorium, Columbia University.

Elizabeth Diller is a founding member of DS+R, New York. Born in Lodz, Poland; she attended The Cooper Union School of Art and received a Bachelor of Architecture from the Cooper Union School of Architecture. Ms. Diller is Professor of Architecture at Princeton University.

Jürgen Mayer H. is the founder and principal of the cross disciplinary studio, J. MAYER H. Architects, founded in 1996 in Berlin, Germany. He studied at Stuttgart University, The Cooper Union and Princeton University. National and international awards include the Mies-van-der-Rohe-Award-Emerging-Architect-Special-Mention-2003 and Winner Holcim Award Bronze 2005. Jürgen Mayer H. has taught at Princeton University, University of the Arts Berlin, Harvard University, Kunsthochschule Berlin, the Architectural Association in London, the Columbia University, New York and at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Observatory House

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Architectural photographer Iwan Baan recently shot the Observatory House, designed by Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco and built by architect Tatiana Bilbao in Roca Blanca, .

The house is inspired on the Jantar Mantar Astronomical Observatory, built in Delhi in 1724.

Stefano Boeri from Abitare interviewed Gabriel Orozco about this project, where you can read more about his vision.

More photos of the house with one of the best pools I have ever seen, after the break.

Soria / Vaillo + Irigaray

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© Pedro Pegenaute

Architects: Vaillo + Irigaray / Antonio Vaillo + Juan Luis Irigaray
Location: Tajonar, Navarra,
Project manager: Oscar Góngora, architect
Rigger: Daniel Bartolomé
Structure: Javier Arregui
Facilities: Andrés Bustince – INARQ.ingenieros
Lighting: Anton Amann – ALS LIGHTING
Contractor: MRSA
Project year: 2006
Photographs: Pedro Pegenaute

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AD Round Up: Green Roof Part II

Sustainability Round Up to end the week. Some really interesting projects may be done using . Here we show you our second part (see the first one here), of previously featured projects with green roof.

1 Academy of Sciences / Renzo Piano
The building recovers two and mixes it with a whole new structure, which is actually very transparent, connecting it visually with the Golden Park, away from the old conception of dark museums. Shade will be provided by a canopy that goes around the bulding, with solar panels on it. Sustainability was a key aspect of the design (read more…)

2Slowtecture M / Shuhei Endo
This complex is to serve as an emergency staging area in case of future disaster. Relief operations require a vast space enables assumed / un-assumed activities in case of emergency. In Hyogo Prefecture, it has been prepared for various disasters from the experience of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (read more…)

3Barreiro College of Technology / ARX
The building site assigned for the School is located in the outskirts of the city of Barreiro. These are rural territories which were invaded by recent constructions intersecting green-gardens and reed plots. Residence houses are predominant and other functions were not predicted for this area (read more…)

4Museum Liaunig / Querkraft
Planted into the site the new museum emerges more like a work of landart. Only a small part of the outstretched museum building is visible. Cut through the hill, the main body of the museum slices through a densely-wooded, steep-sided embankment, providing an unparalleled view over the river drau seventy meters below (read more…)

5Sports and Leisure Centre / ACXT
The project has been developed within a plan to transform and regenerate the coal-mining area of Asturias, following a deep crisis in a sector that until now had been its main source of wealth: its coal mines. We understood that within this context, the building should have a symbolic, turn-of-the-century appeal (read more…)

Haus im Haus / Behnisch Architekten

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@ Hans Jürgen Landes

Architects: Behnisch Architekten
Location: Hamburg,
Client: Handelskammer Hamburg
Lighting: Nimbus Design
Project Area: 1,000 sqm
Competition year: 2003
Project year: 2004–2007
Photographs: Hans Jürgen Landes

Mexico Pavillion for Shanghai World Expo 2010

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Mexican architects SLOT won an international competition to design the Mexican Pavilion for the World Expo . The pavilion’s design is born from the idea of representing Mexico through its traditional elements which haven’t been exploited in these kinds of fairs. The proposal scheme is centered around the idea of creating a green space within the expo which at the same time represents our preoccupation to offer a better life standard for cities through the recovery of green areas rather than creating a protagonist building.

The Mexican pavilion is a volume defined by a talud (slope) which transforms itself into a plaza privileging public space as an urban gesture within the expo. Space is divided in three levels which represent three different moments of urban life in our country. The past is represented on the plinth, present time Mexico at the entrance level, and future on the platform.

The pavilion’s main feature lies within the design of the papalotes (kites), a word that comes from the Nahuatl papalotl which means butterfly, used as a cultural meeting point between mexican and chinese cultures. Our proposal is to look into a future with areas which are thought, destined and planned specifically for leisure, the recovery of parks and green areas, where new generations might meet in a city with a “better living”. More images and a video after the break.

Kuchl Grammar School / kadawittfeldarchitektur

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© Angelo Kaunat

Architect: Kadawittfeldarchitektur
Location: Kuchl,
Project manager: Dipl.-Ing. Oliver Venghaus
Client: municipality of Kuchl KEG
Project Area: 2,110 sqm
Project year: 2006-2007
Photographs: Angelo Kaunat

Medo Brundo Kindergarten / njiric+ arhitekti

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© Domagoj Blazevic

Architects: njiric+ arhitekti doo
Location: Zagreb,
Architects in Charge: Hrvoje Njirić, Davor Busnja
Structure: G&F – Eugen Gajsak, Zagreb
Services: SM Inzenjering – Slavko Mamic / HIT Projekt – Slavko Simunovic / ELAG – Zvonimir Gajsak
Client: Grad Zagreb
Contractor: Jelacic d.o.o.
Project Area: 2,300 sqm
Budget: 900 €/sqm
Project Year: 2005
Construction Year: 2006-2008
Photographs: Domagoj Blazevic &

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Orchid House / Andres Remy Arquitectos

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Architects: Andres Remy Arquitectos
Location: Pilar, Buenos Aires,
Project Team: Andrés Remy, Hernán Pardillos, Paula Mancini, Lucila Lopez, Julieta Rafel, Lilian Kandus, Coral Banegas
Site Area: 3,640 sqm
Project Area: 465 sqm
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Alejandro Peral

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Punggol Waterfront Master Plan & Housing Design Program

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Argentinian architects B4FS shared with us their proposal in the Punggol Waterfront International Housing Design competition in , which was shortlisted and awarded a Merit Prize (second prize ex aequo).

The two-stage design competition was launched in December 2008 to generate fresh, innovative and new design ideas for high-rise public housing along the waterway. Participating firms were required to incorporate new sustainable development concepts and features to realise the theme “Green Living by the Waters”.

The first stage required participating firms to propose urban and new architectural concepts for the housing district. The top five firms were then short-listed for Stage Two, where they further developed their design concepts proposed in Stage One into a more thorough and implementable architectural design that included landscaping and other detailing.

More images and architect’s description after the break.

3XN wins competition for new Frederiksberg Courthouse in Denmark

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Danish office 3XN is “on fire” this year: they won the competition for the Randers Museum of Art, the competition for  a new cultural  center in Aarhus, the Saxo Bank won the RIBA International Award, and Kim Herforth Nielsen (partner and founder) received Denmark’s highest Architectural Honour, the C.F. Hansen Medal.

And now, they won the competition for the Frederiksberg Courthouse in , an extension to a neo-classical building. The new building follows the line of the neighborhood’s architecture, reinterpreted in a contemporary style, following the horizontal lines, materials and roof.

From the public square right next to the building, the heavy volume looks lighter as the opening in the corner give a sense of cantilevering.

More images and the architect’s description after the break:

Santander-Totta University Bank Agency / LGLS Architects

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© FG + SG

Architects: LGLS Arquitectos / Antonio Santos, Pedro Gaspar and Nuno Gaspar
Location: Setúbal,
Collaborators: André Rodrigues, Joana Lousada, Sara Oliveira
Enginnering: PTV Ltd (Structure, Lighting, HVAC, Fluids, Communication)
Promotor: SANTANDER-TOTTA BANK
Built Area: 120 sqm (65 sqm enclosed)
Project year: 2008
Photographs: FG + SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

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Lofts @ Cherokee Studios / Pugh + Scarpa

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@ Tara Wujcik

Architects: Pugh + Scarpa
Location: Los Angeles, CA,
Client: REthink Development Corp.
MEP Engineers: Cobalt Engineering
Structural Engineers: BPA Group
Builders: JT Builders
Landscape: FormLA Landscape
Project Area: 1,905 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Tara Wujcik

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