Peace Pentagon: A call to action competition
Friends of 339 invites architects, designers, artists, engineers and multi-disciplinary teams worldwide to participate in a competition to re-imagine and rebuild the Peace Pentagon, located at 339 Lafayette Street in New York City. This is an opportunity to give a physical form to a name in-use since this building became the center of peace-promoting activism in the 1960’s.
They are seeking proposals that will support and expand the work of peace activists on several scales: as a financially and ecologically sustainable building, as a means of engaging with a neighborhood that has a rich history of activism and art, and as part of an influential city that can impact thinking in far away places.
Submission deadline es December 9. For more details on the requirements, go to the competition’s official website.
Richard Rogers wins Stirling Prize for Maggie’s Centre
The RIBA Stirling prize is given each year to one selected building. And this year’s prize went to the Maggie Center by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.
Richard Rogers on the Maggie’s Center building, by The Architects’ Journal
This small buildings has a great inside/outside integration, given by the combination of several transparent planes and the independent roof, as you can see on the photos.
After the break, more photos by architectural photographer José Miguel Hernández Hernández, and a short video by AJ.
Never Never Land House / Andres Jaque Arquitectos
Architect: Andrés Jaque Arquitectos
Location: San Jose, Ibiza, Spain
Project team: Jorge Ruano, Alessandro Armelini, Guido Brandi, Teresa del Pino, Borja Gómez, Alejandro Martín Maté, Leandro Morillas, Pedro Pinto-Correia, Karin Rangel, Alberto Rey, Adeline Ruiz, David Segura, Natalia Solano
Construction Management: Andrés Jaque, Jorge Ruano, Juan Boo
Psicological Consultant: Pablo Hurlé
Services: Nieves Plaza
Structure: io7
Budget & Mesurement Consultant: Calle 51
Furniture: Luis García Fraile
Design year: 2007
Construction year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Miguel de Guzmán
Re-cover Residence / Bates Masi Architects
Architect: Bates Masi Architects
Location: East Hampton, NY, USA
Client: Private
Structural Engineer: Steven L. Maresca
Contractor: Paul Cassidy
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Christopher Wesnofske
Namba Parks / The Jerde Partnership
The Jerde Partnership’s Namba Parks, in Osaka, Japan, was just named one of the winners of the Urban Land Institute’s 2009 Awards of Excellence: Asia Pacific competition. When asked to create a gateway to redefine Osaka’s identity, the architects responded with this project that would become a natural intervention in Osaka’s dense and harsh urban condition. The rooftop park offers a sloping park plane that is “bifurcated by a sinuous, open-air ‘canyon’ path that reinforces the connection with nature while forming the primary circulation pattern.”
More about the park after the break.
Nok Sung Hun / IROJE KHM Architects
Architect: HyoMan Kim – IROJE KHM Architects
Location: GuMiDong, BunDang, SungNam, Korea
Project Manager: SuMi Jeong
Site area: 608 sqm
Bldg. area: 273 sqm
Gross floor area: 330 sqm
Photographer: JongOh Kim
Venezuela Pavillion for Shanghai World Expo 2010
Construction has already began on the Venezuela Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo site. The 3,000-square-meter Venezuela Pavilion will look like a figure 8 – a symbolic number in both China and Venezuela – and depict many traditional aspects of the country’s history and culture with the theme “A Better Life, Better City.”
The Yanomami tribe that has thrived in the rainforests of South America for thousands of years will perform in the pavilion. Another highlight of the pavilion will be a Venezuelan children’s orchestra, which will perform in a 286-seat theater on July 5, Venezuela’s National Day, said Temir Ponceleon, the country’s commissioner general of the Expo.
The pavilion will be in the geometric shape of a “Mobius strip,” or an inverted cylinder. The exhibition area will feature two-way audiovisual transmissions via satellite between Shanghai and Venezuela. More images and a video after the break.
City Sports Hall / AG Planum
Architects: AG Planum
Location: Varazdin, Croatia
Architects in Charge: Marko Cvjetko & Robert Jonathan Loher
Project team: Miron Hrzina, Ana Mrda, Bruno Lovrencic
Architectural design: AG Planum d.o.o.
Design of construction and installations: Coning Inženjering d.d.
Design of thermal and acoustic properties: Adapteh d.o.o.
Design of fire prevention: Inženjering Kosović d.o.o.
Design of elevators: OTIS dizala d.o.o.
Design of sprinkler installations: Pastor Inzenjering d.d.
Project area: 19,500 sqm
Design year: 2006-2007
Construction year: 2007-2008
Photographs: André Thissen, Miljenko Bernfest & Robert Les
V23K18 / Pasel.Kuenzel
Architects: Pasel.Kuenzel Architects
Location: Leiden, The Netherlands
Project Area: 130 sqm building + 60 sqm garden
Project year: 2005-2009
Photographer: Marcel van der Burg
Architectes d’Aujourd’hui: Young Practices in France, a debate in Columbia
This Monday, October 19th, young architects working and living in France will present their recent projects in a debate taking place at Columbia University (Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, 6:30pm). Architects participating will be:
Dan Dorell + Lina Ghotmeh, DORELL.GHOTMEH.TANE / ARCHITECTS
Adelaide Marchi + Nicola Marchi, Marchi Architectes
Pascal Riffaud + Denis Brillet, BLOCK Architectes
Moderated by Rafael Magrou, Curator, Paris.
OKasian House / Fitzsimmons Architects
Architects: Fitzsimmons Architects
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Architect in Charge: Brian Fitzsimmons AIA
Collaborators: Larry Pickering, Stan Lingo P.E.
Project Size: 223 sqm conditioned space, 395 sqm total floor area
Budget: $290,500
Project year: 2007
Photographs: Joseph Mills Photography
La Rinascente / Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Architects: Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Location: Milan, Italy
Food and restaurant consultant: Ford McDonald Consultancy
Lighting consultant: Equation Lighting Design
Cost consultant: Davis Langdon
Mechanical engineer: BRE Enginnering s.r.l.
Electrical engineer: CS Progetti
Main contractor: Impresa Minotti s.r.l.
Feature ceiling sub-contractor: Camagni Arredamenti s.r.l.
Project Area: 1,900 sqm
Project year: 2007
Photographs: Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Weilburg Terraces / ACME
The city council of Weilburg, Germany, a dense medieval city, organized a design competition upon the demolition of an existing parking structure. ACME’s terrace design is a contemporary spin on the Baroque terraced-landscape building typology found nearby in the Weilburg Castle Gardens. The form becomes an integrated part of the landscape, allowing the project to blend into the surrounding context while inviting inhabitation and managing to create “specific urban character towards some if its city context”.
This project won the first prize from the voting public and the second prize from the professional jury.
More images and more about the project after the break.
AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part IV
With over 6,000 pictures from our Flickr pool, we are constantly receiving some amazing photos provided by our readers. Each month, we’ll show you our selection of best pictures. You can check Part I, Part II and Part III. And of course remember you can submit yours right here, and also follow us through Twitter and our Facebook Fan Page.
The picture of the Nottingham Science Park in the UK was taken by wojtek gurak. Check the other four after the break.
Jean Nouvele’s 100 11th Ave in NY
Photographer Paul Clemence shared with us some photos of 100 11th Ave, a residential tower in Chelsea by Jean Nouvel.
This building is almost complete, and it has a strong presence from across the river, or when seen from the High Line. I remember that a month ago, I was looking at it from the High Line and a lady next to me said “how old is that building?”. Despite the fact of its high tech curtain wall, using 1647 different window panels, the building looks ancient, almost like a left over from the old waterfront.
The variation of the windows is not only on their size, but also the inclination and the glass tint, giving this building a unique facade.
More photos after the break:
Saint John’s Abbey / VJAA
Architects: VJAA
Location: Collegeville, Minnesota, USA
Client: Saint John’s Abbey
Constructed area: 17.4 sqm
Project year: 2008
Photographs: © Paul Crosby
Parasite Studio proposal for UP TO 35 Competition
OLIAROS, a young property development company, called architects up to 35 years old to submit proposals for the construction of an affordable student housing complex in Kerameikos and Metaxourgeio (KM), an area in the historic centre of Athens, Greece.
Parasite Studio have shared with us their proposal for the competition. Their project, “Agora”, consists in complex living modules. Each module comprises a common space for six students and three bedrooms. Full architect’s description and more images after the break.
Team Germany wins Solar Decathlon 2009
After 9 days and 10 contests, Team Germany from the Technische Universität Darmstadt won the 2009 Solar Decathlon with their surPLUShome project.
The surPLUShome is based on a single room concept. The interior design is characterized by a multi functional body as its central element. This body contains primary functions like the kitchen, stairs and the bath and defines the possible use of close-by space. Besides it takes over functions of furniture and the building services.
But the most interesting aspect of this house is its shingle inspired ventilated skin, using photovoltaic modules.
You can learn more about the house at Team Germany’s official website.
Paineiras Hotel Complex / Hepner, Cossia, Payar, Brych, Gonçalves & Messano
A young firm from São Paulo, Brazil received an Honorable Mention for their Paineiras Hotel Complex design in Rio de Janeiro. The architects, Alexandre Hepner, Denis Cossia, João Paulo Payar, Rafael Brych, Ricardo Gonçalves, and environmental design consultant Ricardo Messano, designed a complex that would be functional and “allow perfect fruition of the beautiful panoramic view and the close contact with nature.” The strategy reflects “the intention of harmonizing the intervention with the existing context, thought without denying the contemporary character of such intervention nor hiding its presence among the surrounding forest and the old hotel building.”
More about the hotel after the break.
Støperigaten 25 / Alliance arkitekter
Architect: Alliance arkitekter AS
Location: Stavanger, Norway
Project manager: Harald Martin Gjøvaag
Project team: Kristoffer Johan Gulbrandsen, Tue Kappel, Tonje Løvdahl
Structural Engineering: Procon AS
Client: Svithun Invest AS
Contractor: Genfer Construction AS
Building area: 3,007 sqm
Project Year: 2007
Budget: 4,110,000 Euro
Photographs: Stian Robberstad
Aluminium House / Arhitektid Muru & Pere
Architects: Arhitektid Muru & Pere
Location: Rannamõisa near Tallinn,Estonia
Project team: Urmas Muru, Peeter Pere, Janek Maat ,Katrin Kaevats
Structure designer: Ago Kuddu
Design year: 2005-2007
Construction year: 2007-2008
Project area: 266 sqm
Photographs: Tarvo Varres
