Rothoblaas limited Company / monovolume
Architect: monovolume architecture + design
Location: Kurtatsch, Italy
Project manager: Pedó Pobitzer
Project team: Christian Gold, Barbara Waldboth, Amgelika Mair
Structural Engineering: Baucon Bozen (Ing. Neulichedl Simon)
Client: Rothoblaas limited Company
Building area: 3,700 sqm
Budget: 5,5 Mil. Euro
Project year: 2005
Photographs: Oskar Da Riz
AD Round Up: Awarded Competitions Part II
We are always looking forward to see the results of an awarded competition. As we feature a lot of them, we might as well do a second part of our awarded competitions Round Up. Check out the first one here!
World Trade Center Iguala Competition
b720 architects won the competition for the World Trade Center at Igualada, Spain. The complex will articulate the existing industrial city with the residential zone, completing a new zone of infrastructure for this developing city. The complex consist of 4 buildings with a total area of 53.000 sqm, including 530 underground parking (read more…)
Sustainable Design Competition
FARO architecten bv just shared with us their latest project, the winning entry for a sustainable residential tower design competition. The city of Almere organized a design competition for urban villas and a residential tower for the Cascade park. These designs needed to fit within the ambition to develop the Cascade park (read more…)
Taipei Performing Arts Centre Competition
After a two-phase international competition (with offices such as Morphosis, Abalos+Sentkiewicz, MVRDV and Zaha Hadid), OMA has been awarded the first prize in the design competition to build the new Taipei Performing Arts Centre. The project, led by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, is based on 3 theaters (read more…)
P.S.1 Competition
We just got the news that MOS Architects won the competition to build a temporary installation at MoMA´s P.S.1 during this summer. For this competition the P.S.1 invites each year a group of emerging architects to experiment with new shapes and materials, as Work AC did last year with their PF1 project (read more…)
Live the Box Competition
The partnership of AIA Newark and Suburban and the Young Architects Forum invited international designers to find innovative, visionary and compelling proposals for container constructed multi-family mixed-use project. The idea was to reuse the thousand of unwanted shipping containers clogging ports (read more…)
Qual Hill / Bates Masi Architects
Architect: Bates Masi Architects
Location: Amagansett, NY, USA
Client: Private
Structural Engineer: Steven L. Maresca
Contractor: Sanders Construction
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Christopher Wesnofske
Pike Loop, a robot-built installation in NYC
On September 29, Storefront for Art and Architecture will inaugurate a new exhibition showcasing research conducted over the past 3 years at ETH Zurich by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler into full-scale digital fabrication in architecture using industrial robots. At the same time, construction work will begin on Pike Loop, the first architectural project to be built on site by an industrial robot in the US.
Located on Pike Street, the robot, R-O-B, will work for up to four weeks—in full view of the public— to construct a brick wall, a highly sculptural response to the specific identity of the site. The same robot unit recently built the award-winning installation, Structural Oscillations, at the 2008 architectural biennial in Venice. For the Pike Loop installation, more than seven thousand bricks aggregate to form an infinite loop that weaves along the pedestrian island. In changing rhythms the loop lifts off the ground and intersects itself at its peaks. The installation was coordinated through the New York City Department of Transportation’s Urban Art Program.
More images and a video after the break.
National Music Center / Allied Works
Allied Works Architecture was selected to design the National Music Center project in Calgary’s East Village. The firm, led by Brad Cloepfil, will have the opportunity to “invent a new kind of institution,” as the center will be the first of its kind for Canada and will be part museum, part education and part performance. The proposal is comprised of a five-storey building that will incorporate the historic King Edward Hotel, a legendary house of blues, and provide 80,000 sf of new space for the Cantos Music Foundation’s growing collection. This project marks the first stage of the redevelopment of Calgary’s East Village and the creation of a new music district in the historic heart of the city.
More images and more about the winning proposal after the break.
Charles Hostler Center / VJAA
Architects: VJAA
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Program: Assembly, Restaurant, Recreation, Higher education, Theater, Gymnasium, Pool
Site area: 32,488 sqm
Constructed area: 18,950 sqm
Project year: 2008
Photographs: © Paul Crosby
Darwin Centre / C.F.Møller Architects
Architects: C.F.Møller Architects
Location: London, England
Architect in Charge: Anna Maria Indrio
Client: Natural History Museum
Main Contractor: HBg ltd
Structural Engineering: Arup
Project year: 2008-2009
Site Area: 16,000 sqm
Budget: £$78 M
Photographs: Torben Eskerod
Lego House Update
Last month, we featured a post about James May, a toy fanatic (and presenter of the television show James May’s Toy Stories), that built a house using LEGO bricks. The house was complete, but unfortunately, it’s now demolished after a deal to sell it didn’t quite go well.
Because the home didn’t have planning permission on its site, the builder was hoping to find a buyer to transport the house elsewhere. LEGOland theme park showed interest, but the high cost of transportation didn’t make seem like a good deal. The 3.3 million LEGO bricks used to build the home will be donated to charity once the home is teared down.
Seen at designboom. More images of James May with the completed house and demolition process after the break.
Brandhorst Museum / Sauerbruch Hutton
Architects: Sauerbruch Hutton
Location: Munich, Germany
Client: Staatliches Hochbauamt, Munich
Project Area: 12,100 sqm
Budget: $46M Euro
Project year: 2002
Construction year: 2005-2008
Photographs: Sauerbruch Hutton
United Oil Gasoline Station / Kanner Architect
Architects: Kanner Architects
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Architect in Charge: Stephen H. Kanner
Project team: Damian Lemons, Nicolas O.S. Marques, Jay Fukuzawa, Clare Olsen, John Mebasser, Claudia Wiehen, Lincoln Tobier, Stephane Corbel
Client: United Oil
Project Area: 630.8 sqm
Project year: 2009
Photographs: John Linden & Nicolas O.S. Marques
Adaptation of Former Granary / medusagroup
Architects: medusagroup
Location: Gliwice, Poland
Architects in Charge: Przemo łukasik, Lukasz zagała
Associate Architects: Rafal Dziedzic, Kuba Pudo, Tomasz Majewski, Dominik Jaksik, Dawid Beil, Krzysztof Drozda, Justyna Siwińska, Agnieszka Szewera, Jakub Magoń
Structural Engineer: Statyk
Client: Wektor Inwestycje sp. z o.o.
Project area: 5,000 sqm
Design year: 2007-2008
Construction year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Milosz Jaksik
University of Northampton / Alison Brooks Architects
Alison Brooks Architects, one of the leading talents in the UK, was awarded first prize for their master plan for the University of Northampton. The two stage master plan will play a vital role in enabling the university to meet both the need for short term accommodations and longer term plans for future growth. “The School of the Arts embraces new technologies in a dynamic cross-discipline mix that will drive our vision for a creative technologies campus. I believe the chosen proposal will provide a powerful statement which captures and projects our collective values and ambitions,” explained Paul Middleton.
More about the master plan after the break.
Mixed Views for RMJM’s Okhta Center
Controversy is surrounding the latest design of the 400 meter tower for Gazprom, a Russian energy company. Designed by RMJM, the tower, known as Okhta Center, will dominate the skyline, towering over the spire of St. Peter and Paul Cathedral. The new design may actually become the tallest building in Europe, which begs the question that even though we have the capability of building taller and larger, should that be our priority?
More about the tower after the break.
Post Parametric 1: Data, a debate in Columbia University
In the post-parametric era, one key challenge for architectural design is the acquisition, processing, and integration of data. Designers already have an enormous amount of computable data from building simulations, physical sensing, geometric form, construction techniques, cost and location of materials—and the mountain of numbers shows every sign of rapid expansion.
This debate will explore what might be done with all of this data, and more broadly, how we might be designing architecture ten years from now. Post Parametric 1 is the first in a series of discussions that aim to question, broaden, and re-frame the way we think about computation and design.
The debate will take place tomorrow Monday at 6:30 PM, in the Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, Columbia Unviersity. For more information, visit the official website.
Ambassador School / Gonzalez Goodale Architects
Architects: Gonzalez Goodale Architects
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Principal-in-charge: Armando Gonzalez, FAIA
Design principal: David Goodale, AIA, LEED AP
Project designer; Chung Chan
Principal/ Senior project manager: Harry Drake, AIA
Project Team: Anthony Tam, AIA, Sheila Mactal, Say-Vun Khov, Bill Ortega, Juan Bermudez
Landscape: ahbe
Lighting: Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Tim Street, Inta Krukle, Magnus Stark
Stadsdeelkantoor Zuideramstel / Claus en Kaan Architekten
Architects: Claus en Kaan Architekten/ Felix Claus & Jaap Gräber
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Design team: Jan Kerkhoff, Mike Heemrood, Emal Karanzai, Hilmar Goedhart, James Webb
Client: Dura Vermeer Vastgoed BV
Constructed area:10,000 sqm
Budget:$1,215 Euro / sqm
Project year:2008
Photographs: Luuk Kramer
MONU Magazine New Issue: Clean 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 MONU 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 “Clean Urbanism”. You can see more about the articles on their official website. Also, you can browse the entire issue #11 on YouTube (video after the break).
Windy House / Estudio Valdes
Architects: Estudio Valdes / Leonardo Valdes- Alejandra Demaria – Federico Prieto
Localización: Santo Domingo
Landscape: Juan Grimm
Lighting: Sandra Bordoni- Carolina Palacios
Main Materials: Concrete, Petorca grey stones, Cypress wood
Site area: 3,000 sqm
Project year: 2005
Construction year: 2006-2007
Photographs: Alejandra Demaria
Songzhuang Artist Residence / DnA
Architects： DnA
Location： Songzhuang town，Tongzhou distant，Beijing, China
Architect in Charge： Tiantian Xu
Program： Residence/art studios
Client： Private
Design year： 2007-2008
Construction year： 2008-2009
Site area： 1,400 sqm
Building area： 5,300 sqm
Photographs： Savoye/Ruogu Zhou, Iwan Baan
AD Round Up: ORDOS 100 Part II
While we keep showing you the 100 houses designed by 100 architects in ORDOS 100, we might as well remember the ones we published quite some time ago. You can also check Part I here.
ORDOS 100 #6: Rocker-Lange
The project called “Inside Out|Outside In” is part of the Ordos 100 project and discusses the relationship and fusion of interior and exterior space. Rocker – Lange calls for an architecture of milieu – that an architecture of the circumstances and conditions by which it is surrounded. An “Architecture of Milieu” no longer strictly (read more…)
ORDOS 100 #7: MOS Architects
The relationship of the house to the sun is critical. In a climate such as Ordos’ which experiences hot summers and cold winters, it is the architectural form which integrates the effects of the sun’s light and heat with the comfort of the occupied spaces. The house controls heat and light through two primary aspects (read more…)
ORDOS 100 #8: R&Sie(n)
R&Sie propose the continuation of this legend, to develop a topography which connects these two universes and which articulate the relation between two climates, one outdoor, dry, sandy and windy, and the other luminous, greens, and protected in interiorities. Water and its collecting are generating morphology of the movement of ground (read more…)
ORDOS 100 #9: Sou Fujimoto
I propose a primordial place to live before a notional ‘house’ became a ‘house;’ when it was uncongealed to be all at once a house, a city, a garden, a forest, a prairie, the natural and the artificial. It is analogous to the ruins of ancient cities, to the natural landscapes, to the network of neural activities in a stimulated mind (read more…)
ORDOS 100 #10: Johnston Marklee & Associates
The design of House House emerges from an interest in finding the most elemental model for a city. As a type, the gable roofed shed is one that transcends cultures and civilization. The instant this house proliferates bears the seed for the basic model of settlement. Considering pragmatic constraints, the siting of the house (read more…)
Rennes Métropole Crematorium / PLAN 01
Architects: PLAN 01 architects
Location: Rennes Métropole, France
Project team: Jean Bocabeille, Anne-Cécile Comar, Philippe Croisier, Christophe Ouhayoun, Stéphane Pertusier, Ignacio Prego, Dominique Vitti, Anne-Charlotte Zanassi, Julien Zanassi and Nicolas Ziesel
Project manager: Daniela Miccolis
Project year: 2005-2009
Site Area: 1,100 sqm
Budget: US $2,72 M
Photographs: © Luc Boegly & Stéphane Chalmeau
