Heatherwick Studio’s Coal Drops Yard in London’s King's Cross was unveiled today ahead of the new shopping districts public opening on Friday, October 26. The studio reinvented two heritage rail buildings from the 1850s as a new shopping district while opening up the site to the public for the first time. The design extends the inner gabled roofs of Victorian coal drops to link the two viaducts together around shopping and public space.
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Heatherwick Studio's Massive Coal Drops Yard Project Opens in London
MO Museum of Modern Art / Studio Libeskind
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Architects: Studio Libeskind
- Area: 3100 m²
- Year: 2018
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Manufacturers: Vectorworks, Audience Systems, Stucco, Vadasiga
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Professionals: Akukon, Baltic Engineers, APS, Glasma Service, Naresta
Life after Serpentine: Second Lives of Architecture's Famed Pavilions
If the surest sign of summer in London is the appearance of a new pavilion in front of the Serpentine Gallery, then it’s perhaps fair to say that summer is over once the pavilion is taken down. The installations have gained prominence since its inaugural edition in 2000, acting as a kind of exclusive honor and indication of talent for those chosen to present; celebrated names from the past names include Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, and Olafur Eliasson.
V&A Dundee / Kengo Kuma and Associates
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Architects: Kengo Kuma and Associates
- Area: 8500 m²
- Year: 2018
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Manufacturers: HAVER & BOECKER, Sika, Sto, Innovation Glass, Kilkenny Limestone, +3
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Professionals: Arup, C-MIST, James F Stephen Architects, Cartlidge Levene, CBA, +1
World Trade Center Transportation Hub Oculus Designed in Remembrance of 9/11
The opening of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub's Oculus will take a rain check on the 17th anniversary of 9/11, according to Steve Coleman, a spokesperson for the Port Authority. Designed by Santiago Calatrava, the 335-foot-long skylight was designed to allow the “Way of Light” to pass through the main hub of the transit hall at 10:28 a.m.—the moment that the North Tower of the WTC collapsed on September 11, 2001. Symbolizing the light that continues to shine through after the darkness of the tragedy, the Oculus opening allows light to fill the massive space as a memorial to the attacks on the twin towers.
Four Seasons Hotel Kuwait / Gensler
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire / Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
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Architects: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
- Area: 10500 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Auditoria Services, Axiom, Bennett Architectural, Caxton, Construction Profiles, +7
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Professionals: Brook Smith Planning, Faithful+Gould, Galliford Try, Planit-IE, Hoare Lea, +2
Napoli Afragola Station / Zaha Hadid Architects
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Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects
- Area: 30000 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Nuprotec, Tensocielo
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Professionals: INTERPROGETTI, ATI ASTALDI S.p.A (Astaldi S.p. A; NBI S.p.A), Gross Max, JMP, Macchiaroli and Partners, +2
Eliel and Eero Saarinen: The Sweeping Influence of Architecture's Greatest Father-Son Duo
It is rare for a father and son to share the same birthday. Even rarer is it for such a duo to work in the same profession; rarer still for them both to achieve international success in their respective careers. This, however, is the story of Eliel and Eero Saarinen, the Finnish-American architects whose combined portfolio tells of the development of modernist architectural thought in the United States. From Eliel’s Art Nouveau-inspired Finnish buildings and modernist urban planning to Eero’s International Style offices and neo-futurist structures, the father-son duo produced a matchless body of work culminating in two individual AIA Gold Medals.
David Chipperfield Architects Create New Hostel Design to Help Spur Margate's Revival
In a pro-bono move to help spur revival in Margate, David Chipperfield Architects independently conceived a hostel addition to the firm's Turner Contemporary art gallery in Margate. Dubbed the Turner Rooms, the design is made to help grow the vision of the gallery and secure its financial future. Sited on the Margate waterfront, the proposal offers new ways for people to engage with the gallery and the town through a 100 room waterfront hostel.
Heatherwick Studio’s Coal Drops Yard in King's Cross Set to Open in October
Heatherwick Studio’s Coal Drops Yard in London’s King's Cross is set to open on October 26, 2018. As a new major shopping district in King's Cross, the design brings new life to two heritage rail buildings from the 1850's. Now home to stores, restaurants and cafés, Coal Drops Yard sits just off Granary Square next to Regent's Canal and the refurbished Central St. Martins School. The pair of elongated Victorian coal drops are reimagined as a space for the public to make their own.
RIBA Announces 2018 National Award Winners
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the 49 winners of the 2018 RIBA National Awards. From skyline-altering buildings to sensitive small-scale sculptures, this year’s top projects showcase a wide-ranging selection of scales, featuring designs from Foster + Partners, Hawkins\Brown, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, and Niall McLaughlin Architects.
New Library at the University of Bedfordshire / MCW Architects
Spotlight: Daniel Libeskind
In the architecture world, few designers can claim to have a more clearly-defined style than Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946). Much of Libeskind's work is instantly recognizable for its angular forms, intersecting planes, and frequent use of diagonally-sliced windows, a style that he has used to great effect in museums and memorials—but which he has equally adapted to conference centers, skyscrapers, and shopping malls.
Generali Tower / Zaha Hadid Architects
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Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects
- Area: 147429 m²
- Year: 2018
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Professionals: Systematica, Sudio Corda, Alpina, AKT, Redesco, +9
Daniel Libeskind On the Poetics of Memory and Time in Architecture
In PLANE-SITE's latest video from their Time-Space-Existence series, Daniel Libeskind describes his work in relation to Shakespeare's quote that "time is out of joint." Weaving in his philosophy regarding time, memory and architecture, Libeskind discusses his seminal works such as the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Ground Zero master plan. These ideas will be transferred to his new project named Facing Gaia, an architectural sculpture to be located in Giardini Marinaressa, which explores the connections between climate, time, space and existence.
Take a 360 Video Tour of Zaha Hadid Architects' New Building on the High Line
In a recent video published by Metropolis Magazine, Ed Gaskin, a senior associate at Zaha Hadid Architects, takes us on a comprehensive tour of ZHA's 520 West 28th Street, the late architect's only project in New York City. The video describes the project's interesting relation to the adjacent High Line, as well as taking us through the lobby, courtyard and inside the residential units of the building.
Ma Yansong: “Some People May Say My Work Is Futuristic, But I See It as Traditional”
With the unconventional, undulating forms of his buildings—and the fact that his path to architectural success included a stint working for Zaha Hadid—Ma Yansong is often miscategorized as an architect of the latter generation of Deconstructivists, interested only in futuristic forms that push the boundaries of technology for the sake of innovation as an end in itself. But in fact Ma’s designs, especially those in his home country of China, are deeply rooted in nature and tradition, as he explains in the latest interview from Vladimir Belogolovsky’s “City of Ideas” series.