Assembly One Pavilion / Yale School of Architecture Students
The Yale ‘Assembly One’ pavilion is the younger, smaller, more carefree sister to Yale’s building project – a 40-year old tradition in which first-year students design and building a house. It is the product of a seminar and design studio in which students focused on alternative ways in which contemporary buildings can come together and the potential architectural effects computational and material techniques can offer. The ‘Assembly One’ pavilion is designed to act as an information center for New Haven’s summer International Festival of Arts and Ideas and therefore was developed with the following characteristics in mind: dynamism, visual transparency and visual density.
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Dune House / JVA
Architects: Jarmund / Vigsnæs AS Arkitekter MNAL / Einar Jarmund, Håkon Vigsnæs, Alessandra Kosberg, Anders Granli
Location: Thorpeness, Suffolk, England
Client: Living Architecture
Collaborating Architect: Mole Architects Ltd.
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 250 sqm
Photographs: Nils Petter Dale
School Complex at Le Bourget / Hubert & Roy Architectes
Architects: Hubert & Roy Architectes
Location: Le Bourget, France
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 2800 sqm
Photographs: Hérvé Habbadie
C.P.C Headquarters / Schwartz Besnosoff Architects
Architects: Schwartz Besnosoff Architects
Location: Yoqneam, Israel
Client: CPC Israel
Project Team: Gaby Schwartz, Julia Grinkrug, Abraham Rotal, Gilad Ulman
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Courtesy of Schwartz Besnosoff Architects
China Diamond Exchange Center / Goettsch Partners
Architect: Goettsch Partners
Location: Shanghai, China
Project Year: 2005-2009
Photographs: 1st Image
The China Diamond Exchange Center is a 535,500 square foot office complex designed by Goettsch Partners of Chicago, Illinois. Located within Shanghai’s sea of massive and often overstated high-rises, this modest-by-comparison structure is brilliantly detailed, appropriately scaled, and aesthetically beautiful. The complex was completed in 2009 with the help of associate architects Zhong-fu Architects. The Diamond Exchange Center is sited within Shanghai’s Pudong district, an international financial and commercial hub and houses both the Exchange and additional relative tenants.
Rochaverá Corporate Towers / Aflalo and Gasperini Architects
Architects: Aflalo and Gasperini Architects
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Project Area: 228,104 sqm
Photographs: Nelson Kon and Daniel Ducci
AD Classics: Chase Manhattan Plaza / SOM
Known for their innovation and economy in design, SOMs Chase Manhattan Plaza in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan displays SOMs architectural language on efficiency and its relationship with the public realm. Completed in 1961, the 60 story skyscraper by Gordon Bunshaft of SOM is a coming of age story for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill presence as an [inter]national leader of corporate architectural design that evokes efficiency and functionality.
More on the Chase Manhattan Plaza after the break.
Aluminum House / UNIT Arkitektur AB
Architects: Unit Arkitektur AB
Location: Alingsås, Sweden
Client: Anna-Karin and Alf
Design Principal: Mikael Frej + Klas Moberg
Project Architects: Frans Magnusson
Project Area: 65 sqm
Project year: 2008-2010
Photographs: Krister Engström
North Carolina Museum of Art / Thomas Phifer and Partners
Architect: Thomas Phifer
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Partner in Charge: Thomas Phifer AIA
Project Partner: Greg Reaves AIA LEED AP
Project Architect: Gabriel Smith AIA LEED AP
Project Team: Adam Ruffin, Katie Bennett, Jonathan Benner, Eric Richey, Daniel Taft, Kerim Demirkan, Len Lopate, ChristophTimm, Joseph Sevene
Local Architects: Pierce Brinkley Cease + Lee, Raleigh, NC
Structural Engineer: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Chicago, IL
Mechanical Engineer: AltieriSeborWieber LLC, Norwalk, CT
Landscape Architect: Lappas + Havener, PA, Durham, N.C.
Lighting Design: Fisher Marantz Stone, New York, NY
General Contractor: Barnhill, Raleigh NC
Project Area: 136,000 sf
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Scott Frances
Agence Commerciale Opac de l’Aube / Colomès + Nomdedeu Architectes
Architects: c. Colomès + f. Nomdedeu architectes
Location: Troyes, France
Cost: € 1,000,000
Project Date: 2007
Project Area: 500 m2
Photography: Courtesy of Colomès + Nomdedeu Architectes
Gehry Residence / Frank Gehry
When Frank Gehry and his wife bought an existing house in Santa Monica, California, the neighbors did not have the slightest idea that the corner residence would soon be transformed into a symbol of deconstructivism. Gehry, however, knew something had to be done to the house before he moved in. His solution was a bold one in the 1970′s that involved the “balance of fragment and whole, raw and refined, new and old” and would strike up controversy.
More on Gehry’s Residence after the break.
Simmons Hall at MIT/ Steven Holl
When Massachusetts Institute of Technology commissioned Steven Holl in 1999 to design a new a dormitory for the school they had one goal in sight: that the spaces around and within the building would stir up interaction among students. While MIT focused on the building’s use and function, Holl aimed to create a memorable building. With MIT’s vision in mind along with Holl’s artistic architectural ideas, the ten-story undergraduate dormitory became a small city in itself with balancing opposing architectural elements, such as solids and voids and opaqueness and transparency.
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AD Classics: USAFA Cadet Chapel / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
In 1954 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill were commissioned to design the United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel. Located in El Paso Country, Colorado, just outside of Colorado Springs, the chapel is of the training center for officers of the United States Air Force which is a large self-contained community. At an elevation of 6500 feet on the East of the Rocky Mountains, the 3,000 acre Academy also contains housing for 8,000 people, a supply center, a hospital, an airfield, and an academic complex rising up the slope of the site. This program is split on three levels due to the slope, with the Administration Building, the Social Center, and the Cadet Chapel on the uppermost level. These spaces are used by both cadets and visitors, which with the beautiful peaks of of the Chapel rising towards the sky, attracts more than a million a year.
More on SOM’s USAFA Cadet Chapel after the break.
