NOVIstipic / UPI-2M
Architects: UPI-2M
Location: Zagreb Lucko, Hrvatska, Croatia
Investor: Stipić Grupa
Author: UPI-2M – Vedran Jukic, Berislav Medic, Alan Leo Plestina
Architectural Design: UPI-2M – Vedran Jukic, Alan Leo Plestina, Ivan Cikes
Structural Design: UPI-2M – Hrvoje Mihal, Marko Đuran, Tomislav Iličkovic, Goran Janjuš, Darko Makar, Ivan Peso, Ivan Habuš
Project area: 2,500 sqm
Photographs: Davor Konjikusic, Petar Petrovski, Vanja Solin, Zvonimir Katancic
Sabadell Sport Center / Corea & Moran Arquitectura
Architects: Corea & Moran Arquitectura
Location: Sabadell, Spain
Collaborators: Maricel Agulera, Nicolas Bechis, Soledad Diaz, Silvia Forns, Mariano Escribano, Consuelo Koch
Technical Architect: Jordi Carbonell
Services: Inardi SA/ Etudio PVI
Structure: David García
Project Area: 12,700 sqm
Photographs: Simón García
Bridge Building / Atelier PHILEAS
Architects: Atelier PHILEAS
Location: Fontenay, France
Client: RATP
Photographs: Stephan Lucas
In Progress: Chapel of Eternal Light / Bernardo Rodrigues Arquitecto
Situated at the based of a steep field, the Chapel of Eternal Light offers views to the water beyond, an ideal location. With its slanted walls, the inverted pyramid shape is anchored by a concrete slab and formed from a metal structure. Follow the break for more construction photographs, drawings, and model pics of this in progress project.
Architects: Bernardo Rodrigues Arquitecto
Location: Ponta Garça, San Miguel, Azores
Project Team: James Grainger, Peter Mosca, Natasha Viveiros, Malheiros Nuno, Nuno Rodrigues
Specifications: Ana Fortuna
Structures: HDP Engineering
Mechanical: Maria Odette de Almeida, Paulo de Faria Queiroz Ltd
Electrical: Fernando Gomes
Project Year: 2003-2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Bernardo Rodrigues Arquitecto
Zaisa Tower / Hoz Fontan Arquitectos
Architects: Hoz Fontan Arquitectos
Location: Irun, Spain
Partners in Charge: Angel de la Hoz, Cristina Fontan
Collaborators: Gurutze Aldanondo, Angel Alvarez
Rigger: Juan Murua
Structure: Jose Antonio Gurruchaga
Contractor: Altuna y Uria
Photographs: Jose Hevia
Solar Umbrella / Brooks + Scarpa
Inspired by Paul Rudolph’s Umbrella House of 1953, the Solar Umbrella provides a contemporary reinvention of the solar canopy—a strategy that provides thermal protection in climates with intense exposures. Nestled amidst a neighborhood of single story bungalows the residence establishes a precedent for the next generation of California modernist architecture. Located on a 41’ wide x 100’-0” long through lot, the new addition transforms the architects’ existing 650 square foot bungalow into a total 1,900 square foot residence equipped for responsible living in the twenty-first century.
More photographs, drawings, and project description after the break.
Architects: Brooks + Scarpa
Location: Venice, California, USA
Principals-in-Charge: Angela Brooks, AIA and Lawrence Scarpa, AIA
Project Architect: Ching Luk
Project Design Team: Peter Borrego, Angela Brooks, Anne Burke, Michael Hannah, Vanessa Hardy, Anne Marie Kaufman Brunner, Fredrik Niilsen, Tim Peterson, Gwynne Pugh, Bill Sarnecky, Lawrence Scarpa
Interior Design: Lawrence Scarpa and Angela Brooks
Landscape Consultant: SQLA, Inc
Energy Efficiency and Alternative Energy Consultant: Dr. John Ingersoll
General Contractor: Above Board Construction
Structural Engineering: Gwynne Pugh
Renderings: Fredrik Nilssen, Ching Luk, Lawrence Scarpa
Clients: Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa
Project Area: 1,250 sqf (new) 650 sqf (remodeled)
Photographers: Marvin Rand
El Porvenir Social Kindergarden / Giancarlo Mazzanti
Architect: Giancarlo Mazzanti
Location: Bosa, Bogota, Colombia
Project Team: Fredy Pantoja, Susana Somoza, Ricardo Silva, Andrés Sarmiento, Juliana Angarita, Rocio Lamprea, Jairo Ovalle, Andrés Morales, Maria Alejandra Perez
Collaborators: Felipe Castro, Beatriz Robayo, Ramon Morales
Model: Jaime Borbon
Project Area: 2,100 sqm
Project Year: 2007-2009
Photographs: Rodrigo Davila
AD Classics: Le Grande Louvre / I.M. Pei
In 1981, the newly elected French president, Francois Mitterrand, launched a campaign to renovate cultural institutions throughout France. One of the most advantageous of those projects was the renovation and reorganization of the Louvre. In 1983 after touring Europe and the United States, President Mitterrand commissioned the Chinese American architect, I.M. Pei. It was the first time that a foreign architect was enlisted to work on the Louvre museum.
Completed in 1989, I.M. Pei’s renovation redesigned Cour Napoleon, the main court of the Louvre, in order to alleviate the congestion from the thousands of daily visitors. A new grand entrance provided a convenient, central lobby space separate from the galleries, which provided focal point for the cyclical process of one’s experience through the museum. In addition to providing a new entrance to the Louvre, Pei’s design featured a new underground system of galleries, storage, and preservation laboratories, as well as a connection between the wings of the museum. The addition and relocation of the supporting spaces of the museum allowed for the Louvre to expand its collection and place more work on exhibit.
Y-house / IDEA Office
IDEA Office coordinated with the clients of Y-house to develop a design that successfully incorporates solar access to all parts of the house, connecting to the surrounding environment through outdoor spaces that enhanced the feeling of openness all while maintaining privacy. Follow the break for photographs and drawings of Y-house.
Architects: IDEA Office
Location: Saitama, Japan
Project Credits: Eric Kahn and Russell Thomsen, Partners, with Ron Golan
Project Team: Adrian Ariosa, Keith Gendel, Rinaldo Perez
Associate Architect: Masao Yahagi & Associates
Project Area: 1050 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photography: Kouichi Torimura
Swim Stadium Bellahoj / Arkitema Architects
Architects: Arkitema Architects
Location: Brønshøj, Copenhagen, Denmark
Client: Københavns Kommune, Københavns Ejendomme
Landscape: Arkitema
Engineer: Søren Jensen, Rådgivende Ingeniører A/S and Balslev A/S
Project area: 8,145 sqm
Project year: 2007 – 2009
Photographs: Courtesy of Arkitema Architects
Ponferrada Church / Vicens + Ramos
Architect: Vicens + Ramos / Ignacio Vicens y Hualde, José Antonio Ramos Abengózar
Location: Ponferrada, Leon, Spain
Collaborators: Fernando Gil, Desirée González, Pablo Gutiérrez, Joaquín Esperón, Romina Barbieri, Raúl Rodríguez, Tibor Martín, Patricia de Elena, Javier Margarit, Joan Ramon Cornellana
Project Year: 2006-2010
Photographs: Pablo Vicens
Design Museum Holon / Ron Arad Architects
Architects: Ron Arad Architects Ltd (RAAL)
Location: Holon, Israel
Principal Designer: Ron Arad
Project Director: Asa Bruno
Project Architect: James Foster
Design Team: Marta Granda, Tavis Wright
Structural Engineer: Harmel Engineering (IL)
Executive Architect: Waxman Govrin (IL)
Main Contractor: Green Construction Ltd (IL)
Steel Band Contractor: Marzorati Ronchetti, (IT)
Client: Holon Municipality
Project Area: 4,100 sqm
Budget: £11.1m: £2707/sqm
Project Year: 2003-2010
Photographs: RAAL, Yael Pincus, Marzorati Ronchetti
School of Arts / Tetrarc Architects
Architects: Tétrarc Architects
Location: Saint Herblain, France
Project Area: 4,457 sqm
Budget: 8.3M Euro
Project Year: 2006-2010
Photographs: Stéphane Chalmeau
Edificio 035 / Lab255
Architects: Lab255, arch. Dario Perego
Location: Bergamo, Italy
Client: Electric Line
Design Principal: Dario Perego
Project Architects: Dario Perego, Palmisano Aristide, Quadri Daniele
Project Area: 1200 sqm
Project Year: 2007-2008
Photographs: Gian Marco Finazzi, Paolo Ravasio
Mediacite / Ron Arad Architects
Architects: Ron Arad Architects Ltd (RAAL)
Location: Liege, Belgium
Principal Designer: Ron Arad
Project Director: Geoff Crowther
Project Architect: Paul Madden
Design Team: Joel Dunmore, Tuomas Pirinen, Marta Granda, James Foster, Julian Gilhespie
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold (UK)
Executive Architect: Jaspers Eyers (Belgium)
Main Contractor: BPC (Belgium)
Steel Roof Contractor: Iemants, (Belgium)
Client: Wilhelm & Co.
Project Area: 9,750 sqm
Budget: €18.75M
Project Year: 2006-2009
Photographs: Supplied by RAAL, Wilhelm & Co, Peter Cook, Marc Detiffe, Bernard Boccara, Yves L’Hermite, Eyal Shmuel
AD Classics: Bass Residence / Paul Rudolph
A remarkable architect not only designs on one scale, but can shift between residential and large-scale buildings while maintaining a distinct style or set of techniques to link them all together.
The houses of Paul Rudolph have withstood the tests of time, both in the physical sense and in their ability to be greatly appreciated and admired even as architectural styles evolve. His residences are marked by his explorative uses of structure and inventive building techniques.
Fort Worth, Texas holds one of the few houses built by Rudolph outside of Florida. The Bass Residence of the early 1970s is evidence of his attempts to fuse a new and old architecture style “whose richness came not from applied ornament but from spatial complexities developed from structure and the three dimensional elaboration of the program.”
The Bass Residence marks the most ambitious housing project of Rudolph, and the intensity of overlapping horizontal volumes and pronounced cantilevers show his rigor in designing a cohesive unit whose ideas can be read and comprehended by any architect or unstudied person alike.
More on the Bass Residence after the break.
In Progress: PGGM Headquarters / Mateo Arquitectura
Architects: Josep Lluís Mateo / Mateo Arquitectura
Location: Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Project Leaders: Markus Lauber, Till von Mackensen
Project Area: 25,000 sqm offices, 25,000 sqm car park
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Adrià Goula
Churchill Integenerational Hub / Suters Architects
Architects: Suters Architects
Location: Churchill, Victoria, Australia
Project Team: Joshua McAlister, Ian Prior, Graeme Christianson, Scott Francis, Rebecca Brewer
Building Contractor: W. Parnall Constructions
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Emma Cross
The Gatekeepers of Venray, Six Landmarks / ateliereenarchitecten
Architect: ateliereen architecten
Location: Venray, Netherlands
Client: Municipality of Venray, Netherlands
Budget: 125,000 euro
Proyect Year: 2009-2010
Photographs: ateliereen architecten
AD Classics: Fondation Cartier / Jean Nouvel
Radical among the architects of today, Jean Nouvel continually amazes practicing architects and unstudied passerby alike with his brilliant manipulation of form, patterns, materials and colors. Currently discussed for his vibrant Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London and the recently built luxurious Chelsea apartments in New York, Nouvel has a history of creating the most striking and innovative buildings.
One of his earlier buildings, the Fondation Cartier in Paris 1994, employs the same dedication to transparency and rigor of the surface as the more recently designed structures of Nouvel. As a public space that houses contemporary art and graffiti exhibitions, the play between inside and out is very fitting as it creates an openness which invites people to experience the building from both up close and afar.
More on the Fondation Cartier after the break.
New Schoolbuilding / Atelier Heiss Architekten
Architects: Atelier Heiss Architekten
Location: Hirschstetten, Austria
Project leader: DI Georg Pamperl
Structural Engineering: Brand & Partner
Proyect Area: 20.000 sqm
Proyect Year: 2010
Photographs: Peter Burgstaller
