© Stamers Kontor
Architects: LASC Studio
Location: Österlen, Sweden
Project Year: 2009
Project Area: 105 sqm
Photographs: Stamers Kontor
© Christian Gahl
Architects: Scheidt Kasprusch Architekten
Location: Klausdorf, Germany
Project Year: 2008
Project Area: 151 sqm
Photograph: Christian Gahl
© Chris Barrett of Hedrich Blessing
Architect: Brininstool, Kerwin, & Lynch
Location: Michigan City, Indiana
Project Year: 2006-2008
Photographs: Christopher Barrett of Hedrich Blessing
Courtesy of MADA Architects
Architects: Egyptian Earth Construction Association
Location: Marsa Alam, Egypt
Project Team: Ramses Nosshi, Khaled El Hammamy, Gawad Hashish, Hany Attala, Ne’ama Allah Hisham, Rasha Abd el Salam
Project Area: 250 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Nour Rifai & Ramses Nosshi
© Stamers Kontor
Architects: LASC studio
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Stamers Kontor
© Pasi Aalto
Architects: TYIN tegnestue
Location: More og Romsdal, Norway
Project Area: 2011
Photographs: Pasi Aalto
Architect: Flad Architects
Location: Davis, California
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Flad Architects
Courtesy of Medir Architetti
Architects: Medir Architetti
Location: Isernia, Italy
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Medir Architetti
Architects: 332 Arquitectos
Location: Pirque, Santiago, Chile
Project team: Paola Adrovez, Daniel Díaz and Rafael Bas
Project Year: 2007
Project Area: 69.70 sqm
Photographs: Fran Parente
Courtesy of Jennifer Chang
Ten architecture students from Columbia University GSAPP have recently completed Polymorphic, a kinetic installation utilizing an innovative design and engineering solution inspired by the kinetic action of a see-saw and the reverberating motion of a slinky.
Project Team: Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University / Charlie Able, Alexis Burson, Ivy Chan, Jennifer Chang, Aaron Harris, Trevor Hollyn-Taub, Brian Lee, Eliza Montgomery, Vernon Roether, and David Zhai.
Location: New York, New York, USA
Photographs: Courtesy of Jennifer Chang
Courtesy of Procter-Rihl Architects
Architects: Procter-Rihl Architects
Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil
Collaborators: Dirk Anderson, James Backwell, Johannes Lobbert
Structural Engineer: Glass and Steel: Michael Baigent MBOK
Structural Engineer: Concrete: Antonio Pasquali
Foundation Engineer: Vitor Pasin
Services Engineer: Flavio Mainardi
Site Architect: Arq. Mauro Medeiros
Project Area: 210 sqm
Photographs: Sue Barr, Marcelo Nunes
Multifunctional Building: Rendering
While these are two separate projects, they are connected through a common concept. From the understanding of the location as a big natural park surrounded by the city of Yecla, it derives an intervention strategy with a main gaol: To achieve the introduction of the activity with no impact, building a new symbiotic relationship where the man inhabits the forest without violence and the landscape obtains usability. After visiting the location we stated that the best option is an intervention without transforming the forest, keeping a responsible intervention strategy, respecting the forest and avoiding big earthworks which may break the continuity of the vegetation cover and natural cycles.
© Andreas Meichsner
Architects: Verstas Architects
Location: Lauttasaari, Finland
Project Area: 14 sqm
Photographs: Andreas Meichsner
© Iwan Baan
On May 22nd, 2011, framed by green bamboo vaults, Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou stood at a podium inside Forest Pavilion to inaugurate the Masadi Art Festival. Facing a crowd of celebrators, designers, and protesters, President Ma delivered his administration’s vision for a low carbon future.
nARCHITECTS’ Forest Pavilion - completed in May 2011 – serves as a shaded meeting and performance space for visitors to the Da Nong Da Fu Forest and Eco-park in Hualien province, Taiwan. The project was conceived within the context of an art festival curated by Huichen Wu of Artfield, Taipei for Taiwan’s Forestry Bureau with the object of raising public awareness of a new growth forest that is being threatened by development. The pavilion is comprised of eleven vaults built with freshly cut green bamboo, a material first used by nARCHITECTS in the internationally acclaimed 2004 Canopy for MoMA P.S.1. As an extension of techniques developed in 2004’s Canopy for MoMA/P.S.1, the 60’ diameter and 22’ tall pavilion is built with green bamboo. Forest Pavilion was chosen to host the opening and closing ceremonies of the art festival, becoming a focal point for the park.
© Philippe Piron
Architects: Jean-Luc Fugier
Associate Architects: FeST Architecture
Location: Aix-en-Provence, France
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 30 sqm
Photographs: Philippe Piron
© 3+1 architekti
Architects: 3+1 architekti / Pavel Plánička, Matěj Páral, Bruno Panenka
Location: Střekov, Czech Republic
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 148 sqm
Photographs: 3+1 architekti / Pavel Plánička
© Greg Richardson Photography
Architects: Omar Gandhi
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Clients: Dr. Lynda Earle and Dr. Andy Blackadar
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 1000 sqf addition
Photographs: Greg Richardson Photography
Courtesy of SAOTA
Architects: SAOTA
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Mechanical Engineers: Spoormaker & Partners
Electrical Engineers: MAC Consulting Engineers (Pty) Ltd
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 1,005 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of SOATA
© Lisa Logan Architectural Photography
Architect: Perkins+Will
Location: Brampton, Ontario
Project Area: 165,000 sqf
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Lisa Logan Architectural Photography
Architect: 360 Architecture
Location: Olathe, Kansas, United States
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: 360 Architecture
360 Architecture accepted a big challenge when they took on a project transforming a big box store for Heartland Community Church. The church sought a nontraditional worship space, and 360 Architecture revamped the former furniture store into a space representative of the contemporary church and its mission.
Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture / John Hill
If you want a brief simple city guide of contemporary architecture in New York City you can have a look at our city guide, but if you want a thorough guide book then you should check out John Hill’s Guide to…
Strategy Space / a+t: Landscape Urbanism Strategies
Landscape Urbanism is the new black in architecture and this magazine, part of a+t… strategy series, has heads turning. There are a dozen projects and hundreds of ideas in this edition. A recurring them is the manipulation of time throughout
Alvar Aalto: The Mark of the Hand / Harry Charrington and Vezio Nava
A short time ago we received the book Alvar Aalto: The Mark of the Hand. Before you Aalto fans get jealous of our newly acquired treasure, we want you to know that we received several copies and will be doing…
