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Light Screen Installation

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Courtesy of Gray Architecture

The Light Screen is a site specific installation located in a walnut grove at Fort Benjamin Harrison State Park in Indianapolis. The proposed project was a finalist in the “Great Ideas” competition sponsored by the Arts Council of Indianapolis, and builds on an architectural installation previously completed by the entrant in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2006 – Light Sail (selected images of which are also included here). More about this installation following the break.

Architects: Timothy Gray of Gray Architecture with Kurt West, Melli Hoppe Location: Walnut Grove, Ft. Benjamin Harrison State Park, Indianapolis, Indiana Design Team / Collaborators: Timothy Gray, Kurt West, Melli Hoppe (Light Screen); Timothy Gray, Lina Ali, Kirsten Bremmer, Andrew Cranford; Guy Fimmers; April Hiebert; Luc Johnston; Lauren Macaulay; Michelle Poon; Adam Read; Lauren Staples, FreeLAB 2006 (Light Sail) Model and renderings: Kurt West Photographs: Timothy Gray, Ken Cam, Guy Fimmers, Luc Johnston

"Ready. Steady. Go." / Sandra Janser and Elisabeth Koller

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Sandra Janser and Elisabeth Koller won first prize in the design competition: Design Month Graz 2010 project, “Ready. Steady. Go.” that called for a catalyst for the resettlement of the Jakomini district, in Graz, Austria, through the promotion of activities and attractiveness of the neighborhood through its revitalization. Their proposal was the installation of a visual frame, one that would serve as a marker for significant design areas with a visible and positive identity.

For more on this project continue after the break.

Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Center Competition proposal / Malone Chang + Yu-lin Chen Architects

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Courtesy of Malone Chang + Yu-lin Chen Architects

Our latest proposal for the Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Center International Competition proposal comes from Malone Chang + Yu-lin Chen Architects (in association with OZ-P and You-Yi Lu Architect). More images and architect’s description after the break.

Trois-Rivières Amphitheatre / Open Form

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Courtesy Open Form

Canadian design team Open Form has shared with us their recent competition entry for the new Trois-Rivières Amphitheatre. Additional images and a description from the architects after the break.

Landscape Loop / JAJA Architects

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Harbor Stage © JAJA

Copenhagen-based JAJA Architects recently placed above 40 Scandinavian firms with their proposal, Landscape Loop, for Norway to receive a shared first prize for an idea competition. The proposal incorporates the existing contextual qualities of Andalsnes and develops ways to improve and connect the area into a unified entity for the future. “It is a project that gathers the city’s development within a belt that wraps around the town core – creating a series of “blue” and “green” urban spaces while establishing natural connections between city and landscape,” explained the architects.

More images and more about the proposal after the break.

Video: Zamet Centre / 3LHD

3LHD recently shared with us this video of Zamet Centre. The film combines photographs by Domagoj Blazevic, Damir Fabijanic, 3LHD archive, aerial footage from Hrg, and videographers Mladen Kostanjsek and Marko Stanic. Directed by Vladislav Knezevic, the video editor was Mario Kalogjera and the sound design was done by Vjeran Salamon.

AD Round Up: Best from Flickr Part XXVII

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Finally, we got to 35,000 photos from our Flickr Pool. And in case you didn’t notice, now we are going to feature our Flickr Round Up every week! As always, remember you can submit your own photo here, and don’t forget to follow us through Twitter and our Facebook Fan Page to find many more features.

The photo above was taken by samuel t ludwig in Madrid, Spain. Check the other four after the break.

Dr Chau Chak Wing Building / Frank Gehry

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East façade, view across Ultimo Pedestrian Network, model scale: 1-to-100 / Gehry Partners, LLP

The Dr. Chau Chak Wing Building, part of the University of Technology in Sydney, is Frank Gehry‘s first building in Australia. More images and full press release after the break.

AD Interviews: Craig Konyk, kOnyk Architecture

While visiting New York, we had the chance to stop by Brooklyn-based kOnyk Architecture to speak with the firm’s principal, Craig Konyk. The architects categorize themselves as a creative architectural design studio – a characteristic that is evident in all of their work ranging from the smaller scale designs, such as their Hybrid House, to their larger scale proposals for the Museum of Polish History.

mARkeT / Liong Lie Architects

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Liong Lie Architects shared with us their most recent competition entry titled, ‘mARkeT’, designed as a moving floating market to renew the art-trade cycle for Opgap where they won the third prize last October. They aimed at creating a conscious shopping experience in an inspiring environment from creation to shopper. More images and architect’s description after the break.

ARmedia Augmented Reality Plugin 2.0 has been released

Inglobe Technologies released last week the new version 2.0 of the ARmedia Augmented Reality Plugin for Google SketchUp and Autodesk 3ds Max, after presenting a preview of the software at the Google 3D Basecamp 2010.

Informal City of Century XXI & Measure of Man/Measure of Architecture Exhibitions / Austin-Smith:Lord

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© Fabio Knoll

Following a resounding success at Aedes Gallery in Berlin, international design practice Austin-Smith:Lord is bringing the Informal City of Century XXI and Measure of Man/Measure of Architecture exhibitions to London, England starting with an invitation only conference on January 19th followed by their public exhibition open from January 20th to the 25th. The event will take place at The German Gymnasium, 26 Pancras Road, London N1C 4TB More images and event description after the break.

Update: ABI November

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National Architectural Growth via Kermit Baker for the AIA

As we shared in September, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) reported an ever so slight increase with the index shifting from 47.9 to 48.2 in August. Now, the index shows a 52.0 – a 3 point increase from last month. This is great news for our profession as this billings marks the strongest point we’ve reached since December of 2007. As the New Year approaches, we’re hoping that this trend can steadily climb higher and bring prosperity for 2011; especially since firms across the country – from the Northeast to the West – reported increases. However, the New Year will bring mixed feelings to firms as Kermit Baker, Hon. AIA, AIA Chief Economist stated in his report of the ABI. “Both residential and commercial/industrial firms are more optimistic about business conditions over the coming year. Half of the firms in each group are expecting revenue increases in 2011…In contrast, almost half of institutional firms are expecting revenue declines over the coming year, with only 38 percent expecting growth,” stated Baker.

More information about the recent ABI after the break.

Closet House / Consexto

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Architects: Consexto Location: Matosinhos, Portugal Project area: 44 sqm Project year: 2009 – 2010 Photographs: Amândio Neto

AD Round Up: Most tweeted articles of 2010

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Yesterday, we featured our most commented articles for 2010. Today, following with our end of year Round Ups, we bring you our most tweeted articles of 2010. Being one of the most important social media in today’s society, Twitter allows you to share whatever you want your friends to see. So after the break, check the articles that you shared the most!

The Indicator: Interview: Witold Rybczynski

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Witold Rybczynski, author of fifteen books and over 300 articles, is one of the most prolific and engaging writers on architecture and the urban milieu. He is the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania and architecture critic for Slate.

His writing, propelled by the insights of a sensitive designer, imbues subjects such as the home, Central Park, and cities with feeling and wonder. Like a guide to the built environment, his sharp prose points to what needs to be looked at and seen and why architecture matters.

As part of my series of discussions with critics, I recently exchanged ideas with him about his interest in cities and architecture, his role as a critic, and his new book Makeshift Metropolis.

Interview after the break.

The Pentagonal House / Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio

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© Shinichi Watanabe

The Pentagonal House designed by Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio is conceived as a house that maximizes site usage and the space within the structure, while keeping true to the characteristics of the Japanese traditional construction of the neighborhood.

More images of this house after the break.

The Qingpu Wetlands / logon architecture

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Courtesy of logon architecture

German-based logon architecture shared with us their project The Qingpu Wetlands, an urban landscape proposal in Qingpu, one of the industrial districts of Shanghai. More images and architect’s description after the break.

Gate of Kaohsiung / Forrest Fulton Architecture

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Courtesy of Forrest Fulton Architecture

This competition entry for the Kaohsiung Cruise Terminal and Port Service Center in Taiwan comes from Forrest Fulton Architecture. The architects approached the design of a new gateway as a challenge to design a contemporary version of the traditional city gate.

For more on this project come back after the break.

2011 Topaz Medallion / Larry Speck, FAIA

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Special thanks to our reader, John, for informing us about the 2011 Topaz Medallion which was recently awarded to Larry Speck, FAIA of the University of Texas-Austin. The Medallion, awarded by the AIA/ACSA to an outstanding architectural educator who has been involved in the teaching for at least a decade, recognized Speck for his pedagogical ways and his ability to make architecture “accessible and vital to a wide community of students.”

More about Speck and the Medallion after the break.

New Danish State Prison / C. F. Møller Architects

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Courtesy of C. F. Møller Architects

C. F. Møller Architects has won the competition to design a New State Danish Prison that will be in construction until 2016. The facility is designed to house approximately 250 inmates and is conceived as a small village that is integrated with landscape features, animal husbandry and housing within the confines of the perimeter walls.

Read on for more images and information after the break.

AD Round Up: Most commented articles of 2010

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The year is coming to an end, and after thousands of articles, projects, interviews, news, videos and every architecture-related information we could possibly get it’s time to our last Round Ups of 2010. Today, we’ll feature the most commented articles of this year. Remember that doesn’t mean the best articles, or the best projects, this is just the five articles that you, our readers, decided to discuss. Check them all after the break.

Emblematic Addition Ideas Competition

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This competition, open to practitioners, faculty, students and intern architects, provides an opportunity to reflect upon a universal problematic: how to build the city of tomorrow in the complex urban fabric of the past.

Blue Sky Homes / Taalman Koch

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Prototype property

Blue Sky Homes, the green building company whose prototype property was featured in Dwell magazine earlier this year, is set to commence its next project in January, with others in various stages of development. In addition, noted architects such as Linda Taalman & Alan Koch–the couple behind the famed, off-the-grid itHouse–have begun using Blue Sky Homes’ revolutionary Blue Sky Frame (patent pending) as the foundation for their own designs. Taalman-Koch have two current projects using the Blue Sky Frame: the Clearlake itHouse and the itHouse Cabin, both under construction in California. More images and description after the break.

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