The Korean Pavillion is situated in Zone A, directly neighboring the Japan Pavillion and the Saudi Arabia Pavillion, and in close proximity to the China Pavilion. The site is around 6000m2, and it is one of the largest lots within the expo compound.
Located on the perimeter of the zone, the site takes advantage of the views out towards the Huangpu River and the Shanghai skyline in the distance.
More images and architect’s description after the break.
Last week, Moxon Architects announced that permission was granted to construct the Hedgehog building, also known as 163 PRS / Olivers Place. The 40,000 square foot office building is located in Prestons, England.
the primary architectural expression of the building is through an array of anodised aluminium fins, cantilevered from vertical support brackets on all four façades of the building. The aluminium fins, are all oriented in the same direction.
Some time ago, some very lucky students at SCI-Arc, the legendary school of architecture and design in downtown LA, were tasked with a project that would cause great envy in any architecture student. To design a party pavillion that would debut in famous music festival Coachella.
13 May will mark the first anniversary of the destruction of the Faculty of Architecture (Bouwkunde) of the Technological University Delft (TU Delft) in a fire last year. The loss of the building designed by the architect Van den Broek triggered the launching of an international competition inviting ideas for a new building. 466 entries from 50 different countries were submitted, and the winner was announced a month ago. All the entries can be seen in the exhibition ‘Building for Bouwkunde’, held at the NAI Rotterdam from 15 March to 7 June.
Our friends from konyk, who designed the Girasole House for the Andes Sprouts Society residency studio competition a couple of weeks ago, just shared with us the Hybrid House, a sort of companion project that was the genesis for the Girasole project.
More images and architect’s description after the break.
A while ago we featured the re-Growth Pod, a design that came as a solution for the more than 750 houses destroyed by the unstoppable fires in Australia, killing over 210 people in the state of Victoria.
Our friend Ben Edwards, from australian firm 1:1 Architects sent us some images of the re-Growth Pod finally arriving on site.
For more information, click here. More images after the break.
Chicago Union Station, by Germany-based Graft Architects will treat the user group as two: the traveler and the inhabitant.
The traveler has a destination, a purpose, a need to get through the process as efficiently as possible. The penetration into the site will be minimal; the tickets purchased en route, the space and time between the city and the outbound areas are optimized. The inhabitant seeks an extended stay; the coffee shop, the sunday morning market, life anchored to the city. The station becomes a rock jutting out of a raging river. The place of the inhabitant is at the center of the chaos, a place to better experience the city, a place to relax, a place to watch the chaos unfold.
The station serves as infrastructure for the city. It’s not a singular building, a place confined by boundaries. The interface with the city is blurred, inside and outside undefined.
Marc Joseph, from Young Architect, has written a post about one of those tasks you should try to avoid at all cost in order to make your life easier: 3D Rendering.
He wrote down 12 reasons why you should avoid rendering in your office:
1. You Will Lose Track of Time You can really get lost in your modelling. A whole work day can go by without you even realizing it. Worst of all, you can spend hours on a task that you expected to take a half an hour. In the end, you will find yourself staying later into the night while your coworkers punch out at 6.
Parsons The New School for Design is pleased to announce its 2009 thesis show schedule, which celebrates the work of its graduating students. Throughout the month of May, Parsons will present a series of exhibitions in The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and venues across Manhattan, representing the final works of its undergraduate and graduate students. Work by students from the architecture, communication design, design and management, design and technology, fashion design, fine arts, illustration, integrated design, interior design, lighting, photography, and product design programs will be on view.
This 245 apartment structure is currently being built in Guangzhou, China. Besides the normal residential programming, the building also has a dormitory, hotel, retail space, gym, library, and a variety of communal and public spaces.
Big buildings mean big works. Designing an industrial building may be a huge challenge for an architect, and the result is usually a gigantic structure that can produce admiration or rejection. So for this Round Up, we bring you previously featured Industrial Architecture works.
Parsons The New School for Design invites you to a conference held in conjunction with the New York presentation of Into the Open: Positioning Practice, the official U.S. Pavilion of the 11th Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. On view through May 1, the exhibition features work by a new wave of architect-activists who are reclaiming a role in shaping community and the built environment. These 16 architectural groups actively engage communities, responding to social and environmental issues, including shifting demographics, changing geo-political boundaries, uneven economic development, and the explosion of urban migration.
Barcelona based architect Josep Lluís Mateo won the first prize for the public competition for the reconstruction of the historical center of Sibenik, Croatia.
For more information, click here. More images and architect’s description, after the break.
Alderman Brendan Reilly and the Burnham Plan Centennial Committee today unveiled designs for two temporary pavilions that will be installed this June in Millennium Park, symbolizing the forward-looking agenda of the 220 organizations commemorating this year’s 100th anniversary of the Plan of Chicago.
The architects’ rendering of the two recyclable pavilions were released by the Alderman, the Burnham Committee, the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the Art Institute of Chicago and Friends of Downtown. The pavilions will be open from June 19 through October 31 on the South Chase Promenade of Millennium Park.
Both pavilions-one designed by London-based Zaha Hadid and the other by Amsterdam-based Ben van Berkel of UNStudio-emphasize the importance of boldly imagining a better future for all, as Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett did in 1909 in their Plan of Chicago.
Today Amsterdam city planning councilman Maarten van Poelgeest announced the winner of the adaptive reuse design competition for the two former sewage treatment silos in Amsterdam’s Zeeburg district: the Annie MG Schmidt House. Annie MG Schmidt (1911-1995) is Holland’s most famous author of childrens books.
The winning plan is a mutifunctional cultural center, housing a wide range of diverse activities, including a spectacular open rooftop playground on one silo, and restaurant Praq op ‘t daq built on the rooftop of the other. The doors to the exhibition spaces and media center, movie theater and theater hall, tower room and shops, as well as those of the restaurant, are open seven days a week the whole year through, welcoming visitors and locals alike. The project breathes new life into the silos, transforming them into an inspiring and lively place which will help shape the character of the new Zeeburgereiland housing district.
The plan is the result of the inspired cooperation between the development companies AM and De Alliantie, the Annie MG Schmidt Huis foundation, restaurant Praq, Arons en Gelauff architects, landscape architect Rob Aben, and Janneke Hooymans (This is Jane-interior design).
The Annie MG Schmidt House is expected to be completed in 2011. Images by Arons en Gelauff architects / Pixel Pool, after the break.
For the June issue of Icon, they invited an international panel of experts to help them pick the people who are making the future. The result is the Icon 20/20, a list of the 20 architects and 20 designers who are already changing the way we work and think. You can vote for your favorite on Icon’s website.
Full list of architects and designers after the break.
Housing may come in different ways, different forms, and different places. So to start this week of Round Up, we bring you previously featured “Housing” works on ArchDaily.
