- Area: 686 m²
- Year: 2017
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Professionals: Greentown Akin
Dongziguan Villagers' Activity Center / gad · line+ studio
Naiipa Art Complex / Stu/D/O Architects
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Architects: Stu/D/O Architects
- Area: 2400 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: COTTO, Kone, MAG Aluminium, SK Kaken, Siam Yamato
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Professionals: B.N.G. Engineering, Field Landscape Studio, KK Rakitawan, MEE Consultants, Sittanant
Odile Decq on the Importance of Bold Design and Why "Architecture Is Still a Fight"
In the latest installment of PLANE—SITE’s short video series Time-Space-Existence, French architect Odile Decq gives this advice to young designers: be bold. “If you want to build and create the new century, you have to have people who have people who have specific personalities. I love when people express themselves strongly and very clearly.”
A Floating Timber Bridge Could Connect Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Long Island City
If you stand in Manhattan Avenue Park in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, you’ll see the Long Island City skyline across a small creek. On the Greenpoint side of the creek, a historic neighborhood of row houses and industrial sites is rapidly growing. On the Long Island City side, high-rise apartments and hundreds of art galleries and studios line the East River. Just a stone’s throw away, Long Island City can feel like a world apart from Greenpoint. That’s in large part due to the fact that only one bridge connects the neighborhoods—and it’s meant more for cars than pedestrians or cyclists. Isn’t there a better way? Architect Jun Aizaki thinks so. For the past few years, he and his team at CRÈME Architecture and Design have been working on the so-called “Timber Bridge at Longpoint Corridor."
Studio House KSG / Hernández Silva Arquitectos
Sharjah Architecture Triennial to Open as First Major Platform on Middle Eastern Architecture
The Sharjah Architecture Triennial will open in November 2019 as "the first major platform for dialogue on architecture and urbanism in the Middle East, North Africa, East Africa and South Asia." Curator Adrian Lahoud has announced the theme of the Triennial as the Rights of Future Generations, aiming to fundamentally challenge traditional ideas about architecture and introduce new ways of thinking that veer from current Western-centric discourse.
Is It Time to Rethink Architecture Awards?
Architecture, in its realized form, is neither the vision or the labor of a singular person. It is a practice which is inherently group and firm-oriented in its processes. But architecture as we know it is only celebrated after it is completed, and is very rarely celebrated for how it gets made. Few awards recognize the vast network of people that enables those at the very top of the field to put their name to completed works.
Recent controversies have only thrown more light on this state of affairs—from the petition to have Denise Scott Brown retroactively recognized for the work that won her husband Robert Venturi the Pritzker Prize in 1991 (which was ultimately rejected by the Pritzker) to revelations earlier this year about the way architects like Richard Meier have abused the power afforded to them by their personal success.
Lake House / Ana Paula e Sanderson Arquitetura
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Architects: Ana Paula e Sanderson Arquitetura
- Area: 890 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Aluflex, Carlos Motta, Portobello, Sérgio Rodrigues, Tidelli
The Role of Color in Architecture: Visual Effects and Psychological Stimuli
Colors and their perceptions are responsible for a series of conscious and subconscious stimuli in our psycho-spatial relationship. Despite its presence and its variations, it is present in all places. Have you ever wondered what its role is in architecture?
As well as the constructive elements that make up an architectural object, the application of colors on surfaces also influences the user's experience of the space. According to Israel Pedrosa, "a colorful sensation is produced by the nuances of light refracted or reflected by a material, commonly the word color is designated to those shades that function as stimuli in a chromatic sensation." [1]
New Carbon Architecture: Building to Cool the Planet
“Green buildings” that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren’t enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon―the carbon emitted when materials are mined, manufactured, and transported―comprising some ten percent of global emissions. With the built environment doubling by 2030, buildings are a carbon juggernaut threatening to overwhelm the climate.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Like never before in history, buildings can become part of the climate solution. With biomimicry and innovation, we can pull huge amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere and lock it up as walls, roofs, foundations, and insulation. We can
Ubiwhere's Headquarters / Ubiwhere
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Architects: Ubiwhere
- Area: 591 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: VELUX Commercial, LOVE Tiles, ALUMIVALE, BRUMA, Kerion, +7
Khab-e-Aram Residential Complex / USE Studio
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Architects: USE Studio
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Akpa, Azarakhsh Brick, Carrington, Omid glass, ngkutahyaseramik
Gageojiji / YerangChung Architects
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Architects: YerangChung Architects
- Area: 176 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: DAELIM BATH, FlowerPot VP1, Jeilbrick, Younhyun
Nanjing Museum / CCTN Design
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Architects: CCTN Design
- Area: 84500 m²
- Year: 2013
Auditorium in Agastya International Foundation / Mistry Architects
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Architects: Mistry Architects
- Area: 2325 m²
- Year: 2014
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Professionals: Cruthi Consultants, Maple Hydraulics Consultants
North Curl Curl House / Rolf Ockert Design
School of Education of the Autonomous University of Yucatán / Departamento de Proyectos de la Facultad de Arquitectura
Boutique Pavilion by Zaha Hadid Architects For Cosmetics Label Il Makiage Opens in New York City
Zaha Hadid Architects, in collaboration with photographer Paul Warchol, has released images of their boutique pavilion for the make-up brand Il Makiage, located in the label’s store in SoHo, New York City.
The pavilion coincides with the launching of Il Makiage’s new 800-piece makeup collection, and was designed to convey the label’s “characteristically bold graphic identity.”