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El Lasso Community Center / Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos
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Architects: Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos
- Area: 498 m²
- Year: 2010
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Professionals: CQ Associated Engineers
Zaha Hadid's Designs for the Tokyo National Stadium to be Scrapped
Following the news in 2012 that Zaha Hadid Architects had won a competition to design the 80,000-seat Tokyo National Stadium as a centerpiece for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Japan’s Prime Minister has announced that the plans are to be scrapped. Citing spiralling costs as a key reason, Shinzo Abe has declared that the stadium, which was set to replace the existing Kasumigaoka National Stadium, would not be completed in time for the 2019 Rugby World Cup nor the 2020 Olympic Games as originally planned.
Rendering the City Accessible
The way our buildings and public spaces are planned has a significant impact on our quality of life. In the latest edition of The Urbanist, Monocle 24's weekly "guide to making better cities," Tom Edwards and his team explore urban accessibility and inclusivity: from how best to create and incorporate inclusive design, to a cab service in Hong Kong which has been designed especially for wheelchair passengers. They also discover what happens when technology and sound come together to create a map of the city, and why New York has introduced mental respite centres.
Around Pavilion / Christiansen Andersen
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Architects: Christiansen Andersen
Stanislavsky Electrotheatre / Wowhaus
Fly Out House / Tatsuyuki Takagi Architects Associates
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Architects: Tatsuyuki Takagi Architects Associates
- Year: 2015
House in Chiyosaki / Coo Planning
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Architects: Coo Planning
- Area: 42 m²
- Year: 2014
The Architects Foundation Launches Reconstruction Program for Nepal
Responding to the devastation caused by the April 25 earthquake in Nepal, the American Institute of Architects' Architects Foundation has launched a Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Commitment to Action alongside the All Hands Volunteers to execute a replicable $3 million reconstruction plan for the Himalayan nation. Society of Nepalese Architects (SONA), Architects Regional Council Asia (ARCASIA), Department of Small Works (an organization founded by Cameron Sinclair) and local architects will all partake in the program.
Orama Residence / Smart Design Studio
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Architects: Smart Design Studio
- Year: 2014
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Manufacturers: Vitrocsa, Massproductions
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Professionals: GSA Planning, Istruct Consulting, Qs Plus, Tropman And Tropman, Will Dangar Design
THE HOTEL Room for Ideas Office / ColectivArquitectura
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Architects: ColectivArquitectura
- Area: 307 m²
- Year: 2014
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Professionals: Construções N. M. Borges Lda, Socorte, S.A. | construção de casas em madeira
5 Ideas to Transform Preston Bus Station into New Youth Center
The Royal Institute of British Architects, together with the Lancashire City Council, has unveiled five proposals seeking to transform the once at-risk Preston Bus Station into a new public space and youth center. Each design was selected from 100 entries submitted via an international design competition focused on preserving the historic structure's Brutalist nature.
The anticipated £13 million plan is a major step forwarded considering the 1960s station, now a Grade II listed building, was recently slated for demolition. The adaptive reuse efforts are a result of a successful, international preservation campaign that secured a second life for the iconic structure.
Now, Lancashire wants your help. View all 5 unanimous proposals (below), and vote for your favorite!
Enter Now: AR Emerging Architecture Awards
Now in their 17th year, the AR Emerging Architecture Awards are one of the world's most popular and prestigious prize for up-and-coming architects, giving emerging practices invaluable impetus on their trajectory to wider recognition and success. Previous winners of the Awards have included Sou Fujimoto (Japan), Thomas Heatherwick (UK), Sean Godsell (Australia), Jurgen Mayer H. (Germany) and Li Xiaodong (China).
The AR Emerging Architecture Awards, with a £10,000 prize fund, celebrate excellence in completed work. Entries can be made across a very broad spectrum of project types. Buildings, interiors, landscaping, refurbishment, urban projects, temporary installations, furniture and product designs are all eligible. Jury members, including David Adjaye, OBE, Odile Decq, Peter Cook will review each submitted project. The deadline for entries is September 11. Submit you work, here.
Invisible Barn / stpmj
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Architects: stpmj
- Area: 72 ft²
- Year: 2015
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Professionals: Dan Sayler + stpmj
Entrerrios Educational Park / Laboratorio de Arquitectura y Paisaje
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Architects: Laboratorio de Arquitectura y Paisaje
- Area: 1460 m²
- Year: 2015
AD Essentials: Postmodernism
This article is part of ArchDaily Essentials, a series of articles which give you an overview of architecture's most important topics by connecting together some of our best articles from the past. To find out more about ArchDaily Essentials, click here; or discover all of our articles in the series here.
By the mid point of the twentieth century, the clean lines of the International Style and the stripped utilitarianism of functionalism were becoming increasingly common in American and European cities. Created out of a wholesale rethink of core modernist values, Postmodern architecture came as part of a philosophical shift that was just as all-encompassing as the Modernism it sought to replace; aiming to revive historical or traditional ideas and bring a more contextual approach to design. A critical elite who never really left modernism often condemned postmodernism as tacky, regressive or pandering to popular opinion; but after something of a resurgence of modernism in recent years, what’s the value of postmodernism to contemporary thinking?
FAKT Creates a Floating Metal “Cloudscape” in Montpellier
FAKT, an up-and-coming studio based out of Berlin and Zurich, has created an architectural installation for the Festival des Architectures Vives, which uses perforated aluminum sheets to produce a cloudscape. Sponsored by metalworking companies Karl Dieringer and AMAG Austria Metall, the exhibition explores aluminum's material properties and its ability to create new forms.
Video: Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé / Renzo Piano Building Workshop
PA#47 - Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, Paris 13 por Pavillon-Arsenal
Our friends at the Pavillion de l'Arsenal have shared a collection of videos from their"Paris Architectures" series. Dive into these short films that document remarkable architecture around France's capital city.
This week we get a glimpse of Renzo Piano Building Workshop's Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé.
Social Housing in Pamplona / Pereda Pérez Arquitectos
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Architects: Pereda Pérez Arquitectos
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Professionals: Atec, Construcciones A.Erro y Eugui