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Architecture & UNESCO: Rethinking Preservation and Cultural Heritage

Eric Baldwin — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 07:30:00 +0000

Architecture has always centered on permanence and ephemerality. Defined by material conditions, how we build is closely tied to what we preserve and how we conceptualize the future. Furthering international cooperation in education, the arts, the sciences, and culture, UNESCO is an organization that continues to examine the relationship between history and growth, preservation, and change. As architecture, landscapes, and cities become threatened by the climate crisis and unrest, cultural context becomes paramount.

21 Projects Where Kengo Kuma (Re)Uses Materials in Unusual Ways

José Tomás Franco — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Kengo Kuma uses materials to connect with the local context and the users of his projects. The textures and elementary forms of constructive systems, materials, and products, are exhibited and used in favor of the architectural concept, giving value to the functions that will be carried out in each building.

From showcases made with ceramic tiles to the sifted light created by expanded metal panels, passing through an ethereal polyester coating, Kuma understands the material as an essential component that can make a difference in architecture from the design stages. Next, we present 21 projects where Kengo Kuma masterfully uses construction materials.

Spotlight: Kengo Kuma

Dario Goodwin — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 04:30:00 +0000

Kengo Kuma (born 8th August, 1956) is one of the most significant Japanese figures in contemporary architecture. His reinterpretation of traditional Japanese architectural elements for the 21st century has involved serious innovation in uses of natural materials, new ways of thinking about light and lightness and architecture that enhances rather than dominates. His buildings don't attempt to fade into the surroundings through simple gestures, as some current Japanese work does, but instead his architecture attempts to manipulate traditional elements into statement-making architecture that still draws links with the area its built in. These high-tech remixes of traditional elements and influences have proved popular across Japan and beyond, and his recent works have begun expanding out of Japan to China and the West.

Social and Cultural Center in Giromagny / Malcotti Roussey Architectes + Thierry Gheza

Rayen Sagredo — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 02:00:00 +0000

The building is part of the military wasteland requalification project leads by the city Giromagny. It is placed on the orthogonal grid of the ancient barrack, that will be rehabillited soon. He is located on the exact place of the old administration building and the ancient stables whose subsist slight traces.

Poix-Terron Cultural and Sport Centre / philippe gibert architecte

Rayen Sagredo — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 05:00:00 +0000

This double request for a media library and a gymnasium allowed us to explore this programmes diversity and to offer a single building, a cultural and sports centre, instead of two different buildings. This hybrid equipment takes place in the landscape, between a multipurpose room and a business incubator, and communicates with its environment, including the big nineteenth century house behind, through mirrored glass panes.

François Pompon High School Refurbishment / Charles-Henri Tachon

Cristobal Rojas — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 03:00:00 +0000

On the Morvan’s foothills and three steps away from the restaurant of Bernard Loiseau, the high school Francois Pompon named after the famous sculptor and town’s native, occupies a strategic position at the entrance of Saulieu (in Burgundy).

Health Municipal Clinic / Studiolada

Cristian Aguilar — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 14:00:00 +0000

The project is situated in a diffuse environnement between the gymnasium, the GITEM shop and a residential area build in the 1980s. The architectural statement proposes a horizontal building which dialogues with the meadow-like plot.

A Rememberance Site: Parc des Glacis - Ateliers 2/3/4/

Cristian Aguilar — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 09:00:39 +0000

Located in the heart of the Parc des Glacis, a bastion of Vauban fortifications, the remembrance site is enclosed by Corten steel walls that cut the ground just like trenches and revel the changes in topography.

Creation of a forest shelter at Bertrichamp / Yoann Saehr Architect + Studiolada

Daniel Sánchez — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Distinctive features of the operation: The peat bog shelter is a participative building site in which no companies were involved, executed using the means at hand. It was built by a team composed of municipal workers and volunteers from the village. It will provide accommodation for the walkers and the “Classe verte” school trip children who come every week to discover the treasures of the last peat bog in the Meurthe-et-Moselle region. The small covered yard raises the question of small wood sections and the theme of density in architecture.

Chapel St Genevieve / OBIKA Architecture

Karen Valenzuela — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

At the heart of the Natural Park of Lorraine, the Sainte-Genevieve chapel can be found through the hiking trails near riverside of Meuse, a natural site where the forest remains as the aesthetic environment.

Six Essential Materials & The Architects That Love Them

James Taylor-Foster — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 01:00:00 +0000

In case you missed it, we’re re-publishing this popular post for your material pleasure. Enjoy!

To celebrate the recent launch of our US product catalog, ArchDaily Materials, we've coupled six iconic architects with what we deem to be their favourite or most frequently used material. From Oscar Neimeyer's sinuous use of concrete to Kengo Kuma's innovative use of wood, which materials define some of the world's best known architects?

Contemporary Art Center – FRAC / Kengo Kuma & Associates

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The project of the contemporary art center (FRAC) for the region Provence Alpes Cotes d’Azur (PACA) is the 3D version of the “museum without walls” invented by André Malraux, famous French writer and politician. It is a museum without a museum, a living and moving place, where the art pieces are in a constant movement and join the logic of diffusion and interaction with the visitors.

Cite des Arts et de la Culture / Kengo Kuma & Associates

Jonathan Alarcón — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This project is the result of the union between history and architecture, water and light, city and nature. We wish that the Besancon Art and Culture Center strike a chord with the environment by the fusion of the different scale of reading, from the details to the entire project, by blurring the limit between interior and exterior, to create a building able to enter in resonance with his environment: the hills, the river and the city of Besancon. The roof creates the link between the building and his environment and makes the project blatant. Semi-transparent, the roof symbolizes the fusion between built and not-built and act as camouflage when people discover it from the Citadelle which is height overlooking. It is an invitation to the citizen to gather below his protection. It symbolized the encounter between the city and the nature, the citizen and the riverbank, the public and the culture.

Jardin Serge Gainsbourg / Matthieu Gelin & David Lafon Architecte

Jonathan Alarcón — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:00:00 +0000

The need to cover the ring road at the Porte des Lilas answers to a desire expressed by people to finally be able to enjoy a proper quality of life and a friendly urban environment. Basically the population wanted an area where it would be possible to walk, have a garden, play, and find both nature and quietness.

Educational Pole In Vellefaux / Malcotti Roussey Architectes

Andrew Rosenberg — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Nursery school includes four classes, primary school five classes. Three rooms for cultural activities. Indoor and outdoor reception and playground The project takes place on the edge of the village, in a vast natural landscape with an uneven topography. It turns itself to the natural landscape. The orientation of the project is East/West along an axis which connects forests to each other.

A Canopy and a Pavilion at Porte des Lilas / Matthieu Gelin & David Lafon

Kelly Minner — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Architects Matthieu Gelin & David Lafon designed both an office building and pavilion on this site in Paris, France. The office building required two different programs; housing both RATP office space on the ground level and circus office space on the second floor, each function was defined by use of materials.

Spectacles Jeux Restaurant / Malcotti Roussey Architectes

Nico Saieh — Sun, 16 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This project is located in the space that was left free in the ancient saline, a place that was partially destroyed. It is situated in Salins-les-Bains near the museum, which is being restored (see the museum fact sheet).

Breuillot's house / Bernard Quirot & Olivier Vichard

Nicolas Waltefaugle — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Located in a small village 10 kilometers south of Besançon, the main town of the region « Franche Comté », this house was built far from the center of the village, up on the hill which dominates the river « Loue » and beneficiates of a clear and wide view . It was made for a single grandma' who takes care of her daughter's children every day. Bernard Quirot and Olivier Vichard have designed a contemporary mix between traditional ways of building houses (raw stone, wood for structure and ornemantation) and modern style (raw concrete, large windows, voluminous white spaces).