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Architects: Claudia Linders, NEXT architects
- Area: 269 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Alcoa, Quooker, Viroc, Vola
House M&M / NEXT architects + Claudia Linders
Holland Boulevard and Rijksmuseum Schiphol / NEXT architects
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Architects: NEXT architects
- Area: 5000 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Saint-Gobain
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Professionals: DHa (Deerns Haskoning adviseurs), RHDHV, Royal Haskoning
Roskilde Festival Folk High School / MVRDV + Cobe
- Area: 5578 m²
- Year: 2019
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Manufacturers: In-Sign, WindowMaster
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Professionals: COBE, B. Nygaard Sørensen A/S, Transsolar, MVRDV, Gade & Mortensen Akustik, +3
The Week in Architecture: Blue Monday and the Aspirations of a New Year
For those in the northern hemisphere, the last full week in January last week kicks off with Blue Monday - the day claimed to be the most depressing of the year. Weather is bleak, sunsets are early, resolutions are broken, and there’s only the vaguest glimpse of a holiday on the horizon. It’s perhaps this miserable context that is making the field seem extra productive, with a spate of new projects, toppings out and, completions announced this week.
The week of 21 January 2019 in review, after the break:
Why Reusing Buildings Should - and Must - be the Next Big Thing
Sustainability awards and standards touted by professional architecture organizations often stop at opening day, failing to take into account the day-to-day energy use of a building. With the current format unlikely to change, how can we rethink the way what sustainability means in architecture today? The first step might be to stop rewarding purpose-built architecture, and look instead to the buildings we already have. This article was originally published on CommonEdge as"Why Reusing Buildings Should be the Next Big Thing."
At the inaugural Rio Conference on the Global Environment in 1992, three facts became abundantly clear: the earth was indeed warming; fossil fuels were no longer a viable source of energy; the built environment would have to adapt to this new reality. That year I published an essay in the Journal of Architectural Education called “Architecture for a Contingent Environment” suggesting that architects join with both naturalists and preservationists to confront this situation.
Amstel Tower / Powerhouse Company
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Architects: Powerhouse Company
- Area: 27000 m²
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Manufacturers: AKS Bouw, HCI Betonindustrie, Jazo, Natumar, Trahecon
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Professionals: IMd Raadgevend Ingenieurs, Ingenieursburo Linssen
The Top Creative Cities and Countries of 2018 According to Airbnb
As 2018 draws to a close, accommodation website Airbnb has dived into their data to reveal the most creative cities and countries from the year. Based on the percentage of hosts who are in the creative industries, the list builds on a previous survey by Airbnb which found that one in 10 Airbnb hosts and one in three Experience hosts identify as members of the creative community.
Read on below for the list of top creative countries and cities according to the new Airbnb study. For architects already planning a New Year’s getaway, check out an article we published of ten projects previously featured by ArchDaily, now available for booking through Airbnb.
Future Towers / MVRDV
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Architects: MVRDV
- Area: 140000 m²
- Year: 2018
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Professionals: J+W with Umesh Joshi
Norra Tornen / OMA | Reinier de Graaf
Big Green Egg Europe / Team Paul de Vroom + Sputnik
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Architects: Sputnik, Team Paul de Vroom
- Area: 1000 m²
- Year: 2018
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Manufacturers: CD20, Derako, Ecophon, Flagstone Compagny, MHB, +2
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Professionals: Verbakel bouwbedrijf, Beersnielsen, Binder Groenprojecten, Elektravon, Mobius Consult, +1
This Week in Architecture: What Makes a Place?
It’s well understood that a sense of place is an essential value for people, architecture, and cities. Everyone from designers to planners to city governments speak breathlessly of the power of places to transform cities for the better - but it’s not clear what placemaking really means.
Post Post-Modernism: 10 Projects that Reinterpret the Movement for the Digital Age
It's no secret that post-modernism has, in recent years, experienced something of a revival. The much-maligned movement's exhuberant and joyful take on architecture is perhaps a solace in difficult moments. Or, for the more jaded among us, perhaps it simply lends itself to Instagram.
That said, it's not quite the postmodernism that took off in the 60s. Post postmodernism is also concerned with history and context, but with contemporary spins made possible by new technologies. Installations and other temporary typologies also bring with them a fresh perspective, preserved forever on the internet for our vicarious enjoyment. But perhaps most crucially, it is no longer so wholly a reaction against the hegemony of modernism; something that the original postmodernists were fixated with. Today's postmodernism can be at once joyful and reserved, vernacular and high-tech.
22 of the World’s Greatest Architecture Projects Selected by Time Magazine
Time Magazine’s list of the World’s Greatest Places 2018 celebrates 100 destinations to visit, stay, eat, and drink from around the world. Chosen by Time’s global team of editors and correspondents, the contenders have been evaluated on quality, originality, innovation, sustainability, and influence.
The list features many architectural delights young and old, designed by famous architects past and present. Ranging from a treehouse in Sweden to a soaring art museum in South Africa, the projects are united by their architectural excellence, worthy of exploration by both architects and the general public.
Salt / MVRDV
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Architects: MVRDV
- Area: 3700 m²
- Year: 2018
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Manufacturers: Acosorb
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Professionals: Barten Groep, Denned, Firmus Vastgoed and Bulters & Bulters, Ikaabee
De Verkenner Tower / Mei architects and planners
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Architects: Mei architects and planners
- Area: 12500 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Decomo, Hi-Con, Koninklijke Tichelaar
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Professionals: ERA Contour