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From Modernism to Multiculturalism: The Historical Evolution of Student Housing

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Student housing has undergone a remarkable transformation over the last century. Once seen as a utilitarian necessity, providing shelter and basic amenities for students, this architectural typology has evolved to address increasingly complex societal, cultural, and urban demands. Starting with Le Corbusier's modernist approach at the Cité Universitaire in Paris, student housing has reflected broader trends in architecture, urbanism, and social change.

Kalvebod Fælled School / Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects

Andreas Luco — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Kalvebod Fælled School creates the framework for lifelong learning. Here, a social vision of sports and children leading active lives finds its shape. The school is situated in the protected landscape of Ørestad South in Copenhagen, between the grazing cattle and the city. It’s an open, bustling community. When the school day ends for the students, others join; parents and local community residents use the gymnasium and classrooms for sports, courses, and social events.

11 Rules to Follow When Creating Vibrant Public Spaces

Christele Harrouk — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 04:00:00 +0000

The International Placemaking Week, presented by Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is an inspiring and engaging event designed as a global gathering of placemakers from different sectors to discuss thoughts and share strategies in order to push forward the concept of placemaking in the host city and on an international level. Previous editions took place in Vancouver in 2016, Amsterdam in 2017, and Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2019.

The Second Studio Podcast: Interview with Dorte Mandrup

The Second Studio Podcast — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 03:30:00 +0000

The Second Studio (formerly The Midnight Charette) is an explicit podcast about design, architecture, and the everyday. Hosted by Architects David Lee and Marina Bourderonnet, it features different creative professionals in unscripted conversations that allow for thoughtful takes and personal discussions.

Åstrup Have House / NORRØN Architects

Paula Pintos — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 06:00:00 +0000

The latest addition to Copenhagen-based NORRØN’s body of work is Åstrup Have - a new recreational farmhouse gazing at Haderslev Fjord and built upon the dream of the countryside. Coined around concepts of biodynamic food production, freely grazing animals, and farm to table, Åstrup Have evokes the region’s vernacular building tradition and inquisitively reinterprets the traditional Danish farmhouse.

Play Contract / Superflex + KWY.studio

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Playgrounds are meant to stimulate play, but most are designed based on grown-ups’ notions of children and how they should behave. With Play Contract, the balance of power is tipped, and now it’s the children’s turn to devise a playful space for themselves and grown-ups. A group of 122 children in Billund, Denmark was given 100,000 pink LEGO bricks to build models for playgrounds. These models were then analyzed and synthesized into five final designs, which were constructed in pink marble. The result is a collage of adventurous ideas and whimsical shapes that have been transformed into Play Contract.

Grøndalsvængets School / JJW Arkitekter

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 12:00:00 +0000

The almost 100 years old Grøndalsvængets School has undergone a comprehensive transformation. With respect to original qualities the existing main building from 1929 has been completely renovated and refurbished to support today's demands for differentiated learning spaces and healthy indoor climate.

Katrinedals School / JJW Arkitekter

Martita Vial della Maggiora — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 05:00:00 +0000

JJW Architects have transformed a classic Danish school from the 1930s to a vibrant campus with close connections to the surrounding city. The project includes a 6000 m² refurbishment of the existing school building as well as a 3500 m² new build extension.

South Harbor School / JJW Arkitekter

Martita Vial della Maggiora — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 05:00:00 +0000

JJW Architects invite the city into the school and connect the school with the city, while utilizing the harbor location by using the water as an extra classroom. At the same time varied spaces create numerous, different scale gathering opportunities for students – from the school assembly to intimate learning sessions between two classmates. The School has been awarded several awards including the WAN Education Award 2016.

Storstrøm Prison / C.F. Møller

Cristobal Rojas — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:00:00 +0000

Storstrøm Prison will be the setting for the world's most humane and resocializing closed prison, with architecture which supports the inmates’ mental and physical well-being and also ensures a secure and pleasant workplace for employees.

Martin Rein-Cano Explains the Importance of Dynamism in Landscape Architecture

Osman Bari — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 16:00:00 +0000

In an interview with ArchDaily, TOPOTEK 1's co-founder Martin Rein-Cano explains the role dynamism plays in landscape architecture, and touches on his journey as a student to where he is now.

TOPOTEK 1’s Martin Rein-Cano On Superkilen’s Translation of Cultural Objects

Osman Bari — Sun, 14 May 2017 13:00:00 +0000

Founded in 1996 by Buenos Aires-born Martin Rein-Cano, TOPOTEK 1 has quickly developed a reputation as a multidisciplinary landscape architecture firm, focussing on the re-contextualization of objects and spaces and the interdisciplinary approaches to design, framed within contemporary cultural and societal discourse.

Material Focus: Salling Tower by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter

AD Editorial Team — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 09:30:00 +0000

This article is part of our new "Material Focus" series, which asks architects to elaborate on the thought process behind their material choices and sheds light on the steps required to get buildings actually built.

2016 International Chapter Architecture Award Winners Announced in Australia

Sabrina Santos — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 06:00:00 +0000

The Australian Institute of Architects has announced the winners of the 2016 International Chapter Architecture Awards, which honor Australian architects working on projects abroad.

Salling Tower / Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter

Florencia Mena — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 02:00:00 +0000

The new viewing tower and landmark on the harbour of Aarhus Ø, The Salling Tower, is shaped as a dramatic urban sculpture with a significant architectural expression. The white body of steel is a luminous and distinctive focal point and meeting place. Visitors will be led on a course full of experiences that start at the quayside and go to the upper platform 7.5 meters above quay-level. The route through the tower leads under an inclined surface and up to the first viewing plateau that hovers above the water. From here, the visitor is led upwards by a broad staircase which serves a lookout to panoramic views of the harbour and bay. Finally, the covered upper plateau provides a 360 degree overlook of the city and the harbour.

Valencia / Dorte Mandrup

Cristian Aguilar — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The original dance pavilion Valencia was built in 1861 and designed by H.S. Stilling and is a building with a long history in the Copenhagen entertainments. It has witnessed the rapid growth of the neighborhood as the Copenhagen Rampartswere released in late 1800, and has at first-hand felt the city's explosive growth as the detached dance pavilion in 1889 , was enclosed by the buildings around them. Before the thorough renovation the hall stood unnoticed, and the aim was to bring Valencia back in to the consciousness of the Copenhagen residents.

Great Gulf Active House / Superkül inc

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 12 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The Thorold Active House is designed to push the boundaries of green Canadian residential development, by meeting the current Active House standards: ensuring high energy efficiency, a comfortable and healthy indoor environment, and an uplifting space filled with an abundance of natural light and air.

Ama'r Children's Culture House / Dorte Mandrup

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The Children’s Culture House mediates the varying scales of adjacent buildings through extruding and cutting their forms. The joint of the building, where the extened lines of the existing buildings meet, is low- ered to allow maximum sunlight to reach the neighboring courtyard. The expression of the Children’s Culture House is surpris- ing and imaginative: the roof and facades are treated the same, and the House does not have a “start” and “end” as ordinary houses do.