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I.M.A.M. / nodo17 Architects

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Community center
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Móstoles, Spain
  • Architects: nodo17 Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  3 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2009

Phuket Gateway / IDIN Architects

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Public Space
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Thailand
  • Architects: IDIN Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  1600 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2007

Trond clubhouse / Bjørke Arkitektur + Steffen Wellinger

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Sports Architecture
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Trondheim, Norway

Forest Road Youth Centre / Matthew Lloyd Architects

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Office buildings
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London, United Kingdom

Phoenix Observation Tower / BIG

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  • Architects

    BIG

  • Location

    Phoenix, AZ, USA

  • Architects in Charge

    Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Christoffersen

  • Project Leader

    Iannis Kandyliaris

  • Project Team

    Thomas Fagan, Aaron Hales, Ola Hariri, Dennis Harvey, Beat Schenk

  • Collaborators

    MKA (structure), Atelier10 (sustainability), Gensler (local architect), TenEyck (landscape)

  • Client

    Novawest

  • Area

    70,000 ft2

  • Project Year

    2012

  • Photographs

    Courtesy of BIG Architects

  • Architects

    Bjarke Ingels Group

Webb Chapel Park Pavilion / Studio Joseph

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Installations & Structures, Landscape Architecture
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Dallas, United States

Graz Main Station Local Transport Hub / Zechner & Zechner

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Tram Station
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Graz, Austria
  • Architects: Zechner & Zechner
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2012
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Alucobond

SOM Wins Bid to Design Los Angeles Federal Courthouse

SOM Wins Bid to Design Los Angeles Federal Courthouse - Featured Image

The GSA has announced that Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill have been selected as the architects of the new Los Angeles Federal Courthouse, which will house the U.S. District Court, Central District of California, and the U.S. Marshals Service. The architects beat out 3 other shortlisted teams to win the $318 million project.

According to the GSA, "The new 550,000-square-foot building will be a sustainable, cost-effective, state-of-the-art court facility that includes security upgrades that are not available in the current 312 North Spring Street courthouse."

The site, located at 107 South Broadway (down the street from Morphosis’ Caltrans building, LA’s City Hall, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall) has been dormant since 2007; although a $1.1 billion design by Perkins + Will was selected soon after, it was abandoned when Congress slashed the GSA's construction budget. The GSA considers the approval of the new redevelopment plan a "major milestone."

More info and images, after the break...

Camp at Cabot Beach / Studio North

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Social Housing
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Canada
  • Architects: Studio North
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  3900 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2009

Prince Arthur's Landing / Brook McIlroy

Prince Arthur's Landing / Brook McIlroy - Landscape Architecture, Facade
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Square, Landscape Architecture
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Thunder Bay, Canada

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Terry Trueblood Boathouse / ASK Studio

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Installations & Structures
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Iowa City, United States
  • Architects: ASK Studio
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  1200 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2011

Hornsbergs Strandpark / Nyréns Arkitektkontor

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Landscape Architecture, Park
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Stockholm, Sweden

Aviary, Bioparque Temaikén / Hampton+Rivoira+Arquitectos

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© Fundación Temaikén

Architects: Hampton+Rivoira+Arquitectos Location: Escobar, Provincia of Buenos Aires, Argentina Architects In Charge: Jorge Hampton, Emilio Rivoira Associated Architect: Cristian Carnicer Design Team: Roberto Lombardi, María Eugenia García Castera, María Eugenia Viña Raznovich, Juan Reartes, Ignacio Ruiz Orrico, Diego Tablada, Emilia Alvarado, Anahi Fedrizzi Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Jorge Hampton, Emilio Rivoira, Fernando Mayán, Fundación Temaikén

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Nosara Recycling Plant / sLAB

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A small group of students and architect Tobias Holler of sLAB Costa Rica at the New York Institute of Technology, have teamed up to design and build a communal recycling center for Nosara, Costa Rica – a city that is facing grave problems with sanitation and illegal dumping of garbage on beaches and in wildlife areas. Construction started last summer after a Kickstarter campaign that raised $15,000 helped provide expenses and costs associated with housing the students that assisted with the construction. A relaunch of the Kickstarter campaign will provide the project with additional funds to bring the students back to accelerate the pace of construction. The funds also support the documentary by Ayana de Vos, whose film follows the progress of the project and features waste management and sustainability in Costa Rica.

Join us after the break for more.

The motivation behind building a Communal Recycling Center is based in the severe problems that Nosara specifically, and Costa Rica in general, has in municipal waste management. Without appropriate infrastructure and policies, over 1400 tons of waste is deposited into unregulated dumps daily. A lot of the garbage makes its way into rivers and forests, pollutes ground water, threatens the health of local communities and destroys wildlife.

Chop Stick / Visiondivision

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Courtesy of Visiondivision

Here's a new definition for the phrase "Tree House."

Visiondivision's concession stand for 100 Acres, an Art & Nature Park in Indiana, is made entirely from one 100-ft yellow poplar tree. Not only does the trunk form the horizontal beam of the structure, but literally nothing of the tree was left to waste: bark became shingles; extracted pieces of wood became structural support, chairs and tables, swings; even the bark's syrup was extracted to be sold in the kiosk itself.

The architects who refined this tree into a building were inspired by an ethos of "gentleness" with nature. As they share in their architects' brief: "Our project is about trying to harvest something as gently as possible so that the source of what we harvest is displayed in a pure, pedagogic and respectful way—respectful to both the source itself and to everyone visiting the building."

A video, images, and the architects' brief, after the break...

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Gymnasium and Town Hall Esplanade / LAN Architecture

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gymnasium, Town & City Hall, Renovation
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Chelles, France
  • Architects: LAN Architecture
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  0 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2012
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  TECU®, Saint-Gobain, Les Durcisseurs Francais, PSS, Schüco

'Black Tree' Public Solar Charger / Miloš Milivojevic

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© Miloš Milivojević

Designed by Miloš Milivojević for the Strawberry Energy company, ‘Black Tree’ is a public solar charger which enables visitors to recharge batteries of their mobile phones, tablets and multimedia devices with the energy of Sun. In cooperation with Palilula Municipality and the city of Belgrade, this Strawberry Tree with a completely new design has been set up in Tašmajdan park in Belgrade in November 2012. More images and architects’ description after the break.

Drents Archive / Zecc Architecten

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Cultural Architecture, Government
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Assen, The Netherlands
  • Architects: Zecc Architecten
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  3300 m²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2012