Sometimes to be important in a place is necessary to pass unnoticed. This formulation is meant discordant, is the preliminary concept employed by BIG to design new Danish Maritime Museum. A premise that nurtures new uses traditional space of the city without altering the skyline established in the collective memory of its citizens.
Video of the week 10 Kovac Architects, Los Angeles, California, USA
In 1982 was held a contest for the urban renewal area of the Villette in the northeast corner of Paris. The winning design by Bernard Tschumi away of all design conventions of public spaces previously developed, breaking the rooted tradition the Parisian garden. To 40 years to its gestation the complex project is considered the…
The train station of Strasbourg was built in 1883 on the plans of Berliner architect Johann Eduard Jacobsthal on the field of the original station, too small and tiny. Built by the German authorities, in Neo-Renaissance style, the train station is located on the crossroads of international axes Paris-Vienna and Basel-Cologne. The semicircular square in…
In the world of architecture often happens to come upon the figure of Mies Van Der Rohe, recognized as one of the fathers of the Modern Architecture. His works, although renowned, are sometimes studied as if they belong to history, like the closing chapter of a book, a common lot of other architects.
We all know the Fibonaccis sequence – 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21,… – that is to find also in natural objects like flowers or animals. From there comes also the golden section, the most well proportioned rectangle for the human’s eye. So, when it comes to the idea to create 3D printed sculptures using that mathematical…
At the time of Haussmann’s big transformations of Paris, it was common to have domestics. Most of the time women, in french bonnes, they were sleeping under the roof in tiny rooms, between 8 to 11 sqm, having mutual toilets in the narrow corridor. This video is showing an example of how a former chambre de…
Close to Marienplatz, in the heart of Munich, a historical and traditional street block was transformed into a new city space. Retaining largely the overall structure and the street façades, the intervention designed by Herzog & de Meuron took advantage of the existing buildings to create unexpectedly singular spaces. The city block was carefully opened…
Hello and welcome to our new series “Movies for Architects”! In this series, we will advise you, young Architects, some movies you have to watch! Second episode: The 5th element, a movie directed by Luc Besson in 1997 with some well designed futuristic buildings (and very nice outfits also, designed by Jean Paul Gaultier). The…
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Hello and welcome to our very first episode of our new series “Movies for Architects”. In this series, we will advise you, Architects, some movies you have to watch! First episode: My Architect, about the story of the architect Louis I. Kahn.
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An atoll for culture. Surrounded by wetlands of the Songhua River, Harbin Cultural Island is the leading container buildings of the Grand Theatre and the Recreation Center Harbin, artificial plan which endorses natural geography mimicking the natural shape of the coast of the river located off the island.
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Video of the week Production : TANGRAM co. ltd. Director : Makoto Yabuki Camera : Masashi Sasaki Music : Takaya Murakami “It is a work made as the visual identity of architects office Sturdy Style. Their corporate identity is home creating without stereotype. The architect faces the white box symbolizing a home, and designs harmony…
Along the Nonnenbach river, near the city hall will be situated the new Festhalle – festival hall – of Kressbronn, on the Constance Lake. Thanks to its large openings on the site, the Festhalle allows a good vision of the surroundings and natural illumination. With the sawtooth roof, that allows to put photovoltaic panels (south)…
Knowing that the building industry has an impact of around 50% of all material taken from Earth crust, 35% of all greenhouse gases and 40% of all waste produced, it is clear that the discussion of sustainability in architecture is not just one more detail, or an additional analysis, but instead a need for change.…
Video of the week 38 Office Building in Shibaura Shinkenchiku (New Architecture) : September 2011 Architect: Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
Video of the week 37 Housing Polje 1 Bevk Perović arhitekti Housing Polje 1 in Ljubljana, designed by Bevk Perović architects. Project 2002-2003. Six appartment buildings with 78 non-profit units.
A solid pop in a landscape of native ecologies. The new Perot Museum of Nature and Science is proposed as an experience of integration of nature into the urban. Morphosis design studio next to Talley Associates landscape is solved by two entities: A solid cubic volume that responds to introversion proposed program, located on a platform that favors the forms of nature.
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Video of the week 36 Sliced, by dxmiq
A stacked block chaining. The museum of architectural drawings hosting the Tchoban Foundation collection. For its construction, the Foundation purchased a small plot in the old complex Pfefferberg brewery in Berlin.
Video of the week 35 181 Fremont Street. San Francisco. California Hellus Manus Architects
As an architect, you should definitely not… #5 …copy Paris one by one, or any other city. Tianducheng development in Hangzhou, China. An empty town. _ #4 …draw the exterior of a building and not really give importance about how it works inside. Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, by Frank Gehry (related article here).…
Video of the week 34 Housing Polje 1 Bevk Perović arhitekti
Instituted in iconic form on the surface of the river Iset, Ekaterinburg Philharmonic’s new raises a suggestive resolution program.
The curve applied as a dogmatist element. Zaha Hadid‘s intervention on the grounds of the former textile factory Beko Belgrade, Serbia, does nothing but confirm design criteria stagnant systematically repeated in each of the interventions of the past few years. The multifunctional complex Beko is only 500 meters from the historic center, on the banks…
Video of the week 33 Frank Gehry: “Be Yourself”
Welcome to our new series “The Color in Architecture”, which offers examples of buildings, old and new, using one special color. Between Sea and Sky: Architecture. Blue. Click on an image to see the name of the design and of the architect, and scroll left and right to see the next images Connected articles: GOLD…
Video of the week 32 LAX – Bradley International Terminal
Il Teatro del Mondo, in english the “Theater of the World”, also known as the “Venitian theater”, was designed by Aldo Rossi in 1979 for the Biennal of Venice in 1980. Aldo Rossi analysis and condenses by numerous drawings the Venetian identity, his physical, geographical and architectural reality, but also his mythical reality. This “singular”…
Giovanni Lucentini is an architect from Palermo in Sicily, Italy, associate of the firm Lg=mC (Giovanni Lucentini & Marcello Calà). We discovered the firm in October 2012 and wrote an article about it, right here: Presentation of the firm Lg=mC We do believe that the architect Giovanni Lucentini has a great talent, and it is…
Video of the week 31 The ABC of Architects
Visions of space habitation: From fiction to reality Farhad Pakan _ _ _ A thesis submitted to the faculty of architecture of the University of Nicosia (UNIC), Cyprus Supervisors: Prof. Solon Xenopoulos, Prof. Nikolas Patsavos January 2012 _ _ _ Abstract The purpose of this paper is to provide an analytic…
Video of the week 30 This is Shanghai
Have you ever imagined in folding your own furniture? This new concept of Flux Chair is pretty interesting – it seems like a giant envelope, but it’s a chair. Elegant and straight design. Made of polypropylene a single piece with durable material. Fine design on your living room or on your garden: this must be love.…
“Situated between the existing downtown of Al Reem Island, al Sowwah Island will be the new Central Business District of Abu Dhabi. The island will become not only an urban center, but also a main connector between surrounding existing and new developments. A total of 11 new bridges will connect to the neighboring urban areas,…
Video of the week 29 “Niggas in Paris”, by Jay-Z featuring Kanye West As we already said here, Inspiration is everywhere. For this reason, an architect cannot limit his sources of inspiration only to some books at the library or some specialized website. Le Corbusier said, “the key is to look, see, imagine, invent, create“.…
Video of the week 28 Chicago – Five Great Buildings
The Palacio Itamaraty was inaugurated in 1970, when green architecture was not as trendy as today. However, it is one of the best examples of green building that I ever visited. Le Corbusier said that architecture is invention, as Oscar Niemeyer liked to remember. In this building, Oscar Niemeyer invented simple solutions for efficient sustainability.…
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The building is located within the pre-existing compound of Scuola Edile di Bergamo-SEB (school for construction workers), an heterogeneous mix of edifices built over the past 50 years that this new architecture joins accurately. Conceived as a mixed-use architecture, the building encompasses a variety of spaces devoted to the different processes and crafts of the…
The Maldives are getting overtaken by high waters, that was a great opportunity to design a fantastic hotel, the Water Discus… This hotel looks unreal with its 22 underwater rooms, offering an incredible view! In emergency cases, or for maintenance purpose, it is easy to re-float the underwater section. images
Video of the week 27 The Obayashi Collection at Yu-un in Tokyo, Japan by Tadao Ando
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Video of the week 26 Casa del Atrio | Atrium House by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos 2012
Video of the week 25 Serpentine Gallery 2013 by Sou Fujimoto Designed by Sou Fujimoto and engineered by Aecom, the Pavilion opens to the public on the 8th June.
The LEGO Group will build the experience center “The LEGO House” in Denmark. The center illustrates the systematic creativity of LEGO bricks and is expected to attract 250.000 visitors annually. The interior of the building has not been designed yet and will look very different from what can be seen in the video Construction will start in…
Welcome to our new series “The Color in Architecture”, which offers examples of buildings, old and new, using one special color. Here comes the sun for a lot of people on earth! Yellow! Click on an image to see the name of the design and of the architect, and scroll left and right to see…
Video of the week 24 Richard Meier 2013 Architizer A+ Lifetime Achievement Award
Easton, located in Talbot County on Maryland’s eastern shore, was established in 1710. Easton remains largely agrarian, with numerous farms interspersed among area’s many waterways. Diverging from several acres of cornfields, a one-quarter mile road lined with pine trees terminates at a diamond-shaped tract of land with breath-taking views of the Tred Avon River. Arising…
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Describing any massive construction project as “green” is a stretch, especially when it comes to sports facilities. But in football-mad Brazil, plans for a bevy of new and refurbished football stadia for the 2014 World Cup are well underway. It has been a messy sausage-making process for the most part; FIFA has tried to light…
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