Showing posts with label Architecture News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Architecture News. Show all posts
Monday, October 1, 2012
" eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite students, architects, engineers, designers, and artists from around the globe to take part in the eVolo 2013 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition is one of the world's most prestigious awards for high-rise architecture. It recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the implementation of novel technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. It is a forum that examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city..." to find out more...
images & passage via http://www.evolo.us
Friday, March 12, 2010
Upcoming Event: Pratt Manhattan Gallery’s “Envelopes” Exhibition
0 comments Posted by swl at 12:25 AM
"Here’s a very cool event you should not miss if you’re in New York this March or April: Pratt Manhattan Gallery will present “Envelopes,” an exhibition that will explore new and sustainable potentials of the architectural surface in terms of the skin of a building and also as a sensorial space that envelops the body..."Monday, August 3, 2009
"The perforated block of Celosia assembles 146 apartments, communal outside areas throughout the building, and parking and commercial program in the plinth. The total floor area is 21,550 sqm. With a construction cost of 12,6 million Euro the apartments can be sold for affordable prizes. The city block is opened and allows wind and light to enter the building, offering vistas and outside spaces contrasting the surrounding area...These blocks are positioned in a checkerboard pattern next to and on top of each other, leaving wide openings for communal patios throughout the building. 146 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments are all accessed via these communal spaces. Most apartments offer additional private outdoor space in the shape of a loggia right behind the front door. Inhabitants have the possibility to gather in the communal high-rise patios which offer views towards the city and the mountains and provide natural ventilation in summer...
The Celosia building is horizontally arranged around the interior court but opposes the generic introverted architecture in the area by bringing light and communal space into the building allowing a perhaps more extraverted Spanish lifestyle as every apartment opens up to a small plaza."
to find out more...
images and passage from www.mvrdv.nl
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
"...the offices of J. MAYER H. Architects and Art+Com Berlin were commissioned to develop a permanent exhibition on the topic sustainability for the Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany. The exhibition LEVEL GREEN was opened on June 4, 2009 and encompasses approximately 1,000 m². The exhibition renders this highly complex topic tangible, providing for an aesthetic access to information. In so doing, it seeks to unfold the various aspects of the topic while creating an information environment that addresses the visitor on different sensual levels.
Subject to constant re-evaluation based on the latest scientific findings, the term sustainability is characterized by a high degree of complexity. The architectural design of LEVEL GREEN takes the numerous interdependencies of the topic as a starting point and translates this quality into the metaphor of the web. Similar to a continuous organism, the single elements of the exhibition are connected into one homogeneous structure that houses all content and technical installations.
The dramaturgy of the exhibition is not determined by a linear approach but one of nonlinear logics, opening the space for a more ambiguous experience. Vertical Elements define different areas within the exhibition without strictly separating them, allowing the visitor’s experience to be carried by the idea of playful discovery.
passage and image from bustler
Sunday, July 12, 2009
The Serpentine Pavilion opened to the public this Sunday, July 12 until 18 October.
"Describing their structure the architects, SANAA say: ‘The Pavilion is floating aluminium, drifting freely between the trees like smoke. The reflective canopy undulates across the site, expanding the park and sky. Its appearance changes according to the weather, allowing it to melt into the surroundings. It works as a field of activity with no walls, allowing uninterrupted view across the park and encouraging access from all sides. It is a sheltered extension of the park where people can read, relax and enjoy lovely summer days.’Sejima and Nishizawa have created a stunning Pavilion that resembles a reflective cloud or a floating pool of water, sitting atop a series of delicate columns. The metal roof structure varies in height, wrapping itself around the trees in the park, reaching up towards the sky and sweeping down almost to the ground in various places. Open and ephemeral in structure, its reflective materials make it sit seamlessly within the natural environment, reflecting both the park and sky around it..." to find out more...
images from bustler and http://www.serpentinegallery.org/
passage from http://www.serpentinegallery.org/
Thursday, July 9, 2009
"The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has named Steven Holl Architects’ recently completed Linked Hybrid complex in Beijing the recipient of the “Best Tall Building” in Asia and Australia award...
The 220,000 square-meter Linked Hybrid complex includes eight towers linked by a ring of eight sky bridges housing a variety of public functions. The complex is located adjacent to the former city perimeter of Beijing. To counter current urban development trends in China, the complex forms a new twenty-first century porous urban space, inviting and open to the public from every side. In addition to more than 750 apartments, the complex includes public, commercial, and recreational facilities as well as a hotel and school. With sitelines around, over, and through multifaceted spatial layers, this “city within a city” has as one of its central aims the concept of public space within an urban environment, and can support all the activities and programs for the daily lives of over 2500 inhabitants." to find out more...
image and passage bustler
Thursday, June 4, 2009
"The Stone Towers by Zaha Hadid Architects for Rooya Group of Egypt is located in the Stone Park district of Cairo. Providing office and retail facilities to a rapidly expanding Cairo, the unique 525,000sqm Stone Towers development also includes a five-star business hotel with serviced apartments, retail with food and beverage facilities and sunken landscaped gardens and plaza called the ‘Delta’..." to find out more...image & passage from Bustler
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
"Greenbuild is the world's largest conference and expo dedicated to green building. Thousands of building professionals from all over the world come together at Greenbuild for three days of outstanding educational sessions, renowned speakers, green building tours, special seminars, and networking events...
Greenbuild is heading to the American Southwest, a region with unique environmental and social challenges and opportunities, and the imperative is clear: Green building can and must come home to all people, boosting the quality of life on main streets across the country and around the world. Greenbuild 2009 in Phoenix, November 11-13, 2009 and engage in the conversation we must have to bring green to everyone, and bring everyone to green..." to find out more...
Sunday, May 31, 2009
13b Paradise Street, Liverpool ONEAllies and Morrison"The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) recently announced the winners of the 2009 RIBA Awards. RIBA Awards for architectural excellence have been presented across the country with 103 buildings in the UK and Europe winning awards (97 in the UK and six in the rest of the EU)..." to check out the results
image and passage from bustler
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Some of you may find the below websites useful to boost up some spirit during this economy down turn:
1. Bustler
2. Death by Architecture
3. SITIO
4. Arquitectum
5. e-architect
6. compe.japandesign
Sunday, May 17, 2009
"New York-based Asymptote Architecture nears completion of The Yas Hotel project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Yas Hotel is a 500-room, 85,000-square-meter complex now under construction by Aldar Properties PJSC. Asymptote was awarded the commission to design the buildings and environs from a closed competition two years ago targeting an opening date of October 30, 2009 to coincide with the Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix...Of architectural and engineering significance is the main feature of the project’s design, a 217-meter expanse of sweeping, curvilinear forms constructed of steel and 5,800 pivoting diamond-shaped glass panels. This Grid-Shell component affords the building an architecture comprised of an atmospheric-like veil that contains two hotel towers and a link bridge constructed as a monocoque sculpted steel object passing above the Formula 1 track that makes its way through the building complex..." to find out more...images and passage from Bustler
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
"SmartGeometry is a not-for-profit, educational organization founded in 2001 and directed by three London based architects and friends: Lars Hesselgren of Kohn Pederson Fox, Hugh Whitehead of Foster + Partners, and J Parrish of Arup Sport. These pioneering practitioners are responsible for designing, describing and building some of the most innovative and experimental buildings of our generation. These include KPF’s designs for the new Bishopsgate Tower in London, Foster + Partners’s iconic Swiss Re and new Beijing Airport, and Arup Sport’s collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron on Munich’s Allianz Arena and the new ‘birds nest’ National Stadium in Beijing..."
"The 6th annual SmartGeometry workshop and conference was held in March 2009 in San Francisco with Bentley Systems, (makers of Microstation and new parametric software GenerativeComponents) as the principal sponsor. GenerativeComponents (known as GC), is a software originally created by architect Robert Aish, a founding member of SmartGeometry who is now at Autodesk. Unlike Catia for automotive or aerospace engineering or Maya for the animation industry, GC is a parametric software that has been designed for architecture. GC is a flexible design environment that can be linked to other software and is designed to be used both as a digital sketching tool for early design development and as a production tool."
passage and image from Archinect
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Ten Scenarios for ‘Grand Paris’ Metropolis Now Up for Public Debate
0 comments Posted by swl at 11:23 PMAntoine Grumbach, Agence Grumbach and associates team
IRoland Castro, Ateliers Castro/Denissof/Casi team
IRoland Castro, Ateliers Castro/Denissof/Casi team
"From April 29 to November 22, 2009, the “Le Grand Pari de l’agglomeration parisienne” exhibition will present the results of the consultation. The proposals of the ten multidisciplinary teams – selected as part of the consultation and working in partnership with architects and urban planners – will be presented at Musée de la Cité...for a day-long public debate in the great hall of Théâtre national de Chaillot. The teams will be invited to compare their proposals in areas like the environment, economics, social balances and mobility. Actors from other major “metropolitan projects”... " to find out more...
images and passage from Bustler
Thursday, February 12, 2009
"...J. MAYER H. designed an installation environment that combines applied supergraphic elements and seating units that contain video monitors and projectors, immersing viewers in a matrix of enlarged three-dimensional data patterns. Within this environment, animated data patterns are shown on monitors, while images of the studio’s built work are projected onto the gallery walls and ceiling. Finally, a sound environment has been developed by translating visual patterns into sonic ones, further surrounding the viewer with a thick cloud of “information mist.”
With this exhibition, SFMOMA explores a new way of presenting architecture in a gallery setting by joining images of built projects with an experiential installation that combines supergraphics, sound, and video..." to find out more...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
What a tragedy. Check out...
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Checking the Pulse of the Architecture Industry Part II: the Survey Results
0 comments Posted by swl at 11:55 PM
" We hate to be the bad news bears, but, as one survey respondent stated, "unless one is happy and married to money this is going to be painful." We are, obviously, talking about the economic crisis the entire world is experiencing. The architecture industry gets hit pretty quickly in a downward economy. Diane Georgopulis, President of the Boston Society of Architects said, "architects at some level are kind of the canaries in the mine. When development dries up, architects are probably the first people to know." Unemployment rates are on the rise and almost all of us know at least a few people are on a job hunt..." to find out more...
Passage and image from http://archinect.com
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