Sunday, September 29, 2013
Cooled Conservatories, Gardens by the Bay wins 2013 RIBA Lubetkin Prize
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"Cooled Conservatories, Gardens by the Bay in Singapore by London-based Wilkinson Eyre Architects is the winner of the 2013 RIBA Lubetkin Prize for the best new international building. This is the second year running for Wilkinson Eyre, who also won the prize last year for Guangzhou International Finance Center in China.
The Lubetkin Prize trophy was presented at a special ceremony this evening in London where the RIBA also announced the winner of the prestigious Stirling Prize...
Cooled Conservatories, Gardens by the Bay are the biggest climate-controlled greenhouses in the world and a key project in the Singapore Government’s vision of transforming it into a ‘City in a Garden’ to find out more...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Building Temporary Dormitories With Local Recycled Timber and Renewable Bamboo in Thailand
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The interior layout ensures an open and airy space that offers semi-privacy and includes storage space for each student. The main cost of the buildings is the timber structure, which represents 70% of the total cost. Bamboo, thatch and eucalyptus are used for walls, floor and roof. Though these materials are not prepared to last over two years without any previous treatment, they are all easily available every season and the cost is affordable and stable for the local people..."
to find out more...
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Friday, September 13, 2013
The new 80,000-seat stadium will host the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2020 games, as well as athletics, football and rugby events..." to find out more...
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Friday, September 6, 2013
Teikyo University Elementary School by Kengo Kuma and Associates
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The Teikyo University Elementary School comprises a row of twelve connected classroom buildings that Kengo Kuma and Associates also compares to a row of terraced houses...
By changing its length and height of eave, roof can create multiformity to respond to its environment and different programs..." to find out more...
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Sunday, September 1, 2013
Coop Himmelb(l)au plans sports resort for abandoned Chinese quarry
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
Behnisch Architekten Completes John and Frances Angelos Law Center for the University of Baltimore
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Aside from its eye-catching exterior, the 192,000 sq.ft. (17,837 m²) structure at the urban center of Baltimore is full of revolutionary features—like its sustainable technology and its numerous state-of-the-art educational facilities—as described in the official press release below.
The building form consists of three interlocking L-shaped volumes which articulate the functions of the building program – classrooms and offices, the legal clinic, and the law library – and define a narrow atrium, a "green stalk" rising up through the heart of the building and connecting the three volumes. In addition to its function as the connective tissue between program spaces, the atrium also captures the lobby, two coffee bars (forum level and Level 6) and informal work and meeting spaces..." to find out more...
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Saturday, August 10, 2013
HASSELL + Herzog & de Meuron Win Flinders Street Station Competition
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"The Jury of Melbourne's Flinders Street Station competition was unanimous in the highly anticipated selection of the final winner: the beautiful vaulted roof-scape designed by Australian/Swiss team HASSELL + Herzog & de Meuron with London-based Purcell as heritage consultants. The entry by Eduardo Velasquez, Manuel Pineda and Santiago Medina was announced as Winner of the People's Choice Award.
The project will turn the station into a modern 21st century transport hub while retaining its best known heritage features and buildings. It transforms the site into a new civic precinct with a major public art gallery, a public plaza, an amphitheatre, marketplace, and a permanent home for arts and cultural festival organisations..."
To find out more...
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Friday, August 9, 2013
Aedas Wins Competition for Xuhui Binjan Media City 188S-G-1 Tower in Shanghai
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"Warped skyscrapers keep trending: global architecture firm Aedas announces its recent competition win in Shanghai – the Xuhui Binjian Media City 188S-G-1 Tower and Podium.
The tower has a very dynamic and unique shape. It begins with an extruded rectangular plan. Going upward, the west wall is gradually warped to accommodate the subway setback that cuts off the corner of the otherwise square project site; and the north wall is warped to the east to acquire a desired view of DreamWorks sites and other neighbouring blocks..." to find out more...
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Monday, August 5, 2013
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Located in a dense commercial district, the building provides a combined home and workplace for two writers. The site was just four metres wide, so Nishizawa designed a building that has only glass walls to avoid narrowing the interior spaces even further...
he entirety is a wall-less transparent building designed to provide an environment with maximum sunlight despite the dark site conditions..." to find out more...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
"The traditional library is the container of a precious and invisible cognition. It resemble a vault whose boundaries seem jealously kept hermetic to the world. This fortress appears to protect its sacred and timeless spaces from an invasive exterior. The vast and silent distances it holds paralyze the pleasure of exchanging, their immensity affects the simplicity of a gesture to the other....escaping from its fortifications, reaching the town in a mutual desire of communion and generosity: a library in the city, a city in the library...." to find out more...
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Sunday, June 23, 2013
OMA's design proposes the introduction of a "rough skin" formed through a striking, alternating pattern of protruding living spaces and introverted outdoor spaces...
OMA's design challenges the expected uniformity and homogenous façade treatment that is often assigned to tower structures. Instead, it extends the skin to expose the individuality of the separate living units in the two blocks - a true vertical, urban agglomeration..." to find out more...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
As one of three shortlisted proposals in a housing design competition, the 34-storey Wooden Skyscraper is presented by architect C. F. Møller, architect Dinell Johansson and consultant Tyréns as a vision of future housing that would be cheaper, easier and more sustainable than typical steel and concrete constructions..." to find out more...
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