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The Pine Crest Residence / Vin Varavarn Architects

Architects: Vin Varavarn Architects
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Design Team: M.L.Varudh Varavarn, Jongsarit Jinachan, Angkana Nanjaiya
Area: 6997.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Spaceshift Studio

Australian Garden Shelters / BKK Architects

Architects: BKK Architects
Location: Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne, Cranbourne VIC 3977, Australia
Design Team: Tim Black, Julian Kosloff, Simon Knott, Adi Atic
Area: 228.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: John Gollings

AIA New York Honors Rebuild By Design With Its Community Development Award

The BIG U, by BIG. Image Courtesy of rebuildbydesign.org

The New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has awarded its 2014 Community Development Award to the Rebuild by Design competition organized by President Obama’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force. The results of the competition were announced in June this year, with six schemes, including proposals by BIG and OMA awarded a total of $920 million to repair the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy and improve the resilience of the coastline in the region.
More on the award after the break

Subtle Modernization of 1950´s Apartment in São Paulo / 23SUL Arquitetura

Architects: 23SUL Arquitetura
Location: São Paulo – State of São Paulo, Brazil
Area: 100.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Pedro Kok

How Venezuela’s Espacios de Paz Project is Transforming Community Spaces

Petare, La Y 5 de Julio / Caracas [TXP Todo por La Praxis + PGRC + Pico Estudio]. Image Courtesy of PICO Estudio — Petare, La Y 5 de Julio / Caracas [TXP Todo por La Praxis + PGRC + Pico Estudio

The Espacios de Paz (Spaces for Peace) project in Venezuela is turning “zones of danger” into “zones of peace” through participatory design in violent areas of the country. Led by Venezuelan firm PICO Estudio, Espacios de Paz was a six-week long workshop that involved five groups of architects from both Venezuela as well as internationally. Each group focused on developing a project in a community with a high presence of violence. By transforming unused spaces such as empty plots and unregulated landfill areas, the projects sought to create “social dynamics that invite new ways of living in communities, transforming categories that rule the daily life: the use of time and space.” Community involvement in project development was also key to the Espacios de Paz initiative, which sought to create “a space built not only “for” the community but “by” the community.”
Read on after the break to see the projects that were implemented…

Highlands Branch Library / schmidt hammer lassen architects + Marshall Tittemore Architects

Architects: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, Marshall Tittemore Architects
Location: Edmonton, AB, Canada
Area: 1500.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Merle Prosofsky Photography

Cloverdale749 / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Architects: Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Architect In Charge: Lorcan O’Herlihy
Area: 10500.0 ft2
Year: 2014
Photographs: Lawrence Anderson

ARCHIWINDOW: A Glimpse Through “The Eyes of Architecture”

In his latest series, ARCHIWINDOW, Federico Babina draws some inspiration perhaps from the headline exhibition the Venice Biennale, investigating some of the most famous window designs architecture has to offer. Babina simply says it is ”a little reflection about architecture and the elements that compose it.”
The images reveal how expressive the element of the window can be, as many of the 25 signature designs will be instantly recognizable for die-hard architecture fans, while others may reveal a previously-unrecognized trend in the work of a particular architect.
“The windows are the eyes of architecture. Through the windows enters the light and shadow that creates spaces. The windows invite us to enter the landscape, and are the cracks through which to spy on architecture,” writes Babina. “I tried to transform a detail into the protagonist to emphasize its expressive capacity. A single window can open up a world of information. It allows you to lean out to find clues of the stylistic and linguistic aesthetics of architecture.”
Take a look at all 25 drawings in the ARCHIWINDOW series after the break. And don’t miss Federico Babina‘s other (very popular) illustration sets: ARTISTECT, ARCHISET, ARCHIMACHINE, ARCHIPORTRAIT, ARCHIST, ARCHIBET and ARCHICINE.

A Walk Along the Bayou: An Award-Winning Proposal Aims to Reinvent Houston’s River

02 Mile Aerial Perspective - Downtown. Image Courtesy of UH College of Architecture

Nearly 9,000 kilometers separate Venice, Italy from Houston, Texas, and yet, both cities are bound by a simple connection: the coexistence of the urban fabric with the waterfront. This connection was brought to life this summer through The University of Houston’s exhibition at the Venice Architectural Biennale‘s Time Space Existence Event: RISKY HABIT[AT]: DYNAMIC LIVING ON THE BUFFALO BAYOU. Awarded the Global Art Affairs Foundation (GAAF) Award for Best Exhibition, the exhibition showcased the complexities and potential of the city’s relationship with its waterfront. To better understand Houston’s waterfront and the changing relationship between the city and its river we visited the site ourselves. Read after the break to see what it’s like to talk a walk along the Bayou, and to find out what the Houston river project can learn from similar undertakings in Chicago, Des Moines, and Newark.

Meri House / Pezo Von Ellrichshausen

Architects: Pezo Von Ellrichshausen
Location: La Florida, La Florida, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Architect In Charge: Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen
Area: 170.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of Pezo von Ellrichshausen

AD Round Up: Canadian Architecture to Be Thankful For

The Crystal, extension to the Royal Ontario Museum by Studio Daniel Libeskind. Image © Andrew Rowat

Today marks Canadian Thanksgiving, and to celebrate the occasion we’ve rounded up some of Canada’s best architecture. Our five selections represent five Canadian cities, each with a unique architectural sensibility. We begin in Toronto with the Royal Ontario Museum addition by Studio Daniel Libeskind, a striking intervention using prisms of glass and steel fused to a 102-year-old museum structure; next we go to Montréal for Habitat 67 by Moshe Safdie, an interlocking modular housing project designed for the World Exposition of 1967; to Calgary for Santiago Calatrava‘s understated Peace Bridge, a stunning glass-encased red lightning bolt spanning the city’s widest waterway; then to Winnipeg‘s Old Market Square Stage by emerging firm 5468796 Architecture, a chameleonic performance space wrapped by a mesh curtain of steel cubes; and finally to the outskirts of Vancouver for the Richmond Olympic Oval, a masterpiece of engineering and the centre of attention during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Enjoy, eh.

© Gordon Hawes Via The Mac Photographic Archive

Glasgow School of Art Begins Search for Restoration Architect

To repair the damage caused by May’s devastating fire, the Glasgow School of Art is searching for a team to carry out the restoration of Charles Rennie Mackintosh‘s celebrated building. Following the overwhelming public support for restoration instead of a contemporary reinterpretation, the selected team will be required to return the building to its original condition over a predicted construction period of five years. More on the restoration after the break.

Fondation Louis Vuitton / Gehry Partners

Architects: Gehry Partners
Location: Bois de Boulogne, 75016 Paris, France
Design Partner: Frank Gehry
Area: 11700.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Iwan Baan, Todd Eberle

Li Xiaodong Wins The Inaugural Moriyama RAIC International Prize

The Liyuan Library. Image Courtesy of RAIC / Li Xiaodong Studio

The Royal Architecture Institute of Canada (RAIC) have announced that Li Xiaodong has been awarded the inaugural Moriyama International Prize, named after esteemed Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama. The prize, which comes with a monetary value of CAD$100,000, has been established to recognise buildings that are judged to be “transformative, inspired as well as inspiring, and emblematic of the human values of respect and inclusiveness.”
The jury deliberated projects submitted from nine countries: Canada, China, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and Tajikistan. According to the citation, the jury was “impressed by the breadth of international interest in the prize and encouraged by the high level of engagement with the aims and objectives of the program revealed in the submissions.” The prize is open to all architects irrespective of nationality and location and seeks to recognise a single work of architecture (as opposed to a life’s work), celebrating buildings in use.

Denim R & D / Zemberek Design Office

Architects: Zemberek Design Office
Location: Güneşli Kavşağı, 34200 Istanbul/Istanbul Province, Turkey
Design Team: Başak Emrence, Şafak Emrence, Ece Ilgın Avcı
Area: 250.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Şafak Emrence

CASA SOL / atelier data

Architects: atelier data
Location: Vilamoura, 8125-507 Quarteira, Portugal
Architect In Charge: Filipe Vogt Rodrigues, Inês Maia Vicente, Marta Mateus Frazão
Design Team: Filipe Rodrigues, Inês Vicente, Marta Frazão, Emmanuel Novo
Area: 314.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Mercês Tomaz Gomes

Nanjing Wanjing Garden Chapel / AZL Architects

Architects: AZL Architects
Location: Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Area: 200.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Yao Li

Competition Entry: OYO’s Kortrijk Campus Scheme Awarded Second Prize

OYO – Open Y Office, together with Arch&Teco, has received second prize among nine participants in an invited competition for a new Howest campus building in Kortrijk.

“We envision this new campus as an interactive field where we catch the classrooms in the middle; conceived as areas of focus. This field contains lecture rooms, informal meeting spaces, restaurant, bar, shop and lounge areas and wraps around the area of focus; connecting the park all the way up to the roof garden where students, teachers, alumni, companies and neighbors are invited to shop and exchange knowledge.”

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