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Editor's ChoiceRoomroom / Takeshi Hosaka
Shonan Christ Church / Takeshi Hosaka
Architects: Takeshi Hosaka
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Area: 175.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Koji Fujii / Nacasa&Partners Inc.
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Area: 175.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Koji Fujii / Nacasa&Partners Inc.
Competition Winners Announced for Madrid Digital Arts Museum
A team of architects from Rome have been announced as winners of CTRL+SPACE’s ideas competition for a digital arts museum in central Madrid. The competition challenged teams to envision a 21st-century contemporary arts museum that embodies technology as an “integrated medium of work” and questions the meaning of “public access.”
The winning proposals, after the break.
Drawing and Reinventing Landscape: A Conversation with Diana Balmori and Barry Bergdoll
On Wednesday, November 5, Diana Balmori will visit the Strand to chat about Drawing and Reinventing Landscape with the MoMA’s architecture curator, Barry Bergdoll. Diana’s book examines digital, analog and hybrid methods of representing landscape and places the contemporary landscape architecture within its fascinating historical context. This exclusive Strand chat will investigate crucial aspects of the design process. Join as these two experts discuss this important design topic at a moment of increasing global environmental change. More information here.Construction Begins on Shift Architecture Urbanism’s C-City Museum District
Shift Architecture Urbanism has broken ground on the C-City (Creative City) museum district in Kerkrade. Host to the Netherlands’ first design museum and Europe’s first planetarium, the new district will be formed as an “urban ensemble defined by clearly recognizable volumes, all connected by a vast, underground public space.”
By the end of 2015, two new public facilities – Cube and Columbus – will compliment the existing and highly successful Discovery Centre Continium at the gateway of the city. Read on the learn more.
Puritama Thermal Bath / Germán del Sol
Architects: Germán del Sol
Location: Río Puritama, San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Area: 1190.0 sqm
Year: 2000
Photographs: Guy Wenborne, Felipe Camus, Courtesy of Germán del Sol
Location: Río Puritama, San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Area: 1190.0 sqm
Year: 2000
Photographs: Guy Wenborne, Felipe Camus, Courtesy of Germán del Sol
ULI Releases New Report on the Infrastructural Challenges of Rising Sea Levels
“We accept that the seas are rising, the weather is changing, and our communities are at risk; and we recognize that no solution can be all-encompassing. It is our hope that this report will spark conversation, shift our understanding of what is possible, and aid us in reframing challenges into opportunities as we move toward this new era of development.”
Become part of the discussion and read more about the collective ideas, after the break.
Casa dos Caseiros / SAMF Arquitectos
Architects: SAMF Arquitectos
Location: Mesão Frio, Portugal
Area: 70.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: José Campos
Location: Mesão Frio, Portugal
Area: 70.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: José Campos
Enter the Mesmerizing World of Rainbow Coloured Maps with “Crayon the Grids”
Enter the chromatic world of coloured city grids after the break
Video: Peter Murray of New London Architecture Outlines his Cycling Vision
In the latest video from Crane.tv, architectural journalist and planner Peter Murray ruminates on the benefits of integrating cycling into the urban fabric of the world’s biggest cities. “For the last half century, we’ve bowed down to the god of the motor car and have destroyed cities across the UK,” says Murray, Chairman of New London Architecture and the London Society. Murray and his team at New London Architecture are charged with analyzing and advocating for the improvement of London’s Built environment, acting as advisors to Mayor Boris Johnson on an array of projects including the overhaul of cycling infrastructure in the city.
Murray discusses his foray into cycling around the world, most recently from Portland, Oregon, to Portland Place in London, via New York City. Through his adventures in cycling across the United States and Europe, Murray has gained insight into best practices with an eye towards implementation in London. Inspired by Dutch cycling infrastructure, “Mini Hollands” are London’s latest project, spearheaded by the NLA and executed under a major redevelopment of London’s bicycle infrastructure, designed to create entire communities where bicycles rule the roads and vehicles are a thing of the past.
Murray discusses his foray into cycling around the world, most recently from Portland, Oregon, to Portland Place in London, via New York City. Through his adventures in cycling across the United States and Europe, Murray has gained insight into best practices with an eye towards implementation in London. Inspired by Dutch cycling infrastructure, “Mini Hollands” are London’s latest project, spearheaded by the NLA and executed under a major redevelopment of London’s bicycle infrastructure, designed to create entire communities where bicycles rule the roads and vehicles are a thing of the past.
Tobb Etü Technology Center / A Architectural Design
Cultural and Sports Center / BRUTHER
Gui House / Harunatsu-Arch
Architects: Harunatsu-Arch
Location: Izumo, Shimane, Japan
Architects In Charge: Shoko Murakaji, Naoto Murakaji
Statics : Tatsumi Terado Structural Studio / Terado Tashumi
Area: 68.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Kai Nakamura
Location: Izumo, Shimane, Japan
Architects In Charge: Shoko Murakaji, Naoto Murakaji
Statics : Tatsumi Terado Structural Studio / Terado Tashumi
Area: 68.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Kai Nakamura
Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s “Musings on a Glass Box” Opens in Paris
In celebration of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain’s 30th anniversary, Diller Scofidio + Renfro has installed an immersive exhibition that encourages visitors to experience the Jean Nouvel-designed, glass and steel museum building in an entirely new way.
“The Fondation Cartier building designed by Jean Nouvel will be used as raw material for their work, a first in the history of the institution. Musings on a Glass Box is a complex work occupying the entire ground floor of the Fondation Cartier, where a disturbance in the ceiling will trigger a surprising reaction. The result is an immersive environment, including an integral acoustic component by American composer David Lang and sound designer Jody Elff, that works with the building’s architecture to raise questions about transparency, perception, and one’s relation to space.”
A statement from Diller Scofidio + Renfro, after the break.
Europe 40 Under 40 Winners Announced
Europe 40 Under 40 has announced its 40 architects selected for 2014. Hosted by the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies, the annual awards program aims to select the next new talented generation of European architects.The program aims “to support new and emerging design talent that will influence the near future of European architectural design, thinking, and theory with the direct consequence of impacting future environments and future European and international cities,” reads the press release. Architects under the age of 40 ( as of December 1, 2015) were allowed to submit both built and unbuilt projects for consideration.
Check out the full list of Europe’s 40 Under 40 after the break.
Escalalatina: Rendering Your Designs with Diversity
Inspired by Teodor Javanaud Emdén’s SKALGUBBAR - a virtual library of people for renders - Escalatina aims to provide a way for Latin American architects to fill their renders with images of local people.
All of the images are available in .png format and users can also submit their own images for the site as well.
Check out some of the Escalalatina images after the break.
Winery in Balaton Highland / SAGRA Architects
Architects: SAGRA Architects
Location: Szenta, Dózsa György Street, 8849 Hungary
Architect In Charge: Sajtos Gábor
Design Team: Sajtos Gábor, Gilvesy Robert, Grand Gabriella, Virág Péter
Year: 2014
Photographs: Sajtos Gábor
Location: Szenta, Dózsa György Street, 8849 Hungary
Architect In Charge: Sajtos Gábor
Design Team: Sajtos Gábor, Gilvesy Robert, Grand Gabriella, Virág Péter
Year: 2014
Photographs: Sajtos Gábor
Alvar Aalto’s Restored Viipuri Library Wins 2014 Modernism Prize
The 2014 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize has been awarded to the Finnish Committee for the restoration of Alvar Aalto’s seminal Viipuri Library in Vyborg, Russia. “Designed by Aalto and constructed between 1927 and 1935 in what was then the Finnish city of Viipuri,” stated WMF in a press release, “the library reflects the emergence of Aalto’s distinctive combination of organic form and materials with the principles of clear functionalist expression that was to become the hallmark of his architecture.”
A quote from Barry Bergdoll and more images, after the break.
Emerging Voices: Estudio Macías Peredo
<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/105034745">http://www.vimeo.com/105034745</a> Estudio Macías Peredo is led by Salvador Macías Corona and Magui Peredo Arenas and is based in Guadalajara, Mexico. In their lecture as one of the winners of the Architectural League’s annual Emerging Voices awards, Corona and Arenas reveal the ways in which the local conditions and building traditions of their country have become creative drivers for their contemporary practice of architecture. They have a shared interest in primitive buildings, seeking to incorporate some of the inherent abstract qualities of primitive structures in ways that address contemporary issues.
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