News from ArchDaily for 04/27/2013
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Haus Wiesenhof / Gogl Architekten
Architects: Gogl Architekten
Location: St. Johann in Tirol, Austria
Architect In Charge: Regine Egg-Mitter, Hildegard Platzer-Rieder
Lighting Planning: Akzente Lichtsysteme
Area: 565 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Mario Webhofer… The client requested a getaway – a place of peace and contemplation
FAR ROC [For a Resilient Rockaway] Competition
The extensive damage to low-lying waterfront zones caused by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 reinforced the need for resilient infrastructure and redevelopment strategies for existing coastal communities throughout the greater New York area. Costly damage to buildings, roads, and utility...
Restaurant by Yuanxiang Lake / Atelier Z+
Architects: Atelier Z+
Location: Jia ding, Shanghai, China
Architects: Zhang Bin, Zhou Wei
Design Team: Li Qin, Jin Yanlin, Wang Jiaqi, Li Yin
Area: 500 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Courtesy of Atelier Z+ Collaborating Architect: Shanghai Xian Dai Hua Gai …
Israel National Library Competition Entry / Gil Even-Tsur
Designed by Gil Even-Tsur Architecture Workshop…, their concept for the new National Library suggests that the architecture should be critical, strong, but also deferential and contextually responsive. Their intent is to display an almost aesthetic neutrality in terms of
Victory Street Resident Committee / Scenic Architecture
Architects: Scenic Architecture Office
Location: Zhujiajiao, Shanghai, China
Area: 502.0 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Scenic Architecture… The project is sited in the southeastern corner of Zhujiajiao, a traditional water-town in Qingpu, Shanghai. Far from the crowd and noise
Wine Thematic Center in Torvizcón / DTR Studio
Architects: DTR Studio
Location: Torvizcón, Spain
Architect In Charge: Jose María Olmedo, José Miguel Vázquez
Area: 1,240 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Javier Callejas Collaborators: Claudia Gutierrez y Alba Márquez
Developer: Bodegas Turidianum S.L.
Proyect Management: Juan Parrilla
Architectural Technician: Jorge …
Hongqiao Business District Winning Proposal / MVRDV
Upon recently winning the competition, MVRDV…‘s design for the Hongqiao Business District recently started construction. The plan comprises ten office towers, an underground shopping center, cultural program, parking and a sunken plaza which will bring a more intimate form of
Morangis Retirement Home / VOUS ETES ICI Architectes
Architects: VOUS ETES ICI Architectes
Location: Paris, France
Architect In Charge: A. Becker, J. Paulré, P. Pflughaupt
Area: 5,315 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: 11H45 Developer: Immodieze and AXENTIA for the Conseil General du 91
Partners And Collaborators: Dumez IDF (general …
Residence in Kifissia / Tense Architecture Network
Architects: Tense Architecture Network
Location: Kifissia, Greece
Project Team: Tilemachos Andrianopoulos, Kostas Mavros, Nestoras Kanellos
Structural Design: Athanasios Kontizas
Photographs: Filippo Poli… The residence’s plot is small and an adjacent building almost blocks the southern sun. The main part of
Wo House / SO Architecture
Architects: SO Architecture
Location: Kiryat Tivon, Israel
Design Team: Shachar Lulav, Oded Rozenkier, Levav Shachar
Area: 250 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Shai Epshtein… WO house was built in Kiryat Tivon, in one of the beautiful and green neighborhoods of the
FINE / Boora Architects
Architects: Boora Architects
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
Contractor: Howard S. Wright Construction
Area: 5,475 sqft
Year: 2012
Photographs: Jon Jensen… This new work environment for FINE Design Group embodies the creative agency’s energy and collaborative nature. To create the new
International Competition for Zaryadye Park
Officially launched this month by Strelka Institute for Media Architecture and Design, the International Competition for Zaryadye Park in Moscow, Russia is challenging participants to develop an Architecture and Landscaping Design Concept that will form the basis for the creation of a contemporary Park with a...
Times Transplantation Building / Nano Architects
Architects: Nano Architects
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Architect In Charge: Nano Architects
Designer: Yasuhiro Shinano
Area: 58 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Yasunori Hidaka… The Sanno apartment was completed in 1967. It had not been renovated for 45 years. The design concept
Peter Williams for Architecture for Health in Vulnerable Environments (ARCHIVE)
Peter Williams… is the founder and executive director of an organization whose goal is to improve global health, using design to create healthier environments as preventative measures for tuberculosis, AIDS and malaria. Architecture for Health in Vulnerable Environments, or ARCHIVE
AD Interviews: Iñaki Abalos
Yesterday, Iñaki Abalos was announced as the new Chair of the Department of Architecture at Harvard GSD; he will begin on July 1st, 2013. Abalos is a renowned Spanish architect, with much experience in both the academy and the professional field....
Villa Piedad / Marta Badiola
Architects: Marta Badiola
Location: San Sebastián
Architect In Charge: Marta Badiola
Area: 52 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Francisco Berreteaga… Inhabiting the volume. Converting the plane into livable volume. Embracing the space. These have been the obsessive aims of the project.
Build Your Own Neutra Home!
The mid-century modern master, Richard Neutra… was well known for his cutting edge modernism. Since Julius Shulman immortalized his houses in his iconic photographs, Neutra’s bright, airy homes have widely been seen as the pinnacle of modernism and desirability. One problem though, they’re
Hogeland College / ADP Archtitects
Architects: ADP Archtitects
Location: Warffum, The Netherlands
Architect In Charge: ADP Archtitects
Area: 6,000 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Gerard Van Beek… ADP Architects designed a new building and renovation for The Hogeland College in the north of the Netherlands. The
The Indicator: Sheltering in Place
Last Sunday James S. Russell, architecture critic for Bloomberg News and a former editor for Architectural Record…, mused on his personal blog about the possible influence Paul Rudolph’s Brutalist University of Massachusetts campus in Dartmouth may have had on
MONU Magazine New Issue: Communal Urbanism
MONU…, a unique bi-annual international forum for artists, writers and designers that are working on topics of urban culture, development and politics, just released their newest issue #18 on the topic of ‘Communal Urbanism’. How should we live together?
