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Archive for December, 2011
2011 review: December
Dec 31st
Concluding our review of 2011 , here are the five most popular stories from December . Up first are two skyscrapers by MVRDV for Seoul that will be joined at the hip by a pixelated cluster .
2011 review: December
Dec 31st
Concluding our review of 2011 , here are the five most popular stories from December . Up first are two skyscrapers by MVRDV for Seoul that will be joined at the hip by a pixelated cluster
Safor School of Architects / Orts-Trullenque
Dec 31st
© Diego Opazo Architects: Orts-Trullenque Location: Benipeixcar,Valencia, Spain Client: CTAV (College of Architects of Valencia) Head Architects: Marta Orts, Carlos Trullenque Assistant architects: Carlos Nieto – Ana Ábalos – Nacho Fós Structural engineering : Javier Cases Civil engineer: Vicente Sevila Mechanical Engineering: GIA (Luis Sanchis – Agustí Vila) Contractor: OTP Construcciones Photographs: Diego Opazo © Diego Opazo The new CTAV headquarters in Gandía is located in an indeterminate location, on the cusp between the old quarters of Benipeixcar and a featureless new area of expansion. The mandate for the new headquarters is to function as a place enabling all the permits and requirements demanded by the College of Architects and, above all, as an inviting meeting place for professional encounters and discussions. The project takes the emplacement and transforms it into a transitional space between the two areas of the town, consolidating its location while respecting the vibrant, smaller scale so characteristic of the old neighbourhood
2011 review: November
Dec 31st
Moving onto the most popular Dezeen stories in November , architects Snøhetta were the favourites with their Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion . (more…)
Update: Flight Assembled Architecture Exhibition
Dec 31st
Here at ArchDaily we are still pretty amped about the Flight Assembled Architecture exhibit by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello d’Andrea , in cooperation with ETH Zurich. Located at the FRAC Center in Orleans, France , the exhibit features flying drones constructing an architectural structure at the scale of a 600m high “vertical village” out of foam blocks. Feel the excitement of viewers as this video documents the process of the growing structure
Video: Michael Graves furniture for Capital Health
Dec 31st
We have talk a lot lately about Michael Graves , his Wounded Warrior Home Project and his thoughts on hospital room design , mentioning briefly about his initiative to create beautiful and functional furniture for hospitals.
Netdragon Commune / OPEN Architecture
Dec 31st
Courtesy of OPEN Architecture At the virgin beach front area where Min River meets the Pacific Ocean, and adjacent to Fuzhou Changle Airport, Netdragon Websoft Company’s new headquarters building, designed by OPEN Architecture , is currently under construction, embedded in it, the grand visions for the future of the company. Nearly 700 employees and their families will move from the center of Fuzhou city to this new campus. A 50,000m² land which used to be an eel farm will become their new living quarters
Netdragon Commune / OPEN Architecture
Dec 31st
Courtesy of OPEN Architecture At the virgin beach front area where Min River meets the Pacific Ocean, and adjacent to Fuzhou Changle Airport, Netdragon Websoft Company’s new headquarters building, designed by OPEN Architecture , is currently under construction, embedded in it, the grand visions for the future of the company. Nearly 700 employees and their families will move from the center of Fuzhou city to this new campus
2011 review: October
Dec 31st
Next up we take a look at the favourite five stories from October. Topping the list here is Passing Cloud , proposing an enormous inflatable cloud as a form of transport. (more…)
2011 review: September
Dec 31st
Here are our five most-viewed stories from September of this year. Sleepbox came first - a small hotel room for napping in airports. (more…)
