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Whitehaven Central Harbour Site Competition
Aug 7th
© Brian Sherwen Britain’s Energy Coast Cumbria and Magnus Homes invite submissions to a two-stage, International Open Design Competition for a circa GBP £10m mixed-use development on a prominent site overlooking Whitehaven Harbour .
ROLLS by Chikara Ohno of Sinato
Aug 5th
Japanese designer Chikara Ohno of Sinato has created the ROLLS installation at the Diesel Denim Gallery Aoyama in Minato-ku, Tokyo.
Floating Dining Room Sets Sail on 1,672 Bottle Raft in Vancouver
Aug 3rd
Read the rest of Floating Dining Room Sets Sail on 1,672 Bottle Raft in Vancouver http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: “sustainable architecture” , eco design , floating dining room , green architecture , Green Building , green design , plastic , plastiki , sustainable food , sustainable seafood , vancouver , water issues
Serpentine Building by D+R dipiuerre architettura
Aug 3rd
Courtesy of D+R dipiuerre architettura Architects: D+R dipiuerre architettura Location: Treviso, Italy Project Architects: Franco dall’Antonia, Stefano Roma, Guglielmo de’Giusti Structural Engineering: Building Project MEP Engineering: T-service Project Area: 5,188 sqm Design Year: 2009-2010 Construction Year: 2011-2012 Images: Courtesy of D+R dipiuerre architettura ground floor plan The building assumed spiral develops in a continuous motion that turning around a central courtyard, culminating in a tower facing the front street. In this way the building has a focal point in the tower side as a green area that relates positively with the surrounding context. section 01 section 02 Furthermore, the articulation of the ground floor of the building ensures it is a small area of relevance, in order to achieve greater availability of space and maximum permeability with all the surrounding context.
Pamphlet Architecture 32 Competition: Resilience
Aug 3rd
By addressing the capacity to cope, the ability to bounce back, and the mitigation and management of risk, proposals are welcome that showcase a fresh understanding of the possibilities and opportunities of resilience in architecture, from the large to the small scale. Whether resilience stems from natural disaster, civil conflict, global warming, catastrophe, and so on, is the applicant’s discretion.
Please register by the competition’s submission date, August 2nd. Do not send in your competition entry until you have registered. If registering as a student, make sure to send in a photocopy of your valid student ID with your competition entry.
http://www.papress.com/other/pamphletarchitecture/competition.tpl
Pamphlet Architecture Call for Entries
Aug 3rd
Pamphlet Architecture 32 Announced
Pamphlet Architecture 32: Resilience By addressing the capacity to cope, the ability to bounce back, and the mitigation and management of risk, proposals are welcome that showcase a fresh understanding of the possibilities and opportunities of resilience in architecture, from the large to the small scale. Whether resilience stems from natural disaster, civil conflict, global warming, catastrophe, and so on, is the applicant’s discretion. Please visit the submission site for more details.
Pamphlet Architecture 32 competition to be announced
The competition for Pamphlet Architecture 32 will be announced Friday, March 26, 2010. Stay tuned.
Pamphlet Architecture 30 Winner Announced!
Check out who the winner is here. And a big thank you to all 115 entrants! We look forward to seeing your ideas and work in the future.
Hanil Visitors Center and Guest House by BCHO
Aug 2nd
This wavy wall forms the east facade of an information centre designed by BCHO Srchitects at a Korean concrete factory. (more…)
Alta Lofts: Eco Chic Retro Renovation in East LA
Aug 2nd
Some green projects take the long and windy road to completion, and Los Angeles’ Alta Lofts are a textbook case of how hard building can be. Located in the heart of the economically depressed East LA neighborhood of Lincoln Heights, the project has been struggling to reach completion for over 8 years. Now the lofts are finally done and ready to offer sustainable living for a revitalized community
Archiprix 2011
Aug 2nd
CALL FOR ENTRIES
ARCHIPRIX INTERNATIONAL 2011
Archiprix International invites all universities and colleges teaching architecture, urban design and landscape architecture to select 1 graduation project and to ask the designer(s) to submit the selected project for participation. Designers who have graduated since July 1 2008 are eligible. The selected designer must be registered by the school by August 1st, 2010 and projects must be received at MIT by September 1st, 2010. The projects will be presented in the exhibition, on the website and in a book with DVD. The designers of the projects will be invited for the workshops taking place in May/June 2011 in Cambridge, USA. Participation is free of charge.
Over 1400 faculties from more than 100 countries have been invited to take part. This makes Archiprix International by far the biggest competition for recently graduated architects, urban designers and landscape architects. No other competition for young talented designers displays such a broad insight in world-wide trends in education and the fields of architecture, urban design and landscape architecture in general.
MIT CAMBRIDGE USA 2011
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