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Bolles + Wilson / Moleskine
Apr 21st
The collection of Inspiration And Process In Architecture is a new series of illustrated monographs dedicated to key figures in contemporary architecture. This new collection features Zaha Hadid, Giancarlo De Carlo, Bolles+Wilson and Alberto Kalach whose stories are told through notes and drawings never before seen. Bolles+Wilson are renowned for the Suzuki House, Tokyo and the European Library in Japan.
SensasionS Catering / Denys & von Arend
Apr 20th
© Victor Hugo Architects: Denys & von Arend Location: Sabadell , Spain Interior Designers: Daniel Pérez, Felipe Araujo Client: SensacionS Catering Area: 119 sqm Photographs: Victor Hugo The table is set! Whenever you try to create a brand from scratch, to corporatize, beautify or modernize a concept traditionally associated to low costs and immediacy, as it is the case with take away food retail, there´s always the latent risk of snatching at the same time the personal aura, the crafty feeling and the accesible appeal this type of commercial establishments usually have. Therefore, the operation of transforming a former basement garage, in downtown Sabadell, into a catwalk for “Haute Cuisine Pret-a- Porter” was evidently raised from the very begining as a major challenge that nendeed to harmonize all contradictions that such merger of concepts arose, while space distribution and overall branding needed to fullfill the needs of two quite distinct activities, address two different audiences, and promote, simultaneously, two ways of consuming high-class catering and low cost gourmet dinners. © Victor Hugo Over a typical check tablecloth, configured from a combination of black, white and striped porcelain tile, a public access area was arranged by placing at its core, a large custom made varnished chipboard chip counter desk
Sami Cultural Center Sajos / HALO Architects
Apr 20th
© Mika Huisman Architects: HALO Architects Ltd Location: Inari, Finland Head Designer: Architects m3 Ltd, Janne Pihlajaniemi, Architect M.Sc. SAFA Client: Senate Properties Photographs: Mika Huisman © Mika Huisman Sami Cultural Centre Sajos is located in northern part of Finnish Lappland, in village of Inari, on the southern bank of river Juutua. Sajos is the centre of culture and administration for the Sámi, the only indigenous people in European Union
Emmen Theatre and Zoo Entrance / Henning Larsen Architects and Van den Berg Groep
Apr 20th
Courtesy of Henning Larsen Architects and Van den Berg Groep Emmen Theatre and Zoo, designed by Henning Larsen Architects and Van den Berg Groep , is an unusual cultural building that brings together culture and nature. The building design, which won the first prize in the international competition, will constitute the entrance to a large zoological park of 10 hectares and comprises two main stages with a capacity of 1,150 people in total, an additional stage, exhibition and conference facilities.
72 Hour Urban Action Stuttgart 2012 Competition
Apr 20th
Click here to view the embedded video. 72 Hour Urban Action , the world’s first real-time architecture competition, gives selected teams only three days & three nights to design and build interventions in public space in response to local needs.
‘Latest Works’ Lecture by Manuel Aires Mateus at MIT
Apr 20th
House in Aroeira / Courtesy of Mateus e Associados Manuel Aires Mateus of Aires Mateus e Associados will be giving a lecture at MIT featuring ‘Latest Works’ . The projects of Aires Mateus e Associados are characterised by materiality, mass and an essential muteness or quietness. The Paulo Gomes Archeological Center, Casa Areia and Furnas Monitoring and Investigation Centre are perhaps the most elemental and representative of their projects, seeming to draw power from the connection or contrast with nature
MONU Magazine New Issue: Non-Urbanism
Apr 20th
Courtesy of MONU MONU – magazine on urbanism is a unique bi-annual international forum for artists, writers and designers that are working on topics of urban culture, development and politics. Each issue collects essays, projects and photographs from contributors from all over the world to a given topic. Thus MONU examines the rural as a strict counterpart to the urban as it appears to be a condition of the past.
INCYL / Vicente Nuñez Arquitectos
Apr 20th
Courtesy of Vicente Núñez Arquitectos Main architects: Vicente Núñez Arquitectos – Juan Vicente García, Pablo Núñez Paz Situation: Salamanca , Spain Collaborators: Marta Gonzalez Antón, Iñigo Pericacho Sánchez, Jesús Domínguez Miñambres, Carmen Figueiras Lorenzo, Jaime Pérez Linares, Claudia Henao Ocampo, Miguel Angel Zarzoso, Luis Ferreira Villar, Eduardo Dorado Díaz Collaborators Surveyors: Tomás Martín Luengo, Domingo Infante Chozas, Andrés García Pinto Built Area: 5,750 sqm Clients: University of Salamanca / Community Board of Castilla y Leon, Institute of Neuro sciences of Castilla y Leon Contractor: Ferrovial Photographs: Luis Asín, Pedro Ivan Ramos Martín, Fotografia Nodal Courtesy of Vicente Núñez Arquitectos This building is meant for laboratories and animal facilities for carrying out basic neuroscience research. It also counts on a small area for international conferences. The building relies on a clear idea to respond simultaneously to a complex urban situation and the different technical needs of a research center.
Ewha Womans University / Dominique Perrault Architecture
Apr 19th
© André Morin / DPA / Adagp Architects: Dominique Perrault Architecture Location: Seoul, Korea Partners: Baum Architects, Seoul Engineering: Perrault Projets, Paris (Architectural Engineers); VP&Green Ingenerie, Paris (Structural Engineers); HL-PP Consult, Munich (Building Services); Jean-Paul Lamoureux, Paris (Acoustic), Rache-Willms, Aix-la-Chapelle (Facades) Consultant: Jeon and Lee Partners, Seoul (Structural Engineer), HIMEC, Seoul (Mechanical Engineer), CG E&C, Seoul (Civil Engineer), CnK Associates, Seoul (Landscape) Built Area: 70,000 sqm Completion: 2008 Photographs: André Morin © André Morin / DPA / Adagp The complexity of the immediate site through its relationship to the greater campus and the city of Shinchon to the south demands a “larger than site” response, an urban response, a global landscaped solution which weaves together the tissue of the EWHA campus with that of the city. This gesture, the “campus valley”, in combination with the “sports strip”, creates a new topography which impacts the surrounding landscape in a number of ways
