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Rockefeller Arts Center Expansion / Deborah Berke & Partners Architects
Apr 7th
Render – Courtesy of Deborah Berke & Partners Architects Deborah Berke & Partners Architects have released their plans for the expansion and renovation of I.M. Pei’s 1969 Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center (RAC).
Rockefeller Arts Center Expansion / Deborah Berke & Partners Architects
Apr 7th
Render – Courtesy of Deborah Berke & Partners Architects Deborah Berke & Partners Architects have released their plans for the expansion and renovation of I.M. Pei’s 1969 Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center (RAC).
Xiqu Center Design Competition
Apr 7th
Courtesy of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) recently launched a design competition to deliver one of the first landmark buildings for the West Kowloon Cultural District, the Xiqu Center. The Chinese opera venue will provide a world-class facility for the preservation and development of the art form in Hong Kong and will be designed to host and produce the finest examples of Cantonese and other Chinese opera performances.The Xiqu Center, scheduled for completion around the end of 2015, will be the first of 17 core arts and cultural venues to be opened within the District and one of 15 proposed performing arts venues
Slant Awards Spring 2012 Competition
Apr 7th
Courtesy of Slant The Slant Awards Spring 2012 competition , which is open to all, challenges participants to design a concept plan for a city sector which is undergoing urban renewal. The city in question is not a real city, it has been designed solely for this competition, and its location is not being specified. It is a generic city that could be almost anywhere in the world and participants are free to choose the country in which you would like this imaginary city to be located
INGLASS 2012 – Architecture Expo Conference
Apr 7th
The Order of Architects in Romania and ABplus Events , along with the partners of the event invite you to INGLASS 2012 – Architecture Expo Conference , Second Edition. The event is dedicated to architects, design engineers and leaders of glass and structures field
Writing About Architecture / Alexandra Lange
Apr 7th
We recently received a book we wished we had earlier, Writing About Architecture. Lange’s book pulls from “lessons learned from her courses at New York University and the School of Visual Arts.” ”The book offers works by some of the best architecture critics of the twentieth century including Ada Louise Huxtable, Lewis Mumford, Herbert Muschamp, Michael Sorkin, Charles Moore, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Jane Jacobs to explains some of the most successful methods with which to approach architectural criticism.” The book “could serve as the primary text for a course on criticism for undergraduates or architecture and design majors.” We here at ArchDaily are now using it as a resource.
The Urban Cloak: Apartment – Brickwerks / Jonathan Gibb
Apr 7th
front elevation / Courtesy of Jonathan Gibb Designed for the Boral Brick Awards 2011-2012, ‘The Urban Cloak’ proposal by Jonathan Gibb is an addition to an existing inner city 2 storey brick building, to adapt and add a multi-levelled apartment building. A cloaked figure; standing amongst the debris of style, industry and waste: veiled by a multiplicity of individual bricks, reading as one. At once a sun and rain screen, and veiling against on-lookers sight
The Urban Cloak: Apartment – Brickwerks / Jonathan Gibb
Apr 7th
front elevation / Courtesy of Jonathan Gibb Designed for the Boral Brick Awards 2011-2012, ‘The Urban Cloak’ proposal by Jonathan Gibb is an addition to an existing inner city 2 storey brick building, to adapt and add a multi-levelled apartment building. A cloaked figure; standing amongst the debris of style, industry and waste: veiled by a multiplicity of individual bricks, reading as one. At once a sun and rain screen, and veiling against on-lookers sight.
Townhouse in Horgen / Moos Giuliani Herrmann Architekten
Apr 7th
© Beat Bühler Architect: Moos Giuliani Hermann Architekten Location: Horgen, Switzerland Completion: 2011 Built Area: 260 sqm Photographs: Beat Bühler Stunning views of the lake Zurich are characteristic for the four-story one family house situated in the small town of Horgen near Zurich. Restrictive building regulations and the small property require a special adaption of the external shape.
SANDWORM / Marco Casagrande
Apr 6th
© Nikita Wu Architect: Marco Casagrande Location: Wenduine , Belgium Project Manager: Nikita Wu / C-LAB Organizer: Beaufort 04 Triennial of Contemporary Art Built Area: 320 sqm Completion: 2012 Photographs: Nikita Wu © Nikita Wu Sandworm is an organic structure/space/creature realized on the dunes of the Wenduine coastline, Belgium. The 45 meters long and 10 m wide and high installation moves freely in-between architecture and environmental art and is constructed entirely out of willow following the local knowledge of a continuing interaction between work and environment. Casagrande worked hard with his team of young architects and local experts for 4 weeks in order to create something that he describes as “weak architecture” – a human made structure that wishes to become part of nature through flexibility and organic presence
