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‘Dance Floor’ Recreation and Memorial Park / SAGRA Architects
Apr 28th
Courtesy of SAGRA Architects Situated in the Karancs-Medves landscape area in North-East Hungary , the aim of SAGRA Architects for their design of the ‘Dance Floor’ Recreation and Memorial Park is to preserve and strengthen this special character of the place. The park would function as an exhibition for the mining memorials and as a natural recreational area.
Manhattan Mountain: Re-Imagining SPURA on the Lower East Side / Ju-Hyun Kim
Apr 27th
Courtesy of Ju-Hyun Kim Manhattan Mountain, by Ju-Hyun Kim , is a design speculation over five of the most debated plots of vacant land in New York City. Collectively known as SPURA , the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, the five parking lots on the Lower East Side, just South of Delancey Street near the Williamsburg Bridge, were once the site of tenement housing until they were acquired by the Urban Renewal Plan in 1965 and demolished. Since then, the other lots that suffered a simular fate and have been developed into various iterations of low-income and mixed-use housing developments.
New Headquarters of Bank of Georgia: Illuminated Translucent Concrete for Interior Design / Architectural Group & Partners
Apr 25th
Courtesy of Lucem Lightbeton The idea of light and nature showing through a building was the fundamental concept of redesigning the headquarter of Bank of Georgia.
Salongen 35 / KKA
Apr 23rd
Courtesy of KKA Architect: KKA Location: Västra Hamnen, Malmö, Sweden Client: Höllviksnäs Förvaltnings AB Area: 400 sqm Completion: 2011 Design Team: Joakim Kaminsky, Fredrik Kjellgren, Marie Löwenherz, Alessandro Micelli, Yvonne Lohmann, Pamela Paredes, Maria Martinez Photographs: Kasper Dudzik, KKA Courtesy of KKA In April 2009 Kjellgren Kaminsky in combination with builders Höllviksnäs FörvaltningsAB, won an open competition for passive houses. The competition was organized by the city of Malmö for the last vacant site in the Bo01 housing exhibition area, in the western harbor. The competition design was developed further and has now been built.
House THE / n-lab architects
Apr 22nd
Courtesy of n-lab architects Architects: n-lab architects Location: Luxembourg Structural Engineer: INCA Ingénieurs Conseils Associés, L-Niederanven Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Courtesy of n-lab architects The clearly defined volumes play with the concepts of heaviness and lightness. Anchored volumes and floating bodies creating large overhangs. The four facades were treated with regard to local conditions: The few openings to neighboring buildings are partially covered in wooden slats in order to filter the views from and to the most private areas
Information Technology and Media Center / Morris Architects
Apr 19th
Courtesy of Morris Architects The project by Morris Architects for a new information technology and media center for Santa Monica Community College in California includes 12,000 square feet of new space and approximately 6,000 square feet of renovation to the existing campus library. The college currently has an enrollment of 30,000 students and is experiencing rapid growth that requires a major upgrade to its current information technology department and computing infrastructure.
Information Technology and Media Center / Morris Architects
Apr 19th
Courtesy of Morris Architects The project by Morris Architects for a new information technology and media center for Santa Monica Community College in California includes 12,000 square feet of new space and approximately 6,000 square feet of renovation to the existing campus library. The college currently has an enrollment of 30,000 students and is experiencing rapid growth that requires a major upgrade to its current information technology department and computing infrastructure
Burgenland Meierhof in a Multifunctional Complex / AllesWirdGut
Apr 17th
Courtesy of AllesWirdGut AllesWirdGut won the first prize of the Esterházy Domain Private Foundation competition for the conversion of a Burgenland Meierhof in a multifunctional complex. The specific nature of the project results from the partially worth protecting historic buildings. The design of AllesWirdGut strengthens existing qualities, but combines the old architecture with contemporary enhancements
Éclats de verre / Atomic3
Apr 15th
Courtesy of Atomic3 Montreal has long been known as the ”city of a hundred steeples”. Through the heart of this northern metropolis, ATOMIC3 has scattered Éclats de verre: a giant shattered stained-glass window reorganised into a playful maze that offers a unique immersive experience to its visitors, and a colourful panorama to passersby.
HYDRAMAX: Port Machines / Future Cities Lab
Apr 15th
Courtesy of Future Cities Lab Future Cities Lab ’s HYDRAMAX Port Machines project, which is currently on exhibit at SFMOMA until July 29, proposes a radical rethinking of San Francisco ’s urban waterfront post sea-level rise. The proposal renders the existing hard edges of the waterfront as new “soft systems” that would include aquatic parks, community gardens, wildlife refuges and aquaponic farms. A synthetic architecture is introduced that blurs the distinction between building, landscape, infrastructure and machine
