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Ravenswood School for Girls / BVN
Apr 28th
Courtesy of BVN Architects: BVN Location: Alabama , USA Photographs: Courtesy of BVN Courtesy of BVN The Mabel Fidler Building forms a new entry and centre for learning at Ravenswood School for Girls and functions as the central hub within the school environment. The design of this building was initiated through a master planning process focused on creating an attractive, imaginative and stimulating learning environment.
Girardota’s Metropolitan Coliseum Competition Winner
Apr 28th
Courtesy of the architects The Girardota’s Metropolitan Coliseum Competition winners were announced. First Prize goes to the team of Juan Sebastián Larrota, Felipe Robayo, Sebastián Gaviria, AlcuboArquitectos (Alejandro Martínez, Marcela Marulanda) and G-Arquitectura (Juan David García, Natalia Mejía).
Wilmington Waterfront Park / Sasaki Associates
Apr 28th
© Craig Kuhner Architects: Sasaki Associates Location: Los Angeles , California , USA Principal-in-Charge: Steve Hamwey Participating Principals: Nancy Fleming, Owen Lang, Tim Stevens Lead Project Designers: Melissa McCann, Landscape Architect; Tim Stevens, Architect Landscape: Caleb Bruner, Mark Eischeid, Raphael Justewicz, Joon Yon Kim, Chang Keun Lee, Shannon Lee, Conard Lindgren, Meghen Quinn, Simon Raine, Nitza Thien Architecture Team: Grace Leung, Tomer Maymon, Scott Odom, Vitas Viskanta, Angel Cantu Civil: Zach Chrisco, Chuck Coronis, Michelle Gauvin, Oswaldo Palencia, Jose Miranda Client: Port of Los Angeles Completion: 2011 Size: 30 acres Photographs: Craig Kuhner © Craig Kuhner Once a part of the Pacific coastline, the Wilmington community became disconnected from the waterfront by the Port of Los Angeles—a burgeoning, diverse mix of industrial maritime facilities. After completing the Wilmington Waterfront Master Plan, Sasaki identified three open spaces for implementation: the Wilmington Waterfront Park, the Avalon North Streetscape, and the Avalon South Waterfront Park.
‘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.
Mountain Range House / Irving Smith Jack Architects
Apr 28th
© Patrick Reynolds Architects: Irving Smith Jack Architects Location: Brightwater, Nelson , New Zealand Completed: 2009 Area: 392 sqm Photographs: Patrick Reynolds © Patrick Reynolds Mountain Range House develops research and analysis of previous practice projects where traditional Pacific verandahs have provided intermediary living space at the transition of building to landscape. In attractive climates these external transition spaces, often finished in simple timbers, collect activity at the building edge where physical and visual access to landscape is unrestricted, immediate and inviting. Without enclosing walls, a verandah forms a single space held between horizontal flooring and roofing planes, and orientated outwards to the surrounding landscape by the building behind and transverse access
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.
MOTAT Aviation Display Hall / Studio Pacific Architecture
Apr 27th
© Patrick Reynolds Architects: Studio Pacific Architecture Location: Auckland , New Zealand Project Team: Evzen Novak, Marcellus Lilley, Grant Perry, Anna Windsor, Brendan Himona, Mark Hadfield Client: Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) Size: 3,300 sqm Cost: $11.4m Completion: June 2011 Photographs: Patrick Reynolds , Matt Wilmot © Matt Wilmot The Aviation Display Hall is a major new museum facility for the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT)’s collection of historic aircraft. It was designed to extend the existing aviation building on the museum’s Meola Road site in Auckland. At 3300m2, the extension will enable MOTAT to house all of their aviation exhibits, some of which are the only remaining examples in the world, in a protected environment for the first time
Saving Suburbia Part II: Getting the Soccer Moms On Your Side
Apr 27th
The Living Market, a plan to redevelop vacant land to create a Marketplace of community space, shops, and affordable housing. Image courtesy of Emily Talen, Sungduck Lee, and the Long Island Index
23 Town Houses in Amsterdam / Atelier Kempe Thill
Apr 27th
© Architektur-Fotografie Ulrich Schwarz Architects: Atelier Kempe Thill Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Client: DeltaForte BV Completion: 2008 Building Size: 5,104 sqm Total building budget: € 3,023,091 (excl. VAT) Design Team: André Kempe, Oliver Thill, Teun van der Meulen with Takashi Nakamura Photographs: Architektur-Fotografie Ulrich Schwarz Amsterdam Osdorp was built in the 1960ties and is since a few years in a process of urban renewal.
House in Beach Palabritas / Metropolis
Apr 26th
© Elsa Ramirez Architects: Metropolis – Jose Orrego Location: Palabritas Beach, Lima , Peru Collaborators: Anahi Bastian Built Area: 230 sqm Photographs: Elsa Ramirez © Elsa Ramirez The house is located on the first row of lots and was designed so that the architecture acted like a frame to the view of the beach and the islands that are found in front of the house. The esthetic of the house celebrates the summer with modern curves that remind us of the Brazilian architecture of the sixties. © Elsa Ramirez The whole house has a white finish with color accents in red, in both main elements such as the swimming pool as well as furnishings.
