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Denver Art Museum / Daniel Libeskind
Oct 5th
© Bitter Bredt Architects: Studio Daniel Libeskind Location: Denver, Colorado , USA Joint Venture Partner: Davis Partnership Contractor: M.A Mortensen Co. ( Colorado ) Structural Engineer: Arup (Los Angeles) Structural Connection Design: Structural Consultants, Inc. Civil Engineers: JF Sato and Associates Mechanical Air: Arup-Los Angeles Mechanical/Electrical: MKK Engineers and Arup (Los Angeles) Structural Engineers: ARUP (Los Angeles) Structural Connection Design: Structural Consultants, Inc
Architecture and Design Film Festival
Oct 5th
Architecture and Design Film Festival If you find yourself in Manhattan for the weekend of October 14-17, be sure to check out the Architecture and Design Film Festival on Varick Street in Tribeca. Films running anywhere from a quick 2 minutes to 80 minutes will feature popular pieces such as Citizen Architect about Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio, to a film about the Kimbell Museum, an interview with Oscar Niemeyer and even a film about dumpster pools. The event will also include discussions with some of the filmmakers and architects about the design process.
Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award 2011 Call for Nominations
Oct 4th
IFLA is soliciting nominations for its Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award , the highest honour that the International Federation of Landscape Architects can bestow upon a landscape architect. The award is bestowed annually on an academic, public or private practitioner whose work and achievements are respected internationally. Candidates may be nominated by IFLA Member Associations, delegates, individual members and allied organizations, as well as independent sources
Lisbon Architecture Triennale / Let’s talk about houses: Between North and South
Oct 4th
Click here to view the embedded video. The Lisbon Architecture Triennale is getting ready to open its doors October 14. The exhibition Let’s talk about houses: Between North and South will be presented at the Museu Colecção Berardo
Piracicaba House / Isay Weinfeld
Oct 4th
© Leonardo Finotti Architect: Isay Weinfeld Location: Piracicaba, Brazil Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Leonardo Finotti This is a getaway house erected in the city of Piracicaba, 250km away from São Paulo. It is intended to serve as a meeting point for a family whose members are scattered across various cities around the state
New Palace – Lecumberri / Dellekamp Arquitectos
Oct 4th
Courtesy of Dellekamp Arquitectos Mexico -based Dellekamp Arquitectos shared with us ‘New Palace-Lecumberri’, their proposal for the new archive in Mexico City Competition.
House on the Castle Mountainside / Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Oct 4th
© Fernando Alda Architects: Fran Silvestre Arquitectos Location: Ayora, Valencia, Spain Project Architects: Fran Silvestre , Mª José Sáez Project Team: Pedro Vicente López López, José Ángel Ruíz Millo, José Vicente Miguel López, Fernando Usó Martín, Javier Cardós Elena Interior Design: Alfaro Hofmann Site Area: 477 sqm Project Area: 230 sqm Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Fernando Alda The building is located in a landscape of unique beauty, the result of a natural and evident growth. The mountain, topped by a castle, is covered by a blanket housing through a system of aggregation by simple juxtaposition of pieces generated fragmented target tissue that adapts to the topography.
Educational Centre in El Chaparral / Alejandro Muñoz Miranda
Oct 4th
© Fernando Alda Architect: Alejandro Muñoz Miranda Location: El Chaparral, Albolote, Granada, Spain Collaborators: Gregorio Morenate Navío y Nayra Fernández-Valencia Caballero Structure: Jesús Muñoz Miranda Construction Engineering: Patricia Muñoz Arenas Industrial Engineering: Antonio Blas Pérez García Artist: Jose Manuel Darro Client: Cityhall of Albolote Construction: UCOP Project Area: 915 sqm Budget: 617,078.24 € Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Fernando Alda The project essentially consists of walls and a ceiling with a variable section; these elements create a sequence of compressed and decompressed spaces. section 01 © Fernando Alda The changes in section are determined by use (corridor, classroom access and bathrooms, classroom, porch-outside covered corridor, garden, exterior covered playground) but also by the movement of the sun and the longitudinal slope of the plot. The compression-decompression game works for both longitudinal and transversal space sequences: corridor – classroom and access to the bathrooms – class¬room – porch – garden – outside covered playground as well as classroom – bedroom – classroom.
Järva Cemetery / NRJA
Oct 4th
© NRJA Our friends from NRJA (be sure to view previous NRJA projects on AD, especially their 2009 Building of the Year House ) shared their finished competition entry for a cemetery in Järva Common, Stockholm with us. Designing a cemetery is a difficult challenge as it is a place filled with symbolic importance and infused with a commitment to offering hope. The architects decided that this new cemetery will provide a place where the identity of the site is defined not only by the environmental quality of the space and its historical importance, but also by the project’s emphasize on concentration on the memory of the deceased
Samitaur Tower / Eric Owen Moss Architects
Oct 3rd
© Courtesy of Eric Owen Moss Architects Architects: Eric Owen Moss Architects Location: Culver City, CA, USA Owner: Frederick and Laurie Samitaur Smith Builder: Samitaur Constructs Structural Engineer: Arup, Los Angeles Project Year: 2006-2010 Photographs: Courtesy of Eric Owen Moss Architects The project is an information tower, constructed at the corner of Hayden Avenue and National Boulevard immediately across from the new Expo light rail transit line arriving from downtown Los Angeles in June, 2011.
