Sonia Rykiel Flagship Store, Paris – France » Retail Design Blog. Alexander Wang Store by Vincent van Duysen, London – UK » Retail Design Blog. Dezeen sur Twitter : "London's financial district reimagined as a disorientating labyrinth: #architecture. Larisa Bulibasa reimagines London's financial district as labyrinth. Graduate shows 2015: Larisa Bulibasa has developed a vision for the City of London in which a complex network of alleyways, dead ends and enclosed spaces evoke the bewildering financial practices conducted within. Bulibasa developed the project during her studies on the MArch course at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Her aim was to use the concept of a labyrinth "as a means to observe the rather peculiar behaviours of different factions of society within the financial system". Rather than communicating ideas about the City's architectural layout and evolution using conventional mapping methods, Bulibasa sought a suitable metaphor to express its spatial complexity and the murky economic forces that informed its current arrangement.
"The project started with a desire to investigate the hypothesis that there is a labyrinthine concept underlying the Square Mile's development and growth," she told Dezeen. Dezeen sur Twitter : "Housing for Rwandan healthcare workers wrapped in eucalyptus screens: #architecture. Sharon Davis' housing for Rwandan healthcare workers. New York architect Sharon Davis has completed a new housing complex for doctors and nurses in a village in rural Rwanda, which was built by local residents using regional materials (+ slideshow). Located next to the 110-bed Rwinkwavu Hospital on a steep hill, the Partners in Health Housing is meant to create a community space for those working in the facility, and ultimately to help improve healthcare standards in an underserved part of the country. "[The project] is more than a dormitory for doctors and nurses," said Sharon Davis, principal of Sharon Davis Design, which recently completed a playhouse on stilts with an interior slide in upstate New York.
"This project means that staff not only live closer to the hospital – saving time and money – but quality housing near the hospital will boost morale, enhance connections between staff and community and will, we hope, create a village within this village," she added. Rooms are connected by covered outdoor hallways. CultureWhisper sur Twitter : ".@BarbicanCentre unlocks the secret world of @EamesOffice #architecture #exhibition. The World of Charles and Ray Eames, Barbican | Culture Whisper. Hall McKnight To Open A Temporary Pavilion In London’s King’s Cross | ArchDaily.
Chipperfield presenta su proyecto para reimaginar el Royal Academy of Arts de Londres. David Chipperfield Architects han presentado un proyecto para conectar dos sitios de grado II -listados por el Royal Academy of Arts en Londres: el Burlington House del siglo 17 y los Burlington Gardens del siglo 19- a través de un plan maestro de "intervenciones sutiles" que tendrá un costo total de £50 millones ($80 millones USD). Según Architects' Journal, las dos estructuras estarán vinculadas por un puente de hormigón, que se extiende 15 metros a través de un área de servicio y un patio, creando una serie de nuevos espacios de exposición, una sala de conferencias y un nuevo espacio para las renombradas escuelas de arte y arquitectura del Royal Academy.
Mediante una serie de prolongaciones de las cubiertas y terrazas, se otorgarán nuevas vistas sobre el centro de Londres. Se espera que el proyecto sea completado a principios del 2018, comenzando los trabajos este mes de octubre si se aseguran los fondos de financiación. Noticia via Architects' Journal. Maison flottante Airbnb par Nick and Steve Tidball - Journal du Design.
A Country Of Converted Oil Rigs: Is This How To Save The Maldives? | ArchDaily. Charla TED del colectivo Boa Mistura: “Elegimos el arte urbano para conectarnos con la gente” El colectivo madrileño Boa Mistura está integrado por cinco jóvenes que en 2001 dejaron sus trabajos para dedicarse por completo al arte urbano. Desde entonces, han viajado por el mundo realizando intervenciones que a través de la pintura buscan una manera de conectarse con las personas del lugar y así mejorar su entorno. Barrios de España, Serbia, Madrid, México, Panamá, Sudáfrica y una favela en Río de Janeiro son algunos de los lugares hasta donde este colectivo ha ido a ayudar a que los habitantes se sientan más orgullosos del lugar en donde viven bajo la premisa de que “si nuestra obra no mejora el soporte donde intervenimos, no actuamos sobre él”. Más detalles a continuación. En la charla TED de este artículo, el colectivo cuenta cuál es el aporte que en su experiencia creen que entrega el arte urbano a una ciudad y a sus habitantes, cuáles son las ventajas de intervenir la ciudad, descrita como un “soporte soñado” por tres motivos, y con qué fin deciden pintar nuevos muros.
Dezeen sur Twitter : "Foster's Crossrail Place roof garden opens to the public today: #architecture... Foster's Crossrail Place roof garden to open at Canary Wharf. Tropical roof gardens and a leisure complex designed by Foster + Partners to sit above a new Crossrail station at Canary Wharf in London will open to the public tomorrow. The seven-storey structure is the first new building for Crossrail – London's new east-west rail link – to open, although trains will not run from the station for at least three years. Located in the heart of London's Canary Wharf financial hub on the North Dock, the station will be one of 40 that will serve the capital's new rail network, scheduled to open in 2018. British firm Foster + Partners has designed the roof structure and cladding that wraps around the four storeys of shopping and leisure facilities above ground level, as well as the gardens on the top level.
Collectively named Crossrail Place, the shopping centre and outdoor space will open to the public tomorrow. The roof garden, landscaped by London-based studio Gillespies, is located directly beneath a 310-metre-long transparent hood. Architecture, Economics and Aquariums: Can ICM Revive the Bilbao Effect in Asia? | ArchDaily. Olivier Gabet sur Twitter : "#architectures de papier de #Piranese a #Mallet-Stevens #Camondo @artsdecoratifs @Salondudessin...
Zaha Hadid's sweeping design for Bee'ah's headquarters rises from the desert | Architecture | Wallpaper* Magazine. As sustainable waste management becomes an increasingly important issue on the global agenda, it’s of no surprise that the architecture that surrounds it is also receiving more attention. In Copenhagen construction steams ahead on BIG’s ambitious Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant, while over in the United Arab Emirates a new waste management project is in the works. Following an international competition in 2013, UAE environmental and waste management company Bee’ah, has enlisted the architectural might of Zaha Hadid to design an awe-inspiring 7,000 sq m headquarters in Sharjah that will help to realise the company’s admirable environmental goals. Informed by its 90,000 sq m desert site, Hadid has envisioned the headquarters as a fleet of sweeping ‘sand dunes’ orientated to optimise the prevailing Shamal winds and limit the quantity of glazing exposed to the harsh sun.
Photo by anacristinadelion. Capturing Hong Kong’s Dizzying Vertical Density. Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze is a French photographer who captures the dizzying heights and uncommon densities of Hong Kong. Inspired by “the geometry of the urban environment and the vivid lives it shelters,” Jacquet-Lagrèze has not only captured the verticality of Hong Kong’s built environment, but also compiled a new book, Vertical Horizon, “a photographic journey between the buildings of a relentlessly growing city.”
See more of Jacquet-Lagrèze‘s images, and read an excerpt from Vertical Horizon, after the break. From Vertical Horizon. Text by Holly Chan & Christopher Dewolf. The Vertical City If music is the space between notes and the city is the space between buildings, Hong Kong is the space between peaks and valleys – a settlement whose built environment mimics the precipitous topography on which it sits.
Whether in a street market or in a country park, skies in Hong Kong are never vast. La explosión internacional de la arquitectura chilena. Pabellón 2014 de Serpentine Gallery / Smiljan Radic. Image © 2014 Smiljan Radic Studio El León de Plata otorgado al Pabellón de Chile en la presente Bienal de Venecia, el premio MCHAP para Arquitectura Emergente entregado en mayo pasado a la Casa Poli de la oficina Pezo von Ellrichshausen y la pronta inauguración del pabellón de Smiljan Radic para la británica Serpentine Gallery no son hechos aislados, sino son reflejo de una arquitectura chilena -ya madura- que logra despojarse de cierta visión editorial que vio a Chile durante años como un país-paisaje en la esquina del mundo, poblado de viviendas unifamiliares arropadas por geografías asombrosas, para luego reconciliarse/reconocer a sus centros urbanos y dar un brinco a la escena mundial.
En ese contexto, el diario británico Financial Times dedicó un artículo a este boom nacional de la mano de un cúmulo de profesionales ya consolidados como Smiljan Radic, Mathias Klotz, Pezo von Ellrichshausen y Elemental. Why Lord Foster wants us to travel more. In keeping with his profession Lord Foster is a remarkably footloose architect. The Pritzker laureate is a keen cyclist, an amateur pilot, travels a huge amount and recently designed an expo pavilion that could be taken apart and reassembled, thousands of miles away.
So, perhaps it shouldn't surprise us to learn that the architect has just launched the 2014 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship. This prize of £6000 will go the student who suggests the best programme of international research on a topic related to the survival of our towns and cities. Foster said, “as a student I won a prize that allowed me to spend a summer travelling through Europe and to study first hand buildings and cities that I knew only from the pages of books. It was a revelation – liberating and exhilarating in so many ways.” Foster + Partner's Thames Hub Meanwhile, Foster has also put the case for his UK estuary airport plans even more forcefully. For more on this, go here.
Industrial design courses ? designboom. 7 Urban Wonders of the Modern World. Record-Setting Cities: 7 Urban Wonders of the Modern World Article by Urbanist, filed under 7 Wonders Series in the Travel category. You might find an urban wonder right around the corner – from the narrowest and most windy streets of the world (respectively) to the biggest building moving project and the most profound rich/poor divide on the planet. Someone has even put the world’s largest urban bat colony on the map. Here are seven profoundly strange recording-setting wonders of the modern world. 1) The Narrowest Urban House in the World The narrowest urban house in the world is surprisingly spacious – though only in one direction. 2) The Skinniest Urban Street in the World What better to compliment the most narrow house in the world than the skinniest urban street in the world? 3) The Most Windy Urban Road in the World Speaking of streets, this one in San Francisco holds the record for the most switchbacks in a single urban block. 4) The Highest Urban Fountain in the World.
L’espace est un luxe « souris de compactus. L’espace est un luxe 16sept09 2009, jusqu’ici, a été une année riche en évènements au Musée suisse de l’appareil photographique, qui a célébré ses 30 ans en plus d’ouvrir deux étages de sa nouvelle exposition permanente (Aux origines de la photographie / Laterna Magica) et d’organiser un colloque d’un soir avec le soutien de Memoriav. Ce blog a été (très) légèrement déserté pendant quelques temps, signe de la mobilisation massive des troupes sur le terrain veveysan.
Chers lecteurs et survivants, merci de m’en excuser. Ce qui couvait également, et qui se met en place activement, est la création d’un centre de documentation dans un tout nouvel espace, prochainement ouvert au public. Le centre de St-Antoine abritera toute la documentation technique et historique du musée, ainsi que la majeure partie des collections iconographiques, et Katia Bonjour, archiviste en chef (et fée du lieu) et moi-même pourrons y accueillir les chercheurs et autres intéressés. Like this: J'aime chargement… BRIAN MACKAY - LYONS JOE COLOMBO RUSSELL SAGE. PLAIN MODERN THE ARCHITECTURE OF BRIAN MACKAY-LYONS - (QUANTRILL) Princeton Architectural Press June 1, 2005 It's been our distinct pleasure over the past few years to publish monographs on a select group of young architects and firms whose work represents the best of contemporary design thinking while retaining a distinctive regional sensibility.
The Nova-Scotian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons fits neatly into this distinguished list, which includes Marlon Blackwell in the Ozarks, Rick Joy in the Southwest, and Miller/Hull in the Northwest. Those familiar with Nova Scotia understand the austere beauty of this Canadian landscape, with its wide open skies and rugged terrain pushing up against the Atlantic. MacKay-Lyons's work responds to this unique topography and to the vernacular building traditions that define its communities. His houses, commercial buildings, and public projects combine regional forms with local materials, technologies, and building practices to create works that are linked to their environments right down to their DNA. The Stylistic Evolution of the American Front Porch. The physical development of the American front porch may be seen through the development of housing styles in our American architectural history. From the Georgian houses with minimal, if any, front porches to the Stick Style houses with their integral front porches, the front porch served different roles in the waves of styles that architecturally swept the country.
By examining these roles that front porches played in a general survey of American housing styles, the evolution of the front porch in American architecture may be properly viewed. Colonial Architecture (1650-1850) The primary styles of colonial architecture consisted of Georgian, French Colonial, Spanish Colonial, and Dutch Colonial. Georgian houses, a dominant architectural style in the English colonies from 1700-1780, exhibited a distinguishable paneled door. Windows on the Georgian house were aligned vertically in rows.
A Spanish Colonial House (Kahn 16) Monterrey, California Greek Revival Architecture (1830-1855) FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S WAR ON THE BOX. Frank Lloyd Wright once defied "anyone to name a single aspect of the best contemporary architecture that wasn’t done first by" him. He had a point, writes Emily Bobrow ... Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE When Frank Lloyd Wright was in his 80s, he had more architectural projects in the works than ever. He cut a vital, distinguished figure, with his silver mane, natty dress and a cane he often twirled. Often seen smoking and wearing a modified cowboy hat, he was arrogant, mischievous and also a genius. For him, architecture was a space for life, not a façade, not a monument, not a box. Wright created many such patterns in a career that stretched across seven decades.
Architecture exhibitions tend to feel lifeless and decontextualised, almost medicinal. Other, larger projects follow (over 60 are included), such as his grand designs for Taliesin, his own sweeping prairie home in rural Wisconsin, and his seemingly futuristic work for the S.C. Picture credit: Solomon R. Quay House, London - Building #92. Sveriges Arkitekter - Stockholm Public Library International Architectural Competition.
LE CORBUSIER: THE PICASSO OF PLANNING. Le Corbusier was perhaps the greatest architect of the 20th century. He thought he could reshape mankind by creating a new form of city, yet he seldom practised what he preached, writes Jonathan Meades ... From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Winter 2008 Le Corbusier excelled in the visual and the plastic. He was a painter, sculptor, furniture designer and, above all, an architect of the highest order, perhaps the greatest of the 20th century, a colossus who in his prodigiously fecund invention and protean versatility was the peer of his friend Pablo Picasso. And there we might leave it.
His Plan Voisin, to demolish the northern half of Paris and replace it with a city of cruciform towers, belongs more to the history of self-advertisement than to that of urbanism—or would have done had his regiments of witless acolytes not imposed frail copies of it across the globe. Le Corbusier—The Art of Architecture Barbican Art Gallery, London, February 19th to May 24th. www.barbican.org.uk. UCA - University for the Creative Arts. Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) LOHA: Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects. Skin + Bones: An Interview with Brooke Hodge | Fashion Projects. Richard Rogers | icon 049 | July 2007. Zaha Hadid Blog » Blog Archive » BMW Central Building. E-Architect.