Mies van der Rohe gas station reconversion. A former Standard Oil gas station by Mies van der Rohe, which ceased to be commercially operated in 2008, has been recently renovated by Canadian architecture firm FABG, who transformed the space to cater to a youth and senior activity centre.
The simple program requires an open space for each group to congregate and participate in communal activities. Nun's Island is part of the Hochelaga archipelago, located southwest of Montreal. Its urbanization followed the opening of the Champlain bridge in 1962 under an ambitious master plan carried out by Metropolitan Structures, a real estate giant who had built numerous projects in Chicago with the collaboration of Mies van der Rohe. The new community included three high rise apartment buildings by Mies's office and it led, in 1966, to a commission from Standard Oil to design a prototypical gas station.
Over the years, the interiors have been modified to incorporate a car wash on the sales side. The younger group occupies the smaller volume. Commentary: Glasgow Neighbors - Mackintosh versus Steven Holl. A New Age of Architecture Ushered in Financial Gloom. House on the Flight of Birds / Bernardo Rodrigues. Architect: Bernardo Rodrigues Location: Ribeira Grande, Portugal Preliminary Study: James Grainger, Pedro Mosca, Natacha Viveiros Execution: Nelson Ferreira, Ye Xuanyong, Vasco Melo, Laura von Dellemann, Alexandra Balona Work: Adriana Massague, Rita Breda, Ana Soares, Jessica Silva, Sofia Cordeiro, Raquel Fernandes Elena Archipovait Marcello Zahr Project Year: 2002-2010 Photographs: Iwan Baan Secretariat: Ana Carneiro, Patricia Franco, Andrea Trevisan Structural Calculation: HDP, engineering Ltd – Eng.
Paulo Fidalgo Mechanics: Paulo de Faria Queiros Ltd, Maria Odete de Almeida Electricity: Mr. Gomes Surveillance work: Mr. Pedro Sacramento and Carlos Tavares The house is located in the north side of S. On the upper-floor, there are private rooms that are more enclosed and protected. West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture / projects / Madrid RIO. Salon de Pinos and Oblique Bridge Plataforma del Rey and Huerta de la Partida Main Track at Arganzuela Park Main Fountain at Arganzuela Park Skate Park at Arganzuela Park Skate park at Arganzuela Park Arganzuela Park (left) and River garden at Toledo Bridge (right) River garden at Toledo Bridge The city of Madrid dug 43 kilometres of tunnels into which the exit routes and motorways of the six-kilometre section along the River Manzanares disappeared.
West 8, working together with MRIO arquitectos, a joint venture of three Madrid based firms led by Ginés Garrido Colomero, designed the master plan for the reclaimed riverbanks and the new urban area. Development plans were then prepared for the individual components: Salón de Pinos, Avenida de Portugal, Huerta de la Partida, Jardines del Puente de Segovia, Jardines del Puente de Toledo, Jardines de la Virgen del Puerto and Arganzuela Park. For images see also: www.idealista.com video footage courtesy cromatica45. info@cromática45.com.
ZAHA HADID: THE FIRST GREAT FEMALE ARCHITECT. This weekend Tokyo won the bid for the 2020 Olympics—more good news for Zaha Hadid, who is designing the new national stadium.
Five years ago, we published a profile by Jonathan Meades saying, "The world is waking up to her" From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Summer 2008 ZAHA HADID'S PRACTICE occupies a former school in Clerkenwell, an area of London that still bears the scent of Dickens. It's an 1870s building designed by the London School Board architect E.R. Rem Koolhaas « Klaustoon’s Blog. Click to enlarge (…) Digging into the dirty laundry of the architectural star-system is, in any case, neither a recent phenomenon nor a curiosity exclusively circumscribed to today’s divas.
The mouth-to-ear airing of our architectural heroes’ private sins has been an inevitable aside of their rise as idols. Small talk on the lower passions of the masters of the past has accompanied the writing of the big lines of the History of Modern Architecture, and along with our worshiping of their oeuvre comes the delight to learn about their quaintest interiorities: Mies van der Rohe´s infamous (non) affairs with Ms. Farnsworth, Alvar Aalto´s alcoholism -a recurring topic for Finnish cartoonists3, or Le Corbusier´s pathological Messianic obsessions are personal details that have transcended the boundaries of scientific biographies to become precious pieces of information we love adding to our common knowledge of them. Tell me more! Conditions magazine #10: Gossip, July 2012. Ro-Ad. De Loopgraafbrug is een onzichtbare, doorwaadbare plek, waarbij een voetgangersbrug zich vanaf een zandwal als trap naar beneden begeeft om als wandelpad onder waterniveau de overkant te bereiken.
De robuuste hardhouten materialisering past prachtig in de omgeving van zand en bomen.