Winnipeg's Architectural Renaissance. The prairie stretches out seamlessly before me as I look through the glass walls of the new Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport. Past the runways, long yellow grasses ripple in the breeze and wispy clouds drift across the sky. Inside, the blue, gold and white carpet riffs on the dominant colours of the landscape. In the soaring arrivals hall, where sky-blue LEDs rim the circular skylights, I pass a mother welcoming a returning daughter.
"It's been too long," the mother admonishes. Strength in numbers: The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada recently awarded the firm 5468796 Architecture its Emerging Architectural Practice Award. On my first morning in town, I jog toward the Forks, the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers that shapes the downtown core. Night view of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Luckily, the museum I'm visiting today is open for business. Archdaily.
Architects: 5468796 Architecture Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Project Year: 2012 Photographs: James Brittain From the architect. The Avenue on Portage revives two historic commercial buildings from the turn of the century located one block west of Winnipeg’s most famous corner, Portage and Main. Once major retail destinations in the city, the Avenue and Hample Buildings experienced a slow decline, becoming blights to the street and downtown.
In 2010 our client purchased the site to develop the derelict properties into 75 rental apartments and 22,500 square feet of commercial space. A series of formally simple moves dramatically transform the original façades, shifting public perception of the buildings from eyesores to a unified urban landmark. While the balconies push residents out beyond the façade, the main floor pulls pedestrians in, softening the boundary between the public streetscape and the private interiors. A Zero Energy House That You Can Control With Your iPhone. Ninety years ago, avant-garde architects were designing houses with modular spaces that echoed the efficiency of planes and cars. Today, we have automated planes ( military drones ) and, soon, driverless cars . Isn’t it time, then, for our homes to be just as technologically ambitious?
The Soleta House, or Soleta zeroEnergy One , is a step in the right direction. This prototype line of eco homes includes multifunctional structures with high-tech, clean-energy systems that can be controlled via your smartphone. The project, currently on display outside the American embassy in Bucharest, was developed by the Justin Capra Foundation for Invention and Sustainable Technologies (FITS). FITS laments how many “low-energy” housing prototypes maximize performance at the discomfort of their occupants and the quality of spaces.
Everyone Deserves Good Design - Point of View - May 2013. John Cary I stand before you, in many ways, as the antithesis of what the architecture profession expects its graduates to do. I’ve never worked for a firm; I’ve never logged a single hour of internship in IDP; nor will I likely ever sit for the Architect Registration Exam. In part, my personal experience as well as conversations with many others at all stages of their careers has led me to the conviction that the licensure system is deeply flawed and does not serve the profession well, much less society. I also realized early on that I am a better movement builder and communicator than I am an architect—at least ‘architect’ as it’s narrowly defined by the profession. And this, it turns out, is half the battle in life: knowing what you’re best at and figuring out how to put it to good use.
The architecture profession, in particular, at least as we’ve known it, is dying and you graduates are exactly the people we need to resurrect and reconstitute it. Everyone deserves good design. An Indiana Town Where Big Names Built. The Italianate brick Irwin-Sweeney-Miller House in which Mr. Miller grew up, built by his great-grandfather Joseph I. Irwin in 1864, is now a bed-and-breakfast called the Inn at Irwin Gardens (608 Fifth Street, 812-376-3663, irwingardens.com). Spending the night there, as my husband and I and several friends did last fall, is a physical immersion (with comfortable beds, chocolates on pillows and thick towels) into the contrasts and diversity that is Columbus.
Unless you are an architecture buff, when you think of Columbus, you are more likely to think of Ohio’s capital, Columbus, not of a southern Indiana city ranked sixth among the nation’s cities in 1991 for its architectural innovation and design by the American Institute of Architects. For years the Columbus Area Visitors Center has offered bus tours of the city’s innovative public buildings (the Visitors Center lists some 70 structures as “noteworthy”), many designed by a litany of important American architects: I. M. J. I. 2012 December 15 : un album sur Flickr. ‘Flying Saucer’ Condominium Proposal / 5468796 Architecture.
Set for completion in 2014, Winnipeg’s “Flying Saucer” condominium project 62M, designed by Winnipeg-based studio 5468796 Architecture, will occupy the corner of MacDonald Avenue and Waterfront Drive, close to the Exchange District. Named after its address, 62M will be a two-storey, circular building lifted up on 35-foot stilts. Its circular design is spatially efficient and will provide each unit with a view. As a whole, the 360° plan provides the widest possible perimeter for glass with the smallest amount of exterior envelope to construct. More images and architects’ description after the break. The project, which commenced in March, just recenlty secured financing for the project after pre-selling 50% of the 40 units in the $4.5-million complex. All 40 units will have identical, pie-shaped layouts that simplify assembly. Each 610 s.f. suite will be arranged so that the entry and utility spaces will occupy the narrow end, closest to the circulation core.
Next healthcare breakthrough? Walkable communities. Jay Walljasper, Better! Cities & Towns The next big healthcare breakthrough — which could cut rates of heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, and Alzheimer’s by at least 40 percent and save Americans $100 billion a year — comes from a place you’d least expect. On your block. At the park. Everywhere. So what’s this amazing treatment, which also happens to be easy, enjoyable and virtually free? “Walking is like medicine for my patients,” says Dr. “Being physically active is one of the most important things people of all ages can do for their health,” explains Joan Dorn of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). US Surgeon General Dr. More than 100 organizations, ranging from the National PTA to the American Lung Association to AARP to NAACP to Nike, were on hand at the meeting.
The benefits of walking don’t stop at health. Our country’s low rate of physical activity compared to other nations is not just laziness. But there’s good news: Walking is on the rise. Antoine predock architects: canadian museum for human rights, winnipeg. Apr 15, 2013 antoine predock architects: canadian museum for human rights, winnipeg ‘canadian museum for human rights’ by antoine predock architects, winnipeg, canadaimage © josel catindoy already a impressive marker on winnipeg’s skyline, the antoine predock-designed ‘canadian museum for human rights‘ is close to completion and slated to be a revitalizing force for the city. characterized by a 5000 square meter ‘glass cloud’ the museum is a monumental endeavor dedicated to exhibiting the commonalities and histories of humankind. formally, the building seeks to manifest a symbolic apparition of ice, clouds and stone, all set in a landscape of greenery. the architecture is carved into the earth and dematerializes into reflections of the sky, while interiors are designed to recreate a metaphorical journey through life. the museum will be inaugurated in early 2014. the shape is informed by the wings of a doveimage © aaron cohenimage courtesy of canadian museum for human rights.
Archdaily. The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada has announced 5468796 Architecture Inc. as recipient of the inaugural Emerging Architectural Practice Award. The firm is a Winnipeg-based collaborative studio of 12 young professionals with Johanna Hurme, MRAIC, Sasa Radulovic, MRAIC, and Colin Neufeld, MRAIC leading the office. The firm operates under the principle that each project, while keeping to the parameters of cost, client expectations and site restrictions, must “advance architecture in some way”. Join us after the break for more on 5468796 Architecture and their recent award. The jury commended the firm for “undeniably helping reshape [the architectural landscape]” and creating “refreshing and important” work that is exudes “typological daring, visual playfulness and intellectual rigour”. Since the firm’s founding in 2007, it has participated in a breadth of architectural projects from urban pavilions to low income housing to multi-use commercial buildings. via Canadian Architect.
Winnipeg’s top 5 architectural wonders: Interior edition | Spectator Tribune. Architecture is often compared to sculpture, conveying images of iconic buildings that appear in photoshopped brilliance on the covers of tourism brochures and architecture magazines. While there is certainly a place for sculptural iconic buildings, architecture should always be measured by the interiors that those outsides create.
My personal rule is to reserve judgement on a building until I can experience it fully rather than merely standing on the street and evaluating the facade. And so. We have compiled this list of Winnipeg architecture evaluated by interior spaces rather than by curb appeal, fitting for a city with a subtle beauty that often requires and invites a closer look. Precious Blood Church With free summer tours and daily mass open to the public, you have no excuse to have not yet seen inside this most famous local church designed by architect Etienne Gaboury in 1968.
Winnipeg Art Gallery Marlborough Hotel Red River College Princess campus: Roblin Centre. Fuel Station + McDonalds / Giorgi Khmaladze. Architects: Giorgi Khmaladze Location: Batumi, Georgia Architect In Charge: Giorgi Khmaladze (Khmaladze Architects) Client: Socar Structural Engineering: Capiteli Mep: Gulfstream Mcd Standards: Archange & Schloffer Area: 1200.0 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Courtesy of Giorgi Khmaladze From the architect. The project is located in one of the newly urbanized parts of the seaside city of Batumi, Georgia. It includes fuels station, McDonald’s, recreational spaces and reflective pool. Given the central location and therefore importance of the site, it was decided to give back as much area as possible for recreation to the city by limiting the footprint of the building and vehicular circulation. Spaces are composed in such way, that two major programs – vehicle services and dining are isolated from one another, both physically and visually so that all operations of fuel station are hidden from the view of the customers of the restaurant.
Photo by padeeo. Video: 75 Years of Mies van der Rohe and His Chicago School. On Toronto’s Waterfront: Why We’re Excited For The Pan American Games Pavilion. Toronto is going through a major, more glamorous, transformation right now, thanks largely to an ambitious plan to redevelop its waterfront. The new, LEED-certified George Brown Waterfront Health Sciences Campus has already transformed the once seedy lakefront to an energetic, humming urban center. The just-announced Eau Du Soleil towers will soon make up one of Canada's tallest condo communities. And Toronto's waterfront plans prompted the Intelligent Community Forum to name the city as one of the world's top intelligent communities. Another waterfront project that has us excited? Add To Collection Save this image to a collection Team members Manuel Gross, Patrik Staub, Yannick Vorberg, and Stefan Vetsch have thought of a simple, sustainable solution that is packed with symbolism.
A section of the balloon cloud Interior view of the bar An award ceremony under the roof Site plan Cross section Exploded axonometric view of the prismatic structure Balloon, exploded axo. Brockhole Jetty by Planit-IE. January 16, 2013 / Filed under: Rest stops / UK / Waterfronts / See all projects by: Planit-IE / 15,542 / Landscape Architecture: Planit-IE Project name: Brockhole Jetty Client: Lake District National Park Authority Project Management + Cost Consultants: Turner and Townsend Contractor/Fabricator: Chris Brammall Ltd Location: Brockhole Visitor Centre, Cumbria, UK Budget: £180,000 Area: 0.05 Hectares Construction period: January 2011 – April 2011 Winning awards: Landscape Institute Design Under 1ha Winner 2012 Text + Photography: Planit-IE The Proposals: To create a new jetty and land-side facility at the Lake District National Park Visitor Centre in Brockhole.
This facility is the first purpose- built jetty for the Lake cruisers to be built on Windermere for 70 years, and as such forms a significant enhancement to the Lake District-wide visitor experience and to the existing facilities at Brockhole. Sustainability has underpinned the construction of this project. Show in Google Maps. Charles A. Birnbaum: Dan Kiley: A great yet little known Modernist. In his later years, you could find Dan Kiley with his wild hair and pants hiked up to his waist always brimming with opinions and ideas - or as the celebrated landscape architect Laurie OIin once observed: "Dan's thoughts are like rabbits - they just keep leaping out. " The peripatetic, Boston-born Kiley was an avid skier who could readily quote Thoreau, Kierkegaard and Henry James.
Creativity, he said, was "a patient search and a joyful discovery. " Kiley was also among the most important, influential and personally idiosyncratic landscape architects of the 20th century and designer of more than 1,100 projects - yet today he is not well known. As Calvin Tompkins wrote in his New Yorker profile of Kiley: "Even a partial listing of Kiley's more important commissions makes you wonder why his name is not better known outside the profession. " And that was in 1995! Dan and Anne Kiley in New Hampshire, pre-1940. Dan Kiley in his Charlotte, VT studio, c. 1990's. Miller House and Garden (2005). Urban Revitalization Superkilen by Topotek1, BIG & Superflex. February 5, 2013 / Filed under: Denmark / Parks / Playgrounds / See all projects by: BIG Bjarke Ingels Group / Superflex / Topotek1 / 36,831 / Project: Urban Revitalization Superkilen Copenhagen (Denmark) Team: TOPOTEK 1, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group, Superflex Location: Norrebro, Copenhagen (Denmark) Client: Realdania and the Community of Copenhagen.
Planning: 2007 Size: 39.000 m2 Photography: Iwan Baan, Torben Eskerod, Hanns Joosten, Mike Magnussen The project Superkilen in Copenhagen was honored within the Institute Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design by the National AIA Awards 2013. Superkilen is a heterogenous site-collage in a dense, centrally located neighborhood in Copenhagen. The strongly international quarter with a mix of different cultures is to be revitalized using open space as a physical framework. Show in Google Maps. Warming Huts Take Shape - January 24, 2013 - Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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