2008 Winners. DNB Bank Headquarters by MVRDV. Dutch studio MVRDV has given the new Oslo headquarters for Norwegian bank DNB a pixellated appearance by building a stack of brick and glass cubes (+ slideshow). The irregular arrangement of the six-metre wide cubes creates recessed openings across the facade, which MVRDV has used to add sheltered terraces to each floor and a new route from the waterfront towards the nearby railway station. "We started with a massive slab and by removing pixels one by one we were able to create an arcade, terraces, a public passage, etcetera," project architect Jeroen Zuidgeest told Dezeen.
"By carving out volumes, we made sure every floor has access to interior and exterior terraces. " The DNB Bank Headquarters is located within the waterfront development of Bjørvika Barcode that MVRDV masterplanned in collaboration with Norwegian architects A-Lab and Dark Arkitekter. Each studio has designed one building for the bank and MVRDV's is the first to complete. Above: photograph is by Jeroen Musch. Arq: Architectural Research Quarterly. Laboratories for the 21st Century (Labs21®) Laboratory Design News | The Information Resource for Lab Design, Engineering & Construction. 2012 Design Awards- Honor Winners. Architectural Wall Panels :: Exterior Wall Cladding :: Aluminium Wall Panel Systems :: Rainscreen Systems & Composite Panels :: Dri-Design. SpontaneousInterventions | Design Actions for the Common Good. Matchstick Marvels: Models. Only the models listed in dark ink can be seen at the Matchstick Marvels museum. # Year Model name & description Number of Matchsticks 1. 1977 Church 500 2. 1978 Barn 5,000 3. 1979 USS Constitution 8,000** 4. 1980 Stagecoach 2,000 5. 1981 Stern wheel riverboat 20,000 6-9 1982 4 Windmills 2,000 10. 1983 1930's Locomotive 1,500 11. 1984 Bicycle 500 12. 1985 Small Civil War Cannon 1,000 13. 1986 Small USS Iowa Battleship 7,000** 14-16 1987 3 Country Schools 1,500 17. 1987 USS Midway aircraft carrier 16,000 ** 18-22 1987 5 Rocking Chairs 500 23. 1987 Freightliner flatbed tractor-trailer 4,000 24. 1988 Robert E.
Lee 19th century steamboat 50,000 ** Robert E. What's coming in 2013? World Architecture News, Official Home Page, architecture news, architecture jobs. 2012 Winners | AIA Top Ten. 2011 Winners. 2010 Winners. 2009 Winners. Architecture, Design & Construction Information - Buildipedia.com. Architecture Lab | Architecture Lab is a platform for exposing the latest news, events, researches, innovations in Architecture, Urbanism and Sustainable Design. Inhabitat. An analysis of the design profession using pure geometry and angst. Empowering Architecture: architects, buildings, interior design, materials, jobs, competitions, design schools. Vine by Sohei Arao This independent hair salon is located in a shopping district on the outskirts of the city and is conceived as a project that “gradually takes shape.” The large space offered more room than was necessary to accommodate the number of clients, so the goal was to create a relaxing, comfortable space where clients could not only receive a haircut, but spend leisurely time.
The salon’s name is based on the owner’s desire to establish a concept of “connections.” Vines have the unique ability to grow individually and then connect, shaping a whole. To represent that, the architects used the vine as a metaphor in designing the space. By running the pipes along the ceiling in an arch shape and wrapping the light fixtures like vines, it was possible to freely change their location and height. Enter Karim Rashid's Magenta Mancave LG Hausys’s HI-MACS acrylic stone is something of an architect's Play-Doh; its myriad clay-like features lend to easy sculpting.
Cheil Hong Kong Office. Normal Projects | Architecture. Practice Matters. RECORD's Practice section is a comprehensive source of information for architects seeking current news, reports, and the innovative thinking they need to run their businesses. Can project alliancing agreements change the way we build? By Chris Noble Errors, omissions, inefficiencies, delays, coordination problems, cost overruns, productivity losses—the list of complaints against (and often by) architects and contractors is a long one. The Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) has characterized the difficulties experienced in typical projects as “artifacts of a construction process fraught by lack of cooperation and poor information integration.”
Integrated practice in perspective: A new model for the architectural profession By Andrew Pressman, FAIA The inefficiencies inherent in the process of design and construction are necessitating a shift to greater multidisciplinary collaboration and information sharing among project team members. Forum: Doubts? Architectural Record's Continuing Education Center | Earn AIA Continuing Education Credits Online. Design Alternatives to the Enclosed Elevator Lobby: Fire and Smoke Safety Solutions | Sponsored by Smoke Guard, Inc. | Originally published in the November 2009 issue of Architectural Record. Stair Treads and Covers SlipNOT® stair treads are available in plate, grating, perforated plate, and flattened expanded metal; customized to meet specifications. Stair tread covers can be easily retrofitted over existing slippery stairs and are available in steel, stainless steel, and aluminum.
Reshape the Conversation An innovative shape that invites collaboration, The Puzzle Table is offered in several colors, surfaces, and edge options to fit a variety of uses. And with six different heights, it also fits a variety of students—K through 12. The tabletop is supported by steel legs connected directly to a continuous frame to accommodate active minds piloted by busy bodies. Acoustical Innovations Enhance Music Rehearsal Rooms The new VAE® Rehearsal system improves learning in ensemble rehearsals by simulating the acoustics of performance spaces ranging from arena to recital hall. Interior Glass Door Solutions Architectural Wall Panels Illumination Series is more than a pretty face. No. 570 - 2012.1024. Brooklyn is a hub of innovative architecture and design, with dozens of young professionals commissioning or undertaking their own eco-sensitive renovations to existing brownstones and low-rise attached buildings throughout the borough.
Tighthouse, a Passive House brownstone retrofit, sits at the end of a string of two-story buildings constructed in 1899 that share a tree-lined block with larger brownstones built around the same time, centrally located off Fifth Avenue in the neighborhood of Park Slope. It is the first certified Passive House in New York City and meets the standards for new construction, surpassing the EnerPHit certification. Remodeling Approach The unique retrofit of a 110-year-old house by the Brooklyn-based firm Fabrica 718 could serve as an important model for the many urban and suburban residences that need energy-saving renovations. ArchiThings.Com - Architecture - Real Estate - Construction - Home Improvement. Death by Architecture.
Architecture Competitions from all over the Globe. Kompete. Helle-Wijk-WCDH-2003. The architecture meltdown. When the Great Recession dawned, architecture was the glamour profession of the creative class. Extravagant, signature buildings – Frank Gehry’s titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum in Spain’s Basque Country, Richard Meier’s white-travertine Getty Center in Los Angeles, and multimillion-dollar concert halls in seemingly every city in the U.S. – drew not only press attention but the kind of architectural tourists who once visited Italian duomos.
Brash, individualistic “starchitects” – cerebral urbanist Rem Koolhaas, Iraq-born diva Zaha Hadid, gracious, serene Renzo Piano and others hailed in the press as visionaries – became the new rock stars. Though much of the cast was international, the image built on a long-standing heroism of the architect in the United States, dating back to the magnetic Frank Lloyd Wright and the valiant, uncompromising Howard Roark in Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead.” It isn’t just the celebrity figures who are frustrated, however. He bounced checks. AIA-Announces-COTE-T-7136. The American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE) has announced its Top 10 Green Projects for 2012, and exemplifies the top works in sustainable architecture and design solutions.
The COTE Top 10 Green Projects for 2012 are: The winning projects were selected by a jury which consisted of Clark S. Brockman, AIA, SERA Architects, Inc.; Steve L. Dumez, FAIA, Eskew+Dumez+Ripple Architects; Scott Shell, FAIA, EHDD Architecture; Laura Lee, FAIA, Carnegie Mellon University; Paul Schwer, PAE Consulting Engineers; and Sue Barnett, Sue Barnett Sustainable Design. To learn more visit aiatopten.org. Guest Lecture for Archi 120: Architectural Diagrams. Building Diagrams. I've always found the gulf between architect and end user most fascinating, particularly the legibility of architectural production (plans, elevations, sections, details, sketches, models, perspectives, renderings, etc.) by -- for lack of a better term -- laypeople.
It goes without saying that much of that produced by the former is not fully grasped by the latter, in terms of how a set of drawings, for example, will translate into a building. Models and renderings attempt to bridge this gulf of understanding, but in some cases diagrams done after a building's completion can prove even more helpful. These post-occupancy aids may be done for publication, though more often than not they are done for public buildings (museums, libraries, etc.) as wayfinding devices, given to visitors to help orient themselves in space.
Below is a sampling of what I found, with some broad categorizations on how the diagrams increase legibility. The color-coded plan: and: The solid-void plan: Dailytonic - Your daily Inspiration in Architecture and Design. ARCOM ::: The Leader in Construction and Building Specifications. Committee on the Environment homepage, Knowledge Communities. The Committee on the Environment (COTE) works to advance, disseminate, and advocate—to the profession, the building industry, the academy, and the public—design practices that integrate built and natural systems and enhance both the design quality and environmental performance of the built environment. COTE serves as the community and voice on behalf of AIA architects regarding sustainable design and building science and performance. Deep Green Renovation: Broad Scale Strategies for Achieving Deep Energy Savings in Existing Buildings Catherine Killien, the 2011 AIA/AIAS COTE Research Scholar, examines the critical roll existing buildings play in the effort to dramatically reduce carbon emissions and energy use to a point that can reverse the impacts of global climate change.
BuildingGreen Announces Top-Ten Green Products for 2012 BuildingGreen announced its tenth annual Top-10 Green Building Products during the 2011 Greenbuild conference in Toronto last week. Top Ten Website. Your connection with architecture: stories, projects, products, materials, companies, people, 3D Models. Archinect | Connecting Architects Since 1997. Architecture and the Lost Art of Drawing. Michael Graves & Associates A freehand sketch of the south facade of the Denver Central Library, which the writer designed. More Photos » IT has become fashionable in many architectural circles to declare the death of drawing. What has happened to our profession, and our art, to cause the supposed end of our most powerful means of conceptualizing and representing architecture?
The computer, of course. With its tremendous ability to organize and present data, the computer is transforming every aspect of how architects work, from sketching their first impressions of an idea to creating complex construction documents for contractors. For centuries, the noun “digit” (from the Latin “digitus”) has been defined as “finger,” but now its adjectival form, “digital,” relates to data. Today architects typically use computer-aided design software with names like AutoCAD and Revit, a tool for “building information modeling.” I’ve been practicing architecture since 1964, and my office is not immune. ARCC - Architectural Research Centers Consortium. Blog | Just another WordPress site. ASLA 2008 Student Awards - Congratulations Amanda, Malea, and Laura. Remediation as Catalyst: Transforming an Industrial Landscape Laura Kamin-Lyndgaard, Student ASLA, Amanda Olson, Student Affiliate ASLA and Malea Jochim, Student Affiliate ASLAUniversity of Minnesota, College of Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota Faculty Advisors: Lance M.
Neckar, ASLA; John J. Comazzi "An important topic! Cities have to make decisions about brownfield sites and their use more and more frequently, so this is good work. The collaborative effort between landscape architecture and architecture is very clear. " — 2008 Student Awards Jury Comments Project Statement: The St. Project motivation and approach The term superfund, according the Environmental Protection Agency, is the name given to the environmental program established to address abandoned hazardous waste sites. Environmental, cultural and historical data and analysis methods The analysis and collection of data was essential to our design process and planning strategies.
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