Barceló Temporary Market by Nieto Sobejano Arqui. Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photos of a temporary market in Madrid designed by Spanish office Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos. Top and above images are by Roland Halbe Called Barceló Temporary Market, the structures remain in place while a series of new buildings for the area are under construction, including a shopping centre, sports centre and library. Above photograph is by Roland Halbe The temporary market is made up of six connected buildings with pentagonal footprints, each clad in translucent polycarbonate panels. These structures will be reused elsewhere in the city once the permanent buildings are in place.
The text below is from the architects: The new Barceló market and its surroundings area project is in fact the result of various other projects: An urban combination of different scale and programme elements that have come together to significantly transform a dense central area of Madrid. Click for larger image Temporary Market Location: Madrid. Smokey Town by Judd Lysenko Marshall Architects. Judd Lysenko Marshall Architects of Melbourne have completed a Corten steel-clad house in Smokey Town, Australia. A series of staggered brise-soleils protect the interior of the single-storey home from exposure to the sun. Angular terraces extend out from each shaded area. The following is from Judd Lysenko Marshall: Box When a form is so familiar, we often look past it to focus on what might be in it, or on it, or perhaps we never notice it at all.
Sol LeWitt’s 1974 “Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes” is an exhaustive exploration of a single theme, yielding surprising and delightful results. Similarly, this home explores simplicity of gesture, and the minutiae of geometric adjustment to uncover diverse and serendipitous forms. Solid The Smokey Town House investigates monumentality and permanence. Nestled on the edge of remnant scrub, the almost geological form seems at once perched and embedded in the clay stratum.
Overlap Twisted Axis The interior is plainly open, but not open plan. Deep Shade. Strata Hotel/extension to Residence Königswarte b. Here are photographs of a second project by Plasma Studio , provided by photographer Cristobal Palma . The Strata Hotel/extension to Residence Königswarte is clad in horizontal timber slats and was completed in November last year.
See Dezeen's earlier story on Plasma Studio's Tetris Haus. The following information is from Plasma Studio: Located on a steep hillside in the Italian Dolomites this new-built hotel has been developed as the interweaving of the free-flowing topography- indexed and organized by series of timber strips- and the serial sequence of apartment units perpendicular to it. Skin organisation as strata Since the overall shape was developed from the local planning guidelines, the linear distribution of units and the views and sun directions, it is a resultant of the constant negotiations among all these parameters as well as a topological answer to the picturesque typologies frequently built in the area. Viamala Raststätte Thusis by Iseppi/Kurath. Here are some photos of Viamala Raststätte Thusis, an alpine service station designed by young Swiss studio Iseppi/Kurath.
Located in Graubünden, Switzerland, the building has a wooden structure clad externally with corrugated metal. The interior features wooden panels and includes shops, tourist information, a restaurant and bar. See also: Little Chef by Ab Rogers Design (January 2009). Photographs are by Thomas Drexel. The information below is from the architects: Viamala Raststätte, Thusis In the course of an invited architectural competition for a highway service area, a proposal of the young architectural office from Grisons Iseppi-Kurath was selected as the winning project. The Viamala Raststätte Thusis is located next to the exit Thusis-Nord at the highway A13 in Grisons, Switzerland. The cross shaped layout allows to accommodate quieter areas for conference purposes and a serviced restaurant.
These elements carry the interior wooden finishing and the exterior façade from metal. Architecture and design magazine. Arquitectos. Modern Art Museum of Medellin by 51-1 Arquitectos. Peru studio 51-1 Arquitectos and Colombian architects Ctrl G have won a competition to design an extension to the Modern Art Museum of Medellin, Colombia. Drawing on the brick structures of the local barrios, the new building will be made up of stacked boxes. These will create a series of terraces that visitors will access by internal or external circulation. The information below is from the architects: Modern Art Museum of Medellin second phase 51-1 arquitectos (Supersudaca Peru) & Ctrl G (Colombia) Medellin is a very steep valley and the city settles on its slopes. You are always going up or going down.
With the typical growth pattern of Latin-American cities, informal barrios settle in impossible geographies of very difficult access. After those successful emblematic interventions in the urged barrios of the North and Center of the city, Medellin now proposes itself to intervene in more affluent areas of the South. This is not a defined and finished building, it is a barrio. Solar Decathlon Europe. The 10 Most Overlooked Women in Architecture History. Looking back on architectural history, you could be forgiven for thinking that women were an invention of the 1950’s, alongside spandex and power steering – but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Big names like Le Corbusier, Mies, Wright and Kahn often had equally inspired female peers, but the rigid structure of society meant that their contributions tended to be overlooked.
In honor of International Woman’s Day 2013, we take a look at the 10 greatest overlooked women in architectural history. Read the full list after the break… Sophia Hayden Bennett Born in 1869 in Santiago, Chile to a Chilean father and American mother, Sophia Hayden Benett was the first woman to receive an architecture degree from MIT when she graduated in 1890. In 1891, Hayden came across an announcement calling on women architects to submit designs for the Woman’s Building, which would form part of Daniel Burnham’s gargantuan World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Marion Mahony Griffin Eileen Gray Lilly Reich. Blobitecture. Future Systems' blobitecture design for the 2003 Selfridges Building department store, was intended to evoke the female sillouette and a famous "chainmail" dress designed by Paco Rabanne in the 1960s. Its landmark qualities were expected to rejuvenate the Birmingham city centre. Blobitecture from blob architecture, blobism or blobismus are terms for a movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped, building form.[1] Though the term 'blob architecture' was in vogue already in the mid-1990s, the word blobitecture first appeared in print in 2002, in William Safire's "On Language" column in the New York Times Magazine in an article entitled Defenestration.[2] Though intended in the article to have a derogatory meaning, the word stuck and is often used to describe buildings with curved and rounded shapes.
Origins of the term "blob architecture"[edit] Precedents[edit] Built examples[edit] The water pavilion from 1997 by NOX/Lars Spuybroek in the Netherlands. Blobject.