archdaily A year after the completion of Therme Vals [1996], renowned minimalist architect, Peter Zumthor completed the design of Kunsthaus Bregenz [1997]. The Kunsthaus museum in Bregenz, Austria is always in a constant state of flux always changing its exhibition spaces to accommodate international contemporary art. Zumthor’s minimalist design adapts its spaces to the art that is showcased in its exhibits creating a coexisting and redefining relationship between art and architecture. The Kunsthaus Bregenz has two main principles to their permanent collection: archives of art architecture and a collection of Contemporary art, which complements the changing exhibition spaces. More on the Kunsthaus Bregenz after the break. “The art museum stands in the light of Lake Constance. The minimalist structure stands as a light box that absorbs, reflects, and filters light across the façade and throughout the building. The interior of the museum complements the exterior simplicity and minimalist aesthetic.
Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham, UK) « Caruso St John Architects 2004–2009Location: Nottingham, GBClient: Nottingham City CouncilProject Status: Built Caruso St John were selected to design Nottingham’s new Centre for Contemporary Art through an international competition in 2004. The artistic ambition of the project, encompassing object based visual art and time based performance art, has its origins in the artist run spaces of down town New York in the late 1960s, and in the work of artists like Gordon Matta Clark and Trisha Brown, whose work was directly engaged with the spaces of the city. The site for the new building is in a part of central Nottingham called the Lace Market, whose history and built form has parallels with the cast iron district of New York, giving the Centre a loose cultural connection to its site. The exterior of the Centre takes its inspiration from the amazing 19th century buildings of Nottingham, and in particular, from the impressive façades of the Lace Market.
Welcome to the official BILL VIOLA website Sveriges Arkitekter - Grimeton Skogsvaktarstuga ARKITEKTURs Debutantpris 2007 Fotograf: björn lofterud. Arkitekt: petra gipp, katarina lundeberg. Fotograf: strata arkitektur. Arkitekt: strataarkitektur. Fotograf: strata arkitektur. Fotograf: strata arkitektur petra gipp, katarina lundeberg. Grimetons naturreservat är en del av Åkulla bokskogsområde beläget ett par mil öster om Varberg: Det är en dramatisk natur som höjer sig över de flacka åkrarna längs kustbandet. Att bygga i ett naturreservat kräver ställningstaganden kring männsikans beboende av naturskogen, en ödmjukhet inför skogen trots det ingrepp det innebär att bygga. Skogsvaktarstugans arkitektoniska utformning har intentionen at representera en bostad och arbetsplats för kommande generationer Projektgrupp: Petra Gipp, Katarina Lundeberg, Veronica Carlsson
Kivik Art Centre ‘Sauna tonttu’ by Lassila Hirvilammi Architects (FI 'Sauna tonttu' by Lassila Hirilammi Architects, photo by Mikko Auerniitty Lassila Hirvilammi Architects recently completed this sauna based on a nineteenth century barn. The building was not used for 50 years and fell into decay before it was converted and modernised by the Finnish architectural practice. Here is what the architects explain: “The sauna is located on top of a rock which rises 200 meters above sea level. You reach the sauna along a little path through a cornfield, which leads to a sheltered terrace. “In the renovations, rotten logs were repaired and the cladding replaced where necessary. Project partners: Builders: tmi Petri Piipponen to the Lassila Hirvilammi profile @ Architonic
Architecture speak: An essay on the ridiculous way architects talk. - By Witold Rybczynski Although Ted Mosby, the architect character in How I Met Your Mother, has suitably tousled hair and his (client-less) firm has a trendy name—Mosbuis Designs—he doesn't seem to have mastered the lingo of his trade, for architects, like all professionals, have their own jargon, while Ted speaks like an ordinary guy. A brief history is in order. Architecture is a relatively young profession—the American Institute of Architects was not founded until 1857. When Modernist architects revolutionized the art of building in the 1920s, they scrubbed classical decoration—and classical terms. This changed in the 1970s, on March 16, 1972, to be exact, the day the federal government dynamited the first of 33 buildings of the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project in St. Other architects, especially those teaching in universities, reacted to the collapse of Modernism by attempting to reinvent the field as a theoretical discipline. Discourse: What architects talk about when they talk about architecture.
Hunsett Mill / ACME Architects: ACME (Friedrich Ludewig, Stefano Dal Piva) with Karoline Markus, Nerea Calvillo, Chris Yoo Location: Hunsett Mill, Chapel Field Road, Stalham, Norfolk, England Contractor: Willow Builders Structural Engineering: Adams Kara Taylor Sustainability: Hoare Lea Client: Catriona and John Dodsworth, Joanna and Jon Emery Project Area: 213 sqm Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Cristobal Palma The Norfolk Broads are an artificial landscape of outstanding natural beauty, a man made wetland sustained through human intervention of water pumping mills, dykes and canals. After hundreds of years of indus- trial use of the natural landscape, the recent decades have seen increasing emphasis on conservation and a managed retreat back to nature. Project Background Hunsett Mill is a remote water pumping mill located in the historic Norfolk Broads National Park, situated beside the River Ant, upstream from the Sutton Broads. Building History The new extension Design
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