New Folkwang Museum . Essen 

source: David Chipperfield . Folkwang Museum . photos: Christian Richters .more: flickr

The Museum Folkwang, founded in Hagen by Karl Ernst Osthaus in 1902, was the first museum of contemporary art in Europe. The most significant works were transferred from Hagen to Essen in 1922, from which point on, aside from a period when the National Socialists temporarily divested the collection, the museum was able to pursue a high level of collecting activity. Today, it is one of the most high profile museums of the classic modern in Germany.

Green Cloud

 origen: CAS-DA . SBDA . equipo: Benet Dalmau Alsina . Saida Dalmau Alsina . Carmen Vilar Agea . Anna Julibert Foyo

En este caso, decidimos presentarnos a un concurso de diseño propuesto por designboom en asociación el gobierno de Seul (Corea)

Scuola media “don Lorenzo Milani” . Vicchio

source: courtesy of Bettini + Studio Des

The project proposal for the new secondary school Vicchio is formulated around the following criteria and objectives:

The Dune House . Suffolk

source: Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects . more: living-architecture

Bavière Housing Block L . Liège

source: Anorak

Pavilhão Multiusos do Campo de Cevadeiro 1 . Vila Franca de Xira

more: Nuno Graça Moura

Pretende-se um edifício, que “pareça” uma pavilhão público. Propomos um “objecto” autónomo, de escala adaptada à envolvente, marcada pela presença do Campo de Cevadeiro, da Praça de Touros das vias de circulação e do rio.
Um pórtico de entrada voltado para o espaço público a norte faz a transição exterior/interior para o volume da nave de exposições. Junto ao átrio situam-se a cafetaria, recepção e wc's. No piso 1, funciona o restaurante e respectivas esplanadas (voltadas ao rio e à cidade), bem como a administração. Uma janela de generosas dimensões comunica visualmente o bar com a cidade e outra com a sala de exposições.

Esoc callisto . Darmstadt

source: Mecanoo architecten

Point Supreme . Half Real

more: Point Supreme

Farmer footprint photo . Taboadela

origen: Europan . autores: José Juan Fructuoso Sempere . Javier Poveda Sáchez . Juan Manuel Cutillas Medina . Antonio Pascual Pascual

Rehabilitacion del cuartel de San Fernando . Lugo

origen: gracias a Martín Cerreda . Natalia Lorenzo arquitectos . Patricia Ferrero Arquitectura

La propuesta consta de dos fases. Por un lado una primera fase de rehabilitación y acondicionamiento del edificio histórico y por otro lado una segunda de acondicionamiento y ampliación del mismo. La parte del edificio que le da su condición de BIC se restastaura para mostrar su valor patrimonial. En la parte de construcción más reciente se realizan unos grandes lucernación que introducen luz en la zona de administración en planta primera y ayudan a enfatizar y singularizar la excavación de los restos encontrados en planta baja.

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more: Metalocus

Piazza del Ponte . Mendrisio

source: Sergison Bates architekten . rsi

The proposal for the redevelopment of the piazza del Ponte area in the historical centre of Mendrisio has been selected as the winning scheme at the end of a six month competition process.
The design concept was developed in collaboration with East as public realm consultants and highway, civil and infrastructure engineering consultants Arup through a series of workshops involving representatives of the Municipality of Mendrisio and their consultants, which took place between February and July 2010.
The project involves the construction of a new City Library and a new landscaped central Piazza in the centre of Mendrisio and public realm infrastructure according to the principles of ‘shared space’, which requires the slowing down of a vehicular traffic, improved pedestrian and cycling routes, the relocation of parking provisions, the creating of a pocket part and the densification of the surrounding urban fabric.

Sofitel hotel . Vienna

photos: Jean Nouvel Ateliers . Sofitel hotel . more: archdaily . wallpaper

Absolute Towers in progress . Mississauga

more: MAD

+house . Puerto Cayo

more: We architecture

Museo del Centro Cultural Universitario . Guadalajara

origen: Snohetta . más: Stilo

Blok 39 . Centre for promotion of science . Belgrade

source: Lan Architecture .  more: Blok 39

Interaction between the elements . Boschplaat Terschelling

more: Rietveld Landscape

Rising sea levels are posing a threat to Terschelling, a North Sea island and UNESCO monument. In 2008, a report addressing this threat appeared, and Rietveld Landscape was asked to advise on the opportunities offered by the report. According to Rietveld Landscape’s vision, the symbiosis between human activity and impressive natural processes accounts for Terschelling’s attraction to inhabitants and outsiders alike – a fact that should guide all attempts at dealing with the rising of the sea level.

ATHC Headquarters . Terrassa

source: XVA Arquitectura . more: archdaily

ARCA . Observatorio de inundaciones . México

origen: gracias a los autores del proyecto:  Israel López Balan . Gabriel Mendoza Cruz . Moisès Hernández García  

La propuesta toma como inicio el terreno creando una topologia artificial de la que nace el proyecto. Con ello se explora sin miedo la dualidad de los limites de forma respetuosa, discreta y clara.

Der Rettungsring . Berlin

source: Plastique Fantastique . photos: Marco Canevacci . video: Ingo Mende

DER RETTUNGSRING is designed as an experimental feature: It is our first attempt to built a floating structure – to bring together the two elements of air and water in a creative form. The Odyspree 2010- a creative storytelling boat trip- is a live performance, initiated by treibhaus 08. On the 'Island of Youth' in the district Berlin Treptow, plastique fantastique dropped their RETTUNGSRING (lifesaver) and placed it around a tree. The huge red and white sculpture semi-floated on the Spree River. It was widely visible as the sign for the 'redeeming shore' where the creative voyagers presented the outcomes of their 'Spree-Odyssee'. Once inside of the structure, the visitor enjoyed the full experience of walking, sitting and relaxing on the water.

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origen: artintelligence . más: Fundacio Tàpies

Green Room  (Domestic Monuments #2)  . Rotterdam

more: Casanova+Hernandez . photos: Casanova+Hernandez

The “Green Room” is a temporary landscape intervention specially designed for the city of Rotterdam that is part of a series of interventions in the public space of several European cities named “Domestic Monuments”.

Interiorismo 5g  apartamento 1102 . Medellín

más: Paisajes Emergentes

“Frente al orden pautado de la vida cotidiana que regula el funcionalismo, el desorden será la característica visual mas obvia, un desorden que cobra un valor cierto; que se extiende desde el espacio y sus usos siempre imprevisibles e improvisados hasta el tiempo…”

Tree House . Plot 35 . Ordos

source: FRENTE / Juan Pablo Maza . more: archdaily

The immediate context drove the decision of designing an introvert villa.  As a result of the extreme weather, it has been chosen to bury the house taking advantage of the generosity of underground temperatures and therefore neutralizing the harsh winter and summer weather conditions.

Edificio de viviendas . Es Molinar

origen: gracias a Javier de las Heras

Apropiar-se del lloc entenent les seves alineacions i urbanitzar l'entorn més immediat per anar resolent una trama urbana encara per consolidar.
Una plaça i un passeig definits per una geometria marcada per una clara ortogonalitat que ordena i ho prepara per l’activitat  de nous usos. En aquesta nova trama es planteja la nova edificació del centre d’estades diürnes  i els habitatges dotacionals com una peça autònoma.

Stairway to Heaven . Taipei pop music center

source: courtesy of LABEL architecture

For Sale

más: ADN gallery

Logements FLCL Lausanne

source: Dreier Frenzel Architek­ten

Deux volumes facettés s'érigent en réponse au contexte topographique, climatique et urbain particulier. L'empilement structurel des coeurs habitables de chaque appartement se manifeste par le décalage des murs périphériques et la stratification de la façade. Ces espaces coeur, à la convergence des activités domestiques, organisent chaque appartement et mettent en scène un rapport progressif à la lumière.

Sinfonia Varsovia . Warsaw

source: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos . sinfonia varsovia . more: 1 2 3 4 5 6

Torre Bicentenario . Mexico

source: OMA . luxigon

Compared with the world's other economically ascendant regions such as Asia and the Middle East, Latin America has a skyscraper deficit. Poised to harness the economic and symbolic potential of the Bicentennial, Mexico City will celebrate a historic moment with the emergence of a new skyscraper, the Torre Bicentenario.

Czech library

source: L.E.F T

Blok 39 competition . Belgrade

source: blok39 . panels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

New campus . Roskilde Technical School

source: Christensen & CO arkitekter

Roskilde Technical School will occupy a special location in the so called Musicon area in Roskilde. Roskilde Technical School is an educational institution with 3,000 students and 350 employees. Today the school is spread out on several locations in Roskilde and the new building will create a visionary, challenging and significant vision of how the school’s various educational strands can co-exist.

Maison de la Paix . Genève

more: Durrer Linggi Architekten

Das ‚Maison de la Paix’ als öffentliches Gebäude reagiert volumetrisch auf den städtebaulichen Kontext und die programmatischen Vorgaben. Südlich, zur Avenue de France, formuliert es durch eine breit gelagerte, einladende Geste für die Öffentlichkeit einen Vorplatz, wo man sich verabredet und trifft. Am nördlichen Ende gliedert es sich in die Höhententwicklung der siebengeschossigen Stadtkante ein und schafft einen präzisen Abschluss zwischen Park Rigot und den Abstellgleisen. Dadurch entsteht eine prägnante, perspektivisch verzerrte Volumetrie, welche den öffentlichen Ausdruck des Gebäudes und den dynamischen Charakter des ‚Maison de la Paix’ unterstreicht.

Sinfonia Varsovia . Warsaw

source: Atelier Thomas Pucher . more: 1 2 3 4 5 6

ATELIER THOMAS PUCHER has won the international competition for the new seat of the world renowned Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra in Warsaw. The 20.000m² cultural centre is housed on the site of a former Veterinary Institute with existing – yet asleep – buildings and a fairy tale park. The centre inhabits a 1.800 seat symphonic hall with world class acoustic properties, large rehearsal areas, merchandise facilities, musical workshops and a small hotel for artists in residence and music lovers on vacation.

Housing . Ypenburg

source: kkvvtmr

Apartment House . Riehen

source: Pedrocchi Meier Architekten . lookatme

Tellus Nursery School . Telefonplan

source: Tham & Videgård Arkitekter . photos: Åke E:son Lindman . more: archdaily .

A new nursery school for +100 children next to the University college of Arts and Crafts at Telefonplan, Stockholm.
The site is on the border between a former urban/industrial development and a small forest.
The project mediates between these different contexts and scales. A semi-enclosed entrance courtyard constitutes a first exterior space, where parents and children gather before entering the premises. The facade panel, 50×50mm sawn wood, filters direct sunlight into the school and creates hidden windows that underscore the building’s curved interior and exterior spaces.

Sanlitun Village North Area East . Beijing

source: BMA . photo: SHU He . more: archdaily

Novartis AG headquarters . Basel

source: Frank Gehry . Novartis AG . photos: courtesy of fastfoodforthought . more: arcspace . flickr

Landscape Loop . Åndalsnes

source: JAJA Architects

The Landscape Loop is a urban plan that emphasizes, improves and connects the inherent qualities of Aandalsnes to one unified entity. It is a project that gathers the city’s development within a loop that wraps around the town - creating a series of “blue” and “green” urban spaces that establish a natural connection between town and landscape.

Gallery Exhibition

Wednesday December 15, 2010 – Saturday January 22, 2011

source: Storefront

Storefront is pleased to announce Total Housing 01: Apartments, an exhibition of the results of the first in a succession of architecture competitions circling around the book Total Housing . Organized with Architizer.com and Actar Publishers, this first iteration concentrates on the typologies of apartments. The exhibition will showcase the five winning entries, which were chosen from nearly 400 submissions, along with selected commentary from the jury. Input from the public will be included and encouraged as a component of the exhibition. A selection of projects will be on display and the exhibition will be accompanied by a newsprint publication.

About the Total Housing Competitions
Actar publishers, Architizer.com, and Storefront for Art and Architecture are launching Total Housing , a series of competitions to create today's definitive source for residential designs that go beyond standardized and canonical models of inhabitation.

Total Housing 01: Apartments is the first in the series of Total Housing Competitions. The city is resurgent after years of suburban supremacy, but new technologies and socio-economic shifts have made traditional models for urban housing obsolete. Architects and designers are at the forefront of creating physical spaces that react to these new urban conditions, and we want to see them. Total Housing 01: Apartments looks for residential projects that address the incongruity between outmoded ideas of domestic space and contemporary urban lifestyles. The exhibition explores apartments that demonstrate innovation through material applications, programmatic arrangements, technological implementations, or radical conceptual propositions.

Sponsors:
This exhibition is made possible with the generous support of NRI, F.J. Sciame Construction Company, Inc. and Miele, Inc

Pneumatische Gitterschale  "Plus Minus" . Stuttgart

source: Studio ltd . more: Studio ltd

Archipel . Chavannes-près-Renens

more: Nicolas Reymond Architecture . Julien Joly Architecture

Museo de los neanderthales del Sidrón . Piloña

origen: gracias a DJarquitectura

El proyecto planteado como “infraestructura cultural los neandertales del Sidrón” amplia las connotaciones del edificio como elemento activo capaz de identificarse como referente didáctico y científico de los procesos de investigación de la prehistoria.

Stairscraper .  New York

more: Nabito arquitectura 
 
Questioning High Density Cottages.

NOT Urban NOT Suburban?
NOT Horizontal NOT Vertical?
Each Step A different View?
360º Global Orientation?
Optimize Space?

Martinho Les Neyres Residence . Bex

source: Bonnard Woeffray Architectes . more: archdaily . photos: Hannes Henz

Europan 10 .  Citadels in Kolding . Kolding

source: europan . authors: Mikala Læssøe Kirsebom . Sara Ettrup

The Horizon House . Private house . plot 39 . Ordos

source: Territorial Agency . ordosproject

Ordering systems always imply an opposite: systems of disorder. The architecture of this new house in Ordos is a collection of different spaces, an interlocking of intimate and open spaces that form a vertical house at the edge of the new settlement. Its architecture organizes and disassembles the various activities that will inhabit it. The architecture of the tower allows to have a different configuration on each floor, a system of vertical divisions and separations that enhances the polyphony of its intimate spaces.

Four Dwellings . Abou Al Sous

source: courtesy of Esas Architects

The project is a residential complex for a couple and their three adult children.  In order to reconcile the parent's vision of a communal family home with their children's desire for privacy and independence, the design seeks a simple confluence between four detached apartment units and one extended family house.  The structure is conceived accordingly - four isolated volumes, each with an identical programme of public living spaces, are stacked atop a continuous lower level that houses the more intimate family spaces.

Metropol Parasol . Sevilla

source: J. Mayer H. Architects . more: archdaily