Posted on 26 February 2008
- Via Archinect
“ Steven Holl Architects (SHA) has recently been commissioned by CapitaLand China, to realize, a large mixed-use complex in Chengdu, China. Scheduled to open in late 2010, this “giant chunk of a metropolis” houses a hybrid complex of generous public spaces flanked by five towers with offices, serviced apartments, retail, a hotel, cafes, and restaurants. The 105,000 square feet site is developed to maximize public open space and to stimulate micro-urbanism….
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Posted on 24 February 2008
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” The New House in Kingston occupies the bush block in this Hobart suburb. A slope of twenty-five degrees may have been one reason the site remained vacant for so long, but with panoramic views stretching from Mt. Wellington to Kingston beach, the property was calling out for something quite special. ‘Our clients wanted a house that was calm and tranquil, a place to retreat at the end of each day,’ says designer Aaron Roberts, who worked closely with founding member of Room 11, Thomas Bailey, along with colleagues Nathan Crump and James Wilson.
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Posted on 23 February 2008
- Via Metropolis
In 1999, when the Queens Botanical Garden began planning its new visitors’ center, the LEED program that is now the currency of the green-building movement was still a nascent tool. New York City, meanwhile, was in the process of creating its own guidelines for “high-performance” buildings. Especially in the realm of publicly financed projects, the era of green architecture was just dawning.
“ One of New York’s lesser-known botanical gardens emerges as a leader in sustainable design.
By Fred A. Bernstein
In 1999, when the Queens Botanical Garden began planning its new visitors’ center, the LEED program that is now the currency of the green-building movement was still a nascent tool. New York City, meanwhile, was in the process of creating its own guidelines for “high-performance” buildings. Especially in the realm of publicly financed projects, the era of green architecture was just dawning.
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Posted on 22 February 2008
-Via Noticias Arquitectura
” Perched atop a ridgeline in the Hollywood Hills, the presence of the Skyline Residence represents an honest approach to creating an environmentally sensitive building without sacrificing beauty nor budget. The pre-existing site presented a challenge in terms of constructability, the client presented the challenge of limited allowable expenses, and the architect was resilient to marginalize beauty and originality. The requirements of an architecture to satisfy each of these constraints are found in that which is constant and continuous at a given site.
Capitalizing on and working within the physical, visual, and psychological characteristics of a given site fosters value in the relationship between building and site. Beyond incorporating various sustainable strategies out of pure concern for the environment, the budgetary limitations imposed on material choice forced the architect to implement strategies for using resources in close proximity to the site. While the building is not fused with the ground formally, it’s relationship to ground, sky and the elements through a comprehensive understanding of locality is symbiotic.
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Posted on 20 February 2008
- Via Plataforma Arquitectura
Architect: Giancarlo Mazzanti
” The mountain edge of the city is made up of an intrincate network of footpaths product of the displacement in a topography and of remainders of green space as a result of the impossibility to construct in her, this network works as small places of encounter. One looks for to harness the encounter places and to moor the network of spaces public proposed to way of a great “urban wharf” that serves like balcony towards the city, connecting the project, the viewpoints developed by the EDU and the station of the meter cable thus to increase to the amount of urban connectivities and places of encounter in the city.
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Posted on 17 February 2008
- Via Inhabitat
” ….A young, design-driven development firm, Brio54’s mission is to provide sustainable, affordable design while delivering high quality construction. Home buyers of all types will delight in Brio54’s wide variety of offerings - whether you live in a suburban area, are looking to refurbish or rehab, or have an empty urban infill lot. Brio54’s first prefab prototype, the H1, (pictured above) is currently in the final stage of planning, and construction is slated to begin production in the spring of 2008.
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Posted on 14 February 2008
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” It might not look like it, but inside this box, there’s an armoire, a desk, a height-adjustable stool, two more stools, a six-shelf bookcase, and a bed with a mattress. Casulo , the brilliant, modular setup designed by Marcel Krings & Sebastian Mühlhäuser, hides furnishings enough for an entire room — or, heck, an entire apartment — in a small 80 cm x 120 cm box.
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Posted on 14 February 2008
- Via Noticias Arquitectura
” Villanueva’s public library is the result of a national contest summoned by the Colombian Architect’s Society where the winners Miguel Torres, German Ramirez, Alejandro Piñol and Carlos Meza, architects from the Javeriana University Bogota-Colombia, all below 27 years of age, won first prize in this contest, and designed 3000 square meters for reading rooms, an auditorium, a kid’s library, staff offices, the building’s functioning facilities and an open space for social interaction.
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Posted on 10 February 2008
- Via New York Times
A model of the proposal by Work Architecture that won this year’s Young Architects Program at the P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center in Long Island City, Queens.
“One can only imagine how the judges reacted when the architects walked in lugging the kind of hulking concrete-pouring cardboard tubes used at construction sites filled with flowering heads of cabbage.
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Posted on 10 February 2008
- Via World Architecture News
” Erick van Egeraat associated architects design of the Konstantinovsky Congress Center in Russia
The Konstantinovsky Congress Centre is a 21st century addition to Niccolo Michetti’s sophisticated 18th century scheme for the grand Konstantinovsky palace. Striving to enrich the scheme, Erick van Egeraat adopts Micheti’s principles and extends the famous landscape grid to the plot of the new Conference Centre.
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