- Via MACE

” Call for Papers

Within the context of MACE (Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europe) , a European project co-funded by the European Commission, a two-day international conference, entitled “Online Repositories in Architecture”, is organised in Venice during the period of “La Biennale di Architettura 2008” on 12-13 September by EAAE (European Association for Architectural Education) and Collaboratorio (Italy) from the MACE project partnership.

The MACE project is interlinking architectural repositories. Gaps resulting from autonomous design, implementation, funding, and maintenance are bridged by implementing conceptual tools (ontologies, glossaries, and standards), interfaces and metadata agglomeration. This happens in order to create innovative e-learning tools that can help expert users and laypeople to find, tag, acquire, use, and discuss contents from many architectural repositories that previously had limited accessibility.
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- Via Pritzker Prize

” CA—Jean Nouvel of Paris, France has been chosen as the 2008 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The formal ceremony for what has come to be known throughout the world as architecture’s highest honor will be held on June 2 in Washington,D.C. at the Library of Congress. At that time, a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion will be bestowed on the 62-year old architect. Read the full story

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- Via Gravestmor

” The house is built out of a series of curves set in opposition to one another. A bent and split beam reaches out in an improbable cantilever to the north and south before folding in on itself to capture a small piece of outdoor space that steps down to the pool below. The time honoured parti of the flambouyant top sitting on a sturdy base is observed with the bedrooms bathrooms and etc bunkered in a stone base beneath the malformed clover. Read the full story

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- Via LICC

London International Creative Competition has announced the Finalists and Shortlist of the first annual competition. LICC is a vehicle for facilitating contact between uniquely talented artists and an international audience. The first year’s competition attracted thousands of entries from 95 countries. read more

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- Via Arkinetia

” Determined by the characteristics of the area, narrow and with a hanging fortress towards the south, the study Syntax Architektur, led by the architect Michael Barth, designed this single-family abundant housing in natural light that makes use to the maximum of the virtues of the garden and his adjacencies. Read the full story

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- Via Tishman Speyer

“    Master plan designed by architect Helmut Jahn, landscape architect Peter Walker, and master planner Cooper Robertson

• 13 acres of new open public space
• Approximately 13 million square feet total
• Over 10 million square feet of total office space
• 3,000 residential units
• Close to 300 permanently affordable apartments
• Approximately 550,000 square feet of retail space
• Entire project will be LEED Gold-certified by the U.S. Green Building Council
• New public school (PS/IS) to be constructed on West Yards
• New 200,000 square feet cultural venue overlooking the Forum

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- Via OMA

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been selected  to redevelop the iconic Commonwealth Institute in Kensington and Chelsea, London, by Chelsfield, one of the United Kingdom’s major property development groups, and their partner Ilchester Estate. The project includes the addition of a major residential scheme alongside the rejuvenation of the 1960’s structure at the edge of Holland Park.
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By Serero Architectes

” Gongshi (or Scholar’s Rocks) is the term for stones that were collected by Chinese scholars because they resembled mountains (both famous and imaginary) and similar natural wonders of the world around. They represented a focus for meditation of religious or philosophic principles and served for contemplation prior to writing poems or painting.  Chinese learned to admire the rocks for “surfaces that suggest great age, forceful profiles that evoke the grandeur of nature, overlapping layers or planes that impart depth, and hollows or perforations that create rhythmic, harmonious patterns.” For over 1,000 years, Chinese literati and Taoist monks often brought these mountains into their studios for meditation and contemplation while they wrote or painted.
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- Via Bustler

” Paris-based Serero Architects have claimed victory in the open competition to redesign any of the Eiffel Tower’s public reception and access areas. Serero’s project will extend the top floor plate of the tower by grafting a high performance carbon Kevlar structure on it. The structure will be temporarily bolted to the slab without requiring any modification of the existing structure. It will expand the usable floor area from 280 m2 to 580m2.
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- Via Dezeen

” Five architects, including Studio Daniel Libeskind (above and below), Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Foster + Partners, have been shortlisted to design Tour Signal, a high-rise building at La Défense business district in Paris.
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