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Building: Marne School of Architecture
Architect: Bernard Tschumi Architects
Program: Auditorium, classrooms, workshops
Client: French Minister of Culture -EPA Marne- EPA France
Completed: 1994-1999
Area: 25.500 sqm
Cost: 28.000.000 USD
Location: Marne-la-vallée, France
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Recorded: Jan 2009
Footage by Felipe De Ferrari M
Edited by Felipe De Ferrari M.
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“The design of the school begins from the thesis that there are “building-generators” of events. Such structures are often condensers of the city. Through their programs as well as their spatial qualities, they accelerate or intensify a cultural and social transformation that is already in progress….” Bernard Tschumi
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Project Details:
Total area: 36,782 square feet
Completed: 2008
Client: Inner-City Arts
Architect: Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc.
Design Principal: Michael T. Maltzan, FAIA
Project Director: Tim Williams
Project Manager: Stacy Nakano
Design Team:Kurt Sattler – Krista Scheib – Jeff Soler
Project Team:Owen Tang – Terence Cheng – Yvonne Lau – Michael McDonald – David Freeland – Brad Groff
Landscape: Nancy Goslee Power and Associates
Photographed by Iwan Baan
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Inner-City Arts project, is a downtown Los Angeles education facility which provides art instruction to a large population of at-risk children and youth in LA. The project is designed by LA-based architect Michael Maltzan together with garden designer Nancy Goslee Power.

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Rolex Learning Center - SANAA Architects

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Project Details:
NAME OF BUILDING; Rolex Learning Center
LOCATION: EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) – 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
SCHEDULE: Competition 2004
Construction: 2007 – 2009
Opening: February 22, 2010
CONSTRUCTION COST: 110 Million CHF
CLIENT: EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
ARCHITECT: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA
Team: Yumiko Yamada, Rikiya Yamamoto, Osamu Kato, Naoto Noguchi, Mizuko Kaji, Takayuki Hasegawa, Louis-Antoine Grego (Former staff: Tetsuo Kondo, Matthias Haertel, Catarina Canas)
Email: sanaa@sanaa.co.jp
LOCAL ARCHITECT: Architram SA – Renens, Switzerland
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SITE DIMENSIONS: 88,000sqm (166.5m x 121.5m)
FOOTPRINT: 20,200sqm – FLOOR AREA: 37,000sqm
NUMBER OF FLOORS: 1 Basement + 1 Main
MAIN PROGRAMS: Multimedia Library – 500,000 volumes; Student Workspaces – 860 seats; Multipurpose Hall “Forum Rolex” – 600 seats; Café + Bar – 53 seats + exterior; Food Court – 128 seats + exterior; Restaurant – 80 seats; Career Center; Library Staff Office; EPFL Precious Book Collection; Student Association Office – “AGEPoly”; Alumni Association Office – “A3”; Pedagogy Research Office – “CRAFT”; Publication Office – “PPUR”
Bank – “Credit Suisse”; Bookshop – “LA fontaine”; Parking – 500 places
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Press Release by Rolex Learning Center:
Designed by the Japanese architectural practice SANAA, led by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, the Rolex Learning Center is a radical and highly experimental building, designed for new ways of study and interaction in the 21st century.

A LIGHT AND ORGANIC SHAPE
Located centrally on the EPFL campus, and its new hub, the building is essentially one continuous
structure spread over a site of 88,000m2: The building is rectangular in plan, but appears to be more organic in shape because of the way that its roof and floor undulate gently, always in parallel. With few visible supports, the building touches the ground lightly, leaving an expanse of open space beneath which draws people from all sides towards a central entrance.

SLOPES INSTEAD OF WALLS
Inside, the hills, valleys and plateaus formed by the undulation often make the edges of the building invisible, though there are no visual barriers between one area and the next. Instead of steps and staircases, there are gentle slopes and terraces. Clearly, but without dividing walls, one area of activity gives way to another. Visitors stroll up the gentle curves, or perhaps move around the space on one of the specially designed ʻhorizontal liftsʼ, elegant glass boxes, whose engineering is adapted from everyday lift design. As well as providing social areas and an impressive auditorium, the building lends itself to the establishment of quiet zones and silent zones, acoustically separated areas created through changes in height. The slopes, valleys and plateaus within the building, as well as the shapes made by the patios, all contribute to these barrier-free delineations of space. In addition, clusters of glazed or walled ʻbubblesʼ make small enclosures for small groups to meet or work together in.

PATIOS – ENCLOSURE AND ENCLOSED
The topography lends an extraordinary fluidity to the buildingʼs flexible open plan – a flow that is emphasised by fourteen voids in the structure, of varying dimensions. These are glazed and create a series of softly rounded external ʻpatiosʼ, as the architects describe them. The patios are social spaces and provide a visual link between the inside and the outside. They are very much part of the building. From the higher areas, visitors may enjoy views not only of the campus but, spectacularly, of Lake Geneva and the Alps.

AN INTIMATE PUBLIC SPACE
With all its unity and variety, the Rolex Learning Center is, as described by Kazuyo Sejima on the announcement that SANAA had won the architectural competition, an ʻintimate public spaceʼ.

DESIGNED FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
The Rolex Learning Center embodies the aims and philosophy of the EPFL, setting the scene for different kinds of collaborative, cross-disciplinary research, regarded as essential to advances in science and technology. It offers flexibility to use the building in many different ways, now and in the future, to absorb new technology and working methods, as they come on stream, many of them developed within EPFL itself. The building emphasises sociability, getting together for coffee, for lunch, for study, for seminars, to stimulate informal encounters between people of all the key disciplines. It is designed to be a landmark, a place people will want to visit, allowing EPFL to reach out to the surrounding community and internationally.
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OMA

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“Three imperatives drive the concept for Chu Hai College’s new campus: a compressed time frame of two years for completion, the natural beauty of the site – a verdant hill overlooking Castle Peak Bay in Hong Kong’s New Territories – and Chu Hai’s venerable history (starting in 1947) of multidisciplinary education. “
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“The campus consists of education facilities for three faculties (with 10 departments) and two research centres over a gross floor area of 28,000m2. Seventy-five percent of this space is concentrated in two parallel horizontal slabs, which are each eight stories high. The slabs are conceived with speed and ease of construction in mind: all structural elements are on the exterior, liberating the floor plane for ultimate flexibility.

The slabs are connected by a ‘mat’ of stairs and platforms that criss-cross between the buildings, acting as a circulation space for the campus and following the natural slope of the site towards the sea. Campus life is concentrated on the mat, which facilitates encounters between staff and students from different departments and offers views of the sea, the surrounding hills, and also, thanks to the aerated facades of the slabs, into the inner life of the college itself.

Beneath the mat, the ‘plinth’ runs between the two slabs, beginning at ground level and rising to the fourth floor. It is a multi-level network of intricate spaces – in contrast to the simplicity of the slabs – including a cluster of four lecture theatres, a cafeteria, gym, and, at the core of the college, the library.”
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OMA

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The Office for Metropolitan Architecture in collaboration with Leigh & Orange Architects has won the competition for the new campus for Chu Hai College of Higher Education in the New Territories in Hong Kong. The campus will give Chu Hai College, established in 1947, a new identity as well as a new site.
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“The project, with a gross floor area of 28,000m2, consists of education facilities for three faculties – arts, science and engineering, and business – containing 10 departments and two research centres. Chu Hai College has traditionally emphasised a multidisciplinary and wide-ranging education for its 4,000 students engaged in the four-year degree curriculum. Accordingly, OMA’s design generates abundant communal spaces that will facilitate encounters between students from different departments.
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OMA conceived a building that consists of two parallel horizontal slabs connected by a ‘mat’ of social and educational facilities. The slabs, each eight stories high, contain flexible space for classrooms, studios, and offices. Their aerated structural facades provide a visual unity for the campus, and allow views into the inner workings of the buildings and out over Castle Peak Bay and its verdant surrounding hills. The slabs are oriented to maximise natural ventilation, reducing air conditioning demands by 15–30 per cent and contributing to an efficient, sustainable design.

Connecting the two slabs, the mat contains the library, cafeteria, gym, and lecture theatres. On top of this mat OMA has designed a shaded area of steps, platforms, and ramps that acts as a circulation system between the various facilities. Crucially, this ramp coincides with the slope of the existing hill on the site, grounding the new campus firmly within the landscape.
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OMA’s concentrated design for the campus allows several of the original British army buildings on the site to be preserved. These buildings will be used for accommodation, student union and canteen facilities.

The design, led by OMA partner Rem Koolhaas, General Manager of OMA Asia (Hong Kong) David Gianotten, and associate Chris van Duijn, was chosen from eight submissions by internationally renowned architecture offices. The Chu Hai College selection committee chose OMA’s design because it provides a strong visual identity for the college, flexibility in use and an environment conducive for multidisciplinary education. They called the design ‘the bookstand’.

David Gianotten commented: “OMA’s design for the new campus features both pure geometric forms with the two slabs, and subtlety and intricacy with the mat that connects them. We aimed to create a sustainable, integrated, and open platform for the future of Chu Hai College.”

The project will be executed by OMA Asia (Hong Kong), which opened in the summer of 2009. The office is currently also working on a conceptual plan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, design development of the Taipei Performing Arts Centre in Taiwan, construction of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, and the interior design of the Edouard Malingue Gallery in Hong Kong.”
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PETER RICH Architects - Iwan Baan

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Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre, Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo, South Africa

“The Mapungubwe National Park celebrates the site of an ancient trading civilization in the context of a natural setting. The complex landscape was both the inspiration for the design and the source of the materials for the construction of the new Interpretation Centre, resulting in a composition of structures that are authentically rooted to their location. The building is visually contained by two hollow cairns that evoke route-markers found in Southern African cultures. Timbrel vaulting is used to construct billowing forms that expose the arched edges of their thin shells, an analogy of the archaeological revelation of past cultures.

The project’s agenda extends beyond the presentation of the area’s history to awaken an understanding of the vulnerability of the local ecology. These objectives are manifested in the construction process of the Centre in which unemployed local people were trained in the manufacture of stabilized earth tiles and in building the vaulting. ”
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“Mapungubwe, located on South Africa’s northern border with Botswana and Zimbabwe, prospered between 1200 and 1300 AD by being one of the first places that produced gold, but after its fall it remained uninhabited for over 700 years, until it’s discovery in 1933. The society living in what today is Unesco World Heritage Site, is thought to have been the most complex in the region, implementing the first class-based social system in southern Africa. And besides the cultural heritage, Mapungubwe is also home to an immensely rich flora and fauna, including over 1000 years old Baobab trees and a big variety of animal life, including elephant, giraffe, white rhino, antelopes and 400 bird species.
In this surreal setting Peter Rich has designed a 1,500m2 visitor’s center which includes spaces to tell the stories of the place and house artifacts, along with tourist facilities and SANParks offices. The complex is a collection of stone cladded vaults balancing on the sloped site, against the backdrop of Sandstone formations and mopane woodlands.
The vaults have been designed in collaboration with John Ochsendorf from MIT and Michael Ramage, Univ. of Cambridge, using a 600 years old construction system to achieve a low economical and environmental impact. The traditional timbrel vaulting, using locally made pressed soil cement tiles, allows the design to be materialized with minimal formwork and no steel reinforcement. In addition, the ambition was to also integrate local unskilled labor into a poverty relief program by training them to produce the over 200,000 tiles necessary in the construction of the domes.

The Mapungubwe Interpretive Center was realized using latest developments in structural geometry along with an ancient construction technique, in order to implement a contemporary design, meant to house hundreds of years old artifacts.” Iwan Baan
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Make Architects

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“The first phase of the Jubilee Campus expansion project delivers a remarkable new environment for research, study, business and leisure to be enjoyed by both the University and the City of Nottingham as a whole.

Three new buildings signal the transformation of a former industrial site and create a new identity for the campus. Dramatically angular in form, International House and the Amenities Building emerge from the landscape like natural landforms and feature dynamic facades clad in red and brown terracotta tiles randomly arranged for maximum visual impact. Sir Colin Campbell Building houses a range of facilities for new businesses, and straddles the main campus road to forge a physical link between the academic and business and enterprise zones of the campus.

A cladding of zinc shingles emphasises the sinuous curves of the structure and establishes the building as a distinctive new focal point for the campus.All buildings feature high-performance facades which reduce heating and cooling loads and internal air quality is maintained using a highly efficient displacement system. A series of heat pumps extract embodied energy from lakes nearby through a closed loop system, using it to cool the buildings in summer and heat them in winter; in turn, all rain and run-off water is carefully collected and fed back into the lakes in order to preserve this natural resource.”
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John Wardle Architects

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“We believe the contemporary library is a place of study open to the world outside, full of noisy discussion of new ideas while still providing space for quieter contemplation.” John Wardle

Project Details:
Client: Melbourne Grammar School
Location: South Yarra, Victoria, Australia
Awards: Victorian Architecture Medal AIA
Premier’s Design Mark Award, State of Design 2008
National Award for Public Architecture AIA
The Emil Soderstan Award for interior Architecture AIA
William Wardell Public Architecture Award AIA Victoria
Date Completed: 2008
Photography: Trevor Mein – Peter Hyatt – Dianna Snape – Flickr
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“In May 2004, Melbourne Grammar School announced John Wardle Architects as the winner of a design competition for a landmark building on Domain Road, establishing a new front door for the school. The Centre for Learning and Leadership will integrate library and information technology functions, and include a 240 seat lecture theatre and administration centre.

The subject of learning becomes the face of the campus through a transparent library envelope. The emphasis is on providing an active space with access to knowledge in a variety of media, electronic as well as traditional forms. The library elevation is an open glass façade that exposes rows of books as well as thriving companion activities, symbolically representing both a repository of knowledge and a shift to a more open and engaging institution.

The entry on Domain Road will be expressed as a slice through the new building that reveals the West Quadrangle’s1858 facade.”
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Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum

Michigan State University shows images and an animation of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum designed by Zaha Hadid.
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The New 3d Animated video:

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LIN

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Project Details:
Project status: International competition, 1st prize, realisation
Location: Saint-Etienne, Loire, France
Client: Saint-Etienne Metropole
Team: Architects: LIN Finn Geipel + Giulia Andi
Surface net: 17 250 m²
Dates: competition 2004, realisation 2006 to 2009
Costs: 41,5 m €
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“The “Centre International du Design” is a new institution for communication, research and education in design. The project is situated on the historic site of the National Arms Manufacture in St. Etienne.
It involves the renovation of several historic buildings, as well as the integration of a new building the ‘platine’ (200 x32 m), an observation tower (31m high), two gardens and the Place d’Armes, a public esplanade.
The ‘platine’ is an inter climatic laboratory whose adaptive skin is enveloping several programs as an exhibition spaces, an auditorium, the ‘agora’, a greenhouse and a media- and material library. It is reacting on their different needs in terms of light and climate. It is also an expression of the different activities in the Cité du Design.”
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The Architects’ Journal

Architects’ Journal has revealed the first photographs of Foster + Partners £23 million Langley Academy in Slough
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“Although it has been open to students and staff for nearly a year, the 1,150 pupil science academy will only be officially ‘launched’ later today (12 November) by Olympic medal-winning rower Matthew Pinsent.

The three-storey building, which replaced the now-demolished Langleywood School, is understood to be the first in the UK to have its own museum. More than 500 items and artefacts, including the rowing boat used by the victorious British rowing crew in the 2000 Olympic Games, are displayed throughout the building.

As well as 38 classrooms, the academy also boasts 10 science labs housed in three yellow drums floating within the main atrium (pictured below). The school also has a block which is home to TV and recording studios, a theatre, rehearsal space, sports hall and lecture theatre.”
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Read the rest of the Article at Architects’ Journal
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Bustler

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RMJM architects have recently been awarded a prestigious Cityscape Award in Dubai, UAE. Gordon Hood and Roger Klein of RMJM accepted the Islamic Architecture Award for their work on the Zliten Al-Asmariya University for Islamic Sciences in Libya.
The Zliten campus is a new branch of Al-Asmariya University, 120 km southeast of Tripoli. RMJM’s architects designed a campus master plan for the development of the 82-hectare site. Core academic functions are organized in four quadrants within a perimeter ‘habitable wall’ that contains faculty offices and academic support functions.
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Gordon Hood, RMJM said: “We are absolutely delighted to win this prestigious award for Islamic Architecture. It is a true testament to the success of our Global Education Studio and emphasizes the strength that RMJM maintains in its understanding of local culture and traditions. We are particularly grateful to Dr Mustafa Mezughi of ODAC in Libya, without whose advice this project would not have been possible”
The success of the work on the Zliten Campus is largely down to the development of RMJM’s Global Education Studio. The studio allows for talents in educational architecture from across RMJM’s international network to pool together, providing architectural services which combine international and local expertise.
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Images: RMJM
Text: Bustler
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Archinect

ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies.

Here The Latest Project University Library UBU Utrecht by Wiel Arets Architects
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Project Details:
Type: University Library
Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands
Client: University Utrecht (UU)
Architect: Wiel Arets Architects
Team: Wiel Arets, Harold Aspers, Dominic Papa, René Thijssen, Frederik Vaes, Henrik Vuust
Design: 1997-2001
Construction: 2001-2004
Photos: Jan Bitter Fotografie

“The UBU is a library located on the campus of Utrecht University in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Incorporating 4.2 million books, 1,000 seats, 450 parking places, 300 workstations, 3 shops, 1 auditorium and 1 bar – the UBU, comparable to a data recorder, is more than a place where people can consult books, it is a place where they can work in a concentrated fashion, but also one where they can meet other people without the need of any other stimulation except the atmosphere that the building radiates.

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“Glass and concrete panels clad the volumes of the building. The glass panels are printed with a repetitive image of a papyrus plant. Papyrus – a traditional material used in paper production – derives etymologically from the Greek byblos, which also serves as the root for words such as bibliography, bibliophile, and – in Dutch – Bibliotheek, or library. The papyrus image is replicated on each glass panel, allowing the façade to perform as a curtain which veils the library while also making subtle allusion to the nature of the program within. The pattern printed facade also mitigates sunlight entering the building, protecting the library’s printed materials. The pattern, which is also cast into the concrete panels of the exterior and interior walls, carries the allegorical motif into the various programs of the library….”

Check the Rest of the Article and the photos at Archinect
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0300 TV

0300 TV Presented a video of the Tama Art University Library in Tokyo designed by Toyo Ito & Associates Architects.

Project Details:
Building: Tama Art University Library
Architects: Toyo Ito & Associates Architects
Project Team: Toyo Ito, Takeo Higashi, Hideyuki Nakayama, Yoshitaka Ihara
Program: Educational Building
Structural Engineer: Sasaki Structural Consultants
Client: Tama Art University
Constructed Area: 5639,46 sqm
Completed: 2007
Location: Hachioji CIty, Tokyo, Japan
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http://www.vimeo.com/4271109
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Source: 0300 TV
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