Winning entry, Pablo Esteban Zamorano and Marcos Cárdenas Winners have been recently announced for the Lavender Lake art factory competition sponsored by suckerPUNCH. This competition proposed a new artists factory for the “public space” site of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York. The proposals were designed to both foster creative production and attract visitors to the factory and neighbor..
The Jerde Partnership’s Namba Parks, in Osaka, Japan, was just named one of the winners of the Urban Land Institute’s 2009 Awards of Excellence: Asia Pacific competition. When asked to create a gateway to redefine Osaka’s identity, the architects responded with this project that would become a natural intervention in Osaka’s dense and harsh urban condition. The rooftop park offers a sloping park..
Housing Unit . Facade Component . Cluster . Neighbourhood Last week I attended the presentations of the associative design 2nd year at the Berlage research studio synthetic vernacular. Led by Peter Trummer and assisted by our fellow dysturb evangelist Martin Sobota, the class investigated traditional chinese building typologies. The principles found in the analysis were us..
Carbon Neutral master plans are being adopted in several countries, in times when energy and emissions are becoming very important. And that´s exactly what Azerbaijan will do to develop Zira Island on the Caspian Sea, located in the bay of the capital city Baku. The master plan was developed with danish BIG Architects and Ramboll engineers, with an architectural proposal based upon the country’s..
Plasmastudio has recently won the competition to develop the building and landscape design for Horticultural Expo in Xi'an, China. The project comprises 15,000 exhibition hall building, a series of conservatories, a 37Ha park around an artificial lake as well as ancilliary buildings. The next stages of development will take place during the next months with the collaboration of Plasmastudio (bui..
In a city covered by over 4,000 square miles of asphalt and cinder block, the green roof movement may have just won a serious coup with SYNTHe, an urban rooftop garden prototype designed by SCI-arc professor and architect Alexis Rochas. Located atop the Flat, a downtown Los Angeles residential mid-rise building, SYNTHe is a fertile oasis in the sky that will ultimately grow a variety of edible p..
Everybody copies from each other, Winy Maas – frontman of MVRDV – has stated at more than one occasion. What is more interesting, he adds, is how we can build on each other’s ideas: invention follows invention follows invention. A couple years ago there was a ‘hausse’ of towers that leaned into each other. At the height of the euphoria over that invention United Architects did a proposal like th..
Architects: ACXT Location: Bilbao, Spain Project Managment: Elena Varillas, Javier Duran, Ingenieros de Caminos Project Architects: Cesar Azcarate, Ana Moron, Xabier Aparicio, Carlos Guimaraes Structure: Javier Duran Electrical Engineer: Alvaro Gutierrez Lighting: Anton Aman (ALS Lighting) Photographer: Aitor Ortiz PREVIOUS SITUATION The districts of Txurdinaga and Otxarcoaga are located in Bilb..
Architects: Consortium Daoust Lestage + Williams Asselin Ackaoui + Option aménagement Location: Quebec, Canada Project Team: Réal Lestage, urban planner, principal in the project team, Renée Daoust, architect, urban planner, principal / Caroline Beaulieu, architect / Lucie Bibeau, landscape architect / Martin Adam, b. arch. / Maria Benech, b. arch. / André Nadeau, landscape architect / Simon Mag..
Architect: ARTEKS Arquitectura Location: Tarragona, Spain Architects in charge: Gerard Veciana Membrado & Elisabet Faura Pavia Arteks Collaborators: Elena Berri, Laia Esteban,Gemma Roca, Carlos Cobreros, Fermin Sánchez, Alex Miralles, Ricard Blanco, Miquel Mercè, Manuel González Constructed Area: 28,000 sqm Project Year: 2008 Pergola Engineering: Amatria Engineering - J.M velasco Facilities Engi..
