Remember the renderings from the mid-rise residential project by OMA in New York we posted a few days ago? Well, OMA sent us more renderings that show more on the structural facade and the amazing cantilever of this building. more images after the break.
In 2006, with its centennial approaching, St. Albans School, a private boys’ school founded in 1909, decided to embark upon its first new construction project in nearly 30 years. The institution hired Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) to complete a 25,000-square-foot expansion and 30,00-square-foot of renovations to provide a student center, new classrooms, faculty offices, library and auditorium..
C. F. Møller Architects' design for a 60 residence passive housing scheme has been said by judges in a concept competition to raise, 'important issues about how existing and future masterplans can or should enable on-site renewable energy generation'. The firm was one of 5 consortia to generate a proposal for the pilot-project Housing+, designed for the Aalborg waterfront in Denmark. C. F. Mølle..
Austrian architects soma have recently won the first prize in the international competition for the Thematic Pavilion for the 2012 Expo in Yeosu, South Korea. The Thematic Pavilion will be one of the major facilities of the Yeosu Expo. Its exhibitions will give the visitors overview and introduction to the Expo’s theme, “The Living Ocean and Coast”. The aim of soma’s design titled “One Ocean” is..
Architects: Supersudaka / Juan Pablo Corvalán & Gabriel Vergara Location: Villa la Paz, Talca, Chile Collaborators: Pablo Sepúlveda, Jaime Pavez Mosaic: Simón Fuentes / Simbiotika Engineers: Cesar Moreira / Sigma Ingenieros Project Area: 200 sqm Budget: US $64,700 Project Year: 2006–2009 Photographs: Supersudaka Next to one of the city of Talca’s harshest ghettos –Villa Las Americas- this Church..
Architects: SeARCH & CMA Location: Vals, Switzerland Design: Bjarne Mastenbroek & Christian Müller Interior design cardboard bedroom: Studio JVM, Jeroen van Mechelen Interior design excluding cardboard bedroom: Bjarne Mastenbroek Interior advises: Christian Müller, Monica Ketting & Thomas Eyck Contractor main structure: Kurt Schnyder Bauunternehmung, Vals, CH Structural engineering: Alex Kilchma..
Libraries are something that has been revolving my head ever since I read some writings by Kahn on the Exeter Academy Library. Part of my graduate studies focused on how this typology has evolved during this last few years, moving between the silent sanctuary of books we find at Exeter and new public spaces like OMA’s Seattle Library. As the publishing/reading platforms are changing at an unprec..
Architecture: VHM I Departamento de Arquitectura: Jorge Sodré Albuquerque, Ana Luísa Almeida, José Magno Coordinator: Jorge Sodré Albuquerque Team: Isabel Flamínio, Rui Silva, Eduardo Brito, Carlos Sousa, Pedro Couto Structure: A400 Services: VHM, Gestão e Coordenação de projectos Landscape: Nuno Viterbo Construction Management: Vítor Hugo Leal Gomes, Carlos Xavier Contractor: Europa Arlindo, Sc..
Last week, Bustler reported that DawnTown, the annual international architectural competition for Downtown Miami, published a preview of all competition entries in a Flickr gallery just a few days before the official announcement of the winners on Friday, December 4. Now the results are in, and the first prize goes to the team “office 247” (Rosalea Monacella, Craig Douglas, and Armando Oliver Su..
A-cero Architects have sent us photos of a house they designed in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid. The balance on which rest the three principles defining this construction, beauty, firmness and utility give us the key to confront its forcefulness, which emerges as a great sculptural work. It is a plastic reality: the singularity of the house defines a researching purpose that places value on aesthet..
