A restricted competition for a new museum in the middle of one of the most iconic places in Rio de Janeiro, the Avenida Atlantica at Copacabana, has just been awarded. The building will host the Museu da Imagen e de Som (Image and Audio Museum), that as of now is desegregated through the city in separate offices. The new building will host in one place facilities for the conservation and study o..
設計監理：三幣順一／Ａ.Ｌ.Ｘ. 構造設計：久米弘記（久米弘記建築構造研究所） 施 工：岡田善工務店 写真撮影：鳥村鋼一 所在地 ：東京都板橋区 用途 ：専用住宅 構造規模：鉄筋コンクリート３階建 述床面積：85.32ｍ2（法定床面積） 竣工年 ：200８年 『MARK』No.20掲載 『モダンリビング』200９年１月号掲載 『ELLE DECO』2008年6月号掲載 この住宅は、北側前面道路の向かいに二本の見事な桜の樹の有る公園に面している。印象的だったのはグランドレベルの快適性はそれほど高くないが、ある高さを越えた部分から劇的に環境が良くなる事が予想出来た事だ。勿論、それには二本の桜の樹が、大きな役割を果たしている。そこで、桜との関係に焦点を絞った、樹上生活と言えるような暮らし方を提案した。また桜との関係を出来るだけ近くするために、下階の軸線に対してボリュームを振って建築が桜を正面..
On July 27, Bustler reported about the big night at Calgary’s Grand Theatre where the five competition finalists presented their designs for the Cantos National Music Center competition. Presenting firms that night were Diller Scofidio and Renfro, New York, NY, Jean Nouvel Workshop, Paris, France, Allied Works Architecture/BKDI, Portland, OR, Saucier + Perrotte, Montreal, Quebec, and Studio Pali..
The architects wanted the building to seem like a large beach house or coastal hotel rather than a hospital. The following information is from Lyons Architects: – The building contests the conventional paradigm of a nursing home. Through its spatial arrangements and normalising environment, it shifts from a medico-centric model of care to one where family and carers work with staff to deliver ca..
Nearly 4 years after the competition for a new administration building of the Schwandorf Incineration Plant in Bavaria, Germany was won by Stuttgart-based archimedialab, this unique ensemble of building and landscape has now been officially inaugurated. Here is how archimedialab describe their project: The task to design a new administration building, reorganize the power station compound and cr..
REX and Principal in Charge Joshua Prince-Ramus have been named the winner of the BibLLLiotheek competition to build a “Library of the Future” for the city of Kortrijk, Belgium. New York-based REX partnered with landscape architects Bureau Bas Smets in entering the competition, which included both a building and master plan. In making its decision, the BibLLLiotheek jury noted that the REX desig..
Hudson Architects have completed a new “citadel” for the Salvation Army in Chelmsford, UK. The new building gives the religious organisation a new worship hall and community facilities. Here’s some text from the architects: – Hudson Architects’ new building for the Salvation Army in Chelmsford is the first Citadel Corps building designed in a contemporary idiom using modern methods of constructi..
The Re: Vision Dallas competition named three winners, two of which we previously featured on AD (DB + P and Atelier Data + Moov). The third winner is Little, a studio based in North Carolina, with their Entangled Bank proposal. “Entangled Bank combines heavy duty technological prowess with artistic integration of systems. The building is designed as a holistic, integrated design…The Entangled B..
Architect Pieta-Linda Auttila has completed a prototype holiday home in Helsinki, Finland, featuring a sculptural, wooden trellis between two box-like ends. Called the WISA Wooden Design Hotel and created for Finnish forest products brand UPM Kymmene, the building is made of pine, spruce and birch grown in Finland. The two solid volumes house sleeping and living areas, with large windows in each..
Japanese architects Suppose Design Office have completed a residence in Hiroshima, Japan, with offset floors allowing natural light from above to penetrate each level. The house can can be naturally illuminated while maintaining privacy on a small, crowded plot of land. The interior comprises a series of terraces, each shaped differently according to its intended purpose. During the process of d..
