Winners have been announced for the suckerPUNCH-curatedWilliamsburg Waterfront Performance Venue competition. This openinternational ideas competition asked for an integrated design of aninnovative music venue in the East River State Park located inWilliamsburg, Brooklyn. The new park is the site of the ‘JELLY Pool Parties’summer concert series which brings 10,000 fans to the site on sundayafter..
Architects: Studio Daniel Libeskind Location: Denver, Colorado, USA Joint Venture Partner: Davis Partnership Contractor: M.A Mortensen Co. (Colorado) Structural Engineer: Arup (Los Angeles) Structural Connection Design: Structural Consultants, Inc. Civil Engineers: JF Sato and Associates Mechanical Air: Arup-Los Angeles Mechanical/Electrical: MKK Engineers and Arup (Los Angeles) Structural Engin..
Montréal-based Chevalier Morales Architectes shared with us their finalist proposal along with Busby Perkins + Will for the Nouveau Centre Culturel de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Competition. See more images and architect’s description after the break. The one dimensional quality which has traditionally characterized libraries, in which they were conceived as places for storing and reading books has evo..
Architects: Populous Location: Ravenscraig, Motherwell, UK Engineering: Buro Happold (structural, civil, mechanical, electrical and public health services) FEDRA (fire) Client: North Lanarkshire Council / Sportscotland / Ravenscraig Ltd / Motherwell College Total Cost: £31.3 million Completion Date: Autumn 2010 Photographs: Andrew Lee PROJECT OBJECTIVE: The clients commissioned the design team t..
Architects: Nomena Arquitectos + Ximena Alvarez Location: Bridge to Manchay, Cieneguilla, Lima, Peru Client: De la Piedra Family Contractor: Americo Chavez Structure: Luis Yeckle Site Area: 15,000 sqm Project Area: 85 sqm Project Year: 2009-2010 Photographs: Ronald Harrison The de la Piedra Chapel is located at the margin of the Lurín river and beside the Lomas de Castilla hill, in the district ..
A few months ago, we featured a conceptual house designed by group of young Greek architects, Dimos Moysiadis + Ioannis Oikonomou+ Xaris Tsitsikas. The three, plus Kostas Panopoulos and Grigoris Vegliris, have just shared their latest conceptual project, a façade renovation of an old public theater in Corfu and a new urban plan for the adjacent square. The intent was to re-establish the public t..
The Tanjong Beach Club on Sentosa Island in Singapore is a refreshing presentation of clean, modern architecture by way of the 1960’s. The simplicity and restraint in the details succeeds in a first impression that stuns; the light wooden slats all facing in one direction, the skylights that allow sunshine to soak the room, and the ocean blue cushions that line the banquets in the all-day dining..
Amsterdam-based Laura Alvarez Architecture has been awarded with the second prize in the International Competition for the realisation of the New Cultural Centre in Hernani, Basque Land. The competition was launched as an open european tender organized by the municipality of Hernani. More images and architect’s description after the break. The design brief consists on 4.600 m2 of cultural spaces..
Architects: architectureRED Location: Sriperumbudur, Chennai, India Project Team: Biju Kuriakose, Kishore Panikkar, Sangeeta Kamath, Apoorva Madhusudan, Shailasri Pillai, Kani Pandian, Yasir Azami Client: ETA Star Properties Project Year: 2009-2010 Photographs: Courtesy of architectureRED ETA Star, one of Asia’s leading property developers, hired architectureRED to create a small, yet iconic off..
Israeli firm Chyutin Architects have won a competition to build this museum that will bridge over a sunken garden in Jerusalem. The Museum of Tolerance will sit on the border between the built-up city and Independence Park. The museum, which houses a theatre, hall, restaurant and exhibition spaces, is clad in stone with a curtain wall of glazing facing onto the park. The sunken garden will be ac..
