Project Title: Phoenix Flowers, Garscube Landscape Link Location: Garscube Road/ M8 Flyover, Glasgow, Scotland Cost: £1.2million Construction start date: 21st September 2009 Completion date: 28th June 2010 Summary The first phase of the regeneration of the Speirs Locks area in Glasgow has been completed with the opening of the Garscube Link, a new public realm intervention which re-connects Nort..
Architects: Söhne & Partner Location: Seedörfl, Vienna, Austria Design Team: Thomas Bärtl, Michael Prodinger , Guido Trampitsch Client: Martin Reichard Structural Engineers: Die Acht, Nasserzare Project Area: 800 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Severin Wurnig Seedörfl is a small collection of houses, the surrounding landscape is flat. To the northeast the federal highway B16 cuts through the..
The “18 septemberplein” is one of the major squares in the city of Eindhoven. The square is the connection between the central station area and the main shopping district of the city. The demand for 2000 parking places for bicycles together with the important logistical function of the square led to a design of an underground bicycle parking, leaving room for the movement of people on the square..
Architects: Studio EDR Eskew+Dumez+Ripple / Guidry Beazley Architects Location: Lafayette, Louisiana, USA Consultants: J.B. Mouton, Inc. – General Contractor, Associated Design Group – MEP Engineers, Bellard and Associates – Structural Engineer, Visual Acuity – Visualization Systems, Global Data Systems – Communications/IT, Jon Emerson & Associates – Landscape Architect Client: Lafayette Economi..
Guillermo Hevia Garcia took this nice pictures of the Neue National Gallery in Berlin, by Mies van der Rohe. This building is from 1968, and it´s a jump from the traditional museum idea of a closed building with exhibition rooms, into an open-plan flexible space. The building is 64.8m long, with only 2 steel columns on each side, which free the corners giving the building a lightweight look. A v..
Architects: Klab architecture Location: Plateia Theatrou, Psiri, Athens, Greece Design team: Konstantinos Labrinopoulos, Miltos Farmakis Area: 150m2 Completion date: 2007 photos: Babis Louizidis ‘Guru Bar’ was one of the first bars to open in the central area of Psiri in Athens at a time when the neighbourhood was beginning to be transformed into a vibrant cultural area. The rebuilding of the di..
In the 1970’s architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, both unknown at the time, collaborated and erected one of the most famous and radical buildings of our time, Centre Georges Pompidou. The cultural center in Paris, France turned our world inside out, literally. It all began with Georges Pompidou, President of France from 1969 to 1974, who wanted to construct a cultural center in Paris that..
Architect: DLR Group Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA Owner: Phoenix Union High School District #210 Engineer: DLR Group Contractor: Adolfson & Peterson Construction Project Year: 2007 Area: 345,000 SF; 51 Acres Photographs: Mark Boisclair Challenge Adapt a school district’s commitment to the Small Schools Movement within a new 2,400 student urban high school. Beginning in 2000, the Phoenix Union High..
In 1954 Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill were commissioned to design the United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel. Located in El Paso Country, Colorado, just outside of Colorado Springs, the chapel is of the training center for officers of the United States Air Force which is a large self-contained community. At an elevation of 6500 feet on the East of the Rocky Mountains, the 3,000 acre Academy ..
Here’s another stadium designed by German studio GMP Architekten (see our earlier stories here and here) for the 2010 FIFA World Cup starting this week in South Africa. Above photograph by Bruce Sutherland Called Green Point Stadium, the project is located in Cape Town and has a capacity of 68,000 on three tiers. Once the 2010 FIFA World Cup is over 13,000 of these seats will be removed and repl..
