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Sherwood Forest’s Treehouse

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

London-based architects Make created the winning design for the Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre (yes, that Sherwood Forest ). Their solution makes this little installation in Madison Square Park look really weak. In fact, Make Architecture’s take seems to owe more to Tadashi Kawamata’s early work than anything in contemporary architecture. While obviously pumping up the [...]

”Guilty” by Ivana Porfiri

Friday, October 17, 2008

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[lang_en] Dakis Joannou is a Greek Cypriot industrialist and one of the leading collectors of European contemporary art. The earliest work in his collection is from 1985 and the latest one is his own yacht which name is Guilty, a project of Ivana Porfiri and exterior camouflage design by Jeff Koons. © External view_photo by [...]

Los Heroes Building / Murtinho y Asociados Arquitectos

Thursday, October 16, 2008

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Architects: Murtinho y Asociados Arquitectos Location: Calle Holanda Nº64, Providencia, Santiago, Chile Client: Los Héroes Caja Compensación Architect in Charge: Santiago Raby Pinto Collaborators: Miguel Angel Contreras Ch. y Alejandra López Contractor: ALTIUS Refurbishment Area: 3.350 sqm Photographs: Pedro Mutis Johnson CONTEXT The challenge was the rehabilitation of a ‘70s building for a new purpose: [...]

Flare

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

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FLARE is a pneumatic building facade system. The FLARE system consists of a number of tiltable metal flake bodies. An infinite array of flakes can be mounted on any building or wall surface. Each metal flake reflects the light. When the flake is tilted downwards by a computer controlled pneumatic piston, its face is shaded [...]

Move Over Grand Central, WTC Transport Hub Revealed

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

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Last week, the Port Authority of New York, New Jersey, and Santiago Calatrava released revised renderings of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub. I’ve always been enamored with the grand hubs of Europe so it’s about time we got something new. As grand as this is, it’s hard to imagine this plan is scaled back, [...]

The Inside Out

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

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Emergent’s new Huaxi Urban Center for China (always China or Dubai) is a paradigm shift in architectural design when once upon a time a building’s exterior was designed to hide, shield, and mask its massive network of support beams, duct work, wiring, and HIVAC systems. The Huaxi Urban Center externalizes all its “innards” in a [...]

Singapore’s Ecological EDITT Tower

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

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Currently slated for construction in Singapore, the EDITT Tower will be a paragon of “Ecological Design In The Tropics”. Designed by TR Hamzah & Yeang and sponsored by the National University of Singapore, the 26-story high-rise will boast photovoltaic panels, natural ventilation, and a biogas generation plant all wrapped within an insulating living wall that [...]

The Interactive Dobpler LED Wall Turns Shadows Into Light

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

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The Interactive Dobpler LED Wall Turns Shadows Into Light

This past year, people walking through the pedestrian tunnel in Sandnes Sentrum, Norway, were faced with the unique opportunity to watch their shadows transform into a beautiful luminous art show. Constructed as part of the city’s European Capitol of Culture 2008 event, the Strømer, is an interactive LED display wall that weaves a wonderful mixture [...]

Harmonia 57 / Triptyque

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

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Architects: Triptyque – Greg Bousquet, Carolina Bueno, Guillaume Sibaud e Olivier Raffaelli Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil Project chief: Tiago Guimarães Project year: 2007- 2008 Construction year: 2008 Site area: 500 sqm Constructed area: 1,060 sqm Hydraulic engineer: Guilherme Castanha Landscape: Peter Webb Contractor: Bassani Arquitetos Construtores Structure: Rika / Eng. Rioske Kanno Photographs: Nelson Kon [...]

Soundhouse / Jefferson Sheard & Careyjones Architects

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

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The University of Sheffield’s state-of-the-art music practice and studio facility, the Soundhouse, is now complete. The striking development, conceptually designed by careyjones architects and delivered by Jefferson Sheard Architects, is completely enveloped in black rubber – a technique never seen before in the UK. More info & pictures after the break. Covering 450 sqm and [...]

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Tag Archive | "architecture"

Sherwood Forest’s Treehouse

”Guilty” by Ivana Porfiri

Los Heroes Building / Murtinho y Asociados Arquitectos

Flare

Move Over Grand Central, WTC Transport Hub Revealed

The Inside Out

Singapore’s Ecological EDITT Tower

The Interactive Dobpler LED Wall Turns Shadows Into Light

Harmonia 57 / Triptyque

Soundhouse / Jefferson Sheard & Careyjones Architects

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