Foster's throne?

From skyscrapers, cars, door handles to chairs. The new 20-06 designed by Norman Foster for Emeco

curious...

The Curiousity Centre by J.Mayer H presently under construction at the Danfoss Universe Park in Denmark

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toss another one into the mix

The Tampa Museum of Art is following the controversial route to success (ala WTC) having replaced Raphel Vinoly with Stanley Saitowitz (who?)

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not for profit

The guiding principle of the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity comes from the Old Testament: "If a brother living near you becomes poor, you must provide for him . . . do not make a profit on the goods you sell him." Increasingly however, many are profiting handsomely from the families Habitat has built homes for moving beyond building affordable houses for the underprivileged.

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Thom Mayne to build a new 300m tower in La Defense after having won a competition that included Foster & OMA. "There's a fluidity, a sensuousness, a softness to the form as it reaches to the sky," Mayne said, describing the fabric like appearance of the building. This is also to be green proposal comprised of a double skin to reduce heat gain and its own wind farm to generate its own heating and cooling for a portion of the year.

via treehugger

Coop Himmelb(l)au's proposal for the Busan Cinema Centre and home of the Pusan International Film Festival. "The double cone is the connective element between the Cinema mountain and the PIFF hill, and the symbolic landmark entrance to the entire site. During the festival it marks the VIP entrance to the Busan Cinema Centre complex"

more via architecture-page

“Create a silent dwelling for one hundred bodies and one hundred hearts”

from white to green

A "smart" self cleaning material used on the Dives in Misericordia church in Rome, has since determined to be an antipollution that helps to destroy air pollutants found in car exhaust and heating emissions.

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Zaha Hadid's winning competition entry for the building of a Mediterranean Museum of Nuragic and Contemporary Art on the seafront at Sant’Elia in Cagliari.

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A parasol?

but will this get built... 

Souterrain, The Hague

The Hague is a city confined by the sea and the highways to neighbouring cites, thus relying on growth within its boundaries. The architecture of OMA has been applied to subterranean transport, sandwiching a building between layers of parking and a station stretching out below the main shopping street.

via architecture-page

things I saw

on my drive to MoBay

snap snap

Chinese landscape photographer Yossi Milo

The Pompidou Centre Metz by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, in eastern France set to open in 2008, will show rotating exhibitions from the museum's 56,000-strong collection.

via Guardian
more on Ban here

McFarlane Architects

Steve Giralt photographer take a look

Also try Curbly a DIY design community

some pictures

Downtown Kingston, Jamaica

UN Studio in New Orleans

Dutch powerhouse UN Studio's proposal for a media centre in New Orleans, that weaves within its distorted ziggurat social, cultural and ecological balance.

via Plataforma Arquitectura

heading to Jamaica for a week, will blog from there...

Photographer Georg Fischer

David Jameson Architect


check out the Calem Rubin residence...most boxtastic

competition

University College Dublin, Ireland’s largest university has launched a major international architecture competition for a new landmark development at the university’s Belfield campus.
The Gateway Project comprising cultural, academic, leisure and business facilities, represents the start of the implementation of a 15-year UCD Campus Development Plan. The University is inviting submissions from leading architecture firms from around the world.

Ronan in Anguilla

Architect John Ronan has included some nifty new works, particularly interesting are the proposals for the Long Bay & Lock Rum Villas in Anguilla BWI.


speaking of Anguilla, congratulations Buki on your new job

"The simple lines of the structure are a pragmatic and poetic answer to the thin budget."

The Floating House is a studio for resident artists at the Cneai, National Contemporary Art Center for Publication. Initiated in 2002, this habitable barge was realized in collaboration with architects Jean-Marie Finot & Denis Daversin and artists Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec.

way boxtastic!!

Lady Hadid

I found this image of a new proposal by Zaha Hadid, however no indication was made as to what or where it is.

I think it might be Eusko Train Station in Spain

Maya Lin

"[She] wants to project an image of disengagement from the huge civic issues she raised. Now, she makes bumps in the earth and little Zen-like paths in public gardens..."

An article on Maya Lin in the Wastington Post, regarding her move from politics to the environment, she is best known for her powerful Vietnam Veteran's Memorial

Individual pre-fab houses are impractical due the value and scarcity of land. Home Factory in London, is an affordable option designed as apartments that stack together both horizontally and vertically allowing designer pre-fab housing to be brought to a public & affordable market.

via Inhabitat

St Martin de Porro, Montserrat

MikiMoto building by Toyo Ito

Hotel Marques de Riscal

Hotel Marques de Riscal by Frank Gehry Partners

image via arcspace, more images here

seán says: I really want to hate it, but I think it would make me laugh if i was there

Caribbean Building Awards

Here is a link to the winning entries for the Caribbean Building Awards. Files in PDF format.

congratulations to melondesign:architecture and the folks at Jenifer Smith Architects

pouring of roof on house type C, Lookout 2A Housing, Montserrat

Z-house, located on the eastern coastline of Denmark, is designed to enhance the great view towards the sea, consisting of outdoor terraces on different levels with ramps leading from the surrounding garden to the indoor areas. At the central part of the house a large water-wall creates a vertical connection through the house.

Eva Harlou, former competition design architect at 3XNielsen has opened her own practice in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Floating Pool

Jonathon Kirchenfeld Architects proposal for a pool to be built within a steel deck barge acting as a 'migrating recreation pier,' as the barge can be towed from site to site, which might vary each summer.

Urban Cactus by UCX Architects
via Daily Dose

Tropolism introduces us to Tadashi Kawamata

Madrid-Barajas

Madrid-Barajas
Originally uploaded by eversion.

Now I understand why its been dubbed, "best use of colour"

New Orleans Prototype House Competition

As New Orleans struggles with a future of continued displacement, this competition, open to architecture students only, sought designs for houses that respond to the city’s new circumstances: ease of installment, flexible to rise above flood waters, and a respect for local climate and environment.

Click here to see the projects

via Architectural Record

Bevk Perovic Architects

venice super blog

I'm an architect and am pure, putting my soul on paper and manifesting it with woood, block and steel for everyone to see.

Rip Curl

Rip Curl Canyon an installation by Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues at Rice Gallery in Texas. Ball and Nogues have transformed their architectural training of space and the understanding of construction to fabricate installations that transform the way people interact with environments. "Using 4000 sheets of precision-cut cardboard, Ball-Nogues will create an inhabitable, rolling landscape that extends from the gallery’s floor to its ceiling."

Rogers wins Lion

Richard Rogers wins his first Lion (RIBA Stirling Prize) for the Barajas Airport in Madrid, not to be outdone his National Assembly in Wales was also nominated for the prize.

The prize awarded to architects annually for the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture, has managed to evade Rogers despite his international popularity.

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work work work

CIMG0384
Originally uploaded by architechnophilia.

I never did apologise for the absent posts last week. I've been rather busy doing some on site management of the construction of 60 houses in the north of Montserrat.

This is an example of one of the houses designed by our department. The other four house types are designed by DLN Consultants, Barbados.

a sense of balance...

modernity + sustainability
Balance Associates Architects

the games we play...

It seems that the public must once again endure the starchitects' fancy of reproducing of themselves, under the guise of genius. This time by Daniel Libeskind in Colorado. Giant, titanium clad geometries are fitted with the programme of none other than an art museum - big shock!



The "inspiration" for this latest creation, the architect claims, was the shape of the Colorado rockies.

via Arcspace
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Introducing...

Graduates of the Caribbean School of Architecture, at the University of Technology are starting an Alumni Association with hopes of continuing the development of the school. The initial aims are to offer scholarships to the Graduate degree programme, paid partially through registration/membership in the association.

Sponsorship is more than welcome. Messages left here will be forwarded to the organisers for more information.

Architecture students can now download the latest full version of Archicad for FREE. This is an official copy to be downloaded from Graphisoft banner included on the margin.

Solar Glass + Ventilated Glass

Solar glazing is becoming more and more of a choice for architects building glazed facades. The solar cells and automated ventilation system are integrated into the Akademie Mont-Cenis complex (via Treeghugger). When its warmer the glass louvers open to allow cool air in, whilst the warm air is expelled through roof vents.

Casa Elemento

Previously posted architects Sami Rintala

World Habitat Day

Today, 2 October 2006, the International Union of Architects and UN-Habitat are celebrating World Habitat Day and the World Day of Architecture.

Within the framework of this commemoration, the UIA Work Programme on bioclimatic architecture and renewable energy sources (ARES) is announcing an international competition, to be launched on 1 November 2006, for the design of emergency shells and settlement units to house the local population following natural disasters.

Check this site by November

India: transformed

Perhaps the world's most ambitious redevelopment is underway in India, with more than 500 acres of shanties and unremarkable buildings transformed into five organised, self-sustained sectors all part of a 10,000 acre plan for Mumbai’s belated makeover scheme.“We have decided on a land use plan,” explains Mehta. “So for each sector, we know where a park, school, hospital will be located.

Also, detailed specifications for buildings will be given to the developers.” That will include art deco buildings and mandatory eco-housing criteria—including rainwater harvesting, water recycling, renewable energy systems.

more here
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