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Film
on 6/12/15
A five-minute film from developers Saif Sumaida and Amit Khurana explains 152 Elizabeth, a seven-story residential project designed by Tadao Ando, with interiors by Michael Gabellini, for a corner lot in Manhattan's Nolita (North of Little Italy) neighborhood. John Hill
Works
on 6/12/15
Kilimanjaro Women Information Exchange and Consultancy Organization (KWIECO) was founded in 1987 in Moshi, Tanzania. It provides advice on legal, health, social and economic issues to women. Hollmen Reuter Sandman Architects
Headlines
on 6/11/15
The American Society of Landscape Architects has announced its 2015 honors recipients. Selected by the ASLA’s Board of Trustees, the honors include the Landscape Architecture Firm Award being given to The Office of James Burnett. John Hill
Works
on 6/11/15
The business community today operates dynamically, impulsively and diversely. Office environments must respond to the constant changes in working groups’ organizations, to their production processes and to the needs for personal comfort and technology development. dekleva gregorič architects
Film
on 6/11/15
Politico Magazine presents a portrait of Southern Californian architect Teddy Cruz, who "has a new way of developing cities ... drawing inspiration from an unlikely place just across the border from his home in San Diego." John Hill
Works
on 6/10/15
Vaulted Willow is an architectural folly exploring lightweight, ultra-thin, self-supported shells through the development of custom computational protocols of structural form-finding and descriptive geometry. The project's aim is to resolve and delineate structure, skin and ornamentation into... MARC FORNES/THEVERYMANY
Found
on 6/10/15
The TREExOFFICE co-working space launched today in Hoxton Square, the first initiative to be realized by the Park Hack project, which was set up to test innovative models that sustain and enhance public open spaces. John Hill
Film
on 6/10/15
Artist Simon Terrill and architectural collective Assemble have teamed up to create full-scale "soft" versions of postwar British playgrounds inside the Architecture Gallery at RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) in London. John Hill
Works
on 6/9/15
After a very fast construction period of only two months a spectacular new pavilion shines in the heart of Rotterdam. Mei architects and planners designed this new McDonald's pavilion on Coolsingel Rotterdam. Mei architects and planners
Headlines
on 6/9/15
Bjark Ingels' design of Two World Trade Center for developer Larry Silverstein and tenants 21st Century Fox Inc. and News Corp has been made public via a Wired magazine article and a flashy three-minute video. John Hill
Works
on 6/9/15
Stuttgart's Steimle Architekten recently completed a three-story urban villa with a small courtyard, a deck atop the garage, and a lap pool. The architects sent us some photographs and drawings of the S3 City Villa. Steimle Architekten
Reviews
on 6/8/15
Opening fifteen minutes early might not seem like much when it comes to a building, but when considered as a piece of an Expo – an event that often sees pavilions being worked on after the gates open – it is quite an undertaking. But it is only one among many for the USA Pavilion...
Insight
on 6/8/15
The London Festival of Architecture takes place throughout the month of June under the theme Work in Progress. We highlight ten of the installations, exhibitions, and events happening as part of the LFA. John Hill
Headlines
on 6/8/15
The State Government of Western Australia has unveiled the winning design for a pedestrian bridge traversing the Swan River to connect East Perth with the new Perth Stadium on Burswood Peninsula. John Hill
Film
on 6/5/15
The Architectural Review presents a 10-minute film by filmmaker Antonio Brasiliano and journalist Ursula Troncoso on Vigliecca & Associados's Parque Novo Santo Amaro V in São Paulo, which has evolved substantially since its 2012 completion. John Hill
Film
on 6/5/15
The House of Music opened in Aalborg, Denmark, just over one year ago. Designed by Wolf Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au, the building looks complex, but it is based on a simple courtyard building, as explained in a couple short films from Spirt of Space. John Hill
Works
on 6/4/15
Designed by Tokyo-based Love Architecture, House in Yagumo combines a rich sense of nature with Tokyo’s big-city setting. Architect Yukio Asari incorporates natural elements like light, shadow, and breezes into his designs and utilizes organic building materials, rooting his work in... Love Architecture Inc.
Film
on 6/4/15
A 2-1/2-minute film from Spirit of Space takes viewers inside the timber-framed Tamedia Office Building in Zurich, Switzerland, designed by Shigeru Ban Architects. John Hill
Headlines
on 6/4/15
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has selected 5 teams to participate in the second stage of the Rail Corridor competition aimed at developing a conceptual master plan for a 24-kilometer-long former railway in Singapore. John Hill
Works
on 6/3/15
Designed by UNStudio and DP Architects, the academic campus for the Singapore University of Technology and Design reflects an in-depth understanding of the changing requirements of learning institutions today. UNStudio
Works
on 6/3/15
With this project for fifteen new classrooms serving year seven to high school, the challenge was to place a new five-story contemporary classroom building in very close proximity to some of the oldest school buildings in Brisbane.
Works
on 6/3/15
Master plan for a new city development including the erection of the new mainline Vienna railway station. Working in a planning team with Atelier Ernst Hoffmann and Atelier Albert Wimmer. Theo Hotz Partner was responsible for the station roof. Theo Hotz Partner Architekten
Headlines
on 6/2/15
After a setback last month, Google is moving forward with partial plans for an office expansion in Mountain View, California, designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and Heatherwick Studio. John Hill
Works
on 6/2/15
New Museum MORE (Museum for Dutch Modern Realism), designed by Hans van Heeswijk Architects to showcase the Netherlands’ biggest collection of modern realist art, opened on 2 June 2015, with critics praising its light but exuberant minimalist architecture. Hans van Heeswijk Architects
Film
on 6/2/15
Marc-Christoph Wagner from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art interviews Norman Foster, who turned 80 on 1 June 2015, about his childhood, path to architecture, hobbies, and approach to designing buildings. John Hill
Works
on 6/1/15
Unique bridge designed to house bats: "There is no other bridge like it that is specifically designed to house bats," claims Herman Limpens, international expert in the field of bats from the Mammal Society. NEXT architects
Works
on 6/1/15
Located at a major high-end commercial district at the intersection of Changde Road and Nanjing West Road in Shanghai, a new façade is created for the fashion house Ports 1961's flagship store. UUfie
Reviews
on 6/1/15
Designed by Tokyo-based Love Architecture, House in Yagumo combines a rich sense of nature with Tokyo’s big-city setting. Architect Yukio Asari incorporates natural elements like light, shadow, and breezes into his designs and utilizes organic building materials, rooting his work in...
Products
on 5/29/15
The ETH Zurich Pavilion at the IDEAS CITY Festival in New York City (28-30 May 2015) is built of boards made from discarded beverage cartons, an example of turning waste into a resource, the "matter from which to construct or configure new cities." John Hill
Found
on 5/29/15
Italian architects Filippo Pagliani and Michele Rossi of PARK have released PARK Mapp, a guide to modern and contemporary architecture in Milan, the city of Expo 2015. John Hill
Works
on 5/28/15
This holiday house for a family of four is located in the north of Portugal. It's shape is defined by the same number of individual volumes. They have similar dimensions but distinct orientations. PROD Arquitectura
Headlines
on 5/28/15
Grüntuch Ernst Architekten has been named the first-prize winner in a competition to design the Porsche Design Tower, a new apartment building in Frankfurt. John Hill
Works
on 5/28/15
For more than 30 years, HPP Architects have been designing, planning and building offices on the Kolde-Ring Campus in Münster for LVM Insurances. The latest office tower on the campus, designed jointly by HPP and Duk-Kyu Ryang, can be viewed as a culmination of this ongoing work. HPP Architects
Headlines
on 5/27/15
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has announced that the Japanese practice of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa will design an expansion that will double the museum's size. John Hill
Works
on 5/27/15
The Velenje "Promenada" is an important city space and a vital city thoroughfare. It is one of the central axes of the centre of Velenje, a young town designed in the 1950s, based on the Modernist ideal of the garden city; as such, it is unique in the Slovene space. ENOTA
