Text by Brian A. Spencer
All images ©Bill Timmerman
Architect : Michael P. Johnson Design Studio
Of the multitude of structures built across the country each year, few ever become elevated to a level considered the “art of architecture” by architectural critics and/or historians. The vast majority of these houses and buildings remain mundane, held to a design level that will appease the taste of that great middle group or, as Frank Lloyd Wright referred to us: “the great mediocrity.”
Architectural critics judge the impression of a building in the immediate sense, before the building has had he chance to prove itself. Historians, on the other hand, have the benefit of hindsight, advising of the building’s architectural qualities after the second, third of fourth generation has passed. Seldom is a classic realized at the moment.
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All Drawings
All photo©tomaz gregoric
Our friend OFIS has updated us small hut design called 6X11 Alpine. They demonstrate us a sustainable modification idea on previous design which has to cope with a very strict building regulations. Here is from architect:
The hut is situated in a small Alpine village, part of Triglav national park with very strict rules of construction and architectural design. The client bought the site together with existing construction permit for the generic project. Demand was not to change construction permit but change the elements of the house to suit his family, sustainable factor and open the windows toward the views.
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All drawings & perspective from Pascal Arquitectos
This one is from same architects of the last post ( Mourning house ). They have something in common however express on different mood & tone because this project is Shopping Center. Here is from architect
This project comes to set a new architectural statement in the Pedregal area of Mexico City which has been neglected, because nothing new and important had happened since its beginings when “Cuidad Universitaria” was built. Nowadays the real-estate pressure and the need of services are beginning to promote significant changes.
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Architectural Project: Pascal Arquitectos, Carlos Pascal & Gerard Pascal
Construction: Arch. Rafael Salame
Project Date:2006
Area:262 m2
Address:Bosques de las Lomas, Mexico City
Photographer: Víctor Benítez
This is a project with very strong emotional implications. We had to understand the mood of the user, who at such this moment would not care very much for an aesthetical analisis of any place, but at the same time we wanted to create a space that can create a spritual mood, for this we refered to ancient buidings that were designed for this purpose, as the Egiptian “Mastabas” or some Mayan buildings in Palenque.
Religious rules and buildings codes in the Jewish Religion are very strict for this kind of places, and we were guided by several groups of Rabbies for this matter.
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All Images ©Foster+Partners
Hermitage Plaza will create a new community to the east of La Défense, in Courbevoie, that extends down to the river Seine with cafés, shops and a sunny public plaza at its heart. Revealed by Foster + Partners at MIPIM in Cannes, the project incorporates two 323-metre-high buildings – the tallest mixed-use towers in Western Europe – which will establish a distinctive symbol for this new urban destination on the Paris skyline. Read the rest of this entry »
Lanzarote’s new concert and congress hall has been designed by Henning Larsen Architects in collaboration with the local architect Carlos Morales. The 15.000 m2 large cultural building will be located in Arrecife, the main city of Lanzarote. Read the rest of this entry »
Architectural Design | Andrew Maynard Architects
All Photos in this post ©Peter Bennetts
Emerging from behind its high boundary wall, the distorted roof form of Vader House interrupts the symmetrical roof line typical of Fitzroy, and breathes new life into this Victorian Terrace.The extension is a framed steel skeleton which envelopes the unusually high masonry boundary wall built prior to height restrictions, reclaiming it into the interior. The roof then responds to site setbacks which result in a distorted and subverted answer to regulations. This produces high folded internal planes, allowing double height ceilings, a mezzanine level and spacious interior. Read the rest of this entry »
Photo©Jens Lindhe
Designed by Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter The Royal Playhouse is unique among many large-scale, recent public projects in that it was delivered under budget and on time while maintaining the architectural vision. The project began in 2002 with the award of first place in an open international competition, construction was complete in 2007, and the playhouse recently celebrating its grand opening in 2008. The Royal Playhouse occupies one of Copenhagen’s most important points of conjuncture, the meeting of the historic 18th century city quarter of Frederiksstaden, the city harbour, and the sea. The playhouse, firmly rooted in the context of its historic neighbourhood, takes its place among the culture institutions along the harbour, marking where the inner harbour angles and opens toward the distant Sound.
Drawings by Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter
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All Images from SHL Architects
Awarding-winning practice schmidt hammer lassen architects (SHL Architects) has won an international competition to design “Urban Mediaspace”, the largest public library in Scandinavia. The € 228 million scheme, located in Aarhus, Denmark, will become a new visual and cultural focal point for the city whilst pioneering the next generation of library
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Photos ©Christian Richters
It just opened last weekend ” the spring & spiral concept which linked to music” with the making of ten years.
The MUMUTH – Haus für Musik und Musiktheater, a faculty building for the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG), has been ten years in the making, including two years of construction and will be officially opened on March 1st 2009. To celebrate this special event the Institute for Music Drama will present a performance of W.A. Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute”, just before a “Celebration for Otto Kolleritsch”, Rector emeritus of KUG and a longstanding supporter of MUMUTH, will take place. Read the rest of this entry »
