All perspective & diagram from 3GATTI Architecture Studio
“Car Experience” is a project for a building to be dedicated to the automobile: the car as an object of desire, a world to explore, a technology to study, an article to display and a means to travel around the building.
Here the world of the automobile intersects with the human and organic world creating a new tectonic structure with methods differing from the usual flat open spaces, squares… all on a human scale. Here everything is geared to the automobile – the car is the point of reference.
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All Photograph©Christos Papantoniou
The Olympic house and park in Nicosia, Cyprus which is functioned for the offices of the Cyprus Olympic Committee and of all the National Athletic Federations. Designed by Armon choros architektonikis, here is the idea and description from them on this excellent design;
The design for the Olympic House and Park sought to achieve an architectural composition that would give the fullest possible expression to the Olympic ideal. The following three fundamental considerations were addressed and in due course served to frame the proposal:
• The global dimension inherent in the encouragement and inculcation of the Olympic spirit imbued as it is with ideals such as brotherhood, noble emulation and world peace.
• The historical dimension of preserving and reviving a venerable institution of great antiquity.
• The athletic dimension that pursues training of “body and spirit” in equal measure as an essential human activity.
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Photographers: Miguel de Guzmán and Joan Roig
Drawings, Text and Diagram from Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos
To the north of Madrid, at the end of a new urban development known as “Las Tablas”, the new Telefónica Headquarters, known as Distrito C, will house all the employees of the company – 14,000 people – in one single corporate campus, for the first time in the firm’s history.
Las Tablas is a large residential area, with a low density, which was built very recently on private land, without any special intention behind the planning.Spatially and conceptually, Distrito C absorbs very little of this environment.
An essential element of a Campus is its pedestrianised areas and this clearly is in contradiction with the new development of Las Tablas, given that that project was designed for low density and therefore puts the car forward as the main means of transport.
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Photograph ©James P. Blair/Newseum
Inspired by the many ways people receive news, the architects conceived of the Newseum as a kind of giant, three-dimensional newspaper whose primary purpose is to communicate the nature of news to a diverse audience: that is, the press as a “window on the world.” It is fitting that a building dedicated to journalism and free speech should itself be a visually open and intellectually accessible stage for the public to learn about and interact with the process of newsmaking throughout history. In its form and exhibit program, this complex building contains the features, special sections and breaking news of any journalistic venue. The architects fashioned a spatially compelling journey through the many exhibits that explain and dramatize the past and future of journalism. Read the rest of this entry »
