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Image courtesy MONOLAB architects
Rotterdam stays behind on two issues compared to other cities. First, Rotterdam has little functional green public space. Second, Rotterdam ignores a positive use for citizens and tourists of its 94-KM waterfront along the Maas River. Rotterdam based design practice MONOLAB architects has taken initiative to take up these issues through the ‘GREEN RIVER’ project. Read the rest of this entry »
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Villa Vauban Extension by Philippe Schemit Achitects;
The architectural project maximises the exhibition surfaces (growing from initial 350 sqm to now approx. 1200 sqm) while retaining the site’s historic elements (fortress wall built by Vauban in 1739, bourgeois villa from 1871–73, garden landscaping and public park from 1871–78) creating a new balance of the global urban and landscape situation. Integration was achieved by locating half of the new architectural volume underground and fitting it with a dynamic facade from translucent large-scale sheets of perforated red brass, which reflects rather than dominates the environing park. Read the rest of this entry »
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Photo by Zelimir Grzacic
Brod / The Ship / La Nave: A Floating Pavilion for Croatia at the Venice Biennale
The Floating Pavilion to present arts and architecture of Croatia at the Venice Biennale is constructed on an existing barge with dimensions of 10m x 20m x 3m. It is designed by a group of 14 leading Croatian architects, who have made the recent Croatian architecture visible on the global scene. Instead of working in the usual formats of their practices and presenting speculative projects, they decided to work together on a single proposal and to have it constructed and towed toward its final destination in Venice right away. The pavilion structure is the barge’s cargo, welded from 30 tons of Q385 wire mesh in more than 40 layers of varying contours. The cargo presented here maps the process of intense interaction between architects working on the common project, their collaboration with the Croatian maritime industry, and the extraordinary act of architecture it produced. Please follow the pavilion’s maiden voyage across the Adriatic at www.pavilion.hr.
La Biennale di Venezia 2010 12. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura 12th International Architecture Exhibition
Croatian participation at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition at la Biennale di Venezia consists of three components: a floating pavilion, the exhibition of the project at the Croatian venue at the Arsenale, and a publication of the project distributed to visitors at the venue.
Photo by Zelimir Grzacic
The Pavilion
The Floating Pavilion is built on an existing barge with dimensions of 10m x 20m x 3m. The pavilion structure is in the form of a cargo of 32 tons of welded wire mesh, with more than 40 layers spaced so that they form a solid volume with approximate dimensions of 19m x 9m x 5,5m. Inside the volume is a carved out space shaped by varying contours that form the main space as well as protrusions and openings toward the outside. Almost invisible form a distance, the structure reveals itself with different densities of steel mesh, transparencies, and vision lines, forming stunning visual effects and experience of space by very simple means. The Croatian pavilion is towed by a tugboat from the shipyard in Kraljevica to the port of Rijeka, to be presented to the public on 21 August 2010, and on to Venice to be moored at the main pier during the opening of the Biennale.
The Exhibition
Inside the Croatian exhibition space, the project documentation center has been set up in the form of cargo boxes printed with the records of the design process, the construction of the pavilion at the 280-year-old shipyard in Kraljevica, and its journey across the Adriatic. Lana Cavar and Narcisa Vukojević are responsible for graphic design of the exhibition, while Vjeran Šalomon made audio installation.
The Authors
The authors of the project are 15 of the most distinguished Croatian architects of today, who through various practices and some of the most distinct buildings designed recently, are already recognized on the global architectural scene. They have established Croatian architecture as a relevant force. Here they have united into a single work team that has produced a common project and had it realized for the Croatian participation at La Biennale. Saša Begović, Marko Dabrović, Igor Franić,Tanja Grozdanić, Petar Mišković,Silvije Novak, Veljko Oluić, Helena Paver Njirić, Lea Pelivan, Toma Plejić,Goran Rako, Saša Randić, Idis Turato, Pero Vuković and Tonči Žarnić met in more than 20 work sessions and innumerable other meetings and site visits.
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Photo©Iwan Baan
Collector’s Loft, New York, USA 2007 – 2010 by UNStudio
Client: Anonymous
Location: Greenwich Village, Manhattan New York, USA
Building area: 550 m2
Building Programme: Loft renovation into Apartment / Private gallery
Status: completed 2010 Read the rest of this entry »
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Images courtesy Pascal Arquitectos
The fish shape building you are seeing here is the Nativity Church Competition Entry, It’s from Mexican firm Pascal Arquitectos. The followings are from the architect; Read the rest of this entry »
