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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Arch Daily

Ecotone Hotel In Biwako – Sound Of Wind / Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects

© Kaori Ichikawa
Architects: Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects
Location: Mizuhocho, Moriyama, Shiga Prefecture, 
Area: 1348.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Kaori Ichikawa

Urbaan Home Building Renovation / MUN Architects

© Chaovarith Poonphol
Architects: MUN Architects
Location: , 
Project Team: Charunwat Mauleekulprairoj, Witchawat Boonprasong, Podjanarit Nimitkul
Year: 2013
Photographs: Chaovarith Poonphol

Tsukiji Room H / Yuichi Yoshida & associates

© Katsumi Hirabayashi
Architects: Yuichi Yoshida & associates
Location: Tokyo, 
Architects In Charge: Yuichi Yoshida, Satoru Ando
Produce: Suma-Saga-Fudosan Inc.　
Area: 47.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Katsumi Hirabayashi
Screenshot. Image © Bedel Saget/The New York Times

New York’s $4 Billion Train Station Takes Shape

Santiago Calatrava’s head-turning World Trade Center Transportation Hub has assumed its full form, nearly a decade after its design was revealed. In light of this, the New York Times has taken a critical look at just how the winged station’s budget soared. “Its colossal avian presence may yet guarantee the hub a place in the pantheon of civic design in New York. But it cannot escape another, more ignominious distinction as one of the most expensive and most delayed train stations ever built.” The complete report, here. 

Westminster Council Approves Heatherwick’s Garden Bridge Plans

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Update: Today Westminster Council approved the Garden Bridge proposals - the second of three required approvals - with councillors voting 3-1 in favour of the bridge. Though  Mayor Boris Johnson still has to officially rule on the plans, it is almost certain that he will ultimately give the go-ahead to the project as he has previously voiced his support for the idea. The following article was originally published on November 13th, after Lambeth Council granted the bridge its first approval.

Mrs. Pound / NC Design & Architecture

© Dennis Lo
Architects: NC Design & Architecture
Location: 6 Pound Lane, Sheung Wan, 
Area: 150.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Dennis Lo

C.F. Møller Selected to Expand Copenhagen Business School Campus

Courtesy of C.F. Møller
C.F. Møller has won an international competition to design a new campus extension for the Business School (CBS), ’s principle business university. A collaboration with C.F. Møller Landscape, Transform and Moe, the project aims to become the “world’s best city-integrated campus.” The masterplan, organized around four new public parks, will transform a significant, 31000-square-meter site in the city’s Frederiksberg district on top a nexus of old and new metro lines.

University Campus and Science-Technology Park / CANVAS Arquitectos

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Architects: CANVAS Arquitectos
Location: 23700 , Jaén, Spain
Project Architects: Juan Vicente y Pablo Núñez, Eduardo Duro
Project Area: 14627.0 m2
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Courtesy of CANVAS Arquitectos
Courtesy of WIAfund

Open Call for 2015 Women in Architecture Fund Award

Are you currently enrolled in a NAAB-accredited architecture program or other degree-granting institution? You may qualify for the 2015 WIA (Women in Architecture) Fund‘s Emerging Professional Inspiration Award, now open to all US-based and international applicants. Working to inspire emerging professionals, one woman at a time, the WIA Fund will award one national and one international professional with a cash grant to help further their career. Depending on the quality and quantity of entries, other awards may also be given. Entries will be shortlisted and winners will be selected by both a committee and the public via the WIA Fund Facebook page. Submissions are due January 10, 2015. For more details, visit their page, here.

Madison Park Tree House / First Lamp

© Tim Bies Photography
Architects: First Lamp
Location: Madison Park, , WA 98112, USA
Contractor: 
Area: 3200.0 ft2
Year: 2014
Photographs: Tim Bies Photography

The Last Stop: Documenting North America’s Disappearing Rest Areas

White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. Image © Ryann Ford
Rest stops are a disappearing sight in North America. Brought by tight highway budgets, and the increasing number of off-exit fast food outlets and gas stations, these roadside oases may soon become extinct. Photographer Ryann Ford wants to make sure they’re documented before this happens. Her project, “The Last Stop” is a series of photographs taken of unique rest stops across the nation. A Kickstarter campaign has been started to fund Ford’s work, and the ensuing publication of her photographs. Learn more, after the break!

Le 205 / Atelier Moderno

© Stéphane Groleau
Architects: Atelier Moderno
Location: , QC, Canada
Year: 2014
Photographs: Stéphane Groleau

Material Masters: Shigeru Ban’s Work With Wood

To celebrate the first anniversary of our US Materials Catalog, this week ArchDaily is presenting a three-part series on “Material Masters,” showing how certain materials have helped to inspire some of the world’s greatest architects.
Shigeru Ban’s portfolio is a strange dichotomy, split between shelters for natural disaster refugees and museums commissioned by wealthy patrons of the arts. Even stranger is the fact that, in both cases, Ban’s material palette frequently incorporates recycled cardboard, paper, and old beer crates. The Pritzker prize laureate is unique in this regard, and so great is his predilection for recycled paper tubes (originally formwork for concrete columns), that he has become known as the “Paper Architect.” His work receives media attention worldwide for the unorthodoxy of its construction materials. Yet  is not concerned with unorthodoxy, but with economy. It is for this reason that, when paper tubes are deemed unsuitable,  constructs his buildings in wood. Inspired by the architectural tradition of his native Japan, Ban is not only the “Paper Architect,” but also one of the most famous architects working in wood today.

Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition: A Parametric Analysis

GH-6750399503. Image Courtesy of Malcolm Reading Consultants
The following analysis of the Helsinki Guggenheim competition entries was contributed byFederico Reyneri, partner at LPzR associates architects, and his research team.
Architects have always pushed the limit, often experimenting with forms and technologies unavailable in their time. In the last 20 years, we experienced a small revolution in thinking about spaces and embracing complexity, as computers started to show their real power. Since Gehry’s Guggenheim came to life in the mid nineties, nothing has been the same: free forms emerge everywhere from the dreamland to reality (often becoming someone else’s nightmare). Before this computer , except for the realm of the mind and clay modeling, real control over complexity through technical drawings was too hard a game for us ordinary mortals but eventually, in the last 10 years or so more powerful and cheaper computers and even cheaper software, capable of astonishing -generated design elements, came out. Since then, new generations of designers have started to set free mind-blowing ideas, showing the world amazing computer generated pictures. Some architects even started to build them.
But how widespread is parametric design technology? How does it influence architecture worldwide? We started to analyse the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition, the largest architectural design competition in world history.

Barbecue Place in Lampa / Rosario Illanes Feuerhake + Josefina Feuerhake Rodríguez

© Natalia Vial
Architects: Rosario Illanes Feuerhake, 
Location: Lampa, Lampa, Santiago Metropolitan Region, 
Area: 300.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Natalia Vial

ThyssenKrupp Promises to Revolutionize Skyscraper Design with Elevator Innovation

© ThyssenKruppe
Elevator manufacturer ThyssenKrupp has unveiled its latest technological advance, a cable free, multi-car, multi-directional elevator that has the potential to revolutionize the size and shape of future skyscrapers. Run using magnetic technology similar to that used by Maglev trains, with each cabin running its own individual motor, the “MULTI” elevator system opens up the potential for elevator cabins to move horizontally as well as vertically. This in turn offers the potential for multiple cabins to operate in a single system, with cabins going up one shaft and down an adjacent shaft.

6 Finalists Revealed in Guggenheim Helsinki Competition

Courtesy of Malcolm Reading Consultants
The Guggenheim has announced the finalists in the competition to design Guggenheim Helsinki, whittling down the entrants from a record-breaking 1,715 submissions to just six. Representing both emerging and established practices with offices in seven countries, the shortlisted entries show a variety of responses to the challenge of creating a world-class museum.
The six finalists are:
Read on after the break to see all six designs in detail, as well as the jury’s comments on each.

RIBA Announces Charles Rennie Mackintosh Retrospective for 2015

Design for Scotland Street School by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Image © Hunterian, University of Glasgow
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced a major retrospective of the work of celebrated Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, with an  to be held at the RIBA’s Headquarters in London from February to May 2015. Having shown talent as a draughtsman from a young age, Mackintosh started his architectural apprenticeship at the age of just 16, and the exhibition features over 60 original drawings, watercolours and perspectives spanning his entire career from the late 19th century until his death in 1928.
Read on after the break for more on the contents of the exhibition

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