The Architecture of the City

In this Tedx talk, David Chipperfield of David Chipperfield Architects was invited to discuss the distrust that people feel about architecture, from a practitioners point of view, with the seductively titled talk: Why does everyone hate modern architecture?  Chipperfield asks us to consider architecture of the everyday – buildings that are being built on a daily basis, not the notable and expensive projects that are the exception.  In looking at today’s architecture, he laments over what he perceives to be, an unsuccessful way in which the majority of buildings are designed.

Project: S.M.A.O. Site: Ciudad Real (S) Date: 2011 Una piccola cappella in Spagna  

Project: S.M.A.O.
Site: Ciudad Real (S)
Date: 2011
Una piccola cappella in Spagna

Rock Stadium lo stadio costruito nel deserto di MZ Architects Il Rock Stadium, sorge nel pieno del deserto degli Emirati Arabi Uniti

Architects: Aedes Studio
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Aedes Studio

This week, with the help of our readers, our Architecture City Guide is headed to Paris. For centuries Paris has been the laboratory where innovative

Immeuble Molitor / Le Corbusier
Institut du Monde Arabe / Jean Nouvel & Architecture-Studio
Foundation Cartier / Jean Nouvel
Maison de Verre / Pierre Chareau with Bernard Bijvoet
Cité de La Mode et du Design / Jakob + Macfarlane
Parc de la Villete / Bernard Tschumi
Musée du Quai Branly / Jean Nouvel
Louvre Pyramid / I.M. Pei
Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation / Georges-Henri Pingusson
Centre Georges Pompidou / Renzo Piano & Richard Rogers
La Grande Arche de la Défense / Johann Otto Von Spreckelsen & Paul Andreu
Paroisse Notre-Dame de l’Arche d’Alliance / Architecture-Studio
Villa Savoye / Le Corbusier
Maison Tzara / Adolf Loos
Maison du Brésil / Le Corbusier
Hotel Fouquet’s Barriè / Edouard François
Notre Dame de Pentecôte Church / Franck Hammoutène
Le Cinémathèque Française / Gehry Partners
Pavillon Suisse / Le Corbusier
Maison de l’Inde / J.M. Benjamin, H.R. Laroya and Gaston Leclaire
Student Residence in Paris / LAN Architecture
Olivier-Métra School / aasb_agence d’architecture suzelbrout
Biscornet / BP Architectures
National Library of France / Dominique Perrault

Rooms spiral up from a garden courtyard to a rooftop terrace at House J in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, by Keiko Maita Architect Office.

Architects: Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio
Location: Changwon, South Korea
Structural Consultant: Mitsuda structural consultant
Construction: Tatsuhei construccion + Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio
Materials: Black brick, fast-set cement, white cement, sand, grass fiber
Program: Open air sculpture
Total Area: 8.55 sqm
Year: 2012

Architects: Foster + Partners
Location: Amman, Jordan
Collaborating Architect: Maisam – Dar Al-Omran JV
Year: 2013
Photographs: Nigel Young / Foster + Partners

Architects: Foster + Partners
Location: Munich, Germany
Design Team: Norman Foster, David Nelson, Stefan Behling, Christian Hallmann, Ulrich Hamann, Klaus Heldwein, Florian Boxberg, Leonhard Weil, Judith Kernt, Henriette Hahnloser, Eike Danz, Diana Krumbein, Simon Weismaier, Christopher Von Der Howen, Inge Tummers, Jörg Grabfelder, Katrin Hass, Tillmann Lenz
Area: 12,328 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Nigel Young / Foster + Partners

L’ARVHA lance le « Prix des femmes architectes 2013 » avec le soutien du Ministère de la Culture, du Ministère des Droits des Femmes et de la Ville de Paris. Ce prix a pour but de mettre en valeur les œuvres et les carrières de femmes architectes.

Comenzamos una nueva semana, y como ya es tradición Archivo les presenta una nueva colección de obras publicadas anteriormente en nuestro sitio web. Esta vez las obras elegidas son los centros culturales, como arquitectura institucional, que nos demuestran la gran calidad y versatilidad de los proyectos alrededor del mundo con este tipo de encargo.

A continuación 10 Centros Culturales que no se pueden perder.

Perot Museum of Nature and Science progettato dallo studio Morphosis. Il museo è stato progettato per coinvolgere un vasto pubblico.

Progetto: Morphosis
Luogo: Dallas (US)
Data: 2012

The surrounding neighborhood consists mostly of apartment blocks that date back from the 70’s. The buildings are large with enough space in-between and plenty of greenery. Because the whole area is built in relatively short period of time and not very long ago, it lacks the typical historic layers of the city center. Here the connection to nature is direct enough, the access to all city-conveniences – fast enough and easy, what makes the area nice to dwell. In spite of that it still lacks history, (memories of) the past and atmosphere.

Architect: Aedes Studio
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Photographs: Aedes Studio

Architects: BP Architectures member of Collective PLAN 01
Location: Paris, France 
Client: Ministère de la Culture / SAGI – SNI
Engineering: BECT
Project area: 1,609 sqm
Photographs: Sergio Grazia

Architects: BP Architectures
Location: Paris, France
Design Team: Jean Bocabeille, Ignacio Prego
Budget: € 25,670,000
Area: 9,845 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Courtesy of BP Architectures, Sergio Grazia, Luc Boegly

Free of clutter but filled with light, shadow and sculptural forms, filmmaker Matthew Donaldson takes you inside the minimalist masterpiece that Italian architect Claudio Silvestrin calls home. As part of NOWNESS’ In Residence series, this video sheds light  Silvestrin’s “reductive, contemplative, near-ecclesiastical spaces” that can be found across the globe – from Moscow to Majorca, and soon-to-be in Miami, where Silvestrin is currently designing a home from Kanye West that will undoubtedly exhibit many of his signature components. 

Architects: TEN Arquitectos 
Location: New York City, New York, USA 
Client: Two Trees Management Co. LLC
Project Year: 2011 
Photographs: Alexander Severin/RAZUMMEDIA, Images Courtesy Two Trees Management Co. LLC

Architects: Foster + Partners
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Area: 17,500 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Nigel Young

Located at the mouth of Marseille’s World Heritage-listed harbor, the Vieux Port Pavilion, designed by Foster + Partners, provides a new sheltered events space on the eastern edge of the port. Bringing new focus to the city, these photographs by Edmund Sumnerdemonstrate the stainless steel canopy’s ability to amplify and reflect the surrounding movement of the harbor, creating a spectacle that encourages pedestrians to linger. Since its opening early this year, the project is truly an invitation to the people of Marseille to enjoy and use this grand space for events, markets and celebrations once again.

Comme promis, avec la création du compte twitter du blog, l’Abeille et l’Architecte ouvre désormais ses pages à des invités (architectes, journalistes, enseignants, etc.). Chacun pourra de façon anonyme (ou non) écrire sur ce blog qui se voudra être un lieu ouvert où la parole est libre. Vous pouvez envoyer vos textes à l’adresse e-mail disponible ici. Pour débuter cette nouvelle étape du blog, voici le récit d’une jeune architecte embauchée dans une grande agence d’architecture parisienne avec une période d’essai qui s’avérera ne pas être ce qu’elle croyait…

Architects: mlzd 
Location: Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
Surface Area: 370 sqm (old buildings 290 sqm, new building 80 sqm)
Floor Space: 990 sqm (old buildings 820 sqm, new building 170 sqm)
Façade of New Building: 200 sqm
Costs of Construction (including exhibition): CHF 5.8 million
Photographs: Courtesy of mlzd