The Architecture of the City

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

At just a little over 50 years old, the University of California San Diego is one of the younger college campuses in the United States, but despite this it is one of the most architecturally fascinating universities around. In the official UCSD campus guide, Dirk Sutro emphasizes that “UCSD does not have a single example of the historical-revival styles prevalent at other University of California campuses… and at San Diego’s two other major universities”. The history of UCSD architecture is one of ambition, which has made the campus a display case of modernism in all of its forms from the last half a century.

Thanks to photographer Darren Bradley, we can now share this history and a selection of the exciting structures it has produced.

Architects: MASS Design Group
Location: Kigali, Rwanda
Architect In Charge: MASS Design Group
Design Team: Michael Murphy, Alan Ricks, Sierra Bainbridge, Ebberly Strathairn, Branden Collins, Andrew Brose, Marika Shioiri-Clark, Ryan Leidner, Eric Mutabazi
Area: 900 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Iwan Baan

Architects: KLab architecture
Location: Ekali, Athens, Greece
Project Area: 1,050 sqm
Project year: 2006-2009
Photographs: KLab architecture

Architects: Atelier du Pont
Location: Saint-Denis, France
Architects In Charge: Anne-Cécile Comar, Philippe Croisier, Stéphane Pertusier
Project Managers: Luc Pinsard and François Kharrat
Area: 2,815 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Luc Boegly

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.

Gropius and Seidler by Dupain 1954; Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons On May 18th, we celebrate the 130th birthday of one of the most highly regarded modern

Architects: MASS Design Group
Location: Burera District, Rwanda
Client: Rwandan Ministry of Health; Partners In Health / Inshuti Mu Buzima
Sewage Plant Engineering: EcoProtection
Landscape Design: Sierra Bainbridge and Maura Rockcastle 
Design Team: Michael Murphy, Alan Ricks, Sierra Bainbridge, Marika Clark, Ryan Leidner, Garret Gantner, Cody Birkey, Ebbe Strathairn, Maura Rockcastle, Dave Saladik, Alda Ly, Robert Harris, Commode Dushimimana, Nicolas Rutikanga
Structural Engineering: ICON 
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 6,040 sqm
Photographs: Iwan Baan, MASS Design Group

Architects: Osamu Morishita
Location: Shinpou, Toukai, Japan
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Tamotsu Kurumada, Courtesy of Osamu Morishita

Architects: Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten
Location: Claude-Dornier-Platz 1, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Project Manager: Frank Karlheim
Project Architects: Christof Killius, Lisette Oberleitner, Ana Prikic, Kerstin Schaich, Katrin Wittmann
Area: 7,000 sqm
Year: 2009
Photographs: Courtesy of Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten

fort cortina karelse & den besten combines commercial building with warm materials and morrocan proportions.

Created by Carniolus, the video above very elegantly gives you a pretty good description of the Baroque Court Apartments, designed by OFIS Architects. A residential block in the historic city center of Ljubljana, Slovenia, the project is positioned to feature an internal courtyard and open-air contemporary glass light well. The inward-facing transparent enclosure was revitalized to create opportunities for communication between apartments at different levels.