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The “Line, surface, space“ installation, by Kawahara Krause Architects, is displayed as part of the architectural triennale in Hamburg this summer. Erected on the plan of three interlocking twisted squares of different sizes, the threads of the outer square suggest the edges of an imaginary space, while the more densely arranged threads towards the middle seem to create surfaces. A fragile structure of threads stretching from floor to ceiling seems to dissolve in space and recompose to ever new appearances. Varying between transparent and closed surfaces, the spatial perception changes with each step taken through the installation. More images and architects’ description after the break.
via Architecture Network @archconnection
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According to fashionpersonnel.co.uk, it was actually the architect behind the store, Lewis and Hickey, who was awarded the honour by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
Innovative ‘living wall’
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![[HONG KONG] Shortlist announced for West Kowloon Cultural District’s first Arts Venue | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/Tu1MBo9bbolyB8WG1KRC0Dl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) has announced five design teams invited to submit proposals for the Xiqu Center, which will be the first landmark building within Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District. Serving as the main theatre and Team House, the Xiqu Center will form the gateway into the £1.7bn, Foster-designed masterplan once it is complete towards the end of 2015.
Mr. Louis Yu, Executive Director, Performing Arts stated, “There has been a fantastic response to our plans for the Xiqu Centre from design teams from across the world. We are working hard to find the right team to work with to fulfill our ambitions. The shortlisted teams will meet with representatives of the Chinese opera artform, engaging with stakeholders so we can conceive together a world-class building for Hong Kong and for the development and promotion of this important form of Chinese cultural heritage.”
The five shortlisted teams are:
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Public voting started this past week and will go on until July 22 for the inaugural George Matsumoto Prize for North Carolina Modernist residential design, a unique architecture competition sponsored by nonprofit Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH). Anyone may vote for his or her favorite, once per email address. According to TMH founder and director George Smart, the “sleek, refined, powerful entries for the Prize brilliantly continue this state’s incredible legacy of Modernist residential design.” A panel of nationally known architects, along the public, will determine the top three winners of $6000 in cash prizes. To make your vote, please visit their website here.
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Dans l’échiquier complexe de la mise en œuvre des cadres de vie, le rôle dévolu aux architectes est de matérialiser les ambitions abstraites, théoriques ou politiques d’espaces, de villes et de formes construites destinés à répondre aux besoins et aux attentes de la société. En France, une fois passée l’urgence de la reconstruction de l’après-guerre, à laquelle contribuent un certain nombre d’architectes ayant déjà fait leurs preuves, la Ve République ouvre une nouvelle ère de réflexion et d’expérimentation en la matière. Une nouvelle génération d’architectes, parmi lesquels ceux de l’Atelier de Montrouge, vont emboîter le pas à cette volonté de changement, en s’impliquant activement dans la sphère des décideurs et dans des structures de débat politique, et en plaçant leur pratique sous une position éthique : la construction d’un environnement démocratique, sur la globalité du territoire. Cet article relate le parcours spécifique de cette équipe d’architectes engagés, de 1958 à 1981, de l’ombre à la lumière, composant avec l’horizon des possibles. Via Laurent Gayme
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Pamela Ross is a professional street photographer, who was born and raised in Hamburg, Germany. Pamela currently working as a Online Account Manager in a small but very lovely agency called “Robinizer”.
Via Johann Barnard
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Architects: Future Systems - Jan Kaplický + Shiro Studio Location: Via Paolo Ferrari, Modena, Italy Project Architect: Andrea Morgante
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Industrial Design content and community site - articles, discussions, interviews and resources.
via Moss Yaw Design @MYDstudio
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![[CASABLANCA] Sustainable Market Square | The Architecture of the City | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/nRe5qlvhNF4bFNJ7UTYFzjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
A Market square is a public open area where market stalls are traditionally set out for trading, commonly on particular days.
Sustainable Architecture is a general term that describes environmentally conscious de- sign techniques in the field of architecture.
Casablanca is a young and dynamic city in Morocco with a population estimated at approximately 4 million habitants.It is the largest city in the Maghreb and the fourth largest in Africa. It is also an important business hub with 60% of the country’s economic activities.
Being an important economic center, its architecture is a combination of different styles which gives it a unique architectural beauty.
AIM OF THIS COMPETITION
This Competition hopes to achieve the following:
COMPETITION STRUCTURE For more information please visit [AC-CA]
via @HALL_Design2
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Alvaro Siza Vieira has been selected as laureate of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of this year’s International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Italy. The board of la Biennale di Venezia, currently chaired by Paolo Baratta, under Director David Chipperfield, announced the decision this week, which also happens to be Siza's birthday week. The Golden Lion will be officially presented during the opening and award ceremony on August 29, 2012 at the Giardini of la Biennale.
via Michael Hall @HALL_Design2
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La création d'espace dans le sous-sol de la cour Visconti impose une excavation de 12 mètres de profondeur. Les nouveaux espaces du département des Arts de l'Islam sont solidement amarrés dans l'ancienne cour Visconti du musée du Louvre.
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Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret 125 years ago, Le Corbusier’s legacy as a designer, architect and writer is one of the most influential in the history of modernist architecture. So what then, would you give as a worthy birthday present to such a man?!
The home he designed for his parents, Villa “Le Lac” in Switzerland, was the country’s first modernist house and fulfilled three of the five tenets set out by Corbusier for new architecture: An open roof space that could be utilised for domestic purposes, a free design floor plan without concern for supporting walls and large, horizontal windows that would provide equal light to all rooms (the remaining points unused, but influential to his design – as with all of his designs – are supporting stills or pilotis which raise the bulk of the structure and replace structural walls, allowing free design of the façade; separate design of the exterior from the structural function of the building). So it’s a pretty special piece of work and what’s more, it’s specifically domestic: A home.
via Hélène Lefebvre
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Architects: Hennebery Eddy Architects
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Le Centre Pompidou propose jusque au 10 septembre 2012 de découvrir les architectes italiens de la Tendenza: mouvement international venu d' Italie et fondateur de l' architecture de l' après guerre. Un vrai laboratoire d'idées. Via Lockall
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This article is co-authored by Sherin Wing 1] Even if your boss is your friend he may have to axe you to save his business.
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Triangle Modernist Houses - Documenting, Preserving, Promoting Residential Modern Architecture...
Most people are surprised, even shocked, to learn the Triangle area of North Carolina has the third largest concentration of Modernist houses in America, more than anywhere else except Los Angeles and Chicago. Who knew that little ol' Mayberry would be a center for great residential architecture? TMH offers the design-loving public an exciting source for NC Modernist house tours, an extensive catalog of NC and national residential architecture, and a community of knowledgeable advocates for new Modernist construction and renovation.
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Que l’absence de savoir-faire représente un danger en matière de restauration du patrimoine, tout le monde en conviendra. Que les traditions d’un pays soient mises en péril par le besoin de «battre des records» est en revanche plus inédit. Telles sont pourtant les causes de l’altération du patrimoine «tangible comme intangible» au Vietnam, ainsi que le soulignent Trung Hieu et Nguyen Trang dans un article paru le 15 mai 2012 dans le quotidien Việt Nam News. Via Laurent Gayme
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Éco-région, ville durable, urbanisme durable, architecture durable… Autant de termes couramment employés par les acteurs de la construction et de l’aménagement, qui traduisent des réalités multiples sur le territoire francilien. Avec Identités remarquables, les CAUE d'Île-de-France proposent une collection d’exemples et de situations pour donner corps à ces notions.
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There has long been a tendency to see the most important innovations of Modernism as arising directly from progressive causes. War, in this view, was considered a limiting if not wholly destructive force that stymied civilian architecture in favor of retrogressive military structures. But in his groundbreaking recent book Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War, the French architectural historian and architect Jean-Louis Cohen establishes one big, awful, inescapable truth: the full potential of twentieth-century architecture, engineering, and design was realized not in the social-welfare and urban-improvement schemes beloved by the early proponents of the Modern Movement, but rather through technologies perfected during the two world wars to slaughter vast armies, destroy entire cities, decimate noncombatant populations, and industrialize genocide.
via @larrysa
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Through research, discussions and essays from a variety of resources, Parlour: Women, Equity, Architecture is a platform, a coach, and an inspiration that is available to women worldwide in an effort to bridge the gender gap that exist in the historically male dominant profession of architecture. Launched by a team of scholars led by Dr. Naomi Stead from The University of Queensland and developed and edited by Justine Clark from The University of Melbourne, this website is relevant to all members of the profession, women and men, in all parts of the world. It highlights the reasons why gender gaps are felt as in “implicit bias” whether in pay scale or upward mobility, even though discrimination and prejudices may not be explicit. In this regard, the website and its collection of resources, aims to create a forum for a dialogue about the actual and perceived barriers that empowers women to challenge the social structure that fosters this proven under-representation, whether it is due to professional practices and “gendered behavioral practices” or pressures that women feel to leave the profession at a much higher rate than men.
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Bronze and glass chambers by NOBEL Arkitekter to protect two ancient runestones in Jelling, Denmark.
via @HALL_Design2
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AtelierVecteur have designed the Welcome Pavillion for the 2012 Festival of Lively Architecture in Montpellier, France. The pavilion is located in the heart of Montpellier, and serves as the starting point for the festival. Via Beturbio
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Avere una “panoramica immobiliare” di quello che succede a Milano e dintorni non è sempre facile. Interessante scoprire, allora, che c’è chi dedica la sua missione a “raccogliere, organizzare, ma soprattutto divulgare i piccoli e grandi cambiamenti che caratterizzano uno degli organismi “viventi” più complessi e misteriosi mai creati dall’uomo: la città“. Si tratta del sito Urbanfile, una fonte aperta da cui chiunque può attingere e inserire liberamente informazioni, dati, immagini e impressioni riguardanti gli sviluppi architettonici e urbanistici delle città. Via F|Mattiuzzo
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