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One of the largest prefabricated straw bale buildings in Europe will be officially opened at The University of Nottingham tomorrow Wednesday 8 February 2012. Designed by Make Architects the new Gateway Building has been constructed with straw bale panels harvested on the University’s very own farmland – just 200 yards from the site. Make Architects have produced the video Story of Straw about the technology behind the £5.2m development. “Our aim is to create an inspiring and harmonious place to study and work reflecting the University’s impressive ‘green’ credentials. This innovative new building is part of a multi-million pound drive to expand and upgrade the University’s teaching and learning facilities. This building, along with many other new facilities on our campuses both in the UK and Asia and will enhance the institution’s position as one of the most popular destinations among applicants to UK universities.”
Via Lauren Moss
Studioninedots + HVDN shared with us their winning proposal for the student housing competition for TU Delft Campus. The project parameters were to design a volume of 67 meters long and 5 storeys high, with its own strong identity and a collective space on the roof including a rain water harvesting element. Along with a collaborative bid of contractor Jan Snel, the winning entry was defining in its dynamic façade, with the collective space having a central location in the building instead of on the roof. This creates a more interactive relationship between the residents, the building and its surroundings, leaving the roof to be fully planted with moss-sedum. The new building will be finished to all probability at the start of 2013...
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February 6, 2012 4:05 AM
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Le Corbusier : petit lifting pour la Villa turqueBatirama.comOeuvre de jeunesse de Le Corbusier, la Villa Turque a bénéficié d'une première campagne de travaux voilà 20 ans.
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February 5, 2012 1:30 PM
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Femmes sculptées des coins de murs. Female sculptures.
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February 4, 2012 10:12 AM
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The project for the expansion of the Serlachius Museum Gösta, presents an opportunity to explore a creative relationship between the existing museum and the surrounding landscape. Through a new and distinctive poetic architectural language, where the interior unfolds as a sequence of spaces, the project develops a harmonious ensemble that blurs the boundaries between existing and new.
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February 3, 2012 7:04 AM
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Un LC2 Le Corbusier à la cité Frugès. Derrière ce titre se cache l'acquisition par la mairie de Pessac d'un canapé design conçu par Le Corbusier.
Via Gabriel Manceau
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February 2, 2012 8:13 AM
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On the 24th of November OMA's Victor van der Chijs lectured at the Barbican in London about Prudence in architecture; about the balancing act of being the managing partner of a leading creative company.
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February 2, 2012 4:13 AM
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E. Saadi a livré fin 2011 pour le compte de la RATP un ensemble comprenant le poste de commandement centralisé de la ligne 12 et 47 logements.
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February 1, 2012 2:43 AM
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Prospective home-owners have the chance to buy into staggering opulence as Chicago's luxurious Isodore H Heller House goes on the market for $2.5million.
This tower in the UK was transformed by London-based studio De Matos Ryan into a modern family home. Located in Glouchestershire, a county in South West England, UK, The Round Tower is said to be a Grade II Listed folly, which had been neglected over the years and reduced to ruin. Here is more from the architects: “The design approach maintains the open relationship with the surrounding agricultural landscape by developing a discreet and substantial underground extension to the tower. This underground extension provides the main open plan living spaces and is lit by both a central open sunken courtyard and a lateral landscape scoop concealing the new swimming pool and associated sun terraces from public view. The tower remains clearly the dominant structure, providing the front door to the 4 bedroom family house and the means of vertical circulation.” Located on the highest part of a hill, the tower also provides lovely panoramic views of the neighboring picturesque village.
Via Lauren Moss
Située au bord de la Tamise à Londres, The Shard ("Le Tesson", "l'éclat de verre") culmine à 310 m. Construit grâce à des fonds Quataris, Le gratte-ciel devient peu à peu l'emblême d'une Europe en crise. Tandis que ses étages de bureaux attendent toujours preneurs, The Shard sert d'arrière-fond aux discours protectionnistes et à la naissance d'une nouvelle forme de lutte des classes, sur le registre : cette tour de riches contemplant les pauvres à ses pieds. Un débat vif y compris entre les pères du projet, Renzo Piano, l'architecte, et Irvine Sellar, le promoteur : quant le premier propose d'ouvrir le sommet de la tour au public, le second envisage de le réserver à des séminaires entre grands de ce monde. Avant The Shard, le Metropol Parasol de Séville en Espagne a fait les frais d'une Europe en pleine crise de nerf : d'abord accueilli comme un symbole des projets pharaoniques de la bulle immobilière, il est devenu le lieu de rassemblement des indignés espagnols.
Via Vincent Athias
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January 27, 2012 8:04 AM
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Félix Candela: 1910–2010, February 11–March 31, 2012 First-Year MFA Exhibition, Columbia University School of the Arts, Visual Arts Program, April 13–28, 2012 Crosstime Stories, May 9–June 9, 2012
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January 27, 2012 3:11 AM
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Dezeen is the world's most influential online architecture and design magazine.
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February 7, 2012 10:31 AM
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Fantastic Journal is a blog about architecture, design and other things too. It is written by Charles Holland who is an architect and a director of Fashion Architecture Taste - FAT. FAT is an architecture office with an international reputation for delivering outstanding and award winning projects at a range of scales and for many different uses. We specialise in architecture, cities and design for cultural, commercial and government clients including the BBC, Urban Splash and Bioregional Quintain. We are committed to developing our clients briefs into extraordinary projects. The office is directed by Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland and Sam Jacob.
Via The Nomad.
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February 5, 2012 1:32 PM
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Escaliers de Paris : rue Portalis vers la rue du Rocher...
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February 4, 2012 10:13 AM
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Shelter for Juarez The spatial topology intends to generate a dichotomy in use: a sheltered space with inner uses and an upper skin working as open...
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February 3, 2012 7:07 AM
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On entend de plus en plus parler de la maison à énergie positive. Mais qu’est ce qui se cache vraiment derrière ce concept ? Quelle est la différence avec la maison passive ?
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February 3, 2012 7:02 AM
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«L’Unité d’Habitation crée un phénomène social productif dans lequel l’individuel et le collectif s’équilibrent dans une juste répartition des fonctions de la vie quotidienne»*. Cette citation de Le Corbusier est-elle toujours d’actualité ?
Via Maud Baranger, Lockall
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February 2, 2012 8:08 AM
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This week’s guest writer is Claire Jamieson whose student project Eternally Yours had been published on this blog (on boiteaoutils actually) a few years ago. She is now a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Arts in London and is absorbed in the relationship that literature establishes with architecture and vice versa. In the following essay, The Possible Worlds of Architecture, she gives us a useful preview to this question by firstly establishing the bases of such research (architecture & narratives) and then by focusing on this same relationship within the novella Sanctuary by Brian Dillon (2011). I have to confess that I am not at all familiar with this author but it probably comes as fresh air for some of my readers who might feel claustrophobic by my repetitive personal references! In any case, this essay today is expedient as the first event of Archipelagos next week will be around literature and can thus constitute as good entrance door for such discussion
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February 1, 2012 8:24 AM
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I guess I just can’t help myself. I see a new timelapse video pop up on vimeo and I’m sold. Hook, line and sinker. It was only a couple of months ago I posted Mindrelic’s NYC timelapse video, and before long there is a new one, by James Ogle, that has emerged. It is equally majestic as the others. It is New York City afterall.
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February 1, 2012 2:41 AM
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Le projet d’habitat groupé des Choux Lents arrive à sa dernière ligne droite, et la course n’est pas encore gagnée. Les vendeurs choisiront un acheteur fin mars 2012, et il nous faut encore faire nos preuves pour qu’ils sélectionnent notre offre et non celle de nos concurrents promoteurs. Et c’est surtout de nouveaux habitants, dont nous avons besoin ! Car il reste de la place. Si tout se passe bien, nous détiendrons l’immeuble et son jardin dès cet été pour y habiter et débuter les travaux. Vous pouvez concourir à la réussite de ce projet en tant que futur habitant, investisseur, locataire, sympathisants ou même ouvrier. Plus d’infos en fin de mail.
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January 31, 2012 4:45 AM
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A Times reporter, James Barron, followed Daniel Avila, a photographer for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, to the places that most New Yorkers don't see.
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January 28, 2012 8:05 AM
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Suite à la parution dans Les Echos du 18 janvier 2012 d'un article qui rapporte les propos de certains constructeurs de maisons individuelles et de leurs représentants, Lionel Carli, président du CNOA publie une réponse sur le rôle de l’architecte...
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January 27, 2012 3:24 AM
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En bref
Le parti pris
Pourquoi Shanghai ?
Les phases du projet
La composition et l’expérience de lecture
Et après ?
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