Urban/Civic Sites April 2013 Peix (Fish) Ciutadella/Vila Olímpica Barcelona, Spain Frank Gehry
Image 3 of 32 from gallery of Fab-Union Space On The West Bund / Archi-Union Architects. Photograph by Shengliang Su
Oscillation designed by Atelier Vecteur, The installation has been realized to protect a construction site and be part of the Festival Voyage..
Novi neobični pešački most nikao je u stambenoj četvrti kineskog grada Čengdua. Most je sagrađen preko jednog prometnog bulevara i spaja dva stambena bloka s obližnjim gradskim parkom. Most je pušten u saobraćaj ove godine, a projektovale su ga arhitekte iz studija ZZHK Architects. Dizajn mosta
Image 11 of 29 from gallery of Le 49 / APOLLO Architects & Associates. Photograph by Masao Nishikawa
Image 25 of 35 from gallery of Seabury Hall Creative Arts Center / Flansburgh Architects. Photograph by Matthew Millman
Designers often talk about the importance of play, emphasizing its power to create creative breakthroughs. Design firm Monstrum, based in Denmark, took that idea one step further and decided to devote their entire practice toward building fun, innovative, well-designed playgrounds.
Le réaménagement de la place du marché de Renens s’intègre parfaitement avec les éléments de la nature déjà en place. La nouvelle structure est constituée
Image 2 of 16 from gallery of Saint Stephen of Hungary School / HMA2 architects. Photograph by Christopher Payne / Esto
Image 3 of 21 from gallery of Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY Completes Their Latest "Structural Shingle" Project in France. Photograph by MARC FORNES & THEVERYMANY
Image 2 of 10 from gallery of Tianjin Binhai Cultural Center / gmp Architects. Photograph by Christian Gahl
Image 8 of 21 from gallery of Perspectives / Giles Miller Studio. Photograph by Richard Chivers
Hyperbamboo pavilion wins CAMBOO design competition in Cambodia.
Carve: The Fredrik Hendrikplantsoen is situated west of the city center, in one of the greenest historic neighbourhoods of Amsterdam. In the 17th century this area was no more than a greenfield site, until in 1630, the ‘Houtzagerscompagnie’, the ‘Sawmills-company’, settled down here. The location was ideal because of its dominant west-wind, and the old […]
Minoru Yamasaki, best known as the architect of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, created several outstanding modernist buildings. He strived to unite modernist and classical architectural ideas in formal and symbolic reduction. His work shows a preference for fine materials such as marble and repeated references to classical architecture such as gothic arches and columns. His designs are airy, reaching upwards and opening a relationship to the sky. The World Trade Center was not only the highest, but also the visually brightest, most minimal, and - by virtue of its duality - the most symbolic skyscraper in Manhattan. This duality was also an inspiration for French philosopher Jean Baudrillard: “Why are there two towers at New York’s World Trade Center? All of Manhattan’s great buildings were always happy enough to confront each other in a competitive verticality, the result of which is an architectural panorama in the image of the capitalist system: as pyramidal jungle, all of the buildings attacking each other. ...This architectural symbolism is that of the monopoly; the two WTC towers, perfect parallel, a quarter-mile high on a square base, perfectly balanced and blind communicating vessels. The fact that there are two of them signifies the end of all competition, the end of all original reference. ... For the sign to be pure, it has to duplicate itself: it is the duplication of the sign that destroys its meaning. This is what Andy Warhol demonstrates also: the multiple replicas of Marilyn’s face are there to show at the same time the death of the original and the end of representation. ...There is a particular fascination in this reduplication. As high as they are, higher than all the others, the two towers signify nevertheless the end of verticality. They ignore the other buildings, they are not of the same race, they no longer challenge them, nor compare themselves to them, they look one into the other as into a mirror... What they project is the idea of the model that they are one for the other... At the same time as the rhetoric of verticality, the rhetoric of the mirror has disappeared..." - Jean Baudrillard, Simulations, 1983 Yamasaki was born on December 1, 1912 in Seattle, Washington. He graduated from from the University of Washington, Seattle and became an instructor in architectural design at Columbia University. In 1945 he moved to Detroit. Yamasaki was a key proponent of New Formalism. He died in 1986. Yamasakis buildings include the Pruitt-Igoe Housing project in St Louis, 1955; the Wayne State University McGregor Memorial Conference Centre, 1958, where a triangular motif is repeated throughout the building, featuring a large glass roofed atrium with diamond-shaped glass skylights; Detroit One Woodward Avenue (formerly Michigan Consolidated Gas Company offices), 1963; the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company Building, 1964; the Wayne State University DeRoy Auditorium, 1964, a pavilion that sits in the middle of a reflecting pool; the Reynolds aluminum building, Southfield, with a skylight made of a series of pyramids and glass walls sheathed in light deflecting aluminum grills; Temple Beth-El, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1973; The Bank of Oklahoma Tower in Tulsa featuring a bilevel lobby and arched windows; and the World Trade Center.
Das alte Graf-Eberhard-Bad in Bad Wildbad im Nordschwarzwald gilt seit 165 Jahren als einer der schönsten Badetempel Europas. 1847 direkt über einer Thermalquelle erbaut, erfuhr es im Laufe der Jahre verschiedene Erweiterungen und Modernisierungen. Zuletzt wurde es um eine segelüberspannte Spaanlage im Außenbereich erweitert.
Recasting an industrial and underutilized waterfront into a bustling urban destination through a feat of design and engineering
In 2013, Tulane architecture students worked with the Tulane City Center to design a shade structure for the Louisiana Outdoor Outreach Program (LOOP).
the jetavan centre in rural india by sP+a serves as a space for the local community, with each pavilion-like building organized around tranquil courtyards.
Every year since 1981, the Australian Institute of Architects has distinguished in Australia's national architecture scene in the National Architecture Awards. Selected from 975 submissions down to a final shortlist of 69 projects, the 2018 winners were announced earlier this...
Pine Creek Pavilion is built within the Absaroka/Beartooth US National Forest boundary at the edge of the Wilderness. The pavilion is the first USFS structure built in partnership with university students, and it is also the first USFS structure to be designed and built incorporating sustainable...
Image 2 of 32 from gallery of Loop of Wisdom Museum & Reception Center / Powerhouse Company. Photograph by Jonathan Leijonhufvud Architectural Photography
An unprecedented and unique urban infill project in Las Vegas has just been completed. The notorious Las Vegas Strip, today, is the most visited tourist..
