Pratt Opens First LEED-Gold Certified Higher Education Building in Brooklyn
Pratt Institute has officially opened a new six-story, 120,000-square-foot green academic and administrative facility named Myrtle Hall at 536 Myrtle Avenue between Grand Avenue and Steuben Street to house the college’s Department of Digital Arts as well as several administrative offices.
View of the south side of Myrtle Hall from Willoughby Avenue - (c) Alexander Servin RAZUMMEDIA
’Villas in the Sky’ is a mixed-use 34-storey tower placed at a unique location in the King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Situated as one of the last buildings in the green thoroughfare, the Wadi, and in a transition zone between the public square and the Wadi, the tower will become a strong local landmark. The form imitates the structural ideal of a high-rise building. It is a polygon with four equal sides allowing for very flexible spaces. The shifted upper plates create a jagged facade that visually differentiates the various programmes in the mixed-use building.
Perched amid the rooftops of London, between the Thames River and the sky above, a sphere of clear polycarbonate, 7 m in diameter, encases a room of 42 s.m. The shell is joined along aluminum rings that divide the world into its four meridians. Guests ascend a gentle ramp to the raised floor. Inside, a central sky-lit shower is encircled by a 180° riverside seat. To the south, a queen size bed looks onto a roof garden. The unique envelope is coated with photo-voltaics, solidified drops of silicone on transparent film, in the shape of the continents of the Earth; providing all the energy the small room requires. LEDs on the interior surface give the room an ethereal glow at night.
From a distance, the global room appears to be a moon, or the Earth itself-and for a moment we see our own planet for the finite, singularly miraculous home that it is.
Room for London
Architect: Julian King Architect www.juliankingarchitect.com
From its inception, Saffire was imagined as an iconic project to redefine tourism in Tasmania.
The location, when we inherited it, was scarred from its previous use as a disused caravan park so the project became as much about repairing the site and interpreting its unique qualities as it was about creating a space from which it could be experienced. With this in mind, we shaped the main building as the end point in a journey, in which views of the Hazards are shielded and revealed and finally presented as a destination which is a panoramic overview of Great Oyster Bay.
Architecture Team: Peter Walker (project architect), Poppy Taylor (site architect), Jarrod Hughes, Robert Morris-Nun, Ganche Chua, Judi Davis, Chris Roberts, Gary Fleming, Tina Curtis
Client: The Federal Group
Contacts
Bernard Dwyer (Tourism Manager)
Matt Casey (General Manager – Saffire Resort)
Builder: Fairbrother Construction
Project Management: Stanton Management Group
Structural Engineering: Gandy + Roberts
Services Engineering: Wood + Grieves
Facade Engineering: Hyder Consulting
ESD: Wood + Grieves
Lighting: Point of View
Landscape Design: Inspiring Place
Interior Design: Chhada Simbiada Interior Design (in collaboration with Circa Morris-Nunn Walker)
Food + Beverage Services: Sangster Design Group
Commissioned Lights: Jude Able + Futago (commissioned pendant lights in the dining room)
Photography: Peter Whyte (WHY) 0418 319 117
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The International Polar Foundation (IPF), led by the civil engineer and explorer Alain HUBERT, was commissioned in 2004 by the Belgian Federal government to design, construct and operate a new Belgian Antarctic research station.
Tags: Antarctica Comments Off on International Polar Foundation Belgian Antarctic Base – “Princess Elisabeth” in Antarctica by Philippe Samyn and Partners
It is surprising that in a miraculously flat country like the Netherlands only so few towers emerge. The potential of the unobstructed view -as one of the main topics in Dutch painting- is in housing under developed. There seems to be a collective fear of elevators. (Which maybe explains the success of the Dutch movie Down -originally ‘De Lift’). Prisma takes the view – one of the most glamorous properties of dwelling- as starting point in combination with outdoor space.
Side View of Prisma
Architects: NL Architects, Pieter Bannenberg, Walter van Dijk, Kamiel Klaasse
Name of Project: Prisma
Location: Siersteenlaan 482, Groningen, The Netherlands
Project leader: Sören Grünert (Design Phase), Gert Jan Machiels (Execution Phase)
Client: Stichting De Huismeesters, Ed Moonen / Roelof Jong
Team: Rachel Herbst, Sebastian Janusz, Erik Moederscheim, Wim Sjerps (competition) Lukas Haller, Gerbrand van Oostveen, Michael Schoner, Wim Sjerps (approval planning), David de Bruin, Arjen Fruitema, Britta Harnacke (contract documents)
Cost Consultant: ABT Delft, Charles Boks
Structural Engineer: ABT Velp, Rob Nijsse, Erwin ten Brincke
Building services Engineer: Van der Weele Groningen, Frits Weijers, Radek Nosek
Fire Consultancy: DGMR Arnhem
Contractor: Schutte Bouw en Ontwikkeling, Zwolle
Program: Housing (52 apartments), nursery with consultation office
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The idea behind Rockwell Group’s overall design vision for the West and East Lobbies, The Chandelier bar, Marquee nightclub, Jaleo restaurant and 3,000 guest rooms in the new Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas was to redefine the total experience of Las Vegas, from arriving to eating to dancing to sleeping.
The Ascent at Roebling’s Bridge in Covington, Kentucky, is a 20-story residential tower that was completed in 2008. Reaching 300 feet at its pinnacle, the 300,000-square-foot building includes 70 residential units, a swimming pool, garden facilities, large public event space, and a restaurant on the plaza level. The Ascent at Roebling’s Bridge was awarded a CNBC Americas Property Award for Best High-Rise Development in 2008.
The Ascent is a gateway to the Roebling Bridge (c) BitterBredt
The new Concert and Congress Centre, Palacio de Congresos, is inspired by the jagged and characteristic landscape of Lanzarote. The building emphasizes the surrounding nature marking a new cultural hub for the Canary Islands.
Situated at Libin-Transinne along the highway that connects Brussels to Luxemburg, the Euro Space Center is responsible for the diffusion of knowledge concerning space exploration activities and telecommunications in Europe.
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