Archive for February 9th, 2011
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
The Pampulha lagoon in Belo Horizonte is full of architectural significance and to build on its margins means to be close to the modernist legacy. The building considers that recent history but also expresses its modern urban spirit with rural balconies and breezes.The land slope dialogues with the building and proposes fittings and suspensions.
 Cantilevered bedroom volume night view - 2010 © photo@leonardofinotti.com
- Architect: Joao Diniz Architect
- Location: Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
- Year: 2007 – 2010
- Construction: 2009 / 2010
- Site area: 1243,00 m2 / constructed area: 454,00 m2
- Architectonic team: João Diniz architect, autor/coordinator
- Architects colaborators: José Luis Baccarini, Pedro Guadalupe, João Pedro Torres, Isabel Diniz, Caio Guerra, Clarissa Bastos, Elena Vale, Monica Ogura, Priscila Garcia.
- Photography: Leonardo Finotti
- Construction: Construtora Geraes / José Maurício Menezes
- Structural engeneers: Marcello Cláudio e Sigefredo Fiuza
- Installation projects: Senog Ltda
- Lightining design: Abajur de Arte / Adraiana Vasconcelos
- Landscape design: Mercado Verde / Firmino Fiuza
- Playground: Suzana Cadaval Arquitetura
- Tile artistic pannel: Fernando Pacheco
- Artists: Jorge dos Anjos, Jayme Reis, Monica Sartori
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Tags: Belo Horizonte, Brasil, Pampulha
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
STL Architects have designed the UNO Master Plan in Gage Park in Chicago.
 Perspective
- Architects: stl Architects
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Project: UNO Master Plan
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Tags: Chicago, Illinois
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
This house of 2900 square feet is located on a one acre, wooded lot, adjacent to park land outside of Washington, DC. The house is sited away from the road and oriented toward views deep into the woods. The sequence of entry is defined by a series of walls, intended to privatize and delineate the approach and entry into the house. The walls, garage volume and house become a threshold between the road and the wooded parkland.
 Harkavy Residence ©Anice Hoachlander
- Architect: Robert M. Gurney Architect
- Project Architect: Brian Tuskey
- Location: Potomac, Maryland
- Interior Designer: Therese Baron Gurney, ASID
- Engineer: D. Anthony Beale LLC
- Contractor: John Thompson of Freedom First Homes
- Photographer: Anice Hoachlander
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Tags: Maryland, Potomac
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Foster+Partners designed the Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi. The museum is intended to be a monument and memorial to the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding president of the United Arab Emirates. Five principal galleries and three further spaces will contain exhibitions devoted to the story of the Sheikh Zayed, the history of the UAE and falconry and conservation. The Museum also will incorporate an education centre, theatre, shops, café, VIP areas, members’ lounges and performance spaces.
 Zayed Museum at night - © Foster + Partners
- Client: Tourism Development + Investment Company
- Architects: Foster + Partners
- Engineers: WSP/BDSP AKT
- Local Architect: Planar
- Landscape Architects: Atelier Dreiseitl
- Lighting Designers: Claude Engle
- Cost Consultants: RLB
- Facade Access: Lerch Bates
- Specification Writers: Schumann Smith
- Air Flow Consultants: RWDI
- Environmental Engineers: Transsolar
- Auditorium Consultants: Shen Milsom + Wilke
- Programme managers: AECOM
- District Master Planners: TDIC Master Planners
- Museography: The British Museum
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Tags: Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Islands, UAE
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
The retained meadowland above Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater is the site of six new cottages. The meadow, which is a fragment of a ‘recent’ cultural landscape, provides a complimentary experience to the surrounding native forest from which to appreciate and understand both native ecology and cultural history. It opens a clearing in the forest; a clearing that establishes the possibility of a sustainable relationship between human occupancy, site and sun.
 Falling Water Model
- Architect: Patkau Architects
- Project Name: Cottages at Fallingwater
- Client: Western Pennsylvania Conservancy
- Location: Mill Run, Pennsylvania
- Use: Housing for Educational Programs
- Site Area: Bear Run Nature Reserve, 5189 Acre (21 k㎡)
- Gross Floor Area: 63㎡ (678 sqft) (one bedroom unit) x 4 units = 252 ㎡ (2712 sqft)
- 86㎡ (925 sqft) (two bedroom unit) x 2 units = 172 ㎡ (1850 sqft)
- 99㎡ (1063 sqft) (community pavilion) x 1 units = 99 ㎡ (1063 sqft)
- Total = 523㎡ (5625 sqft)
- Bldg. Coverage Ratio: Not Applicable
- Gross Floor Ratio: Not Applicable
- Bldg. Scale: 1 story below grade
- Structure: Pre-Engineered Corrugated Steel Culvert
- Max. Height: 3.6m (12ft)
- Landscape Area: 26150㎡ (6.5 acre)
- Parking Lot: shared parking with adjacent buildings (1 car per unit = 6 cars)
- Exterior Finish: Grass, Weathering Steel
- Design year: 2010
- Completion year: To be determined
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Tags: Mill Run, Pennsylvania
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
‘Weave Housing’ is a design proposal for an urban mixed use complex in Denver CO, with 160 apartment units, retail and parking. Inspired by a children’s potholder loom, the facade texture supports multiple interior apartment arrangements with units occupying one or two bays in width, and one or two levels in height, allowing for flexibility and plan variety. By weaving occupiable volumes across the facade, private balconies and overhangs are created, establishing zones of natural shading and meeting the desired passive energy strategy. The long dimension of each apartment unit is stretched parallel to the corridors, taking advantage of natural light and views while minimizing the depth light is asked to penetrate the space.
 Weave Housing - Eastern side of the building (more…)
Tags: Colorado, Denver
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Located on a desolate and dusty plane near the ancient Ziggurat of UR, the Nassiriyah Truck Stop is proposed as a modern day oasis along one of Iraq’s most dangerous highways. The project is intended to become an economic seed for the local community by proving space and microfinance grants for family-owned businesses, as well as vital services and supplies for Iraq’s trucking community.
 Aerial View Nassiriyah Truck Stop
- Architects: New World Design LLC
- Location: Ur, Dhi Qar, Iraq
- Architect in charge: Jeffrey Olinger
- Structural Engineer: Haris Engineering Inc.
- Size: 2,531 sqm
- Year: 2010
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Tags: Dhi Qar, Iraq, Ur
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
In Minas Gerais, a state located in Middle East of Brazil, COPASA – Companhia de Saneamento de Minas Gerais, is the state owned company responsible for the water treatment and distribution to the majority of the cities. For the planning and management, the company has an Administrative District for each of the five regions in the state. The project here presented comprehends one of the administrative head-office, located in São Sebastião do Paraíso – Minas Gerais state.
 Frontal Façade of the Building
- Architect: Morato Arquitetura
- Area: Building: 100 m² , Land: 5000 m²
- Completion date: 2002
- Location of project: City: São Sebastião do Paraíso, State: Minas Gerais , Country: Brazil
- Designer/architect: Ulisses Morato de Andrade
- Nationality of designer/architect: Brazil
- Photographer: Daniel Mansur
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Tags: Brazil, Minas Gerais
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
The T-wall—a freestanding precast concrete panel with a footing cast into the base—is perhaps the most ubiquitous architectural element in Iraq’s security landscape. Used to create barricades around secure military zones, T-walls are scattered across the country by the millions, and as American forces draw down their forward operating bases in Iraq, hundreds of thousands of these T-walls will be either discarded or crushed. Due to their steel reinforcing, most T-walls will be banished to so-called T-wall graveyards, to be stored for an indeterminate amount of time for an undetermined purpose.
 Construction Diagram of T-Wall House
- Location: Al Qurnah, Basrah, Iraq
- Architect in charge:Jeffrey Olinger
- Size:150 sqm per unit, 10 units total
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Tags: Al Qurnah, Basrah, Iraq
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
The Hungarian city of Pécs was selected as European Capital of Culture for 2010. The new Kodály Concert- and Conference Centre is one of the main projects for this event.
 Front View
- Project name: KODÁLY KÖZPONT / KODÁLY CENTRE – CONCERT HALL in PÉCS.
- Client: The city of PÉCS.
- Architects: Tamás Fialovszky, Richard Hőnich, Ferenc Keller, Benedek Sólyom.
- Design period: 2007 – 2010.
- Completion date: December of 2010.
- Photographer: Tamás Bujnovszky.
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Tags: Hungary, Pecs
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