Archive for February, 2011
Friday, February 11th, 2011
“Balancing economical and environmental interests.”
Kaohsiung is the largest industrial harbour centre of Taiwan.
The Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Centre is located in the heart of this industrial harbor. It is a place of departure and arrival of national and international passengers.
 Kaoshiung Port and Cruise Service Center
- Architect – Kubota & Bachmann Architects
- project name – Port and Cruise Service Center
- city, country – Kaohsiung , Taiwan
- designer /architect – Kubota & Bachmann Architects
- status of project / expected completion if applicable – Design Competition entry
- firm website – www.kubotabachmann.com
- photo credit – Kubota & Bachmann Architects
Team profile
- Designer – Toshihiro KUBOTA, Yves BACHMANN
- Landscape Architect – Remy TURQUIN
- Environmental Engineer – Øyvind VESSIA
- Ingenieurs Structure – AEDIS
- Perspectives – Toshihiro KUBOTA
- Architects – Ikbal BOUAITA , Anthony THEVENONT
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Tags: Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Thursday, February 10th, 2011
The Napa River House is located on a site with mature oak trees and stone pathways winding down a gently sloping hill. To avoid disturbing the paths and root structure of the trees, a single footing and tube frame (inspired by a chairlift tower) will float the main living area in the oak canopy.
 Napa River House
- Architects: Craig Steely Architecture
- Location: Napa, California
- Project area: 2382 sqf interior, 1097 sqf exterior
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Tags: California, Napa
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Thursday, February 10th, 2011
This house located in Glen Echo, Maryland is sited on a heavily wooded lot overlooking the Potomac River. Glen Echo stands as a rare enclave of modern houses in suburban Washington, DC. The new house occupies the footprint of a pre-existing house in an effort to minimally disturb the site, removing no mature hardwoods in the process. A new swimming pool is suspended twenty feet above grade to further reduce the impact to the steeply sloping site.
 Wissioming Residence ©Maxwell MacKenzie
- Architect and Entrant: Robert M. Gurney, FAIA, Architect
- Project Architect: Brian Tuskey
- Project location: Bethesda, Maryland
- Contractor: Bloom Builders
- Interior Designer: Therese Baron Gurney, ASID
- Engineer: D. Anthony Beale LLC
- Photographer: Maxwell MacKenzie Architectural Photographer
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Tags: Bethesda, Maryland
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Thursday, February 10th, 2011
The Central Deck and Arena project in Tampere, Finland, is a unique urban scale architectural development on top of the existing railway tracks in the very heart of the city. The project by architect Studio Daniel Libeskind will stitch the East and West parts of Tampere back together again and culminates in a sequence of various open public spaces, lined with a commercial plinth and offering room for vibrant city life activities and events.
 Aerial view of Tampere
- Opening: Scheduled Completion:Arena: 2013, Full Project completion: 2018.
- Client: NCC Property Development Oy Åkerlundinkatu 11 C, P.O.Box 64, FI-33101 Tampere, Finland
- Deck area: 30.000m2
- Mixed-use program: 60.000m2
- Arena program: 38.000m2
- Local Architect: KSOY Arkkitehtuuria
- Structural Engineer: Ramboll Finland
- Zoning consultant: WSP Finland Oy
- Website: NCC Property Development Oy
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Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Untraditional mention to Sicily are the strengths of this project that brings a piece of the island into San Salvario district. The shop is conceived as a bright and cosy space, where quality and tastes find their proper place. Interior design is the direct consequence of a deeper reflection upon mood and colours: the agaves reference (Zabbara in Sicilian local dialect) is clear and globally used on the whole identity project.
 Zabbara by UAU Office
- Company Name: UAU Office
- DESIGNER/ARCHITECT/ARTIST: Marco Verrando (architect, project manager), Francesca Rossotti, (architect), Mansueto Francesco
- CLIENT/s: Zabbara snc
- CITY/COUNTRY: Turin Italy
- EVENT DATE: 2010, completion January 2011
- PHOTOS: Enrico Muraro
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Tags: Italy, Turin
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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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