Archive for February, 2011
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
Jeremy Levine architected a new two-story addition of 700 sq.ft. to a existing 1,100 sq.ft. home. The project utilizes passive and active green technology to integrate the house with its environment.
 Red Box 3D Model
- Location: Los Angeles, California
- Designer: Jeremy Levine Design
- Contractor: Francisco Lopez Construction
- Structural Engineer: Micheal Ciortea
- Specifications: 3 bedroom + 2.5 Baths. 1,900 sq.ft. + 400 sq.ft. of private decks
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
In the town of Versailles, France, much of the architecture stands as it was hundreds of years ago, when Louis XVI surveyed the streets from the windows of his vast château. That all changed recently when Platane Beres and his team at Platane Architecture won a competition to transform a building in the heart of this quaint town. Called l’Ecole des Beaux Arts de Versailles or The Versailles School of Fine Arts, this space is located less than 500 meters from The Château of Versailles.
 The soaring glass showcases the art.
Credits:
Architect: PLATANE & ILIĆ associés www.platane.net; Platane Architecture founded in 1995 by Platane Beres
Images:
Photographer Eric Laignel
Design Software: Nemetschek Vectorworks
l’Ecole des Beaux Arts de Versailles project length of time to completion: 18 months
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
The future “Mariehøj culturcenter” draw a clear profile in the landscape. With a new foyer, the culture center will get; a new face that invites in, all people in Ruderdahl’s municipality and a heart that can bring together and highlight the many users and activities in the house.
 WEarchitecture Mariehoj
architect: WE architecture + Sophus Søbye Arkitekter
assignment: Invited competition
type: Culturecenter
clients: Rudersdahl municipality
size: 8000 m2 restoration, 800m2 new building
place: Holte, Denmark
year: 2010
status: 1. prize, in progress.
collaborators: Sophus Søbye Arkitekter, MASU Planning, Øllgaard Consulting Engineer, Spangenberg & Madsen Consulting Engineer, Hausenberg
team: Marc Jay, Julie Schmidt-Nielsen, Hermanus Neikamp, Lawrence Mahadoo, Lena Reeh Rasmussen, Jenny Selldén, Zsofia Horvath, Nora Fossum, Søren Thiesen, Luis Gill,
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
RTA Office designed the renovation of the Riverside Moon Bay Park, access door and landmark building in the city of Jinhua in China. The building is like a single object located at a singular point of the city. The place is a park with a path that leads from one point of the city’s river front.

Architecture: RTA-Office
Project: 2008-2009
Construction: 2009-2011
Client: Jiangnan Greenbelt Yangtze River Department
Total intervention: 2 he
Building surface: 3800 m²
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
After working several years in a downtown warehouse loft, Intexure’s owners, married couple Russell and Rame Hruska (both architects), transformed a vacant urban lot that had essentially been a garbage dump for many years into the site of a new Live-Work studio for their office and home. “It took a great deal of personal risk and sacrifce but has paid off with a building that represents our values”, says the couple. Furthering the process of revitalization, Intexure then developed a series of sustainable homes adjacent to the studio which balance the need for urban density with appropriate green space and areas for gathering. “What we are really seeking to do is not just design buildings but create a community”
 Intexure Studio Exterior
- Architect: Intexure
- Location: Houston, Texas
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
Ron Fleisher designed this English Studies Building for children in Ramla. The English language is a crucial tool for social mobility. Reinforcement of English studies opens up endless opportunities and changes the self-perception and ability of being an active individual in the society.
 Entrance
- Architect: Ron Fleisher
- Year: 2010
- Location: Ramla, Israel
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
The ‘fns berlin apartments’ was the design of an interior renovation for two apartments in Berlin, 2007-2010. The basic diagram for the Berlin project is a web of networks of spaces that allows architectural ramifications, or inhabitative ramifications.

- Architect: reinhardtjung
- Location: Berlin
- Project year completed: 2010
- Software: AutoCAD
- Hardware: Rhino database
- Modeling: 3D Rhino model
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
2010 Be Inspired Award
High-Point Rendel’s Third Karnaphuli Bridge was recognized as a finalist in the 2010 Be Inspired Awards. Bentley’s Be Inspired Awards program showcases Bentley users and their work sustaining the world’s infrastructure―empowering commerce, industry, communications, government, communities and more to serve and benefit people worldwide.
 The first major cable supported bridge of its kind in Bangladesh
• Commissioned by: The People’s Republic of Bangladesh, Roads and Highways Department
• Designer: High-Point Rendel
• Project phase: Completed and operational
• Project year completed: 2010
• Location: Chittagong, Bangladesh
• Bridge span: 830m (950m with viaduct)
• Bridge width: 24.4m
• Each main span of main bridge: 200m
• Each side span of main bridge: 115m
• Carriageway: 2 x 7.30m
• Slow-moving vehicle lane: 2 x 1.65m
• Footpath: 2 x 1.5m
• Piling: 40 x 1.5m diameter and 16 x 3.0m diameter
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
Intexure Architects designed the City of Houston Green Building Resource Center. It is a design leading by example, proving sustainability can be both beautiful and attainable. This project successfully achieved client goals in demonstrating a variety of sustainable options as well as increasing the general public’s awareness about the value of green design.
 Resource Center Entry
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
LG Architects designed Western Center for Archeology and Paleontology + Center for Water Education at Hemet, California in 2007. This center has won many awards.
 The entire rooftop is covered with efficient solar array
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