Archive for March 23rd, 2011
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
Recipient of Marcel-Parizeau Award at the 2011 Awards of Excellence in Architecture presented by the Ordre des Architectes du Québec
The clients wished to enlarge their 800sq-ft bungalow by adding a second floor to the existing structure. However, the poor conditions of the foundations quickly proved this option impossible. In turn, the architects studied the possibility to build an extension into the backyard. Two major constraints were to be found: (1) the Municipality forbade to construct higher than the existing roof membrane, and (2) the presence of rock 4-0 ft into the ground which made the construction of a basement very costly. From those limitations, an unconventional and affordable solution was developed: compressing the spaces on numerous split-levels to yield the desired rooms, with a stunning double height dining room and a generous provision of natural light.
 Résidence St-Hubert - Photo by Marc Andre Plasse
- Architect: Naturehumaine
- Location: St. Hubert, Quebec, Canada
- Year: 2011
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Tags: Canada, Québec
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
With Waterfront, Sweden’s capital city is now ready to join the major league in the world of international conferences. The congress centre with its innovative design solutions is providing Stockholm with a venue that will be unique in Europe.
 Stockholm Waterfront
- Architect: White Arkitekter
- Project Name: Stockholm Waterfront
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Photographer: Wojtek Gurak and Åke E:son Lindman
- Client: Jarl Asset Management
- Cost: €158M
- Project start/end: 2005–2010
- Completion: 2010
- Size/area: 24 600 m2 with more than 400 hotel rooms and a 3 000-seat congress hall
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Tags: Stockholm, Sweden
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
UNStudio / Ben van Berkel’s design chosen for the Singapore University of Technology and Design
UNStudio, in collaboration with DP Architects, has been selected from a shortlist of five practices to design Plot A of the SUTD (Singapore University of Technology and Design) campus.
 View From Distance
- Architects: UNStudio and DP Architects
- Client: The Singapore University of Technology and Design
- Location: Singapore
- Building surface: Phase I: 88,000 m2, Phase II 125,000 m2 Total : 213,000 m2
- Building volume: Phase I: 422,400 m3: Phase II: 600,000 m3 Total : 1,022,400 m3
- Building site: 76,846 m2
- Programme: University Campus
- Status: Competition
Credits
- UNStudio: Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos, Astrid Piber with Christian Veddeler, Jordan Trachtenberg and Ren Horng Yee, Adi Utama, Jeff Johnson, Melissa Lui
- DPA: Chan Sui Him, Teoh Hai Pin, Jeremy Tan, Seah Chee Huang, Wykeith Ng, Liew Kok Fong, Wang Ying, Yeong Weng Fai, Jaye Tan.
Advisors
- Structural consultant: Arup Singapore Pte Ltd
- Primary cost analysis: KPK Quantity Surveyors (Singapore) Pte Ltd
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
Two giant digital origami tigers playfully celebrate Chinese New Year on the forecourt of Customs House, Sydney from 11 February –14 March 2010.
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Tags: Australia, Sydney
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
PROPOSAL FOR FARGO, ND: This new downtown destination is a place to congregate, shop, eat, live and work. It also generates its own solar power. The Solar Plaza’s unique sculptural shape, with sweeping solar panel surface and curvaceous wraparound glass, adds a new dimension to the progressive development of renewable resources.
 Solar Building Plaza Entrance
- Architect: ShortList_0 Design Group LLC
- Project Name: Solar Plaza Fargo
- Location: Fargo, North Dakota, USA
- Sustainable Design Proposal: ShortList_0 Design Group
- Designer: Bill Caplan, 2010
- Site Area: approximately 90,000 sf
- Program: Mixed Use retail, office, residential and civic plaza
- Space Allocation (8 stories): 54,000 sf retail; 38,000 sf office; 76,000 sf residential
- Parking: 400 cars on two sublevels
- Primary Sustainable Design Technology: Building Integrated PV Solar Panels
- Annual Output Capability: 850,000 kWh
- Average Monthly Capability: 70,000 kWh/mo
- Software Used: Revit, Maya
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Tags: Fargo, North Dakota
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
ARXX studio is a research laboratory and a design office based in Rome, working in the fields of sustainable architecture and design.
 The Gullwing Towers
- Architect: ARXX studio Minervini + Sanna
- Name of Project: The Gullwing Towers
- Location: Dubai, UAE
- Collaborators: Arch. Alessandra Rapaccini, Arch. Fabio Lombardi, Flavia Verre, Giada Spera, Carlo Delzotti
- Software used: Rhino, 3dStudio Max with v-ray plug-in, all based on the Autocad drawing files
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Tags: Dubai, UAE
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