Archive for March 22nd, 2012
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Article source: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Location of this Starbucks is somehow characteristic, as it stands on the main approach to the Dazaifu Tenmangu, one of the most major shrines in Japan. Established in 919 A.D., the shrine has been worshiped as “the God for Examination,” and receives about 2 million visitors a year who wish their success. Along the main path to the shrine, there are traditional Japanese buildings in one or two stories. The project aimed to make a structure that harmonizes with such townscape, using a unique system of weaving thin woods diagonally.
 Image Courtesy Masao Nishikawa
- Architects:KENGO KUMA & ASSOCIATES
- Project: Starbucks Coffee at Dazaifu Tenmangu Omotesando
- Location: 3-1196-11 Zaifu, Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture
- Client : Manten Corporation
- Photography : Masao Nishikawa
- Type of Construction：new construction
- Purpose：coffee shop
- Structure：wood
- Number of Stories: One story on the ground
- Software used: Rhinoceros, Grasshopper,3D max
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Tags: Dazaifu, Japan
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Article source: Nicolas Laisné & Christophe Rousselle
The two buildings stand within a narrow stretch of land with a width of twelve meters, in spite of this constrained configuration the design is freeing itself from it through the expression of the volumes offering “an true attic at every level”
Different and complementary, the two buildings have a visual contrapuntal communication, in rhythm with the Rue Rebière
Whilst the first one expresses major horizontal lines towards the public space, the second is inspired by the trunk’s lines and tree’s canopy, embodied by the use of a vertical wooden cladding.
 Image Courtesy Philippe Ruault
- Architects: Nicolas Laisné & Christophe Rousselle
- Project: Rue Pierre Rebiere
- Location: Rue Pierre-Rebière Paris 17-, France
- Client : Nexity Seeri
- Black Building: 980 m² SHON
- Wood Building: 577 m² SHON
- BUDGET : 2,55 millions d’euros HT
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Tags: France, Rebière
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Article source: Robert M. Cain, Architect
Located in Atlanta’s historic central business district, Studio 5B occupies the top floor of an early 20th century mercantile building. Local interpretations of prevailing national architectural styles in this district include Chicago, Renaissance Revival, Neoclassical, Commercial, Art Deco, Georgian Revival, and Victorian eclectic.
 Studio 5B
- Architects: Robert M. Cain, Architect
- Project: Studio 5B
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Software used: ArchiCAD for design, documentation and rendering
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Tags: Atlanta, Georgia
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Article source: Liong Lie
The slogan of Media Plaza is “innovation leads to inspiration”. This is reflected in the design. We envisioned an environment that stimulates creativity. An environment where people can create their own atmosphere and mood for meetings and presentations.
 Entrance of Media Plaza with custom made interior in soft sinuous lines
- Architects: Liong Lie Architects
- Project: Media Plaza
- Location: Utrecht (in the Jaarbeurs complex), The Netherlands
- Program: Congress centre Media Plaza, 1 conference room (capacity 700 people) and 7 session rooms (capacity 25/120 people)
- Size: 3000 m2
- Status: Completed September 2008
- Client: Jaarbeurs Utrecht bv
- Company: 123DV architecture & consult bv
- Design team: Roeland de Jong, Jasper Polak, Berry van Empel, Floor Theuns, Jerzy Wozniak, Pawel Garus, Sophie Pfeiffer, Marchien Rijneveld, Monique van der Sande.
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Tags: The Netherlands, Utrecht
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Article source: Woodhead
Woodhead designed the Pinnacles Desert Discovery Centre to experience the unique role of fire, both culturally and environmentally, as part of its design and construction process.
The evocative gesture of ritual burning introduces this specific practice into contemporary Australian architecture. The burning and the burnt remains are integral to the scheme and highlight the relationship between fire, the land and its inhabitants.
 Pinnacles Desert Discovery Centre
- Architects: Woodhead
- Project: Pinnacles Desert Discovery Centre
- Location: Nambung National Park, Western Australia
- Project Architect: Katherine Withnell
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Tags: Australia
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Article source: 123DV Modern Villas
In a former warehouse in the harbour of Rotterdam a loft is realised. The characteristic of the dwelling is its spaciousness, which exists because of a surplus of space. To maintain this quality, the program of the dwelling is placed into the space in two separate elements. The two elements both have their own materiality and are placed in the space on their own way.
 Image Courtesy Christiaan de Bruijne
- Architects: 123DV architecture & consult
- Project: Loft Lloydkwartier
- Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Project architect: Liong Lie
- Collaborators: Wies Nordman, Anne Harmsen
- Sliding doors, whirlpool: Vincent de Rijk
- Structure: Kees Willem Neeleman
- Building physics: Cauberg Huygens
- Gross floor surface: 145 m2
- Completion: 2005
- Pictures: Christiaan de Bruijne
- Software used: AutoCad and Cinema 4D
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Tags: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Article source: Mjölk Architects
Our winning entry to an international arts & architecture competition in Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Warming Huts v.2012 was an open competition, endorsed by the Manitoba Association of Architects.
 Image Courtesy Polar Hen
- Architects: Mjölk Architects
- Project: Warming Huts v.2012
- Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- Software used: AutoCAD and Rhinoceros
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Tags: Canada, Manitoba
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Article source: Aulík Fišer Architekti
This plot‘s main value that influenced the concept of this two-storied house with a cellar below a part of it is its direct link to Kunratický les (forest). The main living quarters, the viewing centreline passing through the entire ground floor and the two-storied vertical space are opened towards the forest. The house was designed as a relatively small one respecting the overall suitability, for one part of glazing transforms into a roof here. Yet it is sufficient enough to see the selected strip of the garden, forest and sky as a whole, in one vertical format.
 Image Courtesy Andrea Thiel Lhotáková
- Architects: Aulík Fišer Architekti
- Project: Family House In Kunratice
- Location:Prague 4, Kunratice, Prague, Czech Republic
- Interior design collaboration: Ing. arch. Markéta Aulíková
- Location: Prague 4, Kunratice
- Photography: Andrea Thiel Lhotáková
- Proposal: 2005
- Realization: 2009
- Floor area: 230m2 + technical facility and garage
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Tags: Czech Republic, Kunratice
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Article source: Kingsland + Architects
We were given the task to design a single storey building, the ubiquitous factory / warehouse building with front office. A dissection of the program provided us with a simple theme. By nature of its program, the building consists of two independent spaces. The heart and soul of the building is the letter carriers sortation facility, a function likely defined as ‘blue collar’ and not far from functioning and appearing just like that of a “factory”.
 Canada Post Corporation
- Architects: Kingsland + Architects
- Project: Canada Post Corporation – Port Credit
- Location: Ontario, Canada
- Architect Design: Colin Kingsland
- Software used: Archicad
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Tags: Canada, Ontario
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Article source: Studio 27 Architecture
This is a summer beach house in the resort community of the Pines on Fire Island New York. The typology of the homes in the Pines is recognizable to anyone who has visited an East Coast Shoreline resort town. It is a builderdriven typology reflecting the pragmatism of the inhabitants of these coastal communities. Almost always the “good sense” pragmatism that allows these homes to be built affordably overtakes the inherent liveliness and natural spirit of the place and creates structures that are a bit dull. This project inserts some of the “spirit of the shore” into this “Yankee thriftiness” residential typology. Common detail and material remain, but the volume of the house is expressed as a skin, rather than as a box-like container. The skin keeps the heat in. Over time, the skin of woven cedar boards will assume the same patina as neighboring houses. Large windows are introduced to reveal a luxurious light interior.
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Tags: New York
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