Archive for May, 2014
Wednesday, May 14th, 2014
Article source: Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc.
This project restored a 1926 YMCA building, designed by noted African American architect Paul R. Williams and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and added a new five-story building at the rear of the existing structure.
 Image Courtesy © Eric Staudenmaier
- Architects: Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc.
- Project: 28th Street Apartments
- Location: Los Angeles, California
- Photography: Eric Staudenmaier
- Architectural Conservator: Williams Art Conservation, Inc.
- Construction Manager: AMJ Construction
- Contractor: Alpha Construction Co., Inc.
- Engineer – Structural: Parker Resnick Structural Engineers
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Tags: California, Los Angeles
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2014
Article source: YHLA Architects
This project provides affordable workforce housing for low-income workers and families who previously lived in dilapidated, substandard housing in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Consisting of nine buildings located on five scattered sites (named Chipmunk, Deer, Fox, Trout, and Brook), Kings Beach Housing Now provides 77 LEED Silver apartments that reduce negative impacts on the environment, reuse infill land, and preserve Tahoe’s beautiful open spaces.
 Image Courtesy © Tom Zikas Photography
- Architects: YHLA Architects
- Project: Kings Beach Housing Now
- Location: California, U.S.A
- Photography: Tom Zikas Photography
- Acoustical Consultant: Bollard Acoustical Consultants
- Consultant: Telesto Nevada, Inc.
- Consultant: Harris & Sloan Consulting Group, Inc.
- Contractor: Brown Construction, Inc.
- Engineer Civil/Geotechnical: Marvin E. Davis & Associates, Inc.
- Engineer Electrical: Sacramento Engineering Consultants
- Engineer Mechanical/Plumbing: Sacramento Engineering Consultants
- Engineer Structural: Wood Rodgers
- Landscape Architect: Garth Ruffner Landscape Architect
- Owner: Domus Development.
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Tags: California, U.S.A.
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2014
Article source: Urban Office
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- Architects: Urban Office (Lilian Captari)
- Project: Emergency Call Center (CMISU)
- Location: Bucharest, Cotroceni str. , Romania
- Project: 2 storey public /office building
- Gross floor area: ~8000 sqm
- Land area: ~6000 sqm
- Design: 2011
- Status: construction 2014
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Tags: Bucharest, Cotroceni str., Romania
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2014
Article source: Alonso Balaguer and Associated Architects
In spite of the fact that the former bullring, in disuse since 1989 and with a neo-mudéjar style, didn’t actually have high architectural value, it was clear that, being poised in such an impressive location for more than a century, this site was really in the minds of every citizen, and its symbolic value lead to a suitable preservation. That’s why the architectural answer, already from the first outlines, was orientated towards its maintenance as a second skin of the new building. Nevertheless, such preservation met great technical complexity: first, an evident physical deterioration; second, a strange height, four meters above the nearby streets. The technical effort was worth it, in the end to present a strong, atypical cylindrical form.
 Image Courtesy © Josep Maria Mills, David Cardelús, Luis Alonso
- Architects: Alonso Balaguer and Associated Architects (Rogers, Stirk, Harbour and Partners)
- Project: LAS ARENAS
- Location: Barcelona, Spain
- Photography: Josep Maria Mills / David Cardelús / Luis Alonso
- Customer / Client: Company of New Bullring, SL / Metrovacesa
- Structural Engineering: BOMA (Brufau Obiol, Moya and Associates)
- Engineering Facilities: JG ASSOCIATES
- Project Management: Bovis Lend Lease
- Manufacturer: Dragados
- Project Year: 2000
- Implementation period: 2005 – 2011
- Area: 105,000 m²
- Construction cost: € 130 million
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Tags: Barcelona, Spain
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
Article source: Patrick Tighe Architecture
The design challenge of this project—the first all-affordable mixed-use development in West Hollywood and the first designed and completed according to the city’s new Green Building Ordinance—was to fit the desired 42 accessible units on a 13,000-square-foot site and within a 50-foot height limit. The design used minimal exterior setbacks and reversed the typical unit layout—locating the bedrooms along the interior building courtyard and the living areas on the street side—to capitalize on views and natural light.
 Image Courtesy © Art Gray Photography
- Architects: Patrick Tighe Architecture
- Project: Sierra Bonita Housing
- Location: West Hollyood, California, U.S.A
- Photography: Art Gray Photography
- Engineer Structural: Gilsanz Murry Steficek
- Landscape Architect: AHBE Landscape
- Owner: West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation.
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Tags: California, U.S.A., West Hollyood
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
Article source: Pascal Arquitectos
Why build a library today? seems absurd, it would be more logical to build a museum for books.
This would be like a mausoleum, a masterpiece of our last president who in a patron’s act wanted to be remembered and transcend through its materiality.His intentions were to mimic what was done with the construction of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao; to trigger the real estate recovery of the zone by creating added value to de adjacent land.
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- Architects: Pascal Arquitectos
- Project: Jose Vasconcelos Public Library
- Location: Mexico City, Mexico
- Software used: it is drawn in AutoCAD
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Tags: Mexico, Mexico City
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
Article source: URBAN OFFICE
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- Architects: URBAN OFFICE
- Project: 9 storey residential building
- Location: Bucharest, Romania
- Software used: Rhino 3d, Autocad, 3ds Max
- Gross area: 3 792.85 sqm
- Site area: 921.60 sqm
- Design: 2005-2010
- Status: construction
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Tags: Bucharest, Romania
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
Article source: Alonso y Balaguer
The building of Heribert Salas’ (1926 – 2011) house in Via Laietana 49, Barcelona in 1926 could never be considered a finished project and the clash of what was then considered a modern building within the weave of Ciutat Vella left wounds that have taken over 80
years to heal.
 Image Courtesy © Josep Mª Molinos / Marco Pastori
- Architects: Alonso y Balaguer
- Project: HOTEL OHLA *****
- Location: Via Laietana nº49, Barcelona, Spain
- Photography: Josep Mª Molinos / Marco Pastori
- Project Manager: Daniel Isern
- Developer: Cent Claus, S.L.
- Work involved: Basic project, executive project and site management
- Completion time: 2008-2011
- Surface area: 6,400 m2
- Constructor: Lluis Pares, S.L.
- Quantity Surveyors: Tecnics G3, S.L. (Manoli Vila, Javier Chávez, Victor Forteza)
- Structural Engineering: NOLAC
- Installation Engineering: PGI
- Sculptural work on façade: Frederic Amat
- Illumination: Artec3 Lighting Design
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Tags: Barcelona, Via Laietana nº49
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
Article source: Zaha Hadid Architects
The Jockey Club Innovation Tower (JCIT) is home to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) School of Design, and the Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation. The 15-storey, 15,000 sq. m. tower accommodates more than 1,800 students and staff, with facilities for design education and innovation that include: design studios, labs and workshops, exhibition areas, multi-functional classrooms, lecture theatre and communal lounge.
 Image Courtesy © Iwan Baan
- Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects
- Project: Jockey Club Innovation Tower, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Location: Hong Kong, China
- Photography: Iwan Baan, Virgile Simon Bertrand, doublespace
- Date: 2007 / 2014
- Client: Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
- Project Director: Woody K.T. Yao
- Project Leader: Simon K.M. Yu
- Project Team: Hinki Kong, Jinqi Huang, Bianca Cheung, Charles Kwan, Juan Liu, Junkai Jian, Zhenjiang Guo, Uli Blum, Long Jiang, Yang Jingwen, Bessie Tam, Koren Sin, Xu Hui, Tian Zhong.
- Competition Team: Hinki Kwong, Melodie Leung, Long Jiang, Zhenjiang Guo, Yang Jingwen, Miron Mutyaba, Pavlos Xanthopoulus, Margarita Yordanova Valova.
- Local Architect: AGC Design Ltd, (Hong Kong), AD+RG (Competion Stage)
- Geotechnical / Structure / MEP / Façade Engineer: Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd
- Landscape: Team 73 Hong Kong Ltd
- Acoustic: Westwood Hong & Associates Ltd
- Quantity Surveyor: Rider Levett Bucknall Ltd.
- Area/Size Net Occupied Floor Area: 15,000 sqm
- Height: 78 meters
- Capacity: 1800 students & staff
- Program: School of Design and, Design Institute for Social Innovation
- General Contractor: Shui On Construction Company Ltd., Hong Kong
- Façade Contractor: YKK AP Facade Hong Kong LTD / Beijing Jangho Curtain Wall Co. Ltd.
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Tags: China, Hong Kong
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
Article source: Alonso y Balaguer
Located in Parc dels Torrents, La Baronda complex is one of the most important town planning actions in the city of Esplugues, reuniting and combining in the same public space concepts such as exhibition and meetings, as well as the goal of becoming, without a doubt, a new reference in integral design centres.
 Image Courtesy © Alonso y Balaguer
- Architects: Alonso y Balaguer
- Project: ESPAI BARONDA
- Location: Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain
- Constructor: Tau Icesa, S.A
- Surveyors: Xavier de Vera Vila
- Structural Engineering: AREA 5/BOMA
- Engineering Facilities: SURIS
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Tags: Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain
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