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Thursday, July 21st, 2016
Article source: Zaha Hadid Architects
Located on the Western boundary of Melbourne’s Central Business District, at the nexus between Collins Street and the Docklands, 600 Collins Street is within an area of the city that is evolving into a new precinct in its own right. Melbourne’s renowned cultural attractions, festivals and community events contribute to the city’s listing as ‘the most liveable city in the world’.
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- Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects
- Project: 600 Collins Street
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Visualizations: VA
- Design: Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher
- ZHA Director: Gianluca Racana
- ZHA Project Director: Michele Pasca di Magliano
- ZHA Project Architect: Juan Camilo Mogollon
- Local Architect: PLUS Architecture
- Structural Engineering: Robert Bird Group
- Building Services Engineering and Sustainability: ADP Consulting
- Planning Consultant: URBIS
- Quantity Surveyor: WT Partnership
- Building Surveyor: PLP
- Acoustics: Acoustic Logic
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Tags: Australia, Melbourne
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Thursday, July 21st, 2016
Article source: Levitt Bernstein
Concept
Levitt Bernstein have completed a high density, sustainable, affordable housing project in Islington, London based around the concept of ‘productive landscapes.’ All homes are designed to meet London Housing Design Guide, Lifetime Homes and the Borough’s own detailed accessibility standards. A large ground floor, fully accessible wheelchair user apartment has also been carefully designed as an exemplar wheelchair user dwelling.
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- Architects: Levitt Bernstein
- Project: Vaudeville Court
- Location: London, England
- Photography: Tim Crocker
- Design team: Jo McCafferty (Director), Lotta Nyman (Associate Director), Tom Ginnett (Landscape Architect), Andy Jobling (CDMC)
- Client: LB Islington
- Services engineer: Aecom
- Structural and civil engineer: Campbell Reith, Aecom
- Planning consultant: HTA
- Ecology consultant: Greenlink Ecology
- Daylight consultant: Waterslade
- Acoustic consultant: AIRO
- Code/SAP assessor: Stromo
- Construction value: £2.2m
- Completion: 2015
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Tags: England, London
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Thursday, July 21st, 2016
Article source: Rosan Bosch Studio
In the small seaside town Løkken children and adults splash around in waves of play and creativity after the local library opened its doors to a new innovative library designed by Rosan Bosch Studio. The Library Board wanted to challenge and inspire children and adults to play, learn and be creative in new and imaginative ways. Ambitions that have guided the development of an innovative library design, with a specific focus on new and differentiated learning zones in a physical learning environment that supports different ways of learning and working with strategic content curation.
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- Architects: Rosan Bosch Studio
- Project: Løkken Central Library
- Location: Løkken, Denmark
- Client: Hjørring Bibliotekerne
- Scope: 350m2
- Year: 2016
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Tags: Denmark, Løkken
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Thursday, July 21st, 2016
Article source: Mesura
A couple, a traditional house in the Empordà and one dream.
Houses should evolve along with its user. Ana María and Manuel, our clients, made the decision of spending as much time as possible in their summerhouse in Sant Mori. Located between Figueres and Girona, Sant Mori is a rural village with irregular geometry, which offers a characteristic Mediterranean landscape scenery to its inhabitants, bounded by long fields and forests.
 Image Courtesy © Salva López
- Architects: Mesura
- Project: Sant Mori Pergola
- Location: C/ Bonaire 11 17467 Sant Mori, Alt Empordà, Spain
- Photography: Salva López
- Software used: ARCHICAD
- Construction company: Construction and repair the Yazidi sl
- Pem: € 63,957.17
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Tags: Alt Empordà, Spain
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Thursday, July 21st, 2016
Article source: OOPEAA
The Periscope Tower is a giant wooden periscope structure that serves as an observation tower and engages the viewer ina dialogue with the landscape. With the help of a large mirror the Periscope Tower makes it possible for everyone to enjoythe views of the surrounding landscape. One can either climb up the stairs to enjoy the view over the lake and into thesurrounding landscape from the viewing deck, or simply stay on the ground and get the view through the periscope mirror.Made entirely of wood, the building is composed of an inner core of cross laminated timber (CLT) and an external wooden frame that serves as a load bearing structure. The inner core made of CLT forms the frame for an extra large periscope with stairs circling around it. When taking the stairs up or down one can experience a rich range of different views framed by the various openings cut into the structure.
 Image Courtesy © Anssi Lassila
- Architects: OOPEAA
- Project: Periscope Tower
- Location: Seinäjoki, FInland
- Photography: Anssi Lassila
- Client: City Of Seinäjoki
- Architect in charge: Anssi Lassila
- Project architect: Kazunori Yamaguchi
- Team: Juha Pakkala, Anne Kaivo – oja
- Size: 35 m²
- Year: 2014 – 2016
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Tags: Finland, Seinäjoki
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Thursday, July 21st, 2016
Article source: Federico Cairoli
Starting with the aforementioned demands and the conviction of designing an urban house, two ideas relative to the spatial organization prevailed above the rest.
The first consisted of appealing to the horizontal dimension: this was materialized through the configuration of the living spaces in an open plan set at street level. In this manner it established a link and an uninterrupted prolongation of the interiority and domestic uses onto the exterior spaces. Continuity only mediated and protected from the street noise by green spaces. This was achieved with the application of diverse mobile walls which with their hiding and different configurations enable the spatial performance.
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- Architects: Arquitectos Pedro Livni + Karin Bia
- Project: Libertad street House
- Location: Montevideo, Uruguay
- Photography: Federico Cairoli
- Contributors:
- Project: Architect Adirah Mautner
- Structural calculations : Engineer Alberto Catany
- Views : Arquitecta Victoria Martin
- Maqueta: Federico Lapeyre
- Date: September 2012 – March 2014
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Tags: MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay
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Thursday, July 21st, 2016
Article source: Federico Cairoli
It’s a single family home located on a corner lot that occupies the interior of a small pre-existing warehouse, which previously accommodated a weaving workshop. The warehouse in its severity and introversion is utilized as protection from a very proximate urbanity.
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Tags: MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay
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Thursday, July 21st, 2016
Article source: Lead 8 architecture and design studio
Multidisciplinary architecture and design studio Lead 8 – a team with a passion for creating liveable cities, have developed the HarbourLoop, a vision to transform the Hong Kong waterfront into an iconic 23 kilometre urban cycle, running and walking network.
HarbourLoop will be Hong Kong’s first mobility network prioritising zero emission modes of transit, connecting Hong Kong to Kowloon in a continuous loop. The route exploits the legacy of the city’s world famous Victoria Harbour.
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Tags: China, Hong Kong
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2016
Article source: Edu Design Workshop
Transformation of Medellin, education and culture have been the main platform for true social changes, where physical infrastructures are essential in the inclusion of quality policies in areas where state hasn’t been before and low levels of human development are common. These spaces are operated from Educational Ministry and Citizen Culture, seeking mainly to improve the education quality to reduce dropout and repetition rates in early grades in elementary school. This project it’s about how to contribute to citizen encounter, integrating these infrastructures to the city, to its inhabitants and the recovery of public space.
 Image Courtesy © Alejandro Arango
- Architects: Edu Design Workshop
- Project: Educational Centrality Montecarlo
- Location: carrera 36 No. 85B -77, Manrique 6.278231, -75.546456, Colombia
- Photography: Alejandro Arango
- Software used: Autocad, sketchup, Photoshop
- Client: Municipality of Medellin – Secretary of Education and Culture
- Design: Urban Development Enterprise EDU – Medellin – Design Workshop
- Investment: $ 11.376’000.000 COP – $ 3’703.697 USD
- Built area: 5,122 m²
- Free and Recreation Area: 3,463 m²
- Public space Area: 1,198 m²
- Date: 2012
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Tags: Antioquia, Colombia
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2016
Article source: Alp’ Architecture sàrl
Built on the fringe of the village of Vollèges, Wallis, Switzerland, this house benefits an amazing view on the valley of Entremont.
The living spaces are all located on the ground floor and the and the living room has a double height under the apparent framework. A car-port and the technical room are located outside of the main volume to maximize the usable space. The rooms and a mezzanine with a balcony on the living are located on the first floor. Three terraces, all offering various qualities of space and sunshine allow to offer outside extensions to all the common spaces.
 Image Courtesy © Christophe voisin
- Architects: Alp’ Architecture sàrl (Laurent Berset, Sacha Martin, Romain Pellissier)
- Project: CRN House
- Location: Vollèges, Wallis, Switzerland
- Photography: Christophe voisin
- Engineers: Philippe Bruchez Ingénieur EPF / SIA | Stéphane Pellissier
- Surfaces: 140 m2 | 550 m3
- Year: 2014-2015
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Tags: Switzerland, Wallis
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