ArchShowcase Archive for 2011Crystal Gardens in Melbourne, Australia by CK DesignworksTuesday, May 17th, 2011Crystal Gardens to set new world sustainability standards Australian international architecture firm CK Designworks has designed a ground breaking 35-storey residential and commercial mixed use building for Melbourne’s CBD that will contain landscaped community gardens on every sixth floor equivalent to about double the area of the site with trees up to 10m tall.  Looking At North
Puebla Library Park `South Heart` in México by Rondero Carpena Arquitectos, Luisa Marti, COR & PartnersSunday, May 15th, 2011Article source: Rondero Carpena Arquitectos “Here, we stopped to reflect on the place, making an attempt to understand this sector of the city in an environment that has no soul, no color… it is a part of the city without definition, to be mentioned and try to define its homes, how living in this sector, how is the house where peolple live? … Accumulate synonyms are not. Playing the lottery ceilings, roofs, terraces: la choza, el jacal, el jacalón urbano, la cabaña, el tugurio, la cueva, el cuartucho, el cuchitril, la vivienda de la vieja vecindad, and then, the buildings, the flats, the residence, the houses, the rancho. Makeshift houses in straying where others repeat their experience, ‘Parachute’ are. So call them. Invaders that arrive as the very dirt, a huge estate unjust poverty with no future ”  Exterior View
National Monument Marking the Red Army’s Victory over Nazi Germany in Netanya, Israel by TheHeder PartnershipSunday, May 15th, 2011Israel’s government, with the agreement of the Russian government has proposed erecting a monument to mark the Red Army’s victory over Nazi Germany. An unbearable price was exacted of the Soviet soldiers and citizens: more than 10 million Russian soldiers and over 11 million Russian citizens were killed in heavy battle. The Red Army was a decisive factor in defeating Nazism and ceasing the genocide of the Jewish people in the concentration and extermination camps in Europe.  The Red Army's Victory over Nazi Germany
Flockr Pavilion in Beijing, China by SO-IL ArchitectSunday, May 15th, 2011Idenburg Liu (SO – IL), winner of the 2010 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, has opened two temporary structures in Beijing and New York. SO-IL’s ”Flockr” pavilion serves as the central hub for “Get It Louder,” a biannual media and arts event taking place in Beijing through October 10th and in Shanghai October 22nd to November 7th. In New York, SO – IL was one of the winners of Sukkah City, a competition to design a small ritual shelter traditionally associated with the Jewish holiday Sukkot. SO-IL’s entry “In Tension” was displayed on Union Square in Manhattan on September 19th and 20th, and the project will be featured at the Center for Jewish History in New York until October 15th.  Flockr Pavilion
House Ocho in Carmel, California, USA by Feldman ArchitectureSunday, May 15th, 2011Located in a nature preserve in the Santa Lucia Mountains, the site of oak forests and steep meadows strongly impacted and inspired Feldman Architecture’s design for House Ocho. In order to reduce the impact of the home’s massing and to preserve site lines, the building settles into the ground and overhanging roofs are planted with tall native grasses. The house is also divided up into a series of pavilions to lessen its overall mass.  Exterior (Images Courtesy Paul Dyer)
Shanghai Houtan Park in Shanghai, China by Turenscape ArchitectSunday, May 15th, 2011Built on a brownfield of a former industrial site, Houtan Park is a regenerative living landscape on Shanghai’s Huangpu riverfront. The park’s constructed wetland, ecological flood control, reclaimed industrial structures and materials, and urban agriculture are integral components of an overall restorative design strategy to treat polluted river water and recover the degraded waterfront in an aesthetically pleasing way.
 Shanghai Houtan Park
Tall Emblem Structure in Za’abeel Park, Dubai, UAE by Marco Acerbis ArchitettoSunday, May 15th, 2011Article source: Marco Acerbis Architetto XI ThyssenKrupp Elevator Architecture Award The location of this new tower is a beautiful green area surrounding a lake and very close to the city. The proximity to the airport will give the new building an opportunity to be seen from the sky and not only from the earth. The landscape of the city area is mainly flat and with very strong sunlight. Climate conditions are typical of this latitude and are certainly extreme in some months of the year. A lot of time was spent thinking about what the best gesture for such a scenario would be. So that in one building I could respond to all area conditions and social expectations required by a new iconic tower. A particular thought was given to the experience that children shall obtain from a contemporary building.  Tall Emblem Structure
Falkonergården by JAJA ArchitectsSunday, May 15th, 2011The objective was to create an expansion of the school and its gym facilities. We proposed an infill conceived as a contemporary interpretation of the existing building mass that connects and transforms the detached gyms into one coherent functional facility. The interior spectatpr stands and space is then extended into the courtyard, thus creating a continuous space where gym and schoolyard, building and landscape merges into an unified entity.  Aerial View
Temporary Kindergarten Ajda in Ravne na Koroskem, Slovenia by Arhitektura Jure KotnikSunday, May 15th, 2011In a small Slovenian town close to the border with Austria kindergartens unexpectedly became too small for the increasing number of young children and the existing kindergarten infrastructure had to be quickly expanded to meet the rising demand. The original idea was to build a larger kindergarten extension next to the old one, but this was a plan for the mid-term. In the meantime the authorities resorted to an efficient solution using ISO containers, which are quick to set up and cost-efficient.  Temporary Kindergarten Ajda
Villa Håkansson-Tegman in Höllviken, Sweden by Johan SundbergSunday, May 15th, 2011Höllviken south of Malmö was originally a seaside resort, but the forested rows of summer houses are continuously being transformed into a carpet of permanent housing. The site is a somewhat complicated corner lot with roads to the north and west.  Front View
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