The Polonsky Academy of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences
The Polonsky Academy building is situated on the cliff facing south towards the Jerusalem Theater. Its northern side faces the Main Garden Court which will function as the heart of the campus in the new master plan. This court has two levels, with a one storey differential between them which makes it possible to create two entrances to the structure on different levels: main entrance near the Van Leer Institute and secondary entrance near the Council for Higher Education.
Article source: ARKÍS Architects
The Institute
The Institute of Natural History is a public institution, carrying out diverse research and monitoring of nature. Research is especially focused on botany, ecology, taxonomy geology and zoology. The new building for the Icelandic Institute of Natural History houses research facilities and offices for 50 scientists and other employees. Furthermore, the building houses the Institute’s research specimen collections and scientific library.
View of building from the north (Image Courtesy Vigfus Birgisson)
Article source: MVRDV with Furniture of Richard Hutten
Several weeks after The Why Factory – a newly established research institute, lead by MVRDV and the Technical University Delft – had moved into their new residence on the top floor of the Faculty Building of the Technical University, the building was destroyed by a fire on May 12, 2008.
Noorderpoort college in Stadskanaal to be a villa on the water
Mecanoo architecten has won the architectural selection for the new Noorderpoort regional community college in Stadskanaal, the Netherlands. The 8,500 m² college is like a mansion with beautiful wetlands as a front lawn situated within the town’s green heart. The community college provides education to 1300 students in the Engineering, Health care and Services sectors. Construction is to begin in 2012 with doors opening in 2014.
The Jewish Museum Berlin plans to construct an academy on the site of the Blumengrossmarkt by using the existing hall. It will offer public programs together with additional office, storage and support spaces for the Museum. Maintaining the hall structure, a cultural use is being established with the option of future expansion.
Paul Valery Highschool buildings in MENTON, France was recently restructured and extended by N+B architects. the project took into account the notions of flexibility, environmental use functionality and to enable the programmatic entities to be linked together around exterior spaces. The ambition of this project is to offer a coherence set in a specific environment.
Fossalunga is a small village (nearby Venice) that grew up around the main street in a linear way. The buildings, that define the main square, are an ancient villa (XVIII° century) and the Church.
A large-scale urban renewal project is in progress in the Reimerswaalbuurt in Osdorp, a neighborhood situated at the periphery of Amsterdam. The ambitious plan was made under the supervision of the Architecten Cie. Nine building complexes will be realized with broad streets and auto-free squares. Mecanoo designed the first complex which includes a school, sports hall, pre-school playrooms, a children’s day-care center, a community center, 51 apartments and 21 single family homes. The neighborhood will be enriched with good social housing situated in a network of pleasant and safe streets, squares and public green space with gathering places to socialize in. The result of the fruitful cooperation between the developer Ymere, the school board, design studio Makkink & Bey and artist Elspeth Pikaar is a richly detailed social housing and multi-functional education complex. Mecanoo’s design example will set the stage for the other eight residential complexes.
Two years after Cannon Design provided feasibility, programming, and cost-estimating services for a proposed health, physical education, and fitness center, Los Angeles Community College District’s Mission College unanimously selected the firm to provide design services for the new $38 million facility, which enables Mission College to consolidate its physical education and athletic programs – previously housed in leased buildings dispersed off campus – into a unified location that can accommodate new athletic and educational programs.
Project: Los Angeles Mission College, Health, PE and Fitness Center
Location: Sylmar, CA
Size: 87,000 sq ft
Project Cost: $38 Million
Engineers (MEP): Integrated Engineering Consulting Engineers, Los Angeles CA
Photography: Feinknopf Photography
Software used: Revit as a visualization tool during schematic design to do layouts and quick views for the owner…it allowed them to make decisions on the spot. We were new to Revit at the time [2006] and we converted the sheets to AutoCAD to develop the actual contract documents.
Returning to the site of my first crime, (Gymnase Louis Blériot, Nominated first work 2004), whilst never having understood why nominee and not winner, is like going on a date with your first unrequited love, or at least her sister who was prettier anyway.
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