Idenburg 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.
The Pavilion is inspired by the relationship of man, nature and technology.
SENSUAL, GREEN and DIGITAL, the pavilion captures some of the key visions of the design team, which has over the past 6 months established offices in Sydney, Abu Dhabi and Stuttgart.
The site is a small square in Langgata in the center of Sandnes. With approximately 60,000 inhabitants, Sandnes is half the size of its close neighbor Stavanger. The two cities were the cultural capital of Europe 2008. Langgata is the heart of the older part of the town, and the traditional area for shopping and a Saturday stroll.
During the last decades the city center has moved towards the sea front, into the former industrial areas along the harbor. Langgata is now in competition with the sea front area and its indoor shopping center.
The visionaries responsible for conceiving these parks realize the importance of community, of successful public space, and of great buildings. These same visionaries believe in allowing the architecture to speak…to say something about place and time.
THE CUBE – dining with a view – is a pavilion designed by Park Associati to house an itinerant restaurant commissioned by Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V. Designed to be placed in unexpected and dramatic European locations, it will be launched in Brussels on April 1st, 2011 where it will sit atop of the Parc du Cinquantenaire, close to the headquarters of the European Community.
The Cube by Electrolux
Architecture and interior Design: Park Associati – Filippo Pagliani, Michele Rossi with / con : Alexia Caccavella, Alice Cuteri, Lorenzo Merloni
Logo and Texture Design: Studio FM Milano – Cristiano Bottino, Barbara Forni, Sergio Menichelli with / con : Libero Corti
Event concept and project management: Absolute Blue, Bruxelles – Patrick Nassogne
Client / Committente: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V.
The hill of the Japanese Garden was created from the debris of the Zoo and its surroundings after World War II. Initially there was an open air stage here, which however was unutilised for major parts of the year occupying this otherwise rather narrow area. The Japanese Garden was developed in its place and a park library was also in the plans, although it only operated for a few years. The Zoo made the decision to create a Japanese Garden in 1958. During the almost ten years of the preparatory work the former stage hill was covered by grass, the topography of the area was established and the roads renovated.
Carnegie Pavilion is a semi-freestanding ‘dual-use’ pavilion on five floors, comprising a gross internal area (GIA) of 4,000m², and broken down into three sub-zones: exclusive Leeds Met spaces + exclusive YCCC spaces + ‘dual-use’ spaces (comprising 70% of total area). Leeds Met areas are primarily for teaching kitchen, hospitality and staff accommodation, and YCCC areas for player’s facilities and staff accommodation. ‘dual-use’ lecture rooms are used primarily by Leeds Met, during the academic year, and by YCCC, during the cricket season, as corporate hospitality suites. Similarly, ‘dual-use’ meeting rooms are used primarily by Leeds Met, during the academic year, and by YCCC, during the cricket season, as TV and radio commentary boxes.
Carnegie Pavilion Play Time
Architects: Alsop Sparch
Project: Carnegie Pavilion
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
Client: Leeds Metropolitan University
Stakeholder: Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC),
Regional Development Agency: Yorkshire Forward
Project Manager: Gardiner & Theobald
Architect: Michael Crook
Structures; Building Services; Acoustics; Fire; Traffic; Sunlight: Arup
Planning: DTZ
Cost Management: Ryder Levitt Bucknall
Landscape Architect: Whitelaw & Turkington
BREEAM: White Young Green
CDM: Bowman Riley
Party Wall Surveyor: DK Brown
Ecology: Brooks Ecological:
Contractor: BAM
MEP: NG Bailey
Rainscreen Cladding: Locker Group Ltd
Curtain-Walling: Henshaw
Concrete Frame: Bell & Webster
Steel Frame: Elland Steel
Lifts: Thyssen
Auditorium Fit-Out: CPS
TIMELINE:
June 2007: Leeds Metropolitan University/ Yorkshire County Cricket Club issue revised brief
18 April 2008: Detailed Planning Application submitted to Leeds City Council
September 2008: Leeds City Council award Detailed Planning Consent
22 September 2008: BAM appointed Preferred Bidder
23 February 2009: BAM submit Best and Final Offer for client approval
09 March 2009: BAM commence work on site
21 June 2010: BAM achieve Practical Completion
21 July – 25 July 2010: Pakistan v Australia 2nd Test Match at Headingley
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