Linda Farrow + BOFFO Building Fashion 2013 Competition
0BOFFO, with eyewear brand Linda Farrow, just launched their latest Building Fashion competition which asks participants to design and build a temporary store in New York City for the iconic eyewear brand. Exploring the intersection of architecture and fashion through integrated store and exhibition design, a shipping container, near New York City’s Meatpacking district, will be redesigned inside and out providing a unique glimpse into the work of vibrant and acclaimed designers. This third annual installation series aims to once again push the limits of temporary architecture and the language of retail design.
BOFFO Building Fashion will also showcase design installations that push the limits of temporary architecture and retail spaces through fashion and architecture More >
Chungha Building / MVRDV
0Architects: MVRDV Location: Seoul, Korea Co Architect & Project Management: InC Design Consultants: Ain Construction, 1’st Structure, Total LED and M&S Ceramic Year: 2013 Photographs: Kyungsub Shin
Just before a Korean pop-song became a global success on YouTube for the first time in history, and Gangnam became world famous as the nouveau riche hangout of the South-Korean capital Seoul, MVRDV was commissioned by Woon Nam Management Ltd. to redefine a building on Gangnams chic Apgujung Road. Even though the Chungha building was completed in the 1980′s it was already outdated in a street dominated by flagship stores. The transformation, which added an extra level, was completed in just 9 months.
The Chungha building had become a rotten tooth in a fast changing streetscape More >
Casa Murray / DISEÑO ESPACIAL
0Architects: DISEÑO ESPACIAL Location: Ciudad de México, México Architects In Charge: Arturo Álvarez, Daniel de León Languré, Carlos Ortega Arámburo Structural Project: Baez Santana, Ingenieros Consultores, SA de CV Area: 125 sqm Proyect Year: 2013 Photographs: Ana Eunice Ortíz Pámanes
Akin to the process of building a ship in a bottle, the construction of Casa Murray was conditioned to the amount of space in which it is placed. Projected and built by Diseño Espacial, the house is enclosed by irregular constructions, remains of imprecise divisions of lots that gave place to a narrow corridor, an easement that functions as the only access to the house. It is a construction without facade, without parking space, without a gas installation, solar collectors or a single spot where the More >
Exbury Egg / PAD studio + SPUD Group + Stephen Turner
0Architects: PAD studio + SPUD Group + Stephen Turner Location: River Beaulieu, England Year: 2013 Photographs: Nigel Rigden
Artist Stephen Turner, who specialises in long term artistic explorations of environmental settings, has worked with the designers to create the Egg which he will now use as a ‘residency’, floating in the Beaulieu Estuary for a year, to examine the changing patterns of its marine ecology, while making artworks inspired, influenced and informed by his surroundings. This ambitious project tests the role of artists and architects in sensitive places and contributes to raising awareness of the importance of protecting places like the Estuary.
The project is led by art, architecture and education consultants, Space Placemaking and Urban Design (SPUD Group). SPUD More >
Shortlist Announced for U.S. Embassy in Beirut
0The Department of State’s Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) has shortlisted six design teams for the new U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. The project is part of OBO’s Excellence in Diplomatic Facilities initiative in which seeks to provide safe and functional facilities that represent the best in American architecture.
Although the thirty-nine firms who responded to the challenge all presented a “high level of design excellence, innovative site and landscape designs, and strong sustainability experience,” only these six practices will make it through to the competitions second round:
- Diller Scofidio + Renfro
- Mack Scogin Merrill Elam/AECOM
- Morphosis Architects
- Rafael Viñoly Architects
- Steven Holl Architects
- Yazdani Studio
The new embassy will be located approximately 11 kilometers More >
House in Madrid / A-cero
0Architects: A-cero Location: Madrid, Spain Director: Joaquín Torres Architect Partner: Rafael Llamazares Area: 2,840 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Jacobo España
The architecture studio A-cero, led by JoaquinTorres&RafaelLlamazares, present sone of its last unifamiliar housing projects. It is a home located ina residential complexin northern Madrid. The houseis located in arectangularplotof 2,800m2,where there are plentyof pines andoaks. Since A-cero aims to preserve these Mediterranean species, the housing project pretendstolive with themso much so that both embrace in the facade.
The lowslope plot follows the existingurban parameters with the curving shapes characteristic of theStudio. The house is built of ventilated stone white marblereal cream combined with bamboo wood, giving More >
AD Interviews OMA, BIG on their Miami Showdown
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Over the last few months, OMA and BIG have been vying for the opportunity to redevelop the 52-acre site home to the convention center in the heart of Miami Beach. With two award-winning, international firms at the center of the showdown, the media frenzy has been intense and the public’s imagination activated. It only remains to be seen if the results, which promise to be visionary, surpass expectation. With so much on the line, we decided to sit down with both OMA and BIG and discuss how their proposals differ.
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For extended coverage of both projects see “BIG Unveils Design for Miami Beach Convention Center” and “OMA Proposes Radical Redevelopment Plan for the Miami Beach Convention Center”
Ama’r Children’s Culture House / Dorte Mandrup
0Architects: Dorte Mandrup Location: København, Denmark Architect In Charge: Dorte Mandrup Year: 2013 Photographs: Torben Eskerod, Courtesy of Dorte Mandrup, Jens Lindhe
The Children’s Culture House mediates the varying scales of adjacent buildings through extruding and cutting their forms. The joint of the building, where the extened lines of the existing buildings meet, is low- ered to allow maximum sunlight to reach the neighboring courtyard. The expression of the Children’s Culture House is surpris- ing and imaginative: the roof and facades are treated the same, and the House does not have a “start” and “end” as ordinary houses do.
The building is organized as a mountain. All interior spaces are visually connected, and are bound together by dynamic circulation. The house More >
Ice Lab: New Architecture and Science in Antarctica
0In order to illustrate how the ingenuity and innovation of contemporary architecture is enabling scientists to live and work in one of the most extreme environments on our planet, the British Council has commissioned curators from the Arts Catalyst to launch a new international touring exhibition titled Ice Lab: New Architecture and Science in Antarctica.
The first exhibition of its kind, Ice Lab will include architectural drawings, models, photographs, and films allowing for visitors to not only examine the architecture, but the life of these scientists in these research facilities. Sources of inspiration for the projects including original drawings from Archigram’s ‘Walking City’ will be on display alongside a new commissioned light and audio work by international visual artist More >
Condesa DF / JSª
0Architects: JSª Location: Ciudad de México, México Proyect Team: Javier Sánchez, Jorge Ambrosi, Carlos Malagon, Giovanni F. Oteiza, Juan Carral, Mario Nájera, Julien Barnabé, Patricia Aceves Area: 3,000 sqm Photography: Luis Gordoa
Interior Design: IMH, India Mahdavi Hudson Structure Design: Colinas de Buen, S.A. de C.V. Illumination: Noriegga Iluminadores Arquitectónicos, Ricardo Noriega Construction: JSª/ Javier Sánchez
This hotel project recycled an apartment building dating from 1928, catalogued by Mexico’s National Beaux Arts Institute. The perimeter of the building was preserved up to the first corridor, which was restored to its original state.
The inside of the building was demolished to build an opened patio, which is the central space of the project. A dialogue between More >