It is an urban lot between two streets, each at a different height: at the bottom (to the west) we have the Largo do Tribunal (Court Square); at the top to the east, the N. Sra da Conceição street. It is an extraordinarily narrow lot for the program at hand, and this feature has ultimately determined the design project. The program stated the importance of connecting ...
Unique from the other parklets within the city, the sculptural form derives from the topography of san francisco- mainly its famous uphill and downhill streets. measuring at 50 feet, the timber strips form ‘4 streets’ which undulate to become a bike parking platform, lounge chairs, tables, planters and accessible areas of ground. receiving special recognition in the urba...
The Social clubs and Citizen's house is meant to be a model of environmental virtues translating into systems that everyone can see and apprehend. An educational architectural achievement whose first mission is to encourage all users to change their mindsets and thus their lifestyles. So the Big House is an innovative ecological manifesto which fits nicely into a histori...
after winning the international design competition against a collective of practices all over the world, this new transit operation will enable visitors to be fully immersed with the beauty of the natural landscape and the city below while riding on the minute-long journey cable car. the dynamic scheme will see the construction of two cylindrical rings –one at the base,...
durable, industrial, and flexible are their principal focuses for the project, which hopes to find a place along the millennium park lakeshore in chicago later this year. the design combines industrial components with customized elements — curved beams — and aluminum cladding to distinguish itself from the traditional waterfront kiosk image. the starting point for the k...
created by architect guillaume mazars, the chicago architecture biennial kiosk proposal was awarded an honorable mention in the competition — now completed, results here. the project aims to emphasize the lighting environment present at the waterfront, focusing views and drawing visitors into the moment. a translucent fabric filter surrounds the entire raised piazza, w...
the city-center development, which is run by global generation, was conceived to be movable — occupying different parts of the site as construction work progresses. the collaboration aims to add to the existing garden, while giving undergraduates hands-on experience of dealing with a real client and brief. with each design, the students sought to embrace sustainable con...
There the estate remained, until the city municipality bought it in 1950 with intentions to extend the property. sixteen years after the purchase, with no intentions met, the home was torn down and a contemporary building constructed — with a faithful copy of the original villa façade. the hall served faithfully until 2011, when NEXT architects and rudy uytenhaak archite...
Topped with a curved, timber free-form roof, the organic shape references the surrounding forest by acting like a canopy and enabling natural light to filter through- creating contrasting atmospheres and a play of shadow. the distinctive roof design in shaped as a flat, self-supporting wooden bowl with nailed three-layer panels. the constantly changing façade is chara...
The Sunset Parklet is a new public amenity designed by Interstice Architects for two local community oriented businesses in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset district on the Judah light-rail transit line. Interstice Architects’ designers took on the controversial 15 mt long site as a pro-bono project to help the Other Avenues Whole Food Co-op Market and the popular Sea Breez...
The Mirosław Nizio architectural studio has prepared a concept for a functional and practical program for the Zoom Natury Recreational Park, as well as a full architectural design, along with the design of small architectural elements and assumptions with regard to the property’s management and exhibits. Developing the design required the creation, in consultation with ...
What were the circumstances of receiving the commission for this project? Independent lectures by both the architect and engineer at Togji University advocating the potential of wood design led to the initial contact for the project. When Vanke and the wood consultant desired to introduce wood as a design element they contacted the team to design the Visitor Center as...
Conceived by John Lin and Olivier Ottevaere The Warp is a rest area and roadside market built as part of a post-earthquake reconstruction in Ludian town, Yunnan, China. Situated in an ethnically diverse region with a Muslim majority population, the project serves as a meeting point and look out along the main entry road to this mountain village.The project provides thre...
MAIO’s proposal is based on the definition of a regular grid of poles (lighting columns and vertical elements of the same height and diameter) that organizes the urban space and holds lighting and electrical systems. The grid is completed by a tensioned cable system that works as a temporary support intended for multiple applications, such as providing shadows by means ...
The Archive TAZ is an observatory that collects experiences of citizen organization car spaces: urban gardens, community centers, or autonomous cultural spaces as a testing ground for a new urban self. In it, about 50 bottom up initiatives and tactical planning in different cities in Europe and Latin America are collected.The intention is to create a directory of spaces...
The Génicart district, located near the centre of Lormont and adjacent to the town’s main urban and interurban network, consists primarily of collective and social housing. Comprising 10% of the city’smunicipal territory, it accommodates roughly 10,500 people and 50% of Lormont’s population. LAN’s ambitious urban and social renovation project is organized around four di...
Repositioning ceramics from a small-scale decorative material to one which creates a large surface structure, Unexpected Hill activates the forgotten zone between the Royal Academy’s Burlington Gardens building and the street into a new public space. Viewed from above, Unexpected Hill refers to the geometric patterning central to Islamic traditions that uses shape and c...
The Skip Garden, the urban garden and community space in the heart of the King’s Cross redevelopment has opened in its new home, unveiling seven new structures curated in collaboration with The Bartlett School of Architecture. The Orangery links the Baroque era to our current day in the form of a strong, artistic work that presents itself as a unified whole.The garden w...
The Wirra Willa Pavilion, named after the Australian indigenous word for ‘green tree,’ was designed by architect Matthew Woodward for his family’s 80-acre property in Somersby, about an hour’s drive north of Sydney. Surrounded by a lush green landscape, the elegant retreat cantilevers over a natural spring-fed dam and appears to perfectly blend in with its bucolic settin...
Named Buitenschot Land Art Park, the space aims to deflect ground noise coming from one of the busiest airports in the world and protect the surrounding communities from noise pollution. With more than 1,600 daily flights going in and out of Schiphol Airport, the area is not only busy but also very loud, making life difficult for the people living in the surrounding ...
These days, little ones can enjoy luxury, custom-built treehouses like this one from Sharon Davis. A combined treehouse and jungle gym, this innovative play space is every child's dream come true. Located in Garrison, New York on sprawling acres of farmland, Davis’ playhouse is as large as a studio apartment and has all sorts of secret features and thrills for its vis...
The city council approved plans to replace the run-down pier with a new design that connects the expanded waterfront district with the upland landmass and provide exciting new social spaces for the city's inhabitants. The original pier was built in the 1880s and an inverted-pyramid structure, designed by architect William B. Harvard, was added in 1967. This replaceme...
The garden comprises seven new structures curated by educational charity Global Generation, in collaboration with The Bartlett School of Architecture, made with 90 percent reclaimed materials. The Glass House, Earthbag Coolstore and Office, Greywater Dining Scape, Chicken Coop, Hydroponic Hedge, and 100 Hands Hall were designed by the students, led by Julia King and Jan ...
Designed by Bblur Architecture, the record-breaking slide will wrap around Anish Kapoor’s 114-meter-tall ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower—considered the UK’s largest piece of public art—in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The descent from top to bottom is estimated to take 40 seconds at an average speed of six meters a second. The cost per ride? Just £5 a pop. (That's les...
Sun Bird Park is an urban jungle gym that doubles as an art installation! Designed by Denver-based Tres Birds Workshop, the playground features three giant cocoon-like birds' nests with connecting bridges and slides. The architects designed the urban park to strengthen the connection between humans and the natural environment - and it looks like a whole lot of fun. Su...
Thomas Chung, together with Tris Kee and Chi Fai Fung, transformed an open area within Ole Bouman’s Value Factory from an abandoned industrial facility into an expansive farm that flourishes with a smorgasbord of edible plants. Projects like this could also go a long way towards improving food security for the world's most populous nation. The colossal 2,100 square me...
Around a kilometer of pathways of this installation are surrounded by steel panels booleaned to create huge geometric shapes that cut through the entire structure. Labyrint comprises tunnels and corridors that unveil unexpected perspectives of large portions of the composition and help visitors better orient themselves. Differently-shaped voids and cut-outs create sur...
Metalco’s description Straight bench with solid wood seat and steel edging and supports. It can be accessorised with a solid wood backrest and by adding more elements of different lengths and widths, designed to give freedom to form islands of relaxation. It can also be matched with other steel elements, for example planters.
The designer’s description The Project is born from the idea of recovering an old cockfight coliseum no longer in use, and changing its purpose without transforming the original space and traces. The space is part of a property that limits with neighboring houses which have access to it. The idea was to transform the old coliseum in a relaxing garden that would allow m...
The designer’s description The sculpture Wavelengths captures Lake Ontario’s dynamic surface and gives a public passage visual interest. Wavelengths is suspended overhead in a vehicular and pedestrian passage that runs within Market Wharf from Market Street to Jarvis Street, south of historic St. Lawrence Market. Until about ninety years ago, Lake Ontario rolled over t...
The architect’s description The Sunset Parklet is a public parklet hosted by Other Avenues Food Store and Sea Breeze Café on Judah St. between 44th and 45th Avenue. The parklet consists of 4 “strips” that undulate along the length of the parklet, providing built-in seating, tables, and native planting. It includes a dog watering area with leash ties to assist dog owners...
A glass gap, which reflects the environment, forms a point of contact between the historical part and the addition of the court house. The extension is a simple, plastered, two level building that takes up specific formal elements from the existing building and reinterprets those elements, like the dimensions of the windows and the colour of the facade. In this way th...
LIKEarchitects' new art installation - Tripod - is a spatial installation instigated by the formal exploration of two architectural elements - the stairs and the balcony - that stands as platform settled to be enthralled by the city, inciting a variety of activities and seeking new relations with the territory and its' people. While many of these will take place naturall...
Following intensive safety inspections in 2006, the City of Seoul deemed the 17-metre high structure of the overpass unsafe and intended to demolish and rebuild it, banning heavy vehicles’ access to the elevated roadway in 2009. Further consultation with residents and experts lead to the plan to regenerate the overpass, which totals 9.661 m2 in area, into a pedestrian wa...
This is architecture holistically engaging with the complexities and subtleties of its richly layered urban grain - and in so doing, delivering a bold but deferential scheme which provides a hinge point, a contemporary interface between the Pier Head group of buildings (known collectively as the ‘Three Graces’), to the north, and the Albert Dock, to the south. Designe...
The new development designed by Fletcher Priest, Sauerbruch Hutton and Gustafson Porter sets up a dialogue between two striking and complementary new buildings whilst reinstating and improving the public realm of the entire area including a new pedestrian route and public square or piazza. Fletcher Priest was asked to masterplan the site by client Land Securities, se...
