Independence Pass is a residential project completed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in 2014. The 12,550-square-foot home is located in Aspen, Colorado, USA. Independence Pass by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson: “The Independence Pass Residence is sited at the edge of a nature preserve in Aspen, Colorado with views of an alpine meadow, forests of evergreen and aspen trees, the Roaring Fork river and the Rocky Mountains. Approached from the north, a driveway..
MLA+ Wins Urban Design Competition to Regenerate Along the G107 Highway in Shenzhen
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MLA+, in collaboration with Felixx Landscape Architects & Planners, the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, and the Shenzhen Municipal Design & Research Institute, has won first prize in the urban design competition for the regeneration of an area along the G107 highway in the Bao’an district of Shenzhen, China.
Located on both aspects of the G107, the one- to two-kilometer piece of land forms a 53-square-kilometer area for the new plan, which will redevelop a fragmented industrial landscape created by the highway and Shenzhen’s identity as a former “Factory of the World” city.
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Thus, the MLA+ design utilizes the highway to connect varying areas, but changes the functions of these areas “from a utilitarian infrastructure into a key driver for urban regeneration.”
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An important element of our plan is that we try to connect the bigger regional scale with the local design scale. This ‘in-between-scale’ is in our view the most important driver for quality, but still unseen as such in China. Therefore, as European experts we can make an important contribution in this area in Chinese cities, noted Markus Appenzeller, partner at MLA+.
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Other teams participating in the competition included Nikken Sekkei, KCAP, OMA, and ISA-Internationales Stadtbautelier.
An implementation plan for the project will arise within the coming three years.
News via MLA+.
8th New York Architecture and Design Film Festival Line-Up Announced
"The Happy Film" follows famed graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister as he undergoes a series of self-experiments related to happiness. Image Courtesy of New York Architecture and Design Film Festival
Following the burgeoning success of the 7th New York Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF), this year’s incarnation—which will run September 28 through October 2 2016 at Cinépolis Chelsea—appears set to maintain its position as the nation’s and most popular largest subject-focused film event. Over 30 feature-length and short films, curated by Festival Director Kyle Bergman, will be presented, including Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future, a film that examines the life of the eponymous modernist architect.
“The festival has become an annual destination for all types of people excited about design,” Bergman has said – “from films about famous figures and forgotten postmodern buildings to complex urban issues and the search for meaning.”
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Highlights of the 2016 festival line-up include:
Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future (Opening Night Film)
Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future explores the life and work of Finnish-American architectural giant Eero Saarinen. Directed by Peter Rosen, the film follows director of photography Eric Saarinen on a cathartic journey as he visits his father’s visionary buildings from the St. Louis Gateway Arch to the TWA Flight Center. Shot in 6K with the latest drone technology, the film showcases Saarinen’s influential body of work that stands apart from the clutter of contemporary design and continues to inspire architects today.
Workplace (World Premiere)
Workplace is a documentary film about the past, present, and future of the office – a place where hundreds of millions of human beings spend billions of hours every day. Directed by Gary Hustwit (the acclaimed filmmaker behind Helvetica, Objectified, and Urbanized), it follows the design and construction of the New York headquarters of R/GA, where the company and architects Foster + Partners explore the intersection of digital and physical space. It also looks at the thinking and experimentation involved in trying to create the next evolution of what the office could be.
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Where Architects Live (US Premiere)
Where Architects Live, directed by Francesca Molteni, is an exploration into the private spaces of eight protagonists of world architecture: Shigeru Ban, Mario Bellini, David Chipperfield, Massimiliano Fuksas, Zaha Hadid, Marcio Kogan, Daniel Libeskind and Studio Mumbai.
The Happy Film
The Happy Film is a feature-length documentary in which famed graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister undergoes a series of self-experiments outlined by popular psychology to test once and for all if it’s possible for a person to have a meaningful impact on their own happiness. The film is directed by Stefan Sagmeister, Ben Nabors, and Hillman Curtis.
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The Architects: A Story of Loss, Memory and Real Estate (World Premiere)
This film is about the competition to rebuild the World Trade Center site after 9/11, focused on the unrealized design proposal from United Architects. Directed by Tom Jennings, it sheds light on the importance of this public competition, delicately considering the site’s history, symbolism, and future. United Architects was a collaboration between Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Farshid Moussavi of Foreign Office Architects, Greg Lynn of Greg Lynn FORM, Kevin Kennon of Kevin Kennon Architects, Jesse Reiser & Nanako Umemoto of Reiser + Umemoto Architects, and Ben van Berkel of UNStudio.
The Architecture and Design Film Festival is at Cinépolis Chelsea in New York. A full list of the films and festival events can be found here.
BIGyard / Zanderroth Architekten
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- Architects: Zanderroth Architekten
- Location: Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany
- Design Team: Kirka Fietzek, Diana Gunkel, Guido Neubeck, Christian Roth, Konrad Scholz, Lutz Tinius, Sascha Zander
- Area: 9100.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2010
- Photographs: Simon Menges , Michael Feser
- Landscape Architects: herrburg Landschaftsarchitekten
- Structural Engineer: Ingenieurbüro Leipold
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The property is surrounded by 22 m high walls on two and a half sides. The street façade faces north and a listed church banks one side. Responding to the di cult conditions, three different typologies were developed with unmistakable characteristics. The street-side townhouse construction is only 4 storeys high, to prevent overshadowing the three- storey rewall garden houses and garden. The garden is raised to the 1st floor level for additional light, with the garage beneath it. Three-storey penthouses with ne views and double-oriented top floors dominate above.
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Construction
The two-row apartment building closes the block perimeter and consists of 45 individual homes, each with single- family home characteristics.
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Townhouses
23 townhouses along the street have separate front entrances and rear parking access. With a breadth of mainly 3.65 m, the four oors have split-level organisation, with a 4.20 m kitchen/living room, direct garden access, a visually shielded roof terrace and a roof garden.
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Garden house
Direct garden access provides interior light and individual rear entrances. 10 three-storey garden houses have strikingly large room areas and heights, loggias, balconies and split-level organisation.
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Penthouse
Above the garden houses, 12 three-storey penthouses are double-oriented on the top floor. From visually shielded patios, they have direct access to roof terraces with city views.
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Community – Privacy – City
The advantages of one’s own home, combined with the density of a residential estate, give new significance to the aspect of community. The development reflects precisely that combination of community and privacy.
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The buildings have several entrances providing independent access, while paths in the courtyard, lobby, garage and street repeatedly overlap. The project’s size allowed a series of communal facilities. Highlights include the 1,300 m2 communal yard, which is not divided into individual gardens, the 250 m2 common roof terrace with views of Berlin and cooking facilities, the sauna and four guest apartments.
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The car-free garden, the narrow modular grid and separate, yet overlapping access give the project’s uses a village- like character. The town houses open out towards the street – and the city – each with shop windows in one room, allowing use by small businesses or providing as much insight into the interior life as the residents wish.
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Joint Building Venture
The project was implemented as a joint venture. The specialist coordinators SmartHoming supervised the 72 partners in constructing the building under autonomous responsibility. No development company carried the risk and pro ted from the project, so the square-metre prices were well below the market level. From room layouts to bathroom tiling, the 72 owners could full their own interior requirements. Everything affecting the community, such as the façade, shell construction and garden design, was planned by the architects in coordination with the group.
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Pitsou Kedem Architects Design a Stunning Private Residence in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv House is a private residence designed by Pitsou Kedem Architects. It is located in Tel Aviv, Israel and was completed in 2016. Tel Aviv House by Pitsou Kedem Architects: “Visitors to the Old North of Tel Aviv would be surprised should they stumble upon a small neighborhood of low-lying family homes possessing just one or two storeys each. These are the remaining relics of Israel’s early urbanism when..
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5 Things To Remember When You Can’t Let Go Of The Past
We just can’t let go. No matter how hard we try, we no matter how much we say we are through with whatever crap we claim to be through with, we still can’t let go. We’ve kicked our problems to the curb, and took back our lives and our power, but still, the past creeps up on us and torments us. When will it ever leave us be? There are certain things to always keep in mind when this happens.
They say to forgive and forget. Easy to say, not so easy to do. Sometimes the forgiving comes pretty easy. It’s the forgetting that some of us tend to find a wee bit more difficult. Or is it vice versa. Whatever the case may be, both take effort. Even with all the effort we put into that, we still remember the shitty times. Let’s look at a few things to keep in mind when the past creeps up on you.
1. It’s out of your control.
Whatever happened happened and it’s officially done and over with. It doesn’t serve any purpose in your world today and the only thing it does is cause anxiety and frustration. Both of what you don’t need. Try to focus on the things of today that you can control and that make you happy. Think more of those things.
2. You’re a different person.
Whatever happened yesterday helped to mold you into the person you are today. You have grown from it, become stronger and probably even wiser. Thank the past for the lessons and move on with your future. If that shit thing didn’t happen to you imagine how different life would be today. You’d be the same naïve person with people trampling all over you. Not so anymore. You’re smarter than that now thanx to this one lesson. You are so much brighter and so is your life.
3. You learn something new about them.
The person in question used to be a friend. You loved them and thought the world of them. They turned out to be not so nice and pretty mean in fact. Good thing you found all this out now and not much further down the road. It could have ended up a lot worse than it did. Be thankful you caught on early. Ok so they hurt you. Let it go. You are a much better person than they are and you are far better off without them too.
4. That was then, this is now.
Look at how much better your life is now. You have been dragged through the mud and have come out smiling. Good for you. Many people have a really hard time getting over difficult periods in their life. You have gone through and triumphed. Not them, you. Look at yourself today and give yourself a pat on the back or take yourself out for a treat next time a shitty memory comes up. You are a victor. Way to go.
5. Respect is beautiful.
After all is said and done, you came out with your head held high and not only tons of self respect but respect from others as well. You are no longer grudging over the past, though a memory does creep in every now and then, but you are walking tall with your shoulders back and head high. You did it. Next time you have a horrible thought about the past remember your self respect and how far you’ve come. You’re awesome.
We all learn a lot from our past. It will come back every now and again to taunt you but laugh at it, shrug it off and remind your past that you are the boss now and you are in control of your life. Not the past. Not anymore.
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Advances in Architectural Geometry 2016 Symposium
Once a niche topic, architectural geometry enjoys increasing interest from both academics as well as practitioners from the fields of architecture, engineering, computer science and mathematics. The Advances in Architectural Geometry (AAG) symposia series addresses this increasing interest through presentations and discussions of innovation in geometric and computational applications in architecture.
The fifth series of the AAG symposia features three days of workshops as well as a three-day conference with the participation of the well-known keynote speakers Lord Norman Foster, Francis Aish, Werner Sobek, Erik Demaine and Urs B. Roth.
Previous editions of the AAG symposia series took place in London, Paris and Vienna and have seen the participation of members from prominent academic institutions as well as representatives and presenters from respected companies from the fields of architecture, engineering, software development as well as contracting and manufacturing.
- Title: Advances in Architectural Geometry 2016 Symposium
- Type: Conference
- Website: http://www.aag2016.ch
- Organizers: NCCR Digital Fabrication
- From: September 09, 2016 09:00 AM
- Until: September 13, 2016 04:20 PM
- Venue: ETH Hoenggerberg campus in Zurich, Switzerland
- Address: ETH Hoenggerberg
Casa Forest / Daluz Gonzalez Architekten
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- Architects: Daluz Gonzalez Architekten
- Location: Basel, Switzerland
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Alexandra Kreja & Philippe Wiget
- Landscape Architects: Manos Tsolakis. Cadrage
- Interior Architecture: Daluz Gonzalez Architekten
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From the architect. The southward-sloping plot not far from basel is framed to the east and south by a beautiful deciduous forest. Breathtaking views into the dense, deep- green foliage in the summer and the leafless and airy branch structure in the winter were a decisive factor in calibrating the daylight and arranging the spaces in this home in interplay with the natural surroundings, becoming the leitmotif for the architecture.
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The wishes and the spatial programme envisaged by a family of five nature enthusiasts and art lovers could thus be strategically integrated into a compact crystalline sculpture – utilising the plot right to the boundary line. The differentiation between bedrooms and private areas on the one hand and airy open areas on the other (entryway, dining room, kitchen, fireplace, study, library) is made tangible through tunnel-like stairs and room-like platforms that form a sequence and spatial continuum. the central high hallway is part of every room sequence, connecting them all visually. The living room floats like a bird’s nest between branches. Walls and ceilings of exposed concrete as well as sleek built-in furniture in oak evoke an elemental, reduced impression, not attempting to rival the natural surroundings.
© Alexandra Kreja & Philippe Wiget
© Alexandra Kreja & Philippe Wiget
The waxed raw plaster walls of the private rooms are polished so that they reflect the outdoors, bringing it inside even more strongly through their careful details. On the roof, a large terrace perches in a reserved fashion. The earth-coloured exterior skin and angular volumetry of the building engage in an ongoing dialogue with the natural environment, constantly seeking to both contrast and harmonise with nature.
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