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• Architects: Boundaries architects
• Location: Gwanghwamun, Jongno, Seoul, South Korea
• Lead Architect: Kim Youn Soo
• Area: 50.0 m2
• Project Year: 2013
• Photographs: Hwang Hyo Chel

• Collaborator: Shim Hyungsun
• Clients: Sejong art center

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The project was a work for dual purpose. One is a movable concert stage for midday concerts sponsored by the Sejong Arts Center, and the other is an installation at Yein-madang.

Elevation

Elevation

View

We intend to expose power and heat generated by performances. Irregular trapezoid shapes make frames outside and wires weaves into each relation between those trapezoid shapes as a double helix like shape.

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The wave of wires from breezes that can not be captured in sight becomes music touching our eyes.

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Detail

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© Shawn Brasfield

• Architects: Tvsdesign
• Location: Atlanta, GA, USA
• Architect In Charge: Kevin Gordon, David J Brown
• Area: 90000.0 ft2
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Shawn Brasfield

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Where Legends Play

Located adjacent to Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park, the College Football Hall of Fame is an architecture icon. Perched on a custom-formed concrete “Y” column, the rotunda sits atop the entrance and in front of the lobby, providing views into and out of the Hall. Inside, upper level exhibit spaces wrap around a ground floor field. This field acts as an organizing element for the interior of the facility and is available both for interactive play and special events. This 94,000 sf facility includes exhibit space, the field/ballroom, and retail plus restaurant space along the street edge.

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Plan 1

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Plan 2

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Spring Perspective. Image Courtesy of AZPML

The team of AZPML + DFN has won a competition for the design of the Passerella Ex-Torretta, a new bridge spanning the Ticino River in Bellinzona, Switzerland. The bridge will connect two existing medieval structures, the Torretta tower to the west of the river and medieval arcades on the eastern bank, and will provide a gradual 6% slope to allow for pedestrian and bicycle access.

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The bridge design draws inspiration from the “organic geometry of the waves” in the river, employing an undulating sinusoidal structure to retain a respectful and graceful profile.

“Our project aims to respect and enhance the natural beauty of the fluvial context of the Ticino River. Our intention has been not only to minimize the visual impact of the bridge in the natural landscape, but also to create a visual resonance with the meanders and the ripples of the moving water surface of the Ticino River,” said the architects in a press release.

Shape Diagram. Image Courtesy of AZPML

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The bridge was shaped through 3 contextual conditions. First, its position between and respect for the two existing medieval structures. Secondly, to place structural supports to minimize the transfer of loads to preexisting structures. And thirdly, for the bridge structure to react to the varying conditions pedestrians will experience as they pass over the river.

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Geometry Relations. Image Courtesy of AZPML

The structure is located below the deck at points where enhancement of the connection to the surrounding context is desired, such as in the center of the river, and located above the deck where the environment is more aggressive, when the bridge reaches the canopy height of the trees along the bank.

“The design of the bridge is defined according to the structural behavior as well as the experience of the pedestrians, alternating along its trajectory between an integrative and protective structural section,” explain the architects.

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The budget for the project is estimated to reach €4.5 millions. A timetable for construction has not yet been released.

News via AZPML.

Winter Perspective. Image Courtesy of AZPML

• Architects: AZPML, DFN +DARIO FRANCHINI
• Location: Bellinzona, Switzerland
• Azpml+Dfn: Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Maider Llaguno Munitxa, Dario Franchini, Guillermo Fernandez-Abascal, Ivaylo Nachev, Manuel Eijo, Robert Berenguer, Paolo Toldo, Andrea Sanchez, Xiani Wang
• Client: Dipartimento del Territorio – Bellinzona
• Budget: € 4.5 million
• Consultants: AR&PA Engineering + Pianifica Ingegneri
• Photographs: Courtesy of AZPML

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© Adrien Williams

• Architects: NatureHumaine
• Location: 23 Rue Saint Viateur O, Montréal, QC H2T, Canada
• Area: 50.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Adrien Williams

• General Contractor : Avantage Plus

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The design of the Aesop store in the Mile End portrays in simple ways, the underlying theme of movement found through the heritage of the neighborhood. From the 1880’s to the 1980’s, different waves of immigrants settle in this neighbourhood as described by the documentary of Montreal filmmaker Albert Kish “Our Street was paved with gold”. 

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Floor Plan

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The design of this Aesop store presents itself as a common, but deconstructed, structure. The store appears to be stripped to the bare bones, showing its structural “guts”. As visitors glimpse into the storefront, they are confronted at first with a familiar raw palette of materials – plaster, plywood, limestone, brass, and reclaimed wood. 

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A monolithic demonstration sink, covered in local limestone stands as a visual anchor in the middle of the store compelling visitors to move around it in order to explore the nuances and elements of the walls. The recognizable stud wall is transformed into a plywood structure that unfolds its colors with the motion of its visitors. In front of the ever-changing colors of the walls, the amber glass bottles are placed on thin brass shelves appear to float as they seem to be timeless. 

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Vincent Callebaut Architectures has released in-progress images of their Tao Zhu Yin Yuan sustainable tower, under construction in the Xinjin District of Taipei City, Taiwan. The tower’s rotating form draws inspiration from the double helix structure of DNA and will be covered in 23,000 trees in its aim to become a pioneering sustainable residential eco-construction that finds “the right symbiosis between the human being and the Nature.”

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After being awarded the project commission in a 2010 competition, Vincent Callebaut Architectures set out to create a building “like an inhabited tree” that could create a fragment of vertical landscape with minimal energy consumption.

The design consists of a 20-story tower that completes a 90 degree twist as it rises – a 4.5 degree turn per level. This form was chosen based on four criteria:

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to integrate into the pyramidal profile of the building volume determined by urban setbacks; to generate a maximum area for cascading, suspended open-air gardens; to offer panoramic views of the Taipei skyline to all residents; and to provide each apartment unit with privacy by avoiding direct visual axes.

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Courtesy of Vincent Callebaut Architectures

The tower has also been eco-designed to take advantage of the climatic and environmental conditions of its site. VCA conducted sunlight, thermal and wind analyses to fine tune the design, optimizing natural light and ventilation throughout the building. In addition, the large planted areas will allow the building to absorb 130 tons of carbon dioxide from the air annually.

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Courtesy of Vincent Callebaut Architectures

The central core of the building features a double skin curtain wall system, that enables passive climate control for the vertical circulation and inner spaces. Other environmental features include a rainwater recycling system, low e-glass, a photovoltaic solar array on the roof and canopies, energy-saving lifts and automated energy saving monitors that adapt to climatic conditions.

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Floorplans of the units follow two typical layouts on alternating floors, so to best fit into the virendeel beam structure. Each unit contains 550 square meters of column free floorspace, allowing for maximum flexibility of the interior layouts.

Additional amenities will include a swimming pool and fitness center, and several levels of integrated parking.

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The Tao Zhu Yin Yuan is expected to be completed in September 2017.

You can learn more about this project, here.

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• Architects: Vincent Callebaut Architectures
• Location: 110, Taiwan, Taipei City, Xinyi District, Songyong Rd, 陶朱隱園
• International Design Architect: Vincent Callebaut Architectures, SARL Paris
• Vca Design Team: Emilie Diers, Frederique Beck, Jiao Yang, Florence Mauny, Volker Erlich, Philippe Steels, Marco Conti Sikic, Benoit Patterlini, Maguy Delrieu, Vincent Callebaut
• Local Architect: LKP Design, Taipei
• Client: BES Engineering Corporation, Taipei
• Structural Engineer: King Le Chang & Associates, Taipei
• Local Mep Engineering: Sine & Associates, Taipei
• International Interior Architect: Wilson & Associates (WA), Los Angeles
• International Landscape Architect: SWA, Sausalito, San Francisco
• Local Landscape Architect: Horizon & Atmosphere (H&A), Taipei
• International Lighting Designer: L’Observatoire International, New-York
• Local Lighting Designer: Unolai Design, Taipei
• Green Consultant: Enertek, Taipei
• Green Certification: U.S. Green Building Council, LEED Gold + Low Carbon Building Alliance, Diamond Level
• Awards: Innovation Award Finalist on Innovative Design by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), Chicago 2015 + Highly Commented Award, Future Residential Project, World Architectural Festival, Singapore 2015 + Winner of the International Architecture Award 2014, Chicago Atheneum, New York
• Area: 4233534.0 m2
• Project Year: 2017
• Photographs: Courtesy of Vincent Callebaut Architectures

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