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Wheat Youth Arts Hotel / X+Living
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- Architects: X+Living
- Location: No. 9, Tai’an Road, Binjiang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Design Director: LI Xiang
- Design Team: FAN Chen, CHEN Dan, WU Feng, ZHANG Xiao, REN Li-Jiao
- Area: 4500.0 sqm
- Photographs: SHAO Feng
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From the architect. Hangzhou, a city enjoys a long history, modern civilization and striking features. How could it be possible missing a starting point that makes tourists excited about the trip to Hangzhou even when booking hotel on Ctrip.
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Target customers of Wheat Youth Arts Hotel are young people or people who think they are still young. The goal is to design a hotel which itself will flirt with tourists, and a place welcomes tourists to tease at each other.
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The hotel is located in Binjiang District, Hangzhou, and within the trade area of Avenue of Stars. The entry is not eye-catching and it is inside a shopping mall; it is on the 7th floor. Upon approaching, two simple words “Mai Jian (Wheat)” could be seen on the small, simple and white door of the hotel. The designer creates a small lobby at the door; guests need to go through the small lobby when they see the name of the hotel, and then they will arrive at the hall. At the end of the small lobby, instead of using decorations like traditional pictures and work of art, it is a vertical display of all necessary supplies for hotel guest room. All the items are painted into white and sealed with glass to form a showcase. At the exterior side of the glass, it is the word “hallo” in orange-yellow. It makes people feel like that all items in the guest room are gathering here to welcome future guests.
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Entering the the lobby, the space looks like a study and a living room. Book shelves are against four walls, the white wall and glass folded-paper styled partition separate the resting area from the book shelves. The big dog in front of the bar is like a hospitable steward who welcomes the guests on behalf of the host, and the chain fastens him has become a queue line. The designer uses Chinese checkers to describe people, so he decorates a map of the world on one of the walls using Chinese checkers, which carries a message that the hotel welcomes friends from all over the world to gather here. Also the designer uses Chinese checkers to represent the service personnel of the hotel, thus Chinese checkers – like stools are designed. Sitting on them, makes guests feel like being served.
The design of the corridor is concise but powerful and is winding forward. There are paintings and graffiti on every corner of the corridor and part of the ceiling is decorated with colored Chinese checkers, which is as sweet as skittles.
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The designer uses music, painting and reading which are loved by people in our daily life to decorate the whole atmosphere of the hotel. There is piano in the corridor of every floor, this allows guests to amuse themselves and share the charm of music and take music as a tool of silent communication between strangers.
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The easel next to the window is specially designed for guests, the designer hopes every guest could leave some cherished moments. The TV is blocked by a huge painting which is slidable and with greetings on it. The designer wants to use simple furniture to present a concise space. The function and aesthetics of desk, bed and clothes hanger combines with each other smartly.
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When the sun falls, guests could come to the coffee shop of the hotel to enjoy their leisure time. On the ceiling, seven small figures fall from the sky carrying parachutes. Flying is the most graceful posture to embrace the world, the designer believes.
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Hallo! How is going today! Very happy to see you! What’s up man! And the greeting said by hotel stuffs humorously in which they use Chinese pronunciation “Beng Zhu” to express the French word “Bonjour”. A sense of caring and communication could be felt everywhere, personified words are appeared in wherever in sight to interact with guests. This is a hotel who says hello to guests with walls, a hotel looks like a gallery, a hotel that is willing to accompany you, and a hotel that makes you willing to sing a song or draw a painting for others. This is Wheat Youth Arts Hotel!
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Indigo Slam / Smart Design Studio
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- Architects: Smart Design Studio
- Location: Chippendale NSW 2008, Australia
- Architects In Charge: William Smart, Nicole Leuning, Luke Moloney, James Ho, Joey Cheng
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: David Roche, Sharrin Rees
- Structural Engineer: Brian Wood
- Electrical Engineer: Renata Oliveira
- Hydraulic Engineers: Leon Dimino, Scott Murray
- Project Managers: Chris Peter, Paul Ishak
- Furniture Design: Khai Liew
- Landscape Architect: Christopher Owen
- Lighting Design : Emrah Baki Ulas
- Quantity Surveyor: Janet Lum
- Geotechnical Engineer: Todd Hore
- Civil Engineer: Kelvin Holey
- Basix: Graham Hunt
- Australia Certifier: Peter Antcliffe
- Mechanical Engineer: Michael De Maio, Michael Whytlaw
- Facade Engineer: Peter Romeos
- Surveyor: Stuart De Nett
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From the architect. A piece of sculpture to be lived in, this exciting project fronts newly-built Central Park in Sydney’s Chippendale and creates an inspiring residence for an art collector. Behind a façade of sculpted concrete, serene living spaces and monumental halls create a dynamic spatial interplay of spare interiors in which the main decorative element is light.
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The concrete façade of Indigo Slam is alive to the changes wrought by light, shade, sun and cloud, providing the new urban park across the road with a lively backdrop to public life. Approaching from O’Connor Street, a patterned steel screen opens to lead the visitor into a generous coved vestibule.
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From here, the space compresses to a low and narrow corridor before suddenly opening to a cavernous stair hall lit from concealed roof lights overhead. This room is a space unique in Australian residential architecture – grand and austere in its size and sparseness, but inviting and exciting as it leads one upwards through the building.
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As a counterpoint to this dramatic spatial sequence, the living areas leading off it are informal and intimate. Bedroom suites occupy the first floor, overlooking the public park to the north. The curves and planes of the façade here act as screens to provide privacy and shade for the occupants.
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On the second floor, sitting and dining rooms overlook the park. A sky-lit kitchen and study look back into the building, creating views across the stair hall. To the south, a small garden flat and three car garage address Dick Street.
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
2nd Floor Plan
Spaces are large but not ostentatious. Internal finishes are modest and pared-back: floors are brick-paved, walls are set render, fittings are simple.
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The brief was for Indigo Slam to last 100 years. Materials are selected to wear and endure and fittings to last, with operable elements mechanically rather than digitally operated. These include oversized vertical timber blinds that turn and retract by means of hanging chains and awning windows operated by geared winders. The brass armatures for these moving parts lend a finely grained detail to the interior and to the steel, glass and concrete of the building façade.
Section
The project aspires to an exemplary level of environmentally sustainable design with natural lighting, cross-ventilation, rainwater harvesting and adherence to passive solar design principles reducing the energy and water load of the building. Geothermal heating and cooling have also been incorporated into the design and solar hot water and photovoltaic cells populate the roof.
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Indigo Slam represents a rare opportunity to add a large residence of substantial quality and architectural merit to the diverse neighbourhood of Chippendale, and participate in the reinvigoration this part of Sydney as a place of architectural and cultural interest.
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Product Description. To explore an innovative new way of designing the skin of a building, a language of cutting, folding and stitching together was established; something once flat is made three dimensional and something once blank creates and enfolds space. The sculpted façades of Indigo Slam became alive to the changes wrought by light, shade, sun and cloud. The curves and creases of the concrete façade fold, open or close, concealing and revealing, to create privacy, open to the light, form a balcony or maintain outlook as the rooms demand. The plasticity of concrete was essential to creating the forms of the façade and the texture and colour of the white concrete provide the new urban park across the road with a lively backdrop to public life.
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Office in Sendagaya / Yoshi Kishida/2001
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- Architects: Yoshi Kishida/2001
- Location: Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
- Area: 90.9 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Shimizu Ken
- Construction: ROOVICE
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The project is a renovation of two rooms of 50-year-old rein forced concrete apartment building for renting offices.
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What is needed to a renting office in this times when anyone easily access to property information and have a comparative review, that is office space is available environment for a diversified work styles and business model.
Plan
Then, We planned a hypothetical ceiling that flexibly correspond to a borrower by turning vinyl cable that is usually intertwined complicatedly into a grid form with backing materials for construction of suspended ceiling, such as threaded rods and ceiling joints. The function necessary for a office space is storage to the ceiling, and let the floor free to tolerate any office environment and the things that it belong to there.
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Furthermore, We put other new things carefully to adjust the contrast of the space for that the space acquires a specific characters of renovation.
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The area that is usually invisible from a skeleton to a ceiling is given a resolution, and appears a kind of homogeneity. We handle the specific character as the open environment, which support the office space.
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The space obtains “Ambiguous border / The various flow lines and contact point / A free layout” and create scenery like no one has ever seen.
Assembly Apartments / Woods Bagot
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- Interiors Designers: Woods Bagot
- Location: 366/392 Queensberry St, North Melbourne VIC 3051, Australia
- Design Team: Nik Karalis, Peter Miglis, Kate Frear, Sarah Alessi, Lisa Jennings, Kwok Lee, Ian Munroe, Carl Mitchell, Alisha Renton, Lawrence Ng, Glen Crawford, Karl Engstrom
- Area: 9000.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Trevor Mein
- Developers: Cbus Property
- Scope: Architecture and Interior design
- Project Manager: PDS Group
- Structural Engineer: 4D Workshop
- Services Engineer: Aurecon
- Landscape Design: Jack Merlo
- No Of Apartments: 137
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From the architect. Designed by global architecture and consulting practice Woods Bagot, the Assembly apartments on the corner of Capel and Queensberry Streets draws on North Melbourne’s architectural vernacular and DNA.
Ground Floor
The starting point for Assembly came from the many saw-tooth roofed factory buildings in the neighbourhood The area, primarily made up of low-rise buildings and sculptural roof pitches, offered Woods Bagot the opportunity to create a design which ‘carved into the block’, delivering four separate buildings with a warehouse-inspired aesthetic.
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Working with Cbus Property, a developer synonymous with high-end luxury residential developments, Woods Bagot has conceived an assemblage of individual buildings to create a village-like environment featuring pedestrian laneways and a central courtyard.
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Through the crafting of raw, earthen materials, the individuality of each building is expressed via the use of metal and zinc cladding, producing a light-industrial aesthetic with a strong contemporary edge.
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Woods Bagot Principal and lead designer Peter Miglis said each apartment offered a level of intimacy and privacy as a result of splitting the site into four buildings.
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“Carefully considered elements and details were brought together; from the walls, cladding and window reveals to the ceilings: the design provides a sensitive human scale for residential living,”
“Intimacy and privacy is often ignored in typical apartment projects; by carving up the mass the design encourages good cross ventilation as well as abundant natural light.”
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Exposed concrete ceilings complement rich timber floors, while the open plan kitchen and living areas are loosely defined by ceiling shifts. The finishes used on the balconies extend the periphery of living areas, blurring the division between indoors and out.
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Streamlined joinery ensures a pared-back contemporary aesthetic while a refined materials and colour palette comprising exposed concrete and porcelain tiles creates a simple canvas for bespoke bathroom fittings.
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The windows and balconies are expressed as a series of punctuated openings within each apartment working to provide framed views towards the Melbourne CBD and surrounds.
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Drawing on the archetypal architecture of the area, Miglis said Assembly featured a series of laneways to ensure the buildings are permeable.
“With this development we were able to divide the built form to create a more human scale environment, focused on community and a connection to nature.” Peter Miglis
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A European-style courtyard at ground level creates a protective and private space for residents year round. while the roof terrace provides an extension of the residents’ living rooms overlooking the local neighbourhood and city vista beyond.
http://www.archdaily.com/799150/assembly-apartments-woods-bagot
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The 2017 Moriyama RAIC International Prize for Excellence in Architecture is Now Accepting Submissions
Liyuan Library by Li Xiadong, 2014 Winner, RAIC
Founded by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama, the $100,000 prize was created in 2014 to raise the international stature of the RAIC and the Canadian architectural profession, and to encourage Canadian architects to aspire to international excellence.
The prize is open to international architects, architectural firms, or collaborations for an outstanding building or project that is judged to be transformative within its societal context and expressive of the humanistic values of justice, respect, equality and inclusiveness.
The winner is selected in an open, juried competition. An international jury of experts will consider a range of criteria in the evaluation of submissions and intends to include site visits to shortlisted projects in the search for a work of architecture that is inspired as well as inspiring.
In 2014, the inaugural winner of the Moriyama RAIC International Prize was Li Xiaodong, of China.
“Winning this award has brought me honor, international recognition and greater credibility and support for my approach to architecture,” says Li, who will sit on the 2017 jury.
“It’s a very important Prize for me because it encourages meaningful ideas and is one of the few international Prizes that sends jury members to visit the finalist buildings,” says Li. “The definition of the Prize is also very special: how one single project can contribute to the human environment. The architectural culture of Canada is positive and eager to make a difference,” he adds. “I’m excited to take part in the jury and thank the RAIC for this opportunity.”
The members of the 2017 Moriyama RAIC International Prize jury are:
- Monica Adair, MRAIC: Co-founder of Acre Architects and 2015 Recipient of the RAIC Young Architect Award.
- Manon Asselin, MRAIC: Co-founder of Atelier TAG and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Montreal.
- Bryan Avery, MBE: Founder of Avery Associates Architects, London, England, author and lecturer.
- George Baird, FRAIC: Founding Principal of Baird Sampson Neuert Architects, former Dean of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, and Recipient of the 2010 RAIC Gold Medal.
- Peter Cardew, FRAIC: Founder of Peter Cardew Architects, and Recipient of the 2012 RAIC Gold Medal.
- Barry Johns, FRAIC: Jury chair, Chancellor of the College of Fellows.
- Li Xiaodong: Winner of the inaugural Moriyama RAIC International Prize.
All submissions are due on March 8, 2017. For more information on the 2017 Moriyama RAIC International Prize and how to submit your application, please visit: https://moriyama.raic.org
Download the information related to this competition here.
- Title: The 2017 Moriyama RAIC International Prize for Excellence in Architecture is Now Accepting Submissions
- Type: Call for Submissions
- Organizers: 2017 Moriyama RAIC International Prize
- Submission Deadline: 08/03/2017 00:00
- Price: Free
Philadelphia – Pennsylvania – USA (by Garen Meguerian)
Philadelphia – Pennsylvania – USA (by Garen Meguerian)
