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• Architects: NOWADAYS office
• Location: Abrau-Dyurso, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, 353995
• Architects In Charge: Anna Kopeina, Natalia Mastalerzh, Ilona Povilenayte, Nata Tatunashvili
• Area: 1000.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Pavel Seldemirov

• Graphic Design And Navigation: MANEGE Development Department

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From the architect. This project of transforming part of a former sparkling wine factory into a multimedia art center was inspired by a genuine interest in the history of the building and executed through a series of light — both in terms of the artwork material and the manner — interventions into the space.

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MARS, the first contemporary art gallery to be founded in post-Soviet Moscow, now functions as an innovative multimedia art institution. In May 2016, a new MARS center was opened amidst Abrau-Durso’s idyllic scenery — a picturesque locale in the South of Russia. The gallery spans the entire first floor of the stone-clad champagne factory.

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The Nowadays team decided to keep the hallmarks of its industrial past — factory switches and breaker boxes — intact and execute all the interventions in a delicate and respectful way, preserving the historical layers. All the navigation elements designed by a Moscow based MANEGE development department are put together using materials “native” to contemporary multimedia art — differently sized LED-tubes and thin black metal sheets.

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While the white box has long been established as a default setting for traditional forms of ‘low-tech’ art, high-tech multimedia art usually requires a black box to bring out all of its features. But the monotonous black space can bore, tire and disorient the visitor. The Nowadays office decided to execute the gallery project as a sequence of ‘black’ (dark) and ‘white’ (well-lit) spaces, where most of the artworks are stored inside the rooms (boxes, essentially) which are carefully installed within the existing interior. This approach also serves the goal of delicately incorporating the new into the old.

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Some of the rooms functioning as artwork containers are boxed-off with chemically treated rainbow steel — a aid to emphasise both the industrial spirit of the space and the ephemerality of the light-based artwork.

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The new concrete floor doesn’t touch the walls, but keeps it’s polite distance from the historical elements of the building. This gap that is filled with gravel-stones collected from the lakeshore is also creating nests for the soft LED-lighting.

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The biggest intervention is in the corridor, where the registration desk and lockers are merged into one solid steel sculpture, providing an exciting preface to the exhibition.

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On the opposite side  — at the end of the exhibition — there is a secret room where, due to its geographic orientation, beautiful rays of light create a poetic atmosphere almost all-day-round. There is no artwork but visitors are encouraged to put on one of the VR-helmets that are offered and take a simulated tour of the Moscow MARS center. Not a teleportation hall, but close enough.

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Product Description. One of the most aesthetically prominent materials of this project is galvanized steel. Galvanization that produces a rainbow effect on the metal surface is normally used to treat small metal elements, such as framing nails, rolled angles, etc., to make them durable and rust-resistant. We were genuinely inspired by those multicolor blotches and decided to experiment with the same technology and material but on a larger surface — as large as the size of galvanizing bath allows. So our partners, Moscow based multi-functional production company Macrofabrica used galvanization on 1800 x 900 cm steel sheets. The outcome was used to make polychromatic metal boxes for exhibiting individual artworks – to emphasize both the industrial spirit of the space and the epheme­rality of the light-based artwork.

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© Yoon, Joonhwan

• Architects: Rieuldorang Atelier
• Location: Cheongdo-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea
• Architect In Charge: Kim Seongryul
• Design Team: Choi changgyu, Park yeonju
• Area: 188.26 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Yoon, Joonhwan

• Constructor : Manbull construction

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The clients who had a great deal of fatigue in working and in the urban environment asked to us design a house surrounded by nature. They had a desire for a unique space that was different from the apartment where they lived.

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The site is a steep slope with mountains in the back. We did not want to design on the land properly arranged by cutting the ground or build up the soil . The point was to actively use the surrounding natural environment and land while comply with slope of the land and overturns the concept of the building form what people think.

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Floor Plan

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Floor Plan

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The house in the ground, the nature in the house. A house-shaped white shell is the space embrace the nature. The residential space lower than the ground level enables a variety of spatial experiences through the skip floor planning. By reversing the shape of the land and the house, we wanted to think about the relationship between house and nature and notion of form.

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Product Description. Dirt runs off with the water that falls on the facade. The Lotusan exterior coating possesses a highly water-repellent surface similar to that of the lotus leaf. Its microstructure has been modeled on the lotus plant to minimize the contact area for water and dirt. 

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© Rungkit Charoenwat

• Architects: OfficeAT
• Location: Bangkok, Thailand
• Area: 368.0 m2
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Rungkit Charoenwat

• Structural Engineer : Sarawut Yuanteng
• System Engineer : Petch Panyangam
• Contractor : S.P. Civil System Co., Ltd.

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From the architect. SITE: The U38 house is located in Bangkok, Thailand. The 400 sqm house was designed for a couple and a child in the site next to the husband existing family house surrounded by typical suburban houses.

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© Rungkit Charoenwat

STRUCTURE:  Since the owner and also a builder himself need to complete a house within 4 months, architect decided to use very simple steel structure on 6 by 5 meter grid to build it as fast as possible.

Diagram

PROGRAM: The program is a 2 story house. Architect place the building on one side to keep some space for green area & swimming pool with carport at the front. On the ground floor including open plan of living room and dining room  which are facing onto swimming pool and outdoor terrace. The second floor is composed of master bedroom, son bedroom and family room.

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Floor Plan 01

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SCREEN: In order to protect Heat from the Tropical climate of South East Asia and creates privacy for the 2nd floor. Architect design a long terrace on the side to keep the room from the heat outside  and moveable recycles wood skin panels  over glass layer for more privacy and heat protection.

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MATERIALS: Architect chose nature material for this house by use steel structure, painted plastered wall and brick wall and wood lattice.

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© Sun Haiting

• Architects: officePROJECT
• Location: Tianjin, China

• Architect In Charge: Chang Ke, Li Wenhan
• Design Team: Zhang Hao, Zhao Jianwei, Chen Shimeng, Lan Kaifei, Cui Lan
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Sun Haiting

• Installations And Structural Design Coordination: Rogrea Design Group
• Client: ZBJ.com

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From the architect. 40 days from design to construction completed-How to transfer a half-way building into a co-working factory 

Before

Implantation and Demolition Diagram

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Longyue Hotel is a unfinished building for 10 years in Tianjin. OfficePROJECT was invited to transfer this abandoned 5000spm hotel space into a co-working model.   

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The first step is to catch the identity of the existing space. The space is high and empty. The rough feeling of an unfinished atmosphere is attractive and fascinating. We want to keep this identity as implanting several different space installation. Some different routes and experiences were set to encourage the communication and interaction between people and the primitive space. Through these paths, people start to encounter and observer. A new observation network formed. The desire of space exploration becomes the motivity of the creative productivity.    

Spatial Installation Diagram

“wander”,”watch”,”enclosure”,”fold”, “look”,”traverse”,”loop”. These installations explain some basic ways of spacial experiences. We interacted these experiences as an complicated “The Garden of Forking Paths”. In this Borges’ novel, time sometimes endless, sometimes become a loop. The major character chose all possibilities. Different ending generated. This is the idea of today’s internet. An echo here presented between online and offline.

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© Sun Haiting

© Sun Haiting

These installations have two materials- OSB boards and stressed steel panels. These two materials forms contrasts in different way with the primitive concrete space. These contrasts lead the breaking of the familiarity.

© Sun Haiting

© Sun Haiting

© Sun Haiting

15 days form schematic design to construct drawings, 30 days of construction, this is an informal design process. This process represented a normal condition in China’s renovation projects nowadays. 

1F Plan

2F Plan

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• Architects: Herbst Architects
• Location: Waimauku, New Zealand
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Patrick Reynolds , Lance Herbst

• Contractor: Paul & Trevor Buchan

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The site’s previous existence was a market garden with shelterbelts forming large outdoor rooms. Our client then planted part of the site with vineyards and fenced off paddocks for horses. He built a barn and a dressage arena. 

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The house presented an opportunity to bring order to the large site.
Some division was needed between the private home and the public dressage arena.
Bi-axial landscaping elements of Gabion baskets were employed to divide the site into quadrants. 

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The gabion basket walls start low demarcating entry points and rise up to form the anchor wall of the house. 

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The house has 3 positive elements with negative spaces between. These positive elements house the Lania, the garage and the bedrooms. They are articulated as simple box forms with weathered timber planked skins referencing agrarian crates. The giant crates form the edges to the negative spaces and frame views of the site. 

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Floor Plan

© Lance Herbst

The primary negative space is the living room pavilion situated between the Lania and bedroom box. A oating roof caps the living room tipping up toward the south light and allowing a view of the tree top foliage. It is intended that the expansive roof gives the building a scale appropriate to the scale of the land. 

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The living pavilion extends west to form a terrace and east to trap a sheltered courtyard with tree and water feature. To the north a large sun terrace. 

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The house is elevated on a blockwork plinth to lift it out of the potentially soggy homogenous land. This height allows the boxes to oat, gives the occupants a view over the vineyards and brings them closer to the eye height of the horseman. The plinth, intersected and edged by the gabions serves to blind the positive and negative spaces. 

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Courtesy of Aedas

Aedas has been selected as the winner of a competition for a new mixed-use tourist and transportation hub in Sanya, China. To be located in front of the existing Sanya High-Speed Railway Station, the Sanya Integrated Commercial and Transportation Hub will feature a variety of public program elements serving visitors to the city.

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The design of the complex has been inspired by forms of the Chinese dragon and phoenix. On the ground level, a retail podium will be accessed through an interior shopping street/village. Other elements will include a hotel, serviced apartments, a wedding and event hall, a cinema, a children’s playground and a sky garden, all linked together via a continuous canopy system.

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Courtesy of Aedas

The complex will be linked to the nearby rail and train stations, as well as the bus terminal, making it easily accessible to the public, and will be integrated into the masterplan for the area, envisioned by Aedas in 2012.

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The project is expected to be completed in 2019.

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• Architects: Aedas
• Location: Sanya, Hainan, China
• Director: Kevin Wang
• Client: Bestway Investment Asia Pte Ltd
• Gross Floor Area: 121,388 sqm (above ground); 153,854 sqm (below ground)
• Project Year: 2019
• Photographs: Courtesy of Aedas

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• Architects: Sacha Zanin
• Localization: Erechim – RS, Brazil
• Area: 302.11 m2
• Year Project: 2014
• Photography : Marcelo Donadussi

• Engineering: Paulo Roberto Xavier (Concrete Structure), Francisco Luis Volpato (Steel Structure), Fernando Luis Tartari Peres (Electric).
• Contractor: Sacha Zanin Incorporação

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Home in a residential neighborhood in the city of Erechim, located in the northern region of RS state, 390 km from the capital Porto Alegre.

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Created to functionally accommodate the lifestyle of a couple, the design of the Villaggio House was conceived with well-defined conditions: to preserve the topography and the woods, to be used as an area of leisure, contemplation, privacy, and integration with nature, and to be easily accessible, keeping it to one level without any stairs.

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Thus, the main house was located on an area of elevated terrain, out of the woods and distant from contact with the street, in a position of topographic declivity. The reception room was placed opposite the house with the woods in between. The woods, besides an area for leisure and contemplation, sets an element of privacy and coolness.

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Sections

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The solution found was the use of a metal structure. The house is a large platform above the land slope, like a tree house, with sustaining metal arms, overhanging a garden. This choice of structure opened the way for plasticity and lightness. Along with providing generous spans, the metal structure contrasts with other elements like concrete, wood and glass.

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When the house is open, the feeling is that the indoor and outdoor environments interconnect, rendering the size of the rooms even larger, since the integration with nature is constant.

Floor Plan

The roofs are actual hanging gardens, shaped by beds of foliage, flowers and grass, that turn into an extension of the patio. The benefits of the roof garden are not restricted to the landscape aesthetic aspect, they influence the thermic and acoustic quality of the environment, and provide more delay time in the absorption of pluvial water on the land.

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Noteworthy in this project is that the respect to the topography of the land and to the existing nature was integrated to technology for the comfort of the dwellers. The few walls in the design are made with light elements, composed by cement plates, OSB wood panels and drywall panels filled in with rockwool sheets. The house also received an automation system, which enables control of different electronic circuits even at a distance with a mobile phone application that activates lights, security cameras or the alarm system, as well as opens shades and canopies or operates the garden watering system, all integrated within one system.

© Marcelo Donadussi

More than the project of a house, the aspiration was to design a place to live fully.

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The end of 2016 is nearly upon us, and with the start of 2017 comes speculation about who will be the next Pritzker Prize winner. Will the jury honor an influential member of the “old guard,” as they did in 2015 when they bestowed the award upon the late Frei Otto? Or will they recognize a young architect who is redefining the profession, as they did when they selected Alejandro Aravena earlier this year? Will they reward virtuoso spatial design, or will they once again acknowledge the role of social impact, as they did in recognizing Aravena and Shigeru Ban in 2014? Will the award go to an individual or to two or more architects working together, as it did in 2010 when SANAA scooped the prize?

We want to hear from our readers – not just about who probably will win the prize, but about who should win the prize, and why. Read on to cast your vote in our poll, and let us know in the comments whose name you’d like to hear announced in 2017.

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• Architects: Trahan Architects
• Location: Owensboro, KY, United States
• Architect In Charge: Victor F. “Trey” Trahan III, Brad McWhirter, Leigh Breslau
• Area: 169000.0 ft2
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Timothy Hursley

• General Contractor: Denark Construction Inc., Knoxville, Tenn.
• Installer : F.L. Crane and Sons Inc., Fulton, Miss.
• Anodizer : Lorin Industries, Muskegon, Mich.
• Curtainwall: Novum Structures LLC, Menomonee Falls, Wis.
• Metal Ceiling System: Hunter Douglas Architectural, Poway, Calif.
• Metal Wall/Soffit Panels:  MetalTech-USA, Peachtree City, Ga.
• Steel Partitions: Hufcor Inc., Janesville, Wis

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Owensboro is the county seat of Daviess County in north-central Kentucky. Originally part of Shawnee territory, white settlers first arrived there in the 1700s. Over time the city played a role in the Civil War era, serving as an important river port, which continues to this day. The city’s environs gave birth to the Bluegrass sound in American music, starting in the 1930s and 40s, continuing on through today. 

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The site of the new convention center on the Ohio River bank was previously occupied by the Executive Inn which accommodated performances by many of the most popular singers at the time. To serve this wide range of activities, programs and events, as well as to provide an important economic development tool, the city undertook the development of a new convention center which includes over 40,000 sf of exhibition space, nearly 30,000 sf of meeting space and extensive public lobbies, as well as service and support facilities.

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Organized on two levels with the halls at grade and the meeting and banquet facilities above, the complex acts as a beacon on the River, signaling the extraordinary ambitions of this community. The exhibition halls and meeting facilities are distinguished by views out to the River while the lobbies overlook the historic downtown.

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Set in a newly developed riverside park, the facility will join a recently completed performing arts center and an expanded Bluegrass Museum honoring the city’s remarkable history of public amenities unusual in communities of this scale.

Floor Plan Level 01

Product Description. The vertically brushed finishes on anodized aluminum panels on the exterior refer to woodgrain on the tobacco barns. “It was a move we chose from a finish standpoint to keep the exterior tight, taught and smooth,” says Brad McWirther, Design Director at Trahan Architects. “We tried to create this smooth, vertical finish that would allow the building to feel like these vertical panels are very similar to the vertical woodgraining of the barns. When the sun hits them, there’s this vertical reflection, very similar to some of those woodgrains that you see on the tobacco barns.”

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