London Design Biennale 2016: architect Fernando Romero has unveiled plans for a binational city spanning the US-Mexico border, amid Donald Trump’s calls for a wall to be built between the two countries (+ slideshow). (more…)
Join friends and colleagues for Tabula Rasa, the 2016 Architectural League Beaux Arts Ball taking place at A/D/O, a new design space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This year’s theme celebrates the creative act of fresh thinking and innovation and New York’s own ceaseless reinvention. The Ball will offer a rare inside look at the raw and in-progress 23,000 square-foot A/D/O space designed by Brooklyn-based nARCHITECTS. Responding to this year’s theme, Ultramoderne will design a site-specific installation and Wild Dogs International will develop projection-mapped installations to be displayed throughout the space. Fredrik Berselius of Aska will create a menu of light fare.
Friday, September 30, 2016 | 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
A/D/O | 29 Norman Avenue | Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
Since the League’s revival of the event in 1990, the Beaux Arts Ball has become the premier annual party of the architecture and design community in New York with over 1,000 architects, designers, artists, and their friends attending. Located each year at a different venue of architectural importance somewhere in the five boroughs of New York, the Ball hosts installations, performances, or other engagements with designers and artists. The Beaux Arts Ball helps support the programs of The Architectural League.
For more information visit: archleague.org/BAB16
Tickets start at $100. You must be 21 years of age or over to attend. Buy tickets here.
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Gozu House is a private home located in El Retiro, Antioquia, Colombia. The home was designed in 2015 by OPUS. Gozu House by OPUS: “Located in a natural environment at 2,200 m (7,218 ft) altitude, pretends to opens, in a sensitive way, to the different surrounding landscapes of the place by proposing diffuse limits between the inside and the outside of the House. The social module is oriented towards the..
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a studio head at London’s PearsonLloyd, whose tête-à-tête love seat encourages co-workers to get more intimate (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
Form4 Architecture’s project, Innovation Curve Technology Park, has been honored by the Green Good Design Awards presented by The European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design, and Urban Studies, in collaboration with The Chicago Athenaeum’s Museum for Architecture and Design.
The project, which recently broke ground in Palo Alto, California, “celebrates the creative process of invention” through its sweeping metal curves, which represent the highs and lows of exploratory research and development. The tall, two-story curves “rise to represent the crescendo of the creative spark and pragmatic analysis of ideas, and descend to transition into long, horizontal bands symbolizing the implementation phase of invention.”
The 13.5-acre campus will feature four buildings, totaling 265,895 square feet, which will be arranged around a central landscaped courtyard crossed by diagonal pedestrian paths.
Each 35-foot-tall structure comprises two offset wings flanking a central, glass-faced lobby to break up the building mass. In the lobby, both the concrete courtyard paving and metal curves of the building exterior extend through the two-story space to create a sculptural portal connected to the outdoors – described the architects.
Painted, recycled aluminum will clad the projecting roofs and deep overhangs of the building exteriors. These projecting planes will furthermore support outdoor balconies, offering vistas of the campus.
The overhangs will additionally serve to control solar heat gain by shading the building exteriors. The buildings will also feature deep horizontal sunshades, as well as solar-controlled skylights that augment the daylighting scheme to reduce the need for artificial illumination.
To achieve its goal of LEED-Platinum certification, the project will incorporate several other sustainable elements, such as high-efficiency mechanical and electrical systems, solar photovoltaic power generation, recycling of construction waste, locally sourced materials, and bioswales landscaped with native plants.
Anticipated completion of the project is set for 2017.
News via Form4 Architecture.
This care and retirement home has been built in the heart of the Normandy bocage near the village of Orbec. The building follows the sloping curve of the hillside, and is visible from the valley.
To reduce the visual impact of this imposing building, we felt it preferable to divide it up. We achieved the desired effect by using the colour green, with the result that the building both blends into the larger landscape and reflects the rural nature of the site. The under-faces of the overhangs and the white walls of the base produce a feeling of lightness.
Each of the living units fits into one section of the building, and all are connected to a south-facing street, backed by the hill. This arrangement gives views through the building from one side to the other, with light punctuating the traffic routes and achieving maximum variety. The colour red destructures the space and adds dynamic. We have avoided using the conventional colours of the hospital environment.
The building has been designed to enhance the living and walking areas. Its strength lies in its relationship with the landscape.
Elite House is a residential project completed by Architectural Studio Chado. Designed in 2016, it is located in Rostov, Russia. Elite House by Architectural Studio Chado: “Elite house in the Rostov region. The severe and laconic outline of the building, the large heavy roof – it all creates enormity, static impression. At the same time, the huge stained glass windows do not prevent a view from penetrating to the interior..
“House for Mother” is the first house completed by Förstberg Ling, a project started in 2013 as a part of the housing exhibition in Linköping, Vallastaden 2017. The house is conceived as a dwelling and studio for Björn’s mother Maria, librarian and an enthusiastic weaver.
“House for mother” is a house that balances spatiality with intimate rooms – formal simplicity with strong materiality. The facade in raw corrugated aluminium creates a variable play with light and shadow during the day, a rich materiality contrasting with it’s simple expression. The wooden beams and trusses along with the walls lined with plywood give warmth to the interior. The concrete floor is a durable and beautiful surface for everyday use, folded to a low bench along the perimeter of the building.
The division of the house into two volumes, slightly shifted from each other, emphasizes how narrow the plot is. While standing in the open for now, the future urban context will eventually not expose much more than the gables to the neighborhood.
Curzon Street is a private residence renovated by SIRS. It is located in London, England and was completed in 2016. Curzon Street by SIRS: “The project lies at the heart of central London’s exclusive Mayfair Conservation area in Westminster. The commission consisted in a complete redesign of a 4th floor level apartment. The 1960ies multi-storey apartment block with retail units on the ground floor and it’s reinforced concrete framework supported..
Sig Nordal 