Architecture
Jean Nouvel Unveils Design for Hotel and Residential Tower in São Paulo
View of the southwest façade. Image Courtesy of Grupo Allard
Jean Nouvel has unveiled the design of his latest project: a 22-story tower located near Avenida Paulista in São Paulo. The skyscraper, dubbed Rosewood Tower, is part of Cidade Matarazzo, a 27,000-square-meter site containing historic buildings that once made up the Filomena Matarazzo maternity hospital. A heritage-listed site, the Allard Group is restoring the buildings and creating a cultural center, of which Nouvel’s new tower will be a central component.
Set to contain a hotel as well as residential units, Nouvel’s tower is designed to be a vertical continuation of the local landscape. Thus, the nearly 100-meter-tall tower develops at different levels, forming terraces and large gardens with small and medium-sized trees.
Courtesy of Grupo Allard
The hotel and residential complex will have 151 guest rooms and 122 residential suites, two restaurants, a bar and a “caviar lounge,” in addition to three pools, a spa and a fitness area.
View of the northwest façade. Image Courtesy of Grupo Allard
“Matarazzo Park is a remnant. More than a remnant, I would say it’s an oasis. It’s a space of calm urbanisation. A space of incredible trees: figs and magnolias. The hospital in the middle of the grounds is a sort of mini-town, very well organised around patios. Surrounding this little gem is a chaotic metropolis. What is most interesting for me is being able to work with the memory of the place,” said Jean Nouvel in a press release.
Entrance from Itapeva street. Image Courtesy of Grupo Allard
São Paulo and Paris-based Triptyque will be the executive architect for the tower as well as for the restoration and repurposing of the pre-existing buildings.
Courtesy of Grupo Allard
Nouvel’s tower is set to be completed by the end of 2018.
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Comic Break: “School vs. Work”
© Architexts
The classroom and the office are the two main settings where we learn about the practice of architecture, yet both expect the other to fill in more than a few gaps. Maybe schools shouldn’t emphasize the “technical details” and instead focus on teaching how to design; or maybe a little technical knowledge would be great preparation for that first job out of school (where you won’t get to design much more than a straight line). No matter which ideology you subscribe to, there will always be a disconnect between the classroom and the office.
Our webcomic, Architexts, features a character named Tim who attends school at an unnamed, practice-based architecture program. Tim faces all the challenges one would expect when attending a demanding educational program, while also working full-time in the profession.
Whether you were a full-time student, a part-time student that worked full-time, or an educator, we want to hear your experiences and insights for our forthcoming book, Architects, LOL. Check out Architexts for information on submitting your stories and insights for this book.
The Cubist House / Moussafir Architectes
© Herve Abbadie
- Architects: Moussafir Architectes (Jacques Moussafir with Virginie Prié, Alexis Duquennoy, Victoria Miny and Lieselotte Huygue)
- Location: Paris, France
- Area: 250.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Herve Abbadie, Jerome Ricolleau
- Landscape Design: Cao Perrot Studio
- Partner Engineers: Malishev Wilson Engineers (structural engineers) LBE (mechanical engineers)
© Herve Abbadie
Designed for a Paris-based family with two children, the Cubist House is located in a courtyard that encloses an urban oasis, totally disconnected from the busy, greenless street outside.
© Herve Abbadie
Jacques Moussafir’s context-based design enhances the positive qualities of the site and resolves its problematic aspects.
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The project responds to its highly textured surroundings, in which various typologies, materials and historic elements coexist with lush vegetation. On a footprint of 108 m2, a cluster of three volumes with Corten cladding and large glazed openings forms a dynamic three-dimensional frontage whose different parts align with the adjacent facades on two sides.
© Jerome Ricolleau
The ‘cubist’ combination of solids and voids offers an intelligent solution that brings ample natural light into an 8-meter deep interior of a house surrounded by seven and eight-storey-high buildings. At the same time, the fragmented facade relates to the history of the site defined by successive additions and transformations. ‘Here, more than anywhere else, we felt it necessary to opt for dense materials that would dialogue with the cobblestone paving, old masonry, and lime plaster, all of which tend to patinate and thus testify the passage of time,’ says Jacques Moussafir.
© Herve Abbadie
Both the interior and the exterior of the Cubist House evoke a collage of volumes and materials that form spatial compositions oscillating between 2D and 3D. The concrete floor in the ground-level kitchen/dining/living room incorporates ‘islands’ of parquet flooring that correspond to the distinct suspended volumes of the upper-floor rooms.
© Herve Abbadie
A gap left between the rear side of the house and the neighbour’s masonry wall has a double function: it contains a staircase and serves as a light well that lets natural light penetrate through the openings in the rear wall with integrated ‘architectural furniture’ items.
© Herve Abbadie
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MVRDV and COBE’s Museum of Rock Opens in the Danish City of Roskilde
© Rasmus Hjortshøj – COAST Studio – COBE and MVRDV
A new museum dedicated to rock, pop and youth culture will open today in the Danish city of Roskilde. Designed collaboratively by Dutch-based practice MVRDV and Copenhagen-based COBE Ragnarock, as it is to be known, has been described by its designers as “oozing rock’n’roll attitude, with its golden exterior and velvety red interior.” The museum is part of ROCKmagneten, a masterplan for the site of a former concrete factory which COBE and MVRDV won together in 2011. The area has since been designated as a creative and cultural neighborhood and the museum, which is now at the heart of this transformation, is set to be open to the public all year round.
According to Dan Stubbergaard of COBE, the design aim centered on “translating the special energy, image and attitude of rock and pop music into architecture.” The building, he continued, “will introduce the audience to the world of rock music in a tangible way. […] It is an homage to rock and pop stars like Bowie, Hendricks and Jagger.” Stubbergaard suggests that “the analogy of rock has been carried through into the museum, where the scarlet red interior of the foyer resembles the velvety inside of a guitar case.”
According to the designers, “the museum spans four storeys and has a twenty-meter cantilever. The building contains a number of public functions such as a large exhibition hall, auditorium, library, recording studios, museum shop, café, workshops, patio and an outdoor music venue.”
COBE and MVRDV will continue to collaborate on the realization of the nearby Roskilde Festival Folk High School, which is set to be completed in 2018.
ROCKmagneten / MVRDV & COBE
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