London Design Festival 2016: Taking inspiration from the passage of time, London design studio Glithero has created a kinetic installation that extends across six floors at the V&A museum. (more…)
Complete refurbishment of this duplex in the center of Marseille. The existing flat suffered from a significant lack of light and its main rooms were constrained by the central staircase.
The architects completely released the heart of the apartment by removing the stairs and most of the partitions. The entrance of the flat now enjoys a generous double height volume that offers a visual communication between the different spaces of the two storeys.
Glass floors and railings complement the effect of volume and allow a large penetration of daylight in the very center of the flat. In addition, a concrete wall reaffirms the verticality of the central volume and support the minimal metallic staircase.
The impressive traditional plaster ceiling in the main bedroom has been renovated and is a strong component that gives the flat its character. In order to make it visible from the livings rooms, the architects added a narrow glazed opening on the upper part of the concrete wall.
A small bathroom was added on the upper floor next to the second bedroom. Its triangle shaped leaves a free area that hosts a lounge space. This space is closed by a thin metallic glass partition that allows light to reach the entrance of the flat.
The living room and the kitchen are located at the bottom level and enjoy openings on the terrace and garden.
At a vibrant intersection in downtown Jerusalem, The Architecture Department at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, in collaboration with the Israel Festival Jerusalem and EDEN—the Jerusalem development authority—created a temporary structure for the Israel Festival, which ran from the end of May to mid June of this year.
Located in Zion Square parallel to the tramway line, the pavilion creates a space to host art programs including lectures, concerts, dance performances, video screenings, and theater productions. The structure beautifully frames a dialogue between the urban routine and cultural experiences, giving users a new understanding of the Israel Festival, and of the potential of the spaces within their city.
At 24 meters long, three meters wide, and four meters high, the structure spans between two boxes: the “toolshed,” which encapsulates festival needs, and “the garden,” which acts as an intimate shaded space in the bustling square, featuring benches and enclosed by a curtain. This curtain can further be drawn over the entirety of the pavilion, connecting its two ends and creating a larger event space.
The place—beautiful, inspiring and optimistic at every moment of the day—is a great success at meeting all the goals of this project, said Eyal Sher, Director of the Israel Festival. The main one being bringing the joy of culture to many people of diverse backgrounds, who would not otherwise have the means or the opportunity to experience it – at a unique most pleasant casual and accessible urban yet intimate setting. Along is a sense of community that we don’t experience often as Jerusalem citizens. It’s truly heartwarming.
News via The Architecture Department, Bezalel academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.
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OMA has unveiled its first residential tower for New York. Located at 121 East 22nd Street, the building sits at the intersection of two neighborhoods, with the busy Madison Square area to the North-West and the relative tranquility of Gramercy Park to the South. The building’s facade reflects this duality, with a striking “prismatic corner” of glass contrasting the rest of the building’s more conventional window layout. The corner element is designed to frame views, in some places directing users’ attention up towards the sky and in others along the busy streets below.
Filling an L-shaped site that faces 22nd Street on one side and the corner of 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue on the other, the building features ground-level retail units and a setback above its 12th floor to continue the roofline of its neighbors. “The design of the 133-unit residential block was driven by the duality of its context,” explained OMA’s New York Principle Shohei Shigematsu. “Punched windows echoing the façade of its pre-war neighbors seamlessly transition to contemporary, floor-to-ceiling glazed windows towards the corner, forming a gradient from historic to modern.”
Casa MA is a private home located in Madrid, Spain. The 861-square-foot home was designed by PYO Arquitectos in 2015. Casa MA by PYO Arquitectos: “Before its renovation, the apartment had a dark corridor and a dark entrance hall giving access to a sequence of small rooms. The main objective of the project is to provide natural light to the entrance hall and the corridor and to bring closer the..
During the financial crisis, the Science and Technology Campus of Linares Foundation decided in 2008 to cope with the various adjustments and industrial dismantling of the region, with a project that promoted research and innovation as well as economic development and the social revitalization this disadvantaged area. A project come true thanks to the continuous support of all social, economic and political agents.
As home of the University of Jaen in Linares, the campus has six main buildings, among which is the present classroom building for 2600 students. Located on a steep plot, its formalization responds to the need to resolve both the encounter between the different elevations as well as the program of needs, so that a spatial fluidity and permeability occurs from the different accesses; a fluidity that extends to the relationship with the other buildings and the large central area of the campus. The building thus becomes a kind of interior landscape that is shaped as one traverses it and according to the different levels, always in permanent physical and visual relationship with the exterior.
Functionally, the ground level of the central square is reserved for the lobby and concierge; below, between the enclosed patio and lawn are the examinations classrooms; the upper level is for the computer rooms and the top two floors for classrooms, workshops and seminars, in general. Thus projected, the building allows a compartmentalization in separate areas that make possible a more rational operation in special situations: exams days, uses outside of schedules, seminars, etc. so that, despite their openness and flexibility, it is possible to narrow particular areas both spatially and in the use of facilities.
Constructively the encounter with the ground is resolved with three large concrete supports from which the whole building is suspended, conceived as a bridge of almost 40 meters in span and two stories high, executed with metal frame in which most of the classrooms are located. The facade is made of an aluminum curtain wall and glass -Schüco system- which is protected, except for the north-facing sides, by a thin skin of aluminum microperforated sheet allowing the ventilation of the facade and reducing direct heat gain by 35%, while enabling direct views from the inside.
Spatial clarity, easy maintenance and durability, as well as energy efficiency have been the fundamental premises at the time of undertaking the project.
Haus P is a residential project completed by Yonder – Architektur Und Design. It is located in Weiler-Simmerberg, Germany. Haus P by Yonder – Architektur Und Design: “House P is a holiday home for a family of seven from Hamburg. The house takes ques from traditional Allgäu architecture, but results in a unique, contemporary building. House P’s geometry was generated by maximizing the property’s allowable building envelope, a classic Allgäu..
This week on Dezeen: this week British designer Thomas Heatherwick presented a structure comprising 154 staircases for a vast development Manhattan’s West Side and we geared up for next week’s London Design Festival. (more…)
House in Goa is a residential project completed by Ankit Prabhudessai in 2015. The home is located in Margao, Goa, India. House in Goa by Ankit Prabhudessai: “Elegantly placed on a bush hammered granite is a slightly tilted yellow white Frangipani tree which welcomes the visitors with its intoxicating fragrance and beautiful flowers. I tried to tell the stories about the relationship of the indoors to the outdoors , of..
