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Art and Architecture: “Original Framework” by Miguel Losh
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When faced with a wall with over 30 years of history, rather than paint it white, as we usually do, Michael Losh shared with us his idea to take the memory of their collective studio and frame it, creating a dialogue between art and architecture.
Read more after the break.
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We had this big naked wall with approximately 7m width and 3m height with all the remains still stuck to it after the first construction in our collective studio in Lisbon.
Courtesy of Miguel Losh
Courtesy of Miguel Losh
The first idea was simply to recover the look and paint it all in white, and then think about how to decorate and intervene on it. Then with a closer look, we realized the wall had several original records written in pencil that combined with the stone and glue, not only should be preserved but highlighted because it ́s an original memory of the wall built over 30 years ago.
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So we picked several canvas, studied the best position and painted all in white except the canvas areas. The result is the transformation of an ordinary and “noisy” wall into an original artwork.
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© Bruno Lopes
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Team: João Mota, Ricardo Branco, Rita Proença e Fátima Marques.
Fold-out furniture and storage solutions transform Silvia Allori’s home into a studio
Architect Silvia Allori has overhauled a 1970s flat in Florence to create her own home and workspace, featuring furniture that folds down from the walls and a shiny gold curtain that hides mess (+ slideshow). (more…)
Iosa Ghini Associati Bring Italian Luxury to New Miami Skyscraper
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A soaring new skyscraper dubbed the “Brickell Flatiron” is set to rise 213 meters above the skyline in Brickell, Miami. Designed by Luis Revuelta, the tower features an organic floorplate profile with wide elliptical terraces, maximizing sweeping views of Biscayne Bay and downtown Miami.
These curvilinear, flowing lines are complemented by the interiors, designed by acclaimed Italian architect and designer Massimo Iosa Ghini of Iosa Ghini Associati. The Italian craftsmanship and renaissance-revival air of Iosa Ghini’s design together with the clean functionality of Revuelta’s architecture, presenting two harmonious elements of design in Miami; old school glamor, and contemporary luxury.
Sitting at the epicenter of the downtown Miami financial district, the project will provide 548 residential units and 39,344 square feet of ground level retail. Its central location places it within walking distance to Mary Brickell Village and Brickell City Center, allowing users to take advantage of the lively cafe and restaurant scene in Miami’s most pedestrian-friendly neighborhood. The distinct shape of the building will differentiate it from the Brickell skyline, hinting at the sinuous architectural elements which also lie within.
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Massimo Iosa Ghini is renowned for his industrial design as much as his architecture. The holistic awareness of the two is apparent within his vision for Brickell Flatiron, which incorporates bold furnishings and premium Italian finishes within carefully considered spatial layouts. Each of his interior spaces, which aside from the residential apartments include a sky spa, gym, theatre, library lounge, and children’s center utilizes “clear surfaces, rich textures, fine raw materials, and bright natural light.”
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My approach to design is to envision a single object, conceptualizing “full” architecture in which the exterior and interior are as one. When designing the interior spaces of Brickell Flatiron, I wanted to honor and incorporate the fluid aesthetics of the building’s exterior created by Revuelta Architecture International. – Massimo Iosa Ghini
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The premium ground floor retail and dining are accentuated by the inclusion of specialty artworks in the grand lobby. Large scale paintings from New York artist Julian Schnabel, produced exclusively for Brickell Flatiron, will create a culturally rich and visually interesting art gallery for residents and visitors as they enter the building.
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The Brickell Flatiron is currently working through a contractual development and is set for completion in 2018.
- Architects: Luis Revuelta
- Interiors Designers: Iosa Ghini Associati
- Location: 1001 S Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33130, United States
- Project Year: 2018
- Photographs: Courtesy of Iosa Ghini Associati
News via Iosa Ghini Associati.
Japonez Condesa / Taller David Dana Arquitectura
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- Architects: Taller David Dana Arquitectura
- Location: Calle Vicente Suarez, Ex-Hacienda de Curimeo, Mich., Mexico
- Area: 110.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Alessandro Bo.
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The creative process for this project was approached with the intention of achieving a new image that could adapt and reestablish a new dialogue with its context.
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Plan
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We took advantage of the site characteristics as well as the materials of the brand with the goal of enlarged them by embellishing the restaurant under a series of elegant and subtle interventions.
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Brazilian apartment block by Arquitetura Nacional features a wall of sliding windows
Sliding windows make up the facade of this apartment building in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, allowing residents to expose their living spaces to the elements (+ slideshow). (more…)
Saskia Sassen, Krister Lindstedt and Mimi Hoang on the Architecture of Migration
At this year’s reSITE conference in Prague, speakers attended from around the globe to present differing perspectives on the challenges of migration, with topics of interest ranging from economics, to city planning to architecture. But as revealed by the following presentations, migration is a topic that requires interrogation on a number of different scales and in a number of different contexts: from the global economic focus offered by Saskia Sassen in her opening keynote lecture, to the focused challenges of designing micro-apartments shown by Mimi Hoang of nArchitects; and even to the unusual case presented by Krister Lindstedt of White Arkitekter, when a migration is undertaken not by individual people but by a whole town at once.
Saskia Sassen
In her keynote speech, sociologist Saskia Sassen summarizes the forces that lead to migration and the ways that cities, globally, are failing to structure their economies and their design to take advantage of the opportunities presented by migrants.
Krister Lindstedt
In his lecture, Krister Lindstedt presents White Arkitekter‘s masterplan for the city of Kiruna, which due to the needs of a nearby coal mine is currently in the process of relocating two miles eastward.
Mimi Hoang
In her presentation, Mimi Hoang of nArchitects presents the firm’s design for Carmel Place, a residential building in Manhattan which New York City proposed as a pilot project to test out the effectiveness of micro-apartments in taming the city’s unaffordable rental market.
How Migration Will Define the Future of Urbanism and Architecture
Read more about the reSITE 2016 conference here.
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Buckminster Fuller’s Daughter Shares Her Father’s Best Lessons
Montreal 1967 World's Fair, "Man and His World," Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome With Solar Experimental House, 2012. Image © Jade Doskow
It is the relation between the mind, which Bucky so often talked about, and experience or experiencing that I found to be the key that unlocks his work and inspired my own.
As Buckminster Fuller explained in an 1965 interview with Studs Terkel, his relationship with his daughter was very close. Now, in a previously-unpublished essay written in 1995, the daughter of “Bucky” Allegra Fuller Snyder has shared her father’s best lessons with Metropolis Magazine – explaining how she has adopted her father’s approach to learning and understanding the world. Both of them engaged in “experiencing” the living environment, “involving one’s whole self, not being present at, or observing, something, but “doing” that thing.”
As Fuller aimed to “reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper,” physical experiences were essential to the understanding of this environment and thus, to his production. As his daughter poetically describes: “His fingertips were exploring the universe around him. His fingertips were his antennae to experience. What he processed in his mind was only ever processed through that link to experience.”
Read the full essay by Allegra Fuller Snyder “Antennae to Experience: What Bucky Fuller Taught Me” here.
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Palexpo Vision “20XX” / group8
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- Architects: group8
- Location: Grand-Saconnex, Switzerland
- Area: 102000.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: David Gagnebin-de bons
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From the architect. Three decades after the completion of its construction, the building covering an area of 102’000 m2 needed to be adapted to the new standards governing events and congresses. The main changes are intended to render the whole complex more flexible and give it a more attractive image. The project Vision 20XX is a concept which aims to give each space in the building its own specificity within the mega structure of Palexpo.
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A new throughway ensures clear directions for the public; spatial continuity is guaranteed by a translucent, red, longitudinal wall, punctuated by rectangular signposts designating the entrances to the major function areas.
Floor Plan
The renovation of Congress Centre 1 has made it possible to individualize and give more flexibility to the use of each hall, the ceilings of which are based on a meshed network generated by Voronoï’s theorem, and also to redefine the foyer and the means of access by a “kinetic piece of furniture”.
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Congress Centre 2, which is situated beneath Hall 2, comprises eight new conference rooms made flexible by the provision of sliding walls.
© David Gagnebin-de bons
The existing restaurant has been renovated by repositioning the different functions and reclassifying the spaces in specific fashion.
© David Gagnebin-de bons
Located beneath Hall 2, the new kitchen of the centre has an area of 2’400 m2. It is at the centre of gravity of the whole complex and directly connected to all areas.
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The extension of Hall 6 has been carried out by closing off an area of an additional 6’000 m2 under a cantilever. The corrugated, perforated metal facade is a prolongation of the existing facades, and constitutes an adaptation on the large scale of the motorway and the airport.
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