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• Architects: CEBRA
• Location: 9440 Aabybro, Denmark
• Area: 12000.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Mikkel Frost

• Client: Jammerbugt Municipality
• Architect Of Record: KPF 

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At CEBRA architecture we rethink architecture – also when we design schools. In Aabybro, Denmark, a new city school has just been inaugurated. A school that challenges the notion of architecture while at the same time reflecting the urban context. 

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“With Aabybro School the city is getting a new school inspired by its surrounding environment and where parts of the teaching can be performed outdoor regardless of the weather”, says founding partner and architect at CEBRA, Mikkel Frost. He further explains: “The city of Aabybro is identified by its church, town hall, sport facilities and residential area which mainly are made with pitched roof. Therefore, the pitched roof is the cornerstone of the school’s architectural expression. The pitched roof is brought to focus due to its distinctive shape and slanted eaves which give a unique appearance without being intrusive or alien to the area. It is a modern version of the pitched roof where the eaves ensures attractive outdoor spaces for education and play”.

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One School, Two Sites

When the municipality decided to build a new school they had two separate sites at their disposal. This lead to a project that had to propose a design solution with two buildings functioning independently of each other while being connected by a uniform architectural expression. The two buildings show a close affinity to each other provided by the pitched roof and by identical facades with a sturdy base and a contrasting more delicate first floor in three different shades of green. The pitched roof and visible eaves evoke familiarity along with creating a dynamic environment for learning. The facade’s asymmetric windows and distinctive green colors appear as a daring and playful architectural expression. 

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• Architects: Thaipanstudio
• Location: 36 Sukhumvit Rd, Khwaeng Bang Chak, Khet Phra Khanong, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10260, Thailand
• Area: 180.0 ft2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: T+P

• Interior Designer : Thaipan Nopladarom
• Construction: Thongtha By Thaipanstudio

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From the architect. The renovation of the 30-year-old residence at Sukhumvit36 alley , was formed to renovate a new residence for The Butterfly Organic Milk company.

As Mr.Nueng told us ‘Do whatever to make it involved to the BUTTERFLY concept.”

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We surveyed through this residence. Which inside has been adjusting for many times, And some materials still have its own charm. That make we think that if we could turn back time to the 80s , this place would be really attractive.

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In each place , We usually consider the context to make a decision for the design of each project.

We have sketched some of the interesting details. And take a photo of the materials that couldn’t be found nowadays to be an ideas for the design.

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We decided to use just a few materials to present the project. And in this project we choose a toilet tile to present all of the design by rearrange the 12000 toilet tiles to make a new space.

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London-based Weston Williamson+Partners (WW+P) has won the “Route 2020” competition for the Dubai 2020 rail link, a 15-kilometer, £2.2 billion metro Expolink in the United Arab Emirates. 

Working in collaboration with global engineer CH2M, Alstom, and Acciona and Gulermack, the firm was selected ahead of ten rival bids for the high-profile project, which will connect Nakheel Harbor & Tower with the World’s Fair site.

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As an extension of Dubai’s Red Line, the project will include 11.8 kilometers of viaduct and 3.2 kilometers of underground track, creating seven new stations, including an interchange station with the Red Line that will feature a dramatic, wing-shaped terminus.

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Dubai is a superbly dynamic city, said Chris Williamson, Partner at WW+P. It is a great chance to be a part of its expansion, particularly to contribute to the vast public transport opportunities by creating a proud legacy for the people.

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U.S.-based firm Sasaki has won the international competition to redesign Suzhou Creek—also known as the Wusong River—in Shanghai, China, which was historically one of the city’s most vital water routes, but which, in recent decades, suffered severe pollution and neglect. After receiving a grant from the Asian Development Bank, the waterway has been cleaned and is now in the process of becoming a new centerpiece for Shanghai. 

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For thousands of years, long before Shanghai evolved into a global metropolis, Suzhou Creek dominated the landscape. As the region was settles, centuries of human manipulation sought to contain Suzhou Creek, transforming it from a key feature of the watershed into a highly engineered canal used to transport goods and materials. Suzhou Creek is often credited as one of the primary drivers of Shanghai’s modern industrialization. For recent generations of Shanghainese, however, Suzhou Creek is remembered as a wasteland, culminating in a public health hazard that disproportionately affected the city’s poor and most vulnerable – stated the architect. 

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Last year, two city districts abutting the creek—the wealthy south bank and the socially underrepresented north bank—combined, creating a “physical and mental divide that underscored the dichotomy of contemporary Shanghai.” Sasaki’s plan, however, utilizes the merger of municipal districts as a catalyst for development and renewal, in order to “address vast physical and social gaps in the city’s fabric.”

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The new design focuses on “expanding the perceived waterfront of Shanghai into the urban blocks adjacent to the creek,” which will reclaim the space for public use, thereby creating an urban and cultural watershed delineated by the recreational waterfront edges and urban frontage. New mixed-use development will additionally strengthen connections with nearby destinations like Shanghai’s contrary railway station and the M50 Arts District.

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By avoiding the preconceived notion of the Creek as a linear experience, the design reorganizes the waterway into a series of urban nodes and parks. These parks are spaced at no more than 500 meters apart, creating a much-desired community-oriented open space and allowing the creek to engage with the surrounding neighborhoods. Furthermore, historic warehouses along the creek will be “repurposed as cultural destinations to further strengthen the burgeoning arts scene along the creek.”

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The Suzhou Creek plan additionally considers the unrealized capacity of the space as landscape infrastructure, and will incorporate wetland terraces to “restore natural habitat, mitigate the impacts of occasional flooding, and provide opportunities for people to get close to the water.”

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The ideas we developed for Suzhou Creek speak to the incredible power of Sasaki’s collaborative, global practice. Our urban designers, architects, landscape architects, and ecologists worked together across offices on two continents to create a world-class approach that unifies miles of complexity along the creek, said Sasaki Principal Michael Grove. Tao Zhang, the project’s lead landscape architect, added: We looked beyond what was given and investigated more than expected, because we knew that great discoveries were not contained by the project boundary. The result is a bold yet plausible vision that integrates diverse social and ecological functionality with a balanced spatial composition.

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• Architects: Struere
• Location: Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Area: 1200.0 ft2
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Jeff Ong / PostRAIN Productions

• Project Team: Hraztan Zeitlian (Design Principal), Robert Villagomez, Hugo Calderon, Frank Taylor
• Structural Engineer: David Reith and Associates, Inc.
• Title 24 Compliance: Solargy, Inc.
• Landscape Consultant: Little Tomato Landscapes
• Surveyor: Becker & Miyamoto, Inc.
• Geotechnical Engineer: Grover Hollingsworth and Associates
• General Contractor: Dana Benson Construction

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From the architect. This is a small house designed for outdoor living, with Living Spaces that engage the Garden, blurring the boundary between Exterior and Interior, and engaging the ground surrounding it and opening to the sky.

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This House affirms the vibrancy of the design strategies of the modern houses of Los Angeles. What is new is that now we can build in a truly sustainable way, with cool roofs, dual glazed low iron crystal clear glazing expanses, new structural steel codes and advances in engineering that allow for even thinner overhanging roofs, thick slumped stone walls can be replaced with patterned walls with more efficient insulation and usable cavities.

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Reenergizing and renewing the Modern Living Promise, the new House opens the interiors to the outdoors and the views: it’s an Open House, engaged with its garden, exterior spaces and the interiors merge in an attempt to bring us together again with our natural surroundings.

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The Contemporary design echoes mid-20th Century horizontal lines (the famous ‘planes of Id’) that refer to the endless Los Angeles Horizon (only if interrupted by the vertical plane where the SmartTV screen is embedded). Thus this small house makes attempts to critically engage the urbanity of the the city it belongs to.

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The House is a composition of horizontal volumes and a void interpreted as a garden anchored by a tree. The House is Split into two volumes perpendicular to each other, with a small court in between. A Specimen Tree is the centerpiece of this court, growing through the roof joining the two volumes of the house, growing through a rectangular Oculus, and soaring towards the sky.

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The volumetric composition of the House is brought together by the continuous Roof/canopy (=Horizon). Thus the House defines Los Angeles as a city made of volumetric fragments and voids coalesced by the endless horizon. This House reflects the urban condition of Los Angeles: an endless Horizon that paradoxically brings together the divergent geometries of Los Angeles’ urban sprawl.

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After working for OMA, BIG, FR-EE and REX, architect-turned-artist Se Yoon Park has dedicated the last three years to Light, Darkness, and the Tree, a sculpture series employing digital fabrication techniques to express an allegory for life. With assistants, Vladislav Markov, Kelly Koh, David Temann Lu, Ramon Rivera, Kara Moats, and Insil Jang, Park uses dynamic light and shadow to capture movement on surfaces that contort, split and disappear into each other. 

In Light and Darkness, Park capitalizes on a variety of material qualities: wood, steel, and polyurethane resin provide structure, while ceramic and 3D printed Polyamide capture and diffuse light. Tree of Life is composed of multiple cast and hand-dyed units of Light and Darkness, delicately aggregated in a bond-free cantilever system. This balance is emblematic; for Park, the duality of the light and shadow in the sculpture recall the duality of life, while the tree, continuously and cyclically consuming and producing, captures divinity in nature.

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Opening to much fanfare earlier this week, Zaha Hadid Architects’ Port House holds a commanding presence over the port of Antwerp. The design combines a listed and formerly derelict fire station, which was restored as part of the project, with an eye-catching glass extension which rises out of the older building’s courtyard and thrusts itself towards the water in a dramatic cantilever. In the context of the port, where large infrastructure and colossal machines form the backdrop to everyday functions, the building boldly stakes its claim as the operational centerpiece, providing a space for the Port of Antwerp’s 500 employees. Photographer Thomas Mayer visited the building, capturing its striking external presence and investigating how its structural gymnastics translate to the building’s internal space.

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Globe by Michigan Station, Detroit. Image Courtesy of The Container Globe

All the world’s a stage – quite literally so, in the case of the Container Globe, a proposal to reconstruct a version of Shakespeare’s famous Globe Theatre with shipping containers. Staying true to the design of the original Globe Theatre in London, the Container Globe sees repurposed containers come together in a familiar form, but in steel rather than wood. Founder Angus Vail hopes this change in building component will give the Container Globe both a “punk rock” element and international mobility, making it as mobile as the shipping containers that make up its structure.

Globe by the Brooklyn Bridge, New York. Image Courtesy of The Container Globe

The project has been spearheaded by Vail, with Nicholas Leahy of Perkins Eastman acting as the project’s lead architect and Michael Ludvik as structural engineer. The two have previously worked together on the TKTS Booth in Times Square, and Leahy also has previous experience working on the London Globe in the 1980s. Additionally, the Container Globe team has enlisted the New York branch of Arup for the theater’s environmental performance studies.

The assembly of the Container Globe is kept logically simple, as seen in an animated video released by the team. The bulk of the theater is made up of the shipping containers forming the seating gallery, which are all modified in the same way and stacked into a tower of three such modules. Interestingly, while steel sheets are not usually the material of choice for performance spaces, the design team found that the containers’ corrugation, and its effect on acoustic reflection, actually lends itself well to housing live performances. The rest of the shipping containers are also cut through and added to, forming the backstage and balconies, with stairwells connecting the separate areas. The entire structure is then draped with a “tough industrial mesh,” providing shelter from wind and rain while also letting in daylight. The mesh will also help soften the sound of rain for those inside the theater.

Globe in Central Park, New York. Image Courtesy of The Container Globe

Though currently unbuilt, plans are underway for the first Container Globe to be constructed in Detroit, where it would be used for performances of not just the Shakespearean persuasion, but also for live music, dance, and in winter as a sculpture garden. After this, Vail hopes to reproduce the Globe in other places around the world, anywhere the team can gain access to the shipping containers required–“ie everywhere,” as Vail puts it. In particular, Vail is interested in mobilizing the Globe to communities lacking in cultural infrastructure in order to increase accessibility to the arts.

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The theatre is clearly a labour of love for Vail, who accredits the Sex Pistols and King Lear as equally formative influences in a TEDx Talk on the project. Having funded the project himself thus far, a Kickstarter will be launched in 2017 to help reach the project’s estimated cost of $6 million. It is an ambitious number to reach, in tune with the ambitious nature of the project itself.

Globe in Waitangi Park, Wellington NZ. Image Courtesy of The Container Globe

In the hopes of connecting people and performance, the Container Globe also connects several creative tropes–Kickstarter, shipping containers and pop-ups, making it easy to dismiss as another passing trend. With the air of an eccentric uncle invested deeply in a hobby, Vail’s own passion makes one want to believe in his vision, regardless of whether or not one actually does. However, with its solid design backing and support from the London Globe, the Detroit community and across social media, the path towards a place to “party like it’s 1599” is set to continue.

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• Architects: Giles Miller Studio
• Location: Surrey Hills Court, 106 Godstone Rd, Caterham CR3 6RZ, UK
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: John Miller, Richard Chivers

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‘Perspectives’is an organic pavilion structure covered with Cedar Shingles, whichsits atop the beautiful Surrey Hills at Winterfold, and throws itself evocatively into the vista that has been opened up below. 

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Commission by Surrey Hills Arts and the Mittal Foundation, the project aimed to create places of quiet and restful contemplation along a beautiful scenic route on the Hills of Surrey, south of London. 

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Inspired by the words and messages etched by people in public places, on trees, benches and elsewhere, Giles Miller has collated poetry, messages, initials and messages of love and memory from local schools, residents and other contributors to the project. These messages have been etched onto the surface of the organic cedar shingles that cover the piece, and appear to throw themselves out towards the front of the sculpture as if voicing their sentiments to the world that opens up below. 

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At its core, the shingles overlap and the sculpture functions architecturally to protect and shield the user from the elements, but at its mouth the surface flattens and evocatively opens out in dissipation as the shingles appear to fly out towards the waiting valley. 

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In this video from CNN Style, London designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby discuss Forecast, a wind-powered installation they created in collaboration with V&A Museum for the first London Design Biennale. With the intent to help city residents find their way “at a time of turbulence,” the installation responds to the Biennale’s theme “Utopia by Design.” 

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As everyone knows, the British are obsessed with weather, Osgerby said. It’s completely intrinsic to our way of life, and that’s why I think we talk about it incessantly.

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Forecast — inspired by traditional weather instruments — is composed of three elements: a weathervane measuring wind direction, an anemometer measuring wind speed, and a turbine to harness wind power. In celebration of the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia, the Biennale’s theme encouraged Barber and Osgerby to reflect on Britain’s past and future, settling on the idea of wind. Showcased along with works from 37 other countries, the UK’s Forecast is partially meant to incite political reaction and challenge the status quo, stated the designers. Their piece’s elements move with the wind to continually show a different direction.

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The Biennale runs from the 7^th to 27^th of September.

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