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Studioninedots have designed a new pavilion, “The TrueTalker,” to generate a space for open communication and storytelling. The pavilion is one of approximately fifty at Amsterdam‘s temporary Fab City, an initiative organised by Europe by People to promote self-sustaining, innovative cities. The project also comes as a reaction to Amsterdam hosting the European Union this spring, where rigid and official conversation will be scrutinised and recorded from every angle. In contrast, Studioninedots said that “The TrueTalker” creates a space where “everyone is invited to sit down, relax and share warming, unreasonable, crazy, unimaginable and hilarious ideas.”

Evolving from the concept of Fab Lab, where cutting edge fabrication techniques and machinery are made available in an open source way, the Fab City provides a space where innovators come together and present ideas about shaping the future of their own city. The unifying goal of the Fab City is to become “locally productive and globally connected.”

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Europe by People instigated the exhibition, with the vision of creating a “green, self-sustaining city” within which contributors from a broad range of artistic and technological backgrounds “work, create, explore and present their solutions for current urban issues.” Studioninedots‘ pavilion provides a space for these innovative people to come together and share their thoughts. 

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As well as creating a communal centerpiece, “The TrueTalker” pavilion also provides a literal beacon within the Fab City. The fire at the center of the cone-shaped structure not only acts to draw people in but reminds them of sitting around a campfire, and encourages everyone to tell stories and engage with their neighbors.

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The pavilion’s skin is one continuous wall which curves around on itself, creating a singular opening that visitors are invited to investigate and explore. The skin is assembled in an open brick pattern, allowing passers-by to glimpse inside the pavilion and the light from within to spill outwards. Once inside, ideas on “the future of Europe, the world, mankind or anything else” are exchanged openly around the fire.

Studioninedots emphasise the “need for personal contact and collectivity” not only through their design but their process. Studioninedots and collaborator StoneCycling both operate from the North Amsterdam-based Creative Workspace 1-1-1, which allowed them to combine their fields of expertise into what they refer to as an “attractive and technically challenging design.” StoneCycling’s WasteBasedBricks are a semi-opaque, circular brick made almost entirely from a locally sourced waste product. The material adds another element of sustainable future planning to the design.

“The TrueTalker” pavilion at Fab City Amsterdam is open until the 26th of June, and you can view the program of the pavilions program of organised events here.

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Wolfgang Buttress’ The Hive, a Gold Medal-winning UK Pavilion originally built for the 2015 Milan Expo, has been relocated to the Kew botanical gardens in central London. The striking (and photogenic) “beehive” was designed by the British practice to provide visitors with a glimpse into the life of a working bee; its 169,300 individual aluminium components—reaching 17-meters tall and fitted with hundreds of LED lights—created a multi-sensory experience that shed light on the importance of the pollinator. Following its relocation, photographer Laurian Ghinitoiu has turned his lens to this installation and its new home.

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• Architects: Studio David Thulstrup
• Location: Sturlasgade, 2300 København S, Denmark
• Architect In Charge: Studio David Thulstrup
• Area: 500.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Peter Krasilnikoff

• Contractor: Egeberg Enterprise
• Client: Peter Krasilnikoff

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From the architect. The renowned photographer Peter Krasilnikoff commissioned architecture practice Studio David Thulstrup for his private residence and studio in the Islands Brygge harbour-side district of Copenhagen.

The guiding inspiration for the project evolved from worn-out warehouses and factories with their blackened steel and old bricks; a concept direction which was sparked by the desire to retain the three raw-brick walls of the original garage building on the site.

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Retaining the brick walls which sit to the boundary of the narrow site, revealed the challenge of permitting light into the new building structure. The task was solved by a simple gesture with a slight twist. 

A glass-walled atrium was dropped down through the center of the building volume and floods all three floors of the residence with natural light. The atrium contains expanses of dark mirror paneling creating the appearance of a far larger internal space and enhanced lighting effect. Specially selected greenery has been planted in a manner of a natural Scandinavian woodland. The atrium is the central green heart of the house.

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All planning of the residence is structured around this central atrium. On the ground floor is the entrance, open-plan kitchen, dining room and sitting room. In these areas raw poured concrete contrasts blackened steel paneling and the original raw brick walls. Accents in color and texture are added with a bespoke terrazzo kitchen and floor-to-ceiling dark navy and intense aubergine velvet curtains from Kvadrat.

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Cladding the atrium, wall paneling of natural Dinesen oak hint at the atmosphere of the upper levels. Layered upon this, the central staircase of perforated blackened steel guides to the first floor. The materiality of the ground floor is softened in contrast here with light oak walls and floors, curtains and a terrazzo-lined bathroom in a soft grey hue.

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As a special feature, a glass-walled “roof-room” opens up towards a richly planted terrace and directs the view to the unconventional architectural treatment of the facade. The entire building is covered by a cladding of vertical strips from Brazilian hardwood. The material will slowly weather to a pale silvery grey over time, a gesture which perfectly mirrors the central philosophy of Studio David Thulstrup. Every building is created especially for the needs and imagination of the particular client. The work of the practice oscillates between a constructive architectural and material-based interior design approach, by integrating refined ideas of new materiality and bespoke pieces of furniture into a spatial vision.

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• Architects: Veauthier Meyer Architects
• Location: Finckensteinallee, 12205 Berlin, Germany
• Client: BBB Infrastruktur
• Area: 12300.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Courtesy of Veauthier Meyer Architects

• Scope Of Work: HOAI phases 1-5

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From the architect. B43 Indoor Swimming Pool, Finckensteinallee, Berlin-Lichterfelde
The restoration of this extensive South-Berlin pool prioritized the intelligent integration of technical and restoration questions, while placing particular emphasis on the sensitive handling of the historic substance from the design point of view.
The baths, designed by Karl Reichle and Karl Badberger and opened in 1938, were built on the site of a former cadet school and were originally used as a physical training facility for the SS Leibstandarte. At the time of its original completion the competition-standard complex with its 25 x 50 meter pool was the largest and most modern pool in Europe. In the post-war decades the swimming pool was used by US allies stationed in Berlin, subsequently becoming part of the Berlin Pools Association in 1994. In 2006 the hall was closed due to both wear-and-tear and construction defects.

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The restoration was carried out according to an architectural concept that differentiated specifically between conservation, re-use, and the further development of structural components and spatial groupings. The conservation work involved carefully optimising the external shell of the building, while in the pool hall itself the creation of a new roof enabled the architects to recreate the sense of space had been found here up to the 1970s. The showers and changing rooms were prime candidates for further development, as is reflected in the new colour scheme for these zones.

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Alongside the careful renovation of the building envelope, the renovation and modernization of this building with its monumental brick façade also encompassed the thorough renewal of all technical and functional elements while ensuring the entire system conforms with contemporary energy standards. Moreover, surviving historic details such as reliefs and natural stone or marble surfaces were authentically restored.
The swimming pool complex, restored to the expression of its original character, was reopened as a public sports pool in September 2014.

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• Architects: Scaleup Architects
• Location: Town In Town Soi 2, Khwaeng Phlabphla, Khet Wang Thonglang, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10312, Thailand
• Architect In Charge: Scaleup Architects
• Area: 1321.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Jirayu Sornnuwat

• Client : V-CAN Group

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From the architect. The V-OFFICE project is an office building renovation project. The old building structure that was used as the editing studio and office will be minimally improved.  The building’s exterior design pays attention to the elements and proportions to be used for decorating the building facade to create an image of a new building and uniqueness of the building to be memorable.

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Building exterior facade design development will be using V-shaped corners stretching out with new arrangement as the new elements with appropriate placement and proportion to the original building. The original building materials will still be used on some part. The elements arrangement on the new building walls will be done with regard to the consistency of the old building material. It also takes into account the direction of sunlight so it can be used most valuably but not too much. The use of materials that are light, can be molded easily, and easy to maintain will make the building seem quaint and more interesting.

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Interior decoration will focus on polished concrete flooring to make it easier to maintain and modify for various applications. Minimum disturbance to the building structure, exposing the pipeline system, electrical system and air conditioning,most decoration will be done with steel frame, steel grating, black aluminum frame.

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• Architects: Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
• Location: Bangkok, Thailand
• Architect In Charge: Cherngchai Riawruangsangkul, Suphot Klinaphai, Thanakit Wiriyasathit,
• Area: 450.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2012
• Photographs: Beer Singnoi

• Interior Designer: Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
• Landscape Designer: Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated

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From the architect. Set on the 10 x 40 metres piece of land the entrance of Bangna House confronts a narrow lane. With a factory and storage at the back, the physicality of the land and its surrounding environment are conditional to space management. This rectangular plot forces all rooms to be placed from the front to the back, upstairs and downstairs.

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The house is divided into two zones. The front zone contains downstairs bedroom for the mother and upstairs bedroom for the sister. The back zone accommodates upstairs bedroom for the family of the house owner and downstairs shared space that includes kitchen, dining room and bathroom. The living room, which locates on the lower level crossing the two zones, offers a sense of comfort and belonging to everyone in the family whereas the middle courtyard provides both privacy and indoor green space. It also softens the hardness of this irregular-shape house, a house that looks like a piece of Swiss cheese with lots of holes.

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The building line legal drilling holes wherever possible to increase the house’s intake of natural light, no matter how strange the last form looks like.

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The Sydney Opera House is one of the most iconic buildings in the world. A momentous achievement in design and engineering, the building quickly cemented itself as a defining feature of the Australian cultural landscape. But the realization of the building was not a straightforward one, and almost immediately after the project was awarded it became fraught with controversy and uncertainty. At the center of this controversy was the architect, Jørn Utzon, who eventually resigned after mounting conflict with the state government. Now, this period of Utzon’s life will be chronicled in a new feature length film, Utzon, The Man Behind the Opera House, reports The Guardian. 

Utzon, a relatively unknown architect at the time, agitated the conventional Australian architectural climate with his radical competition-winning design for the Opera House in 1956. The dynamic nature of the proposal required innumerable iterations to perfect the structure of the soaring “sails,” and tight deadlines saw construction begin before documentation was complete. As the construction process wore on, more problems arose, and Utzon’s relationship with the financing state government began to sour. 

His mounting ostracization eventually hit breaking point in 1965 when newly appointment state premier Robin Askin began to openly blame Utzon for the issues. Utzon resigned in 1966, returning to Denmark and washing his hands of the project. The Guardian reported that the film’s producers believe this story holds the right amount of drama for a feature film, with the film’s screenwriter, Petter Skavlan, proclaiming that the “epic battle between the architect and the corrupt Askin government is perfect movie material.”

Utzon returned to the project decades later, working on additions and redesigns before his death in 2008. However, he never returned to Australia, and never witnessed his monumental design in person. Despite the Order of Australia Medal being awarded to him in 1985 and the Pritzker Prize in 2003, the trials of the process stayed with Utzon until he died.

It is this dramatic process without resolution that the film’s creators were so drawn to. The film’s producer, Jan Marnell said: “We have a world wonder. We have its creator – who wasn’t allowed to see his dream fulfilled. We have creativity versus bureaucracy and political manoeuvring ranging from friend to foe. We have an outstanding architect with streaks of megalomania and genius, and his vengeful opponents who plot to get him out of the country. What do they want? In the end, they want to take back what they believe should have been theirs in the first place.”

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From the architect. There are few buildings as famous as the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia. Arguably considered the eighth wonder of the world, the opera house has a long history behind its design.

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Bordeaux-based atelier d’architecture King Kong has unveiled their design for the new NH hotel at the Toulouse Blagnac airport in France. Both elegant and inviting, the hotel’s warm atmosphere is achieved through the acoustic and thermal qualities of the sweeping ground floor area, which opens onto the exterior spaces.

The building consists of 150 hotel rooms, a business center, restaurant and fitness center. The bar, restaurant and terrace, located on the upper levels of the building, are “intimate in feel,’’ while offering unrestricted views.

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An expansive terrace unfolds around the building’s prow. Its base, distinguishably surfaced with gabions, houses the building’s service facilities. A partially cantilevered volume above the base accommodates MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) activities.

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The “Razzle” pattern employed on the front/face of the building aims to “dispel the monotony of an unbroken façade,’’ atelier d’architecture King Kong states in a press release. The pattern, positioned vertically, is thus in a “syncopated rather than serial fashion.” “Each hotel room corresponds to 3 strips in the pattern, of which two comprise windows,” explain the architects. This gives each room a unique character.

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Y-shaped columns rise from the base of the building, echoing the design of the façade. Atelier d’architecture employ an “elegant’’ color palette throughout – black, white, gold and red – to voice the expansion of the NH brand, and that of Blagnac airport. Thus, the building functions as a “showcase for the airport’s shimmering horizons.’’

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Despite being located within close proximity to the airport, the building reflects its surrounding environment with hanging gardens, green roof terraces and gabions, a natural habitat for plant growth. The gravel-covered rooftop houses several solar collectors, designed as a ‘‘fifth façade’’ to be experienced by those flying overhead.

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• Architects: atelier d'architecture King Kong
• Location: Toulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS), 31703 Blagnac, France
• Architect In Charge: Jean-Christophe Masnada, José Llorens
• Design Team: Demathieu Bard Construction
• Technical Engineering: Berim, SNC-Lavalin
• Acoustics: Emacoustic
• Area: 8359.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Courtesy of atelier d'architecture King Kong

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• Architects: Architensions
• Location: United States, Brooklyn, NY, USA
• Architect In Charge: Richard W. Off
• Area: 163.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Cameron Blaylock

• Design Principals: Alessandro Orsini & Nick Roseboro
• Team: Rigo Gonzalez, Giorgia Gerardi
• Landscape: Architensions
• General Contractor: A-G Home Improvements
• Structural Engineering: ADG Engineering

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From the architect. The evolution of living in our cities more and more tries to embrace nature, almost negating the urban character of neighborhoods. The design for a renovation and additions to a townhouse in Brooklyn is generated from the idea of fusing the interior space with the outdoor landscape through the creation of ground-up pavilions with specific experiential qualities. 

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Two main pavilions have been juxtaposed to the existing building— in a way to have an unobstructed view of the garden through the windows and also blurred views — obtained from the partial over imposing of a wooden screen to the addition facades. The exterior cladding is achieved layering vertical wooden slats of Shou Sugi Ban (or Yakisugi), an ancient Japanese exterior siding technique that preserves wood by charring. The two volumes are devoted to sound/vision and smelling/tasting activities and they complement the existing functions with natural light being the main component of the white bare interiors minimally furnished.

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The experience is extended to the landscape outside where the original bluestones have been restored and reused as the material for the hardscape that leads the user to a third volume: a shed-like typology balloon frame construction. This third programmatic element is providing the function of isolation for meditative activities and it serves as a winter plants shelter for the garden.

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The sectional shape of the three pavilions revolve around the presence of skylights with different configurations that capture the sun and the diffused light reflecting from the trees, making the interior changing with the seasons and further connecting with the exterior.

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Philippe Barriere Collective (PB+Co) has released the plans for a Bio Climatic Health Care Facility at an eco-resort in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. The facility includes a Chelation Clinic, Integrated Dental Domes, Healing Clinic, and individual bungalows for private patient residences.

Overall, the alternative medical center intends to combine wildlife discovery, nature conservancy, and outdoor activities as part of the patients’ healing processes.

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Overlooking the Al Ain Lake is a tower set on pilotis, so as to minimize its impact on the lake’s coastline, and still attract a wide variety of birds, frogs, fish, insects, and more.

An external textile veil shelters the entirety of this tower, like a “loose cap,” shielding the building from the sun, and providing a buffer air zone that constantly circulates air.

“The parachute veil is layered over a super-pressure balloon which crowns the tower. The size of the balloon changes according to need, allowing the buffer air zone to increase in size or retract,” describe the architects in a press release. Furthermore, cool air from underground is utilized to “refresh the air contained by the veil,” which reduces air conditioning consumption within the building. 

The design started in 2006 before the project was put on hold from 2007 until 2014, when it was definitively halted. 

Learn more about the project here.

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