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• Architects: Markus Tauber Architectura
• Location: 39042 Brixen, Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol, Italy
• Other Participants : Aste Weissteiner Zt GmbH
• Area: 500.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Oskar Da Riz

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From the architect. A sculptural building in Bressanone / Italy is the new landmark in the Lido Park and is the home for the restaurant & bar Brix 0.1

The new restaurant Brix 0.1, located in the Lido Park in Bressanone / Italy, finally brings an improvement to the green area in the middle of the city.

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Like a landmark the building fits inside the natural environment. A simple, but plastically shaped building opens consciously like a funnel to the pond and framed so visually beneficial the shore as well as 2 forward, protected trumpet trees. 
This pavilion thus forms the backbone of the overall composition and becomes the new attraction in the park. The new restaurant BRIX 0.1 in the Lidopark is created in a spatial interplay with a pushed in cuboid space volume, in which the service facilities are accommodated.

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The design is characterized by a sculptural building envelope which, like a canopy of roofs, protects the new restaurant area and widens through its wide glass façade visually towards the pond. The building deliberately moves closer to the shore of the pond. Under its cantilevered roof, a protected area is created, which is complemented by a spacious terrace overhanging the pond and thus visually links the restaurant with the water. The “canopy roof and wool ” in interaction with the sail over the terrace creates a unique atmosphere in the park.

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Spacious glazed windows allow views and views into the new restaurant and link the exterior and interior, making the visit to the park an experience. The skin of volume is formed by corten steel´s leaves that makes an elegant coating for the restaurant below. 

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Inside a front-cooking kitchen finds a dialogue with the tables of the clients showing the preparation of her prestigious food. In the night the construction becomes a lantern and the water, almost by magic, turns into a mirror for the structure.

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Product Description. The Corten steel has been the material used for the cover following the concept-idea to integrate the surrounding nature with the pavillon. So corten steel sheets were cut in leaves´ shape like a leaves roof  that it forms the skin of the construction.

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BAD Architects, or Built by Associative Data, showcase their acclaimed data analysis with K1299, a new mixed-use project in Lebanon. The site was addressed through various different lenses: traffic noise, view perspectives, solar radiation, and market potential.

Our design methodology focuses on the careful generation, processing, and analyzing of project specific data for the purpose of optimizing important design decisions, said the architects in a recent media release. 

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To deal with traffic noise, the architects have proposed a “stepped volume strategy,” which helps dampen the noise. In optimizing the terrain, the design allows for a garden connection which serves as a secondary entrance to the offices. Shading devices in addition to an open floor plan enhances the workspace for the building’s inhabitants. Lastly, the layouts include terraces and stunning views, which will amplify the building presentation.

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Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen will be the focus of the Season 30 Finale of American Masters, the PBS documentary program that highlights the preeminent cultural icons of United States’ history.

Co-produced by Saarinen’s son, Eric, the documentary will dig into the life and work of the visionary architect, covering seminal projects including St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch, the General Motors Technical Center, New York’s TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Yale University’s Ingalls Rink and Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, and Virginia’s Dulles Airport.

“Closure was something I didn’t have with my dad. But I forgive him for his genius,” said Eric Saarinen, ASC. “He figured out a way to be important across time, so even though he died young, he is still alive.”

The documentary will feature rare archival interviews with Eero and his second wife, New York Times art critic Aline Saarinen, as well as new interviews with architects Kevin Roche, César Pelli, Rafael Viñoly, and Robert A. M. Stern, architecture critic Paul Goldberger, curator Donald Albrecht (Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future), author Jayne Merkel (Eero Saarinen) and Cathleen McGuigan, editor-in-chief of Architectural Record.

Check out some excerpts and a trailer for the film below.

Film excerpt: Eero Saarinen’s mobile lounge, “passenger-to-the-plane” concept enables his revolutionary Dulles Airport design

Film excerpt: Eero Saarinen explains his design of the General Motors Technical Center (Warren, Mich.), a National Historic Landmark:

Film outtake: Eero Saarinen’s explains his design of the MIT Chapel

Film excerpt: Eero and Eliel Saarinen compete for St. Louis monument design

Film trailer:

The documentary will premier nationwide Tuesday, December 27 at 8 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) and will become available on DVD January 3, 2017. Learn more about the film, and find out how to watch it, here.

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• Architects: Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architects
• Location: Bregenz, Austria
• Architect In Charge: S. Gaudl
• Area: 169.0 m2
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Bruno Klomfar

• Concrete Engineer: Mader & Flatz, Bregenz
• Wood Engineer: mkp, Dornbirn
• Hvac: B. Langer, Wolfurt
• Electric: Kremmel & Schneider, Lustenau
• Building Physics: B. Weithas, Lauterach

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Built on an extremely steep piece of land with an area of only 450m², Dietrich│Untertrifaller designed this single family home to best fit the constraints of the site. While a concrete core ties the house to the hill and contains all service rooms, a more open wooden structure was chosen for the living area and bedrooms.  The form of the home allows for the focal point of all the interior spaces to be the forests below.

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Hello Wood has continued its tradition of building socially responsive Christmas trees in European cities though its latest addition, the Tree of Arts, built in front of Budapest’s largest concert hall, Müpa, also known as the Palace of Arts.

Based on the idea that the spirit of Christmas should live beyond the holiday season and continue to symbolize community-building and sustainability into the New Year, the 11-meter tall tree made from lightboxes will be recycled into display units for the inside of the cultural venue in 2017.

Lightboxes in the installation feature the names of performances that will be visiting Budapest in the coming year, including the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, John McLaughlin, and Cameron Carpenter.

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In total, the tree will be lit by an 110-meter-long LED ribbon.

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© Balazs Turos

The four-story-high structure occupies 20 square meters and features three entrances—including a shorter one meant for children—so that visitors can view the tree from the inside.

Previous Hello Wood Christmas tree projects have been located in London, Manchester, Budapest, and Geneva, all around the ideas of charity, social awareness, community building, and sustainability.

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Lead architects: Csaba Bányai, András Huszár

Hello Wood team: Péter Pozsár, Niki Lakatos, Dávid Ráday,  Benjamin Szilágyi, Gergely Szőke  

Commissioned by: Müpa Budapest

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• Architects: LOVE architecture and urbanism
• Location: Berlin, Germany
• Area: 24822.0 m2
• Project Year: 2013
• Photographs: HG Esch

• Client: 50Hertz Transmission GmbH
• Project Manager: Andreas Perchinig
• Project Staff: Carina Faustmann, Peggy Marten, Wolfgang Schneider, Verena Auer, Christina Windisch, Anja Moch, Sigrid Derler, Tamara Frisch, Stephanie Jordan, Wolfgang Mitterer
• Model Making: Iulius Popa
• Partner Agency: Kadawittfeld Architektur
• Partner Agency Staff: Holger Giesen, Karl Büttner, Max Schöneich, Max Schmidt, Henning Drefke, Christian Kreifelts, Lars Junold, Jonas Kröber

• Construction Supervision: Jörg Baumann, Maren Brandt, Suat Schöneich, Jan Knoops
• Landscape: MAN MADE LAND Bohne Lundqvist Mellier GbR
• Graphic Design: Garde

• Interior Design: Kinzo Berlin GmbH | Chris Middleton
• Artist: Michael Sailstorfer
• General Contractor: Ed. Züblin AG | Niklot von Bülow
• Project Controlling: Drees & sommer | Sebastian Schille
• General Specialist Planner: Inros Lackner SE | Haie-Jann Krause

• Building Excavation: Porr / Stump Spezialtiefbau | Bernhard Hinterplattner

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From the architect. Eighteen architectural firms participated in the international non-open competition for the new 50Hertz Netzquartier in Berlin. The initial phase yielded two finalists, LOVE architecture and urbanism and the Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects, with the LOVE design ultimately prevailing. The other competitors included NO.MAD Arquitectos (Madrid), Sauerbruch Hutton (Berlin), Hadi Teherani Architects (Hamburg), Kleihues + Kleihues (Berlin), Müller Reimann (Berlin). 

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Location
The site is noteworthy due to its prominent location in Berlin’s inner city. It is adjacent to the Museum of Contemporary  Art and the “Am Hamburger Bahnhof” cultural zone. The site is also within close proximity to the main train station and the parliament and government district with the Federal Chancellery, the German Bundestag, and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. 

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Site Plan

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Building Concept
The structurally sound exterior construction, which consists of white concrete composite columns (Dia-Grid), allows for column-free interior spaces alongside the façade, which enable a flexible utilization of interior space. The framework structure creates a network of evenly arranged diagonal struts, which abstractly symbolizes the company’s purpose (50Hertz is a network operator) while also visually referencing the rail area, with its steel bridges and viaducts, around the area of the Hamburg and Lehrter train station. 

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Diagram

Individual struts were removed from the even diagonal structure. The only prerequisite for this was that an easily manageable free span of approx. 8.3 m in the cantilever area could not be exceeded. This playful approach resulted in a geometrically complex interwoven exterior, a framework structure made of compression and tensile struts. The orange cores, which house the elevators, stairways, shafts, utility rooms and restrooms, draw the viewer’s gaze through the exterior network deep into the depths of the building. Two of the three cores are slightly tilted. Since the Reserve Control Center (RCC) is also part of the new company headquarters, a particularly sophisticated safety concept guided the planning and implementation stages. 

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Flexible Office Landscape
The design creates rooms that accommodate the company’s desire to adapt its corporate culture towards more open, flexible, team-oriented work. The integration of outdoor workspaces into the deep building structure supports various utilization concepts, each of which offers a different workflow, workspace quality and atmosphere. Each layout features a unique blend of concentration areas, informal communication zones and garden zones (outdoor workspaces). During the planning stages, each department was able to tailor their work environment to their specific needs. No two floors in the building are alike – many different working worlds were created, each with its own special features. 

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Night-Time Lighting Concept
At night, individual strut segments of the exterior supporting structure are illuminated, which creates dynamic lines that evoke sine curves. This transforms the net structure into a linear structure at night, radically altering the building’s appearance.  The 50Hertz Netzquartier received the world’s first “DGNB Diamant” award. 

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The world of architecture can be a serious place. Though the rest of the world holds quite a few stereotypes about architects, unfortunately none of them include us having a sense of humor—and perhaps that seriousness explains why one of the most popular memes involving architects isn’t exactly favorable to the profession. Here at ArchDaily we thought we’d do just a little to correct that with some memes riffing on some of the profession’s most beloved names—as our gift to the entire architectural profession. Read on to see what we’ve come up with, and don’t forget to get involved with your own architecture funnies.

And, since we’re talking about correcting architecture’s meme situation, why don’t we take another look at that old “classic” we mentioned earlier:

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• Architects: Antonio Jurado
• Location: Calle Castillo, 29793 Torrox, Málaga, Spain
• Architect In Charge: Antonio Jurado
• Area: 177.0 m2
• Project Year: 2012
• Photographs: Antonio Jurado

• Collaborating Architect: María Rosa Jurado, Javier Martínez y Jesús Navarro.
• Technical Architect: Francisco Bueno
• Technical Architect Collaborator: Mar Manzanera

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From the architect. The project is located in the historical center of Torrox, in Malaga (Spain), that it has a very clear homogeneity and a strong Mediterranean character, where the buildings adapt to the topography, so that the resulting streets are winding and uneven slopes between parallel streets.

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Faced with these initial conditions, we insert the house in the urban pattern in the most silent way, interweaving the place to the needs of the owners.

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What makes characteristic to the house is fundamentally the place where it is located. It is an extremely complex environment, the L-shaped plot and with an area of only 56 m2. The plot is arranged in a corner, giving two of its sides to public streets at different levels. 

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As for the relationship with the environment, with the landscape, we propose large windows that dilute the boundaries between exterior and interior. In this way, the landscape becomes the essential element of the house. The climatic conditions of Torrox, makes the project open to the environment and dialogue with it.

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The house is an intermediate point between interior and exterior, between the landscape and the intimate, between reality and reflection.

The program is divided into three packages:

-Storage

-Private

-Common.

The program dedicated to storage is located in semi-basement floor and has direct access from the stepped street.

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The program dedicated to private use (bedrooms and a bathroom) is situated on the ground floor, together with the main access to the building.

Plans

The program dedicated to common use is situated on the first floor, as this floor has the best relationship with the environment, creating in this floor a single open space, where there is the triple use of kitchen-dining-living room and a toilet.

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On the second floor is a terrace, divided in two by a small space that serves as a laundry room and receives the stairs from the kitchen. The two terraces have different characters, so that one has a more private sense, covered by a pergola and the other terrace is more open, where a small barbecue is located.

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One of the key points of the home is the location of the staircase. We decided to attach it to one of the party walls, so that the floor is free. In the common use floor we opted for an open white steel staircase as the walls, so that it becomes permeable to the light and the views.

Elevations

Something important in this house is its bioclimatic character, the energy saving and the adaptation to climatological conditions, projecting cross ventilation and glass with solar treatment.

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As a general project strategy, we reduce the range of colors to white and gray. This reduction applies also to the furniture, both the kitchen and the rest of the house. In this way the whole house is understood in an integral and continuous way.

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• Architects: FEA Studio
• Location: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
• Lead Architects: Arash Nasiri, Ensieh Khamseh, Alireza Tahmouresi
• Area: 1200.0 m2
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Ali Daghigh

• Client : Zarrinzob co.
• Structure: J.Sajadian
• Mechanical & Electrical: Amir Azmayesh, Behruz Noori
• Project Team: M.H.Azimi, Amir Nasiri, Parisa Allahgholi

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From the architect. This Exhibition is located at Tehranpars neighborhood, adjacent to RESALAT highway. It faces issues like urban chaos, variety of scales, and crowdedness like most of neighborhoods in Tehran.

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It is a 20×25 m2 area, built by steal structure concrete ceiling and a 20 m wide opening. The building consists of a ground floor and a half first floors, beside two underground floors allocated for parking and infrastructural amenities.  

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The idea is defining a new urban representation redefining the relativity of seeing and being seen. The showcase located in the two-dimensional faced into a bilateral interaction between the three-dimensional inner and outer volumes, therefore the new showcase emerged through caving and casting a void from the site spatial-mass brings about the needed space while redefines the relation between in and out.

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• Architects: Gokhan Avcıoglu + GAD Architecture
• Location: Istanbul, İstanbul, Turkey
• Area: 800.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Mustafa Nurdogdu

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 After a few years of searching, we found a building that lifts the vehicles up to the floors instead of the structures designed as parking on the ground floor. Since the public can’t serve quickly in haste, the owners decided to change the function of the building. This building, which has the potential to respond to the magnificence and magnificence we wanted, blinked at us as a windowless and infinite ‘ruin beauty’. She was waiting for us with a thick, heavy structure.

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We said goodbye to the infrastructure difficulties we suffered in old buildings. We are enjoying the rise that allows the floor to be added. Every architect’s fetish dream is concrete bearing the soul of our contemporary mold. It must stay but still we need to soften the cold. By developing technologies architectural offices now require more digital infrastructure.  

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Architecture offices are actually a bit different from other offices. They must have a section where models, workshops can be done with a flexible planning. Planning must be flexible enough to handle the number of architects that work around a project. This means creating an office with a physical structure in accordance with all kinds of working methods.

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 Although we have two separate institutions, the GAD Foundation and GAD, the two structures are located in this office together. Since 2013, Gokhan Avcioglu & GAD Foundation has brought professionals and students together from all around the world to discuss and plan on issues related to architecture, design, society, education, culture and environment. Because the fluid between the foundation and GAD, the warm relationship is returning to us in a positive sense.  

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There is an acacia tree table in our meeting room which is left as natural as possible, quite heavy and big. If we had drawn many of our customers or friends by its texture, shape they would not know where to eat and they would find it without form. However, since we arrived, we tried everybody, everyone could find a place on the corner of the table. Architecture is a bit like this, you have to try it out. The green courtyard view of the window in the office entrance is one of the most beautiful scenes we can find in Istanbul. There’s a controlled light inside. We used a particularly dramatic size in the windows. We opened 2×2 windows that someone could easily put on. The light from these windows joins the middle field and gives us exactly what we want. We need more window openings at one or two points, maybe we can open them after a while.

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There is reinforced concrete system in the building. The floor is polyurethane. Since the material itself is a finished material, it is possible to continue to work on it all the time. Glass workers, manufacturers worked after the material was laid and did not have any problems. In the coming days we will make changes in the finish materials. We planned to put the meeting room on wooden parquet.

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The entrance will be a library, we have plenty of books and models. Actually, some things will be done while we live here. We want to show them here.  The staircase you see on the photographs is a temporary staircase. We want to use the place where the staircase is currently located for various conversations, gatherings. We have various activities for 20-30 people. We have a huge kitchen that team can come together.

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We are in a time zone like “No space, no time” and there is no point where the offices are. For us the more important thing is to build relationships with people, then to build projects. So we have made the office where we can develop relationships and have chat more with our clients. We make our meetings as much as possible here because there is a lot of resources we can show here. We have recovered both physically and mentally; what we are doing, where we are, what we have done and what we want to do, we are thinking about all of these, still looking for answers.

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