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On Thursday, March 29, 2012
Spanish architects Nicolas Montesano, Victor Vila, Boris Hoppek were recently awarded announced the winners for their proposal for the Amsterdam Iconic Pedestrian Bridge competition. The proposal a central enclosed space or water plaza is defined by its circular shape partially submerged underwater to allow boats can cross through whilst pedestrians and cyclists can pass along its perimeter.
images courtesy of the architects
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On Thursday, March 08, 2012
Amsterdam based practice
Studioninedots with HVDN has recently won an invited competition to design a student housing facility for TU Delft Campus in the Netherlands. The proposal for 140 standardized student units, each 24m
2 housed in a 5 storeys high on 388m
2 site is part of a 1000 room expansion taking place on the TU Delft campus.
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On Thursday, February 23, 2012
Located amongst the natural salty springs in Persani Village, Romania is the Balneary Centre designed by architects
ArchVision Studio. The community was desirous of developing a large scale relaxation, health and rejuvenation facility in this rural area, offering spin off social, economical and cultural development of the whole territory.
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On Thursday, February 16, 2012
A competition entry by architectural practice
Vector 17, for the masterplan of a
natural protected area around a former Second World War anti-ship emplacement of the Italian Navy. The proposal maintains the character and physical substance of the existing buildings, while providing an acceptable comfort and flexibility in the programme. The design is conceived as a series of small interventions at a minimum cost, adding progressively more complex functions over time to interact with each other, triggering a differential, adaptive change.
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On Thursday, February 16, 2012
The competition entry for the Dalian Library & Media Centre was conceived by
10 Design to be a transformative environment that pulls visitors into a unique landscape. The 55,400 m
2 building weaves to create a series of courtyards and topographic undulations forming a bold urban landmark. The mass is shaped by dynamic and expansive views toward to the surrounding sea and mountains. The metal proposed for the façade will be a dark grey brass that will develop a rich patina over time and will have natural resistance to the harsh marine conditions.
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On Thursday, February 09, 2012
A $120 m expansion and renovation to the McEnery Convention Centre located in San Jose, California originally opened in 1989. The renovation was designed by architects
Populous and when complete will increase the convention centre to 1.3 million ft
2 in a creative blend of indoor and outdoor spaces.
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On Thursday, February 09, 2012
images courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Landscape Architects
OLIN design with
Diller Scofidio + Renfro and
KeppieDesign have won an international design competition in Aberdeen, Scotland. The design takes reference from the City Garden with its the dramatic topography of Aberdeen by criss-crossing a series of paths across the Denburn Valley to reconnect the urban fabric creating a reinvigorated green heart of the city.
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On Thursday, February 02, 2012
A proposal for a training centre specializing in sustainable construction to be located in Marrakesh, Morocco by German Architect
Anna Heringer in collaboration with a number of architects from Austria and Morocco.
Winner of a
2011 Holcim Bronze Award
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On Thursday, January 19, 2012
The Tidemill Primary School in Lewisham, London by
Pollard Thomas Edwards architects combines and shares resources with the wider community. The school when complete will form an L-shape around an open courtyard, with the existing Deptford Lounge forming the third side.
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On Thursday, December 22, 2011
The Biosphere Sustainability Centre is a proposed reuse of an 11,508 m
2 brownfield site near the Thousand Islands in Gananoque, Canada into a new cultural, social, economic, and environmental centre. Designed by
Paul Raff Studio the Centre includes exhibition and conference facilities, artisan studios, market retail, and office space. Additionally, the facility will consist of two green roofs with walk-out gardens, a walk-through biowall that cleans and recycles the air, and sculptural sun shades alongside the building.
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On Thursday, December 22, 2011
Qingdao Water City is a proposed 180,000m
2 development to be located on a 120acre site on Aoshan Bay in Goyang City, Korea. Designed by multi-national architectural firm
NBBJ the development when complete will consist of 10 exhibition halls, one multi-purpose hall, retail and a central outdoor expo plaza. The form of the facility is intended to induce associations of flowing water and is complimented with a landscape made of natural foliage minimizing the need for irrigation.
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On Thursday, December 15, 2011
Competition entry for a €12m Euralille Youth Centre by
JDS Architects. The 7,000m
2 project located in Lille, France proposes to be an urban catalyst, accommodating three distinct programmes on a triangular site, organized around a calm garden.
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On Thursday, December 15, 2011
A competition entry for a new 4,000 m
2 Museum of Sculpture in Leganes, Spain by architects
MACA (Christian Alvarez, Jorge Garrudo & Thomas Suarez). Designed to be built over a series of phases utilizing the original building and the installation of outdoor sculptures.
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On Thursday, December 01, 2011
Master Plan for the New Capital City of Equatorial Guinea by
IDF-Ideias do Futuro, located on the Wele-Nzas. Designed for 160,000 inhabitants on 20 acres, the concept is both modern and respectful of the country’s cultural roots and natural environment.
Sustainability is also central to the design and see the creation of retention basins, protection of the margins natural vegetation & watercourses as well as the construction of a canal to divert the excess water.
The Master Plan is planned along an orthogonal matrix making use of the existing road network and includes urban parks, cemeteries, zoo, botanical garden, sports park, libraries, a new administrative centre, cathedral, mixed housing and a golf course.
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On Thursday, December 01, 2011
A proposal for a 12,200m
2 Wellness Spa designed architects
Enota to complement existing skiing facilities in the town of Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. The scheme is comprised of an introverted saunas, massage parlours and swimming pools. The design borrows regional architectural features with the steep pitch Alpine gable roof and the simple elongated building mass.
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On Thursday, November 24, 2011
Used as the informal label to describe the centre film industry in India, Bollywood has grown since its humble beginnings in the 1930s to become the world's largest film producer. The design of the museum, by architects
Yazdani Studio, is to be located in Film City in Mumbai, India and aims to capture the layered expressions of emotions of Hindi cinema.
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On Thursday, November 24, 2011
The Taipei City Museum of Art, designed by architects
WTA is intended to be a vibrant new cultural centre for the city and to jumpstart development in the area. With the focus on introducing contemporary art to today’s children providing a place for them to "explore, connect, create" which materialized into a flowing and infinite ribbon form that evokes Chinese calligraphy.
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On Thursday, November 10, 2011
Hotel Liesma is a 15,000 m
2 music-themed hotel in Jurmala, Latvia designed by architects
Praud Studio. The hotel is structured on a number of cones containing public facilities (café, restaurants, etc), freeing up the ground level as a open plaza. The angled slab contains hotel rooms, a lounge and an observatory taking advantage of the views beyond the canopy of the trees.
Winner of a 2011 Holcim Bronze Award
