Hasta La Ideas

Photographer Roland Halbe has sent us some images of this town hall in Spain composed of overlapping cylinders, designed by Madrid architects Mansilla+Tuñón.

Horizontal bands of the modular glass facade are screened, giving the Lalìn Townhall a striped turquoise exterior.

A large circular void in the building’s volume creates a central courtyard, where the entrance is located.

Internally, a spiralling staircase at the heart of the building connects the ground and first floors.

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The following text is from Mansilla+Tuñón:

Lalìn Townhall
Mansilla+Tuñón Architects

While the present is under construction, the past and the future take new forms. Every single moment, each new action, enables a revision of what has been done, and also lends a new profile to what is about be done, modifying continously as much the collective memory as the projects to come.

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In this changing scenario, with a past and a future in constant construction, PROBABILITY becomes the only appearance possible of certainty; it is the only face that allows looking into reality.

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In the heart of this transformation, architecture focuses its view attention in a broader sense, considering the definition of space as only a small part of the assignment to what is called: The construction of ARTIFICIAL ENVIRONMENTS, of the ATMOSPHERE in which the actions of mankind are developed.

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This is a kind of MOBILIZATION OF THE WORLD in which the principal tool is the negotiation between the parts and the OBJECTIVE is the creation of SCENARIOS OF WILLS that will encourage the collective identity.

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In this way, the proposal for the Concello of Lalín oscilates between precision and probability, building an ANTIMONUMENTAL STRUCTURE in which, as in the clouds, each one can guess the changing shapes of the personal references, so that the COLLECTIVE IDENTIFICATION is the result of the diversity of each interpretation: a TECHNOLOGICAL CELTIC VILLAGE, some colored clouds, a civic palimsesto, a patterned fabric, etc.

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An OPEN STRUCTURE is proposed, almost a mathematical field, that establishing a local main behavior system, impacts against the dialogue with the environment in front of indifferent autism, chosing the DISPERSED thing against the compact thing, the TRANSPARENT thing against the opaque thing and the DIFFUSE thing against the limited; finally, a social and architectural structure without any kind of hierarchie.

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All in all, this is a matter of confronting what we think to be with what surrounds us, so that, what is most important is the capacity to multiply, to intensify and to diversify, the relationships between HUMANS and NON-HUMAN, otherwise it is a matter of doing present that we are nothing less but also nothing more, than a small part of a world that turns without stop, tirelessly…

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Credits

Principals-in-charge: Luis M. Mansilla & Emilio Tuñón Álvarez
Location: Lalín (Pontevedra)
Client: Lalín Town Hall
Site area: 6,760 sq m
Total floor area: 2,842 sq m
Building area: 7,200 sq m

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Cost of construction: 15,000,000 euros
Competition team: Andrés Regueiro, Luis Díaz-Mauriño, Carlos Martínez de Albornoz, Anna Partenheimer, María Langarita, Asa Nakano.
Model makers: HCH Models
Competition date: November 2004

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Project team: Andrés Regueiro, Matilde Peralta, María Langarita, Ana del Arenal, Asa Nakano, Bárbara Silva.
Quantity surveyor: Sancho Páramo
Structural engineer: Alfonso Gómez Gaite
Mechanical engineer: Quicler-López ingenieros
Design years: from November 2004 to July 2005

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Construction directors: Emilio Tuñon y Luis M. Mansilla
Construction surveyor: Sancho Páramo
Construction team: Andrés Regueiro, Sara Murado, Carlos Brage, Briony Roberts, Rubén Arend, Nuria Martínez Salas, Coco Castillón, Elke Gmyrek, Carlos Cerezo, Alfonso Gómez Gaite (structural), Quicler-López Ingenieros (mechanical)
General contractor: FCC Construcción
Construction years: from November 2005 to Febraury 2011

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Best case scenario, you design something and become rich and famous for it while you’re still alive. Second best case, you design something and become famous for it after you’re dead, but at least people know your name and your kids can make a bundle suing the pants off of copyright infringers.

Worst case scenario, you design an object that becomes famous, get paid a measly municipal hourly wage for it, and no one knows if you’re alive or dead because no one knows your freaking name in the first place.

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We have a quantity of these original classic street signs now decomissioned from the streets of New York City. Our batch of signs sat in a storeroom and never made it onto the streets – they became surplus in 1999 when the decision was made to replace these NYC icons with an LED graphic version more suited to a culturally diverse populace. Made of cast-aluminium and vandal proof tempered glass, All are in the original NYC yellow. Supplied fitted with completely new circuitry designed to flash at timed intervals, and with new internal E27 bulbholders and braided flex as required. Can be wall mounted or suspended.

Next we’ll be seeing those crosswalk light-changing buttons for pedestrians going on sale. Those should be considerably easier for a reseller to rewire since, as every urbanite knows, those buttons aren’t actually hooked up to anything.

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This Thursday, June 23 at 6:00 pm, Hand-Eye Supply is proud to host Hot One-Inch Action!

The exhibition features the original work of fifty different artists presented on one inch buttons. These one inch buttons are displayed on the wall and the audience is offered the opportunity to buy randomly selected buttons in mixed bags of five for $5. If the bag purchased does not have the desired button, trade with the people around you. How badly do you want that button?! That’s when the “hot action” starts. The evening becomes an interactive party as people barter and trade for the buttons they really want!!

Thursday, June 23rd
6PM PST
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, OR, 97209
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Portland’s Hot One Inch Action features art on 1″ buttons from: APAK, Amy Jenkins, Amy Ruppel, Anna Magruder, Audrey McNamara, Brian Bump, Bryan Sculthorpe, Charlie Alan Kraft, Chris Haberman, Chrissy Ortez, Dan Osterman, Danielle Weiss, David Herrick, Erik Heumiller, Erin Nations, Erinn Hatter, Gabriel Amadeus, Griffon Jillson, Hadley Hutton, Ian Anderson, Jackie Dives, Jackson Smith, James Baker, jennifer mercede, Jenn Woodward, Jesse Narens, Jesse Reno, Kaitlin Sambrooke, Karl Edwards, Kasey Tararuj, Kelly Williams, Klutch, Lida Avery, Martin A. Eggiman Jr, Matt O. Cosby, Melissa Levin, Nathan Parr, Neil M. Perry, Nicole Linde, Randall Foster, Richard Schemmerer, Robert Oreo, Rory Phillips, Santiago Uceda, Sasha, Friedman, SD Elliott, Sean Lanusse, Skye Blue, Tara Stansberry, and Zhoh Autrite Mauw.

Hot One Inch Action is the original, one-night only show of button art and social interaction from Vancouver, BC. Conceived and curated by Jim Hoehnle and Chris Bentzen. Since 2004.

Photos from Hot One Inch Action 2009 by Stephen Chong

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Manhattan is an island flanked by two rivers, but as hot as the summers get, you’d never dream of swimming in either of them. The conventional wisdom is that they’re both polluted and, if the movies are to be believed, lined at the bottom with cement-shoe-wearing mob informers.

That hasn’t stopped designers Dong-Ping Wong of Family and Archie Lee Coates IV and Jeffrey Franklin of PlayLab from starting “+Pool,” an intriguing idea to install a public swimming pool (in Manhattan’s East River on the Brooklyn side, top photo, and the Hudson on the Jersey side, below). The walls of the pool would be constructed of filtration materials that would eliminate the nasties in three stages, blocking out everything from garbage to bacteria.

The most important aspect of + Pool’s design is that it filters river water through the pool’s walls – like a giant strainer dropped into the river. The concentric layers of filtration materials that make up the sides of the pool are designed to remove bacteria, contaminants and odors, leaving only safe and swimmable water that meets city, state and federal standards of quality. This pool will be the first of it’s kind, which is of course very exciting, but really we just want to be able to swim in the river.

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