Voici ce complexe réunissant un marché local ainsi qu’un hôtel de 15 chambres, les 2 parties étant reliées par un atrium dont une zone prévue pour la vente de produits locaux aux références à la tradition japonaise. Située dans la préfecture de Kochi, cette création de Kengo Kuma And Associates se dévoile dans la suite.
News: Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has today been named as the recipient of this year’s Royal Gold Medal for architecture.
Awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects, the medal is presented annually to an architect in recognition of a lifetime’s work and previous recipients include Herman Hertzberger, David Chipperfield and I. M. Pei.
Zumthor, who was also awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2009, is best known for designing the Therme Vals thermal baths in Switzerland and the Kunsthaus Bregenz gallery in Switzerland Austria, where he is currently showing an exhibition of his models.
His first project in the UK was the 2011 summer pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery in London and he is currently working on a hill-top retreat in Devon as part of Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture series.
Zumthor will receive the award from the Queen in a ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London on 6 February 2013.
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Here’s the announcement from the RIBA:
Peter Zumthor to receive the Royal Gold Medal for architecture
The world renowned Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has been named today (Thursday 27 September 2012) as the recipient of one of the world’s most prestigious architecture prizes, the Royal Gold Medal.
Given in recognition of a lifetime’s work, the Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by Her Majesty the Queen and is given to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence “either directly or indirectly on the advancement of architecture”.
Known for running a small yet powerful and uncompromising practice, Peter Zumthor founded his award-winning firm in 1979 in Switzerland. His most celebrated projects include the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, the Therme Vals (thermal baths) in Vals, Switzerland and the Kolumba Art Museum in Cologne. He designed London’s 2011 Serpentine Pavilion and is currently designing a house in Devon for philosopher Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture architect-designed holiday home scheme.
He is exceptionally talented at creating highly atmospheric spaces through his mastery of light and choice of materials. Zumthor’s buildings, such as his small rural chapels and the Thermal Baths at Vals, are an experience for all the senses, with every detail reinforcing the essence of the building and its surroundings.
RIBA President Angela Brady, who chaired the Honours Committee which selected the Royal Gold medal winner said,
“Peter Zumthor’s work renews the link with a tradition of modern architecture that emphasises place, community and material practice. His writings dwell upon the experience of designing, building and inhabitation while his buildings are engaged in a rich dialogue with architectural history. I will be delighted to present him with the Royal Gold Medal.”
Peter Zumthor will be presented with the Royal Gold Medal on Wednesday 6 February 2013 at a ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, during which the 2013 RIBA International and Honorary Fellowships will also be presented.
This year’s RIBA Honours Committee was chaired by RIBA President Angela Brady with architects Peter Clegg, Yvonne Farrell, Professor Adrian Forty, Niall McLaughlin and Sarah Wigglesworth.
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« Pop up Hair Salon » est le nom de cet espace conçu par Zaha Hadid Architects en collaboration avec la marque Fudge Hair à l’occasion de la London Design Festival. Dans cette boutique temporaire, chaque chaise pour coiffer est placée au milieu de la pièce définie par des contours polygonaux au design très réussi.
Stray balls aren’t a problem on the rooftop tennis court of this sports centre in western Poland by PL.architekci, thanks to the cage that covers the building (+ slideshow).
“The plot was too small to locate a tennis court on the ground, so we decided to put it on the roof,” architect Bartek Bajon told Dezeen. “We designed an eight-metre-high cage to protect people on the ground from falling tennis balls.”
The metal cage wraps the facade and roof of the two-storey building, creating the framework for a row of shutters that can be fastened shut across the glazed elevations.
Inside the centre, a two-storey climbing wall surrounded by a cafe and reception area sits in the crook of the L-shaped plan.
The climbing wall can be seen from almost every other part of the building, which includes bowling alleys, squash courts, a gym and a children’s play area.
Faceted staircases lead up to the rooftop tennis court, which Bajon says offers “picturesque views of the old town, park and lake”.
Other sports centres on Dezeen include a timber-clad football training centre and a sports hall with a rainbow-coloured facade.
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Photography is by Bartosz Makowski.
Here’s some text from the architects:
Fala Park
Fala Park is a sports and recreation centre situated in the small and picturesque town of Wolsztyn, Poland, famous as the location of a locomotive roundhouse.
The new centre has been built on a former brownfield site bordering a historic park and offering views to a nearby lake.
Our intention was to take full advantage of the sites location by creating visual connections from the building to its attractive surroundings with the main internal spaces requiring natural light having views towards the lake.
A rooftop tennis court – Poland’s first – offers users an exciting platform to admire the far-reaching panorama of the town’s historic church towers and dense rooftops.
The form and massing of the building is derived from the spatial requirements of the sporting functions within.
Although initially Fala Park was supposed to be enclosed, we persuaded the investors to keep it open and welcoming; creating a new, inviting and energetic public space that seeks to strengthen the connections between the town, the park and the lake.
Along with the rooftop tennis court, Fala Park accommodates: 4 bowling alleys, 2 squash courts, a full height climbing wall, a gym with spin and fitness studios, a children’s play area, a mini-golf course, a cafe, and bike and Segway hire.
The building has been wrapped with semi-translucent, vertical brise-soleil panels arranged to create an expressive modular façade whilst reducing solar gain. Inside, contemporary and vivid interiors have been used to enable easy orientation within the entwining yet distinctive buildings functions. Bright accent colours and clear graphics and signage were used throughout to appeal to users of all ages.
A striking, green climbing wall, which can be seen throughout the building dominates the main interior space and acts as a notional ‘core’ and way-finding device for users.
The climbing walls distinctive form is also playfully expressed in the treatment of the stairs, furniture and other elements of the building. Even though Fala Park was completed on a very tight budget (jointly founded by EU grants and private equity) we believe we have succeeded in delivering a contemporary, playful and contextual building.
Ground floor plan- click above for larger image
First floor plan- click above for larger image
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News: Barclays Center, a 19,000-seat indoor sports arena designed by SHoP Architects and AECOM, opens to the public in Brooklyn this weekend.
The arena will provide the first Brooklyn home for basketball team The Brooklyn Nets and a venue for music concerts at the major intersection between Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues.
The completed building was delivered by design-and-build contractors The Hunt Construction Group, with a ribbon-like steel facade designed by New York studio SHoP Architects and a 19,000 seat arena planned by AECOM.
Frank Gehry was the first architect to work on the project, but developer Bruce Ratner dropped the original design in 2009 in favour of a cheaper alternative. Gehry’s masterplan also included sixteen residential towers, which are still proposed but not yet constructed.
Following the Barclays Center’s inauguration on Friday, journalists have had mixed reactions to the scheme. In the New Yorker, critic Alexandra Lange describes the building as an “alien presence” that is ”big, dark, and without scale,” while New York Times reporter Liz Robbins writes that “the arena stands as an island, a reminder of what is missing.”
Meanwhile, New York Magazine‘s Justin Davidson speaks favourably about the building, calling it ”a great, tough-hided beast of a building” that is “juiced, genial, and aggressive all at once.”
The Barclays Center will officially open on Friday with the first of eight sold-out concerts by rapper Jay-Z.
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Photography is by Bruce Damonte.
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News: architecture critic Rowan Moore has labelled Renzo Piano’s Shard skyscraper as a “serious failure of planning” and described claims that the Olympics will regenerate east London as “bullsh*t”.
Moore, architecture critic of the Observer, said the £12 billion spent on the London 2012 Olympics had created a “big buzz” but criticised the organisers of the games for justifying the cost by claiming they would regenerate east London.
“The deal with the Olympics ought to be really simple,” Moore (above) told Dezeen during a filmed interview yesterday. “It’s this very big amazing event which, if it goes well, gives the host country a big buzz, as happened with the London Olympics, and for that you have to pay £12bn, or whatever the real cost is. And that’s almost the beginning and the end of it. If you wanted to regenerate east London there’d be much, much easier ways to do it than holding the Olympics, and much cheaper.”
He added: “But the people who promote the Olympics find it hard to admit that. They say it’s about regeneration, it’s about boosting sporting legacy, it’s about boosting business, it’s sustainable. All these things are absolute bullshit.”
Moore, former director of the Architecture Foundation and editor of Blueprint magazine, made the statements as part of a wide-ranging interview with Dezeen to coincide with the publication of his new book, Why We Build (below). The book explores the forces – including hope, power, money and sex – that drive the creation of architecture.
“On the Olympics site they’re going to build about 12,000 homes and I think they’re going to make about a similar number of jobs,” Moore added. “If you’re really saying you have to hold the Olympic Games in order to achieve the equivalent of a middle-sized market town in east London, that’s just daft. That’s not how you go around regenerating things.”
More than 11,000 homes will be built on the site of the Olympic Park in the next 20 years, according to plans set out by the London Legacy Development Corporation, with the first new development made up of apartments converted from the Athletes’ Village.
Moore added: “I think they’ve done a better job than most previous Olympics, but it’s really up in the air what happens next. It could be a great model for how to improve areas. I mean, people in Stratford say it’s given them pride in the place, so that’s great. The big question is whether we get the usual housebuilders moving in and doing their usual product and essentially creating private enclaves.”
Moore also discussed The Shard (above), the 300 metre high skyscraper by Italian architect Renzo Piano, which opened above London Bridge Station in July this year.
“The contribution of it to its immediate surroundings is pretty minimal,” Moore said. “You can be ten feet away from The Shard and if you’re looking away from it you wouldn’t know it was there.
“The Shard is clearly an icon, and it is very clearly a product of the last 10 years, in that it is by a famous architect, it’s a striking shape, it’s funded by Qatari money, it’s the sort of speculative building that was made possible by a planning culture in London that was very developer-friendly, very much about attracting investment.”
Moore criticised the way the tower fails to interact with, or benefit, the surrounding area. “[It] is sort of amazing, and a serious failure of planning, that you could put that much investment into a place and not have a positive idea about what the whole place is going to be.”
In an interview Dezeen published with Renzo Piano earlier this year, the architect claimed The Shard was designed to be “quite gentle”. “I don’t think arrogance will be a character of this building,” said Piano. “I think its presence will be quite subtle. Sharp but subtle.”
Despite its failings, Moore admits the skyscraper has already become a popular addition to the skyline. “The principles behind it are all wrong, but it has captured people’s imagination and it has become part of the mental furniture of London in a way that I think is positive,” he said.
“Also The Shard just proves that this stuff is going to go on forever – we’re always going to have Shards, always going to have Burj Khalifas, always going to have Chrysler Buildings, so there’s always going to be big money and it’s always going to build big buildings.”
You can read an extract from Moore’s new book, Why We Build, in our story published last month. The story also contains details of a competition to win a copy of the book, which closes tomorrow. A movie and transcript of the interview with Moore will be available soon.
Moore told Dezeen that the book explores “the interaction between architecture and human emotions and desires” and the failure of architects to understand how people actually inhabit buildings, and also draws attention to those architects who Moore believes “allow people to finish the story” of a building, such as the Brazilian modernist Lina Bo Bardi.
Dezeen’s coverage of The Shard includes an interview with Renzo Piano and a movie of the building’s construction.
Our London 2012 Olympics coverage includes Olympic architecture, Thomas Heatherwick’s Olympic cauldron, reports on Paralympic design and our own medals for the best loved Olympic designs.
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La ville de Barcelone a proposé à Moment Factory de penser un mapping de 15 minutes sur la façade de la basilique de la Nativité de la Sagrada Familia. Le résultat est un hommage multimédia à l’une des églises les plus vénérées mondialement. Le spectacle est tout simplement magnifique, à découvrir dans la suite.
Fubiz a le plaisir de vous présenter l’Issue 14 de son programme hebdomadaire Fubiz TV. Au sommaire cette semaine, nous avons sélectionné le meilleur de l’actualité créative et nous avons rencontré Jérôme Delormas, le directeur de la Gaîté Lyrique à Paris. Une interview à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
This holiday cabin in Sweden by architect Mikael Bergquist is clad with untreated timber that will fade to grey as time passes (+ slideshow).
Surrounded by woodland, the house is located near the western seafront and provides a retreat for a family that lives in England.
The building has a gabled roof and overhanging eaves, which reference the traditional local architecture.
“The traditional Swedish farm house is deeply rooted, almost as an icon,” Bergquist told Dezeen. ”I wanted to combine this typology with a modern way of living, in close contact with nature.”
A large living and dining room is located at one end of the house and has sliding glass walls that open it out to a surrounding deck.
See more Swedish houses here, including one with a bare wooden interior.
Floor plan – click above for larger image
Photography is by Mikael Olsson.
Section – click above for larger image
Project details:
Name: Summer House M
Location: Bohuslän, The West Coast, Sweden
Year of completion: 2012
Architect: M.B.A. Mikael Bergquist
Landscape: Per Axelsson
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Floating Home est un projet de maison flottante sobrement appelé « Inachus », en référence au dieu fleuve de la mythologie grecque. Proposée dans le cadre du London Design Festival par Sanitov studio, cette installation a été pensé dans le respect du développement durable. Plus d’images dans la suite.
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