May 10
Segel-Pavillon
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eyecatcher – pavilion of stretch fabric for trade fair exhibitions and other events
May 10
Winy Maas of MVRDV receives Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur
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Dezeenwire: Dutch architect Winy Maas of MVRDV has been awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, the highest decoration in France.
Maas is involved with the future planning of greater Paris, large scale urban plans for Bordeaux and Caen, and various architecture projects in Paris and Dijon. See the recently completed project Le Monolithe in Lyon in our earlier Dezeen story.
The award was presented by the French Ambassador to the Netherlands at the French residence in The Hague.
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Here’s some more information from MVRDV:
Winy Maas receives French Legion of Honor
Winy Maas has received the highest French decoration Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by the French Ambassador to the Netherlands Mr. Jean-François Blarel at the French residence in The Hague. MVRDV is strongly engaged in France and is part of Atelier du Grand Paris, the think tank concerned with the future planning of Greater Paris.
“Winy Maas and MVRDV are representatives of the high quality of contemporary Dutch architecture.” states the French Embassy, “the work is characterized by experiment, innovation and sustainability. The style is surprising and the materialization is unusual.”
According to the embassy MVRDV knows how to evoke “enthusiasm for architecture with stakeholders and large audiences. Their daring projects distinguished by understanding of contemporary needs respect the demands of the present-day developments with flexibility and innovation in regards to the issues the modern metropolis faces.
MVRDV is strongly engaged in France in a range of projects: The participation in Atelier du Grand Paris, with large scale urban plans for Bordeaux and Caen and a number of architecture projects in Paris and Dijon, among which is a zero energy office building in Paris, ZAC Gare de Rungis. Le Monolithe, a mixed-use building in Lyon was recently completed.
The Legion of Honor, is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, on 19 May 1802. The Order is the highest decoration in France and was in the past awarded to among others Karl Lagerfeld, Anna Wintour, Ingrid Betancourt and Robert Redford.
May 10
University of Iowa Thinking Big for Rebuilding Efforts, Plans for Mecca of Modernism
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Never mind that they’re still struggling through the now years-old battle with the Federal Emergency Management Agency over where, how, and if they’re able to build or rebuild a new Museum of Art structure, and don’t get too bogged down by the news of rapidly rising cost estimates, because the University of Iowa is moving full steam ahead in their attempt to massively reconfigure and renovate their campus following the disastrous floods of 2008 that damaged many of its buildings. One structure in particular, the Hancher Auditorium, is the subject of a recent report filed by the university, wherein they describe to FEMA what they’d like done with Hancher’s replacement. Seemingly seeing this as an opportunity to bring something more modern to the campus, the school has sited buildings like Daniel Libeskind‘s pointy Denver Art Museum and Santiago Calatrava‘s swoopy Atlanta Symphony Center (yes, “pointy” and “swoopy” are technical terms used throughout the industry). As we personally had previously attended many performances in the pre-flood, old Hancher, and definitely appreciated Max Abramovitz‘s classically modern 1972 building, we’re excited by the prospects of something a little more up to date. And they certainly have the right talent for it, considering they’ve commissioned Pelli Clarke Pelli for the job. Here are a few more of their reference points:
UI officials have visited several facilities for research and guidance on the Hancher project, including the Overture Center for the Arts in downtown Madison, Wis.; several large and small facilities in Minneapolis, including the Guthrie Theater, the Walker Center and the Ford Center; the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Mesa, Calif.; and the Disney Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles designed by Frank Gehry, who designed UI’s Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories.
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May 07
Garden of 10,000 Bridges by West 8
Posted in: West 8, Xi'an
This park in Xi’an, China, by international architects West 8 recently opened to the public and contains red bridges offering vantage points.
The Garden of 10,000 Bridges actually contains only five bridges, which are all part of a winding trail that snakes through the grasses.
The project was designed as part of the Xi’an International Horticultural Exposition 2011.
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Here is some information from the architects:
On the Xi’an International Horticultural Exhibition the West 8 designed Garden of 10,000 Bridges has opened to the public.
As both a distinct sense of enclosure and vantage points are provided, the Garden plays with the sensation of surprise. In the design advantage is taken of the strategic, central position of the plot, and views to other parts of the exhibition are integrated with those to the features of the park and surrounding landscape.
Gardens tell a story. They combine poetry and narrative. The Garden of 10,000 Bridges represents the human life; the path of people’s lifetime, which is a route of uncertainty and burden, but also of highlights and elation. The garden design takes you on this walk of life as a meandering, winding trail – continuous and like a labyrinth. It lets you find your way through nature and takes you over 10,000 bridges.
The Xi’an International Horticulture Exhibition 2011 is open until 22 October 2011.
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| Cirkelbroen by Olafur Eliasson | River Soar bridge by Explorations & Buro Happold | Castleford Bridge by McDowell+Benedetti |
May 07
This cast-concrete house in Almelo, in the Netherlands by Dutch practice Van der Jeugd Architecten has balconies that appear as extrusions of the walls.
Cut-aways from the rectangular box shape of House Meijer create window openings, as well as a lightwell in the roof.
All drainage, piping and wiring and wiring have been concealed in order to maintain the minimalist appearance of the three-storey house.
Photography is by Ruud van der Koelen.
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These details are from the architects:
House Meijer
Modest in situ cast-concrete house in Almelo. Striking are the strategically positioned wall and roof openings, which optimize the view from the house and establish a special lightfall in the dwelling. In addition, the house has an internal logic, combining intimacy and spaciousness in a remarkable way.
The house is located in the newly developed residential area ‘Hegeman’ in Almelo. Within this plan, 9 lots where available for free sale.
These plots are well positioned within in the district: adjacent to the canal, with a clear view of woods and meadows. Houses on these lots should to be unique and innovative, with great architectural quality.
The plot acquired by the client is located along a green plot which is kept open, creating a vista from the residential area behind the plots to the surrounding landscape of hedgerows, fields and canals.
During the first visit by the client to the architect, they proved very taken with the in situ-cast concrete work office of the architect. This led us to design a concrete dwelling: spatially strong, with an aesthetic minimalism put through to the last detail.
Strategically rainwater drains, piping and electrical wiring were eliminated from sight, resulting in an almost Spartan and graphical appearance.
Knowledge and experience of in situ-cast concrete were used in both design and building process. This has led to a series of thoughtful and ingenious details. Also the building process was well controlled and directed by Van der Jeugd Architecten.
The dwelling was tailored to the needs of the client and the specificity of the location. When organizing the agreed housing program, the particular views and the specific light fall were of importance. This has led to a three-storey dwelling house and four specific spatial levels.
The design of the ground floor (split level) is such that a series of area’s were created with its own character, spatially and visually in contact with other area’s: intimacies with a minimum of visual and spatial separation.
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Much care was taken to the staircases and outdoor spaces. Daylight openings are strategically positioned in the house, optimizing the experience of light and space. The balconies and outdoor spaces are positioned in such way that all the interesting views can be experienced, and are important in the appearance of the house.
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Meyer House is more than one dwelling. It is a modest but extremely life-proof living machine, which actively enriches the everyday experiences of its residents, increases the quality of the site and particularizes a sense of space.
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Data:
Architect: Van der Jeugd Architecten
Designteam: Paul van der Jeugd, Ruud van der Koelen, Mirjam Wiggers
Location: City of Almelo, the Netherlands
Project area: 370 sqm
Costs: €475.000
Project year: 2008
Key Materials/products: In Situ cast Concrete + Aluminum panels
Software used: Google Sketchup + Vectorworks
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| House A by Takeshi Hamada | Hiedaira House by Thomas Daniell Studio | Knot by Apollo Architects & Associates |
May 06
These conceptual images by Spanish studio Espai MGR show impossible Lego structures filling vacant neighbourhood plots in Valencia.
The aim of the project, named Habit Makes Us Blind, is to draw attention to the problem of unused spaces in urban environments.
The architects intend the project to promote the spaces for recreational use.
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This information is from the architects:
Habit make us blind
Day by day we pass by vacant lots downtown. Just like an invisible metastasis generated in the heart of the city and extending to all its arteries. Neighbourhoods that, although having a huge potential, have more and more unused spaces, a fact that does not at all promote a correct sustainable development. Years have made us immune to this problem. It’s a landscape we already recognise as typical of the central neighbourhoods in Valencia.
Sometimes, the tourists are the ones who open our eyes by mentioning or questioning whether this situation is normal. On other occasions, we pay attention to it for a moment only because the secondary problems that those spaces imply affect us directly. But in most of the cases, they are only a part of our way. Like a gruyere cheese where the rats block any possibilities of reconstruction, while staring at us, far away from its holes.
This photographic work aims at calling people’s attention, just like painting those isolated walls yellow would. It demands the recreational use of those vacant lots through the eyes of a child, by filling them with impossible constructions, surrealistic installations in line with the problem. A children’s game as a neighbour’s shout, demanding the right to take part in their city.
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| Frank Lloyd Wright by Adam Reed Tucker & LEGO | LEGO Towers by Bjarke Ingels Group | Urban Beads by MVRDV |
May 06
Dezeen Screen: in this fourth movie filmed by Dezeen in 2009 at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Architecture Biennale, designers Joseph Grima and Jeffrey Johnson explain their urban farm project Landgrab City. Watch the movie »
May 06
The Souk, Abu Dhabi Central Market by Foster + Partners
Posted in: shopping centres, United Arab Emirates
Foster + Partners have completed a new shopping centre that combines high-end boutiques with independent local food and craft markets on the site of a historic city marketplace in Abu Dhabi.
The new Souk Market has been designed as a sequence of courtyards and alleys, integrating balconies and colonnades.
Sliding roofs and walls enable controlled ventilation of the market and patterned stained glass windows mark the entrances.
Photography is by Nigel Young, Foster + Partners, apart from where stated.
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Photograph above is by Irfan Naqi
These details are from Foster + Partners:
Aldar Central Market, Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2006-2011
Abu Dhabi’s historic Central Market is to be transformed into a dynamic new quarter with markets, shops, offices, apartments and hotels. One of the oldest sites in the city, Central Market will be a reinterpretation of the traditional market place and a new civic heart for Abu Dhabi. The project comprises a combination of lower-rise, ecologically sensitive levels of retail, roof gardens – forming a new public park – and three towers, with generous underground parking. Pushed to the corners of the site to maximise the ground plane, the cluster of towers creates a striking new urban landmark.
Like a modern version of the souk, the new Central Market will be a city in microcosm. It will unite high end retail and luxury goods shops with individual courtyards and alleys, together with food markets and craft-based trades specific to the region. Avoiding the generic feel of the universal shopping mall, the scheme will fuse the local vernacular with global aspirations.
While the towers relate to distance and skyline, the souk and the lower levels are scaled to the pedestrian. An intimate sequence of streets, alleys, courtyards, balconies and colonnades dissolve barriers between inside and outside, with flexible sliding roofs and walls to enable control of internal environments, and to maximise potential for natural ventilation. Like a patchwork quilt of gridded modules of varying height, the scheme is a highly articulated composition that bridges and unifies two city blocks
Client: Aldar Properties
Consultants: Halvorson and Partners, EC Harris International, BDSP Partnership, Emmer Pfenninger and Partners, Lerch Bates and Associates, Systematica, Warrington Fire
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| Barceló Temporary Market by Nieto Sobejano | Masdar Institute campus by Foster + Partners | Masdar City Centre by LAVA |
May 06
Zaha Hadid – Guangzhou Opera
Posted in: GuangzhouL’Opéra de Guangzhou a été pensé et conçu par Zaha Hadid Architects, dans la province de Guangdong. Cet impressionnant bâtiment abrite un théâtre de 1800 places, un espace annexe, des salles de répétition et un hall d’entrée. Un lieu culturel à découvrir en images dans la suite.
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May 05
Une Architecture at the Mobile Art Pavilion by Zaha Hadid
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An exhibition of work by London architect Zaha Hadid has opened inside her Mobile Art Pavilion (see our earlier story), which has found its permanent home in Paris having toured New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong since 2008.
The pavilion will remain outside the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris and the inaugural exhibition in this location opened at the end of April.
The exhibition, called Une Architecture, includes architectural models, paintings and projections of work produced by Zaha Hadid Architects in recent years.
The exhibition continues until 30 October 2011.
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The following information is from the architects:
Zaha Hadid une architecture
April 29 – October 30
On 28 April, the exhibition designed by Zaha Hadid inaugurates The Mobile Art Pavilion, a new arts venue installed in front of the Institut du Monde Arabe.
Created by Iraqi born British architect Zaha Hadid for CHANEL in 2007 and commissioned by Karl Lagerfeld, the Mobile Art Pavilion’s opening exhibition showcases a selection of work by the 2004 Pritzker Prize laureate Zaha Hadid, designer of some of the world’s most highly acclaimed projects.
A genuine immersion into the architect’s formal and conceptual repertoire, this exhibition of Hadid’s work is presented within its own architecture.
Translating the intellectual and physical into the sensual and using a wide range of media, the Mobile Art Pavilion unfolds through spatial sequences which engage the visitor in unique and unexpected environments.
The Mobile Art Pavilion, donated by CHANEL to the Institut du monde arabe, will allow the institute to further develop its cultural programmes in the field of contemporary creation.
Mobile Art Pavillon: Historic
“Zaha Hadid” will be the first exhibition held inside the Mobile Art Pavilion since the installation of the pavilion in front of the Institut du monde arabe. CHANEL donated the pavilion to the Institut du monde arabe at the beginning of 2011.
It had previously travelled to Hong Kong, Tokyo and New York since 2007. It will now have a permanent location at the IMA, where it will be used to host exhibitions in line with the centre’s policy of showcasing talent from Arab countries.
Zaha Hadid: About Mobile Art
“I think through our architecture, we can give people a glimpse of another world, and enthuse them, make them excited about ideas. Our architecture is intuitive, radical, international and dynamic. We are concerned with constructing buildings that evoke original experiences, a kind of strangeness and newness that is comparable to the experience of going to a new country. The Mobile Art Pavilion follows these principles of inspiration.” states Zaha Hadid.
Arousing one’s curiosity is a constant theme in the work of Zaha Hadid. The Mobile Art Pavilion is a step in the evolution of Hadid’s architectural language that generates a sculptural sensuality with a coherent formal logic. This new architecture flourishes via the new digital modelling tools that augment the design process with techniques of continuous fluidity.
Zaha Hadid explains this process, “The complexity and technological advances in digital imaging software and construction techniques have made the architecture of the Mobile Art Pavilion possible. It is an architectural language of fluidity and nature, driven by new digital design and manufacturing processes which have enabled us to create the Pavilion’s totally organic forms – instead of the serial order of repetition that marks the architecture of the industrial 20th Century.
Design of Mobile Art
The Mobile Art Pavilion which has been conceived through a system of natural organisation, is also shaped by the functional considerations of the exhibition. However, these further determinations remain secondary and precariously dependent on the overriding formal language of the Pavilion. An enigmatic strangeness has evolved between the Pavilion’s organic system of logic and these functional adaptations – arousing the visitor’s curiosity even further.
In creating the Mobile Art Pavilion, Zaha Hadid has developed the fluid geometries of natural systems into a continuum of fluent and dynamic space – where oppositions between exterior and interior, light and dark, natural and artificial landscapes are synthesised. Lines of energy converge within the Pavilion, constantly redefining the quality of each exhibition space whilst guiding movement through the exhibition.
Content
The exhibition thematically explores a series of research agendas conducted by Zaha Hadid Architects in recent years. Different media is used to show the work; architectural models, silver paintings and projections. A variety of projects from all over the world will be shown, these will include: the Soho Central Business District in Beijing, the Spiralling Tower for the University Campus in Barcelona, the Guggenheim project in Singapore, the recently completed CGMCMA Tower in Marseille and the Pierres Vives building of the department de l’Herault in Montpellier, currently in construction.
The exhibition will also showcase architectural projects from the Arab world such as the Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre in the United Arab Emirates, the Nile Tower in Cairo Egypt, the Signature Towers in Dubai and the Rabat Tower in Morocco. Furthermore the exhibition showcases Zaha Hadid Architects’ design research within the parametric paradigm. The parametric towers research project aims to develop a conceptual framework for the design of a prototype tower to be used as the basis for a set of parametric tools that can be applied to a multitude of different specific conditions.
Individual elements such as massing, skin, core, void, and structure are modulated individually and in concert. The final result is a fully malleable system that can differentiate families and fields of towers in response to user input or environmental considerations. Applications of the research into architectural practice are exemplified via a series of Tower competition entries on large urban scales.
The visitor is invited to experience the work of Zaha Hadid Architects on three different levels, by discovering the Mobile Art pavilion (building), viewing the exhibition design (scenography) and seeing the work of the practice (exhibits).
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| Rabat Grand Theatre by Zaha Hadid Architects | Zaha Hadid and Suprematism in Zurich | Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum by Zaha Hadid |
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