Découverte du projet de motion-design « New York Biotopes » dans le cadre du travail de fin d’étude de Lena Steinkühler. Avec des manipulations d’images très réussies dans toute la ville de New York (Manhattan) qui se métamorphose sous l’effet d’une végétation étrange. L’ensemble est à découvrir en vidéo HD dans la suite.
Coup de coeur pour le nouveau court-métrage d’animation de Disney. Nommé à l’Oscar du meilleur court-métrage, cette vidéo ‘Paperman’ nous propose de suivre l’histoire entre un homme et une femme réalisée par John Kahrs. Une magnifique création en noir et blanc à découvrir dans son intégralité.
Oiio Architecture Office of New York and Athens has come up with a concept to extend Frank’s Lloyd Wright’s famous Guggenheim Museum in New York by extending its spiralling form up into the sky.
“What if we decided we needed a little more of Guggenheim?” question the architects, whose plans show a structure with almost three times as many floors as the iconic museum that was designed by Wright during the 1940s.
The tapered extension would continue the path of the Guggenheim’s ramped rotunda gallery through an additional thirteen floors, finishing with a complete circular floor on the uppermost level. The domed glass roof would be removed from its current position and reconstructed over the new roof.
Above: proposed floor plans
Oiio Architecture Office names the project Guggenheim Extension Story, as a reference to the unlikelihood that any extension to the museum would ever really take place.
Above: proposed section
“Guggenheim museum has become so iconic, so emblematic and hermetic in our minds that it can no longer be touched by architects!” say the team, before adding: “Even if its own creator were to propose an alternation of its form, New Yorkers would suddenly feel as if they have lost a dear old friend.”
Above: proposed elevation
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened to the public in 1959 and houses a collection of impressionist, modern and contemporary art. Another Guggenheim by architect Frank Gehry was completed in Bilbao, Spain, in the 1990s.
Above: concept diagrams
See more stories about museums and galleries on Dezeen, including the recently completed Louvre Lens by SANAA and Imrey Culbert.
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These new shots by photographer Ty Cole document the scene at Louis Kahn’s Four Freedoms Park in New York, which opened to the public in autumn 2012 almost 40 years after it was designed (+ slideshow).
American architect Louis Kahn was appointed to design the park in 1973 to commemorate the life and work of President Roosevelt, whose seminal Four Freedoms speech in 1941 called for freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear.
Stretching out across the East River at the southernmost tip of Welfare Island, the park was envisioned as a triangular plain that directs a forced perspective towards a statue of the then president.
The architect died shortly after completing the design and funding issues prevented construction for another 38 years, during which time the island was renamed Roosevelt Island. In 2010, as part of the mayor’s plans to develop the area into a new residential community, Kahn’s plans were put back into action.
The completed park opened to the public on 24 October 2012, with a bronze bust of Roosevelt created by artist Jo Davidson as its focal point.
A granite terrace sits beyond the artwork, creating a contemplative space that Kahn referred to as “The Room”.
Five copper beech trees mark the entrance to the park, while two rows of linden trees line the edge of the triangular central lawn.
Louis Kahn is revered as one the greatest architects of the twentieth century. Four Freedoms Park is his final work, but his best-known designs include the Phillips Exeter Academy Library in New Hampshire and the Kimbell Art Museum in Texas.
In 2008 we featured new photographs of Kahn’s 1961 project Esherick House, which was just about to be sold at auction.
See more photography by Ty Cole on his website.
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News: plans for an apartment block of stackable modules have won a design competition for “micro-units” to help solve the shortage of small homes in Manhattan (+ slideshow).
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg named American studio nARCHITECTS as the winner of the adAPT NYC competition, which called for designs made up of only one- and two-person homes for a pilot project on a site in Kips Bay.
Zoning regulations will be waived to allow construction of the apartment block. “The growth rate for one- and two-person households greatly exceeds that of households with three or more people, and addressing that housing challenge requires us to think creatively and beyond our current regulations,” said Bloomberg.
nARCHITECTS teamed up with Monadnock Development LLC and the Actors Fund Housing Development Corporation to design My Micro NY, a building of 55 apartments with 40 percent at affordable rents.
Modules will be hoisted into place over a period of just two weeks and the exterior of the building will be clad in graduated shades of brickwork.
Each residence will feature a compact kitchen with a cooker, fridge, pull-out pantry and space for microwave, plus a combined living and sleeping area and a bathroom. Storage areas are also included and comprise a loft and closet.
As well as apartments, the building will contain a laundry room, bicycle storage, a gym and a series of communal lounge and multi-purpose areas. A roof terrace on the eighth floor will provide space for outdoor events and activities.
“We’re thrilled at the chance of designing a housing prototype that will give New Yorkers in small spaces a sense of living in a larger social fabric” said nARCHITECTS’ principal Eric Bunge.
Construction is expected to begin at the end of 2013 and more schemes will be initiated in the future, as part of the mayor’s bid to provide 165,000 new homes for New Yorkers by 2014.
Above: apartment concept – click above for larger image
The adAPT NYC competition was launched in July 2012 and San Francisco city chiefs have also since voted to allow the development of “micro-apartments”.
Kent Larson, director of the Changing Places Group at MIT Media Lab, doesn’t think that micro-apartments are the answer to the housing crisis in US cities. “The problem is young people don’t really like these tiny little apartments with a pull-out sofa,” he told Dezeen last month.
Above: site plan – click above for larger image
See more stories about housing on Dezeen, including proposals for pop-up housing in garages.
Here’s a project description from the architects:
nARCHITECTS’ design for My Micro NY, in collaboration with Monadnock Development and the Actors Fund Housing Development Corporation, is the winning proposal in the adAPT NYC competition sponsored by the NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD). Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and HPD Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua announced today that the My Micro NY development team has been chosen through a competitive Request for Proposals, which received the largest response to date for an HPD housing project.
The adAPT NYC competition was created as part of Mayor Bloomberg’s New Housing Marketplace Plan to introduce additional choices within New York City’s housing market to accommodate the city’s growing population of one- and two-person households. The City’s housing codes have not kept up with its changing population, and currently do not allow an entire building of micro-units. Mayor Bloomberg will waive certain zoning regulations at the Kips Bay site to allow the My Micro NY pilot project to be developed.
nARCHITECTS’ ambitious proposal creates 55 new micro-units utilizing modular building construction that could be replicable in future developments. The project focuses on quality and livability through features that highlight the use of space, light, and air, such as 9′-10″ floor-to-ceiling heights and juliet balconies. By incorporating setbacks as a governing design logic, My Micro NY could in principle be adapted to many sites, at a range of heights and floor area ratios, and at nearly any location in a block. The 250 to 370 square-foot micro-units achieve affordability for low- and middle-income households without any direct City subsidy or financing, in part through its use of modular design to significantly shorten project schedule and save on financing and conventional construction costs. It is expected that the project will complete the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure in the fall with construction beginning at the end of 2013.
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News: American studio CODA has won this year’s MoMA/PS1 Young Architects Program competition and will insert a wall made from skateboard offcuts into the courtyard of the PS1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York.
The Young Architects Program is an annual contest organised by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) that invites emerging studios to propose a temporary installation that can host the summer events of the PS1 Contemporary Art Centre.
CODA‘s winning proposal, entitled Party Wall, is for a linear structure that will incorporate events spaces, seating areas, stages and projections areas, as well as pools of water that will function as “cooling stations”.
The installation will have a steel frame weighted down by a system of water-filled polyester pillows. More water will stream along the top of the wall, turning the structure into a large fountain, and clouds of mist will be generated from the water to cool down visitors during the hot summer season.
The interlocking cladding panels will be made from wooden offcuts donated by a skateboard manufacturer and some of them will be removable and used to build tables and benches.
“CODA’s proposal was selected because of its clever identification and use of locally available resources – the waste products of skateboard-making – to make an impactful and poetic architectural statement within MoMA PS1’s courtyard,” said MoMA curator Pedro Gadanho. “Party Wall arches over the various available spaces, activating them for different purposes, while making evident that even the most unexpected materials can always be reinvented to originate architectural form and its ability to communicate with the public.”
PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach added: “CODA developed an outstanding, iconic design that will support the many social functions connected to our large-scale group exhibition EXPO 1: New York, while creating a unique and stunning object for our outdoor galleries.”
CODA is an experimental design and research studio led by architect and university professor Caroline O’Donnell.
Party Wall is set to open in Long Island City at the end of June.
At Ps1 last year HWKN created a giant blue spiky sculpture that helped to clean the air, which has since been relocated to Abu Dhabi. Other installations at the gallery include a twisted rope canopy and a set of swinging poles.
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Here’s the full press release:
CODA selected as winner of the 2013 Young Architects Program AT MoMA PS1 in New York
CODA’S Party Wall to Provide the Setting for the Warm Up Summer Music Series in the Courtyard of MoMA PS1
The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 announce CODA (Caroline O’Donnell, Ithaca, NY) as the winner of the annual Young Architects Program (YAP) in New York. Now in its 14th edition, the Young Architects Program at MoMA and MoMA PS1 is committed to offering emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects, challenging each year’s winners to develop creative designs for a temporary, outdoor installation at MoMA PS1 that provides shade, seating, and water. The architects must also work within guidelines that address environmental issues, including sustainability and recycling. CODA, drawn from among five finalists, will design a temporary urban landscape for the 2013 Warm Up summer music series in MoMA PS1’s outdoor courtyard.
The winning project, Party Wall, opening at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City in late June, is a pavilion and flexible experimental space that uses its large-scale, linear form to provide shade for the Warm Up crowds, in addition to other functions.
The porous façade is affixed to a tall self-supporting steel frame that is balanced in place with large fabric containers filled with water, and clad with a screen of interlocking wooden elements donated by Comet, an Ithaca-based manufacturer of eco-friendly skateboards.
The lower portion of the Party Wall’s façade is capable of shedding its “exterior,” as 120 panels can be detached from the structure and used as benches and communal tables during Warm Up and other diverse events and programs such as lectures, classes, performances, and film screenings.
A shallow stage of reclaimed wood weaves around Party Wall’s base to create a series of micro-stages for performances of varying types and scales. At various locations under the structure, pools of water serve as refreshing cooling stations that can also be covered to provide additional staging space or a shaded area from the direct sunlight.
Party Wall’s steel-angle structure is ballasted by water-filled “pillows” made of polyester base fabric that will be lit at night to produce a luminous effect. Party Wall acts as an aqueduct by carrying a stream of water along the top of the structure. The water is projected from the structure, via a pressure-tank, into a fountain that feeds a misting station and a series of pools.
The other finalists for this year’s MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program were Leong Architects (New York, NY, Dominic Leong, Chris Leong); Moorhead & Moorhead (New York, NY, Granger Moorhead, Robert Moorehead); TempAgency (Charlottesville, VA, and Brooklyn, NY, Leena Cho, Rychlee Espinosa, Matthew Jull, Seth McDowell); and French 2D (Boston, MA, and Syracuse, NY, Anda French, Jenny French).
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Le photographe allemand Carsten Witte nous propose de découvrir cette série de clichés appelée « NYC Fractal ». Passionné par les buildings de New York, l’artiste nous propose des images de surfaces et de façades de bâtiments où formes se marient aux reflets. Plus dans la suite.
News: UK firm Foster + Partners has unveiled plans to overhaul New York Public Library’s flagship branch on Fifth Avenue by inserting a contemporary lending library into unused reading rooms and stacks at the back of the building.
At present only a third of the the Stephen A Schwarzman Building is accessible to the public, but Foster + Partners plans to insert a new corridor that will connect the main entrance with a new four-level atrium at the rear, where visitors can browse collections whilst enjoying a view of Bryant Park through the existing tall windows.
“We are reasserting the Library’s main axis and its very special sequence of spaces, from the main Fifth Avenue entrance and the Astor Hall, through the Gottesman Hall, into the dramatic volume of the new circulating library, with views through to the park,” said Norman Foster.
Located beneath the Rose Reading Room, the new section will replace seven relocated floors of closed stacks, while a 300-person workspace for students and researchers will take the place of several offices and storage areas.
Floorplates will be pulled back from the exterior wall to create a series of tiered balconies and visitors will enter the space via a grand staircase that descends from above.
Proposed materials include bronze, wood and stone, which the architects claims will age gracefully and fit in with the existing beaux-arts building designed by Carrère and Hastings in the early twentieth century.
The New York Public Library launched its £185 million renovation strategy earlier this year, but faced criticism as scholars and writers claimed the plans would comprise the library’s existing facilities.
Foster commented: “Our design does not seek to alter the character of the building, which will remain unmistakably a library in its feel, in its details, materials, and lighting. It will remain a wonderful place to study. The parts that are currently inaccessible will be opened up, inviting the whole of the community – it is a strategy that reflects the principles of a free institution upon which the library was first founded.”
Construction is scheduled to commence in the summer and is expected to complete in 2018.
Foster + Partners has been working on a number of projects in New York in recent months, including a vision for the future of Grand Central Terminal and a competition-winning design for a Park Avenue skyscraper.
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Designs for the New York Public Library revealed
The New York Public Library today unveiled proposals for the integration of the Circulating Library into its flagship Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 42nd Street – Lord Foster presented the plans at the launch of the public exhibition.
The project aims to safeguard the building’s legacy and precious books for future generations. The existing research library will be retained as it is today, with more space for researchers, as will many of the public spaces – the project will open twice as much of the building to the public and will restore the logic of the Neo-Classical design to improve the experience of the library’s historic halls. The two circulating collections will be housed in a spectacular new space previously occupied by book stacks.
The centrepiece of the 5th Avenue and 42nd Street building is the magnificent Rose Reading Room, below which are seven storeys of book stacks. However, these stacks are inaccessible to the public and no longer meet the needs of the books they contain, in terms of capacity, fire safety or preservation. The books will be moved to a large humidity-controlled chamber under Bryant Park, which was created in 1989 as part of the Bryant Park project, and provides the ideal environment for their conservation. Thus the stack space is freed to create a new ‘library within a library’ comprised of the Mid-Manhattan collections and the Science, Industry and Business Library – reinstating a circulating library to the NYPL main building, as had originally existed until the 1980s.
The 13,000 structural points of the existing stacks will be replaced with an innovative new vaulted stone and steel cradle. This move will free the floors from the west façade, allowing them to be peeled back to form a series of balconies – in the process revealing the full height of the slender windows internally for the first time. New study areas will line the perimeter of the balconies and new reading platforms will sit beneath the vaulted ceilings, which are carefully attuned to ensure excellent acoustic performance. The materials palette and design of the interiors will evolve with further development. The current combination shows bronze, wood and stone, which will age gracefully with the passage of time and use. A new internal atrium runs the full length of the base of the circulation library, connecting the visitor facilities to the building’s accessible entrance on 42nd Street.
Just 30 percent of the library is currently accessible to the public – the project will more than double this, opening 66 percent of the building by utilising unused reading rooms, back of house spaces, offices and book stacks. The design aims to make the building more inviting, more permeable and to bring the books to the fore rather than hide them away. Starting with the circulation strategy, the central axis through the Neo-Classical building will be reasserted. Visitors will be able to walk in a straight line through the grand Fifth Avenue portico and the majestic Astor Hall into Gottesman Hall, where a permanent treasures gallery will display some of the most important pieces from the collection. For the fist time, the westerly doors of the Gottesman Hall will be opened up, restoring a sense of symmetry and intuitive circulation across the building. Visitors will enter the new circulation library on a balcony in the centre of the former book stack space, where they will face elevated views of Bryant Park. From here, a grand staircase will sweep down to the main level, aligned with the park, and further to the state-of-the-art education and business library below.
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News: New York mayor Michael Bloomberg will today lead the groundbreaking ceremony for the world’s tallest modular building, a 32-storey residential tower in Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards development by Manhattan-based firm SHoP Architects.
At the groundbreaking, developers Forest City Ratner will display one of the 930 modular chassis that will be combined to build the tower, called B2. More than 60% of the construction will be completed off-site at the Brooklyn Naval Yard before being transported to the site as pre-fabricated modules.
B2 is the first of three new residential towers planned around the Barclays Center, the 19,000-seat indoor sports and music arena that opened this September. Both were designed by Manhattan-based firm SHoP Architects as part of the controversial Atlantic Yards development, which has attracted criticism from residents over its lack of transparency.
The three buildings will provide around 1500 residential units in total, half of which will be earmarked as affordable housing. B2’s 363 apartments are expected to be available for occupancy in summer 2014.
While developers and city officials hail B2 as the world’s tallest modular building, construction is also set to begin this month on a modular tower in Changsha, China, which at 838 metres, or 220 storeys, would be the tallest building in the world – and construction firm Broad Sustainable Building says the tower, called Sky City, will go up in just 90 days.
We reported on the opening of the Barclays Center in September, while back in May we reported on plans for a 425-metre-high skyscraper by architect Rafael Viñoly on New York’s Park Avenue, which will become the tallest residential tower in the US if built – see all our stories about New York.
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Images are by SHoP Architects.
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New York architects Studio Cadena placed three white boxes inside this industrial loft in Brooklyn to make bedrooms for three flatmates.
Above: photograph by Ian Allen
Studio Cadena was asked to turn a 60-square-metre space in a former factory building into an apartment for three occupants.
The architects removed the existing partitions and added three compact boxes to create private bedroom spaces while maximising the size of the communal area.
Above: photograph by Angela DeRiggi
Glazed openings allow light inside the bedrooms, which are arranged to receive as much light as possible from the loft’s large windows.
Completed at short notice and on a tight budget, the loft took nine weeks, 141 emails, 64 calls, 55 texts and three contractors, according to the architects.
Above: photograph by Ian Allen
We recently featured a home in Japan with its top floor arranged across separate sheds and another house with four more tiny houses contained inside it.
Above: photograph by Ian Allen
Other New York apartments we’ve featured on Dezeen include a loft with glass ceilings and walls and a home for an art collector containing a library and gallery.
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Photographs and images are by Studio Cadena, except where stated.
Here’s some more information from the architects:
Three Small Rooms
A Loft in Brooklyn
Located in a former factory building in the burgeoning artist’s enclave of Bushwick, Brooklyn, a small industrial loft awkwardly subdivided by existing partitions was transformed into a bright and open space that could be shared by three young roommates moving into what would become their first shared loft in the city.
On Saying Yes:
Clients: We have a project for you.
Architect: Great!
Clients: But we have very little money.
Architect: No problem, I’ll work with what you have.
Clients: And we need to do it really fast.
Architect: Ok, how fast?
Clients: Can you design something for next week? We need to start construction next week.
Architect: ?
Clients: We plan to move in a couple of weeks. Can you do it?
Architect: It’s impossible…(silence)…Ok, YES. I will try.
Clients: Great!
Architect: You know this will probably take longer and surely end up costing more?
Clients: ?
Architect: Ok, give me a week. I’ll think of something simple; something interesting. If you like it, we’ll find a way to get it done.
Clients: Ok
Architect: Great!
Rather than subdividing the loft into the needed rooms, three small and separate volumes cluster around a large common area and are set apart within the raw space. Huddling together, these rooms within rooms create intimate spaces while maximising the shared living area needed for gatherings and daily communal living. Now unobstructed, the large windows open up to views of the rapidly changing post-industrial landscape, while allowing light to seep deep inside the loft.
Above: plan
1 Loft
3 Rooms
660 sq ft
9 weeks
141 emails
64 calls
55 texts
3 contractors
Above: section
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