La 1ère bande-annonce du nouveau film de Clint Eastwood : Hereafter, avec Matt Damon et Cécile de France. Un thriller surnaturel, sorte de réflexion sur le thème de la vie après la mort grâce aux destins croisés de 3 personnages dont un médium capable de “communiquer avec les morts”.
David Rockwell, the designer and architect perhaps best known for his now-annual work building sets for the Academy Awards, designing sections of the JetBlue terminal at JFK Airport, and most recently for his just-opened, much-discussed playground in New York’s South Street Seaport, has just risen up a notch in his legacy. Rockwell has accepted a spot on the board of the Smithsonian‘s Cooper-Hewitt, the national design museum. His connection to the museum has been in place for some time, with his nomination for a National Design Award back in 2007 for his work on the Union Square W Hotel, and as the NY Times reports, he had been serving “on the museum’s exhibition committee since 2006.” Now, with this new lofty position, presumably he’ll be helping to oversee more of the museum’s big picture plans.
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Foreign Office Architects have completed the new tile-covered campus for Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, located on the Greenwich Peninsula in London.
The façade is composed of 28,000 anodised aluminium tiles in three different shapes and colours.
Above photographs are copyright Morley von Sternberg
The tiled façade is perforated with round windows of varying sizes, with two rows of windows per floor to provide views of the surrounding city.
The pattern of the tiles is determined by the size and positioning of window openings, while the size of windows depends on the corresponding interior function.
Perforations on the north side are larger and more frequent than those in the south side to regulate light levels.
The college has an area of 17,000m2 and will house 1,400 students in inter-disciplinary, open-plan work spaces over four interconnected storeys.
The ground floor incorporates 1,700m2 of public retail space.
An atrium at the north entrance is intended for use by the public while the south side contains a private atrium for students and staff on a raised platform, suspended from steel girders over the ground floor lecture hall.
An interior bridge spanning east to west overlooks both the public north and private south sides of the building.
The atrium stairs provide sightlines throughout the building exposing all activities taking place in the college.
Here’s some text from the Architects:
Ravensbourne, London UK
The new building for Ravensbourne, a university sector college innovating in digital media and design, will be located at Greenwich Peninsula on the South-Eastern edge of The O2 building, to the right of the North-South axis that structures the masterplan.
By moving to this extraordinary location, Ravensbourne aims to deliver education to meet the shifting demands of 21st century learners – learners who expect access to resources and support on demand and whose needs can differ greatly depending on a variety of social and economic factors.
The new building is designed to stimulate the environment and working practices of creative professionals, providing the best in technology and mobile computing in an environment which enables a variety of learning styles.
The main strategy in the design of the building is to produce a structure which will encourage collaboration between the different disciplines and practitioners within Ravensbourne.
This will be achieved by structuring the building around a system of two interconnected atria, each piercing through three levels of program.
The atria have been systematically attached to the external facade in order not only to use them as ventilation devices, but also to connect visually the core of the public spaces in the building with the perception of the urban surroundings. The building is specified to reach a BREEAM qualification of environmental excellence.
Above: north elevation. Click for larger image
In order to achieve optimum environmental performance, low maintenance and high flexibility, the massing has been kept as compact as possible with a very low ratio of façade to area, and a deep building which is able to provides flexible space to host the various activities which take place in the building.
Above: east and west elevations. Click for larger image
The architecture of the building has been designed to express the culture of contemporary production, by using a non-periodic tiling system which symbolises a more diverse and contemporary approach to technology.
Above: south elevation. Click for larger image
Gothic rose windows and flower patterns have also been a rich field of inspiration for the project, but in this building they will not be produced as an imitation of nature but as an abstract construction.
Above: detailed window section. Click for larger image
To achieve this we have resorted to the use of a non-periodic tiling pattern on the façade, which allow us to build seven different types of windows out of only three different tiles.
Above: ground floor plan. Click for larger image
RAVENSBOURNE
Ravensbourne is a world-class digital destination developing talented individuals and leading-edge businesses through learning, skills, applied research, enterprise and innovation.
Above: first floor plan. Click for larger image
It is a university sector college innovating in digital media and design, with a vocationally focused portfolio of courses, spanning fashion, television and broadcasting, interactive product design, architecture and environment design, graphic design, animation, moving image, music production for media and sound design.
Above: second floor plan. Click for larger image
It is a centre of excellence, industry accredited and a Skillset Media Academy. It has a community of approximately 1,400 students.
Above: third floor plan. Click above for larger image
In September 2010 Ravensbourne is relocating from Chislehurst to Greenwich Peninsula into a purpose built, state-of-the-art building which will offer collaborative work spaces, resources for networking, high-tech creative suites and wi-fi access throughout.
Above: roof plan. Click above for larger image
The building will be as much as destination for creative professionals and businesses as it is for students, and is built to the highest environmental standards as part of Ravensbourne’s strategy to minimise its carbon footprint.
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The building will house a double-height HDTV studio with 6 channel capacity, moving lights, full autocue and green screen capability, alongside a second studio (4 channel) with virtual studio capability. It will also house a gallery with a studio mixer, a lighting desk and moving lights control.
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The building’s central Atrium can be converted into one large HD studio. Additionally there will be a digital post production studio with surround sound suites.
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FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS
Founded in London in 1993, Foreign Office Architects (FOA) has emerged as one of the most innovative and creative design firms working today, integrating architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture in a wide range of projects internationally. The project that established the practice’s reputation was the Yokohama Port Terminal in Japan, an imaginative hybrid of non-Cartesian industrial infrastructure and versatile social functionality, which architects and critics have called one of the most influential works of architecture of the last decade. Since then, FOA has amassed a diverse portfolio of built works around the world, ranging from transportation facilities to social housing projects.
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Over the years, FOA has won several prestigious competitions and commissions, including the BBC Music Box, for the network’s White City complex, in London; and it was selected as part of the United Architects team to submit a design for the World Trade Center, New York, in the aftermath of the September 11 attack. In 2002, the practice was selected to represent Great Britain at the 8th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Other completed projects for FOA include the John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex and pedestrian bridges in Leicester, UK; Carabanchel Social Housing in Madrid, Spain; the South-East Coastal Park in Barcelona, Spain; the Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex in Istanbul, Turkey; the Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 International Expo in Aichi, Japan; and La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, in Logroño, Spain.
GREENWICH PENINSULA
The £5 billion regeneration of 190 acres of Greenwich Peninsula is led by Lend Lease and Quintain, working in collaboration with the Homes and Communities Agency – a true public / private partnership. The scheme will create a thriving new riverside community for London over the next 20 years.
Client: Ravensbourne in partnership with Greenwich Peninsula Regeneration Limited.
Completion date: 2010
Total Area: 21,500m2
Budget: £70m including technical fit-out
Team Credits: Alejandro Zaero-Polo and Farshid Moussavi with Emory Smith, Mio Sato, Maider Llaguno, Sukyeong Kim, Nankuei Lyn, Cristina Parreno, Carmen Sagredo, Penny Sperbund, Daniel Spreier, Azizah Sulor, Changho Yeo.
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Une belle vidéo promotionnelle pour le prochain livre en “pop-up”, de l’illustrateur Benjamin Lacombe. Une histoire sous la forme de 8 contes classiques évoqués par une double-page, dans un livre associant technique et artistique. A découvrir en vidéo dans la suite.
Dans le même esprit : Popup by Marion Bataille
Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photos of three health centres in Madrid by Spanish architects Estudio Entresitio, all with identical floor plans but executed in different materials.
Above and top: Usera. Photographs are copyright Roland Halbe
San Blas, Usera and Villaverde were all built on previously unused sites surrounded by social housing.
Above: Usera. Photograph is copyright Roland Halbe
Usera is clad in perforated metal panels with a gold finish.
Above: Usera. Photograph is copyright Roland Halbe
San Blas is a concrete construction cast in horizontal timbers and finished with blue tiles.
Above: San Blas. Photograph is copyright Roland Halbe
Villaverde, which is finished in a mixture of opaque, translucent and transparent panels, was a separate commission to the first two and sits on a smaller site.
Above: San Blas. Photograph is copyright Roland Halbe
All three have a single storey comprising a mixture of private and public rooms punctuated by thirteen patios.
Above: San Blas. Photograph is copyright Roland Halbe
Breaks in the roof above the patios combine with glazed partitions to allow natural light to flood the rooms.
Above: San Blas. Photograph is copyright Roland Halbe
Here’s some more from the architects:
Do you remember that Bill Murray’s movie from the nineties called “groundhog day”? In the film, each day was the same day and from 7am it started all over again, one time after another.
Above: Villaverde. Photograph is copyright Roland Halbe
Going seriously, it has been crazy at times but mostly rewarding to have the chance of building three times the exact floor plan. It all started with an unusual competition for doing two centres for the same client (Madrid’s city council), with the same budget and the same functional program but only two different sites.
Above: Villaverde. Photograph is copyright Roland Halbe
Sites were in both cases quite irrelevant environments with anonymous social housing surroundings. Our answer to those initial conditions was to work with the idea of a “placeless building”. A great sense of formal+functional+conceptual autonomy was required to allow the building develop no matter where.
Above: Villaverde. Photograph is copyright Roland Halbe
To emphasize the spatial value of the interior, we resorted to the LeCorbusierian idea of “reconciliation of opposites”. The hermetic and heavy image of the exterior precedes the open and light space of the interior. The program for the healthcare centre is implemented extensively on a single ground floor.
Above: Villaverde. Photograph is copyright Roland Halbe
The different rooms of the program are organized on a loose irregular orthogonal grid, where thirteen patios are arranged in a zigzag pattern between the public and private rooms along three parallel (non)-corridors. There is a non stop visual continuity across interiors and courtyards that provides space enlargement. In opposition to this light system, split up by the patios, the solid and heavy façade is conceived as a continuous windowless mass. The absence of hollows in the vertical walls of the exterior enclosure causes the relationship between the interior and exterior of the building to occur vertically, almost with the sky above.
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The glass panels do not define patios, but hollows in the horizontal façade of the exterior shell of the building, creating a vertical relationship that allows an isotropic interior space to be generated. The transparency and mirroring qualities of the glass creates multiple visions by reflected symmetry.
The corridor vanishes, it ceases to exist as the traditional linear connecting structure, because the alternating arrangement of the empty spaces and public areas allows a weak relationship to exist between the “x” and “y” coordinates of space.
San Blas’s centre has been the first one to be built.
The idea of heaviness is reinforced by the rough texture formed by the horizontal wood planks of the concrete formwork. Put into contrast, the reflective qualities of the vertical walls of blue tile laid in a fish scale pattern help to create a spacious and luminous interior, almost as if the sky were brought inside the building.
Usera’s centre follows, completing the work chances that materials such as concrete, glass and tiles had to offer in search of identity. But something along the way went wrong with the construction company and a change of company was needed.
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A golden metal skin is the moving forward strategy needed to accomplish a positive direction in the construction process and also the reason for changing ceramic tiles colour to white. In the end, it is possible to read interior space as a more horizontal and abstract one in comparison to San Blas.
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The third of the row, Villaverde’s centre, is the result of wining another competition in which luck played a big role. The site was smaller and had a stronger urban character but the floor plan we had fitted just perfectly and the client decided to make us winners again.
Some old ideas from the original project appeared again; what if we tried to build the same spatial scheme with a lighter construction system narrowing the distance between opposites. It was possible to soften the scar between exterior and interior by using a tectonic structure covered with panels, opaque but polished, translucent or transparent. New materials needed new rules and the result is more atmospheric. The hole process has been a challenging investigation between use, sensation and geometry; it is now your turn to make an opinion.
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Project Three municipal healthcare centres in Madrid
Client: Madrid Salud. Madrid’s City Council
Place: Madrid, Spain – San Blas, Usera and Villaverde are three different neighbourhoods, East and South of Madrid
Dates: 1st competition April 2005, 2nd competition April 2007, Completion San Blas September 2007, Usera December 2009, Villaverde June 2010, Architects estudio.entresitio, María Hurtado de Mendoza, César Jiménez de Tejada, José María Hurtado de Mendoza
Team: Jorge Martínez, Laura Frutos, Vincent Rodriguez, Fabrice Quemeneur, Filipe Minderico, Clara Rodríguez, Marco Plazzogna, Miguel Crespo, Alvar Ruiz.
Consultants: Geasyt, SA, María José Camporro
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Un spot très coloré afin de célébrer le 100ème numéro du magazine IdN, avec de nombreuses formes gonflables. Une direction et une animation du studio très réputé Dvein le tout sur une musique et un sound-design de Marc Teitler. A découvrir en vidéo dans la suite.
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