Here’s our selection of last week’s best posts. Check them all after the break.
Shelter Home for the Homeless / Javier Larraz What the construction of the new Shelter Home for the Homeless offers, beyond satisfying the needs of shelter and food for the residents, is an opportunity for improving the quality of life of a socially excluded group, whose needs reach further than the simple fact of finding a place to sleep (read more…)
Self-organized teams are invited to compete for $10,000 in prize money and the chance to implement their solution to the quality-of-life issues brought about by the construction of the Red Line. Baltimore, whose neighborhoods were once connected by a network of streetcars, is now served by one light rail line and one subway line, which do not serve many east- and west-side neighborhoods. The Red Line will link up with the existing rail lines, creating a comprehensive transportation system for the city and connecting communities that have been isolated by physical and socio-economic barriers.
Gaby Lingke shared with us a short documentary about architect Fritz Eisenhofer, who designed and built a futuristic earth-sheltered dome in Peka Peka, Aotearoa, New Zealand. Architect’s description and a plan of the dome after the break.
The population growth and the urban centralization lead to an increase of the demand in the real estate market and in the food. One possible solution is the vertical farming. For these reasons, AWR proposes the design of a new skyscraper on the Thames waterfront. The new tower will be inserted into the new city skyline.
Copenhagen-based WE architecture shared with us their proposal for the urban plan of Rødovre Syd in Denmark. More images and architect’s description after the break.
Going out for the weekend? Thinking on a place to stay? Check our seventh selection of previously featured hotels after the break.
Grand Hotel Casselbergh Brugge / BURO II With its central location and rich history, this site is of major importance to the World Heritage City of Bruges. Tourism is an important engine of the local economy. The conversion of this building into a hotel with conference facilities will finally, after many years, remove an eyesore from the Hoogstraat (read more…)
Back in December we told you about the Rotch Travelling Scholarship, an annual two-stage design competition that results in one person, deemed the Rotch Scholar. Christopher Karlson of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been named the 2011 Rotch Travelling Scholarship recipient. Karlson will receive a $37,000 stipend to spend eight months traveling and studying architecture around the world.
As first runner-up, Young Seop Lee of Jersey City, New Jersey, is invited to compete in next year’s final competition without re-entering the preliminary stage and is the 2011 alternate if Karlson declines the scholarship.
Thirty-four competitors participated in the preliminary competition. They were asked to design an urban bicycle station in downtown Boston. More information and images of the winning proposal after the break.
Carlsberg Group hereby announces an international design competition to transform the New Carlsberg Brewhouse into an exciting, must-see Brand and Experience Centre, attracting 500,000 visitors each year.
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The photo above was taken by Vesper Hsieh in Singapore. Check the other four after the break.
Copenhagen-based We architecture recieved third prize in the competition for the extension of an existing high school in Falkonergården. More images and architect’s description after the break.
The Classics. Extraordinary projects that will never get too old. Check our third selection after the break.
AD Classics: MIT Baker House Dormitory / Alvar Aalto Alvar Aalto designed the Baker House in 1946 while he was a professor at the Massachussets Institute of Technology, where the dormitory is located. It received its name in 1950, after the MIT’s Dean of Students Everett Moore Baker was killed in an airplane crash that year. The dormitory is a curving snake slithering on its site and reflects many of Aalto’s ideas of formal strategy, making it a dormitory that is both inhabited and studied by students from all over the world (read more…)
The central idea behind this challenge is that the project in question is a “virtual project”, one that has been created specifically for this competition.
Studio Mode/modeLab is pleased to announce the upcoming Material Matters Workshop in New York City. During the weekend of May 14-16, 2011, the workshop will focus on parametric design to fabrication strategies and iterative development of prototypes on a 3-Axis CNC Mill.
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) presents the major exhibition Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War. On view from 13 April until 18 September 2011, the exhibition investigates the consequences of the Second World War on the built environment and reveals the immense development undertaken and responsibility carried by architecture during these years. Until now, few studies have analyzed the breadth of research, innovation, and building conducted by architects during the war years.
Last week we told you about J. Mayer H. Architects’ Metropol Parasol recent opening. Today, photographer Javier Orive shared with us some great photos of the redevelopment of Plaza de la Encarnación in Sevilla. Check them out after the break.
Architect: Ricardo Bofill, Taller de Arquitectura Location: Barcelona, Spain Client: AENA Gross Floor Area: 525,000 sqm Date of Completion: 2009 Photographs: Courtesy of Ricardo Bofill
We have just had a really intense week in ArchDaily. Along with many great projects, Eduardo Souto de Moura was announced as the new Pritzker Prize winner and Lebbeus Woods refused to work in China until Ai Weiwei is released from prison. Check all the news and best projects from last week after the break.
2011 Pritzker Prize: Eduardo Souto de Moura The 58-year-old architect based in Porto worked on his earlier years at Alvaro Siza’s office, another Pritzker Laureate (1992), and opened his own practice in 1980. Since then he has completed over sixty buildings, most of them in Portugal, and also in Spain, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland (read more…)
The conference is organized by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Building Process Management, Department for Industrial Building and Interdisciplinary Planning, of Prof. Christoph Achammer. 20 speakers will be presenting current topics on “Refurbished Future“ from diverse angles providing the participants an insight as well as mirroring the necessity of broad and interdisciplinary action in the field.
