Starting June 10, the RIBA will present The Brutalist Playground - an exhibition that is part sculpture, part architectural installation, which invites people of all ages to come and play, the Brutalist way. Occupying the entire Architecture Gallery, the immersive landscape is a new commission by Turner Prize nominated design and architecture collective Assemble and artist Simon Terrill. It explores the abstract concrete playgrounds that were designed as part of Brutalist housing estates in the mid-twentieth century, but which no longer exist. They became playgrounds unsuitable for play.
Assemble to Construct a Brutalist Playground at RIBA
White Stone Studios / Benjamin Hall Design
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Architects: Benjamin Hall Design
- Area: 3000 ft²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: Maytag
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Professionals: 180 Degrees Inc, Benjamin Hall design + build, Otterbein Engineering, Struktur Studio
Architect + Entrepreneur: A Field Guide to Building, Branding, and Marketing Your Startup Design Business
The inherently dry subjects of business development, marketing, P+L reports, taxes, and insurance are less likely to feed the intellect of the architect than discussions of materiality, parallax, articulation and form. Yet the reality of what it means to practice architecture, by necessity, requires reconciling these two divided worlds. Nowhere is the need to unify them as great as with the startup design business.
Author, award-winning architect and founder of the firm 30X40 Design Workshop, Eric Reinholdt, explores these topics in "Architect + Entrepreneur: A Field Guide to Building, Branding, and Marketing Your Startup Design Business." Part narrative and part business book, Reinholdt advocates new approaches and tools that merge entrepreneurship with the practice of architecture and interior design. The book offers a framework for starting a design practice in the 21st century which leverages the lean startup methodology to create a minimum viable product and encourages successive small wins that support a broader vision enabling one to, “think big, start small, and learn fast.”
Read on after the break for an excerpt from Chapter 2 - Getting Started.
New Orlando International Airport Terminal Building – Call for Statements of Qualifications
The Orlando International Airport ("OIA"), operated by the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, seeks innovative, visionary architects and engineers for its planned, new airport terminal compound. OIA is a world-class airport that welcomes over 36 million business and leisure passengers per year. In order to better accommodate its increasing number of passengers, especially in the international sector, OIA has under construction an Intermodal Terminal Facility for multiple modes of ground transportation, an Automated People Mover System connecting the main terminal, a 2,500 unit parking deck, and all associated horizontal infrastructure to support this program and the future expansion for a new terminal building.
A Bauhaus Façade Study by Laurian Ghinitoiu
While studying for his Masters in Architecture at DIA (Dessau International Architecture), Romanian photographer Laurian Ghinitoiu was inspired to capture Walter Gropius’ Dessau Bauhaus at different times of the day and throughout the four seasons. Taken from the same vantage point over the course of two years (September 2012-July 2014), Ghinitoiu’s photos show the school as snow covers its perfectly-manicured lawn and skateboarders and construction workers come and go.
“The building has been framed in direct relation with the dynamic process of daily life. Lights and shadows, changing during the day and during the year, underline the always-different elements of the silent, but potent building. It almost protrudes out of the scene, imposing its strict lines, its regular rhythm and the functionalism of its geometries. The surroundings play the most important role of the entire photo project: they create the atmosphere, establishing an intimate connection between the architecture and its context." - Francesca Lantieri
View the full photo series after the break.
Matmut Atlantique Stadium / Herzog & de Meuron
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Architects: Herzog & de Meuron
- Area: 77090 m²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: Alucoil, Isosta, Just Facades
See All 38 Winners of the 2015 RIBA London Awards
From a shortlist of 68 buildings, 38 London projects have been awarded the 2015 RIBA London Awards for architectural excellence, the city's most prestigious design honor. The awards highlight projects that embody exceptional merit in their designs and positively impact the lives of their occupants. This year's winners include three arts and leisure buildings, 11 educational and community facilities, 16 residential designs, and eight commercial buildings.
All of these designs will be further considered for the RIBA National Awards, to be announced in June.
London's Soane's Museum Unveil A Series Of New Spaces
In an article for The Observer, Rowan Moore dives into a set of newly recreated rooms in London's Soane's Museum, a gallery dedicated to Sir John Soane's collection of architectural curiosities set within his eccentric former home. The experience, according to Moore, "of an internal world of unknown boundaries" has just become more extensive. Visitors will now be afforded the opportunity to visit a series of private spaces that give "a view into Soane’s bizarre mind," following extensive restoration work led by Julian Harrap.
HF & VUC Fyn complex / CEBRA
Mama Smile / Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture + Design
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Architects: Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture + Design
- Area: 459 m²
- Year: 2014
St Mary of the Cross Primary School / Baldasso Cortese Architects
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Architects: Baldasso Cortese Architects
- Year: 2013
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Manufacturers: Sculptform
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Professionals: BSGM, Land Projects, MacCormack Associates, Melbcon
Panel Discussion: Ethics and the Business of Architecture
As competition in the UK becomes tighter, architects are keen to find work overseas, often in such places where the prevailing human rights record has been a growing cause of concern and debate for some time.
Visitors Entrance Pavilion at Glade One / Khosla Associates
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Architects: Khosla Associates
- Area: 6000 ft²
- Year: 2015
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Professionals: S & S Associates
Video: The Bicycle Snake / Dissing+Weitling
The Louisiana Channel recently paid a visit to one of the world's most bike-friendly cities to view what is dubbed "Copenhagen's new architectonic landmark," Dissing+Weitling Architecture's "The Bicycle Snake." "Strikingly slender" and boasting a simple orange track, the Bicycle Snake is a 230 meter bridge dedicated entirely to bikes. The steel bridge tries not to "be more that it actually is," unlike many other landmarks, connecting bicyclists to two main parts of the city by elevating them up to seven meters above the sea.
ABI Slows in April
For the second month this year, the US Architecture Billings Index (ABI) has revealed a decrease in design serves. As the American Institute of Architects (AIA) report, the April ABI score was 48.8, down sharply from a mark of 51.7 in March. The new projects inquiry index was 60.1, up from a reading of 58.2 the previous month.
“The fundamentals in the design and construction industry remain very healthy,” said AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker, Hon. AIA, PhD. “The fact that both inquires for new projects and new design contracts continued to accelerate at a healthy pace in April points to strong underlying demand for design activity. However, April would typically be a month where these projects would be in full swing, but a severe winter in many parts of the Northeast and Midwest has apparently delayed progress on projects.”
A breakdown of regional highlights, after the break.
House Sperone / Studio Metrocubo
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Architects: Studio Metrocubo
- Area: 443 m²
- Year: 2014
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Professionals: Ing.Labos. d.o.o., Izoterma d.o.o., Marana d.o.o., Proing d.o.o., SPI d.o.o.
Zig-Zag House / Dan Brunn Architecture
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Architects: Dan Brunn Architecture
- Area: 450 m²
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Manufacturers: Danze
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Professionals: Obando and Associates, RJC Builders, The Office of Gordon L. Polon