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ORDOS 100 #40: Slade Architecture

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This villa is located in plot ORDOS project.

Architects: Slade Architecture Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox

New Tamayo Museum / Rojkind Arquitectos and BIG

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Architects: Rojkind Arquitectos + BIG Location: Mexico City, Mexico Client: Patronato Tamayo Constructed Area: 3,500 sqm BIG Architects Partners in Charge: Bjarke Ingels & Andreas Klok Pedersen Project Team: Pauline Lavie, Maxime Enrico, Pål Arnulf Trodahl Rojkind Arquitectos Partner in Charge: Michel Rojkind Project Team: Agustín Pereyra, Monica Orozco, Ma. Fernanda Gómez, Tere Levy, Isaac Smeke, Juan José Barrios, Roberto Gil Will, Beatriz Díaz, Joe Tarr Structural Engineer: Romo y asociados Landscape Design: Entorno taller de paisaje Graphic Design: Ernesto Moncada Images: Glessner Group – Germán Glessner

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ORDOS 100 #39: OBRA Architects

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This villa is located in plot ORDOS project.

Architects: OBRA Architects Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Principals in Charge: Pablo Castro, Jennifer Lee Project team: Shin Kook Kang, Atsushi Koizumi, Sara Kim, Patricia Bohrer, Ricardo Escutia, Soojeong Jo, Jiyoung Kim, Mingkyu Kim, Yixin Liu, Doreen Lam, Alvaro Mayoral, Selin Semaan, Paula Zapolski Structural/Mechanical Engineering: ARUP NY / Mahadev Raman, Brian Markham, Rajesh Shah Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox

ORDOS 100 by OBRA Architects

Last year there was an interesting exhibition on the ORDOS villas by 13 NY Architects, 13:100. During that time the Architectural League conducted short interviews with some architects asking them some interesting things about the ORDOS 100 project.

Kaufhauskanal Metrozone / BIG + Topotek1

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Architects: BIG Architects Landscape Architects: Topotek1 Location: Hamburg, Germany Partner in Charge: Bjarke Ingels Project Leader: Ole Schrøder Collaborators: Mitarbeiter – Kai-Uwe Bergmann, Oana Simionescu, Christian Alvarez Gomez, Alex Cozma, Karsten Hammer Hansen, Todd Bennett, Gabrielle Nadeau, Frederik Lyng, Ole Storjohann, Hanna Johansson, Sebastian Latz Topotek1 team: Martin Rein-Cano, Lorenz Dexler, Anna Lundquist, Christian Bohne, Lisa Oregioni, Alexandre Mellier, Danielle Choi, Karoline Liedtke Client: IBA Hamburg Project year: 2013 Constructed Area: 33,350 sqm

ORDOS 100 #38: Iwamoto Scott

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This villa is located in plot ORDOS project.

Architects: Iwamoto Scott Architecture Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Principals in Charge: Lisa Iwamoto & Craig Scott Project team: Blake Altshuler, Keith Plymale, Magda Melo, Sean Canty, Ryan Golenberg, Christina Kaneva Projects Assistants: Jason Chang, Manuel Diaz, Ashley Li, Alan Lu, Doron Serban, Wei Huang, John Kim Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox

ORDOS 100 #37: Polaris Architects

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This villa is located in plot ORDOS project.

Architects: Polaris Architects Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Principals in Charge: Carole Schmit & François Thiry Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox

Højblokka_PULS / MAPT + DARK

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Architect: MAPT + DARK Architects Location: Oslo, Norway Program: Highrise with Shopping, Wellness and Office Facilities Project year: 2009 Images: MAPT

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The Origami / Kann Finch

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Architects: Kann Finch, UAE Location: Meydan city, Dubai UAE Project Team: Jean-Sebastien Herr (associate/design architect), Damian Lambkin (Project architect), Claudio Nunez , Ulysses Lalu, Francis Contreras, Milica Vukasinovic, Clinton Bull, Jamie Madrazo, Mauricio Zulueta, Alaleh S Interiors: Nicholas Tedford Structure: E-construct MEP: Jain Consultants Building Envelope: MFT Landscape: Kann Finch Acoustics: WSP Client: District development Contractor: DCC, Dubai Contracting company Project year: 2010 Construction area: 45,980 sqm

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ORDOS 100 #36: Preston Scott Cohen

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This villa is located in plot ORDOS project.

Architects: Preston Scott Cohen Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Project Team: Preston Scott Cohen (Design); Hao RUAN, David Yair Keshet(Model) Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox

Punta Umbria Pavillion / MRDP Arquitectos

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In late 2008 the City of Punta Umbria, located on the coast of Huelva, Spain, organized a Competition for a Congress, Exhibition and Fairs building. MRDP Arquitectos sent us the winning entry.

The results:

1st Prize: FARO; MRDP Arquitectos | María Romero y Daniel Pérez 2nd Prize: CÓNCAVO-CONVEXO; Joaquín Aramburu y Asociados 3rd Prize: BI.VALVO; JOSÉ ÁLVAREZ CHECA

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Matchbox / Allard Architecture

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Allard Architects shared with us Matchbox, their latest building in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, that just got approved by the Amsterdam Aesthetics Committee. Completion expected for December 2010.

Architect’s description and more images after the break.

4 Islands in Maldives / OFIS arhitekti

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Architect: OFIS arhitekti Location: Maldives Islands Project Leaders: Rok Oman, Špela Videčnik Design Year: 2004-2006 Further Development: 2009 Design Team: Nejc Batistic, Martina Lipicer, Marisa Baptista 3d Animations & Realisations: David Lozej, Jaka Zvan, Rok Jereb

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Guangzh Culture Center / Shuhei Endo

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Japanese architect Shuhei Endo sent us some impressive images of his latest project: the Guangzh Culture Center in China.

You can see more renders after the break.

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ORDOS 100 #35: Christ & Gantenbein

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This villa is located in plot ORDOS project.

Architects: Christ & Gantenbein Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Project Team: Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein, Cloé Gattigo, Hugo Mesquita, Sven Richter, Andrea Sauter, Kai Timmermann Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox

ORDOS 100 #34: NU architectuuratelier

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This villa is located in plot ORDOS project.

Architects: NU architectuuratelier Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox

Valentin apartment / ECDM

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French architects Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec sent us the transformation of this small apartment, with a clear strategy: Decompartmentalise the place so as to fit out an open plan and elude the demand of an extra room by conceiving in the center of the volume a suspended white cube which generates comic and disconcerting use situations.

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ORDOS 100 #33: Scalene Architectes

This villa is located in plot ORDOS project.

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Architects: Scalene Architectes Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Principals in Charge: Jean & Luc Larnaudie Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, ChinaConstructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox

The project Ordos 100 raises the question of an ex-nihilo architecture in an environment governed by an unique urban and constructive principle: a soil shared by all, a mineral reality.