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Experience the Beauty of Libraries Around the World Through This Instagram Series
Self-proclaimed “Instagram purist” Olivier Martel Savoie (@une_olive) has created #olive_libraries, a series of Instagram photographs portraying libraries around the world, using only the camera on his iPhone. Over the past two years, Savoie has traveled from his home city of Montréal, to Berlin, Amsterdam, Budapest, Rome, Riga, Paris, Moscow, and several other cities photographing the stunning architecture of libraries. Encountering language barriers and even intense security, Savoie’s dedication to taking the perfect photo has resulted in a stunning collection of images.
Experience the beauty of libraries around the world, after the break.
Studio LOKAL Wins Copenhagen Residential Competition With Hanging Gardens Tower
Denmark-based Studio LOKAL has won the competition for the design of a residential tower in Copenhagen, with The Hanging Gardens, its proposal for a merger of the historic brick buildings of Carlsberg with the concept of a personal garden for each resident.
Located on the site of a former vegetable market, the proposal aims to return to these homegrown roots by encouraging residents to grow their own produce in one of the tower’s gardens. Furthermore, the ground floor of the building will house a farmers market where residents can trade their own produce.
Hotels Accor / Arte Charpentier
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Architects: Arte Charpentier
- Area: 25000 m²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: Saint-Gobain, Arino, Décogalva, Flinterman, Goyer
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Professionals: Axyal, Eiffage Construction, Façade 2000
Rosário House / depA + Margarida Leitão
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Architects: Margarida Leitão, depA
- Area: 400 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Primus Vitória, Projecto Mosaico, W2007
Kapkar Sf.p7s / Studio Frank Havermans
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Architects: Studio Frank Havermans
- Year: 2016
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Professionals: KNØP building system, Mesh Construction Technology, Elst
The Ziffer / JLArchitects + Solto Jibin
Istakagrha / Realrich Architecture Workshop
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Architects: Realrich Architecture Workshop
- Area: 180 m²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: Schneider Electric, Alexindo, Philip
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Professionals: Bambang Priyono, Andi, Karim, Hamim
JINS Ageo Shop Renovation / Schemata Architects
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Architects: Schemata Architects
- Area: 239 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: AGC, Ashford Japan, DANTO
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Professionals: FUYUKI KOGYO, Ideura Kensetu, SPACE, O.F.C
MoMA Launches Online Database of 3,500 Past Exhibitions
The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) has released an online archive of over 3,500 of the museum’s past exhibitions from its founding in 1929 to today. Free and available to the public, the database contains photographs, press releases, checklists, catalogues and lists of featured artists.
The archive contains 660 entries tagged under “architecture” and includes some of architectural history’s greatest exhibitions: the Modern Architecture International Exhibition by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock in 1932; Herbert Bayer’s exhibition Bauhaus 1919-1928 in 1938; Thresholds/O.M.A. at MoMA: Rem Koolhaas and the Place of Public Architecture in 1994; and, most recently, A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond, which wrapped up its run this past July.
Into the Wild / Openfabric + Dmau
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Architects: Dmau, Openfabric
- Area: 5100 m²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: Acryl Sports, Coated asphalt, Furnitures, Streetlife
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Professionals: Arcadis
Peter Zumthor Selected to Design Beyeler Foundation Expansion
The office of Peter Zumthor has been selected to design an expansion to the Beyeler Foundation, located just outside Zumthor’s childhood home of Basel, Switzerland. The Swiss architect was chosen from a prestigious shortlist of 11 firms to add to the existing museum building, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and completed in 1997.
“The sky above Basel, the city and its surroundings–those are the landscapes of my youth,” said Zumthor. “It is heart-warming to be able to design a major building here.”
Garden House / Bogenfeld Architektur
Heatherwick Studio's "Vessel" Will Take the Form of an Endless Stairway at New York's Hudson Yards
UPDATE: We've added a video of Thomas Heatherwick explaining the design of "Vessel," after the break!
Thomas Heatherwick is bringing a new public monument to New York City. Today, Heatherwick Studio revealed the first renderings of “Vessel,” a 15-story tall occupiable sculpture comprised of 154 intricately interconnecting flights of stairs that will serve as the centerpiece of the new Hudson Yards development in west Manhattan.
"Architecture Should Be More Like Minecraft": Bjarke Ingels Profiled for WIRED UK
Similarly to how he prefers to practice architecture, Bjarke Ingels likes speaking in big, bold assertions. In his recent profile for WIRED UK, the Danish architect makes quite a few of those assertions, among them the belief that architecture could learn a thing or two from the imaginative world of architecture-based video games such as Minecraft.
MASS Design Group Documentary, "Design that Heals," to Premiere at New York 2016 Architecture and Design Film Festival
Can a building help stem the tide of large epidemics?
In 2010, in the midst of the world’s worst cholera outbreak in over a century, MASS Design Group was challenged to design a cholera treatment center where the construction process, as well as the finished building, could address the underlying structural and social conditions that allow cholera to thrive.
This is the subject of Design that Heals, a new documentary that portrays the challenges, innovations, and triumph of the project, proving that, “Architecture and health are inseparable.” (Dr. Jean-William Pape, GHESKIO founder)
The 31-minute film, an official New York 2016 Architecture and Design Film Festival selection, will premiere September 29th at 6:30 and October 1st and 7:30. Screenings will be held at Cinépolis Chelsea, 260 West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011.
The Living Boom / Miguel Ángel Maure Blesa, Carlotta Franco, Arian Lehner, Javier Guerra Gómez
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Architects: Miguel Ángel Maure Blesa, Carlotta Franco, Arian Lehner, Javier Guerra Gómez: Miguel Ángel Maure Blesa (Spain), Carlotta Franco (Italy), Arian Lehner (Austria), Javier Guerra Gómez (Spain)
- Area: 50 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Brolis Timber, Jures Medis, Würth
When Droplets Create Space: A Look at Liquid Architecture
Throughout the past century, architecture's relationship with water has developed along a variety of different paths. With his “Fallingwater” house, for example, the American master Frank Lloyd Wright confronted the dramatic flow of water with strong horizontal lines to heighten the experience of nature. Since then, architecture's use of water has become more varied and complex. A space made almost purely of water emerged with Isamu Noguchi's design at the Osaka World Expo: glistening water appeared to fall from nowhere and glowed in the dark. Later with digitalization and fluid forms as design parameters, the focus shifted towards liquid architecture made of water and light. The interpretations have ranged from architectural forms modeled after literal drops of water, like Bernhard Franken´s visionary “Bubble” for BMW, to spectacular walk-in installations made of lines of water, transformed into pixels by light.