Adharshila Vatika childrens' centre in New Delhi, India is a redesign of an existing facility where the emphasis of the design was to maintain the functional requirements and the character by retaining the elevation. Spaces Architects, India, have won a Merit Award in the DESIGNSHARE Awards 2008 and are the only Asian firm to have achieved the 'merit' accolade for 2008. The original two stories were placed in the middle of the site where all rooms should have natural ventilation.
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
Adharshila Vatika Childrens' Centre in New Delhi, India
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Blackwell House by Marlon Blackwell, Arkansas
Designed by architect Marlon Blackwell and his wife Meryati (a partner in MBP) for their young family, this a modern house is located in Arkansas. The bridge-like structure was built over a seasonal creek. The façade is finished with horizontally lain redwood strips that act as a rain screen and the elevation is punctuated with long, black framed windows.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Floathouse by Ontwerpen in Rotterdam, Netherlands
Floathouse was designed by architects Ontwerpen is located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The architects, Ontwerpen, found this to be highly enjoyable but challenging project to undertake, with progress having been stalled by the Rotterdam authorities for 2 years. As a result they have only recently been able to realise the completed project in full. The shape of the 3 storey house is the combined result of sheer fun, the need for visual reduction of mass, and the reckoning with the prevailing SW wind in this country.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Akershus University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
The Akershus University Hospital, the Norwegian super hospital in near Oslo, Norway was designed and constructed by C. F. Møller Architects, it has a total area of 137,000 sq m and cost €1 billion to construct. During construction, from 1 March 2004, to 1 October 2008, some 1,400 people from 37 different nations contributed over 6.2 million man-hours erecting the new ‘super hospital’. The large-scale building will serve the 340,000 inhabitants from surrounding municipalities and boasts space for 50,000 in-patients with 4,600 staff members, including 426 doctors.
The vision was to create something economical, innovative and a place people can relax and be at ease. Klavs Hyttel, partner in C. F. Møller Architects and lead architect of the project commented, “The concept of security should encompass both efficiency, technology and the familiar patterns of the daily routine. It is through this balancing act that we have created the architectural attitude of the building."
Friday, January 30, 2009
Venus Architecture Project by Jacque Fresco
Jacque Fresco is an industrial designer, author, lecturer, futurist, inventor, and a pioneer in the field of human factors engineering, based in Venus, Florida, USA. Fresco has worked as both designer and inventor in a wide range of fields spanning from biomedical innovations to totally integrated social systems. He believes his ideas would maximally benefit the greatest number of people and he states some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the Great Depression. In the mid-1970s, he started The Venus Project and the non-profit organization Future by Design together with Roxanne Meadows, that reflects the culmination of Frescos life work. To this day he writes and lectures extensively on subjects ranging from the holistic design of sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural resource management and advanced automation, focusing on the benefits it will bring to society.
London Festival of Architecture in 2008
The Festival took place in June and July 2008 and was attended by over 250,000 people.
California Academy of Sciences by Renzo Piano in California
The California Academy of Sciences is one of the greenest museum in the world. Find out what this amazing building is doing to get a platinum level LEED certification. Located in San Francisco, California, it opens 2008. This unique, vacation destination was designed by Renzo Piano, with sculptures by Maya Lin. It has a living roof, rainforest, planetarium and aquarium. It opens in 2008
Architecture Design Around the world 2008
architecture and towers planned and under construction
New Kings Road, United Kingdom / ORMS Architecture Design
Planning consent has just been granted by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham for a 100,000 sq ft office development on the New Kings Road in London designed by ORMS Architecture Design. The £30m project for Commercial Estates Group involves a significant refurbishment, re-cladding and extension to an existing 1970's building, to provide modern grade A office space.
The project will include a new entrance for the building and a café fronting the new Kings Road. A low energy air-conditioning system, utilising an on site renewable energy source. Following swiftly on the heels of this planning approval is consent for another office redevelopment designed by the practice in London.
This second project, in the City, involves an £18m refurbishment and extension including redesign of the facades at 28 Finsbury Square, a ten storey existing building on a prominent corner site for Freshwater Property London. ORMS’ strong credentials in the commercial office sector were recently endorsed by the award of Best of the Best at the 2007 British Council for Offices (BCO) awards for the ISG Headquarters at Aldgate House in London of which the judges said “The layout shows vision, fluency and quality – and all at the reasonable cost of around £75/sq. ft.
Most of all it shows how an ageing, tired and hard-to-let deep office floor can be turned into dense but comfortable workspace through intelligence and professional skill.“ In addition to a strong portfolio in the commercial office sector, - in new build, refurb and interiors - ORMS current portfolio comprises a wide variety of projects in the retail, residential, leisure and education sectors.
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