Architecture
Archaeology Museum of Alava, Vitoria by Francisco Mangado
Regium Waterfront by Zaha Hadid Architects
Museum of the Mediterranean & Multifunctional Building for the performing arts at the Regium Waterfront in Reggio Calabria, Italy by Zaha Hadid Architects. The image credit belongs to Zaha Hadid Architects. Please find the entire press release below. REGIUM WATERFRONT [Reggio Calabria, Italy] The project aims to define the city of Reggio Calabria as a Mediterranean cultural capital through the realization of two characteristic buildings: a museum and a multifunctional building for performing arts. The location of the site on the narrow sea strait separating continental Italy from Sicily offers an opportunity to create two unique buildings, visible from the sea and the Sicilian coast: a Museum of the Mediterranean History and a Multifunctional Building. The form of the museum draws inspiration from the organic shapes of a starfish. The radial symmetry of this shape helps to coordinate the communication and circulation between different sections of the museum and its other facilities. The Museum of Mediterranean History will house exhibition spaces, restoration facilities, an archive, an aquarium and library. The Multifunctional Building is a composition of three separate elements that surround a partially covered piazza. The building will house the museum’s administrative offices, a gym, local craft laboratories, shops and a cinema. Three different auditoriums, which can be converted into one large space, are also housed in the Multifunctional Building. PROGRAM: Mixed-Use: Museum of the Mediterranean and Multifunctional block. CLIENT: Comune di Reggio Calabria ARCHITECT: Zaha Hadid Architects CONSULTANTS: Structures Adams-Kara-Taylor: Hanif Kara
Design Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
Project Architect Filippo Innocenti
Design team [competition] Michele Salvi, Roberto Vangeli, Andrea Balducci Castè Luciano Letteriello, Fabio Forconi, Giuseppe Morando Johannes Weikert, Deepti Zachariah, Gonzalo Carbajo
M&E Max Fordham: Neil Smith
Fire safety Macchiaroli & Partners
Ørestad College by 3XN Architects in Copenhagen, Denmark
Ørestad College by 3XN Architects (link) in Copenhagen, Denmark. The design by 3XN Architects for the Ørestad College was recently shortlisted for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2009 after already winning the Best Building in Scandinavia Award in 2007. Image copyright belongs to 3XN Architects. via WAN
Library and Learning Centre in Vienna by Zaha Hadid Architects (No more melt)
Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher won the competition to build the Library and Learning Centre for the University of Economics and Business in Vienna. Immediately obvious, is the new design structure. Apparently Zaha Hadid let go of her characteristic "melt design". Zaha Hadid Architects state "The straight lines of the building’s exterior separate as they move inward, becoming curvilinear and fluid, generating a free-formed interior canyon that serves as the central public plaza. All the other facilities of the LLC are housed within a single volume that also divides, becoming two separate ribbons that wind around each other to enclose this glazed gathering space." All Images are courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects (link). For more Info on her works, feel free to have a look here (designgeist link). Other commenting blogs are dezeen (link) and WAN (link).
Please find the entire Press Release below.
Zaha Hadid Architects wins competition for the Library and Learning Centre at the University of Economics & Business, Vienna, Austria
Zaha Hadid Architects have been selected as the architects of the Library and Learning Centre (LLC) at the University of Economics & Business, Vienna. The new Library and Learning Centre will be the centerpiece of the University’s new campus and provide a significant upgrade to the University’s services. In addition to the new library, the LLC will also provide a language laboratory, tutorial rooms, administration offices, student centre, book shop, cafeteria, clubrooms and event space.
The new Library and Learning Centre rises as a polygonal block from the centre of the new university campus. The LLC’s design takes the form of a cube with both inclined and straight edges. The straight lines of the building’s exterior separate as they move inward, becoming curvilinear and fluid, generating a free-formed interior canyon that serves as the central public plaza. All the other facilities of the LLC are housed within a single volume that also divides, becoming two separate ribbons that wind around each other to enclose this glazed gathering space.
“I am delighted to be working in Vienna as I have a close affiliation with the city. As a centre of research, the Library and Learning Centre is forum for the exchange of ideas. It is very exciting for us to be part of the University’s expansion.” states Zaha Hadid.
Rector of the University of Economics & Business, Christoph Badelt said “A library and learning center should be more than a mere library in the classical sense: it is a research and a service facility, a workplace and lounge, a place of communication and a traffic hub, at one and the same time. With its breathtaking architecture, the design by Zaha Hadid manages to combine all the key functions of study in a most wonderful way. It is a vision that embodies this innovative concept of a university.”
PROGRAM: The LLC comprises a “Learning Center” with workplaces, lounges and cloakrooms, library, a language laboratory, training classrooms, administration offices, study services and central supporting services, copy shop, book shop, data center, cafeteria, event area, clubroom and auditorium.
CLIENT: University of Economics Vienna
ARCHITECT: Zaha Hadid Architects
Design: Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher
Project Architect: Cornelius Schlotthauer
Project Team: Marc-Philipp Nieberg, Kristoph Nowak, Enrico Kleinke, Stefan Rinnebach, Niels Kespohl, Jan Hübener, Romy Heiland, Richard Baumgartner
CONSULTANTS:
Structural Engineers: Arup Berlin
M&E Engineers: Arup Berlin
Façade Engineers: Arup Berlin
Cost Consultant: ATP Wien
Fire protection: HHP West, Bielefeld
Render Studio: Vectorvision, Leipzig
SIZE: 28.000m² net area
42.000m² gross area (205.000m³)
136m length,
Competiton
Two phase competition with six competitors in the first phase and three in the second phase.
1st prize: Zaha Hadid Architects
2nd prize: Morphosis
3rd prize: Prof. Hans Hollein
Other competitors: Studio Massimiliano Fuksas; Kada Wittfeld Studio
Start first phase: August 2008
Start second phase: October 2008
Decision: November 2008
Jury: Wolf D. Prix (head of jury)
Dietmar Eberle
Laura P. Spinadel (BUS Architekten, new campus masterplanner)
Peter Ehrenberger
Sepp Frank
Brian Cody
Birmingham Magistrates Court by Denton Corker Marshall in Birmingham, United Kingdom
Birmingham Magistrates Court by Denton Corker Marshall in Birmingham, United Kingdom via WAN.
Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Chicago by DeStefano & Partners
Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Chicago by DeStefano & Partners. (Via WAN)
Image copyright DeStefano & Partners.
Yoga Deva in Arizona by blank studio
Yoga Deva in Arizona by blank studio. Image courtesy belongs to WAN.(Via)
Oklahoma Underground by Elliott + Associates Architects
Sempachersee Golf Club by Smolenicky & Partner (Switzerland)
Graphic Thought Facility at the Art Institute of Chigago
Graphic Thought Facility at the Art Institute of Chigago. An Art exhibition devoted solemnly to graphic design.Images courtesy of Graphic Thought Facility. (Via)
Zaha Hadid in Singapore (Farrer Road Residential Towers)
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Zaha Hadid in Singapore (Farrer Road Residential Towers). The project is worth 1.1 billion $. More on Zaha Hadid to follow tomorrow. Stay tuned. Copyright to Image belongs to Zaha Hadid Architects. (Via)
Kingkey Finance Tower in Shenzhen by Sir Terry Farrell
Kingkey Finance Tower (currently under construction) to be built in Shenzhen,China at 493 meters by Terry Farrel and Partners. The Tower will be a mixed use tower, also holding a six star hotel and financial institutions. Image copyright belongs to Terry Farrell & Partners. (Via)
La Romana residential estate by A-cero (Dominican Republic)
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La Romana residential estate by A-cero located in the Dominican Republic. The estate shown above is the signature estate of La Romana, an exclusive residential development project in the Dominican Republic. The Project includes the building of a private road network, a marina, 1200 condomiums, 1900 residences located next to the golf courses, 1360 bungalows and 480 apartments + various leisure activities such as seaside pools, polo clubs, spas etc. Image copyrigt belongs to A-cero. (Via)
U2 Tower by Foster + Partners in Dublin, Ireland (Plans Halted)
Plans for the U2 Tower in Dublin, Ireland have been halted amidst the current market turbulence. The tower should hold a public viewing platform,hotel, retail and residential space (including 20 % social and affordable housing). At the top of the tower U2 will have their own record studio suspended in mid air. If current negotiations succeed, construction should start in 2009. Copyright to all images belongs to Foster + Partners (via WAN)
Badgers View Farm by Lewis & Hickey Architects
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Badgers View Farm by Mike Alete and Tim Hall (Lewis & Hickey Architects).Located in The Chilterns, United Kingdom. Image Copyright owned by Lewis & Hickey Architects.(Via)
Les Bains des Docks, Le Havre by Jean Nouvel
AQUATIC CENTER
The Aquatic Center is composed of three principal entities: An external and heated sports pool of fifty meter long by twenty one meter wide, a play pool interior/external and a center of balneotherapy. The access is made through a single reception hall serving the cloakrooms of the play and sports pools and the cloakrooms of the balneotherapy center.
On the same floor, other suspended beaches and two suspended pools are accessible from the play pool. An internal connection connects all these pools for the visitors provided with a proper Pass. The center of cardio-training and its cloakrooms, the administration with a separate access, and the free access cafeteria, are arranged on the same floor and directly connected to the hall. The access to the technical premises located under the beaches is made though an open sky yard at the back of the building. A delivery l’espace is integrated in the building.
A Port even before being a city, Le Havre accompanied all along its history all the transformations related to the developments of maritime trade. With the technical progress and the irrepressible increase in the volume of trade, the port has built new infrastructures adapted to the new requirements.
Liberated territories are today returned to the city and opened to a new urbanity. New trade and leisure spaces are spread out there. The same for culture. Of the program worked out by the council, the Sea Discovery Center is the most symbolic, which embraces at once the estuary environment, the history navigation in Le Havre, the saga of the steamers and the future of the region.
To the belfry of the town hall and the tower of control of the port a new seamark, a high and clear signal, a strong symbol of the entry of Le Havre in a new era us to be added. Deploying its hieratic structure marked by two vast punts the tower of the Sea Discovery Center dominates all the territory and allows visitors to discover it in all its magnitude, its diversity and its magnificence.
Anchored in the mineral mass of the wharves, it stands like the mast of a ship, a look out post to offer to the visitor the everlasting show of men’s activities, arrivals and departure of the ships and trembling limit of changing skies and moving waters.
REGULATING PLAN
The regulating plan of Le Havre: a contribution. Successively military naval port, outer harbour of Rouen, commercial port where the vessels from Brazil, the Antilles, Africa, but also from England and the cities of la Hanse come to land, city where traders of coffee and spices, slave traders and other actors of the triangular trade have met long before becoming a port for transatlantic travellers, then a terminal of tankers and container ships, Le Havre will have embraced all the fluctuations and changes of maritime and international trade. Like its competitors, Le Havre had to give up its obsolete harbour infrastructures little by little. Thus, the docks dating back to the XIXth century are widely obsolete today. They are noticeably very close to the City Discovery Center.
The creation of Port 2000 has caused a global reflection on the future of the relationships between the city and its port. From now on, territories which were by nature distinct from the city, are part of it. From the reference area such as suggested by the program, one notices that within the borders of the well structured city by Perret a series of basins, docks, peninsulas, form a discontinuous fabric, a patchwork, an archipelago with each component having lived a specific history linked to a specific function.
This diversity which is welcome is accentuated by the range of projects already launched by the city, and which includes at the same time places with an administrative vocation (the Chamber of Commerce), touristic (hotels), residential (housing), hospital (a private clinic), of services (offices), commercial and leisure in a landscaped framework which tries to requalify circulations, and planted natural public spaces. All of these projects tend to establish continuity with the spirit of each small island of this archipelago.
The reflection framework proposed aims at reinforcing this bond with the spirit of the places. All the more solid and strong bond that traditional activities continue there to some extent: “the island” of the Citadel is for its greater part reserved for the harbour station of the ferries; the western point of the holy district Nicolas still includes dry docks still at work.
The parts released on a medium term basis will have to be converted into the logic of the typology of the existing docks, with low and linear buildings either recycled existing warehouses, or new buildings. Deprived of their industrial use, dedicated to activities closely related to the new vocation of the places, (a marina for the basin of the citadel for example or a nautical base at the end of the Holy district Nicolas), These places will be domesticated thanks to the insertion of a strong vegetable structure adopting the volumetry of the buildings, their linearity, their functional logic, their direct character and without affeteries. The conversion of the Citadel basin, its extension and its prolongation by the channel towards the La Barre basin to constitute a new marina from 300 to 600 rings can in the long term contribute to generate a set of activities directly related to leisure sailing, wintering, maintenance, ship chandlers, and dealer sailings. The presence of the ferries in the site is nevertheless welcome. They belong to its identity and they are a door towards England. They could be integrated into the new plan provided that only the activity of transport of passengers is maintained Otherwise, the plan will be extended on the whole site. Restaurants, discotheques and cafés, will take set up there logically. To facilitate the access of the pedestrians coming from the town center to the Citadel, a footbridge will be installed above the La Barre basin.
SEA DISCOVERY CENTER AND LONG TIME DEVELOPMENT
In response to the Aquatic Center, two massive blocks enclose the base of the sea discovery center tower on Antilles wharf. They contain part of the permanent exhibition the public forum, the administration, as well as the maintenance buildings of the center. From the wharf of the Vatine dock, in the alignment of restaurants and cafés of the Vauban docks, the entirely glazed entrance offers a total vision of the tower from bellow. This large canopy accommodates the hall, the cafeteria, the shop and the services in charge of the exhibition visit. The 120m high metal tower dominates the port of Le Havre. Two plates, one of 1200m² to 55 m and the other of 2000m² at 90 m, accommodate the temporary and permanent exhibitions and view point restaurant of the Center. The access is made through two panoramic elevators: one giving direct access to the temporary exhibition and the restaurant, the other forming an integral part of the permanent exhibition route. The amusement park on the topics of the sea and the environment of the estuary surrounds the Sea Discovery Center. Its initial surface is increased by the space liberated by the tower. It will be an additional resource while waiting for a future extension of the Center on the ground.
Les Bains des Docks, Le Havre by Jean Nouvel (Via) .Copyright to all images belongs to Cl. Guillaume
Parliament Hill by Belsize Architects
Parliament Hill by Belsize Architects in London. Via WAN. Copyright to all images belongs to Belsize Architects.
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